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    436 THE LBADEE. [Satjtkp^

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    CONTINENTAL NOTES. Wednesday being tho a...

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    "HILL-TOF' OR "V ALLEY-BOTTOM" WATER? Th...

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    Letters From Pakis. [Feom Otjtt Owst Cor...

    the dinner-table , so that he may not be within reach j and that at the bait His Majesty should be placed on a platform , above the rest of the company . It has also been decided that the original cards of invitation should be cancelled ; those re-issued , instead of being transferable , to be available only to the persons whose names they bear . •'• . ' It is expected that the incidents of the ball will give rise to considerable scandal , as , in consequence of the number of military men ( from 1600 to 2000 ) who are to be present , there would not be room for civilians . The wives , therefore , of the public functionaries have been invited , to attend without their husbands . Something like another Rape of the Sabines is anticipated ! The proverbial gallantry of the French soldier cannot fail to do great execution on the occasion . We are to have more than one Helen , and Menelaus' in abundance . Moreover , if the Constitutionnel is to be believed , the ladies are specially reserved for the pleasures of the Sultan Bonaparte ; and with this view , they are to form a line in front of the imperial platform ; there to be ogled by his Highness . The Constitutionnel omits telling us whether the Sultan is expected to throw the mouchoir to any of these ladies !

    The affairs of the Lottery of the Lingots d'Or , have just been exhibited before a court of law . You will remember that the scheme of this Californian lottery was Seven Millions of tickets , at one franc each , the alleged object being to provide funds for the emigration of a party of volunteers to California . But its real purpose was to raise money to pay four million ' s worth of Louis Bonaparte ' s clamorous debts . The other two millions to be divided amongst the greedy adventurers hanging about the Elysee , and the remaining million to go to M . Carlier , the prefect

    of police ; the real projector of the lottery , under an assumed name . At first , the money came in freely ; the receipts in a few days amounted , to two millions and a half , and were quickly transferred from the pockets of the public to those of M . Bonaparte . Then came doubts , the papers hinting at disclosures . The receipts stopped . The directors were desirous of stimulating the enterprise the public , and to show that the capital was really intended for an expedition to California , they determined upon making the preparations necessary for the departure of the first body of

    emigrants . To do this , however , money was required , but as the receipts had hitherto been handed over to Louis Bonaparte , there was no cash in hand . The following swindling expedient was , therefore , decided upon . Duplicates of the two millions and a-half of the lottery tickets already sold were despatched to the provinces . Puffing advertisements were at the same time placarded everywhere . The sale again became brisk , and in August last , the lottery again wore an air of prosperity ; when , one fine day , a gentleman from the provinces , walking in the Rue JMontmartre , noticed some lottery tickets for sale in a tobacconist ' s window , bearing precisely the same numbers as some which he had in his own pocket ; whereupon our provincial friend

    demanded loudly for an explanation . A crowd gathered , and a row ensued . Great was the consternation of the directors : they resigned . Statements were forwarded to the newspapers by the prefect of police , acknowledging that a few duplicato tickets had been inudvortently issued , & c , & c , and announcing the drawing to take place on the 11 th of November . Before the end of a week from that time , there were forty-three claimants for first twenty-five prizes . The directors in a fix , required a month to decide . In the meantime came the 2 nd of December , bringing with it , of course , a verdict of acquittal . Not that the dupes ceased their clamour , but the scandal which the exposuro produced through the newspapers , was afterwards confined to the tribunals .

    It in on account of one of those claims tjmt the Tribunal of the Seine has just condemned the directors of the lottery to pay , with costs , the holders of the tickets , and their " duplicates , numbered 1 , 732 , 833 ( prize 25 , 000 franca ) , and 2 , 898 , 291 ( prize 50 , 000 francs ) . This verdict , as you sec , aflcota L . Bonaparte . On all sides tho opposition to the Government is being organized . Tho departmental National Guard hud boon reconstituted . Bat ut Marseilles , having manifested its hostility to tho 1 ' ronident , tho National Guard has boon suspended and difmrnuxl ; and tho same steps have boon taken against tho National Guard o ( tho ontiro dopnrtmont .

    In the Legislative Body wo have had an ovnaion ot onoof'M . Bonaparte ' s own decrees . Tho autocrat , determined to anticipate tho oilbct produced on tho country by tho spe eches dolivoro that Assembly , had , in tho Constitution , forbidden tho publication of any of its proceedings . Ono of tho dopntie « , M . Guyaru , having inado n speech on tho subjoot of tho Now Coinage , solicited tho permission otHho Assembly to luivo it printed , which was granted by n largo majority .

    The Legislative Body is equally resolved to demand an explanation relative to L . Bonaparte ' s recent antocratic decree , creating , without the initiative of the Chamber , four millions and a half of 3 per Cent Bentes As the decree of the 14 th of March provided , that in the event of the conversion of the Rentes , the negotiation should take place publicly , and by competition , the deputies , require to be informed upon What ground M . Bonaparte has taken upon himself to award these four millions and a half of rentes to certain persons , in contempt of his own decree , that is to say , privately , and without competition .

    I told you , about a month ago , that to parry the consequences of a coalition of bankers , L . Bonaparte had sent for Messrs . Rothschild , Fould , & c ., and had entered into a secret engagement with them , by which he agreed to give these gentlemen 3 per cent , stock , at their own price , in exchange for whatever amount of 5 per cents , they would undertake to purchase in the market . This was but the beginning of a dirty job , for as soon as the hankers had bought up the 5 per cents ., and had called for the promised 3 per cent , stock , L . Bonaparte demanded his share of the profits of the transaction . The following is the final arrangement come to between the parties . The 3 per cents . are to be delivered to the bankers at 60 francs 98

    cents , which represents 5 per cent , interest per annum . But as the 3 per cents , are quoted in the money market at 70 francs , the net profit on the operation , which represents 4 , 403 , 436 francs dividend , amounts to 13 , 200 , 000 francs ( 528 , 000 ? . ) Of this sum L . Bonaparte claimed half , and it has already been paid down to him . . This affair is the common talk at the Bourse , and in all Paris ; and people go so far as to say , that in ordor to give M . Bonaparte a lesson , the Legislative Body will refuse to vote the stock required for the rentes .

    The General Canrobert , who had been sent into the departments of the centra , has reported to L . Bonaparte , that the liberation of political offenders had produced the worst results . The consequence has been , the entire suspension of pardons . M , Peyronni , of the insurrection in the Lot et Garonne , whose sentence of transportation was to have been commuted to banishment , has recently been shipped to the Colonies . Transportation to Cayenne , which it had been reported was countermanded , is now being carried into execution . The first departure of prisoners for Cayenne included the courageous Miot , representative of the people . The frigate La Forie has just sailed with the second body of prisoners for the same destination ; and theMogador and the JDriqone are to follow .

    It is needless to add , that the provincial press is more persecuted than ever . The Union de la Haute Marne , having presumed to state that the President was not received with much enthusiasm at Chaumont , the prefect sent a . first-warning to the editor ; informing him that , on the contrary , the enthusiasm had never been greater . One of these days wo shall bo having the prefects decreeing , that we are the happiest people on earth . S .

    436 The Lbadee. [Satjtkp^

    436 THE LBADEE . [ Satjtkp ^

    Continental Notes. Wednesday Being Tho A...

    CONTINENTAL NOTES . Wednesday being tho anniversary of tho death of tho Emperor Napoleon , a grand funeral sorvico , at which the President assisted , was performed at tho Church of the Invalidos . Tho fall of tho Four-and-a-Half per Cents , excites groat attention . Thero is a strong rumour o , t tho Borneo that tho Emperor of Russia has demanded tho reimbursement of tho fifty millions of 5 por Cents . Bentes which ho holds . Cautious but significant articles appear in tho independent journals . For instance , tho DSbats says : — " Tho Bourse was very heavy . Tho public cry was , ' tho Emperor of Russia is soiling off his Ilontoa . ' By whomsinco whon—how dooa it happen—who has soon it P Usoloss questions all . Tho faot ia sotfcled . Tho impression , at first insignificant , has bocomo deeper and doopor . When tho Emperor bought , it was a groat fact ; but now that ho soils , what doos that mean P Tho day was spent in commontarioa , and yofc tho fuot is not surprising . Tho Emporor of Itussia is not tho only rentier whom tho convorsion has brought to tho market . "

    The Sihcle has a few words on tho same dolicato subject . — < Tho Four-and-a-JIulf por Cents , havo fallen bolow {> ar . Tho Bourso , which had witnoasod all the oflbrta that uul boon making for Homo tinio to prevent thia slock from falling bolow par , has boon dooply affected by this rosult , which is tho moro soriouH aa foroign holders have yet ton ( lays boforo thorn to demand reimbursement . It is probabl y in . consequence of this circumstance that rumours have arisen of largo demands of , this kind having arrived

    from Bt . Potorsburgh . Jlowovor that may bo , sovoral heavy banking operations have boon observed to end in important remissions to London . Tlioro has also roappoarod n , slight premium on gold . " Tho J ) 6 baU gives tho following from London , on tho Danirii question : — " It appears certain that the troaty which is ( o bo signod at tho Foroign O / Iioo on tho 4 th or 6 th liotwoen tho plenipotentiaries of England , Austria , Franco , Prussia , Russia , and Sweden , will not only have for object to regulate a now order of succession in Donmark , but also to secure the integrity of tho Danish monarchy . This important result will not , it is eaid , have

    been obtained without considerable difficulty , and it is to that circumstance that may be attributed the delay of the signature . The Germatoic powers , particularl y Prussia are said to have sought every means to impede the conolu . ' siottof the treaty , wkich is only due to the firm jregolution evinced by the cabinets of St . Peterslurgh and Paris which have throughout the whole negotiations actedSvith ' the most perfect and constant accord ; Lord Malmeaburv haSj itis said , shown himself anxious to unite his efforts to those of the French and Russian governments-. " On the 26 th ult . the powder magazines of the Boimr Dora ( TurinXblew up just when the workmen were quitting their work . The king animated by his presence the labourers engaged in suppressing the fire and extricating the workmen . The number of wounded taken to the nearest hospital amounted to fiftyy including ten . children the

    and fifteen women ; among men , who are mostly soldiers , there is also a priest . The greater part are doing well . On the 29 th the persons killed were interred with great solemnity ; the Duke Of Genoa followed the hearses on foot , together with General Maffei , Commandant of the National Guard , the SyAdic of Turin , and a deputation from the municipality . The corps of artillery brought up the rear . The Spanish Government having refused to modify the recent ordinances on the press , the opposition journals have resolved to suspend their publication for three month s from , the 4 th of May , the eve of the day on which the n e w law of the press conies into operation . The editors intend to appoint a standing committee , who will prosecute ex officio the ministerial journals that should not have complied with all the rigorous conditions of the new law . These resolutions were adopted at a meeting of the

    directors on the 27 th . The Presse has intelligence from its correspondent at Alexandria * writing on the 22 nd ult ., / stating that the Turco-Egyptian difference is terminated . Puad-Effendi , justifying all the hopes which his mission had given birth to , has come to a complete understanding with the Egyptian government , whose good intentions and perfect fair dealing he admits . The Viceroy accepts the tanzimat with the modifications called for by the state of the country , and which the TurcOrEgyptian © omniissioiiers had already fixed in their conferences at Constantinople . On its rn . de the Porte accords to the Viceroy the right of applying the punishment of death during seven years , without reference to the divan . The King of Prussia was to start for Silesia on the 5 th inst ., to meet the Empress of Russia ( his sister ) at

    Breslau . „ The Berlin journals of-the 28 th ult . bring details upon the subject of the royal message of the 28 th ult . The communication , was made to both chambers ; and ,-as appears by the parliamentary reports , is not a decree abolishing the articles of the constitution , and regulating the organization of the peerage by the royal will , but a new bfll , which is in the Second Chamber to go througa the ordinary course . In the First Chambor it was resolved to refer the bill to the existing committee on the constitution of the bpdy concerned . In the becond Chamber a committee was appointed to consider tlie measure . The minister desired that the matter might be quickly despatched . In the same sitting of tho 28 th , the Second Chamber came to two other important votes . J . t refected by a majority of 186 to 82 the resolution of tho First Chambor , and which , dividing the budget of ordinary and extraordinary expenses , decided that the nrsn should be no longer fixed annually , but onco for all , ana

    that no future modification , should take place , except uv « law . It also rejected by 226 to 57 another decision ot wo First Chamber , by which it had declared , in ° PP » 10 " ^ tho constitution , that it could vote the budget , articlo Dy article , like the Second Chambor . _ Navarro , the rightooiis judge , has died at . Naples .

    "Hill-Tof' Or "V Alley-Bottom" Water? Th...

    " HILL-TOF' OR "V ALLEY-BOTTOM" WATER ? Thk Committee of tho Metropolitan Sanitary Association have issued tho following Memorandum on tno metropolitan water bills now ponding before the seiecu committee of tho House of Commons : — " The Committee of tho Metropolitan Sanitarv Asaociation viewing with great alarm and apprehension tho prowa » posture of tho metropolis wator supply question , submi ^ jot the consideration of the London wator-consumors andia «> payers , tho following important facts : — , iAnnpo 1 It appears from various official reports and evidence on water supply , and especially from a report of tho . Uoaro of Health , ! lated 1850 , embodying the evidence d ™ W eminent eAgmoors and chemists , that water froml barren Mil tops is invariably purer and bettor than wator iwm cultivated valley bottom ,, ; and that tho sandy hil 1 o : »» roy , in particular , furnish perennial spring ot water Tny degroos softer and purer than tho water of tjo m Thamos , which is the main-drain of a heavily wanuio . and populous valley , , T > ,, ~ fnsflors "L The report of threo ominont chemiflta , Profo »« ° w Graham , Miller , and Hoflman , to whom the ate , ujrv , mont referred tins wator report of tho Board oU "Jconfirms ita ohemical conclusion a » to tho goneiw * 1 riority of hill-top over valley-bottom water , am } « " »* , „ particular superiority of tho water from fcko J »« J « J ' ^ L of Surrey over tho viUloy-drainod water of tho 4 Jmi polluted fts that riyor ih , ovon above the ^ d ^ Jronsinff London Howaffo , with tho sewage of a rapidly > W « b

    population , already numbering threo-nuartors ox " " ,. „„ ana receiving , moreover , as it doos , tho surlaoo wasr i g __ of numorous oattlo-dungod roads and fltroofca , ana' - » gorgoments of many Boun-sta ^ n an t dttohos , in wi «» the flood-wators from tho cultivated lands . aiiOtfod « 3 . The Holontiflo evidence further shows that I J » J * J gnl power of river-water to oloar itself ^ m ° rgamo poi u aait runs , is not a Huflloiont jgrouiulftwr ***™ ° § " p ,, Ifoontinuedsupnly to tho popul » tan--flwt > t > ° ™™ ° ^ J ^ purifioivtion of rivor wtttor hftB Uouts which wro aw ™

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  • Leader (1850-1860), May 8, 1852, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_08051852/page/8/