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      Saturday, December 6. The News From Pari...

      words from its talkative agent in Paris will be suggestive . " The President is resolved to do or die . The most energetic measures are being taken . This , for instance , I have just ascertained : all the provincial journals are to be suspended . The Government intends to give the populace of Paris a terrible lesson , and , therefore , has not done much to prevent the commencement of hostilities . When fairly engaged , the army will do its best to punish the insurgents , and think what " the best" of 100 , 000 men is . "

      Is this not spoliation , pillage , and disorder ? The correspondent of the Morning CJironicle writing on Thursday , says : — " In my letter of Monday I mentioned that M . de Casabianca , the Minister of the Finances , had effected a loan of twenty-five millions of francs , on simple bons du tresor ; The Minister , on making this demand , alleged simply the want of money to make the necessary payments ; and the Bank of France , suspecting nothing worse , replied that , if the Government intended to abolish the octroi duties , it could not consent to advance the money . Upon this , M . de Casabianca went to the Elysee , and returned with the answer that " for the moment the octroi duties were not to be

      meddled with . A loan of money being no very rare thing on the part of the French Government , this affair passed at the time with the simple remark that the Treasury was hard-up , but it assumes a very different aspect now . It now appears that the money was borrowed for the purpose of carrying out the coup d ' etat , and it is said that the whole of it has got into the hands of the soldiery . " Last night we recived the following message by Electric Telegraph , without any signature to verify it as having been sent by our Paris correspondent : — " From Submarine Telegraph , Dover , to the Daily News , London .

      " Dover , Fifty minutes past Nine , p . m ., December 5 . —The telegraphic communications with Paris have been much delayed , owing to the great pressure of business on account of the French Government . " Intelligence from Paris this evening states" All fear of further disturbance is at an end , and circulation completely reestablished . " This despatch appears also in the Times . A decree appears , ordering that the voting , opening on the 20 th instant , be secret instead of public .

      " Pak , is , Eight o'Clock p . m . —Insurrection in Paris completely subdued . The mode of voting—universal suffrage by secret ballot—has been favourably received . The troops are returning to their barracks . Paris is perfectly tranquil . The nuraber of persons killed yesterday is very considerable , but it is impossible to form an accurate estimate . The Government warns the public not to believe in the thousand false rumours that are living about . " The persons in possession of the Government have

      published accounts stating-, that the coup d ' etat has been received with immense satisfaction in the provinces . Yet rumour asserts that General Neumayer , the sworn friend of C'hangarnior , is advancing with four rcginiontH , and that ( Jastellane will not support the Government at Lyons . Unquestionably , there was a bloody . struggle yesterday in the streets of l ' aris ; and although the praetorians of Louis Napoleon may hold the metropolis for a time , the popular party must . succeed in the end .

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      The Kssex, Which An Ivedyentei'day, Brin...

      The Kssex , which an ivedyentei'day , brings Cape papers up to the 10 th . Generally . speaking , the new . s is of the usual character ; it . consists of . small conflicts , cattle stealings , and promenades . The reinforcements had arrived at Iving William ' s Town . The recent , intelligence from the Sovereignty is anything but of a . satisfactory character . Bloom Fontein is represented as in a very precarious situation , and Major "Warden has brought , diilieulties upon the country wliich lie finds it no easy task to obviate or remove .

      ISy the South African Advertiser of the J . Hh of October wo learn that , on the Cth of the Hame month , the inhabit ants of Cape Town assembled in public Hireling , and agreed upon a protest to the o / lect . that they had no confidence in the local Logislut lire , and < : onsidcro < l their aetK a defiance of public duty . They wished for the constitution of the 2 'itd nl' May , IN ;>() , to be adopted in the colony as speedily as possible . If this were not . done and other measures passed , they should bold I lie Governor- General and tin- local Legislature responsible for any results

      and , furl her , they expressed their belief that , the adoption of the course which they recommended , would have the effect of immediately restoring peace niul order in the colony . The protest was signed by 7- > 0 inhabitants in <' ape . Town , I Hi ) in j \ l alniesburv , (> 10 in the I ' aail district , 70 in the Ci ' raaf district ., and . ' ( - " > in theTullnugh district . The iSullaii steamer reached Southampton yesterday . We learn that , the ports of . Sal lee and Rabat , have been bombatded and neaily destroyed by the I'Yeneh Admiral , and Tangier was threatened with , and probably has by this time sullercd , a similar fate .

      15y The Mails Which Arrived On Thursday,...

      15 y the mails which arrived on Thursday , with papers dated ' ^ . 'ird ultimo , we leain that it terrihie catastrophe occurred at . one of the ward schools at . New York , by wliich upwards of forty children were killed and about iil ' ty wounded . It . appears that , during an alarm caused by ihe fainting <» f one of the teachers , t he children , about . UiOO in number , hearing a cry for water , apprehended that , a lire had liroken out , and made a rush for the tUaini , which Kimi way and precipitated tlie unl ' oj tuiiutc children to the bottom .

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      Saturday, December 13, 1851.

      SATURDAY , DECEMBER 13 , 1851 .

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      There Is Nothing So Revolutionary, Becau...

      There is nothing so revolutionary , because there is nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when all the world is by the very law of its creation in eternal progress . —Dr . Arnold .

      P6sition Of Affairs In" France . Not Muc...

      P 6 SITION OF AFFAIRS IN" FRANCE . Not much is to be said respecting the progress of Louis Napoleon ' s usurpation at Paris , unless we were to repeat the diatribes , admirable in their force , with which the English leading journal is redeeming its position in public opinion . But it may be useful to mark one or two broad results thus far ascertained .

      Louis Napoleon has for the moment established himself . As an act of criminal conspiracy , his robbery of power has been well prepared , well timed , and well executed . He had been sedulous in securing the confidence of the army : its officers have been flattered by persevering attentions and ingenious compliments ; its men have been won by the closest attention to their personal comfort ; and , in the meanwhile , active training has been kept up with a perseverance and vigour unknown to our parade grounds . The soldier of France has been

      put into training like an English racehorse , or rather like an English prizefighter or a Roman gladiator ; and he has executed his work with a chill , a cruel thoroughness , a cool devotion to it , unequalled in modern times by any but Austrian or Russian forces . Those forces have been similarly trained , similarly divided from the people , similarly used . The time was well chosen : France was divided by factions , which were all discredited by their own wavering and unpatriotic acts . The majority of the Assembly had betrayed the universal suffrage which

      created it ; and had then fallen to quarrelling with itself . Louis Napoleon slips in between the wearied combatants , like the Wolf between the Lion and the Tiger , and seizes the prize for which the less ignoble beasts were contending , France . Only one party had not been untrue to its principles—the Socialist . But we now understand the systematic perseverance of false reports in GaliynanVs Messenger , about " Socialist amusements , " representing every mob folly and cruelty as originating with " the Socialists , " though , in most cases , the

      text showed that the subject had nothing to do with the party or the doctrines of Socialism . It now turns out that , while other Paris journals are surpressed and correspondents of English papers are threatened , ( laliynani's Messenger . reports as the usurping Government wills . The Socialist parly was made the object of calumnious rumours , that it contemplated a rising on the Sunday ; we know , within our own knowledge , that ; the assertion is wholly untrue ; the Tunes and other English journals publish proofs that the conspiracy was a

      mere figment . Hut it was desired to damage the repute of the only consistent party in France—of the only " party of order , " which teaches organization of its people , and toleration even of enemies . The ; stroke of military power was professedly directed against the Socialist party , which was not in the field ; hub the opportunity has been taken to imprison and slaughter its members wherever they could be caught . Neither the middle class ,

      nor the working class as a body , took part m the resistance . They are watching' events . The / aim reports to draw them out , l , he hired actors ol barricade-fighting intended a , s decoys , were but partially sucessful . For the moment ,, at a cost of one oflicer and fifteen men iu his own army , and oi ¦ J 7 " () of hi . s fellow-creatures among the citizens , mosl , of t . hem were spectators , or passengers in the st . reetn , Louis Napoleon has obtained military podsession of the capilal and of the Government .

      lie holds it , solely by military power , during the mippression of every civil institution or influence . What is thought , of it ? Tim answer is melancholy . In France the burgeoisie is divided . It . still clings to hopes of " quiet , " that trade ; may go on . lint , the usurper ' s . soldiery have cut , deep into the flesh and blood of many a family : in tears and ( . error ( lie sabre and the bullet have . sown a bloodred Need of haired , which will not be long in

      discriminate slaughter . In England there are those who rejoice at the triumph of " order , " at the betrayal of the republic ; our wealthier classes con tribute largely to that number . But the Times represents the more general feeling ; although the moneyed world is counselling silence , forbearance and indulgence for the outlaw , lest England be " dragged into a war" ! The working classes generally , sympathize with the oppressed people and do not fear war . On the whole , the balance of feeling is decidedly against the usurper . y

      springing up The masked quiescenaToTtL National Guard is not « tranquillity '' -we L that the feeling of the Parisians is not at aU favoT able to Louis Napoleon personally , although num "" bers are willing to see " order" kept . The S and haughty refusals to accept any connection w ? h his Government , show the feeling of the Notable ? 5 all parties and circles . The working classes are willing enough to witness war between Presidentand . faction ; but they are true to the Republic ™ and they , too , have been deeply scarred bthe in

      And he cannot maintain his position without measures that must exasperate such feeling . The fact remains , that for the moment he has possession of France through its capital . He has established an outpost of that great combined force which Austria and Russia command . France is reduced to the level of Italy and Hungary under the proconsul of the two Emperors . As in all the states under Austria and Russia , in Italy , Hungary , and Germany , the soldiery and police are employed in a general razzia , not upon the Democratic party alone , but upon Constitutionalists , Legitimists , Imperialists even—upon all who are not willing to be servile subjects of Absolute power . The evident intention is to root out

      freedom and freemen . Take a map of Europe , wherever that sanguinary despotism extends colour it with a blood-red tint , and see how large a part of Europe it takes in : continually spreading , it now includes France .

      A Free Church! Suffering For The Sins Of...

      A FREE CHURCH ! Suffering for the sins of the last century , afflicted for having forgotten that it ought to be a Church for the People as well as being a Church for the Aristocracy and the Crown , corrupted by unthinking submission to the State , and shameless Erastianism of the blackest dye , convicted of selfseeking , convicted of simony , abject and subject to the powers that be , the Church wakes up from long tarrying among the sons of Mammon , and at length cries aloud for freedom . ' From a . Becket she has lapsed through Cranmers , Burnetts , and

      lloadleys . down to the Surnners of our day ; untn , to the young earnest minds who have taken up her cause and calling—threatened by Rome on the one hand and Germany on the other—and , above ? all , thoroughly ashamed of the quietism and selfishness of State-churchmen—life in the Church without action is no longer possible for them . And so they arise and cry : Let us have freedom for the Church ; let us be honest ; let us subject the temporal to the spiritual ; let us render to Caesar the things which be Ca-sar ' s , but unto God the things which be God's , and take the consequences .

      There is a bravery and a chivalry in this wliich we cannot too warmly welcome . However much we may disagree with the ulterior aims of this English Free Church party , led by the A rchdeacon of Tamiton , and represented by the London Union on Church Matters , there is a truthfulness , a righteousness , and a nobleness in this demand which commands our deepest respect , and kiuuI have our heartiest support . The mission of the Church of England may be at an end , and no more good for us as u people may come out of ' ¦ 5 ' ^ the mission , the duty of truthfulness is never at an end , and is as incumbent now upon the Church of England as upon the rest mankind . movement

      It is in this spirit we look upon the represented by the clerical persons assembled in St . Mart . m \ s-liall on Tuesday ; and it in »» tllia sffcirit that we welcome the report there adopted , an al ) HtracL of which we print elsewhere That report , is an event in Church His tory . Clear , definite , honest , without evasion <> 1 any kind , a logical developeme . it . of the fundamental position of the parly -freedom for the Church that report is a Nlartiii tf point whence the it . - Church parly may safely advance towards tne realization of their aims . It . i , s more Minn tlu . s . it lays down maxims new in the history ol any Church party It nolonly l ™**™" 2 i •¦ /

      . , < ™^ , i / Uiircii imi . y . « " . „ . ] „ confidence in political parties , but it reconumm h abstinence from political interference , for it V w

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 13, 1851, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_13121851/page/10/