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    Letters From Paris. [Fkom Our Own Corres...

    remote provinee of France makes the elect of 7 , 500 , 000 voices , sustained by 450 , 000 bayonets , and by a budget of 1800 millions of francs , tremble in his palace . Twenty-nine cabarets bave been closed in the department of Finisterre . " They were found to be dangerous , " says tbe Prefectoral decree . To avow that cabarets down in Basse Bretagne are becoming dangerbus is to confess that the Revolution is afoot , and that the usurpation is afraid . Rigours of another kind are not forgotten . This time it is the working men who are the victims . The working carpenters of Paris refused to work for the Government : several of them have been arrested , and

    men from the regiment of Engineers set to work in their stead . The stone-cutters of Montrouge have also struck . Fifteen of them were committed to prison by the police . The liberty of labour fares like all our other liberties . It is the bayonet that rules , the sabre that governs . S .

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    CONTINENTAL NOTES The report of thc recall of the French Minister at the Hague , iu consequence of thc rejection of the literary convention with France , turns out to be false . The Ambassador has returned to Paris on leave of absence , and the report was a fabrication of the " Bears" of the Amsterdam Stock Exchange . Tbe Moniteur announces that the remaining 25 million francs of the 50 million borrowed of the Bank of France in 184 S , have just been repaid by the State . The interest on Treasury Bonds has been reduced another _^ per cent , by decree , and the interest for thc savings banks is expected to be restored to what it was np to Februavv , 1848—4 per cent .

    Tho Bishop of Chalons , the most servile of a servile crew , has issued a circular to the clergy of his diocese , on the occasion of the President ' s forthcoming visit to the South , whieh , after extolling his merits and services , concludes as follows : — "May that man of God" ( the title of the prophets of old ) , "that great man , be blessed , for it was God who selected bun for the happiness of our country , to remove all thc evils inflicted by 60 years' revolution and cruel wars , which appeared interminable ; once more , may he be blessed ! We will pray for him ; he is entitled to that tribute from us for the eminent services he has rendered and is still anxious to render us ; it is a duty we ought to be anxious to discbarge towards him . " The Grand Duke of Baden , has put an end to the state of siege in his dominions .

    Ihe civil law has como into operation at Vienna , in matters affecting the press , and all publications are now subject to the ollicial censors . In other respects the state of siege , with its pleasant accompaniments of scourging and imprisonment for trilling misdemeanours , is in full vigour . The brochure of Dr . Franz , an ex-functionary of the Government , has fallen in tbe midst of the bureaucracy of Berlin , and of the dilettanti Pietists of tho Itoyalist party , who insist on tbe restoration of " authority" as the great problem of modern politics , and actually believe the " restoration of belief" iu Right Divine possible , like a revolutionary bombshell . Dr . Franz ( we cite the resume given by tbo Berlin correspondent of the Times ) , although

    a strong Royalist , declares boldly such a restoration is impossible , and ( races the " decline and fall" of the principle through every stage of authority with an inexorable logic ; be even seems to revel in tho abundance of proof that , the past is dead , and ought to be buried ; he welcomes the new developments of science and society , and is prepared to go us far and as fast as steam and telegraphs will carry us . Make them , he tolls the princes , the bast ; of your power , and do not imagine you gain anything by restoring a feudal ruin , and rebuilding old caution which tiio people found necessary to knock down four centuries ago , having first hung ( he owners over their battlements . All tho appeals in behalf of ( lie past are phrases , themes full of unci ion , but barren of effect . "Authority , " in the old

    sense of the term , can never revive . Wo leave power and discipline , organized and active enough , but fhe sacred character of rank aud class ia . gone , and it is absurd to lament , if . He takes three ; illustrations of tbe most , familiar kind , and asks the political antiquaries to observe only our modes of dress , building , and conveyance , in each of which forms of life the levelling tendency of modern times , the tendency to equalization , may he observed , dilVcrcnco of cost being now the . only distinction ; and Ihe most , bi trot ed denouncers of these levelling methods being forced to adopt them . Thi ! discovery of new powers of locomotion , and the consequent intercommunication of ideas , Dr . Franz asserts to be an element , of political freedom to which the very progress of mechanical science conduces . The writer then traces the inroads of the spirit , and inquiry in the moral and intellectual sphere , " heaps proof upon proof of the decay of authority in its

    ancient , sense , and asks the revivalist s bow Ihey can expect , to restore iti' Rather , he says , accept the present , and build your authority upon thai .. lie then goes into a long examination of all that princes niyl Govemi . wills have left undone , by separating themselves from the progress of society , and standing aloof , as if they had no interest in if , often ' impeding more than promoting . " He points nut the want , of no Academy as a " point of union for the intellectual life of the nation , " complains of the pedantic , pedagogic stamp of German literature ; of the lack oi national museums and monuments , and laughs to scorn the sentimentalists who , in the face of science , with its wonderful conquests over time , space , and matter , mailing even monarchs revolutionary in spite of themselves , would dream of reserving tho obsolete frippery of the past . Imagine fhe oiled , of this bold and searching treatise from an ox-ollicial , who writes with ( h _\ i trenchant thoroughness of u Carlylo or a Proudhon , tbo force and _directnens of au

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    Emile de Girardin , the merciless logic of a Herbert Spencer , falling in the midst of the mystical intoxications of Frederick William ! No wonder that the work was seized by the police . The grand military reviews and manoeuvres , sham fights , field exercises , & c , have been taking place at Berlin , before the King , the Prince of Prussia , the Duke of Cambridge , & c . The trial of Gueazzi ( the ex-minister ) is proceeding at Florence . The accused is deprived of the chief witnesses he had desired to call in his defence . On the 3 rd he made a brief address , in which he affirmed that he had ever been a friend to constitutional monarchy and to order , and that the acts of the provisional government which might appear contrary to those principles were done under violence and constraint .

    The Emperor of Austria returned to Vienna on the 2 nd , but was to leave again in a few days , to review the troops in different parts of his territory . Letters from Turin of the 5 th instant state that several of the French refugees residing at Nice had been removed to the interior of Piedmont at the request of the French Government , their presence so near the frontier being considered dangerous during the visit of the President to the department of the Var . Louis Bonaparte seems resolved to fight the battles of his uncle over again , at least in effigy . At Toulouse , he is to be amused with a representation of the Battle of Toulouse in 1814 , which , if we are to believe the French , was won by Soult ; and at Toulon the French squadron are to combine with the troops on shore , to represent , the first exploits of Napoleon at the recapture of Toulon from the English . A grand ball was given by thc French admiral at Naples , on the 28 th ult ., on board his ship , the Ville de Paris . The officers of H . M . S . Firebrand , anchoring opportunely in the Bay , were present . Petitions for the abolition of bull-fights in Spain are met with counter-petitions for the creation of a great national school of tauromachia . The Posen correspondent of the Cologne Gazette communicates a curious mode of meeting tbe cholera at that

    town : — " The local committee of health has unanimously agreed to combat the cholera with gunpowder . Application has been made to General Tietzen , the commander of the fortress , who has just had the misfortune to lose his consort by cholera , to make an attempt to purify the air by discharges of artillery , and he has declared his readiness to comply with the request , if the permission of the civil government can be obtained . " But the civil government has no powder to expend in preserving the lives of the Poles .

    Meeting Of Tiie British Association Last...

    MEETING OF TIIE BRITISH ASSOCIATION Last Wednesday week ' s proceedings at Belfast were followed up by the usual gatherings of the members in tbeir sections on Thursday , Friday , and Saturday . Here papers of varying interest were read ; some on subjects too recondite for the mass of readers , others on popular topics , scientifically treated . The statistical section waa in great force . An important paper was read by Mr . Locke , showing how great has been tbe Irish Exodus , and how the loss of population is being compensated by importations of Scotch and English farmers , who have purchased lands under the Encumbered Estates Act , " the greatest boon over conferred on Ireland . " Dr . Edgar and the Earl of Mayo supported the views of Mr . Locke ' s essay . The greatest changes are taking place on tho western ( -oast .

    A paper by the late Mr . G . . 14 . Porter , "On the Productive Industry of Paris , " was read by Mr . M'Adam , secretary . It . contained most , valuable details of the productive industry of Paris , furnishing important data for comparison with our own . In it will be found matter for the serious consideration of our political economists _^ as in several of those branches of manufacture which are supposed to press most , weightily on our own trade it appears that , the . wages paid for labour aro higher than with us , while the raw material is about the same price . An interesting portion was that , in reference to tho education of tho workmen . Of the entire number , 87 per cent , of the men and 7 i ) por cent , of the women could read and write .

    Mr . lleywood , M . l \ , read a paper on tbo income of tbe University and some of the colleges of Oxford , compiled from tho report , of the Oxford University Commissioners , from which it appeared , as far as could be ascertained of nine colleges , that the average income of the heads of bouses was 1100 / . a-year ; and , as regarded Fellows , faking in this Canons of Christ ( Miurcb , fhe average was 234 _/ . ayear . Tho total income of the Oxford University was 22 , 000 / ., and of tho colleges , 152 , 000 / . The income of Cambridge University was about 1 . ' ( . _' ., <) 00 / . ; and of Trinity College , Dublin , about 50 , 0001 ., making the total about . .. f > r > , 000 / . There were f > 57 fellowships in Oxford , of which about , thirty-five were vacant every year . Tho revenue

    arising Irom the University press , by the printing ol Bibles and prayer-books , was stated to be about HOIK )/ _, a-year , though tho amount was not , regularly paid over , biit only when if increased to sums of 40 , 000 /! or (( 0 , 000 / . The meeting of the Mathematical and Physical Section was opened by an exhibition of numerous drawings ol appearances presented by some of ( lie nebulie , ( ho results of tint observations of the Karl of Rosso , ami made by experienced draughtsmen under his own inspection . These were severally explained hy his Lordship and Dr . Robinson , of Armagh , who remarked , that , the result , of their observations was very likel y to overturn many of the theories hitherto adopted , and render a large amount of labour entirely _uhoIchh .

    In the Chemical Section , Dr . Andrews read a paper "On the application of polarized light fo the discovery of minuto quantities of Soda . " Tho author stated , that the

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    double chloride of potassium and platinum showed no A * polarizing action when placed in the dark field _^ _rt polanscope ; but that the double salt of sodium ar » Li tinum was remarkable for its depolarizing p ower' and tl , I a minute trace of this salt , _invisible to the naked _^ £ m readily be detected by the brilliant display of _priS colours when under the action of polarized lie-fit IX delicacy of the test is such that soda can be detected wh _« in a quantity so minute as the 1 , 000 , 000 th part of a erS "On a new variety of magnetic iron ore , with remarks on the application of the bicarbonate of baryta to _quantity tive analysis . " " On the atomic wei ghts of platinum and barium . u

    Dr . Hamilton , in the Zoological Section , read " Remarks on some of the marine birds which produce guano on tho coasts of Peru and BoUvia , with reference to the Lobos Islands . " This paper excited much interest , both on ac count of the recent question as to tho soverei gnty of the Lobos Islands , and on acceunt of the importance of an increased supply of guano . After much matter of historical and geographical interest , the author gave his reasons for expressing his belief that large deposits of guano might still be found if the Government would undertake the search , as there yet remained a large portion of the Pacific unexplored , principally that lying between Valparaiso and the Isthmus of Panama .

    Grand conversaziones were held on Thursday and Friday in the _warehouses of Mr . Warkman , fitted up for the occasion . On Friday evening , Professor Stokes of Cambridge , described his optical discoveries . A meeting of the general committee was held on Monday afternoon at three o ' clock , on the conclusion of the proceedings in thc several section . Colonel Sabine , the , president , occupied the chair . A number of officers were appointed , and other routine business transacted ; but the principal subject engaging the attention of the committee was the selection of a place in which to hold the next annual meeting . Letters of

    invitation from Hull , Leeds , Brighton , Glasgow , Liverpool , and Dublin , were taken into consideration , and their respective claims advocated . After some discussion , Hull was ultimately selected . The whole proceedings were wound up by pleasure trips to the Giant ' s Causeway , and other noted local wonders .

    The Birmingham Musical Festival (Abstrac...

    THE BIRMINGHAM MUSICAL FESTIVAL ( Abstractedfrom the Times . ) The Birmingham Musical Festival was instituted nearl y a century ago . The first meeting took place in 1769 , since when it has been celebrated triennially without cessation . England is j ustly renowned for those great provincial gatherings in which music helps the cause of charity , and none of them has done better service than that which is held in this rich and populous town . The Birmingham Festival has alike promoted the ends of

    benevolence and advanced the progress of a great and civ nixing art . It has , for a lengthened course of years , been the chief support of ono of the most admirable institutions in the kingdom . But for the triennial musicmeeting , the Birmingham General Hospital would probably have been bankrupt long ago . Between 1769 and 1849 the committees of management have been enabled , from the profits of the meetings , to band over to the charity , at various periods , something short of

    70 , 000 / . Not only has the Triennial Festival mainly supported the General Hospital , it ; lms also supplied the town with " its noblest architectural monument , " the present Town Hall , which was inaugurated by the Festival of 1834 . " Tho mere fact that Mendelssohn ' s oratorio of Elijah was expressly composed for , and first executed at , the Festival of 1841 ., g ives Birmingham a name in the records of the musical art , of which

    London , and indeed all the cities of Europe , mig ht reasonably be jealous . The Paulus of the same composer , written for the festival of tbe Rhine cities , held at Dusseldorf in 1830 , was first introduced in this country at tbe meeting in 1837 ; while at tbo following meeting , in 1840 , another of Mendelssohn ' s greatest works , the Lohgesang , composed , like Elijah , expressly for Hirniinghani , was performed for the first time . Uichc , aud otber circumstances less notorious , are enough to

    show thai , tbe Birmingham Festival , while m inistering to charity , has done good service ; to music . The singcis engaged for the meeting were , Mosdunies Viardot , Garcia , Clara Novello , and Castellan ; Mdlles . Anna Zerr and Rcrtrardi ; Misses Dolby mid Williams , Signors Tamberlik , _I ' olonini , and _Helletti ; Messrs . Sunn Reeves , Loekey , Williams , Weiss , and Herr Form' * - The solo instrumentalists , Messrs . Sainton ( violin ) , I ' i "'' ( violoncello ) , Hottesini ( double bass ) , itnd Kuhe ( p ianoforte ) . Tho band , the ' most numerous and spIondK ' ever collected together al , a festival , numbered U 8 m _«' violins , 2 (> second , 18 tenors , 18 violoncellos , J . 7 « Ioiil » " » busses , besides the usual number of wind _instrumeiitH , doubled in most departments . These , with the ehoruH , made tin , executive force about 500 , under tbo Hiiprom " sway of M . Costa . " Tho Elijah , " the most p erfect of musical _eomposi tions , " _wiw the opening perforintui < _5 o on Tuesday mom

• Citation
  • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 11, 1852, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_11091852/page/4/