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      Election Matters. Me. George Henry Vansi...

      success at Stockport , and , expect to return Mm as the coadjutor of Mr . James Kershaw , the present liberal member . Mr . Heald , the Conservative member , is supported by two strong religious parties—the Church and the Wesleyans—but at present there is a split among the Methodists , as Mr . Heald has always been an ally of the Conference , and the Wesleyan Reformers are numerous in Stoclcport , It is rumoured that Drr . Layard will be a candidate for Merthyr Tydvil . Sir John Guest , the- present member , who possesses great influence in the borough , will probably retire on account of long indisposition , and Dr . Layard is related to his wife , Lady Charlotte Guest .

      The electors of Plymouth are fortunate in having no less than four candidates for their suffrages . Lord Ebringfcon , one of the present members , will retire , preferring the family borough of Barnstaple . Mr . Roundell Palmer , the Conservative member , will again come forward ; and the three candidates for the honour of filling the place which his colleague will vacate , are Mr . R . P . Collier , a Eadical ; Mr . G . T . Braine ( deputy chairman of the Eastern Steam Navigation Company ) , a moderate Whig ; and Mr . Bickhain Escott , once a Conservative , but now a Radical . The Free Press , Sheffield , announces another candidate for that borough : Mr . George Hadfield , of Manchester , but a native of Sheffield .

      Mr . Beckett , the free-trade Conservative , has retired from the field at Leeds , and it is now almost certain that the two liberal candidates , the Right Hon . Matthew Talbot Baines and Sir George Goodman , will be returned without a contest . Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton has declined to be put in nomination for the city of Lincoln , but Sir Henry Bulwer has consented to stand if a requisition as

      numerously signed as that presented to his brother were obtained . The heads of both Whig and Tory parties are working in his favour- Of Sir Henry Btilwer ' s present political sentiments comparatively nothing is known , but the parties canvassing for signatures to his requisition represent him as being much changed in opinion since harepresented the liberal constituencies of Marylebone and Coventry . Colonel Sibthorp is proceeding with his canvass .

      At Sheffield , a public meeting was held in the Town Hall on Monday , the Mayor in the chair , when it was resolved by an Overwhelming majority , on the motion of Mr . Alderman Hoole , seconded by Mr . Alderman Schofield , " That George Hadfield , Esq ., is , in the opinion of this moeting , a fit and proper person to represent Sheffield in Parliament , and that he be recommended at the next election , along with Joshua Toulmin Smith , Esq . "—Sheffield Free Press .

      The Patriot mentions the following six gentlemen of Nonconformist principles who have offered themselves as candidates for Parliament at the next general election : —Mr . Miall for Rochdale , Mr . Gilpin for Perth , Mr . Hadfield for Sheffield , Sir George Goodman for Leeds , Mr . Williams for Huddersfield , and Mr . Francis Crossley for Halifax . If most of these gentlemen have good prospects of success , the influence of Protestant dissenting opinions in the West Riding is likely to 15 e very strikingly illustrated .

      IEEI-AND . Electoral addresses are now beginning to be profusely scattered over the columns of the Dublin and provincial papers , an d the struggle will unquestionably be the hardest fought since the memorable election of 1841 ; and now , as then , religious ascendancy will be , in a great measure , the rallying cry at the hustings . The Roman-catholic clergy , aided by the influence of the Defence Association , are already straining every nerve towards swelling their strength in Parliament . A not insignificant symptom of the nature of the coming campaign , and of the weapons with which it will bo

      fought , ia to bo seen in the retirement of the Marquis of Kildure—tho eldest son of " Ireland ' s only Duke" — from tho representation of tho county from which his title is derived ; and in tho fact that Mr . O'Conor Hencky , a Roman Catholic , has offered his services , in conjunction with Mr . Cogan , a co-religionist , as tho advocate of all such measures as have received tho sanction of Archbitjhop Cullon and tho Defence Association . Tho retirement of Mr . Torrent * M'Cullngh from the borough of Dundalk is another indication of

      tho exclusive s / Btom which ia to bo put in practice at tho day of general reckoning . This gentleman w . orkcd stcadjly with tho " Irish brigade" during tho toilsome debates oh the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill ; but ho is a Protestant , and is now forced to seek tho suffrages of an English borough ' . Tho electors of Ennis have met , and passed a vote of total want of confidence in their present representative , the O'Gorman Mahon . A requisition has been forwarded to Sir Coleman O'Loughlon to stand for the borough . A mooting of the citizens of Dublin , convened by

      the Lord Mayor , to support Mri . Sharman Crawford ' s Tenant-right Bill , was held on Monday in the Musichall . The Lord Mayor took the chair , and among the speakers were Lord Miltown , Mr . M'Tiernan , Mr . Tristram Kennedy , Dr . Gray , Town Councillors Bagnail and Fergusson . The meeting unanimously declared in favour of the landlord and tenant -measure introduced by Mr , S . Crawford , adopted petitions to that effect to Parliament , and pledged itself to support ' no other candidate , at the . general election , but such as were stanch supporters of a national tenant right . Mr . Luke Joseph Shea , a Roman-catholic Protectionist landlord , and justice of the peace in the county of Cork , has addressed a letter of remonstrance to his tenants , on account of their having u nanimously voted for the free-trade and tenant-right candidate , Mr . Tincent Scully , in opposition to his wish that they should support the unsuccessful Protectionist , Mr . Frewen . Mr . Shea points out how much , in his opinion , both he and they have suffered from free trade ; but as the tenantry have voted against Protection , he hopes they will not consider it unreasonable on his part to expect them , " 'in their supposed prosperity , " to pay up strictly the sums for the future to which they are bound by their leases . Of course this is not intimidation , but merely a paternal hint on the virtue of punctuality .

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      Votes On Parliamentary Reform. Mb. Hume ...

      VOTES ON PARLIAMENTARY REFORM . Mb . Hume has brought forward his motion for reform in the sessions 1848 , 1849 , 1850 , and in 1852 : — In 1848 Ms motion was supported by ...... 86 In 1849 , by members who did not vote in 1848 . . 22 In 1850 , by members who did not vote in 1848 or 1849 16 In 1852 , by do . who did not vote in 1848 , 1849 , or 1850 18 Total number of members who have voted in support of Mr . Hume ' s motion in 1848 , 1849 , 1850 , 1852 . 141 Deduct members not now in the House . . « . . 9 132 ¦ - ' THE BALLOT . DIVISIONS . Aye . No . 1836 92 ... 141 1837 . " . 157 269 1838 r . 202 319 1839 220 337 1842 161 ......... 294 1847 90 ......... 85 1849 89 140 1850 125 180 1851 91 ......... 53 1852 1 46 248 In 1851 , it will be remembered , that Mr . Berkeley , by an accident , was successful—the success , however , coming to nothing .

      T.Ettehs From Paris. [Fbom Our Own Corre...

      T . ETTEHS FROM PARIS . [ Fbom our own Correspondent . ] Letter XIV . Paris , Tuesday Evening , 30 th March , 1852 , We are supposed to have entered upon a regular system of government since yesterday , the 29 th March . The State of Siege is raised throughout France , We are indebted to MM . Billault , Abattuci , and Jerome Bonaparte , for having pointed out the contradiction which there would be in the new constitution , working side by side with the state of siege , which suspends all law . The raising of tho state of siege , unhappily , cannot restore the lives and liberties of the thousands of citizens who have been the victims of its cruelties . Louis Bonaparte has raised the state of siege , because ho finds no one to persecute . Yesterday , at one o ' clock , tho ceremony of tho installation of , what Louis Bonaparte is pleased to call , the great Bodies of tho State , took place . Tho Senate , tho Council of State , and tho Legislative Body , having taken their Beats on the benches which had been prepared for them , in tho Salle des Mardchaux , Louis Bonaparte entered , followed by tho officers of his household , and accompanied by the Ministers . Neither acclamation nor applause saluted him . Ho then proceeded to tho platform which had been raised for him , opposite the benches of tho Senators and tho Legislative Body , and proceeded to make a rather long Bpcech . Ho declared that ho might have been proclaimed Emperor on tho 10 th December , 1848 ; on tho 13 th June , 1849 ; and again on tho 2 nd Dccoinbor ; but that ho had not desired it . If , however , tho factions continued their ngitntionw , ho was roady once more to appeal to tho people , and ho wua confidont tho people would eagerly respond in tho affirmative , to his appeal . Tho lost part of tho . speech was received in , ' profound silence . The names of tho Deputies wore then called over : nearly nil wore present . But when tho names of MM . Cavaignivc and Carnot woro called , n comploto pauso ensued ; they were absent . This incident caused a vivid sensation . M . Hdnon , the Socialist deputy from Lyons , was also not there . Ho judged that , being elected by tho people , ho had no business at tho TuUcrios . MM ,

      de Kerdrel and Bouhier de L'Ecluse , two legitimist deputies , took the bath of fidelity to Louis Bonaparte There were about twenty deputies present en costume ; among them figured M . Belmontet , the barde Napoleonien , and the two poiitiearmbuntebanks , Granier . de Cassagnac ' .. and La Gueronniere—one the editor of the Constitutipnnel , andthe other of the Pays . Thequestipnis nowraised- —ShaU we have the Empire ? For my part I have no hesitation ia . say-ing- ' . that' we shall .- The Empire is decided ' upon . ¦ ' It would even have been accomplished long since , but unfortunatel y the other Powers are opposed to it ; the Emperor of Russia

      especially . He has placed his most absolute veto upon it . L . Bonaparte recoiled before these menaces diplomatiques , but to advance again more surely . Now he is going to work against the Emperor of Russia , a » h « did against the Parliament . . He is to repeat the farce and the mise-enscene . of the reviews and petitions of December . Things will be so managed , that he will appear to have been compelled to passer outre the veto of the Czar , and submit to be proclaimed Emperor . The comedy began on the 20 th of March . On that day there was a review in the Place du Carrousel . The legion of Zfecembraillards , that is , the five or six

      thousand hired blackguards who represent the people , by appointment , on state occasions , had "been summoned , and to the " Vive I'JSmpereur , " which the soldiers had been commanded to shout , did these gallowsrbirds respond most heartily . Another act of the same comed y was played on Sunday last , but on a larger scale ; the parts were again admirably distributed . On a signal given by the chefs de corps , the soldiers cried out , " Vive rjSmpereur ! " the chorus , as on the former occasion , being undertaken by the Decembraillards aforesaid . The officers , who were obliged to join in or be cashiered , merely cried " Vive Napoleon "

      At present there is being organized , by means of the secret Bonapartist societies , whose members are all vile stipendiaries , an immense propagandism throughout France for the proclamation of the Empire . In fact , the legislative body is to be made the catspaw . As there are many avowedJBonapartists-in the Assembl y ^ much reliance is placed upon their zeal to bring forward the" measures that may be necessary . For some days past they appear to have received their mot d'ordre . They all declare that they will have an Emperor : that they have received from their

      constituents an imperative charge on the subject , and that they must lay before the Assembly a proposition demanding an Emperor a vie ; and the Bonapartiri journals , of course , do not fail to chime in . The Bulletin de Paris , for instance , has formally demanded the proclamation of the Empire in the following terms : — " France knows too well the rost nf a lalmirt-livcd government : she is tired of endorsing worthless paper , and protested obligations . The persevering votes of the 10 th and 20 th of December are conclusive . Appeal to her again , and it will be found that what France desires is the Empire . She will obtain it , for we are sick of

      anonymous governments . In fact , L . Bonaparte himself , in his speech , leads us to believe that he will proceed { passer outre ) to cause himself to be proclaimed Emperor . The words , " the factions compel me to do it , " were cleverly put forward : they will be the pretext—the appeal to the people will be the means . We shall have a second voting of " Ayes" and " Noes . " The game will bo

      played out in spite of the Emperor of Russia , as it was on tho 2 nd of December , in spite of France . The parts of tho actors in this grande comidie have already been cast . Tho General Excelmans has been secretly named grand-marScJtal of the palace . M . Berthier , otherwise the Princo of Wagram , is named grandveneur . The Conto d'Orsay is to be the grand-tcuyer ; and last , though not the least amongst these quasi grandees , figures M . Persigny , as arcjd-chancelier at

      the Empire . Thirty-one decrees in two days appeared in tho Moniteur . Tho two last days of tho dictatorship cannot bo said to have been idly spent . One of these decrees provides for tho immediate execution of : tho confiscations against tho Orleans family , and the sale of the domains of Albert , Lamballe , La Fire , Lcpcnux , Monccaux , and of Nouilly , forming p « rt of tho property of thnt family . Another decree doubles tho salaries of all tho prefects and sub-prcf ' ectn ; »¦ Vv 0 that a further demand , is to . bo inudo upon their devotion .

      Amongst tho decrees issued previous to tho tlurtytwo , . there is ono which ban given ri « o to a good deni of commont : it is that on tho decentralisation administrative . Everything is centralized in Franco . AU tho communal and departmental administrations are centred in tho hands of tho Government . Never so small a bridge , or road , or wall , can bo constructeu , ovon in tho smallest village , without tho sanction oi Government . It has boon reckoned that it ^ TT 87 processes of petitions ) , lottos , Ac , to oltnm a « eu «

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    • Leader (1850-1860), April 3, 1852, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_03041852/page/6/