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      History O3v Parliament. The New Militia ...

      Somerset—F , ™* .- Bruton . Wells : Glastonbury , Shepton Mallett . Staffokd—Tamworth : Burton-on-. Trent . Suffolk—Eye : Debenham , I < Yamlingham . Svnnvr—Reigate : Dorking . _ . Sussex—^/ wwfe * ¦ Bo « nor , Leommster Little Hampton . Eorsham ; Cuckfieia . - Midhurst : Petworth . WEST 3 rORELA ^ D- ^«^^ -Milathorpe . Wiltshiav—Galne : Melksham : Chtppenham : Bradford , Corsham . 2 tew *« : Heytesbury , Warmmster . Malmesbunj : Tetbury . Marlborough : Hungerford , Swmdon . Westbury : Trowbridge . Wilton : Amesbury , Downton . _ _

      . Worcester—Bewdley : Tenbury . Broitwich : Bromsgrove . Eoesham : Pershore , Chipping Campden . Kidderminster : Stourbridgc . Yorkshire [ North Kiding ]— Malton : Pickering . Nortkallerton : Stokesley . Richmond : Bedale , Leyburn , Middleham , Reeth . Thirsk : Easingvvold . Whitby : Guissborough . [ West Riding ]—Knaresborough : Harrogate / Mpon : Aldborough , Boroughbridge , Masham , Pateley Bridge , Riple . Resolutions against the bill have already been passed in public meetings , on Monday at Manchester , and on Wednesday at West Hackney .

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      By The New Sale Of Beer Bill, Printed On...

      By the new Sale of Beer Bill , printed on Saturday , no debt for beer drunk on premises is to be recoverable . There is a provision making coffee-houses and beer-shops subject to visits by the police . The Bill brought forward by Sir G . Grey to disfranchise the borough of St . Albans has just been printed . It is a very short bill , and the enacting part states , " That the borough of St . Albans , in the county of Hertford , shall from and after the passing of this act , cease to return any members or member to serve in Parliament . " The first Bill of the present session which has passed the House of Lords was printed by order of the House of Commons on Wednesday . It relates to municipal corporations , protecting newspaper proprietors , and rendering them eligible to hold corporation offices .

      A Parliamentary paper has just been printed by order of the House of Jjords , showing some reforms effected in the Irish Court of Chancery , which may be carried into effect in another Court of Chancery . For engrossing and copying only 3 d . per folio is to be allowed to solicitors , and for drawing a cause petition only 8 d . per folio . For drawing up a Master's . order only 6 d . per folio is to be allowed , and 3 d . per folio for copying . The totalnumberof informations taken out in the districts of the Inspectorsof Factories , forinfringementoftheFactory Act , during the six months ended 31 st October , 1851 , was 318 . Of these , 199 resulted in convictions , 99 were withdrawn on payment of costs , and 19 were dismissed . The fines recovered amounted to 330 / . 15 s ., and the costs to 146 / . 9 a . 8 d .

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

      LETTERS FROM PARIS . [ From our own Correspondent . ] Letter VIII . Paris , Tuesday , February 17 , 1852 . Rumours of war are more rife than ever , and less like rumours . Louis Bonaparte ' s government has just addressed two peremptory notes : one to Belgium , the other to Switzerland . In Belgium , the French minister , M . de Bassano , has been instructed to demand of the Belgian Government the removal of the monumental lion from the battle-field of Waterloo .

      Therefore Belgixun puta on her armour , and strengthens her fifty battalions of infantry by fifty men each . Moreover , the Belgian Government iH prepared to ask for a credit of six million of francs , ( 240 , 000 ? ., ) for the establishment of an entrenched camp in the neighbourhood of Antwerp , and for the general defensive arming of the Tote de Flandres , As to Switzerland , M . Sulignac Fc ' nclon , the minister of France , was charged to remit to the federal council a menacing note of the French government , supported by tho two cabinets of Austria and Prussia , doinandiiier the expulsion of

      refugees , and tho suppression of tho liberty of the press throughout Switzerland . At tho receipt of thin note , the federal council was completely upset- M . Purrer quite lost his head , M . Druoy took to his bed , and M . Kara took to bis heels . Even General Dufour declined to go and ncok a personal , interview with Louis Bonaparte , to auk him for explanations . At length , tho federal council . haw , como to a decision : it has invoked the intervontion of Great Britain , and tho minister of Franco

      has demanded Inn passports . I have , indeed , already impreHScd upon you , repeatedly , that nothing but war could Have Louis Bonaparte . Noli that war with England would be popular : far from it ; but from tho positive necessity of creating a diversion in the public mind . Excepting the peasantry , who never meddle with politiCH , and who are accustomed to mihmit passively to any and every government established , Louis Bonaparto finds ovory class of Bocioty againnt him . It is just now especially that thin stato of things is

      obvious . Commercial affairs are dead , and capital has disappeared . The weekly account of the bank verifies hnperturbably this death of commerce . All in vain , the Government is striving to combat this terrible atony by fetes and balls . The Government dances all alone , with its functionaries and its generals , and business remains in the same state .- In vain , Louis Bonaparte has . endeavoured to reconcile the capitalists to his fortunes , by numerous concessions of lines of railway : the capitalists accept the concessions , but capital remains as deaf as before to the advances of Government . Not knowing how to explain this " revolt of capital , "

      as Louis Bonaparte styles it , the familiars of the Elysee impute it to the elections : they assert that the moneymarket is dismayed to find the old parliamentary personages , who , one had supposed , were evicted for a ^ long time from the political world , not positively declining to be proposed as candidates for the legislative body . Hence , say they , very natural anxieties on the part of many , who , finding themselves on the eve of struggles which the Act of the 2 nd of December had repressed , retire , to wait events . Such is the language of the optimists of the Elysee , who would fain deceive themselves about their own position , rather than confess that they alone are the obstacle to the prosperity c > f industry and commerce . Throughout France arises a

      tumult of complaints on the stagnation of business Next , come the Qrleanists , whose organization is formidable , and who are making ready to enter upon a serious struggle in the legislature , to legislatively demolish Louis Bonaparte . After the Orleanists , come the Legitimists , who are everywhere in opposition , notwithstanding all the advances made for their support . Finally , the Republicans , who are beginning to reorganize in all directions both at Paris and in the departments . A great number of the candidates in . the provinces will be Republican . At Paris alone , the nine Republican ex-representatives , whose names follow , are put forward in opposition to the government , viz ., M . Dufaure for the first arrondissement : M . Vivien for

      the second ; M . Cavaignac third ; M . Goudchaux , fourth ; M . Charras , fifth ; M . Carnot , sixth ; M . Bethmont , seventh ; -M . Ferdinand de Lasteyrie , eighth ; M . Garnon , ninth . The government , in alarm , forbids all electoral meetings and circulars of candidates . The mot d ' ordre is given ; " not a single opposition candidate must pass . " The prefects are ordered to employ all means to obtain this result . They are not remiss in following their instructions . The electors are

      forbidden to come to an understanding about the choice of a candidate . " You are not in a suitable position , " they are told , "to judge what the country requires . Louis Bonaparte , the elect of 7 , 500 , 000 , is alone in a situation to make the selection ; it will be for you to vote for whatever candidate he may deign to present to you . " Perhaps your readers will hardly believe what I am here stating . I will cite , for their behoof , the circular of a prefect to the mayors of his department : —

      " It is not Mr . Such-an-onc who can re-establish our affairs , restore to our commerce its activity , make us sell our cattle and our commodities at good prices ; bring back calmness and competence to our rural districts ; make respected and honoured that religion which sustains and consoles us ; repress , annihilate the baudits who would have given France over to pillage and assassination . Nol it is not Mr . Such-nn-one who can do all this : it is the government , that is to say , Louis Napoleon , and he alone . Don't let us name , then , the candidate Mr . Such-an-one

      may choose , but , well and truly , the man of Louia Napoleon's selection . This , Monsieur le Muire , is what the electors would say ; this is what they would wish to do ! because they are well aware that elsewhere all is folly and peril . But they must not be allowed to deceive themselves , nor to be deceived . Now it is easy for them to escape the chance of mistake by simply concentrating their votes on the candidate recommended by the government . The Prefect of Finistere , " Ch . Richard . "

      This is clear enough . Louis Bonaparte is the elect of France ; you must vote for the candidate presented by him ; this in the tuno played to every key by the prefects and tho Bonapartist journals . Tho latter go a stop further . La X * airie , for example , gives tho country to understand that if tho elections are not satisfactory , tho Legislature will follow tho National Assembly . The list . of tho Ciovoramont candidates . is not yet completed . It has already been made and unmade five

      or six tunes . At' tho Ministry of tho Interior reigns utter anarchy and chaos . Government propones its men ; sends their names to the prefects ; tho prefects send back word that those names have not a chance , and others must be found . It is supposed that Government will bo reduced to the necessity of accepting for its candidates tho names imposed upon its choice by local influences . Persons in authority aro busy iii securing tho consent of candidates whoso ' oloction is certain , to bo patronized by tho government .

      As yet , however , their efforts have not been ahWtli successful . Themajorityof candidates reply that th do not see the necessity of accepting « superflu patronage . " Others say neither < fyes" nor " no ; " as f ^ example , M . Mechin , who presents himself in ' th * arrondissement of St . Denis . It is to the Legitim" f more particularly that the _ government proposes cand dateships . Some few tolerate the offer . ' Their n Word is " - to * get into the legislative corps , to tlT possession of it , and to make it an instrument for th * overthrow of Louis Bonaparte . " e

      If you desire to learn my opinion on the inevitabl result of the elections , it is brief . As it is material impossible for the electors to confer together , — -as J \ electoral meetings are forbidden , and all electoral circulars suppressed , —as the journals are not even author ized to mention the names of candidates , as the government will bring all its weight of functionaries of terrorismto bear

      of publicity , , upon the elections ¦ — as , in definitive , it will act without control , —as , ina word , strict orders have been given to carry the official candidates by all means , I have little doubt they will obtain an immense majority . A government which has the secret of finding 600 bulletins in the urns where only three have been deposited , is surely capable of obtaining the unanimity of suffrages .

      Meanwhile , the government has just published a new circular in which it recommends ostensibly to the prefects the freedom of elections , having secretly beforehand given the most formal instructions , as you have observed , to hamper and resist that same liberty . This again is one of the old ruses of the Imperial despotisrr . One might however suppose that Louis Bonaparte has a presentiment of the future embarrassments the legislative body will cause him . He recoils from an

      immediate convocation . The elections of February will take place on the 29 th inst . ; but the legislature , instead of meeting in the _ middle of March , will only be convoked for the month of May . Louis Bonaparte is anxious to insure himself two months longer of absolutely uncontrolled dictatorship . He has still a certain number of decrees to publish in order to make his " taking-of possession" full and complete . Among other anticipations is a decree on the 20 th Mars , proclaiming

      " the EMPEEOE . " The court of his future Majesty is being constituted by degrees . The military household of the monarch in partibus is already composed of officers compromised in his career . If we are to believe certain indiscretions , M . Eleury is to be first equerry to his majesty , with 60 , 000 francs ( 2400 / . ) salary ; M . de Pierre second equerry , with 25 , 000 francs ( 1000 / . ) salary ; M . Edgar Ney , grand master of the chase , with 60 , 000 francs ( 2400 / . ) There is to be a second grand venewr , and the famous chase

      of Compiegno is to be completely restored . I ho national forests of St . Germain and of Marly , which are now let out to private persons for sporting , are to be reconverted into imperial domains , and his Majesty alone would retain the droit de chasse . But the ohaso is not the only pleasure reserved exclusively to Louis Bonaparte . By an infamous transaction between him and M . Nestor Roqueplan , the director of , tho Grand Opera , the latter has reserved to , the President the exclusivo right of hunting behind the scenes , and ot " drawing" the coulisses . By an article of the eamo to inter

      transaction , Louis Bonaparto bound himself - dict all criticism on the administration of tho opera . Last week , Jules Janin liad written an article on tho subject ; the censorship suppressed it , alleging that M . Nestor Roqueplan being a government official , it was no more allowable to criticise his acts than the acts of government itself . Tho civil list which Louia Bonaparte is about to decree for his own private use is definitively fixed ; it will bo 12 , 000 , 000 of fiwncs ( 480 , 000 / . ) , without counting some three or four millions devoted to tho preservation of tho royal palaces ain

      buildings . More than 250 workmen aro employed in prcparn g tho Tuileries for tho reception of tho Emperor tlM to bo . I have already told you that tho ™™ r ordered will not cost loss than 20 millions ot tram- j ( 800 , 000 / . ) At tho futuro court tlicro is to bo a gi » master of tho ceremonies . M . Bacciochi in doing 1 for the office . An imperial guard will have w » or uio oince . i \ n imperial b iiium ' . iu of

      formed . It . will be composed of four - ™ S »>* " ) nU ) ' which two will 1 ) 0 grenadier . foot-guards , ono ot n > oun ¦ grenadiers , one of hussars . Tho uniforms will DO in o nincent . Talking of uniforms , tho sonatorni arc' _ J ill-contented with thoirs . A coat , ombroi dcrca gilt-braided , costs as much as 80 / . ; and those gon mon feel that if tlio comedy should not huvo ft run , tho luxury would bo far too dear . t 0 Another measuro that Louis Bonaparte is anxi ^ settle before tho mooting of tho Leg islature , so - oacapo all contest , is tho Law of tho Prosfl . llCi « ol Tho CwrtifatiomelncnwAntevHYrlth . tho pu » i

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 21, 1852, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_21021852/page/6/