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      Antt-Bulxif/R Mkktings..Soirj'uwaktf, Fo...

      Similar meetings have been held in Lambeth , Westminster , and Finsbury , with the like results . The feeling in the metropolis against the Budget is unquestionably very strong indeed . Besides Sir William Molesworth , Lord Dudley Stuart , Sir Benjamin Hall , Mr . Williams , Mr . Duncombe , Sir John Shelley , and Sir De Lacy . Evans have assisted at the meetings of their constituents ; but the resolutions have been moved by electors . In the provinces , the feeling is not less declared nor less positive . Liverpool , Southampton , Stourbridge , Buckingham , Bedford , Worcester , Manchester , Newcastle-on-Tyne , Edinburgh , Chatham , and other places , have agreed to petitions declaring the scheme oppressive and unjust .

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      The Kafir War. News From The Cape Up To ...

      THE KAFIR WAR . News from the Cape up to the 6 th of November was brought on Monday , by the Queen of the South . But matters are advanced only a short way nearer to a conclusion ; while , whatever satisfaction may be drawn from the military progress , is alloyed by the civil intelligence . General Cathcart appears to have been carrying on repeated and vigorous attacks upon the small bodies of Kafirs still lurking about . They are represented as in a deplorable condition , without food or ammunition ,

      and driven into the great forests on the skirts of the Amatolas , for refuge . The Waterkloof is now cleared . The camp of Uithaalder , the rebel Hottentot chief , has been burnt , and he himself is reported as having set out to try his fortunes over the Orange river . An interview between General Cathcart and the Slambie chiefs , had ended in the surrender of Seyolo . Sandilli had been nearly captured by the daring of Lieutenant Whitmore , who chased him to the bush . An officer had been cut to pieces escorting cattle . In general , however , we have no military new ? , because the Commander-in-Chief was very close , and kept his general

      orders secret . A despatch from Sir John Pakington was read in the Cape Town Legislative Assembly , on the 4 th , announcing that the Constitution was further postponed , in consequence of serious difficulties besetting the franchise question . Whereupon meetings were held , expressing the indignation of the colonists , threatening serious consequences , and declaring that they should hold the advisers of that course responsible for what pnsiipd .

      We may remark that the Queen of the Sout 7 t has proved an excellent boat . She encountered very had weather , and behaved admirably . Her passage was greatly delayed by the breaking off of one of the fans of her screw .

      The Burmese Wail I'Koperliy It Would Be ...

      THE BURMESE WAIL I ' KOPERliY it would be correct to write cessation of war in Bunnah , for owing to delay on the part of General Godwin , matters were at a stand at the end of October . Sir John Cheape held Prome , while a few thousand Burmese were stationed about six miles oft " , whom Ik ; was not allowed to attack . General Godwin was marching the second division to Promo by land ,

      and when made , Ava would he assailed also by land . Elephants had been sent from Calcutta to curry the heavy guns of the army . Meanwhile , the steam-fleet , by the midden fall of the Irrawaddy , were aground at Prome . By this time , hud Captain Tarleton been permitted , be and bis blue-jackets and marines would have captured Ava . H is no wonder that the system of appointing old and procrastinating officers to the active commands in the East Indies is exciting such

      general displeasure It , is reported that ; the Aflghsms are in arms again ; but the report requires to be confirmed , as it comes from the hiuiic source iih the famous story about the landing of British troops at Herat !

      Cuba And Tun Ifnitki) States. At Present...

      CUBA AND TUN IFNITKI ) STATES . AT present , the- affair of the Crescent City linn been compromised . A letter from 1 ' resident Filhnore , which has been published , and an article in the government organ , the IVusfi ' uiijtov Republic , show that the ' President extends no Hort of countenance to the proceedings of the Crescent City . He is resolved to maintain the rights of flu * United States as against Spain ; but be will not protect any citizen who chooses to tl

      violate the regulations of a foreign port . Consequeny , tbo naval officer has been withdrawn from the Crescent City , and the mails also . But not to bo Unvaried by tho ' federal authority , the New York sympathisers have resolved to send out the Cherokee to llavaunah with Purser Smith on board . Her commander ih a merchant captain . She goes us a private vessel ; it uho break tho regulations of tin ; port of Havannab , as things stand , she will bo captured probably ; and the United Statoa ( Jovernmont will not interfere . But it

      must be remembered that circumstances may force them , should the Spanish or American officials overstep their bounds of duty . There has been a statement in the Spanish papers , that several French and ¦ 'English war steamers at Havannah had offered their services to Canedo . But this does not accord with the assurances of the Times , that England , at all events , will not interfere in the matter .

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

      LETTERS FROM PARIS . [ From our own Correspondent . ] Letter LI . Paris , December 14 , 1852 . The Bonapartes are eagerly dividing the rich spoils of France . They are rivalling each other in dexterously appropriating whatever palaces they like best . Louis Bonaparte , of course , takes the Tuileries ; Jerome has awarded himself the Palais Royal j Napoleon , his son , the Elysee ; and the Princess Mathilde the Louvre . The Moniteur ; too , publishes a list of all the estates , chateaux , and palaces that constitute the domain of the Crown . Strasbourg figures in the list . Boulogne , it would seem , has been forgotten .

      The discussion in the Senate on the Civil List has been animated in the extreme . General Magnan proposed thirty millions : the Senate with one voice resisted that exorbitant figure ; and by way of a per contra , a certain number of senators proposed to accord no more than twenty millions . In the end , however , the sum so long announced was decided upon . His Imperial Majesty is to have 25 millions . There are , as I have told you , the Princes of the Imperial family , and Princes tout court . The Senatus-Consulte , recently presented , declares that there shall be only three Princes of the Imperial family—to wit ,

      Louis Bonaparte himself , old Jerome , and his son , Napoleon : all the other Bonapartes are Princes tout court . Old Jerome , who never forgets himself , is to have a dotation of two millions of francs ( 80 , 000 / . ) . the Palais Royal for a residence in winter , and Meudon in summer . Besides , he will be appointed Grand Admiral , with from two to three hundred thousand francs salary . His son , Napoleon , is to be heir-presumptive of the Crown ; and the understanding is , that he shall have the Vice-Royalty of Algeria , under the title of Lieutenant of the Emperor ( " Imperatoris Legatus , " as it was called in the Roman Empire ) .

      This Senatus-Consulte is already voted , but not yet published . I cannot say as much for the Senatus-Consulte , which modifies the Constitution . This measure has met with the strongest opposition within the Senate . Many of the senators wont hear of accepting an allowance of 30 , 000 francs , which , from its fixed character , say they , would have the appearance of robbing them of their independence . What do you think of the rodomontading' delicacy of these

      sacripants ? Others object to the allowance of 6000 francs to the deputies . They fear the reproach against tho Imperial Constitution of bribing and buying the representatives of the people . Indeed , several of the deputies themselves are offended at this posthumous liberality . One of them has even sent in his resignation . But the graver side of the matter has yet to be exposed . You are aware that Louis Bonaparte , faithful to the imperial traditions , and in spite of his assurances that no serioiiB modifications would be introduced into the Constitution ,

      has proposed to suppress the few surviving prerogatives of the Corps Legishitif . Ever since 1815 , tho Legislative body has been in the habit of voting the Budget by special estimates for every separate head of expenditure , so that no minister could exceed the sum granted . This important right , so long disputed , had the effect ; of restricting the power of Ministers , and by forcing them to keep within precise limits , placed the ngentw of the Executive at f ho discretion of tho Chambers . To render this control more secure and more effective ,

      the Chambers had successively narrowed more and more closely the special limitations , by subdividing the beads of estimates . For instance , the estimates of tho Minister of War , which in 1827 were contained under seven heads , are now divided into more than thirty . Moreover , to make tho application of tho principle ol sprria / itt / more rigorously exact , tho Chambers had got to vote (' lift esfiinatcH of each department liy separate items . Now the Senutfis-Consulte recently , presented , in contempt of the Coiintitulion of January 14 , upsets

      all thai , arrangement . Bonaparte insists on substituting for the former article of tins Constitution on thin subject , the following : — -The Corps Legishitif discusses ami votes tho Budget , par minis / . tire . Now tho vote par minislhrc upsets altogether the control of an elective aHHombly , and destroys the importance ! of its financial resolutions Any Minister , as soon as the amount of his Hudget is voted , cun move at his easo within the limits of that credit , by reducing tho expenditure granted , and by appropriating more or

      less to other expenditure for which no credit has been opened , or by augmenting other items of expenditure already estimated to an indefinite extent Thus , for example , if a reduction of 100 , 000 menj on the active force of the army Were decided upon -under the system of special heads of estimates , the head of " Pay" would appear diminished in proportion to that reduction , and the same would appear under the other heads . relative to the maintenance of the forces . On the other hand , according to the system of voting , the estimates par ministere , the Minister of War having obtained a grant of three or four hundred

      millions ( of francs ) for his department , can spend them as he will . He can levy 600 , 000 men instead of 400 , 000 , if he please ; and for that purpose he will only have to apply the 400 millions ( of francs ) of his Budget integrally to the personnel , by diverting the grant for the materiel ( more than 100 millions of francs ); or if on the contrary , he choose to disband 100 , 000 men , he may pocket about 100 millions of francs , without anybody knowing a word about it . This is a very comfortable system , you see ; cela sent son Mand / rin d ' une lieue . We are in the enjoyment of a regime of loaded dice , and all the rest va de suite—elections ,

      estimateswhy not even ecus ? Now this modification of the Constitution aroused a serious opposition in the Senate . The Marquis d'Audiflret , one of our high fiscal authorities , whose whole public life ha 3 keen spent im the attempt to establish order and control in the finances of the State , protested ardently in his committee against the proposed modification . Three ministers rose to grapple with him ,. but he crushed them all by the force of his reasoning , and the strength . of his convictions . He was unanimously appointed \ sy his bureau one of the commissaires to make a report on the Senatus-Consulte . In other bureaux the discussion attacked other points equally important . One of the consequences of voting the Budget par ministere ,. is to take out of the hands of the Chamber all control

      over public works . On this subject , one senator was so bold as to say , "that when he saw the jobbing ( des tripotages ) that ' had disgraced the Bourse , to the disgust of all France , during the last two months , he regarded it as a real danger for the country to adopt the article which removed from the Corps Legislatif the examination of great works of public utility—such as mines , railways , & c . Never , " he added , " will a French Assembly , however devoted , allow itself to be so treated ; and * if this article is passed , my conviction is , that the existing Chamber of Deputies will not reach the conclusion of its mandate . Before

      twoyears it will have to be dissolved . " A third point excited indignant remonstances . Among other prerogatives of the Crown , Bonaparte reserves to himself the right of signing treaties of commerce , as well as treaties of peace ; nnd all this without control , and without having to render any account , either to the Senate or the Corps Legislntif . This t hird assumption drew loud cries of dissent from certain representatives of the manufacturing interest . M . Lebceuf , the manufacturer of pottery , Tose with extreme vivacity to oppose a prerogative which attribute s to t he E mperor reminded the

      a positive commercial autocracy . Ho Chamber that , even in the time of Louis XIV ., there was a Bureau de Commerce , which was always consulted . The fiery senator fastened on M . Uarochc himself , nnd undertook to prove to that personage that , oven with great political capacity , it was possible to combine complete ignorance of industrial matters . A fourth modification is also proposed , to restrain tlie rights of tho Corps Legislatif ; the speeches of deputies ' were not allowed to be printed in full , neither in tho Moniteur nor in the other journals . A simple analyst

      of them only appeared in the Moniteur . This analysis is to be further cut down to n mere nummary of a fow lines , in which not even the mimes o tho orators will be mentioned . One would » "P 1 > > that Bonaparte apprehended the apparition of n Mn ' " beau in the chamber of bis own nomination . In ilIU ' ' u fifth point , was raised in this discussion of the Senate . Formal interpellations were addressed by U enera ^ Ilusson to Fould , the bunker-minister , on tho jobbing (/« . v tripotaqes ) of the Bourse . ( ionornl I 1 " **' * openly reproached M . Fould in tho proH « neo oi ilio whole Senate , with the iinuieiiHO disturbance ni tlio financial world created by the affair of the I * " » k () l Move-able Credit , vvhieh , be expressly characterized us »«

      -" dirty scheme of a few jobbers . " * Ah ' everybody knows ' that tho entourage of Boimparto have ' won ' about , twenty millions of IVancH m tl »» " dirty sehcino of u few jobberH , " you may imagine that the senafors , when they heard General Hussou make use of those formidable terms , which struck m \ w higher than M . Fould , sat for sonio minutes ^ triliec with ainiiKunicnk ! It in to-day , notwithstanding , thn < tho Senate is to vote sill thc ^ tUvewJ ^ einiUii ^ l ^ * 9 » ilo et poruonnello aiTturo ..

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 18, 1852, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_18121852/page/6/