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FRANCE . An occasional correspondent of the * Daily Hews , ' in a Setter on ihe pending election for President , wr ites as follows : — ' Paris , Dec . 14 . —I have not written to you for sexual days , Laving bten occupied in traversing Paris and watching the movement of its pulse . We coninue to have tranquillity but not gladness . The peopfs vrere never more depressed . There is no confidence , and but little hope . The shopkeepers despair . Usually , at this sea > oo of the year , they are preparing for their harvest . By this lime we havs been accustomed to see the windows of the boulevards , lie bazaars , and their contributory
streets glittering with new and beautiful wares . Thara are no such signs of prosperity now . Trade is paralysed . And yet all the tradesmen 1 have se--: i—and I have made a point to see many—intend to vote for L'M \ 5 Napoleon . They say there is no choice , and that his is the only available name in Franca which is a type of orn * « r . Thai Louis Napoleon will get the vote—or cla m if , at least—seemw certain . Pamphlets aud hundred * oi thousands or "La Patrie , " "Le Constimtionael , " "Le Pays " f ^ hicb has just basely sucenmhtd to the government ) , and other journals , will be scattfred over the land itke snow-flafees . A'l this time not a word on the other side of the question can be printed ; and whoever attempts to electioneer against Louis
Napoleon will he imprisoned . And despite of all tad , ws are called upon every day to praise him for his magnanimity and courage in giving the people universal suffrage . Pray what is the courage ot a man who shrinks before a printing press ; or the magnanimity of a man who immnres all his opponents ? ' The men whom the people would like to consult in this crisis are either in prison or exile . Ihe lew stiil at liberty , who would be likely to influence them in favour of the Republic , are being arrested by the score . All the prisons in France aie glutted . No respect is paid to age or condition . The moment a man is suspected he is seized . Tbe air is thick % « th oppression . Spies are everywhere . Then : is a toad at every ear , One has ( 0 distrust even his friends .
' I have looked abroad over this singular country , and Aiked mrselt , in all France will come to Louis . Napoleon ' s iupport ? The answer was this : —1 . AH the imbeciles ; 2 . Att the old women of both sexes ; 3 . All the shopkeepers } A . Half Ihe peasants ; 5 . All the Jesuits ; 6 . All the placehunters ; 7- The army and navy ; 8 . M . Thiers . ' The next question was , who will oppose Louis Napoleon ? The answer is naturally suggested by
the above list . But let us look—1 . All the young ; yoaih being naturally truthful , progressive , courageous , and Protestant . 2 , All men of genius ; genius firing essentially and instinctively noble-minded , gentrous , frte , and impatient of restraint . 3 . The merchants ; commerce having always a tendency to Enlighten the mind and extend the VlSlOU , 4 . All irus Liberals of whatever class , not one of whom , so far as I can learn , has yet shrunk from his principles .
' Concerning ihe first class I have not met a ycusg man in Paris who does not feel that the election of Louis Napoleon would be a curse . Of course I except the poor drilliGg-macMnCS VjihO COWpose the army . ' As for the second class , any one familiar with French literature is well aware that Us brightest ornaments—Hugo , Beranger , Dupont , Sue , Lamartiut * , George Sand , Girardin—are all far too liberal and enlightened to be dazzled by a mere name . * OF the third class I have information which convinces me that the French merchant , like the British , will be the last man in his country to advocate imperialism . ' The fourth class speaks for itself . It has sacrificed and suffered far too much to relinquish its principles at such an boor as this .
' . Nevertheless , Louis ftapoleou Bonaparte will probably be elected . Nothing can prevent it but a civil war . "Whether the disturbances in the departments are sufficiently general and serious to deserve that name at present , no one in Paris , outside of the government , can say . K elected , he will take possession of the Tuileries . It is said that but for M . Eould he would have done so on the 2 nd of Pecezn-Tatr . At any rate he will keep away from the people . The Toile «« will he more Insurious than Ham , but net less a prison . ' I have just heard two important rumours - —> ' I . —Thai Lanurtine , though dangerously ill , has written several letters from Macon , expressing himself strongly against the President .
' 2—That Gen . Chaugamierand Lamonctere are to uslihwated before the election ; hut that as long BS there is disorder in the country General Cava'gnac will remain in prison . ' Paris continues calm , abject , tranquil , and stupid . ' A decree appeared authorising the collection of taxes and indirect revenues UUVil April 1 , 1852 , , Snu opening to the ministers a provisional credit upon the budget of 1 S 52 . The fourth article opens to
thft ministers a provisional credit ot 369 millions , which is the sum adopted by the committee of the budget for the three first months of 1852 . The fifth article opens a provisional credit of half a millien of francs to the Minister of War by anticipation on that of £ 1 , 500 , 000 / . allowed for military pensions . Tbe sixth article authorises the minister ol finance to create for the service of the treasury Slid negotiations with the Bank of France treasury bills bearing interest parable at fixed dates .
The definitive composition of the consuHallve commission appears in the' MoniJeBr . ' It contains 178 names , among which are enrolled those of tne various ministers since October , 1819 , with tbe exception oi M . Fancier , of the Bunapattist generals , the iigh church party with Montalembert at their head , and generally those members of the late assembly who supported the policy of theElysee . The commission will commence its sittings on the 23 ; d inst . The former secretary of the council of state , is appointed secretary-general of tbe comffiisMOn , and the former secretary re-d ' aciuer of the Assembly , is appointed to fulfil the same functions for the commission .
The fuaelwns of the commission are the general examisaiion of the votes of the 20 th and 21 st inst . To give its opinion on the drafts of decrees in legislative matters , which Will he submitted to the Resident of the Republic . To fulfil tbe funciions deferred to the council of state except in matters relating So administrative decisions in suits . The cormnirsion will be presided over by the President « f the Republic , and in his absence by M . liarache , vice-president-Several papers have begun io re-appear , among Others' La Presse / We learn ihat M . Emile de Girardin has retired from its direction and editorship , aad also that M . Toulgoet , the most eminent of tha writers , after M . E , de Girardin , has also it ' -ired .
The only species of opposition yet ventured upon in the papers is a certain manner of arranging the cfBaal matter copied from the' Moniteur / and ihs occasional u ? s of italics and large type , so as to bring out in bolder relief some of the mere salient points of lianapartist policy . For instance , the ' Gaz-rtte deFranefc . 'ia quoting the recent circular of General Si . Araaud to the generals commanding divisions throughout France , provokes attention by tha use of capital letters ^ o the announcement that everybody who resists is to be' shot . ' Then tbe very next paragraph repeats the rumour from a government organ , that a superior council of five generals is about to he formed , in order to 'further the designs" of the President . This mode of associating
two pieces of purely official news naturally leads tbe reader to render unto Cmsar himself the things that belong to him , and in a feeble degree supplies the place of commentary . The art is doub'less susceptible of considerable development , hut It i « not to be supposed that any such devices can long be practised with impunity . Not only will no opposition be tolerated , but it is evident that the time is at hand when everybody suspected of want ot zeal towards the government must expect the visitations of the strong arm which for the moment replaces law and jusbce . A g 00 d dea , of C 0 Mi ig B 0 W of all ranks and conditions are plainly told that the ?
beveral of the provincial journals publish the fob lowing telegraphic despatch from tbeMbister of the Intenor to the Prefects : - « Give the most sere ™ orders to arrest the Montagnard and Socialist chiefs who may endeavour to quit France after their de feat to . Paris / It is said that thirty refugees bad attempted t 0 e ° l , ^ ! ron tier from Swiizeriand at Se . jssrl . Only live had succeeded in euing past lfce custom-house lwo were arrested ; one drowned in the Rhoneand the other two fled . On the night of the 5 ib ' SK ? " ** refB ^ Speeded la crossing tbe It Is reported from St . Qaentin , that the prefect
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having been dismissed , and the municipal body resigned , a new prefect had been sent , who appointed a municipal committee ; and this bod y had resigned too , on account of the arrests made . Tne extraordinary powers confided to M . Maurice Duval in Britain- , to M . Carlier in the Central Department , and to M . Berard in the Somme , are withdrawn by a decree . The Legitimists in Britany have everywhere come forward to aid the government in putting down distuibaucps , while maintaining their protect against tbe illegal itovernment imposed upon the country . Th « Morhiban and Finistere have followed
the example of the Cotes-du-Nord and the Ille-ct-Vilaine . The councils-general , of the former departments have passed unanimously a resolution , stating that they will be inflexible in assisting the authorities to suppress all disorder ; but they protest against the act of the 2 nd oi December as a violent assumption of illegal supremacy . The prefects of three ol the above-mentioned departments , who convoked the councils-general , have been dismissed by M . Maurice , government extraordinary commissioner in Britany . The remaining couacil-^ eue . tal met tpoatansously .
M . Alfred Nettement , representative and editor of the * Opinion PubliquV has been liberated from Vineennes . MM . Greton and Leo de Lsbordeare stilt detained . The representames who remain at Mont Yalerien are MM . Piscatory , Anthony Thoutet , Pascal Duprai , Latrade , Besse , Renaud , and Peso . There had been fighting on the 10 th inst . at Malijac and Mees . There were both killed and wounded . Tlie insurgents amounted at one time to several thousands , who had been led to believe that the authorities would not recognise the acts of Louis Napoleon . They fled in all directions . General Rostolau , at the head of a column , is marching about in the arrondits ^ menis of BVziers and Perenas to re-establish tranquillity , The department enjoys the most complete quiet .
A Jeter from Sirashurg states that M . Thiers arr ived in that town on the evening of the 10 th inst . on his way to Germany . The police by whom he was escorted from . Paris accompanied him as far as Eephl , opposite to Straeburg . The ' Oherpost amis Zaitung ' of Frankfort , of the 11 th inst ., states that M . Thiers bad p assed through that City OH Ills W » J to Berlin . On Friday uight last three convoys of carriages , containing in all 600 prisoners who were arrested in consequence of tbe events of last week , successively left the Conciergerie for the fort of Bieetre , where the prisoners were placed in casemates to await their trial by court-martial . Bach convoy was composed , of 200 prisoners , Hanked on each side by a double line of Infantry and preceded and followed by a detachment of lancers .
At the present moment tbe last sparks of insurrection throughout France may be said to be-extiuct . The extreme strongholds of disturbance in the Basses-Alpes and Var have been attacked successfully by the troops . The battalions from Marseilles arrived before Digne , the capital of the Basses-Alpes , on the 7 ih , and immediately disperse *) the insurgents . All resistance to tbe government may be therefore regarded as definitively put down ; and , if quiet is not completely restored in all parts , the troops are everywhere masters Of the field . The different corps of marine at Duivkerque have sent in their adhesion to the President .
In order to prove the great commercial expansion consequent on the Revolution of December 2 nd , attention is drawn to the fact that in the six days following that event the number of bales of silk which left the entrepot at Lyons was 485 ) , whereas , In the three months following the revolution of February no more than 314 hales were laken out . Litters from St . Qaentin state that several persons belonging to the families of the generals confined at Ham , bad set out for that fortress , provided with an aathorisatioa signed by the Ministers of War and of the Interior to see their imprisoned relatives . M . Roger du Nord has not been set at liberty , ns was reported . The eight prisoners at Ham are still there . General Cavaicnac occupies the apartments formerly tenanted by Lnuis Napoleon .
On Saturday were sst at liberty , MM . Oudinot , Laiiriston , Lagarde , Eugene Su <> , Arnaud dm Var , Ceyras , Cbamiot , Cbarbonueau , Ghanet , Cremieux , Jules de Lasteyrie , Delarosiere , Ileiuiequin , Gavarret , Greyter , and Kessner . The police continue to make numerous arrests of persons concerned in the recent disturbance , or who attempt to create disturbances . Amongst them are ten belonging to HevriUy , ten oi the Batignolles , and eleven of Crenelle . In the lodgings of each of these men arms , ammunition , and demagogic publications have been seized . On Saturday forty persons were arrested in Paris . The number ot political prisoners in the fort of Bieetre is 753 . Provisions are supplied from tbe hospital of Bieetre .
The disturbances of the Yar have been ended by a battle before Aups , in which 100 of the people were killed . Only one soldier fell ; two officers said two soldiers were wounded . The functionaries taken prisoners by the insurgents were released ; and the column headed by the prefect , M . Pastourean , returned in triumph to Dragniquan . The most important expression of opinion which has appeared as yet since the events of December 2 , is contained in a letter of Montalembcrt , published in the « Univers . ' In answer to the applications made to him for advice as to what course
to follow in the ballot of the 20 th , M . de Montalemheit examines each of the three paths open to theelector . A negative vote , be declares , would be an encouragement to anarchy , an absolution of its frightful excesses ; abstention , cowardice , as long as the demagogic monster roars ; and he arrives at the conclusion that an affirmative vote is the only one worthy of a good citizen and a good Christian . Strange to say , the ' Presse ' is , under the direction of its new editor , M . Perodeaux , quite as Napoleonian as the ' Univers' and its celebrated correspondent .
M . Croce SpinelH , the famous jesvel ' er in the Place de la Bourse , has closed his shop , and posted the following notice on the shutters . : Closed on account of political arrests . ' M . Crocc Spinelli is an ardent republican , aud a much considered member of that party ou account of his great wealth . The government organs , wb ? le they seek to jusrify the deed of the 2 nd of December by the excesses of the communist rebels , as they are called , ominously fore-shadow the despotic intentions of tbe President in trenchant reforms directed to the
extirpation of socialism . ' European opinion demands at this moment from tbe President only one thing—viz ., to finish his work . Socialism has been hewn down ; it must now be rooted out . A momentary calm avails little , if there be not a durable cure , Force alone will not suffice . The dangerous doctrines which now call for suppression hy arms have germinated and grown during forty years . They have too often obtained the support
of the piesti , the patronage of philanthropy , and even the connivance of the administration . It is time tbat a good government should occupy and restore to health all minds , and reanimate every . where social lite . ' Thus France , with tbe daring speculations of her philosophers and publicists , with her ardent spirit of inquiry , with tbe restless activity of her intelligence , and the bold assertion of her opinions , is to be treated like an infant , and put into leading strings held by the Jesuits .
The government is getting uneasy about tbe state of the press . It begins to find that the fulsome flatteries of privileged Journalists , and of notorious hirelings is but an unsatisfactory support , and betrays an aqxiety to invite a little semblance of independent criticism , provided always ihat no really disagreeable truths shall be uttered . It is understood that a new law concerning the press is in preparation , and may shortly be . expected to appear in the ' Moniteur' by the authority of those
selfrelected law-givers , L . N . Bonaparte and M . de Moray . In tbe meanwhile , the government feels strong enough tacitly to relax the rule which prevailed a few days since , that none hut the favoured newspapers should be allowed to comment upon politics , and to allow leading articles of a milk-andwater description , in which neither praise nor blame can be distinguished . The journalists are gradually taking advantage of this ' scintilla ' of liberty .
Tuesday . —The 6 th legion of ths National Guard is dissolved . This legion corresponds to the district of Paris bounded on tbe north by tbe Boulevards of St . Martin and the Temple , and comprises the Rues St . Denis and St . Martin . In recommending this measure tbe Minister of the Interior « ars , addressing the President : — < The inflexible resolution which you have manifested to deprive of eve y chance of success an insurrection in Paris , and i ; o longer to permit that some thousands of rascals anoniQ decide the lot of thirty-five millions of souls , Hi " . ?? .- ° 8 ubmU t 0 * » u the measures proper for attaini ng this end . "
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The departments of the Aveyron and Vaucluse are declared in a state of siege . M . Ltrochejscquelu ^ the leader of one section of the French Legitimists has addressed an energetic protest to the ' French Nation . ' The conclusion is as follows : — ' The constitutional prerogative which M . Bonaparte , under the hollow pretext of a delpga . ( ion , usurp ? , would hurl ns once more into inconceivable confusion . The time for Caesars cannot have come for France . As a defender of the princ pie of the national sovereignty , I raust loudly protest , even if I sfand alone , against the present violation of this principle . May my sad forebodings for my native country not he realised . May France serai length that her help lies in her own bands , and that in a Ptepublic no one has the right to dispos . of the desiinies of the land except according to the free and foil expression of tbe public will . '
M . Victor Hugo has arrived safely in Brussels , and General Cavaienacis released from confinement . The Minister of the Interioi has addressed the following letter to the Prefect of Police : — ' Pari ? , Dec . 16 , 1851 . ' Monsieur le Prefect , —You have taken cognisance of the decree passed on Dec . 8 th against former convicted persons , who have broken their ban , and a ? ainst persons convicted of affiliation to secrft societies . This decree is not to he a dead letter , but most be executed with persevering energy . I hes you to take with this view the promptest measures . The capital must he absolutely cleared Of
all the impure and dangerous elements upon which the decision of the government can be brought to hftftr . Tk < we agitators who mislead weak men and prepare revolutions , must'be sent out of Paris , and if need he , out of France . Paris raust cease to he the refuge of outlaws of all countries , and the rendexws of men whose business is to imperil society . I rely on your zsal , and I am convinced that you think as 1 do , that it is time to impress On these men who have plagued the country for thirty years past a salutary terror , in order to re-assure good citizens , and to give to honest work securit y aud good prospects . —The Minister of the Interior , 'A . DuMonNY'V
The Minister of the Interior has addressed a circular to the Prefects , ordering the dissolution of all corps of National Guards which cannot be tru'ted at the present moment ; and the provisional supply of vacant " commands , election being now out of the question , by citizens who can be relied upon , "be arms not used are to be carefully removed to the arsenals-Dr . Yernn , editor of the ' Constitntioiinel , who has been the loudest and most shameless advocate of the usurpation , has received a part of lus reward in his nomination to the rank of an officer in the Leeion of Honour . M . Lamariine has published a letter , stating that hfe ha * no l < v « ger any literary or political connexion with the' Pays . '
The government journals some time since reported that rioters near Macon had sacked and burnt tbe Chateau de St . Point , belonging to M . Lamartine , and that he had s « nt to Macon for troops to protect his residence at Monceaux . He has written to give the statement a flat contradiction . No part . of his property was either injured or menaced , and he never sent for any troops . [ There are many other lies of the same description on the part of the government press , which want of room compels ua to omit . ]
A correspondent says , writing on Tuesday- — ' Missing the " Siecle" this morning , I made inquiries , and found that its publication had'been suspender ! by the government . The cause alleged for this oppressive measure will appear hardly credible . You are aware that none of the Jndepemlimt papers have yet published a single word of comment on the nets and decrees of tbe government . The "Debats , " "Union , "" Ordre , " "Opinion Pnb-Uque , " and " Siecle , " hane simply copied the ordinances as they appear in the " Moniteur , " without adding any original remarks whatever , The " Siecle , " it appears , had given umbrage by urging all who were entitled to vote to cet themselves
inscribed without delay at the different mairies . It was naturally inferred that the subscribers of the 11 Siecle" ^ d hardly claim their electoral right to use it in favour of the gaoler of General Cavaignac . A visit followed from an agent of the authorities , who tendered to the " Siecle" an article i » favour ef Louis "Napoleon for insertion . The article was refused , and the ' Siecle" was suppressed ^ But this is not all . I hesr that a similar visit was made to the office of the '' Debab , " and that warning has been given to that paper that it cannot be suffered to chronicle in sullen silence the acts of the government . It most adhere or abdicate . SyOO-[¦ hancy or suppression are the alternatives held out to the bland father of the French press . '
All the proofs of the papers are sent to the Minister of the Interior , where they undtrgo a double censure ; that is , not only are passages struck out , but others are inserted , the omission of which would be followed by the suspension of the papers . Thus the whole press is obliged perforce to propagate whatever h > s are " imposed by the government . The * Independence Beige ' has received notice from the Austrian and Prussian governments , that if it attacks the government of Louis Napoleon it will be forbidden in Germany as well as France , The Bishop o : Chartres has addressed the follow , ing letter to all the cures of his dioefse : — ' Chartres , Dec . 12 .
? Monsieur le Cure , —Weigh most maturely the advice contained in this communication , and which I strongly recommend you to follow . On the 20 th and 21 st of this month , the French people will decide if Louis Napoleon is to be for ten year . ; President of our country . The yes or no inscribed on each citizen ' s bulletin will decide that most important point . Influenced by your own views , and still mgre by love of your country , of which Jesus Christ has given us the example , you will sign yes , I have not the slightest doubt . Providence at pre . sent gives ns only tbat mode of safety , for it is evident that , if Bonaparte were rejected , France would not find any one to substitute for him . The
people , led away by in « ri ? ues and false suggestions , might make a detestable chaice , which would plunge our country into new and inexpressible misfortunta . We have escaped tha 2 « d of May , 1352 , which opened to France a / rightful abyss , and it would he senseless to bring back that chance of ruin and death . Ah that we have of late learnfd of the abominations , horrors , and excesses of the most savage character which have taken place are a slight example of the monstrous things which would have been committed on a grand scale throughout Prance , had socialism triumphed . You will perceive , sir , the irresistible force of these
reflections , which must strike all men of common sense * and to which , 1 believe , they would not hesitate to subscribe . I have the honour to be , sir , with a distinguished consideration and an inviolable attachment , your servant , " ' ^ Cl . Hip ., Bishop of Chartres . ' While the ultramontane Bishop of Chartres canvasses for the President , and bails him as the Preserver of society , the liberal Archbishop of Paris is subjected to the surveillance of the police , because he has net yet acknowiedgad ihe usurper . This will have some effect on the vote of Paris ; but not enou gh , it is feared , to affect materially the result .
The ' Constitutionael , ' in order to prove the existence of a plot for deposing the President , parades two drafts of decrees seized in the apartments of M . Baze , and drawn up without the knowled ge of the President of the Assembly . Upon inspection these mysterious documents turn out to be neither more nor leas than drafts of decrees for carryine out those precautionary measures which were openlv debated in the Assembly , The documents , however , have been placed in the bands of the legal authorities , and tbe questors and their accomplices in the alleged plot arc to be subjected to a formal trial it is said .
A Frankfort journal says that Louis BUuc was arrested , on the llth ( in the Faubourg St . Jesseten-Oode , at Brussels , and was conveyed to Ostcnd , from whence he was to be made to embark for England . M . Thiers is also on his way to England from Frankfort , where be is wailing the arrival of his family .
GERMANY . The Prussian Chambers sat again on the 10 th , after an interval of eight days , when a motion on the conduct of the government towards the press was submitted , and referred to a committee . Some of the German newspapers state that orders have been given to call out the contingents of the 19 th federal army corps . The * Leipzig Gazette ^ states ihat the whole frontier of the Upper Rhine will be immediately occupied with Austrian troops .
It is stated that the Austrian government refuses to allow our Ambassador , the Earl of Westmoreland , to present bis credentials , in consequence of the Kossuth demonstration , and the reply of Lord
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Palmerston to the Islington and Finsbury addresses } and it appears that a joint Russian and Austrian note has already been despatched to London on this subject . In the event of his not replynig , it is stated to be the intention of Austria to allow the London embassy to remain vacant . The revenue oi Pmssia for the ensuing year its calculated at 97 , 345 , 199 thalers , showing an increase of 4 , 050 , 240 thalers above that for 1851 . The expenditure is estimated at 99 , 455 , 199 iba-If-rs also more than that of the present year by 3 112 , 994 thalers , though of this sum more than three mil ions are fur contingent and exiraordimy " rxpens ° s ! the ordinary and permanent expenditure is covered by . 96 , 153 , 933 thalers . The greatest increase of expenditure is in the War department , which will require an advance of 1 , 500 , 000 thalers above that of the same estimate of last year .
The late mobilising of the army has revealed an insufficiency in the number of officers available ( or the landwehr . To supply the 'defect , each regiment of the regular army is to have . an addition < d fifteen officers , of whom fine will lie captains . Tha regiments of the hne a ? e io be raised to the number of 590 men per battalion , with two years ' service ; those of the Guards , who serve for three years , to 67 Q per battalion ; the battalions will thus be kept at the full late of 1 , 000 men each . : The police persecutions lately directed against the members of the Vienna Bourse , have been suspended .
The ' Neue Preussiscne Zeitung ' announces , in a correspondence from Vienna , that despatches had been received by Lord Westmoreland , relative to Lord Palmerston's answer to tbe address from Islington , so satisfactory that the Emperor had given a gracious reception to the English ambassador . This statement needs confirmation ; no such reception had been gazetted on the 12 th instant . It is currently reported that the Bund has addressed a formal complaint , in the name of all the
governments it represents , to the English cabinet against the conspiracies hatched , it is said , in London , hy foreign refugees : . and . that the British government is earnestly solicited by the confederation to take such measures against these unfortunateexiles as maybe likely to frustrate their designs , and so preserve other states from disturbance . We mention this ' report , because it has been often y epealed in the German papers ; though it is hardly credible thai atiy continental power should be so ignorant of the British constitution as to address such a request to an English ministry .
The news of the outbreak in Paris does not appear to have been reeeived with so much surprise and alarm as might have been expected : and , indeed , the Strenuous precautions that have been so long taken , and the large armies kept on foot by the Absolutist powers , put the success of any sudden rising almost out of the" question . The armies of Germany are also upon the whole faithful , with the exception of the Hungarian and Italian regiments , being well aware that their very existence depends
on the preservation of the present state of tilings , and that were the cause of the people to triumph , one of their very first acts would be to disband the ridiculously overgrown military establishment of Austria and Prussia . It was said of the Spanish navy , at the beginning of the piesent century , that it was * a face upon a nose , instead of being a nose upon a face . ' The same expression would certainly apply to the half million of troops respectively kept on a war footing by Austria and Prussia . '
Tha general discontent in Austr-. a has ' i however , risen to an alarming height , and no less than 150 petitioners appearing at . the last public audience given by the Emperor on the 2 iid inst . The war against liberal principles stilt goes on with unslackened vigour . The Vienna correspondent of the . ' Saxon Gazette , ' a paper usually well informed , states that the real cause of the Insult recently instigated by Austria against the British Consul General in Servia is to be found in the fact of hish & ving ' pro ' ected two strangers who were sup . posed to he revolutionary emissaries . '
Accordingly to a recent order of government no foreign journals are in future to be received in Hungsny ( even hy Uie e & Vors of German papers ) which have not been previously submitted to the government censorship , Ths same practice exists in Russia , where , all abjaeUonahla articles , are cut out of pappis before they are delivered 1 The result is worthy of remark . The foreign Ambassadors , of course , cmnot be prevented receiving them , and the porter of the French chargecCaffaires \ s said to have made his fortune , by douceurs received from those whose curiosity he had contrived to gratify by a peep at them . In fact , nobody ever took the trouble to read the portions delivered to them , but carefully narking the place where an article had been cut out , they flew to the different officials , and greedilv devoured the forbidden fruit .
The reason of tbe measure in question is a / ear of the reports respecting the reception of Kossuth exciting the political passions of Hungary , where his name is rtill regarded by all classes with the roost enthusiastic affection .
ITALY . PIEDMONT , —The ' Croce di Savoia * reports that , in consequence of the events in France , the Minuter of War has suspended all furloughs , and sent batteries to Alexandria . The strangest reports upon French events were for a time current in Turin . Of a bulletin stating that Kossuth bad been made President of the French Republic , 3 , 000 copies were immediately sold . ROME . —A correspondent , writing on the 10 th
inst ., represents the impression made on the minds of the ecclesiastical authorities by the President ' s coaj ) d ' etat as favourable on the whole . Lord Middlelon had been placed under the surveillance of the police on account of the colour ^ of his courier's hat . The Bishop of Gibraltar was at Rome endeavouring to obtain permission from the Pope to erect a protestant church in the City . A schism prevailed in the English protft & tant congregation , owing to a disagreement between the bishop and the church committee touching episcopal jurisdiction .
NAPLES . —A correspondent , writing on the 9 th inst ., states that on the receipt of the Paris news a Cabinet council was called , and a body of troops ordered to march to the Roman frontier .
SPAIN . Madrid , December 9 . —The decree fer the suspension of the Cortes has just been read ill the two Chambers . This measure , ostensibly adopted ill view of the situation of the Queen , has been determined upon in consequence of the terror inspired by the state of aff Airs in Ihe neighbouring republic . The ministry had endeavoured to effect a union of the different fractions of the moderado party , hut Paeheco and the puritans , as they arc called , insisted upon a more liberal policy being adopted , while Bravo Murillo was for increasing the means of suppression . The ' Nacion' was seized this morning . The secret and public police have recalled all the employes lately discharged upon the ground of economy . The ministerial « Orden' is the only newspaper that does not attack M . Bonaparte .
UNITED STATES . The royal mail steam ship Africa , Captain Ryrie , arrived in the Mersey from New York on Sunday , which port she left on tbe 3 rd inst . at noon , with sixty-three passengers , anl nearly a million and a half of dollars in specie on frei g ht , The principal item of news by this arrival is the President ' s message , an abstract of which we give below . The Congress had mat on tbe 1 st . The message was delivered on the 2 nd .
Among the proceedings of the Senate , as repotted by the telegraph , is the resolution of a national welcome to the illustrious Magyar , as well as a resolution requesting the President to interfere in favour of the Irish exiles in , Van Diemen ' a Land ) appealing to the magnanimity of the British government and people , and offering them the hospitality of the republic . Kossuth had not arrived in New York when the steamer left , but was hourly expected , and appropriate preparations for his reception were completed . Notice of several bills had been already givenone being for a railroad from the Mississippi to the Pacific- , another for a reduction in newspaper postage ; another for a line of steam-ships from California to China .
Reports from the Rio Grande stale that Caravajal had been reinforced by 400 Americans , and was to renew his attack on Matamoras . The Mexicans had mustered in Matamoras to the number of 2 , 000 men . Caravajal was at Camargo , with only * 600 men , awaiting the arrival of Captain Ford , who had gone to Texas for rsinforeements . There are accounts from California to the 1 st of S l 2 , mm d 0 llm in * ° ^ ^ d been . * wl i ln * % » ° »« eirt iB developing it 9 e ] / at Washington . It seemed yery important to he
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Whigs as well as Democrats that some declaration should he made as to the future conduct of both parties in relation to the question of slavery and the compromise . The Democratic members of both houses accordingly held a caucus for the purpose of sustaining these measum , . but u « forton & tely they did not succeed in establishing a platform . Hie resolutions to this effect were laid on the table , the free soil Democrats being unwilling to acquiesce . who ht
On the other band the Whig members , mig have been more divided , from the fact that their strength laid in their free-soil adherents , almost unanimously adopted resolutions which were agreeabls to the South , and the consequence is that ai this moment they are in favour with Ihe South , are likely to receive its support , and if they can maintain their position will , in the next Presidential contest , be in the ascendant . This is quite unexpected , aiidthe future looks more brightly for them than for
their opponents . TUB raBSlPBNT ' s MESSAGE . The following is a brief abstract of the Message ; 'The President congratulated the country on the maintenance of foreign peace , the decrease in aailation on the slavery question , aud on the general prosperity of the United States . He reviewed thf Coban invasion question and mentioned the efforts being made for release of prisoners . Referring to the outrages at New Orleans , he regretted that it was necesnary that iudemnity should ha granted . The laws for the protection of consuls required amending . ' The Alessage then alludes to Kossuth in the following manner : —
« On ihe 28 th of February last a despatch was addressed by the Secretary of State to Mr . Marsh , the American Minister at Constantinople , instructing him to ask of the Turkish government permission for the Hungarians , then imprisoned within the domains of the Sublime Porte , to remove to this coun < try . On lire 3 rd of . March last , both Houses of Congress passed a resolution requesting the President to authorise the employment of a public vessel to convey to this country Louis Kossuth and his associates in captivity .
'The instruction above referred to was complied with , and the Turkish government having released Governor Kossuth and his companions from prison , on the 10 th of September last , they embarked on board of tha United States steam-frigate Mississippi , which was selected to cam into f ffect tbe resolution of Congress . Governor Kossuth left the Mississi pp i at Gibraltar , for tbe purpose of making a visit to . England , and may shortly be expected in
Nftw York . By communications to the departs ** :- ' of state he has expressed his grateful acknowledgments for the interposition of this government in behalf of himself and his associates . This country has been justly regarded as a safe asylum for those whom political events have exiled from their own homes in Europe ; and it is recommended lo Congress to consider in what manner Governor Kossuth and his companions , brought hither by its authority , shall be received and treated .
' Government was exerting itsc'f to bring to comp letion the arrangement in regard to the Tehuantep ec railroad . The Treasury receipts for the year ending June 30 ih had been fifty-eight millions ; the expenses forty-eigbt millions . Seven and a half millions debt had been paid off . The debt now amounts to stxtytwo millions . Specific duties and a revision of the tariff are recommended . ' Free trade is thus alluded to . — 'The policy which dictated a . low rale of dut on foreign merchandise , it was thought by those who promoted and established it , would tend to benefit the farming population of this country by increasing the demand and raising the price ot agricultural products in foreign markets .
• The foregoing facts , hovrever , seera to show incontesii ' oly that no such result has followed the adoption of this policy . On the contrary , notwithstanding the repeal of the restrictive corn laws of England , tbe foreign demand for the products of the American farmer has steadily declined , since the short crops , and consequent famine in a portion of Europe , have been happily replaced by full crops and comparative abundance of food . ' An agricultural bureau is also put forward as a requisite . Ce : ; sus returns had been coroplfitfd in a » ihe states except California . A rivsv and bar .
hour improvement bill is projected . The army required to be increased owing to the Indian outrages on the Mexican frontier . An extra allowance of men for GrinneU ' s expedition in search of Franklin is approved of ; also the formaiion of a navy yard at California . Commusion to settle the private claims Against government is wanted . The Fugitive Slave Bit ! is ctisctused , atid 9 . dwrainaUon to psrsevere in enforcing its provisions announced . Right of search , or watch , of American vessels on the coast of the United Slates or seas adjacent , cannot he allowed .
By the Atlantic we have three days later intelligence It left New York on the 6 th insfc ., and brings over twenty-cne passengers , and nearly 1 , 000 , 000 dollars in specie . The Atlantic had been detained an hour or two behind her appointed time of sailing , for a mail from Washington , with despatches from the American government to its minister in London , having for their object the asking of an immediate explanation of the circumstances connected with the firing into the United States steamer Prometheus in San Juan River , by the British brig-of-war Express , on the 21 st of November . Kossuth arrived out on the 5 th inst ., and was on the 6 th at quarantine , till arrangements could be made to receive him . He was to make his public entry on the fjebi
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The Civil Tribunal of Paris has been occupied with an episode of the case of M . Charles Bonr .-parte , Prince da Oanino , against Visoount d ' Arlin-COUtt , the libels contained in his work entitled ' Italie Rouge . ' The counsel of the defendant had moved that the plaintiff should deposit security for cost , on the ground that , having accepted the office of President of the Roman Republic , he had lost his quality of a French citizen . The court decided the question in the affirmative , and ovdered M . Charles Bonaparte to find security to the amount ofoOOfr .
The funeral of Marshal Soult , Duke de Dalmatia , took place at St . Amand-la-Bastide , en the 0 th . An immense concourse of people assembled on the oc caaion from the departments of the Herault , Tarn , and Lot . The Archbishop of Aldy and the Bishop of Cahors officiated , and were assisted by a large body of the clergy , occupying the whole of the choir and part of the nave of the small church where the last service was performed . The authorities of the Turn and of the neighbouring departments were prevented from attending , " ia consequence of tbe disturbed state of the country . They sent formal excuses to the Duchess for their absence . Everything , passed over with great pomp and in perfect order . The Nizam has paid the full amount due to the East India Company .
A letter from Constantinople of the 25 th ult .. in the ' Cologne Gazette , ' States tlUltM . de LaValeUe , the French ambassador , after h ; ivin « had several fruitless conferences about the holy places , has left the matter provisionally in the bands of the Spanish ambassador . The same letter adds that the govenor of the Dardanelles having caused the bastin . ido to be administered to a dragoman of the Austrian consulate , all the consuls immediately struck their flags . Count d'Arjuzon , a peer of France , prior to 1830 ,
and Grand Chamberlain to the King of Holland , in the time of the empire , has ju * t died in Paris at the age of ninety one . Tho liugots forming the two princi pal prizes of the late lottery in Paris are stated to he ' worth 4 O 0 , 481 fr . 50 c , and the second 199 , G 90 fr , 67 c Letters from Lisbon state that a great want of rain in the Peninsula had caused the most serious inconvenience ?! Cattle were dying in « reat numbers for want of water . At Cadiz the water boats were seized on their arrival , and it waa necessarv to call out the military for their protection It is ansounced that
, by means of the submarine telegraph , the Prussian lines have been placed in connexion with those of Great Britain , and despatches may now be transmitted from Berlin to . Louis Bonsparie has conferred the Grand Cross 2 r , S » »« gIon ' v ? onour on General d'Hautpoul , £ , ? ll f ' ¦ B 8 erVed f 0 Vt ^ years / been nL 2 ? M ! *™ % - ! S recej ved two wounds ; . ASf ? raguay d J Hilli ? - g"nd officer , who has aeryed forty years , been in ten campai gns , and has lost his , left hand ; and General Manln comfirst military division , who has served forty-two years , been m eleYen campaips , and ia wounded .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 20, 1851, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_20121851/page/2/
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