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      P ^ BHH M . Bonaparte had broken down ! aU tlje Tj ^ rter »' i i > f ] order and legality , and , by a military i * eroiution ; possessed himself of supreme power . On Tuesday morning , Paris awoke in a " state of siege , " with its Assembly of incapables dissolved , its generals arrested , its press " suspended , " the whole constitu * - tion broken up arid set aside , and in the place of the will of Frjn * ce , the will of M . Bonaparte ! Never was surprise more brilliant and complete ; that is to say , never was surprise more unscrupulous and immoral .. , By . the aid of brigand Praetorians the " nephew of his uncle" violated his oath , as he would demolish a bonbon ; and under pretext of appealing to the people , ' placed himself above ? and beyond the law . Tuesday was the anniversary of Austerlitz , and the crowning of the Emperor . The Marengoof M . Bonaparte was at Satory , his Lodi at Dijon , his Austerlitz at the Cirque National , his Imperial crowning—the Place de la Greve ? Possibly , in the history of nations , a more insane parody was never perpetrated than this of the proceedings of the Napoleon in 1804 . M ' . Bonaparte borrows even the constitution of Sieyes . He borrows the hypocritical appeal , he gags the Pjess , he declares the state of siege , he makes similar flattering overtures to the soldiery . This c'o 8 e parod y is at once the characteristic and the condemnation of the new revolution of personal *» nl > ition . It is too transparent . We laugh at he absolute want of genius . It is a mere common j ^ rglary of power . But we grieve when we read tUl tins miserable Special ^ Constable Emperor has cau « t'l the death of an heroic Charras , an eloquent j ll ( rt 4 e rainded-Escpiiros . Thiers goes to prison niamenttxl by any one ; and we cannot repine if J * vaignac , * ] Ohangarnier , and Bedeau , and j * monciere 1 ikV c fallen victims to their distrust of ™ o people . Th * " majority" deserve their fate . f "early these events are only the beginning 1 the end , which in not yet . All the army , a por-° " () f which voted for the . Montagnards in 1849 , " l 8 ? ° ' cannot bo iwo devoted to M . Bonaa « rt- tO their count * Y- After all , successful « things now appear , the . V > ro of unpaid debts , « Bnge . s , cigars , champagne / and Imperial paro-IIij . ' Iniiy yet be the convict of Belleislc , or Nukulikft I \ ° . uia Bonaparte was planning ignominy , * o a thief m the night;—far away , in quiet rural [ COUNTIIY EpiTION . j

      lili *^^*^^ ^ fet ixnon vM tantutf $$$ * $ , : ^*^ # Pr < tunitate . inbrtis . " , What naiseries ,, vvbztf degpiar tions , has he not escaped ! ¦ .,. x . » ' -. ' ¦ , In Italy , the peculiarities are of < " seizing , " - but not unusual , interest . Insult and obstruction to English travellers in the Neapolitan states ; inundations in the North ; and the restoration and renewed activity of that most conservative of institutions—the Guillotine , at Rome . /' Tears , idle tears , we know not what they mean , " have been showered forth at Berlin by the Prussian Chamber . Frederick William , of bibulous memory , actually made his faithful Commons weep , so " touching " was his speech ! The great Reform Conference at Manchester has proved a respectable failure . Numbers attended , but the spirit was neither harmonious nor animated . The meeting almost negatives the maxim , " Happy the people whose ' annals are flat . " The record of the Manchester Conference is flat , hut those who were there were not happy . The meeting was at first understood to be one only , for . Lancashire and the West Riding of JYorJkshire —Manchestershire and Cobdonshire ; it was-, also regarded as a secesaion from the Parliamentary < Reform Association . A . deputation from that'Society * was not invited , but did attend ; and people from other parts of the country also volunteered a presence not to be repelled . Mr . Bright was put forward as the spokesman for Manchester , to the amazement of many who ' thought him too advanced and sturd y for the mere Free-trade party . Sir Joshua Walmsley attended for ., tho , Parliamentary Reformers , with Mr . George , Thompson as second in command ; Mr . Cobtfen . played the part of mediator , and patted the ^ President of the Parliamentarians on the > back with , an encouragement only too transparent to conceal' the latent sarcasm . The project which so imxhy people were summoned to Manchester to conuideir , wris one' that might quite as well' have been submitted to them by post—a poor rato qualification not defined , but apparently to be unlimited in lowneas—that is , every man rated to the poor should have a vote ; also , a certain copyhold or leasehold for . ty-Bhilling franohise for town as well as county ; consolidation of nmnll boroughs , leaving no constituency smaller than 5000 ; ballot , abolition of property

      qualilicafioM and tr ienfoiar Parliaments . This is very like ^ fH ^ fe ^ s ^ itl ^ Ghatter , and the'ParKamentaran ' $ & £ ' M ^ t ^^ itk ^^^^ i ^ & U but to universal PR ^; - Ina political sense it is not striking , and , . ' : ^ fe ^^ faa ^ tf wonehad i-atsed a cry pf ^ 5 tjS ^»|^^^ s # onH Imre drawn ou * - $ ti ® M 3 !^^ Tb ^ xjpariramii ^ awattttf appear to us vio M ha ^ Bftfcae M ^^ i ^ fi ^ section > sliooM * prove •¦^ Isi ^ w ^ wi & nr ^ n ^ raHifMSM ^ would take \ ip stronger ground > elsewnere . , The public , therefore , awaits the result of the mission to Manchester . Your judges are the boys for revolutionizing the Statute Book . They have knocked a desperate hole in the Newspaper Stamp Act , by declaring Charles Dickens's Household Narrative not liable to the tax . The majonity of the judges held , against all the rules of syntafiKhat the different sections of the schedule must beuiken , not severally , as indicating different classes of publication amenable to the tax , but cumulatively , as indicating all the attributes to be found in any publication to make it amenable to the tax . At least , such is the general effect of the jud & jnent ; Ba ^ on Parke dissenting . Tal k of " repealing ^ ' acts' of Parliament : only get enough ' * judgments " on , them , and you soon reduce them to . miij l cenft * "it . This Newspaper Stamp Act , for instance—^ ey ) 4 fint-U ? a , t in five or six bouts a few Judge ?' , jould ' knock it ^ to pieces . Manchester has not onlyi been' alctivenrn the political , Jjut in the ' cdiucatioiinl ( ntioyemends of tile day . The Public Sphool A « soe ^^ tion met on / Monday , and , to add to clause , vi . vpowqrs for taking possession of existing schools Supported on the voluntary , princij )!^ provided ¦ that said schools should agresc . ,-tov impart secular linstruction and doctrinal religion ^ at stated and > separate times . This was stealing a march on the Manchester and Sal ford Society ; which the latter resented at its meeting on Wd (! tie ' . sday . ' " TheKe gentlemen , con-Histcntly represented by the State Churchi . sm of Dr . Iiee ahdVof Mr * . Canon Stovvell , were grievously annoyed nfc' thus having the ground cut from under their . fciii .: ] so they reasserted their old positions , indulged in copious self-applause , assailed honest Dr . . " Wu ' tta and noble George Anthony Denison , n , nd , e > : pres 8 ed their determination to persevere . Ttie Public School Association might as well expect to amalgamate with Mr . Baines as to conciliate Dr . Lee , Mr . Kntwistle , and Mr . Canon Stowell . At the same time it in quite clear that no scheme of instruction will obtain the support of the masses unions it be secular , and none will be effective uuIchs it also provide a physical disci- * plinc for the people .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 6, 1851, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_06121851/page/1/