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Similar meetings have been held in Lambeth , Westminster , and Finsbury , with the like results . The feeling in the metropolis against the Budget is unquestionably very strong indeed . Besides Sir William Molesworth , Lord Dudley Stuart , Sir Benjamin Hall , Mr . Williams , Mr . Buncombe , Sir John Shelley , and Sir Da . Lacy Evans have assisted at the meetings of their constituents ; but the resolutions have been moved by electors . „ , . ¦ In the provinces , the feeling is not less declared nor less positive . Liverpool , Southampton , Stourhridge , Buckingham ,. Bedford , Worcester , Manchester , Newcastle-un-Tyne , Edinburgh , Chatham , and other places , have agreed to petitions declaring the scheme oppressive and unjust .
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THE KAFIR WAR . News from the Cape up to the 6 th of November was brought on Monday , by the Queen of the South . But matters are advanced only a short way nearer to a conclusion ; while , whatever satisfaction may be drawn from the military progress , is alloyed by the civil intelligence . General Cathcart appears to have been carrying on repeated and vigorous attacks upon the small bodies of Kafirs still lurking about . They are represented as in a deplorable condition , without food or ammunition ,
and driven into the great forests on the skirts of the Amatolas , for refuge . The Waterldoof is now cleared . The camp of Uithaalder , the rebel Hottentot chief , has been burnt , and he himself is reported as having set out to try his fortunes over the Orange river . An interview between General Cathcart and the Slambie chiefs , had ended in the surrender of Scyolo . Sandilli had been nearly captured by the daring of Lieutenant Whitmore , who chased him to the bush . An officer had been cut to pieces escorting cattle . In general , however , we have no military news , because the Commander-in-Chief was very close , and kept his general
orders secret . A despatch from Sir John Pakingtou was read in the Cape Town Legislative Assembly , on the 4 th , announcing that the Constitution" was further postponed , in consequence of serious difficulties besetting the franchise question . AVhereupon meetings were held , expressing the indignation of the colonists , threatening serious consequences , and declaring that they should hold the advisers of that course responsible for what ensued .
We may remark that the Queen of ilic South has proved an excellent boat . She encountered very bad weather , and behaved admirably . Her passage was greatly delayed by the breaking oil" of one of the fans of her screw .
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THE BURMESE VV A It . l ' jtoncitXA' it would be correct to write cessation of war in Burniah , for owing to delay on the part of General Godwin , matters were at a stand at the end of October . Sir John Cheapo held Prome , while a i ' ew thousand Burmese were . stationed about six miles oil " , whom he was not allowed to attack . General Godwin was inarching the . second division to Prome by land , and when made , Avu would be assailed also by land . Elephants had been sent from Calcutta to carry the heavy guns of tin ; army . Meanwhile , the steam-fleet , by the . sudden fall of the Irrawaddy , were aground at Prome . Hy this time , had Captain Tarleton been permitted , lie and his blue-jackets and marines would have captured Avu . It is no wonder that the system of appointing old and procrastinating oflirers to the active commands in the Kast Indies is exciting such general displeasure .
It is reported that the Allghnns are in arms again ; but the report requires to be confirmed , as it comes from Urn same source as the famous story about the landing of British troops at Herat !
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CUBA AND T 11 M UNITK 1 ) STATUS . At present , the ull ' uiv of the Crescent Ci / . g has been compromised . A letter from President . Fillmore , which has been published , and an article in the government organ , the )\'( tslihu ) loii licpubliv , nIiow that the President extends no sort , of count . eiianco to the proceeding of ihe Crescent- (* //// . lie is resolved to maintain the rights of the United Stales as against , Spain ; hut . he will not protect any citi / . en who ehooscslo
violate Hut regulations of a foreign port . Consequentl y , Uk ; naval officer bus been withdrawn from the Crescent . City , mid I . ho mails also . But iiot to be ^ liwarted hy the federal authority , the New York sympathisers have resolved to send out the C // ero 7 iee to llavannah with Purser Smith on board . Her commander is a merchant captain . She goes as a private vnsK < d ; it she break Ihe regulations of ( lie port , of llavannali , us things Hfnnd , she will be captured probably ; and the United Stutcu Government will not interfero , Hut it
must be remembered that circumstances may force them , should the Spanish or American officials overstep their bounds of duty . There has been a statement in the Spanish papers , that several French and English war steamers at Havannah had cffei'ed their services to Cafledo . But this does not accord with the assurances of the Times , that England , at all events , will not interfere in the matter .
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LETTERS PROM PARIS . [ From our own Correspondent . ] Letter LI . Paris , December 14 , 1852 . The Bonapartes are eagerly dividing the rich spoils of France . They are rivalling each other in dexterously appropriating whatever palaces they like best . Louis Bonaparte , of course , takes the Tuileries ; Jerome has awarded himself the Palais Royal ; Napoleon , his son , the Elysee ; and the Princess Mathilde the Louvre . The Monileur , too , publishes a list of all the estates , chateaux , and palaces that constitute the domain of the Crown . Strasbourg figures in the list . Boulogne , it would seem , has been forgotten .
The discussion in the Senate on the Civil List has been animated in the extreme . General Magnan proposed thirty millions : the Senate with one voice resisted that exorbitant figure ; and by way of a per contra , a certain number of senators proposed to accord no more than twenty'millions . In the end , however , the sum so long announced was decided upon . His Imperial Majesty is to have 25 millions . There are , as I have told you , the Princes of the Imperial family , and Princes tout court . The Senatus-Consulte , recently presented , declares that there shall be only three Princes of the Imperial family—to wit ,
Louis Bonaparte himself , old Jerome , and his son / Napoleon : all the other Bonapartes are Princes toutcozirt Old Jerome , who never forgets himself , is to have a dotation of two millions of francs ( 80 , OOOZ . ) , the Palais Royal for a residence in winter , and Meudon in summer . Besides , he will be appointed Grand Admiral , with from two to three hundred thousand francs salary . His son , Napoleon , is ' to he heir-presumptive of the Crown ; and the understanding is , that he shall have the Vice-Royalty of Algeria , under the title of Lieutenant of the Emperor ( " Imperatoris Legatus , " as it was called in the Roman Empire ) .
This Senatfis-Consulte is already voted , but not yet published- I cannot say as much for the Senatus-Consulte , which modifies the Constitution . This measure has met with the strongest opposition within the Senate . Many of the senators wont hear of accepting an allowance of 30 , 000 francs , which , from its fixed character , say they , would have the appearance of robbing them of their independence . What do you think of the rodomontading delicacy of these sacri-]) unts ! Others object to the allowance of G 00 O francs to the deputies . They fear the reproach against the Imperial Constitution of bribing and buying the representative's of the people . Indeed , several of the deputies themselves are offended at this posthumous liberality .
One of them has even sent in his resignation ^ But the graver side of the matter has yet to be exposed . You are aware that Louis Bonaparte , faithful to the imperial traditions , and in spite of his assurances that no serious modifications would be introduced into the Constitution , has proposed to suppress the few surviving prerogatives of the Corps Legislatif . Ever since 1815 , the Legislative body has been in the habit of voting the Budget by special estimates for every separate head of expenditure-, so tliat no minister could exceed the , sum grunted . This important right ,, no long disputed , had the ellect of restricting the power of Ministers , and by forcing them to keep within precise limits , placed the agents of the Kxecutive at the discretion of the Chambers .
I o render this control more secure and more effective , the Chambers bad successively narrowed more and more closely the ( special limitations , by subdividing Ihc beads of estimates . Kor instance , the estimates of Ihe Minister of War , which in . 1 SliV were contained under seven heads , are now divided into more than thirty . Moreover , to make the application of the principle of spccutlitt / more rigorously exact , the Chambers had got (<) vote the estimates of each department by separate items . Now the Sonatus-Consulte recently presented ,
in contempt of the Constitution . of January II , upsets all thai , arrangement . Bonaparte insisis on substituting for the former article of the Constitution on this subject , t , lu ! following : —The Oorps Legislat if discusses and votes the Budget , par miitis-terr . Now the vote />(//• iiiiuisfcrc upsets ' altogether the control of an elective nsnenibly , and destroys the importance of Uh financial resolutions . Any Minister , as hooh art the amount , of hiH Budget in voted , can lnove at his ease within the limits of thai credit , by reducing the expenditure granted , and by appropriating more or
less to other expenditure for which no credit has been opened , or by augmenting other items of expenditure already estimated to an indefinite extent . Thus , for example , if a reduction of 100 , 000 men on the active force of the army were decided upon , under the system of special heads of estimates , the head of " Pay" woujd appear diminished in proportion to that reduction , and the same would appearunder the other heads relative to the maintenance of the forces . On the other hand , according to the system of voting the estimates par ministere , the Minister of War having obtained a grant of three or four hundred ;
millions ( of francs ) for his department , can spend them as he will . He can levy 600 , 000 men ins tead of 400 , 000 , if he please ; and for that purpose he will only have to apply the 400 millions ( of francs ) of his Bud get integrally to the personnel , by diverting the gran t for the materiel ( more than 100 millions of francs ); or if , on the contrary , lie choose to disband 100 , 000 m en , he may pocket about 100 millions of francs , without anybody knowing a word about it . This is a very comfortable system , you see ; cela sent son Jlfandrin d ' 1 lieue . We are in the enjoyment of a regime of loaded ! dice , and all the rest vade suite—elections , estima tes
why not even ecus ? Now this modification of the Constitution aroused a serious opposition in the Senate . The Marquis cVAudiffret , one of our hi gh fiscal authorities , whose whole public life has been spent in the attempt to establish order and control in the finances of the State , protested ardently in his committee against the proposed modification . Three ministers rose to grapple with him , but he crushed . them all by the force of his reasoning , and the strength of his convictions . He was unanimously appointed b y his bureau one of the commissaires to make a report on the Senatus-Consulte . In other bureaux the
dis-cussion attacked other points equally important . One of the consequences of voting the Budget par ministere , is to take out of the hands of the Chamber all control over public works . On this subject , one senator was so bold as to say , " that when he saw the jobbing ( des tripotages ) that had disgraced the Bourse , to the disgust of all France , during the last two months , he regarded it as a real danger for the country to adopt the article which reinoved from the Corps Le " gislati £ the examination of great works of public utility—siieli as mines , railways , &c . Never , " he added , " wiiE a . French Assembly , however devoted , allow itself to bo > so treated . ; and if this article is passed , my convio tion is , that the existing Chamber of Deputies , will not reach the conclusion of its mandate . Befeue two
years it will have to be dissolved . " A thirc ? point excited , indignant remonetances . Among other prerogatives of the Crown , Bonaparte reserves to himself the right of signing treaties of commerce , as well astreaties of peace ; and all this without control , and without having to render any account , either to tha-Senate or the Corps Legislutif . This third assumptiondrew loud cries of dissent from certain representatives of the manufacturing interest . M . Lebaeuf , the manufacturer of pottery , rose with extreme viva-city to oppose a prerogative which attributes to the Emperor
a positive commercial autocracy . Ho reminded the Chamber that , even in the time of Louis XIV ., there was a JJureau do Commerce ,, which was always consulted . The fiery senator fastened . on M . Baroche himself , and undertook to prove to that personage that , even with great political capacity , it -was possible to combine complete ignorance of industrial matters . A ; fourth modification is also proposed , to restrain the rights of the Corps Legislatif ; the speeches of deputieswere not allowed to he printed in full , neither in the Monih ' . nY nor in the other journals . A simp le analysis of them only appeared in the Monitcnr .
Him analysis is to be further cut down to a mere summary of a few lines , in which not oven the names of the orators will bo mentioned . One would suppose that Iforinpiirfe apprehended the apparition of a Mirabeuu in tin : chamber of bis own nomination . la fine , a fifth point , was raised in this discussion of the Senate . Formal interpellations wen ; addressed by General Ilusson to Fould , the banker-minister , on the jobbing (/ e . i fripofiujcs ) of the Bourse . < u : m ? rnl iliisson . openly reproached M . Fould in the presence of the whole Senate , with the immense disturbance in the
financial world created by tho affair of the Bank ol JVloveuble Credit , which he expressly characterized as a " dirty scheme of a lew jobbcvH . ' ' * Ah everybody knows that ; the entourage of Bonaparte have won about twenty millions of francs in this " dirty scheme of a few jobbers , " you may imagine ;' that the senators , when they heard Ooiiend IIussou make us < « of these ! formidablo terms , which struck much ' higher than M . Kould , sat for wonie minutes petrified with lunn / . einenl , ! It is to-day , notwithstanding , that l . ho Heimte in to vote all tbo divers Meiiutus-conmilfeK '
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1202 THE LEADER . [ Saturday ,
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 18, 1852, page 1202, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1965/page/6/
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