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Lettbks From Paris. [Fltom Ouk Own Corue...
to be represented by the troops quartered in that town . At Toulon , also , there is to be a military fete The troops , reduced to the duties of comedians , will represent the attack and capture of the "Little Gibraltar , " the outermost fort in the roads , by Napoleon . At Lyons it is to be the fete of the inauguration of the statue of Napoleon the Great . This statue was sent off from Paris some days since , and will be inaugurated on the " Place Louis Napoleon" by the President himself . At Bordeaux Bonaparte will be heralded by the commercial treaty which has been agreed upon between France and England , at the instance of Persigny himself , who is said to have obtained a great reduction in the duties on the Bordeaux wines . This is the way Persigny touts for the firm of Bonaparte and Cie .
Throughout the passage of the President the greatest precautions have been taken to prevent any accident . All the republicans of the north , the centre , and the east of France , confined to certain districts ( internes ) in the south , have received sudden orders to depart into other quarters . All those under simple surveillance are bound to appear daily before the authorities of their locality , and are absolutely forbidden to absent themselves even on the most _urglnt private affairs . The troops are all concentrated on the chief strategetical
points in the southern departments . The soldiers of the class of 1852 who were entitled to discharge , are retained in the ranks till January , 1853 . They woulel properly be discharged in August or September of this year . What is more , all the commanding officers have been strictly forbidden to deliver six months leave of absence , so that no soldier can on any account obtain his discharge , though strictly his service may have expired . You will agree with rne that this abundance of precautionary measures scarcely proves a very warm confidence in the affections of the people .
The fact is , that all that has been said about the affection of the population for Louis Bonaparte is utterly false . Nothing _jJroves its falsehood more clearly than the number of condemnations for insulting and offensive expressions against the person of the President . There have been more than two thousand of these condemnations in Paris alone , and double the number in the provinces , during the past six months . It is true these offensive expressions have been uttered in a state of intoxication , but the fact is scarcely less significant : as soon as a man forgets to be circumspect , his spirit overflows , and it is on Bonaparte that he vents his ra « _-e .
Another symptom is the universal eagerness to procure a copy of Victor Hugo ' s Napoleon le Petit . It has at last been found possible to print an edition in France—a microscopical edition about two inches in length , which by its excessive sinallness contrives to elude all the vigilance of the police—and of which thousands of copies are in circulation . Every one lias , or intends to have , a copy . The police are furious , and daily effect domiciliary visits at the houses of the booksellers , who appeal in vain to the " inviolability of the domicile . "
I hear from London that Colonel Fleury , aide-decamp of Louis Bonaparte , is still in Kngland , ransacking the country in every corner to purchase eight cream-coloured horses feir the coronation eif the Emperor . His original commission was tei order a carriage . There is nothing extraordinary in his looking after the horses . There is a report , however , at Paris , that the Empire is once more aeljeiurned , and that Persigny ( who once
saiel that he had made ! Bonaparte President in spite : of _hinistilf , and that he woulel make hint Kmperor in spite of himself ) insists tin the Knipire , while Bonaparte declines . The latter is saiel to have ! _expressed himself as feillows : — " Why shemld 1 make myself Emperor V Was autheirity eve _; r more obeyed ? Have affairs bee ! ii ever more ! prosperous ? A new title wemlel aelel nought te ) my authority , anel weiulel perhaps bring me inextricable difficulties in its train . The anibitiein eif a
_e-einqueror seems inevitabl y tei attach tei flic title eif Kinporei ' r , anel heiwever my interests anel my wishes may be identilieel with peace for Europe , _Eurojio wemlel probably neit believe uie-, anel I _slmulel have ! to fear a rupture ; , anel conse'epiently the eibligatiem to gei tei war . " In the meanwhile imperial manifestatiems continue . At Thieiuville it was proelaiineel , by _ttouud of trumpet , that petitiems feir the ! _restoration eif the Umpire had been deposited at the ; Maine for signature's . Iteully
this iele _; a of crying , with tbe aid eif a trumpet , the _imperialist petitions , just as the arrival eif a conjuror , a Hide of _geieiels , eir a lost _deig , is " cried , " is very inge _; - nious . No one , however , presented himself af the * Mairie . As to the Oeiunoils-Generul , as I have before romurked , the number eif _theiso which demanded the : Empire ! sei _elisuppeiinttul the me . ne . xtrs of tht ) Elysee that tho Moniteur , iu rendering au account eif their session , muintaincel an _eihstinate silence abend ; tho _imperialist vote of tho minority , and contented itself with assert-
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ing that all had unanimously pronounced themselves in favour of stability . The municipal elections are concluded . To continue to keep you au courant , I now subjoin a few significant figures . At Pezenas , out of 2142 registered electors , only thirty-eight voters presented themselves at the second election ; the elections at Beyrus were null , in default of voters ; at Niines , the second election found only _^ a tenth of the electors at the poll ; at Lodeve , two sections out of five never voted at all . At Bedarrieux ,
the candidates of the administration failed in two sections , and in the two others the result was null . In many communes—in all , I may say— -where the electors did not abstain from voting , the candidates of the opposition carried the election . At St . Jean d'Angely ( Charente Inferieure ) , out of twenty-three municipal councillors , sixteen belong to the republican party . At the head of the list stand five who had already resigned , rather than take the oaths . In the Lower Pyrenees , and in the Loire , the list presented by the Government failed entirely in several communes .
You will easily understand how it is that the Prefects already begin to dissolve the new municipal councils . Eleven municipal councils in the Drome , and five in tbe Doubs have been dissolved . At the same time many of the councillors elect send in their resignations rather than take the oaths . It is these refusals to take the oaths , it seems , that enjoy the inestimable privilege of affecting most acutely the gentlemen of the Empire . I will give you a proof of this . At Fecamp , M . Huet , President of the Tribunal of Commerce , delivered an address on taking bis seat for the first time ; his address was entered in the register of the official acts of the court . Now this M . Huet had
refused to take the oaths , whereupon orders were sent to the Procureur of the Republic at Havre , to proceed to Fecamp in person , and himself to efface from the register the obnoxious speech of M . Huet . The Inquisition that committed books to the flames did no more than this Government of Bonaparte . Talking of the Inquisition , the priests are raising their heads with extraordinary insolence . No surer sign forebodes the coming tempest . They positively reclaim the estates of which the Revolution of 1789 stripped them . Very craftily are they feeling their way , these priests . They have put forward a brother of M . Carlier , the famous Prefect of Police , on behalf of their claims . This brother of M . Carlier is a Canon of the
Chapter of Sens ; a chapter which , before the great Revolution , was in possession of large forests in the neighbourhood of that town . By virtue of the law of 1793 , these forests , like all other ecclesiastical property , were absorbed in the domains of the State . Under the Restoration the chapter demanded back its forests , anel again under Louis Philippe ; but in neither case would the Minister of Finance for the time being consent to restore the forests to their original possessors . Quite recently these claims have been revived . On the first of this month a sale of these woods was announced . M . Carlier , the brother , in the name of the clergy of Sens , oppexseel the sale . The administration of the forests _persevereel in the sale ; hut the matter has been carried before thc Council of State .
On the other hand , the Legitimists continue their intrigues alsei . All the notables of that party aro just now em the way to Frohsdorf , tei assist at the fete of their king , em the 29 th instant . Persecution knows no ceasing . Imprisonments and transportatieins go em , as usual . A citizen from the Kastern _Pyrenees has beem transported tei Algeria , for breaking his ban ; and metre than four hundred eif the Yeinno anel the JVie 7 vre have _recently been imprisoned at Clairvaux . Kveu tho singing taverns ( cabarets fori tins ) are proscribed by a severe ! preihibitory order of the _peilice ? . As feir the seventh's against the press , they are fur freim being relaxed . The Corsaire ( which was
tei tbe Legitimists , what the Charivari is to tho Republican , anil Liberal party ) has been abruptly . sup pressed , without any stated motive . It bail _ahvaely _be'cn suspended for two mouths , anel hael emly made its reappearance threo days before the decree that suppressed it . The Liberie ' , of Caen , has received a " warning , " on _ae-e-ount eif an article em credit , fonder ( lauded credit ) . The Paris _citations , for tho neiniinatiou of two deputies , will fake plue .-c on the 2 ( ith and 27 th instant . Tiie Administration has not _yeit _ehaedare'el its candidates , neither has the Ojipeisitiem _e-eunei tei a decision what steps tei take . The ) ntajtirity , perhaps , are in favour of standing altogether aloof . , S .
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CONT 1 N KNTAL NOTES M . Louis _lkuNAi'ARTK has _beie ! ii _rejceiivcel at Bourges anel Newers , _ue-oorelin g to tho gospel of tbo _LelegrapliH _, with _cnthtisiasin . " _Rucyi-tt in strvitiuni" may _nure . 'ly bo applied te > Franco under _Leiuis llouuparto , whe > known his pooplo _se > we , U that ho will not oven tako the Empire by violence , but preform
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to allow them to register their own servitude in _ue « f : „ No document has yet surpassed in vileness , and non _« _i displayed a more absolute confidence in tho national a gradation , than the "Petition of Fathers of Families n -i Labourers , " which has been prepared in tiie _bureanJi the Home Office or the Police , and is now in _" uS ° i active propagation from house to house . This petition ° l which a translation has been fully printed in the Tim states , "that in a country like France all interests a placed under the sovereign influence of the Chief of th State ; that who is to be this chief ought not to be made periodical question : that otherwise a father cannot nomt bly know the political conjuncture under which he will provide ? _for'the marriage of the child whom he fondle upon his knee ; that therefore such a presidency cannot satisfy the loftiest and sweetest sentiments of parental and conjugal love ; that , were it otherwise , the births ought in a peculiar manner to correspond to the renovation of the Executive ; and that the present generation , having conquered anarchy , would violate all the duties which it owes to succeeding generations if it were to allow the princinV
of resistance to be individualized ; and it prays , for these and other reasons , for the re-establishment of political authority ' on its truly national and popular basis—the only one which suits our age—viz ., hereditary tenure of sovereign power in the family of Bonaparte . ' Thus the defender of " the family" operates upon the sympathies of French homes . A statue of Descartes has been inaugurated at Tours . What is left of French journalism commented at some length on Thursday on the death of the Duke of "Welling _, ton . The Patrie and the Presse contain articles of a character decidedly hostile to the illustrious deceaseeL Ihe DSbats publishes a biographical notice without muehj comment . Thc Constitutionnel speaks in his favour ; the-Pays takes a sort of middle course ; and the _Uawpw _, the-Univers , and the Assemblde Nationale merely announced the fact of his decease .
It will be perceived , from the following proclamation , which appears in the Italia e Popolo , that the Invisible Government still lives and moves officially in Italy ;—
GOD AND THE PEOPLE . Italian National Association , No . 108 . The Extraordinary Commissioner of the Central and Internal Pirection to the Citizens composing the Committeeof the Central Internal Pirection of the National Italian Association for the Tuscan Provinces at
Florence . In e » nsequence of the instructions I have received I an » happy to forward to you the decree of Union of Tuscany with the Roman dominions . This year is a solemn one-It fortifies those who love and desire the Republican unity ;; its dissipates the illusions of the Federalists ; it strikes te > the heart the partisans of constitutional monarchy , and ! falls like a mortal weight upon tyrants . You are from this day invested with all the powers inherent to your mission . Greeting and fraternity . Florence , 20 th August , 1852 .
On his part , the Commissioner of the Committee at Jasmey recognises and definitely accepts the union of the _Ifcmocratic Association of Home and oi the Roman States with tho Tuscan provinces . The union of Tuscany with _Bomo is now morally accomplished , adds the Italia e Popolo . Some grand ceremonies commenced at Florence on tho 4 th inst ., and concluded on tbo 8 th with the coronation of the image of the Madonna . In order to keep up thei fervour of Florentine devotion , a pamphlet has been published containing a long list of miracles performed b y this supernatural image or picture , which is declared to owe its origin , in the year 1252 , to the unrivalled skill of a celestial band . Certainly tho age of miracles has returned with returning absolutism . The brief reign of Democracy was fatal te ) these visitations .
We last week mentioned the resumption , after an adjournment , of tho trial of Guerrazzi , tho ex-member and . herei of tho Provisional Government in Tuscany . It appears that Guerrazzi has at last spoken . Tho exordium , tit his speech against tho competency of the tribunal _apjjiwu ' - ing too diffuse tei the President Nervini , that funetionary _reproached tho prisoner with not adhering to hi « subject . " Signor Presidente , " replied Guerrazzi , " I h *™ beftIJ silent for forty-ono months , allow mo now to spoak . And _speiak ho did , with groat vigour , against tho mode in which tho accusation had been laid ugainst him and bis ceimpunions , rendering all responsible feir the acts ot eae i individual , and each individual responsible for all his
_followprisonors . The appeal was rejected . Austria makes unceasing efforts to enmesh all tho petty Italian States under ber _preitectorato in a commercial anel customs union . Tho Duchy of Purina has lately _aweuwi ton treaty propareel by Austria , anel Uarein Warel ( l | i » ex-Yorkshire ) _groenn , now Premier of Purina ) has lelt lo Vienna tei exchange ratilicatiems . _, The ) financial eemdition of Austria grows wornc aim worse . The crisis is neit , tei be ) much longer _stuveel till <» y empirical loans , whieh einly deepen the abyss , but ( lo n _closei it . No _uoenmr is ono loan concluded than another announced . . .. s A lbrt night _agei tho new loan of eig hty million ilo » _^ was announced at the ' Vicuna llouiso . The ) elecroo _s < j that eif its _proelue-e twenty millions wemlel bo _eipph '" _^ railway works , _twe-nty-fivo tei the amortization « - ( _hivcrinrieint _pTupor-ineuieiy , and fiftoflii to the partial re . bursement of the debt duo tei tho Bank ¦¦ 1
. , . „ IMUMCIIU _71 U . Ill 1 , 11 ( 1 IU _71 I 1 _. HUH till MKJ I _«»«» . , _^ A third loan to thei tuuno niuount , _> h _announ * Frankfort journal , rarely misinformed on Austria" si"J- ' . _^ for J miliary _nevxt . M _e-un while , all the promised coy" _^ of the _slalei oxpenelituro have proved illuseiry . _. j , budget acknowledges a dolU . it of f . C » , ( KH ) , ( HM lor i >« , » the au . e . unt of the , military _buelgot ( _WW . _^^ _Stm * main * _uneliminisheid . JSol . to _Hpeiak of pohtieml _ovo , v '" is not this u _tempting bail , to English « l _™ " ue ) H < i <>» The , tcdiouH _complieuitionH eif tho _JSoUvcroiii < 1 « _^^ grow uiorw insoluble daily ; anel it U . < ww <» ' ' _, f rlin ia apparent that tbe , _atrugglu botweon Vienna onu j _^ uu much fw political u » for commercial j > rw > uu »»
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 18, 1852, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_18091852/page/6/
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