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      Somerset—Frame : Bruton . Wells : Glastonbury Shcpton Mallett . m j . Stafford—Tamworth : Burton-on-Trent . Suffolk—^ : Dcbenham , Framlingham . Subrey—Eeigate : Dorking . % Sussrx- ^ Jrundel : Bognor , Leommster , Little Hampton . Horsham ; . Cuckfield . Midhurst :. Petworth . WestJmoSejland—K endal : Milnthorpe . , ¦ ¦ ¦ _ WiLTSHinE—Calne : Melksliam . Chippenham : Bradford Corsham . Devizes : Heytesbury , Warminster . Malmesbunj : Tetbury . Mariborough : Hungerford , Swindon . Westbury : Trowbridge . Wilton : Amesbury , Downton . ? ' .. ¦

      __ Worcester—Hewdley : Tenbury . Droitwich : Bromsgrove . Evesham : Pershore , Chipping Campden . Kidderminster : Stoiirbridge . Yorkshire [ North Riding ] — Malton : Pickering . Northallerton : Stokesley . Richmond : Bedale , Leyburn , Middleham , Reeth . Thirsk : Easingwold . Whitby : Guissborough . [ West Ridimr]—Knaresborough : Harrogate . Eipon : Aldborough , Borougitbridge , Mashani , Pateley Bridge , Riple .

      Resolutions against the bill have already been passed in public meetings , on Monday at Manchester , and on Wednesday at West Hackney .

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      By the new Sale of Beer Bill , printed on Saturday , no debt for beer drunk on premises is to be recoverable There is a provision making coffee-houses and beer-shops subject to visits by the police . The Bill brought forward by Sir G . Grey to disfranchise the borough of St . Albans has just been printed . It is a very short bill , and the enacting part states , " That the borough of St . Albans , in the county of Hertford , shall from and after the passing of this act , cease to return any members or member to serve in Parliament . " The first Bill of the present session which has passed the House of Lords was printed by order of the House of Commons on Wednesday . It relates to municipal corporations , protecting newspaper proprietors , and rendering them eligible to hold corporation offices .

      A Parliamentary paper has just been printed by order of the House of Lords , showing some reforms effected in the Irish Court of Chancery , which may be carried into effect in another Court of Chancery . For engrossing and copying only 3 d . per folio is to be allowed to solicitors , and for drawing a cause petition only 8 d . per folio . For drawing up a Master's order only 6 d . per folio is to be allowed , and 3 d . per folio for copying . The total numberof informations taken out in the districts of the Inspectors of Factories , for infringement of the Factory Act , during the six months ended 31 st October , 1851 , was 318 . Of these , 199 resulted in convictions , 99 were withdrawn on payment of costs , and 19 were dismissed . The fines recovered amounted to 330 / . 15 s ., and the costs to 146 / . 9 s . 8 d .

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      LETTERS FROM PARIS . [ From our own Co-respondent . ] Letter VIII . Paris , Tuesday , February 17 , 1852 . Rtjmotjrs of war are more rife than ever , and less like rumours . Louis Bonaparte ' s government lias just addressed two peremptory notes : one to Belgium , the other to Switzerland . In Belgium , the French minister , M . dc Bassano , has been instructed to demund of the Belgian Government the removal of the monumental lion from the battle-field of Waterloo . Therefore Belgium puts on her armour , and strengthens her fifty battalions of infantry by fifty men each Moreover , the Belgian Government is prepared to ask for o credit of six million of francs , ( 240 , 000 / ., ) for the establishment of an entrenched camp in the neighbourhood of Antwerp , and for the general defensive arming of the Tete do Flandres . As to Switzerland , M . Salignoc Fe ' ne'lon , the minister of France , was charged to remit to the federal council a menacing note of the French government , supported by the two cabinets of Austria and Prussia , demanding the expulsion of . refugees , and the suppression of the liberty of the press throughout Switzerland . At the receipt of this note , the federal council was completely upset . M . Furrer quite lost his head , M . Druoy took to his bod , and M . Karn took to his heels . Even General Dufour declined

      to go and Book ft personal interview with Louis Bonaparto , to ask him for explanations . At length , tho federal council has come to a decision : it hay invoked the intervention of Great Britain , and tho minister of Franco has demanded his passports . I have , indeed , already impressed upon you , repeatedly , that nothing but war could wave Louis Bonaparte . Not that war with England would bo popular : fur from it ; but from tho pouitivo necessity of creating a diversion in tho public mind . Excepting the peasantry , who never meddle with politics , and who are accustomed to Hulmiit passively to any nnd every government OHtablished , Louis Bonaparte finds every class of society against him . It is juat now especially that this state of things is

      obvious . Commercial affairs are dead , and capital has disappeared . The weekly account of the bank verifies imperturbably this death of commerce . All in vain , the Government is striving to combat this terrible atony by fetes and balls . The Government dances all alone , with its functionaries and its generals , and business remains in the same state : In vain , Louis- Bonaparte has endeavoured to reconcile the capitalists to his fortunes , by numerous concessions of lines of railway : the capitalists accept the concessions , but capital remains as deaf as before to the advances of Government . Not knowing how to explain this " revolt of capital , " El

      as Louis Bonaparte styles it , the familiars of the ysee impute it to the elections : they assert that the moneymarket is dismayed to find the old parliamentary personages , who , one had supposed , were evicted for a long time from the political world , not positively declining to be proposed as candidates for the legislative body . Hence , say they , very natural anxieties on the part of manyy who , finding themselves on the eve of struggles which the Act of the 2 nd of December had repressed , retire , to wait events . Such is the language of the optimists of the Elysee , who would fain deceive themselves about their own position , rather than confess that they alone are the obstacle to the prosperity of industry and commerce . Throughout France arises a

      tumult of complaints on the stagnation of business Next come the Orleanists , whose organization is formidable , and who are making ready to enter upon a serious struggle in the legislature , to legislatively demolish Louis Bonaparte . After the Orleanists , come the Legitimists , who are everywhere in opposition , notwithstanding all the advances made for their support . Finally , the Republicans , who are beginning to reorganize in all directions both at Paris and in the departments . A great number of the candidates in the provinces will be Republican . At Paris alone , the nine Republican ex-representatives , whose names follow , are put forward in opposition to the government * « M . Dufaure for the first arrondissement : M . Vivien for

      the second ; M . Cavaignac third ; M . Goudchaux , fourth ; M . Charras , fifth ; M ; Carnot , sixth ; M . Bethmont , seventh ;~ M , Ferdinand de Lasteyrie , eighth ; M . Garnon , ninth . The government , in alarm , forbids all electoral meetings and circulars of candidates . The mot d ' ordre is given ; " not a single opposition candidate must pass . " The prefects are ordered to employ all means to obtain this result . They are not remiss in following their instructions . The electors are

      forbidden to come to an understanding about . the choice of a candidate . " You are not in a suitable position /* they are told , " to judge what the country requires . Louis Bonaparte , the elect of 7 , 500 , 000 , is alone in a situation to make the selection ; it will be for you to vote for whatever candidate he may deign to present to you . " Perhaps your readers will hardly believe what I am here stating . I will cite , for their behoof , the circular of a prefect to the mayors of his department : —

      " It is not Mr . Such-an-one who can re-establish our affairs , restore to our commerce its activity , make us sell our cattle and our commodities at good prices ; bring back calmness and competence to our rural districts ; make respected and honoured that religion which sustains and consoles us ; repress , annihilate the bandits who would have given France over to pillage and assassination . Nol it is not Mr . Such-an-one who can do all this : it is the government , that is to say , Louis Napoleon , and he alone . Don't let us name , then , the candidate Mr . Such-an-one

      may choose , but , well and truly , the man of Louis Napoleon ' s selection . This , Monsieur lc Mairc , is what the electors would say ; this is what they would wish to do ! because they are well aware that elsewhere all is folly and peril . But they must not be allowed to deceive themselves , nor to be deceived . Now it is easy for them to escape the chance of mistake by simply concentrating their votes on the candidate recommended by tho government . The Prefect of Finistlre , " ClI . UlCHAttD . "

      This is clear enough . Louis Bonaparte is tho elect of Franco ; you must vote for tho candidate presonted by him ; this is the tuno played to every key by the prefects and tho Bonapurtint journals . Tho latter go a stop further . La Patrie , for example , gives tho country to understand that if tho elections are not satiHfiictory , tho Legislature will follow tho National Assembly . Tho lint of . tho Government candidates js not yet completed . It has already bcon mado and unmade five

      or six times . At -tho Ministry of tho Interior reigns uttor anarchy and chnon . Government proposes its mon ; hcihIh thoir names to tho prefects ; tho prefects son'd back word that theHo names havo not ' a chance , and others must bo found . It is supposod that Government will be reduced to tho necessity of accept - ing for its candidates the naincH imposed upon its choice by local influoncos . Persons in authority are busy in securing tho consent of candidates whoso election ia certain , to be patronized by tho government .

      As yet , however , then * efforts have not been / altogether successful . The majority of candidates repl y that thev do not see the necessity of accepting « a s uperflUoil patronage / ' Others say neither 'tyes" nor " no ; " as fOr example , M > Mechin , who presents hiinself in the airondissement of St . Denis , It is to the Legitimists more particularly that the government proposes candi . dateships . Some few tolerate the offer . Their pass * word is "to get into the legislative corps , to take possession of it , and to make it an instrument for the overthrow of Louis Bonaparte . "

      If you desire to learn my opinion on the inevitable result of the elections , it is brief . As it is materially impossible for the electors to confer together , — -as all electoral meetings are forbidden , and aU electoral circulars suppressed , —as the journals are not even authorized to mention the names of candidates , — -as the government will bring all its weight of functionaries of publicity , of terrorism , to bear upon the elections , —! as , in definitive , it will act without control , —as , in a word , Strict orders have been given to carry the official candidates by all means , I have little doubt they will obtain an immense majority . A governmen t which has the secret of finding 600 bulletins in the urns where only three have been deposited , is surely capable of obtaining the unanimity of suffrages . .

      Meanwhile , the government has just publi shed a new circular in which it recommends ostensibly to the prefects the f reedom electiom , haying secretly beforehand given the most formal instructions , as you have observed , to hamper and resist that same liberty . This again is one of the old ruses of the Imperial despotism One might however suppose that Louis Bonaparte has a presentiment of the future embarrassments the legislative body will cause him . He recoils from an

      immediate convocation . The elections of February will take place on the 29 th inst . ; but the legislature , instead of meeting in the middle of March , Will only be convoked for the inonth of May . Louis Bonaparte is anxious to insure himself two months . longer of absolutely uncontrolled dictatorship . He has still a certain number of ^ decrees to publish-in order to make his " taking of possession" full and complete ; Among other anticipations is a decree on the 20 th Mars , proclaiming " Empbboe . "

      The court of his future Majesty is being constituted by degrees . The military household of the monarch in partibtis is already composed of officers compromised in his oareer . .......... „ . „ , .... ^^ , ^ .. 1 , .. ¦; . ¦ ¦ + ; . ¦ _ ¦ _ ¦ ¦ „; ,. . ¦ '¦ . - .. . - ¦ If we are to believe certain indiscretions , M . Fleury is to be first equerry to his majesty , with 60 , 000 francs ( 2400 / . ) salary ; M . de Pierre second equerry , with 25 , 000 francs ( 1000 / . ) salary ; M . Edgar Ney , grand master of the chase , with 60 , 000 francs ( 2400 / . ) There is to be a second grand veneiir , and the famous chase of Compiegne is to be completely restored . The national forests of St . Germain and of Marly , which

      are iibw let out to private persons for sporting , are to be reconverted into imperial domains , and his Majesty alone would retain the droit de chasse . But the chase is not the only p leasure reserved exclusively to Louis Bonaparte . By an infamous transaction between him and M . Nestor Roqucplan , the director of the Grand Opera , the hitter has reserved to the President the exclusive right of hunting behind the scenes , and of " drawing" the coulisses . By an article of the same transaction , Louis Bonaparte bound himself to

      interdict all criticism on the administration of the opera . Lost week , Jules Janin had written an article on the subject ; tho censorship suppressed it , alleging that M . Nestor Roqueplan being a government official , it was no more allowable to criticise his acts than tho acts of government itself . The- civil list which Louis Bonaparte is about to decree for his own private use is definitively fixed ; it will bo 12 , 000 , 000 of franoa ( 480 , 000 / . ) , without counting some three or four millions devoted to tho preservation of the royal palaces and

      buildings . More than 250 workmen are employed in , preparing the Tuilexies for tho reception of the Emperor that is to bo . I havo already told you that tho fnrnituro ordered will not cost Iosb thaiv 20 millions of frft » cs » ( 800 , 000 / . ) At tho future court there is to bo a grand master of tho ceremonies . M . Baccioohi i » designed for tho office An imperial guard will have to no formed . It will be composed of four , regimontfl , ot which two will bo grenadier foot-guards , one of mounted grenadiers , ono of hussars . Tho uniforms will bo magnificent . Talking of uniforms , tho senators are very ill-contontcd with theirs . A coat , embroidered aiul gilt-braided , coflts as mucl > as 80 / . ; nnd these gontlomon feel that if tho comedy should not havo ft long runtho luxury would be for too donr .

      , , Another measure that Louis Uonaparto w anxious to sottlo before tho meeting of the Legislature , so oa to escape all contest , ifl the Law of tho Press . . . . Tho Comtitutionnd acquaints us with tho prinwiw "

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 21, 1852, page 170, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1923/page/6/