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November 13, 1852.] T H E LEADER. 1081
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CONTINENTAL NOTKS. A I'KTITION has been ...
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Letters From Paris. [From Our Own Corres...
organized democracy . " " The iinperial monarchy has 11 the advantages of the republic , without its dangers ; & the advantages of the monarchy , without its inconveniences . " " The republic is really in the Empire , in 'irtue of the contractual character of the institution , and of the communication and express delegation of power by the people : but the Empire has the advanfotrp of the republic , in that it is the government of all the action of with heredi
confided to moderating one , - tary succession as a condition , and stability as a consemience . " " Monarchy has this excellence : it bends itself adm irably to all the progressive movements of civilization ; by turns , feudal , absolute , and mixed , it rem ains for it only to traverse the era of democratic transformation . " The conclusion of the Troplong report is , that " The Empire is a democratic monarchy , nnd a monarchical democracy . "
These *• wise saws" were received with the loudest acc lamations by the senators—those claqueurs at 1200 £ . p er annum ! Nevertheless a great intrigue has been going on these three days past . The original draft pf the Senatus-Consulfce of Thursday last , by its fourth article , assigned the crown to Jerome in default of direct and le gitimate heirs of Louis Napoleon . An immense opposition immediately arose in the Senate and in the commission . The Prelates in the commission were for Jerome ; but the Generals , who are afraid of a new order of things eventuating , which might call them to
account for their crimes , maintained a violent resistance . Consequently , the commission substituted for that Article IV ., another , by which Louis Bonaparte is himself to regulate the order of succession to the throne . Old Jerome is furious at having been thus befooled . He immediately sent in his resignation of the Presidency of the Senate , and wrote a bald , harsh note to Bonaparte , saying that he did not intend to be cheapened ( marchandi ) in this way , and that he would soon le t all France understand that he , Jerome , was the only
legitimate heir of his brother Napoleon . All was topsyturvy at St . Cloud on the receipt of this letter . Jerome , the new Coriolanus , retired majestically to the Invalides , and refused to see . any one , to receive any communication , . or admit any envoy from Louis Bonaparte . Yet Bonaparte transmitted to him a promise of the Viceroyalty of Algeria by way of amends to Napoleon Jerome . Algeria would thus constitute a separate kingdom , with an independent government , and a distinct administration . Old Jerome sent about
their business the deputation who brought him this promise . At the present moment , a great question presents itself . The nation is invoked for the 25 th inst . to vote by ayes or noes on the Senatus Consulte . Will the people vote , or will they not vote ? It is said that tfi-ave apprehensions exist on this score at St . Cloud . l'lie Protest of Henry V . now circulates in France . I myself have seen a copy , nnd it permits no alternative , hi spite of all the denials of the Government prints , which never relax in their efforts to mislead public ° l > inion , the true Legitimists are perfectly united . of
^ irculurs that party are in active distribution in all directions , and their mol-d ' ordre is to abstain from voting or to vote- against ; . In the south , the union ° ' ItcpuhlicaiM hi ul Legitimists is complete . In the I'U'e of the common enemy , tho two parties will vote as ° "* ' - In other parts of Franco , it is possible that the I'onimon hate will bring about the sumo results . The lssue of the battle now rests entirely on the part which tlie clergy will take . The provincial clergy are , with-I " *' . exception , Legitimists ; they . still retain a strong ll () ld _ on the peasantry . If the Legitimist party in ll (< n > i t in bringing the ' influence of the Church to bear
"U file pennants , Louis Bonaparte may yet experience a N -Vore check . Unfortunately , 1 hnvo ' li ' ftle faith in Hum ' ¦ Hint . 'he rural population , hoodwinked by the lying ¦<> n «! H of | he triumphs of Bonaparte , menaced by the i ors and the jngvs de jud-. v , who are all creatures of " ¦ ruling power , nnd sunk during a thousand yeurs of •'" arehy in ignorance and misery , will vote for Bonu-I 1 |( ' - Besides , in default of voles , in the universal Mll ( ' »< v of the jml ( ii ( . V () j ( . ( S 5 ^ the depth of the political "" KiiesN win ,. ] , the suppression of the tribune and the 1 ¦ * lias created , in the absence of nil serious control , 11 ¦ ' "uii , in i > iii ;*( , t / rnin . <; wi iiii n « . i iwu ^ \ . wnxi wi ,
( l | 1 : il > arfo will always have the power of falsifying ' . bst . In the c ; tnton of Plelan , in the arxondisxe-™"' "' " Montfort , in Brittany , where the cure , the ) ° i ' . and the j ' tij / ti de . pair , only had voted last year , •^ iiuin y as 200 , i , U ( i npwaids , of voles , were counted . . v « ,. ' ' , ' ' ' . Y likdy ( but tho authorities will bo less j . "' *! ' /" ' <> n this occasion . An rente , Bonaparte is ^ y eunWious Unit , hi $ iUfo depends on the priests . J | 1 " <) I '( Ii "K ' . Y . bo cajoles them with all sorts of llatferios , o .. ( - ° «' ' s them with crosses and ribands . A decree an 1 " i . ° Ullt : t"' announces the promotion of archbishops ^ >> nhopH , and of u great number of clergy in tho l ' « al Order of tho Legion of Honour . All these
promotions are made among the clergy of the southern departments . Bonaparte , it would seem , is scarcely so well satisfied with his prefects . A sweeping razzia among these hapless functionaries is in contemplation . Bonaparte reproaches them with not making him popular enough . Some are accused of having used violence towards the municipal councils , to compel them to go to meet the President , others of not having sufficiently inflamed the zeal of the population during the progress in the south . In consequence of this neglect , a great number are to be disgraced . * The instant necessity of falsifying
the lists of voters renders it important to replace these tools ( dines damnees ) by other still more ardent partisans . A force d ' ardeur la France finira par senter le roussi . Decidedly , M . de Montalembert is right . It is Catholicism that has reaped the profit of all our troubles and all our revolutions . The best proof of this is not to be found in his book , ( which has already reached a second edition , ) but in the immense legacies of real and personal property that are bequeathed daily in all parts of the country to the Jesuits . The Council of State , which alone has the right of enabling civil
and religious congregations to accept of donations , is alarmed at the colossal proportions which these donations begin to assume . More than forty educational establishments may be reckoned already belonging to the Jesuits , and more than 200 fresh demands of authorization are under consideration . Upon each of these religious houses endowments and legacies are showered , and the Council of State , in dismay , submits the question of approval to Bonaparte . His reply is characteristic : — "Approve of everything to-day ; we will disapprove to-morrow . "
The marriage is again talked of for the 10 th or 20 th of December . Meanwhile , superb apartments are in course of preparation at the Tuileries for the Empress . The Musee clu Louvre is about to exchange its title for that of Musee Napoleon . The popular statue of Napoleon in his redingote grise , on the column in the Place Vendome , is to be taken down and replaced by another in iinperial costume . The Nephew cannot afford to blush for the Uncle : he cannot suffer in the statue of his Uncle an absence of decorum and etiquette . A petty negotiation was recently opened by this crowned dwarf with the Journal des Diibats .
Bonaparte offered to M . Bertin , director of that journal , to resume the title of Journal de VTZmpire . M . Bertin replied , that that title was his own property , and that he would use it when and how he liked . Bonaparte , irritated at this reply , authorized the Pays to assume the title henceforth . This authorization will probably occasion a very pretty action at law . M . de Montalembert ' s treatise on . the Interests of
Catholicism has a very large sale , as I have said . The following sentence has made the fortune of tho work . Speaking of universal suffrage , he glances at Bonaparte thus : — " Universal suffrage is a mechanism by which the mob is master for a day , to sell itself to servitude for ages , and to make all slaves like itself . It is a lever which may be always used by the most adroit' and unscrupulous hand , but which gives that hand an irresistible ascendancy . "
Arrests , dismissals , and other rigorous measures , continue . Twenty workmen have been arrested in Paris on pretence of endeavouring to organize a strike among the masons employed in the new Rue Hivoli , and in the construction of the new Bastille barrack of the Hotel de Ville . Forty individuals of the middle class have been also arrested quite recently . General Bourjolly , commanding the Department of the Lower Pyrenees , has been deprived of his command . lit ; had received no warning of this disgrace . On the passage of the President through Bordeaux , he had met with a charming reception . Wo are lost in . conjectures as to the cause of this dismissal . S .
November 13, 1852.] T H E Leader. 1081
November 13 , 1852 . ] T H E LEADER . 1081
Continental Notks. A I'Ktition Has Been ...
CONTINENTAL NOTKS . A I'KTITION has been presented to I lie Senate against , the principle of udopfion in iking the order of nueci : Hsion lo ( heIhrono . . Jerome ) returned to ( lie Invalides on Monday , and reviewed the old KoldierH , expressing bin satisfaction to be union / , ' them again . He indulged llu'iu toan extra allowance of britndy . Mid quality of which turned the favour awry . Abd-el-Kiuler returned on Tuesday to Ainboiso . Ho was accompanied lo tho Orleans Railway Station by («<» - noral Dauinas . On Monday ho took leave of Louis Napoleon ul , St . Cloud , and received from liin hands Mio present , of u sword of honour , because , said ! , lu > donor , " I am HUro that , you will novcr draw it aguiiiHt , Franco ; " to which Ahd-cl-Kader replied , with rcnowod profoHHioiiH of ol . ornul amity , and placed u document in tlio 1 ' resident ' s JiuikIh full of coinplimniitb , nnil expressing u , dn :. iro to return for tho coronation . Jin in to have horses at , liis disposal as lon ^ j iM ho remains at'AmboiHC . lie visited , during his stay in . Paiia , all tho principal uumuiucnlH , bottidoa the niuoouma , tho JSu ~
tional Library , and Printing-Office , all the Ministers , and the Prefect of the Seine . On Tuesday , the Minister of Justice presented to the Bel g ian Chamber a bill for the punishing of outrages on foreign sovereigns or heads of governments . This project of law provided , that any one ibund guilty of outraging , by means of the press , images , engravings , < fec , the persons of foreign sovereigns , or the heads of government , or of attacking ; should bo punished by an imprisonment'not exceeding a term of two years , and by a fine not exceeding 5000 francs ( 200 ? . ) It was furthermore provided , that the plea of having merely reproduced anterior publications , Ac , cannot be admitted in justification or in extenuation of the offence ; that the prosecutions are to take place at the formal demand of the diplomatic agents of
the foreign governments complaining of any attack or outrage ; that tho trials are to bo regulated according to existing laws—that is to say , in other words , that press offences will still be tried by jury , and that the press law of 1816 is abolished . In the preamble to the bill { exposS des motifs ) it is set forth that the law of 1816 wa & . virtually declared defunct by recent verdicts of juries ; and that a law punishing outrages on foreign sovejeigns- is an international , necessity , a law based on national right , and one admitted by even the greatest nations of antiquity as well as of modern times . It was stated that the Belgian Government could not and did not undertake to prosecute ex ojjicio , and consequently that the complaint must emanate from , the government considering itself outraged , the prosecution to begin within three months of the alleged offence .
This is the first step in the downward course of concessions to despotic France . Will the Belgians think their nationality worth preserving if such , adaptations are persevered in ? Political conciliation is making way in Switzerland . The Grand Council of Lucerne lias just decided that the members of the Great Council of the Sonderbund , who , upon the defeat of that powerful faction , were deprived of political rights , shall be restored to the full privileges of citizens ; and further , that they shall receive back in money the sums which they were made to pay as a forced loan . Russia is said to have acknowledged the independence of Montenegro , the mountain state between Austria and Turkey . The Porte has protested , and the Prince of Montenegro has appealed to Austria .
The results of the recent Prussian elections are decidedly Liberal , especially in the great cities . The provinces have mostly returned Conservatives . The great majority of the new members will be found to oppose any reactionary revision of the constitution . Abbas Pacha has agreed to pay the tribute of 1853-54 ( about 300 , 000 ? . ) in advance , to the Sultan , to meet the financial difficulties of the bank of Constantinople . The Duke of Lcuchtenberg died at St . Petersburgb on the 6 th instant , wo know not whether to say ; opportunely or otherwise , lie was the sole link between the Imperial family
of France and Russia . He was the grandson of Josephine and youngest son of Eugene Beauharnais , and was born October 2 nd , 1817 . By his marriage with the Grand Duchess Maria , in 1839 , he became tho son-inlaw of Nicholas , Emperor of all the ltussias . Since his marriage , bo has resident at the Russian Court , receiving as one of the family of the Czar , the style of His Imperial Highness . Jlo was an aide-de-camp of the Emperor , and a general in the Russian service . The Duke was a man of considerable cultivation , and a lover of the natural sciences .
It is doubted whether Austria will send any deputation of oflicers to the Duke's funeral , on account of tho offence to tho Austrian army , in the person of General Haynuu . The Customs Congress of the coalesced southern states has been opened at , Vienna . The sum of the Austrian minister ' s address was the desire of his government , that the old Zollvcrein should not be dissolved , but that , failing the good will and co-operalion of Prussia , Austria would take the lead of a new commercial union . Meantime , Prussia is preparing to meet tho dissolution with an array of custoni-liouses .
Sentence ! of death is pronounced on Edward Murray , on three different charges of murder . This sentence is dated December 17 th , lHfil . lie is not condemned as a British subject , litit , as an inhabitant of the Roman States , amenable to tho laws of the country . Tho L'opo has , however , commuted the penalty of death into hard labour at the gulleyn for life . This announcement beura tho dut . e of August , 3 rd , IK . lti , } ust previous to the visit of Sir Henry Bulwer to Rome . He will now , in nil probability , be set at liberty . " No doubt , writes tho correspondent , of the Daily News , had it not been for tho prompt , interference of Mr . Moore , the consul at Aucona , last spring , and tho energetic steps taken at that tinio by Mr . Frceborn , our consular agent , here 1 , Murray would then have sidl'ercd ( he full penalty of the law . "
The executions n ( . Aiiconu on the iifilh nisi ,, may bo reckoned amongst , the most , appalling ever witnessed Only one of the culprits out of nine would listen to tho exhortations of l . ho priests . When it was found that I he other eight went hopelessly rccusiint , ( bey wcrn allowed to intoxicate themselves with rum . The shootingof them was entrusted to a dcfaclmiont , of Kommi artillerymen , armed with short carbines , old-fashioned weapons , many of which missed tiro , so that it I , Hie lirst , discharge noiiih of l . lio prisoners did not , fall , but ran oil " , with ( he soldiers pursuing and tiring at them repeatedly ; others crawled about ., and one , ni'ler being considered dead , made a violent exertion to get , up , rendering a final couji- <; -t / ri (< -ii iiecoNWiry . O / fttir <\ rncuti < ms arti lo follow . This Ministerial ci'mis in Piedmont i ; i at , an nnd . Tho I'iiulnionti'iiK ( huictte , of tlieiind , announced that ( ho King of Sardinia bad cnlriinlcd Count Cavour with the composition of ii . new cabinet .
Tin ) liison / iiiKiito published on tho 3 rd tho following list of the now M inistry :- -Count , Cuvour , 1 ' ronident , of tho Council and Miniater of Fiimncc : Uiui . JMbomiidu , l ' o-
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 13, 1852, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_13111852/page/5/
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