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      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 fite 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 "P lace 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 groat reduction in the duties on the Bordeaux wines . This is the way Persigny touts for the iirm 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 urgent private affairs . The troops are all concentrated on the chief strategetica

      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 would 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 me 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 proves its falsehood more clearly than the number of condemnations for insulting- and o / Fensivo 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 ratre .

      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 smallness contrives to elude all the vigilance of the police—and of which thousands of copies are in circulation . Every one has , or intends to have , a copy . The police are furious , and daily effect domiciliary visits at tin : houses of the booksellers , who appeal in vain to the " inviolability of the domicile . " I hear from London that Colonel Floury , aide-decamp of Louis Bonaparte , is still in England , ransacking the country in every corner to purchase eight . cream-coloured horses for the coronation of the J'Jinperor . His original commission was to order a carriage . There is nothing extraordinary in his looking after the liorse . s . There is a report , however , at Paris , that the Empire in once more adjourned , and that , IVrsigny ( who once miid that- he had miiilit IJonnparfo (' resident in spite of himself , and that he would make him Emperor in spite of himself ) insists on the Empire , while Bonaparte declines . The latter is said to lr . ive expressed him-elf as follows : — "Why should I make my sell' Emperor ? Wsis authority ever more obeyed ? Have affairs been over more prosperous ? A new title would add nought to my authority , mid would perhaps bring me inextricable difficulties in its ( rain . The ambition of a conqueror seems inrviiably to attach to the title of Emperor , and however my interests and my wishes may he identified with peace for Europe , Europe would probably not believe me , and 1 should have to fear a rupture , and consequently the obligation to go to war . " In the meanwhile imperial manifestations continue . At Thiouvilh ; if , was proclaimed , by sound of trumpet , lluif . petitions for I he restoration of ( he Empire had been deposited at l . lie Mairir for . signatures . Really tlii . s idea , of crying , wild the , aid of a trumpet ,, the imperialist , petitions , just , as the arrival of a conjuror , u wild of goods , or a lost dog , i . s " cried , " is very ingenious . No one , however , presented himself ut , the Jllairie . As to the ( , \> unrils- < General , as I have before remarked , ihv number of tho . se which demanded the Empire no disappointed flie ¦ nicneurs of the Ely sen that tlie Monilcur , in rendering an account of their session , uiiiiiifuined an obstinate silence about the imperialist vote of the minority , ami contented itself with

      asserting that all had unanimously pronounced themselves in favour of stability . The municipal elections are concluded . To continue to keep you aw 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 Bcyrus were null , in default of voters ; at Nhpes , the second election found onlyyi 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'Angcly ( 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 i esigned , 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 the 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 his 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 o ? 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 devolution of 1789 stripped them . A ery 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 Kevolution , was in possession of largo 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 , and 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 , opposed the sale . The administration of the forests persevered in the sale ; but the matter has been carried before the Council of State . On the other hand , the Legitimists continue their intrigues also . All the notables of that party are just now on the way to Frohsdorf , to assist at the fete of their king , on the 29 th instant ,. Persecution knows no ceasing . Imprisonments and transportations go on , as vsituf . A citizen from the Eastern Pyrenees lias been transported to Algeria , for breakin-- his ban : and more than four hundred of the

      Vonne and the Nievre have recently been imprisoned at Clairvaux . Even ( ho singing taverns ( cafiarctx foraimi ) are proscribed by a severe prohibitory order of the police . As for the severities against , the press , they are far from being relaxed . The ; Corxairc ( which was to the Legitimists , what the Charivari , is to the Republican , and Liberal party ) has been abruptly . suppressed , without , any stated motive . If bad already been . suspended for two months , and bad only made its reappearance three days before ! the decree that . suppressed if . The Lilxrh ' , of Caen , has received a . " warning , " on account , of an article on credit fancier ( landed credit ) .

      The Paris elections , for the nomination of ( wo deputies , will take place on the 2 ( 5 th and Ii 7 lb instant . The Administration has not yet declared its candidates , neither has the Opposition conio to a decision what , steps ( o hike . The majority , perhaps , are in favour ot standing altogether aloof . S .

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      CONTINENTAL NOTES . M . Louis Bon a pa wvv , ban been received at HourgeH and Novers , lurnrding to the gospel of the , telegraphs , with enthusiasm . y " li . Kcrc hi . twnu (! inii" may surely be applied to I'Yunco under Louis Honnpiirlc , who known bin people no well ( lull . Jio will not , ovon . tulu ) the Empire by violence , but prefers

      to allow them to register their own servitude in petiti ™ ., No document has yet surpa ^ ed in vileness , and none W displayed a more absolute confidence in the natirmai a gradation , than the " Petition of Father of SS ? de ; Labourers , " which has been prepared in tho haw . ™ * the Home Office or the Police , and is now fc ? ° l active propagation from house to home . This petitW , t which a translation has been fully printed in the Tint states , " that in a country like France all interests a 7 * placed unddr 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 noss /* 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 th 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 principle 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 onlr one which suits our age—viz ., hereditary tenure of sove - reign 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 Wellington . The Patrie and the Presse contain articles of a character decidedly hostile to the illustrious deceased . The Dtbats publishes a biographical notice without much comment . The Constitution-net speaks in his favour ; the Pays takes a sort of middle course ; and the Union , the TTnivers , and the Assemblee 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 Direction to the Citizens composing the Committee of the Central Internal Direction of the National Italian Association for the Tuscan Provinces at

      Florence . In consequence of the instructions I have received lam 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 to 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 . 0 On his part , the Commissioner of the Committee at Home ' recognises and definitely accepts the uuion of the Democratic Association of Home and of the Roman States with the Tuscan provinces . The union of Tuscany with Eomc ? is now morally accomplished , adds the Italia e Fopolo .

      Some grand ceremonies commenced at Florence on the 4 th inst ., and concluded on the 8 th with the coronation of the image of tho Madonna . In order to keep up the fervour of Florentine devotion , a pamphlet has been published containing a long list of miracles performed by this supernatural image or picture , which is declared to ^ owe its origin , in the year 1252 , to the unrivalled skill of a ccIohtiai hand . Certainly the age of miracles has returned with returning absolutism . Tho brief reign of Democracy won fatal to these visitations . lllt'lil I \ ' t Hit 'I . JAL . J »* 'l » f *'"' *¦*¦¦¦ - »

      We last , week mentioned t : ho resumption , after an adjournment , of the trial of Guerrazzi , the ex-member and " hero of Mits Vrovisional Government in Tuscany . It appears that Guorra / . / . i lias at last spoken . The exordium ot his speech against tho competency of the tribunal appeal - in . r too disuse to tho President , Ncrvini , that functionary reproached the prisoner with not , adhering to his subject . "Signor J ' reHidente , " replied Guerrazzi , " I - Iiuvo In-en silent , for forty-one months , allow iikwiow to speak . Aim speak ho ditf , with great , vigour , against tho niodo i which the accusation had been laid against , him aim mcumpamo . is , rendering all responsible for tho lieIs <> J < ' »« ' iriHivirtuul , and each individual responsible for all Inn

      icliowprisoners . The appeal was reject ( id . ,. Austria , makes unceasing ellorts to enmesh all tlio ]» <¦ J Italian States under her protectorate in a conimemai uii customs union . Tho Duchy of Parma has lately ll (> n " to a treaty prepared by Austria , and lUmm W "r < J I 1 " ex-Yorkshire groom , now Premier of Parma ) lias leu Vienna ( o exchange ratifications . 1 ( i Tho financial condition of Austria grows W () l > s ( ( .. , worse . The crisis is not , l . o be much longer staved on ^ empirical loans , which only deepen the abyss , ha < < . lose it , No sooner is one loan concluded Hum anotln i i . announced . .... iim-in * A fortnight ago tho new loan of eighty l " ! . . , ' , , ( l (( , ( l ; was announced at , the Vienna , Hoarse . The

      bumcnient , of the debt duo to the Hank . , j ) y „ A third loan to the warno amount , is aI " , " •"" ' | , j ,. rlNy Frankfort journal , rarely misinformed on Altf . ' , " , nir * 'H > for January next . Meanwhilo all the pro . msod c < ^^ ^ of tho sl . ufo expenditure bavo proved »""^ " " - >' :. llIltl budget aeknow edges a dclieiL of r , r ,, <) 0 <> , 0 < I ¦ ; | . | ,,, » , mM , i , l » ni .. u .. ililaryl ,.. ^ iiiiiiiiNimilimiiiiHliofl . Not to speak ol pi . lili . ui * v < iH not , ( Ins a tempting Imil , to Knglish mv << st »>< " ™ . ;„„ Tho tedious complications of tho ZoMvck i I ^ ^ grow ' « insoluble daily ; and it becomes j j () apparent that the struggle between Vienna a . jn uujnuch for political iiu for commercial pi « .- « " »

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 18, 1852, page 890, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1952/page/6/