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      The Anglo-American Alliance At Liverpool...

      jrronounced these words in a hard dry tone of voice , Hike a man out of humour . Indeed , he has had small reason to hi in good temper . The northern powers , in order not to have to congratulate him on Now Year ' s Pay , deferred their recognition of tho Emperor , under the title of Napoleon III ., till this day . There have "been great negotiations opened on this subject . Tlie northern powers require that Bonaparte shall recognise the treaties of 1815 . They have the intention of remitting a note , in which tney "take note" of the declaration on the part of Bonaparte of his " solidarity " with preceding Governments , and in which the

      consequences of such " solidarity" are specially enumerated . The formal recognition of the treaties of 1815 is there nominatively insisted upon . Bonaparte is reported to liave hesitated in accepting these conditions . And well he may ! The day he accepts them he ceases to have any ground of existence , or raison d ' etre , in France : he ceases to be a living protest of France against the treaties which were imposed on her in 1815 : he belies his mission , he abjures his mandate . He is no longer the principle called Napoleon : he is nothing but a mere police agent of the holy alliance . And yet he will accept j for in him there is but the histrio , there is nothina- of the man . He has not the

      sentiment of personal dignity : how then can he have that of the national dignity ? Several deputies sent in their resignation in consequence of the Senatus-Consulte of December 23 rd , which almost deprives the Legislative Corps of the right of voting the Budget . Among others , M . Monnier de la Sigeranne is mentioned , M . Billault , the President of the Legislative Corps , having sent to him last Friday evening to invite him to join his colleagues in going to the Tuileries on the following day . " No , " replied the deputy , rather wittily , " my deputy ' s coat was so badly torn on the 23 rd of December , that I have not been able to get it mended yet . " ( " Mon habit de depute a fcqu un trop fort accroc le 23 Decembre pour qu'il me soit possible de le remettre de sitot "

      A new organic decree has just modified the attributions of the Senate , the Legislative Corps , and the Council of State . With regard to the Senate , the dotation of 30 , 000 francs , which was not mentioned in the old decree , is positively specified in the new one . The Legislative Corps , you may remember , had refused to allow this dotation to figure in the chapter of the public debt ; the new decree determines that it shall figure there henceforth . Before the Empire , the necessity of modifying the Republican Constitution had rendered it necessary to vest in the Senate full powers for that modification . Now that all is accomplished , and the Empire is proclaimed , Bonaparte almost strips the Senate ; of the right of proposing any fresh modifications in the Constitution . He establishes for that

      purpose a host of formalities , which render the exercise of that right illusory , not to say impossible . It is only another piece of machinery which Bonaparte , no longer wanting , breaks . As to what concerns the Legislative Corps , the new decree takes more away than it gives . On all puerile questions , of etiquette , of ccruniouiul , it makes concessions—on all essential points , on the contrary , . such as the question of publicity of debates , for instance , it reduces tho legislative body to utter mutism . According to tho old

      regulation , tho committees of tho Legislative Corps lined to be constituted for the ; whole session , each bureau wtis presided over by tho . senior in ago , and tho youngest member filled the ollico of secretary ; according to tho new order , the bureaux ; are to bo reconstituted every month by lot , imd they will have to elect their presidents and secretaries . The commissioners to bo named by the bureaux for tho examination of Bills ( projets de lot ) may consist , according in tho nature of such Hills , of from fourteen members

      to seven . ' 1 he legislative corps used to have ; tho right of rejecting any article of the budget , and in that ease , of replacing it by such amendments as might be adopted . Now , however , that it lias no longer the power of voting tho budget by clauses , nor even by chapters , but only by ministries , it is forbidden to propose any amendments at all , and it must either vote or reject altogether tho one or two hundred millions ( of

      francs ) to each ministry , without reserve . I ho speeches of the orators nro to be no longer published in any form . At , least , so j ^ reat are tho obstacles thrown in the way of their publication , Ilia ! , it certainly becomes impossible The report ( coiuptv rnudn ) of the sittings will contain nothing but a bald summary of tho opinions advanced by the speakers ; and even the names of tho sneakers will be withhold . To this shadow has tho lntioiml representation of Franco Hhrunk under

      Napoleon III . The order of Advocates ol Tans ban recently pre-Houted tho Kmporor with a Now-year ' gift , after a ftiwhion . Tho Munilour hud received ordorn to delude

      France by an announcement that the different corporations and constituted bodies of the State had been to pay their homage to the Emperor on New-year ' s day and in the list was made to figure the order of the Advocates of Paris . In consequence of this announcement , M . Berryer , batonnier of the order , addressed the following contradiction to the Moniteur : — " Mr . Editoe , —The Moniteur of this day , in placing the council of the order of Advocates among the number

      of constituted bodies who' were received yesterday at the Tuileries , has committed an error , which I beg you to be so kind as to rectify . The order of Advocates is neither a corps of public functionaries , nor a company of ministerial officers , which it could not be called to join , and in which no rank could possibly be assigned it . I have the honour , & c . ( Signed ) " Beeeyee , Batonnier of the order of Advocates of Paris . "

      Every day Bonaparte receives similar affronts . Everybody delights in making these salutations . to his Majesty . It is an incessant war of quolibets , of lampoons , of puns , of bon-mots ; it is a war a coups d ' epingle —• you may say ; but a coup d ' epingle for a cockchafer is as good as a sabre-thrust on the body of a man . S .

      January 8, 1853.] The Leader. Si

      January 8 , 1853 . ] THE LEADER . SI

      Continental Notes. The Austrian And Prus...

      CONTINENTAL NOTES . The Austrian and Prussian ambassadors in Paris have at length received their letters of credence to the Emperor . A supplement of the Moniteur on Wednesday announced that the Russian ambassador had presented his credentials . It is understood , however , that the recognition of tlie Empire is not made by the three great Powers without reserve or condition . They are said to refuse to acknowledge him as tho third monarch of his race , and insist on the observance of the treaties of 1815 . The German Diet has officially recognised the French Empire . The Ministers of the United States , Wurtemburg , Bavaria , Tuscany , Hanover , Baden , and Saxony have received their credentials . The Moniteur says : — " The ratifications of the commercial convention between France and Belgium , of the 9 th ult . were exchanged on the 31 st , at Brussels . It is known that this convention again places in vigour tlie formey treaty . " Accounts have been received of Abd-el-Kader having quitted Messina for Syra , on board the French steam frigate Labrador . The Constitutionncl of Wednesday has a long article on the restoration of the Church of St . Genevieve to the

      purposes of religious worship . The writer declares that the restitution of the Church to holy uses is not only a religious event , but a political one of the highest importance . The victory of Doctrine over infidelity is identified with the triumph of order and authority over anarchical principles . But in the excess of its new religious zeal , this estimablo journal oversteps the bounds of prudence , and forgets the trilling virtue of voracity . After celebrating , in one paragraph , tho restoration of tho ashes of the Saint from Notre . Dame to the Cathedral , it asserts that those fiamn ashes were scattered to tho winds in the troubled

      days of the First Revolution . M . Druey , tho Federal Minister of Justice , has addressed a note to the police authorities of Borne , calling on them to put a stop to tho dissemination of works by Victor Hugo and Eugene Sue . Tho Danish Government , having repudiated its engagement to pension the invalid and « linchargod oflioors of tho Schleswig-irolsfoin army , on tho plea that , no favour can bo shown to participators in a revolutionary war , 1 , 1 us Duko of Naxe-Coburg-Gothu lias presented a memorial to tho Frankfort Diot on behalf of these otlieers . It will bo seen that tho reproach of tho Danish crown applies equally wil . h Hchleswig-Holstein to the German states nnd princes who took part , in tho war .

      The new Belgian Press Law eamo into operation on tho 1 . ' ¦ >( , instant ,. Tho Indt ' pendancr . states that on that ; day tho booksellers of Brussels removed from their windows all such books and pictures as might subject them to penalties under the now system of restriction . Letters from Vienna say that numerous arrests of workmen are taking place daily . Tho new English Ministry is not much relished in oliieial Austrian circles . Tho Post ( hizrt . tti ol' Frankfort informs us thai , the imnionso military magazines at , Coblcnz are receiving provisions and munitions of all kinds , in quantities which suggest , an expectation of extraordinary events .

      The Itrrslau . Gazette states that the Austrian (« oyernment has resolved , on tho recommendation of a military commission , to surround the capital with a continuous wall of forlilieation , the extent of which will be livo German miles ( about twenty-two l' ] iighsh miles ) . Tho municipal elections at Leipsie have gone entirely against , the Conservative party . Not one of their candidates has been chosen . This result , has occasioned great . excitement in Dresden . ( Several Austrian vessels , stationed at , Tries ) o mid at . Poln , have been ordered , with all despatch , to Mm Moeea di (' ul . taro , to watch tho expected movements ol tho

      Turkish ( lot ilia . ThoC / ar , it , in snid , has advised I ' rinee Daniel to give up the fort of Xabljak , and to withdraw into the mountains . Tim foreoM of Montenegro aro too small to cope with Turkey in the open plains , wlnlo it would bo equally disadvantageous for tho Turks to pursue ( , |( cm into tho mountains . Moreover , in tho independence of Montenegro , Russia gains her point , and the aggrandisement of tho principality may very well be postponed . The port of <' atta . ro is overhung by the " black mountains ; " a Russian transaction with Austria , for securing this to Montenegro a « to an independent state , would bo to tho Czar , hi hja norjoamuont rolutkmu to Uio 1 ' otrovvitcJi

      family , in all respects equivalent to tho acquisition of a Russian port in the Adriatic . Later accounts state that Princo Daniel had fortified every point of strategetic importance in the neighbourhood of Zabljak , that several skirmishes have taken place , and that the Turks had been repulsed , and 600 killed , at a promontory , called Kcrba , on the Lake Scutari . Tho loss of the Montenegrins was also considerable . Letters from Posen and Warsaw , in the Frankfort Post Gazette , state that the movement of troops towards the western frontier of Russian Poland is going on very slowly , and on some points has been suspended . The provisioning of the magazines , however , proceeds with undiminished vigour .

      The Emperor of Russia has given orders that in future strictly scientific works shall come under the standing prohibition , which has hitherto forbidden , newspapers to make any application of legislative , financial , or commercial principles to the actual state of things in the imperial dominions . New imprisonments of citizens havo taken place afc Rome , at the instance of General Gremeau . The correspondent of the Augsburg Gazette states that the portrait of the new French Emperor has suddenly disappeared from the windows , and the- faces of Louis Philippe and the Comte de Chambord once more see the day . A grand-ducal decree at Florence forbids the wearing of masks or any disguises during the next carnival .

      The Gorriere Mercantile of Genoa , of the 30 th ult ., quotes letters from . Naples , stating that the King of the Two Sicilies continues to display much goodwill towards France , and has despatched conciliatory offers to Paris respecting the indemnity claimed by Prince Lucien Murat , for the capital and . interest representing the furniture and jewels belonging to King Joachim Murat , which the Bourbon family found after his flight , and never returned . The amount of these claims is stated at twelve millions . The King of Naples , it is stated , offers to reimburse the original sum without the thirty-five years' interest , but as yet no answer to this offer has been received at Naples . From Madrid we hear that tho royal decree , modifying 1 the new law on the press , was expected shortly to appear in the Gazette .

      On the 29 th ult ., M . Martinez de la Eoza had a long conference with M . Llorente , the Minister of the Interior . It is understood that the Government consents to restore the honourable gentleman to his post of President of the Royal Council , and to support his candidature for Madrid . On the same day tho moderate electoral committee held a sitting , which is described as very stormy . Its members separated without coming to any agreement . Marshal Haynau has been residing at Florence , where he has been received with , great distinction by certain Austrianizcd aristocratic Italian houses , especially the Orsini .

      The reduction of the whole funded debt of Portugal to a three per cent , stock has been most unfavourably received . The promulgation of other dictatorial decrees , on the eve of the meeting of tho Cortes , is considered an intentional aggression upon representative government .

      Abstract Of The Bombay Association's Pet...

      ABSTRACT OF THE BOMBAY ASSOCIATION'S PETITION TO PARLIAMENT . [ Petitions to Parliament , of which the following is an abstract , have been signed by several thousands of native British subjects in Bombay , praying for important alterations in tho Government of India . Those documents not having arrived in tirno to bo presented to Parliament , during its session just closed , this abstract of them is submitted with tho view of drawing timely attention to tho suggestions of petitioners so . deeply interested in tho subject . Tho petition itself will bo duly circulated hereafter , in accordance with tho usages of Parliament ., and with tho attention which will no doubt bo given to ( , 1 k ; representations of a large body of the natives of India , who now avail themselves , it is believed for the first time , of their constitutional right , of submitting to Parliament their viowrt of the improvements required m the government of their

      native land . J . Chalvman ' . ' £ x , Wortt . bourno-piirk-roiul , I ' addiiif't . on , Doe . - IH , 18 fi 2 . | Tho first paragraph adverts to l ' ailianicnf having tlie " nature , constitut ion , and prncl ical working of ( lie liulian ( lovernincnl under itm consideration , " and milimils I he views of the petitioners " willi respect lo Hie existing Hyslom of ( Joverninent , and Home ol' I lie improvements of \\ hich ll is miHCi'pl ilile . " 2 nd par . The petitioners lit l . rilmte Hie many hlessin ^ H enjoyed under Itritisli rule to l . lie llril i .-ili elliiraef it , lather ( linn to l . he plan of ( I'overniiient , which plan ,-they say , is "the result , of cireuiiiMtaiiccM nil her Mian of design , " and it in < 'onMC <| tieiilly "little Hiiiled to the present . state of the country , uml 'o l . ho fair demands of tlie people of India . "

      Itrd par . Here they nay tluil , the last Charter Act . was eonfcMNedly n concc . HHion of principles" for tcrminnliiif ; Mie Coiupany ' n rij , dil , of proper ! y in ( he country , and " certain evclu . sivo ,-,,, | , ' ( ;< oMnuliiitf , " n i nl ' nl n ten , on Mm evidence eiMil iiined in the 17 Mi vol . of the " Papers" printed in IS . t . l , I . yoidor of ( he Court , of Directors , , thai it , was understood I ' . y hoth Iho ( Jovcrnnienl , and the ICiimI , I ndia Company , that , "the nature of t lie . arrim ^ einentM for I he future ;; o \ eminent of I ndia should remain an open < jticMt ion . " ~" lt , h par All " nntocedcnl dillirull icm" lo ( he introduction of " " a j'ood Mytit . ein of / ; o \ eminent for the millions of |> rureful ami loyal ISrilisli I udiitiii milijeets , " t him' lining now , " for Mm HrsL I . iine , " removed , Mm pel ilionern Ihinlitlie llononriililei llouneu will find it easy to "deviNo u Count ilul ion for India , which , while it shall eoiilain all Mie tfood cleinentu oi" U 1 C 1 < "xiHt / lli ^ syHl iihall lie le . HH eiiinl > ernoiiie , lens cxeluHive , Icnh ne . cret ' , leHS despotic , more directly rettpoiiHiMc , and infinitely more , cfticicnt , and more neeeptiilile lo the governed . "

      I ' nrs . <> < o 7 are occupied in explaining " the inulilily anil iuetlieieney of two such cIiimIum ^ aut horil ie : i us I hn Court of Directors nnd the Hoard of Control , " and in tlniir ilhiHt ral ions tho petitioners quote tho rceonl , evideneo of I , ord Kllenborou ^ h , Mr , Courtcnuy ' u ovidcuco iu IB'JJJ , wad tho rousoniiig oi Mill tho

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 8, 1853, page 31, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_08011853/page/7/