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      Death Of Daniel W.Ebstkr. News Arrived F...

      course of friends . There were at least 10 , 000 persons , among whom were—General Franklin Pierce , Governor Marcy , of New York ; Mr . Abbott Lawrence , Mr . Edward ' Everett , Mr . Charles Ashman , Governor Boutwell , ex-Chancellor Jones , of New York , Judge Sprague , and many other distinguished men ; but the only member of the Cabinet present was Mr . Secretary Conrad . Before the interment took place the body was removed to the lawn in front of the mansion , and placed on a

      bier beneath one of the large poplar trees ; and from nine to half-past one o ' clock the assembled thousands took a last look . The countenance was serene and lifelike . Two garlands of oak-leaves and acorns and two bouquets of flowers were placed on the coffin . Many shed tears and grieved for the loss as of a departed father or dear friend . The whole of the proceedings are described as having been appropriate , solemn , and affecting . Mr . Webster was buried on his own grounds , by the side of his children

      Daniel Webster was a native of the famous Granite State , New Hampshire . His father was an old soldier , who had served in the war which drove the French out of the Canadas ; and , subsequently , in the war against the troops of King George III ., which ended in the independence of America . Daniel Webster was born in the back-woods of his native state , where his father had settled down on a plot of land granted to him after the Canadian War . In his early life , he made incredible efforts to secure for himself a tolerable education , and , ultimately , not only succeeded for himself , but , by his frugalitv , enabled his brother Ezekiel

      to participate in similar benefits . After the completion of his college course , he studied the law , and was admitted to the bar of Suffolk , Massachussets , in 1805 . Practice was plentiful , but not lucrative . In 1812 he was elected to Congress ; and , in 1813 , he delivered his maiden speech , on the Berlin decrees of Napoleon . From that time to the day of his death , he took part in all the great political movements of his age . Although a Whig , a supporter of John Quincy Adams , when President , from 1825 to 1829 , both in the House of Representatives and , from 1827 , in the Senate , nevertheless , he supported General Jackson in the

      efforts made by that statesman to preserve the Union against the insane caprices of South Carolina ; but he opposed the anti-United States' Bank policy of the victor of New Orleans . Mr . Webster visited Europe in 1839 . On his return , General Harrison , who had been elected President , placed Mr . Webster at the head of the Administration . Ho took a great part , both in and out of office , in negotiating the Ashburton treaty , and settling the Oregon boundary . Subsequently , by his exertions , the principal maritime powers recognised the independence of the Sandwich Islands . I ) urin « r the administration of Mr . Polk , he opposed the

      Mexican War ; but , when found inevitable , lie cordially approved of the conduct of liis son , who took a command in a volunteer regiment , and lost his life on the arid plains of Mexico . In March , 1850 , lie supported the " compromise measures" respecting slavery ; and , on the accession of President Killmore , he once more entered office . His acts , whether regarding Cuba , or the Fisheries question , or the Lobos J . slunds , since that time , are pretty well known to our readers ; and it is only to be regretted that his declining days showed thai ; he had , in some measure , lost that control of his

      faculties , which led him to put forward the Fishery question in t > o strange a light ; and advance and withdraw with equal levity the preposterous claim to the hobos Islands . Hut in spite ol" all his limits , Mr . Webster will retain a high place in the American mind , and in American history , as the Klatesnian who could conciliate the respect ol diplomatic Europe , without abandoning his decided Yankee tendencies and habits of thought ; and in 1 he history of remarkable men , as one of those who fought his way upwards , through all sorts of difficulties , to such ii prominent and honourable position before the whole world .

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      Culta. And Till-: Uwitmi) Status. Til K ...

      CUltA . AND Till-: UWITMI ) STATUS . Til K following documents have : m interest ol" their own ; and as they explain themselves need no comment from us . The I ' niled States' Government , . judging from the following letter , in reply to a complaint from the owners of Mu ) Crescent ( "Hi / , discountenance this proceedings of Cap tain Porter , her commander : — " Depart . inonl . of Slide , WiiHliin / jloii , Oct .. 25 .

      " Sir , Vour letter of the ' »•

      will not be permitted to land there in case the individual named William Smith should remain on board of her . " I am , Sir , very respectfully , " Your obedient servant . " C . M . Cowkab , Acting Secretary . " "To George Law , Esq ., New York . " A semi-official article in the Washington Republic of the 27 th , desires to propagate a contrary supposition . That paper says : — "We publish tlie following telegraphic despatch , just

      received from New Orleans , to show the wanton and mischievous falsehoods which find their way through the presa and telegraph at this time . The object is transparent . It is to mislead and inflame the public mind , and by wanton misrepresentation affect the election now near at hand : — " New Orleans , Oct . 26 . " Under the glaring caption of ' The United States and Spain—Our Flag Hauled Down—The Filhnore Administration Backed Out , ' with the usual disgraceful editorial comments , the Courier of this morning publishes the following despatch : —

      "Hon . Emile La Sere , —Lieutenant Porter has been summoned to Washington to explain his conduct at Havannah . The result is that the Crescent City goes no more to Havannah—the Georgia , under Lieutenant Porter , being substituted . This yields the point as to Smith , and is regarded as a backing out of our government . The charge was made in the Union of yesterday , and not denied by the Intellic / cncer or Republic of to-day . "A . G . Penn . " John TV- Fokney . " This has evidently been concocted for the political effect it is supposed it would produce here .

      " We have the best authority for saying that the Cabinet at Washington has taken firm and strong ground in opposition to the treatment of the Crescent City by the Captain-General of Cuba , and have no doubt that it will be followed by a speedy redress of the wrong complained of . " There will be no ' backing out' on the part of the Administration . The rig hts and honour of the country will be duly maintained and vindicated . " Lieutenant Porter was ordered to this city for the purpose only of giving full information to the Government , and , at his own request , has been transferred by the owners to tne Georgia , and will return in her to Havannah . " It is impossible to see , as Lieutenant Porter has been transferred to the Georgia , and the Crescent City interdicted on account of Smith , how there has been no " backing out . "

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

      LETTERS FROM PARIS . [ From our own Correspondent . ] Letter XLVI . Paris , Tuesday , November 9 , 1852 . Tni 5 consummation is almost complete . The perjurer is about to reap the harvest of his crime—the assassin to place on his brow a crown steeped in blood . It is blood that has quickened and manured the rank luxuriance of this gaudy growth of a day ! Hypocrisy has thrown away the mask . The name of " Republic , " which had basely disguised libertieide aggressions , is now a treason . There are no longer citizens in France—only subjects . On Sunday last , the 7 th instant , notwithstanding the sacredness of the day , the Senate hold a sitting , in obedience to the formal injunctions of Honapurte ; and after hearing the report of M . Troplong , adopted the following Scnatih-CovsuHe : —¦ "Art ; . 1 . The Imperial dignity is re-established . Louis Nnpoleon Bonapnrle is . Emperor of tho French , under the name of Napoleon 111 . " Art . 2 . The Imperial dignity is hereditary in the direct descendants , naturnl and legitimate , of Louis Napoleon . Bonaparte , from mule to male , by order of primogeniture , and to the perpetual exclusion of tho females and their descendants .

      "Art . ' A . Louis Napoleon Bonaparte , " should ho not have any rnnle child , may adopt the children and descendants , natural mid legitimate , in tho male branch of lh

      " Art . 4 . In default of any natural and legitimate heir , or of any adopted heir of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte , tho Imperial dignity devolves to Jerome Napoleon Bonaparto and liin natural and legitimate dcHcendantM , the issue of bin marriage -with the PrineeHH Catherine of Wurtemberg , from ' male to mole , in the order of primogeniture , and to the perpetual exclusion of the females and their descendants . " Art . T > . In default of any natural and legitimate or ndopted heir of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte , and in default of liny natural and legitimate heir of Jerome Napoleon Bonnpnrlo find 1 un mule descendants , an organic SonatuH

      Consiiltuni , proposed to the Senate by ilm Ministers assembled iu Council , with the adjunction of the I'residenl m , acting n : \ ouch i n the Senate , m the legmlativo corps , iiml in the Council of Ntnto , and submitted to the people for acceptance , shall name the lOmperor , and regulate in bin family the order ol' succession from male to male , to tho perpetual exclusion of the females and of their descendants . Up to the moment when the election of the new lOmperor in lerminaleii , the ad'airs of the State are to be governed by tho Ministers Mien in function , who are to form ii Council of ( . lovennnont , and to deliberate by u majority of votes .

      "Art . 6 . The members of the family of Louis Nannl Bonaparte , called by circumstances within the line of s cession , and their descendants of both sexes , form Dar ^ the Imperial family . A Senatus Consultum will reVnlnf their position . They cannot marry without the conW of , the Emperor , and their marriage , contracted withnnf such , authorization , involves the privation of all claim tn the succession , both for him who has contracted it and f his descendants . Nevertheless , should it so happen that there Exists no child from such marriage , when brous-ht t

      an ena try aeatn , tlie prince wiio had contracted it covers his rights to the succession . Louis Napoleon Bona parte fixes the titles and the position of the other member " of his family . He regulates their duties and obli gations bv statutes which shall Lave the force of law . ^ "Art . 7 . The Constitution of January 14 , 1852 , is maintained in all the enactments which are not contrary to the present Senatus Consultum , and no modifications can be made in it except in the forms and by the means provided for the purpose .

      " Art . 8 . The- following proposition shall be submitted to the people for acceptance in the forms determined bv the decrees of the 2 nd and 4 th . of December , 1851 : < Thg people desires the re-establishment of the imperial dignity in the person of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte , with the sue . cession in its direct descendants , natural and legitimate or adopted ; and in default of such descendants , in the person of Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte , as has been regulated by the Senatus Consultum of the 7 th day of November , 1852 . '"

      This Senatus-Consulte was voted by 86 out of 87 . One man only , M . Vieillard , Bonaparte ' s old tutor , and who has always resisted all the temptations of ambition , voted against . This single example of dignity is our solitary consolation for so many acts of baseness . Bonaparte had appointed beforehand three personages , Cardinal Archbishop Donnet , Marshal Vaillant , and the ex-minister Turgot , to present him the Senatus Consulte . But the Senate did not think it their duty to obey this desire , and by an act of adulation insisted on presenting themselves in a body to their Sovereign , to hand the document to him in person . Napoleon the Little received the Senate at St . Cloud , in the very same hall where Napoleon the Great had , in 1804 , received the Imperial dignity . He likewise expressed his wish that the Senatus Consulte of 1852 should be

      voted , and presented to him on the 7 th of November , precisely the anniversary of the Eighteenth of Brumaire . The First of JSrumaire falling on October 21 , the Eig hteenth JSrumaire falls on November 7 . I believe I am one of the very few in Paris who remarked this coincidence of dates . Is this mere insolence in Bonaparte , or is it fatalism and superstition ? It is , I believe , both the one and the other . Perhaps , too , it is the spirit of the comedian who follows out the character he plays even to the minutest details . The text of the Plebiscite of 1852 , which is exactly that of

      1804 , seems to confirm this observation . Let me add a few particulars of this high comedy played out by the Senate and its Master for the amusement of Europe . Bonaparte addressed a message to the Senate , on the question of re-establishing the Emp ire . In this message he told the Senate that the nation had just emphatically manifested its desire for this Imperial Restoration . Then putting his mouth ( emhouchant ) to the triumphal trumpet , he exclaimed , " that tho re-establishment of the Empire satisfied the just pride of the people , because it raised up again with

      liberty and reflection what all Europe , thirty-seven year . s ' before , bud thrown down by force of arms , in the midst of the disasters of the country . " This message , by its warlike tone , created an immense sensation m Paris . As if to heighten its clfect , 100 , 000 copies wore . struck off the sumo evening , to be p lacarded m every commune throughout France . The reading ol the message to the Senate was followed by the proposition of a Senatus Consulte , laid on the table by ten members , and a , commission , likewise of ton members ,

      was then and there appointed to examine it . The commission immediately elected M . Trop loiig for reporter . This gentleman had the report m in pocket . ^ Just uh the Somite wan disposing , Honupiir ^ Kent , instructions to the commission to drug the nialXi ! on till Sunday , in order that tho Senutus-Consun might be voted and presented on tho anniversary » the 18 I . U llrmmiire .. Tho next day ( Eriday ) , M- *' plong hastened to St . Cloud , to read hi » report t <> - napml . e . On Siilunlny , for the reasons 1 have » 1 « ^» nothing took place . Finally , Sunday , the ?*>« '

      held their famoiiH sitting . M . Troplong beg'm J reading his report . Never vynn smih balderdash iff ^ ¦ matins ) seen or heard as this choice nwrceiM <> ^ quonoe . Caught between monarchy ami < l 4 ! II 1 " " jj ,,,, in the teeth of a vice , he makes the one and tJI 0 riW < the subject of bin eulogy and bin abuse by ¦ . ^ " The imperial monarchy , " he exelainiH , " , ' , ° ' u u > c > the revolution , and rulo in the democracy . ^ democratic by her manners , is monarchic "' itf . ^ habits mid h « r instincts . Democratic l < rilllC 0 of the ro-CHtiiblishmciit of the monarchy in the ]•< ^ ii prince destined to bo tho point of union u ^ ^ power and the- people , tho monarchical nyi"W

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 13, 1852, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_13111852/page/4/