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      t-v education , which he desires to see passed by the P -v + ive Body before the end of the session , Bona-^ Sm ania < br adopting different uniforms as each ^• L may require , is considered very amusing . He oecasw _ J fifaitre Jaques , Harpagon ' s cook and b ° Svwho says to his master , — « Is it as coachcOaC V i ' cook you address me ? If it he as coachman , ^ ^ ntil I put on my livery . If as cook , I will W S ; lv put on . my White-apron . " . The Leg islative B ody oppose this hill ; they would rpfer the Falloux Act passed last year . The clandes-? hostility of the Assembly to the Government waxes ce and increases in intensity . The commission apa budget invited the Ministers to attend upon

      + h m to furnish details and explanations on several terns entered in the budget . The Ministers sent word Jw had other business to attend to , and referred the Smmittee to their clerks . The clerks , when applied to answered they had nothing to say on the subject j that they had furnished all the necessary documents to the Council of State , arid that therefore the Council was the proper quarter to apply to . The deputies , much irritated at this treatment , delegated M . Billault , preand Gouin

      sident of the Leg islative Body , M . , chairman of the committee the budget , to lay their grievances before Bonaparte . Bonaparte replied , that his Constitution forbade any communication -whatever between tbe Legislative Body and the Executive , and that it was the duty of the Legislative Body to conform to this rule . MM . Billault and Gouin withdrew , considerably mortified . They are , however , determined to reject certain articles of the budget .

      In the Provinces the agitation increases . In the south the authorities are continually being insulted ; and in the rural districts it requires the military force to disperse the congregation of the people . There has been an outbreak at Lambessa , at which the troops were obliged to fire on the transported exiles . Four of the prisoners were afterwards shot . The war of " Notices" still rages against the press .

      The pretexts for giving these warnings are most absurd and derisory . The Conciliaieur de VIndre received a ** notice" for having declared the press was not free ; " which , " said the prefect , " is an insult to the law on the press , and to the government which originated it . " The Prefect of Amiens went still , further , he summoned the journal of that town to insert a speech delivered at the Hotel de Ville of Paris . If this state

      of things goes on much longer , the papers will be filled with official notices , or with articles on matters which do not interest their respective localities , but forced upon them by the Government . Let the Conciliateur do VIndre beware in future of asserting that the press is not free . Orders have been issued for the sale of the furniture of the Chateau d'Eu , belonging to the house of Orleans . The decrees of the 22 nd of January are still being enforced , as you perceive . On this subject it is said the Council of State is prepared to act in opposition to

      Bonaparte . M . Comudet , who was entrusted with the drawing up of the report on the matter of competencies , which had been submitted to the Council of State , has heen advised by the Prefect of the Seine , that the tribunal of Paris had declared itself competent to decide upon the validity of the decrees of the 22 nd of January . The report is , therefore , adverse to the pretensions of the executive , and declares the ordinary tribunals to be competent to judge in the matter . President Maillard , M . Marchand , and many more councillors aro of this opinion . s -

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      CONTINENTAL NOTES . Tnu Monitour of the 27 th inst . declares that thoro is not tho slightest foundation for the statement in Bomo foreign journals that tho President of the Republic oxorcisoa at this moment at Madrid on inflaonco contrary to tho Con-Btitution . Gonoral Bodoau ' a letter of refusal to take tho oath , runs « a followB : — Monsiouro lo Ministre , —A decroo fixes tho delay within which tho oath imposed upon eoldiors ought to bo taken . J ^ oprivedof tho benefit of tho law since tho 2 nd of Deoom-PW , I minrht nhnt . nin fvnm rnsnnnriino- to this injunction .

      * am unwilling that my silence should bo misinterpreted . My actions havo had always for principle" and aim tho ros-P « ot and dofonoo of tho lawB . I havo boon for this cause nlono violently arrcBted , imprisoned , and proscribed . Injuatico and persecution do not change the convictions of an honourable man . I rofuso tho oath . —BEDKAU , Gonernl . tforioral Loflo , ono of tho Quostoraof tho Assembly , has "written a noblo and touching letter from Jersey , to the eamo effect . Thoro havo boon grand foastinga and carousals at Berlin "uring tho stay of tho Czar , who has boon Btoaling the » oiirt » of tho aoWiora and ladies , and giving lessons ' in ri ? i government to Prussia and Hanover .

      • luo ministerial crisis at Turin litua resulted in a mourncation of the d'Azeglio ministry . MM . d'Azoglio , Poleocapa , and Pornati havo roBumod thoir respective norttohoa ™ I'oroign Affairs , Public Works , and Interior : M . Bon-MW 1 ha 8 accopted tho dopartmont of Justice , vacated £ M- <* alvagno ; and M . Oibrario has boon named Minisw of JBiuancp , ia liou « f M . Oavoux . Tho Pepwtment of

      Public Instruction , lately held by M . Farini , is provisionally entrusted to M . Boncompagni . M . Lamarmora retains the department of War , to which that of Marine is added . M . ^ d'Azeglio has declared to the Chamber that the late crisis was occasioned , not by any difference between him and his kite colleagues in matter of principles , but only in the manner of applying them—that all were devoted to the constitution and meant to support it . It seems probable that M . Cavour will return to office . He has premised to support his provisional locum ten / tens , M . Cibrario . ¦

      The late Minister of Public Instruction , M . Farini , is said to have been obnoxious as a Roman refugee , and as a moderate liberal , to the diplomatic allies of the Pope . Great agitation prevails in Switzerland , in the Catholic canton of xribourg ( the leading member of the Sonderbund , in 1847 ) . The government of the canton is democratic , but the majority of the population , Catholic and reactionist , had refused to acknowledge the radical constitution . The opposition is supported by the Federal Council at Berne , and fomented by France and Austria . The programme for a grand popular meeting to be held at Posieux , near Basle , on the 24 th inst ., was published in the Suisse of the 20 th , and approved by the Federal Council .

      The Cantonal Government having seized the proclamation and stopped the presses from which it issued , two members of the provisional committee repaired to Berne for Federal protection ; whereupon the Federal Government openly declared against the proceedings of the cantonal council of Fribpurg ia interdicting the meeting * M . Charles , a member of the provisional committee who drew up the proclamation , has Bince been arrested by the Cantonal : Government , and various other arrests have followed . A collision was feared on the 24 th .

      Meanwhile , in the Assemble Rationale of Paris appears along letter addressed to M . de Montalembert , on the subject of Switzerland , which is the more worthy of notice , as at this moment , under the countenance of the French government , agents of the Papal government are recruiting soldiers for the Pope in the regions of the Doubs and Jura , -Where the influence of the head of the church party is paramount . In this letter , signed by M . Xeopoldde Gaulard , the uppermost proposition enforced throughput is an opinion uttered by Napoleon when First Consul : " Either a Switzerland friendly to France , or no

      Switzerland at all . " This jcorrespondent describes as a political necessity the design of the First Consul to annex to France all those parts of Switzerland whose inhabitants resembled in their manners and ideas the population of Franche Comtek The presence of General Dufour , as negotiator of the confederation , at Paris , and his frequent interviews with Count Turgot , the Minister of Foreign Affairs , and Louis Napoleon , give considerable prominence at this "moment to the Swiss question , and the progress of events in that fermenting union of small states is watched with , considerable interest . ' .

      The Empress of Russia arrived at Wiesbaden on the evening of the 23 d . . Tho Zeipsic Gazette announces that , in the highest financial circles of Frankfort , a reportwas current that the Emperor of Eussia had given orders to subscribe to the loan of thirty-five millions of florins opened in Austria , in order to employ tho twenty-nine millions of franca which he has drawn from France in consequence of the conversion of the 5 per cents . The Emperor has not received any of the diplomatic corps : but on the occasion of a review , he conversed with tho British Ambassador , on horseback . This meeting was

      of course pre-arranged . , . . Tho Vienna Imperial Gazette contains in its omcial columns a statement , in which , after acknowledging the urgent nocessity for restricting tho public expenditure as far as possible , tho government announces its intention to regard frugality as an especial duty . The ministers have submitted tho expenses of the several bureaux to a strict examination , and announce reductions to tho oxt on * j" * 14 , 268 . 290 florins , oxclusivo 1 of a saving of 2 , 600 , 000 florins o n tho military budget . It is singular that this announcement should bo simultaneous with tho projected loan of 3 , 500 , 000 ? ., now afloat in London and Franktort . It is said that tome 28 , 000 men will manoeuvre at Czoglcd , on tho occasion of tho Emperor ' s approaching V 1 ThoibouK ^ f tho constitution of 1848 has caused groat

      dissatisfaction amongst tho Moderate party in lust-any . Some persons go tho length of being apprehensive of demonstrations at tho end of May , on tho anniversaries of tho combats of Montanara and Curtatona , where tho Tuscans behaved gallantly . Tho names of tho persons who thoro distinguished themselves wore inscribed in tho church of Santa Croce , and tho govornmont has given orders to havo thorn removed . Tho clergy of Lucca , supported by tho Court of Komo , continuo to offer opposition to tho Loopoldino laws , to which tho Tuscan clergy havo boon long subjected . It ; is said that M . do Montossuy , tho French "" ^ ' T returned to Florence , is charged to support M . ^ f ? ftSB 0 " roni , tho P resident of tho Council , in tho steps which lio tt , « v think fit to take for tho jnaintonanco of those Jaws . has

      A letter from Komo states ' that M .- Thiors I . au an intonyiow with tho Popo ami with Cardma Antono h . Abettor from Rome of tho 20 th fltuteB that a now contract hoojust boon concluded by tho municipal council with a British capitalist , for tho lighting of Homo by gas . Four or five yoarB ago , anotlu-r haa boon concluded for tho Bamo purpos ? with U Bolognoso who ^ ' ^ P ^ down caution monoy to tho a mount ot 50 , 000 t ., never commoncod tho works . This caution money v now tohoapnliod towards carrying out tho now contract . Aho squaro of St . Potor ' B , tho Vatican , tho Corao . and tho Piazza do } Popolo , di' Spagna and Colonna , aro to be ligI j tojjawfe , and from those points the pipeB aro gradually to branch out into tho adjacont streets . . n ., f Edward Murray hue boon removed to the OaaUo or SpolttOi

      THE BRITISH EXILES OF ' 48 . In the Galway Vindicator we found an interesting letter respecting the exiles of MS , written by Wiffiam P . Dowling , a young Irish artist , who resided in London , and took an active part in the Chartist demonstrations of ' 48 . He was transported to Van Diemen ' s Land , under the Whig gagging act of 1848 . " Cuffy is working at his trade , which , until lately , was not very brisk ; hut the recent gold discoveries in the neighbouring continent has made every trade good now—he is much respected as a sober and industrious man . Fay has always been in constant employment ,

      and he is considered the best workman in the colony . Lacey has opened a shop in Launceston , his wife and five children have come to him , and he is in a fair way of reaping a fortune , having a great number of men employed , and , particularly since the gold discoveries , has received more orders than he can procure men to execute . Ritchie has not been very fortunate , but is now in employment ; With respect to the country Chartists , none of them have been able to get employment at their trades , there being no factories of any consequence in the colony : they are , however , employed somewhere in the interior as gardeners , &c .

      Smith O'Unen , since his acceptance of a ticket of leave , has lived in great privacy and retirement in the vale of Avoea , having , in order to employ his highly cultivated mind , condescended to become tutor to the young sons of an eminent Irish physician who resides in that retired place . His constant and dignified demeanour has procured him the respect of all , even of those most opposed to him in principles and politics . He is now , I am informed , in very bad health , so much so that he has been obliged to give up the employment he had accepted , and has got permission to reside in a different locality . Mitchel has been joined by his wife and

      family ; and with such a family , and with the society of his old and excellent friend , Mr . John Martin , he must be as happy as it is possible for an exiled rebel to be . O'Meagher still resides in his solitary domicile at Lake Sorell , save that the solitude is now somewhat disturbed by the presence of his amiable juid beautiful bride . O * Donohoe is at present in this town , and has just completed a history of his persecutions in this colony , which would be published immediately , but , in consequence of the gold discovery , printers cannot be

      procured at any price- —they are all gone to the diggings . He purposes to have it published in Dublin and London , for the benefit of his family , as well as in the colonies and America . Letters have been received here from M'Manus , enclosing his business cards to his friendsamong others , to the Governor and the Comptroller-General . O'Doherty is practising his profession in Hobart Town , and is universally respected . When last I had the pleasure of seeing him he was in excellent health . "

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      AMERICA . With respect to the abrupt departure of Mr . Hulsemann , the Austrian minister at Washington , we have news up to the 18 th of May ! Tho JYezo York Herald contains the following letter : — " Washington , May 13 , 1852 . " I telegraphed at tho time of Chevalier Hulsomann's departure from this cit y , that ho had addressed an insulting letter to Mr . Webster . I learn from an authentic source tho following additional particulars : —Tho letter is dated April 29 , ana states that in November and December Mr . JELulsemann had remonstrated with tho Secretary on account of bis communications and interviews , nnd thoiv

      subjects , being treated with ridicule and derision , in certain public journals of New York and Philadelphia . Tho Secretary ' s treatment of tho Kossuth affair , and particularly his speech at tho Kossuth Congressional banquet , had made it the duty of Mr . Hulsemann to ascertain whether euch sentiments ns tho Secretary had mado expression of wore those of tho government ot tho United States . Tho vorbnl explanation and assurances mado to him on those occasions had been followed by no change in tho manner in which his transactions with this government woro treated by tho public press . That , particularly , some articles publiahod in Now Orleans had recently boon tho occasion of tho Austrian ministry suffering considerable un-{) le a 8 antno 8 B and annoyance . Under those circumntancos , 10 considered it his duly to withdraw from any longer rolutions with tho government , which could only bo

      continued through tho medium of ono who was a promoter of Kossuth , and unfriendl y to tho Austrian government ; and , thoroforo , that Mr . Bolmont , Austrian Consul-General at Now York , would hereafter , if occasion required , bo tho moans of eucn communications as tho Austrian government ' might , hayo to make . ' Tho Chevalier thon presents tho l ' rosiaont his thanks for his kindness , urbanity , &c , and asks tho Secretary to accept aasuranco of hiu high consideration , &c . " Tho letter covers several pages of foolscap , nnd is written in very ill humour , and quilo tart and piquant . ^ " Tho reply is by tlio acting Socrolary of State , and ia dated May 3 . It acknowledges the receipt of tho Chovalior ' fl letter very brioily , and inoroly Bays such communications as tho Austrian govornmont may havo occasion to make through Mr . Bolmont will bo respectfully received . ' "A Hungarian named Szedlaky baa published a

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      ^^ , 1852 . ] THE L BADE R . 507

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    • Leader (1850-1860), May 29, 1852, page 507, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1937/page/7/