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      The Eev . J . H . Pollen , Fellow of Merton College , and late Senior Proctor of the University of Oxford , has been received into the Roman Catholic Church by the Archbishop of Rouen . It is our very painful duty to announce that Lord Charles Thynne , uncle -of the present Marquis of Bath , and son-in-law of the Bishop of Bath and Wells , a canon of Canterbury , and rector of Lonbridge Deveril , near Warminster , has seceded to the Roman communion . — Kentish Gazette .

      The Plymouth Journal , the organ of the opponents of the Bishop of Exeter , reports the proceedings at the confirmation held at St . Peter's , Eldad . According to this authority , the Bishop , on being driven up to the church , was received with " three tremendous groans , which startled the people inside . " He , however , merely turned round and " fixed a steadfast eye" on his assailants , when , of course , the groans were repeated .

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      LETTERS FROM PARIS . [ From our own Correspondent . ] Letter XLIV . Paris , October 20 , 1852 . The last preparations for the Empire are pressed on with great activity . A number of questions remain to be solved , and these arc the subject of daily Ministerial deliberations . The title of Napoleon III . is definitively adopted . The most specious reasons were advanced in favour of this decision . Napoleon II . never reigned . Certain ministers objected that , in taking the title of Napoleon III ., Louis Bonaparte would fall into the ridiculous error of Louis XVIII ., who took the title of Louis XVIII ., " when there had been no "Seventeenth . " Besides , they added , it would be an ostentatious avowal

      of pretensions to a Napoleonian Legitimacy , when it was clearly proved that France held all legitimist pretensions in equal contempt . To bring- these recalcitrant Ministers to their senses , it was necessary to exhume the Monilcur of June 24 , 1815 , in which the recognition of Napoleon II . by the Chamber of Deputies and the Chamber of Peers of that period , is found recorded at length . Consequently , it has been decided that Louis Bonaparte shall assume the title of Napoleon III . Napoleon II . reigned only on paper ; we shall see on what this man will reign . In expectation of their official reassembling , the senators have been very busily discussing in private conference , the Senatus-Consulte of November 4 . The majority are disposed to give the State paper the following form : —

      " The French Empire shall be hereditary in the direct line in the family of Louis Napoleon . In case Louis Napoleon shall have no issue male , he shall have the- right to designate his successor . Louis Napoleon will introduce into the Constitution whatever modifications lit ; may deem proper to place the new powers of the State in harmony with the new regime . " All this , you see , means a pure and simple return to the dictatorship of tin ; Second of December . We shall have an Autocrat , a ( V . iir . It seems , the want of such a blessing is felt more and more . What , induces the senators to adopt , the above-mentioned formula is ,

      tlmt it . dispenses them jrom pronouncing an opinion on tlic great qneslion as to the successor of Louis 15 ouap : ir < e . The Senate is formally obliged to regulate this order of succession , since i , he pretended " Dioiitirchinil , dubUil '// " is ill . stake . Now , as l . liey ure no ! acquainted with I he reelings of Louis l . onnparle on I . he subject , they preli'i- to leave to him the choice . Hesides , the senators are divided info two camp- ; . One serf ion is disposed towards tlu ' son oi" Lucien l ' onaparfe : the other for Napoleon , t . hti son of Jerome , itu ; man who has always worn tho

      mask of lepublieiiniHin , and who has even shown himself the personal enemy ol' Louis Itnnaparfc . The v ; ist majority leans to the son of Lucien , whose candidufcsliip is quile iiisignilicani . as compared to I , hat of Napoleon Jerome . Ill he lul . t . er were to succeed , nn entire change ol' system is apprehended , and consequently ; i terrible rel ribul ion on all I lie servile crew . ( ) n Uic oilier bund , old Jerome is enforcing his claims . Me is in possession of the family secrets , as 1 told you long ago , and he is quite in a position , and quite disposed , fo make himselfJ ' mreil .

      Tht ! Imperial coinage is already struck . ( upper pieces often centimes ure beginning fo he sold on the Houlevards , hearing on one side I he eiligy of Louis Itoiiupnrfc , with the inscription round the eiligy ol " Napoleon III . Kmprrur . " On flic , re verso side is uti engle , with these words , " Umpire A ' mmvr / . v . " The gold initl silver pieces have this device encircled by n crown of oak , without l . he ca < ile .

      The prepnnifions for the coronation are actively pursued . I fold you , some weeks h ' iucc , Unit . Colonel Kleury bad been Henf into I'lnglund for fhe Imperial carriages and hows . Now , if is tlui costume that onyutgoa attention . LouiB Bonaparte , who is decidedly

      fifty years in arrear , is determined to figure on the occasion in the costume that was worn by Napoleon the Great for Ms coronation . Now , that Napoleon should have conce ived the idea of dressing up like a Roman Emperor , after the model supp lied by the tragedian , Talma , was ridiculous and stup id enough ; but the absurdity was comparatively pardonable in a man of the South , nursed in ideas of decoration and theatrical display ? But on the part of Louis Bonaparte the absurdity exceeds all bounds . This heavy Hollander , figged out as a Roman Emperor ! The ass disguised in the lion ' s skin would be reasonable in comparison .

      The Court of the new Monarch is being organized . All the grand dignitaries , all the high functionaries the Grand Chancellor , the Grand Chamberlain , the Grand Equerry , the Grand M arshal of the Palace , the Grand Master of the Hounds , the Grand Master of the Ceremonies , the Grand Master of the Wardrobe , —all these parasites of Royalty are already nominated , and one may almost say entered upon their functions . A Grand Almoner was wanting ; he has been found : it

      is Mgr . Donnet , Cardinal Arch bishop of Bordeaux , one of those fawning courtier priests who caress every regime , to betray all in turn . Louis Bonaparte has just decided that his Civil List —the Civil List of the Empire—shall be twenty-five millions of francs : ( 1 , 000 , 000 / . ) Jacques Bonhomme is allowed to pay for his glory : that is the only right he has left ! By all means , then , I approve of the twenty-five millions .

      On his accession , the Emperor Napoleon created Princes , Dukes , Counts : he made his own Generals , Princes , Dukes , and Marshals . The monkey " apes " the man . He , too , is going to make his Princes , Dukes , and Marshals . The butchers of December are to be created Marshals , with the title of Duke MM . St . Arnaud , Magnan , St . Jean d'Angely , Castellane , Gemeau , and the rest , are to l ) e the twelve Peers of this new Charlemagne ! I know not if I dream : but it seems to me these creatures must he madmen not to understand that the whole fabric is but a castle of cards ,

      which a single breath will blow down . A single bullet would scatter all these valiant knights of the new round-table , and send them to rejoin the knights of the old : a single shot would despatch these merry-Andrews to the company of the ancient heroes of ballad and legend . De Morny , the bastard , halfbrother to the bastard Louis Bonaparte , is talked of for the dignity of Prince , as well as the apothecary , Fialin ( hodie de Persigny ) . Tould , the Jew , and

      Baroche , the Republican , are to he made Counts , the first under the name of Comte de Itegnancourt , the second by that of Comte de Menlan . Olivier le Daim , Olivier le mauvais , Olivier le dialle , the famous barberminister of Louis XL , he , too , was Comto de Meulan , and his end was the gallows ! If I were in the place of Master Baroche , I should not quite relish the omen '

      Pius IX . was announced to be coming to consecrate the new Emperor . General Regnault de St . Jean d'Angely had been sent to Rome to negotiate the affair . For my own part , I had refused , to the very last moment , to give credence to the report that even these official lacqueys would carry their insanity to such an excess as to sent ! to iisk the Pope to come and consecrate that ridiculous and ugly crime , — which men call " Bonaparte . " Therefore , 1 had not mentioned to you the report of this mission , * at a time , when it was in full circulation at Paris . At

      present it appears only too true that , negotiations to this effect have been opened . PIiim IX . / ins- refused . Honnparfe and his enlourat / e have incurred all the ridicule of the application , and all the shame of tht ! rebuir . In their vexation , these gentlemen huve despatched orders to all the clergy throughout . Krancc lo take the initiative of a petition addressed to I'ius IX ., to solicit , him fo visit I'Yanee . This petition is now in courso of signature by all fhe Bonn par fists , and by the Church-mice in every village . It , is true fhaf these two clauses of the nation art ! identical in number and in worth .

      Bonaparte is resolved , we hear , to inaugurate his reign by grand measures , political und financial . A general amnesty is spoken of , fo comprise all the political exiles , all flic- proscribed , all the victims of December condemned lo Algeria and Cayenne . A cerium number of representatives of the people only , such us Ledru h ' ollin , Louis'IUiiuc , "f ~ antl it lew others , art ! fo be exempted from the pardon . A reduction of the iiriny , to I , lie extent of 75 , 000 men , is also mentioned . You may remember that the legislative corps , in its short session of the mouth of May , demanded that reduc-* Our readers will remember Unit , we gnvo prominence , now ninny weeliti r . incc , lo Huh rumour , which we hud derived from another Huurcc of iiilorinalion . I ' -o . Lender . ¦ f II , would he strange indeed if Louis Konaparfo were to pardon ( he man through whomi generous oloquoneo ho recovered , thorium a of French citizenship : Iko proscribed

      tion as absolutelyindispensable to restoi-e the equilibriu of the Finances , but that Bonaparte and his ainist ^ loudly insisted on the rejection of all such pron ? sals by the Council of state . Now we find the sam ' man , seeking popularity , about to do himself what he would not suffer the legislative corps to do last M . The decree for the reduction of the army is said to Kb drawn up , and ready for the Moniteur . The object is to obtain votes for the re-establishment of the Empire Paris must be won at any price ; not Paris of the middle classes , hut Paris of the Faubourgs ( non pas le Paris bourgeois , mats le Paris ouvrier ) , for the ate Hers are still far more hostile than the shops . To this end , the town dues ( droits d ' octroi ) on wine are to be abolished ; but as a set-off , the octroi will be thrown

      hack to the fortifications , which will bring an incr ease of 150 , 000 inhabitants into Paris . By this increase of population the octroi would recover , and with usurv all it had lost on the wine duty . A gigantic loan of 500 millions ( of francs ) for the city of Paris , of which , fifty millions will be devoted annually to public works for the embellishment of the capital , is to be enforced . The conversion of the Four per Cents , into Three per Cents , is seriously discussed . M . Billault , the syndic of the Stock Exchange , has heen sent for to St . Cloud and sounded on this subject . By the same stroke the sinking fund would be re-established . In this last

      measure , a project of personal speculation is involved . All the public funds being brought down to Three per Cents ., as in England , and the current price of the Three per Cents , being 80 francs instead of 100 francs , which is par , Bonaparte and the lynxes who are goinoto share the benefit of these operations with him , propose to employ the funds of the State in the purchase of stock . They will " bear" the market at the right moment , as it suits their purpose . The day before the " bearing" process they will purchase stock at a low quotation , and the next day , by means of the Sinking Fund , they will operate for a rise . Eighty

      millions worth of transactions are effected daily at the Bourse of Paris . Imagine the profits of these gentlemen ! When these vultures have consumed our livers , we shall begin to feel them ! Perhaps , then , there is nothing better to do than to let them have their feast . I need scarcely add that ( by report ) a distinguished Jew financier resident in Paris is chiefly concerned in their manipulation of the finances of a nation . He throws 200 millions of francs into the affair to play at " bull" and " bear" with on the Bourse . He has offered Bonaparto twenty millions of francs in cash for another project : nothing less than the fusion of all the railways into one sole company—the Company R d .

      A new hatch of senators , at 30 , 000 francs per annum a-piece , is another measure shortly to appear . A list of forty personages rallied to Bonaparte is on the eve of publication . As money is the mainsp ring of the executive with all these Bonapartes , great and little , the mouth of the legislative corps must be stopped with a salary . This salary is to be 12 , 000 francs a head . Loud were the outcries against the twentyfive francs a day of the republican representatives : not a , word about the 133 francs a day for the creatures of Bonaparte ! hns

      In the meantime , the Comte de Chambord just protested against the re-establishment of the Empire . He has addressed his protest to the Courts of tliu Northern Powers . It is said to bo couched in very tricar and very categorical terms . Really these kings art ! curiosities ! They are regular nicu-mercluintH , dealers in human kind , who compete severely with each other for tho disposal of their merchandise . H ^ ro we find the representative of Leg itimacy—tl' « lfc I"' 1 " ' ciple which treats a nation like a herd of bensts , to ho bought and sold , m property to he ceded and to 1 » " 1 ) l ! " queathed ; we find tht ! representative of that prinwp lo invoking in his protest the national liberties 1 The grand fat her was driven out of P »» H ^

      paving-stones for having laid si sacrileg ious htuid < m liberty ; nml lo ! the grandson protests against , Kr >»« - parfe in the name of civil and political liberty- "' grandson offhe man who , in LHIK ) , broke up tho prying presses , accuses Bonaparte of governing > . y ' censorship : tho grandson of the man who su l l" ' * ()() the electoral right of ] 00 , 000 electors out ofllio lM *> then cnfmiidhised , charges Bonnpurto with the cr > ^ " of confiscating civil liberty , antl of obtaining by » ' ^ of compulsion the constrained votes of h hdsilH !<

      versa 1 suffrage . ' . .. „ .,,. M . de Montuleinbert has just published lllioll . ' ,,,,. test , of Mil ) suuie nature . In the form of h wor ^ titled , " The interests of fho Catholic ( 'huroh » Nineteenth Century" (/> * intenUs Cathohf *

      exile , to whom Mm present , " Kmpcror , «" ( | | in ,. liberated exile , declared that , it , would lio hi « BrJ" 1 I 11 ( , r « piness to restore a country . Hut Micro ' » V " . " £ , ,, iuii improbable even Mian graiitudc or good laiMi " ( icc q ) t of bor . omber : il . is Mint , Louis Blanc should doujf » An wruuwty from JLouitt JJonaparte . — -Ed . *\) + *

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 30, 1852, page 1032, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1958/page/4/