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      are actuated , for the most part , by mercenary motives ; and the relics of the aristocracy or gentry , who have taken to the profession of statesmanship , have fallen in with the fashion of the day . The professional statesmen have obtained possession of political society , of the press , aad of the majority of the Assembly . Unorganized , however , by any profound patriotic sentiment , this crowd of professional statesmen is split up into little bands , each aiming at a career for its ov-n advantage , or allying itself to some more powerful clique with the same motive . There la no trust among men ;

      the only respite from contest is the armed repose of universal suspicion . We now understand why the majority of the Assembly has supported the President up to a certain point , and then is inclined to lurch him when he becomes too independent and shows no desire to appreciate the merits of the most eminent in the profession of politics ; why the majority sets up against the President a man like Changarnier , a rude soldier , with no merit but audacity and regimental science . Louis Napoleon is trying to secure his own reelection , and to obtain £ 120 , 000 a-year

      as his official income ; but his immediate efforts are concentrated on the dismissal of General Changamier from the military command of Paris . To facilitate that , an attempt is made to fasten upon Changarnier the issue of an order in 1848 , of Austrian severity against civilians , and deliberately slighting the Representatives of the People . The majority of the Assembly receives his explanations with eager willingness , and refuses to allow the Minister of War a single day for enquiries . The refusal is accompanied by marks of derision purposely intended to express contempt for the President ' Ministers , who had already found it very difficult to carry on the public business in the

      Assembly . The President ' s Ministers tender their resignation , and Paris is under a Ministerial crisis . Meanwhile , Louis Napoleon goes about among the People , courting the marks of popularity which they are ready enough to bestow . To France is restored a fair native , who has become only too celebrated—Mrs . Sloane . It is intimated that she has escaped—by favour of the lenity which dispensed with her presence in the Police Court . We seldom object to lenity , especially towards a woman ; but we can scarcely abstain from reflecting that many a woman less shockingly accused has received less indulgence than that shown to the wife of the " eminent special plca : ler . "

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      FRENCH MINISTERIAL CRISIS . France has been thrown into another crisis by the resignation of Ministers , which took place rather suddenly on Saturday . The ouuses of this step on their part , are chiefly the late defeats which they have » U 3 tained in the Assembly , where the majority have beaten them repeatedly during the last fortnight . First of all , there was the lottery question ; next , the liberation of M . Ma ^ uiu ; and then the Yon affair . In this last ca « e , Government had called on . the

      Bureau to dismiss M . Yon , the Police Commifisary ci the Assembly , for hit * want of discretion and informal conduct in the Allais ntfair , which he did not report , as a subordinate ought to have done , to M . Curlier , the Prefect . M , Yon appealed to the Assembly to maintuiu him as its own independent officer , owing no duty to the Prefect . The Assembly took up hw case in thin light , and refused to dismiss him . M . Baroche threatened to resign ; and the question wan Hxing the Ministry in a riiiomrna , when M . Yon connideiutely removed the original difficulty \> y a voluntary resignation .

      But tho buviness which aggravated Ministers more thtui uU was the failure of uh . . attempt to throw odium -upon General Chiingarnior . In the Assembly on Priday , M . Napoleon Jerome Bonaparte demanded to in terpellate the minister of war with regard to the inafructions given by General Changarnier to the troops under his orders , Home of which were published by the I ' atria , an Klyse ' e" newspaper . Several ter m * of dfilny were demanded und smreonsively rethe

      jeoted by tho Assembly , notwithstanding request of General Bchramin . One of tho ordcra who to mhoot inHUigontH , but General Chungurnior explained that the orders were simply to apply ia enso of an dmeuta ; and tho A ^ embly , by its eheera , shewed plainly that it adopted th «» explanation . Next day another manifestntion of hostility on the purt of the majority was exhibited in the Bureaux by their electing PiesidentH the most hostile to tho

      Governjnont . . . ¦* . A * TOgardu th » composition of the next Ministry , . U kinds of rumours prevail , but nothing precise is known . On Wednesday it wiih stated that MM . Odillon Barrot , Dupin , Mole . Thiem , Jlerryer , Montalombcrt , tmd J ) o Broglio were sent for to the JClynio at . hulf-nast two o ' clock that day ; that tho President informed them ho did not scud for them

      for the purpose of consultation , but merely to announce to them , as the leader of the majority , the resolution he had come to . That resolution was , that as he found , himself abandoned by the majority he should be obliged to have recourse to a Billault ltinistry » as he was determined to remain no longer under the domination of General Changarniet , Ha said that he was ready to ratify the nomination of any general the Assembly thought proper to appoint * that he would accept even General Cavaignac , but that to General Chwigarnier ' a dictation he -would submit on no account ; and , further , that he would take no Minister that was not prepared to appear before the Assembly with General Changarnier ' s dismissal in his hand . As M . Billault voted for the droit au travail this announcement has created no small degree of alarm among the majority .

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      THE SLOANE CASE . At the Central Criminal Court , on Wednesday , Mr . Clarkson appeared on behalf of Mr . Sloane , with an affidavit made by that gentleman ' s attorney which Btated that , owing to the very great public excitement that had been created b y the case , he did not believe that Mr . Sloane could have a fair trial at the present session . Mr . Justice Patteson said a party was bound , under all circumstances , t o appear and plead before he could claim his right to postpone the trial . This , however , involved one of the difficulties of the case , as it was represented that the defendant could not at this time go about in public without his life being in danger from violence .

      In reply to a question as to whether he appeared on behalfof both Mr . and Mrs . Sloane , Mr . Clarkson said he appeared on behalf of the former , who had alone been held to bail . Mr . Huddlestone said it was understood that when the grand jury had found the bill , Mrs . Sloane intended to surrender and take her trial ; but this was flatly contradicted by Mr . Clarkson , who stated that Mrs . Sloane was not with her husband—indeed , he believed that she was not in the country . In that case , Mr . Huddlestone con * tended that , if the trial was postponed , the court should accompany it with a condition that Mr . Sloane should enter into sureties for the appearance of his wife . Mr . Justice Patteson said they could only order sureties to be given where a party had been arrested .

      The judges having conferred together for a short time , Mr . Justice Patteson said the court was of opinion that upon the whole it waa better that the trial should be postponed . He should have been glad if it had been in any way in the power of the court to have secured the attendance of the other defendant , but as she had not been in custody that could not be done . All the court , therefore , could do at present was to direct that the trial should be postponed to the next session , upon , the defendant and his sureties entering into the necessary recognizances . The required sureties were shortly afterwards entered into , and the case was ordered to be placed on the judge ' s list at the next session .

      In consequence of the additional reward of £ 30 having been offered by Government , greater activity is displayed by the City constabulary , and all parties acquainted with the person of Mra . Sloane are endeavouring to effect hisr apprehension . On Tuesday evening last , information was-received at the station where the warrant is deposited that Mrs . Sloane was to be found residing in the neighbourhood of Chelsea . Accordingly , two detective officers of the City police force were despatched , in company with a clerk from the Temple , who brought the information , and they proceeded direct to Uanelagh-street , Chelsea . On arriving there , the clork pointed out the house in which he believed Mrs . Sloane was concealed , and tho officers stepped forward and knocked boldly at

      the front door . It was opened , and they were immediately after ushered into the drawing-room , where they found a lndy apparently about forty-five years of age , and exactly »» nswering in every particular the description of Mrs . Sloane n » it is net forth in the placards offering the reward for her apprehension . The clerk , from the Temple felt perfeotly satisfied that aho was the party that they came in search of , and on the officers unfolding their business they were all greeted by t » volley oi abuse , at the termination of which she complained bitterly of the continual annoyance she experienced in consequence of being mistaken first for one disreputable character and then another . Some time back she was recognized aa Mrs . Manning , und now ahe wa « identified as that horrible wrotoh . Mrs . Sloane . Tho ofnuern

      were astonibhed at meeting with nuch a reception , and the clerk looked bo uxtr « moly dubious that at length they were icsolve . d to put « n end to the perf lexity they wen ) in by HC'iiding to tho Koyal Free Iowpital for the girl , June VVilbied , in order that she might identify tho party . One of the officers accordingly left for that purpose , and , although past the usual hour for thw pationtH to retire to rent in that establishment , Juno Wilbred was taken in a cab to Chelsea ; but directly who was placed before the ludy she Baid ' Oh , that is not Mrs . Hloune . " Tho Templar found ho hud made a blunder . Apologies followed , and the officers left upon excellent tenon with the mol « stod ludy .

      So great has been the interest excited in the minds of the public by the statements relating to Jane Wilbred , that the R oyal Free Hospital has been literally besieged by people wishing to see her . Indeed , it has been found necessary , on visiting days , to place her in a private room apart from the wards , in order that she may not be subjected to the unpleasant scrutiny of strangers , and particularly that of the great number of artists that are daily applying for permission to take her portrait . The committee have passed a resolution to the effect that she shall not be seen until after the trial : the public will consequently have to delay their curiosity to see what kind of a person Jane Wilbred is until near the end of February next .

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      PROTESTANTISM AND POPERY . A public meeting of the lay members of the Church of England in the districts of St . Paul and St . Barnabas , of the out-ward of St . George ' s , Hanover-square , was held at Messrs . Cuthbertson ' s rooms , Lower Belgrave-place , on " Wednesday evening , for the purpose of agreeing to an address to be presented to the Bishop of London , against the Romish practices still carried on in the

      parish . Mr . J . G . Harris , who was called to the chair , stated that they had been unable to obtain the use of a room in their own district . He could name some hundred tradesmen , who , though opposed to the Babel of Barnabas and St . Pauls , dared not come forward to express their opinion . All the Romanizing practices were still kept up in those churches , except the lighted candles . An address to the Bishop of London , expressing their gratitude for the firm and decisive manner in which he had

      persisted in accepting Mr . Bennett ' s resignation was proposed , and after a good deal of uproar , in the midst of which for full half an hour the chairman was unable to make himself heard , was carried by a large majority . Thomas Doyle , a tall powerful Irishman , employed as beadle at Charlotte-street Chapel , Pimlico , was brought up at Westminster Police-office , on Wednesday , on a charge of assaulting Mr . Edward Simmr , timber merchant , Gillingham-street , Wilton-road , Pimlico . The case arose out of the great Pimlico question . Mr . Simms had gone into the chapel on the evening of last Sunday week , to witness the Romanist practices , the " additional novelties , " as the Bishop of London calls them , and was asked

      by Mr . Doyle , the beadle , to take a seat . This he refused to do , upon which the beadle , after some al * tercation , put him out . A solicitor , who appeared for Mr . Doyle , said there had lately been several persons in the aisle and body of the chapel distributing tracts and disturbing the congregation . About three weeks ago , a man rushed into the middle aisle , and running up threatened to do some injury to the incumbent , inconsequence of which he deemed it necessary to lay down a regulation that every person should be required to take a seat , or be turned out , as people about to disturb the congregation . At the request of the solicitor the case was sent to the sessions , and the defendant was ordered to find bail , which he did , for his appearance there , to answer the charge .

      The Reverend Bryan King , Rector of St . George's , East , writes to the Bishop of London , stating that his church has recently been visited by an archdeacon , who expressed himself very much displeased with certain ornaments in it . The rector , after stating that the church is exempt from any archdeacon ' s jurisdiction , wishes to know by what authority any aichdeacon hos visited his church . The Bishop replies that it was under his instructions that the Archdeacon of London hud gone to 'the church in quest tion ; not , however , in his official character , but to

      report as to tho truth of certain statements repecting the decorations . Of course , " adds the Bishop , ' ho gave no orders , having no authority to do ho . " The rector says it is-perfectly true that the Archdeacon gave no ordor-B , " but he ' * not only denounced tho crags over the Lord ' s Table , the crosses upon the ultnr , book markers , and tho chandelier of the apse , buteven andepeuially ihomotives whiuhhad suggested the decorations . " In conclusion , ho takes the liberty of telling his lordship that tho conduct of his oUioiul has boon " aH utterly unwarranted « s it wms uncourteous and offensive . "

      Mr . Kochefort Clarke , barrister , a speaker at the Oxford county meeting , took occasion , in describing Cardinal Wiseman as an alien , to make a very offensive reflection on bin poHnible birth . The Cardinal has addressed to Mr . Clarke , through mi attorney , tho following : — 35 , GoUkn-square , J » n . 4 , 1851 . Sir , —A letter in Hub day ' s Chronicle , signed ' * Uentllja Homo , " hu » culled n » y ulfemiim to uoine expression * in your 8 |>< ' « cU at tho Oxford county nuotlu ^ , on tho 2 nd Instant , rejecting my birth , which I cannot with dccwnoy transoribo . " I have for the last two months borne nilently much calumny and railing uguinst mya « lf ; und I am ready to go on enduring , porrtonally , more utill . for what I betfevo to be the cuua « of Odd . But I onnnot allovr to | kihh unnoticed any nl » mkr of one to whom I own all good in life , und whom Clod ' s ccuuro » ndni ? iit » enjoin mo to

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 11, 1851, page 26, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1865/page/2/