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      employed for that purpose , To do this efficiently , now that the business of the Agency has so increased , requires steam power , and on the premises at present occupied , there is no room to erect a steam engine . When premises of sufficient size are secured , the Agency will not oniy be able to execute orders with increased efficiency , but also to manfacture many articles , such as pickles ' and sauces , which they are now compelled to sell without being able to guarantee their freedom from adulteration . Mr . Jones having been invited to explain the principle of cooperative business in a few of the large provincial towns , would be glad to receive intimation from such other places as may be desirable to avail themselves of his services . Letters addressed to the Agency will be attended to .

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      LETTERS FKOM PARIS . [ From our own Correspondent . ] Letter XXIII . Paris , Tuesday Evening , 1 st June , 1852 . This week we have been disputing as to the reception which M . Heeckeren met with at Berlin . In ministerial circles it is said he received the most pacific assurances from Russia , Austria , and Prussia . In other quarters the result of the Berlin conferences are looked upon as being decidedly unfavourable to the Elysee . Public opinion was much excited on this subject ; but ¦ when the revelations contained in the columns of the

      Times became known in Paris , the agitation became still greater . The Bonapartist papers , and among others the Public and the Pays , which had all along been giving formal notice of the Empire , have suddenly ceased to mention the subject . The Public had gone so far as to say , in reference to the fusion , that Louis Bonaparte was a coward if he did not avail himself of that opportunity to proclaim the Empire . The following is a copy of the official notice which appeared in the Moniteur , clumsily arranged , and intended to contradict the revelations given in the Times . " Some foreign journals endeavour to attach , credit to the report that the Northern Powers , in the prevision of certain eventualities , would be ready to renew the coalition of 1815 . and that thev have determined beforehand the

      limits beyond which France would not be permitted to modify her government : This report is _ a falsehood ; the eventualities which are the pretext of it have no probability . There is nothing to indicate the necessity for any change in our institutions . France enjoys the most complete tranquillity . All the powers keep up the most amicable relations with her , and they have never made less pretensions than at present to interfere with our domestic rigime . They know that France will , in case of need , cause her rights to be respected , as she respects those of other /< nations ; but these rights are neither threatened nor disputed . Xet fallen parties relv as formerly on foreign intervention to cause the triumph of their pretensions over the national will ; they will find that this old tactic will have no other result than t o make them more odious to the country . "

      This note may certainly be looked upon as a retrograde movement ( reculade ) . It declares solemnly that the Empire ahull not be proclaimed , and gives the foreign powers a positive assurance to that effect . It is true Louis Bonaparte is an affiliated member ( socitts ) of the Society of Jesus , and as he has omitted the sacramental communique to the note in the Moniteur , he doubtless feels at liberty to act as though that document did not exist . It follows , then , as this note conveys Bonaparte ' s formal acquiescence to the orders of the foreign powers , that the contradiction to the Times is ridiculous and puerile . The note in the Moniteur

      carries with it the best proof of the fuilure of M . Heeckeren ' s mission . Here are a few details of what passed between the Emperor of Russia and M . Heeckeren . M . Heeckorcn was personally known to the Emperor . Ho wad formerly a captain in the Russian Imperial Guards , but having killed his bvother-in-lnw in a duel , he had been obliged to leave the service , and quit Russia . On seeing him , the Emperor said" You woro an officer in my Guards , and it is on that account alone that I address you ; I have not had reason to bo satisfied with you . You now come from Franco fin behalf of M . Louis Bonaparte . Very well ! What have you got to say P" The conversation then

      turned upon Louis Bonaparte . The Emperor acknowledged ho had rendered service to Europe , and the Sovereigns woro willing to aid him to put down the Revolutionary Party , on condition that ho should still remain President . "As " . to the propoai ' tions made to me , " added the Emperor , ' ? wo have resolved—1 st , To abide by the treaties of 1815 . 2 nd , Tho treaticH of 1815 formally interdict tho Bonaparte family from tho throne of Franco . 3 rd , I am u Legitimist , seeing that my family claims to bo Legitimate . " Tho last words of tho Emperor wore , " Lot tho President bownro of being guilty of any sottises ; but 1 know ho will not , for I have already warned him . " M . Hcookeion , at Berlin , as at Vienna , was most profuse in liis assurances , that Bonaparte would under *

      take nothing without the sanction of the European powers . : Louis Bonaparte , however , was discouraged by M . Heeckeren ' s ill-success . He will make another attempt upon the Emperor of Russia . But this time the Czar will be assailed by a female diplomatist . The Princess de LieVen , the great admirer- of M . Guizot , has gone over , armes et hagages , to ,- the Elyse ' e . She baaleft Paris for Ems , where she is to meet the Empress of

      Russia , with whom she is very intimate . Before her departure , the Marquise of Douglas , at Louis Bonaparte's instigation , gave heir a dinner . At that dinner the Princess de Lieven sat on the right-hand of the President ,-who paid her thb most obsequious attention . He addressed himself ex ^ fusively to her . He endeavoured to show that liberty was fatal to the Northern Sovereigns , and that if the liberty of the Press were re-established in France , nWeek would not elapse before there would be a continental war . That he ,

      Bonaparte , was the only obstacle in the way of such a war ; that he was Europe ' s onfe bulwark . Great powers were therefore required tot nkeep him in that position , for at the rate at which Affairs were advancing in France , he should soon find himself overpowered if the Northern Courts did not Btermit him to " show himself to the people with all the pomp and . circumstance of royalty . " The papers of to-day announce the Princess de Lie ven ' s arrival at Ems , While Bonapartism is going on with its intrigues and manoeuvres , public opinion continues to manifest general hostility .

      The committee on the Budget has done itself great honour by rejecting almost unanimously several articles of the Budget of 1853 , having reference to the decrees issued during Bonaparte ' s dictatorship . In this manner a decree , emanating personally from the President , had raised the number of the army from 369 , 000 to 400 , 000 for 1852 ; and Bonaparte , on his own private responsibility , had decreed an additional credit of 23 millions of francs to cover theexpense of this measure . The committee has rejected that credit for 1853 , and by that means the decree which fixed the army at 400 , 000 men is virtually annulled . Bonaparte had instituted a

      Ministry of Police , and decreed four millions of francs for its expenses . The committee having rejected the greater part of the money , has broken up the Ministry of Police . The Legislative body , which Bonaparte had presumed to consider a sham parliament of dummies , merely intended to register the decrees emanating from his will ( bon plaisir ) , have carried their audacity to the extent of overthrowing from head to foot the Budget presented by the Government . It has literally strangled it with amendments . There are more than 200 amendments " presented by the deputies , and not less than 72 by the committee . Of the latter , 43 are already in the hands of the Council of State .

      These difficulties have exasperated the Elysians . They are at this moment intriguing with the deputies by way of casting some doubt upon the proceedings of the committee . They have succeeded in turning M . Montalembert , the declared chief of the " Independents , " who now goes about saying , it is too early to oppose the Government—that it is wiser to be prudent and temporising , and to vote the budget notwithstanding the report of the committee . The Elysians have also begun their intriguing operations

      in the midst of tho committee itself . They are striving to get M . Chassoloup-Laubat , one of Bonaparte ' s ex-ministers , named reporter of the budget , and to exclude M . Gouin , ex-minister of finance under Louis Philippe , chairman of the committee . They hope by this means to procure a modification of the severity of the report . No one can tell what may be effected by intrigue , aided by fear , and backed by cupidity . As for me , I very much doubt tho Legislative body will not withstand this triplo assault .

      The Council of State is in direct opposition to Bonaparto , in tho matter of tho Orleans property . I told you in my last letter that tho committee of tho Council of State had decided affirmatively as to the competency of tho tribunals to try this case . In learning this fact , Bonaparte directed that M , Cornudet , tho reporter of tho committee , should bo immediately dismissed . But M . Muilltml and hie colleagues declared they would resign if such an insult wore offered to M . Cornudet . M . Bonaparto was obliged to flincti before this threat ; deliyorod

      in full council . The report of the committee is about being presented to ino ^ Couneil of State , who will , in all probability , confirm its provisions , and decido for tho competency of tho tribunals . The affair of the Orleans property will then bo tried before tho tribunal of tho Seine , and the decrees of tho 22 nd of January may bo brought boforo tho court , and bo liablo to bo annulled by its verdict . This struggle will bo edifying , and people arc rubbing their hands at the prospect . MM . Paul Fabro and Mathiou Bodot , the legal advisers of tho Council of Stato , have published a well-written

      pamphlet on this aflair , deciding against the assump . tions of the Government ; The mottoes taken from a speech delivered by Napoleon at a meeting of the Council of State on the 18 th of November ; 1809 , and runs thus : " Property consists in its inviolabilit y in the person of its possessor . Even I , with the countless armies at my disposal , .-could not appropriate to myself a single acre of ground , for to violate the right of one is to violate the rights of all . "

      The official resignations are still continuing . To those of the members , of " municipal and general councils must now be added those of the following learned pro . fessors . MM . Leroy , professor in the College of Bordeaux ; Libert , professor of History in the College of Tours ; Morin , professor of PhUos 6 phyj ^ --have had the praiseworthy courage to refuse the oath . Fresh arrests are being operated on all sides . The newspapers of the Loiret announce that " fresh arrests have taken place consequent upon the re-examination of the papers of persons compromised by the events of December , and MM . Cerveaux , Charpettet , Yaurelet , Forest , and

      Edme Petit , proprietors of the arrondissement of Gien , have been imprisoned at Orleans . " Twenty-seven political prisoners have arrived in Paris by the railway from Troyes , to be confined in the Fort of Bicetre . There are also fourteen more from the same locality , including MM . Labosse , advocate , ex-commissioner of the Provisional Government ; Basset , solicitor , at Troyes ; Cottet , professor of Mathematics ; Souriau , Lemoine , Marot ; Brown , of Ervy ( probably an Englishman ) ; Gauthier , proprietor , at Bar-sur-Aube ; Berg ,,

      Gervais , Camus , & c . An immense crowd of persons accompanied these honourable citizens to the railway station . At the moment of their departure the prisoners raised the cry of " Vive la JR & publique , " to which the spectators replied unanimously with the same words . The twenty-five gendarmes who escorted the prisoners immediately attacked these inoffensive persons , and struck down a certain number of them who sought to resist this arbitFary proceeding . Five persons have been arrested and thrown into the prisoa at Troyes .

      Louis Bonaparte left for Sk Cloud this morning ; in imitation of the Emperor he makes it his summer residence . Also , in imitation of the Emperor , he will spend the month of September at Compiegne . Persigny ' s marriage took place on Saturday . la addition to the dowry of 50 , 000 francs , payable in five instalments , Bonaparte , again in imitation of the great Napoleon , gave one hundred and fifty thousand francs worth of jewelry .

      Foreign newspapers are now generally stopped at the frontier . The Siecle of Athens , containing a translation of the firman of the Porte relative to Holy Land , was seized at Marseilles . Punch /—your Punch—has had the honour of being stopped at the Paris postoffice . The Belgian papers have been seized twice in three days . The motive for this severity against the Belgian papers was their having furnished revelations of the proceedings of the French Council of State . You are already aware that at one of the sittings of this body , tho projected law on public instruction met with

      so much opposition , that the Government was obliged to give notice of its withdrawal for the present . Tbo proposed bill , in fact , was opposed by both the clergy and the University . It satisfies neither one party nor the other . The clergy desired tho total suppression of the University . The bishops and French cardinals have issued a protest against tho adoption of tho moasure . It was this step which made Bonaparte withdraw it . Bonaparte , you know , cringes to tho clergy ? while they , taking advantage of his subserviency , aro daily making further encroachments . The audacity ot the Jesuits is incredible . Within tho last few days

      they have repurchased , at a cost of 2 , 500 , 000 francs , their old educational establishment at Monbrouge , from which they had been driven , by tho law of 1827 . Thcy are about to recommence the course of public teaching which thoy followed under the Restoration . s *

      Continental Notes. Cicktaibr Dynastic Ar...

      CONTINENTAL NOTES . CiCKTAiBr dynastic arrangements aro reported to Y" ? 0 *?' coived tho signatures of tho Five Groat Powers Bwwnff i Bowning-stroct . On this occasion it was not Scnleswif , llolstoin , alread y disposed of , but Switzerland , » te "jH . tionary tendencies in general , and the Canton ot Johatol in particular . This protocol is datod May li- *¦ . powors jointly ongiigo to insist , with tho Swiss " &»*»*? tion , upon a modification of tho cantonal constitutions ., >» so far as thoy woro altered by tho ovontB of 1848 , ana , o » i cially that tho old conatitution of Noufohatel . < " > > ° *!! rf in 184 , 0 , shall bo restored . In case of refusal , , an «* "tf observation will take a position on tho frontier , ft » naco Switzerland with a direct intervention . It » » " * 7 over , hoped that tho federal govornmont will yield epo" noously to tho wishes of tho powore . Franco , it «¦ ° ' has taken a very aotivo part in tho preparation ol w »« l tocol . 1 ntt tho Tho Prussian Industrial Exhibition was opened on 28 th ulfc . at Broslau , tho capital of Prussian aWf- ,. ^ Pttwidont , M . von Sohleinitz . was proeont , ( supported py

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    • Leader (1850-1860), June 5, 1852, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_05061852/page/6/