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      A Dinner Was Afterwards Given To Mr. Cob...

      t , so dangerous , because there was no man who had seemed less unwilling at all times to bend anything like the profession of princip le to his own personal and sinister _objects than the present Chancellor of the Exchequer . ( Loud cries of'Hear , hear . ')" He wound up by eulogising the " Manchester school " as the party which had the deepest stake in order and tr anquillity-

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      The Polling In The Contested Counties Ha...

      The polling in the contested counties has been as follows : — Buckinghamshire . —The three first elected . Dupre 2000 Disraeli . 1973 Cavendish 1403 Lee 656 _ConsrwAX'X ( East ) . —Two elected , Liberal and Derbyite . Robartes . ... ..... 2608 Kendall . 1987 Carew 1976 _Hebtbobhshibe . —The three first elected ; all Der byites : the second three were Liberals . Halsey 2225 Meux 2219 Lytton 2190 Trevor 2043 Puller 1890 Bosanquet 1868 South Wilts . — Here the Derbyite is beaten . Sidney Herbert 1550 William Wyndham .... 1304 B . P . Long 1074 SCOTLAND . Ayr ( County ) . — Some Liberal - Conservatives of this county brought forward Mr . Cardwell without his knowledge , and , considering the short notice to the electors , he polled a good number . At the close of the poll the numbers were as follow : — Colonel Blair 1301 Mr . Cardwell ...... 1199

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

      LETTERS PROM PARIS . [ From our own Correspondent . ] Letter XXX . Paris , Tuesday Evening , July 20 th , 1852 . The President is at Strasbourg , enjoying the official ovations that attend on power . He started from Paris on Saturday morning , at nine o ' clock , in the midst of a great display of troops . He was accompanied by the Minister of War , St . Arnaud ; and the Minister of Foreign Affairs , M . Turgot ; Marshal Excelmans , Chancellor of the Legion of Honour , ; Count Bacciocchi , Master of the Ceremonies at the Elysee ; Generals Schramm , D'Hautpoul , & c . ; and a certain number of Senators , Deputies , and Councillors of State , all in official costume . The strictest measures had been

      taken for the admission of _persons invited . Their cards were verified by three or four special commissioners in succession . According to the telegraph , the population displayed the wildest enthusiasm on the passage of the great man—that is to be—through their departments . As to the enthusiasm of the troops , the same excellent authority informs us , it was almost delirious . At Bar Le Due itwas beyond all bounds . There the Prince was welcomed with shouts of Vive _I'Jumperenr . ' At seven o ' clock he arrived at Nancy . According to the Imperial ordonnances , which are always observed in _cere"winina of '''¦• fl lrjnd _. h > n . arrival •*¦ tha town was announced by salutes , and all the church hells rung hlni

      in . A great number of sergens de ville , sent expressly from Paris , kept order in the crowd , which was enormous , and chiefly remarkable for the comparative scarcity of blouses , and for its silence . Tho President went round the Place Stanislas . During the procession , an inhabitant shouted Fine Louis Napoleon Pinpercur ! As the cry met with no response , it excited sonic laughter at the expense ; of the enthusiast . At Nancy , there were a few Prussian ollicers to see tho President . "is suite said that these officers were deputed by tho King of Prussia to compliment ? the President in his name . The President alighted at tho Prefecture , and in the evening a grand ball was held , at which all the authorities were present .

      On Sunday , Louis Bonaparte started at half-past "e ven " the morning , for Strasbourg . The whole population of Alsace , and of the Duchy of linden , seemed to have appointed a rendezvous in that t _. own . The vicinity of the railway station was Hooded with peasants » ud their families , in picturesque costumes . The station itself was decorated with standards ; fhe arms of Iho chief towns of France were engraved on escutcheons ; every village iu Alsace wits represented ut the ( Vte by rustic curs , decked with ribbons , and _eo-^ ' " ¦ ¦ _- ' ' ¦ u . fh garlands of ( lowers . On the front of these _em-H there were different inscriptions- such as " The town of Mosheim to Louis Napoleon ! " " The town

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

      of Mosheim : we are proud of our glory ! " " The town of PJrstein ! " " Our fatltsrs foug ht gloriously , tve shall not forget to imitate them ! " The President did not reach Strasbourg before half-past twelve . He proceeded at once to hear mass . The bishop blessed the engines . Bonaparte then mounted his horse , and , followed by his staff , passed the garrison in review . Thence to the Prefecture , where a magnificent feast awaited him . During the religious ceremony , a vast display of troops , and of sergens de ville , kept all the approaches of the railway , and suffered no one to approach the President . On his passage from the station

      to the Prefecture , the same order was observed ,, , The telegraph betrays , in every despatch , the apprehension ; _, of that miserable world of officials whose fate hangs on the breath of one man . Every minute we hear— " The health of the Prince is excellent ! " or , " The Prince is very _toellj" or , " The Prince does not appear to suffer from the fatigues of his journey . " The sum of it all is , that the Strasbourg expedition is now over . Everything has passed off in true official style . The houses were decorated by order , the shops closed by order , the triumphal arches that had served for Charles X ., and for

      Louis Philippe , have served for this latest representation in honour of Louis Bonaparte , who will have gained neither a foe nor a friend the more . The next tour in the south is now in deliberation . The Elysee is divided on the subject . A certain agitation prevails in the twenty departments which extend _^ from _Montpellier to Bordeaux . The Legitimists accuse the Socialists , and declare that the return of a few liberated prisoners has chiefly contributed to the effervescence . The motive of this accusation is to get rid of men who hamper their designs .

      It should be remembered that the Legitimists are the principal landed proprietors in the country . Feudal traditions are not yet extinct in many cantons . The peasants are still at the will of their lords . Were it not for the republican propagandists , the Legitimist army would long ago have been raised , and the standard of revolt raised against Bonaparte . As it is , the Legitimists find themselves without reliable troops , so far as the peasantry are concerned : failing " which , they have enrolled the Catholic workmen in the towns , and all

      who are dependent on the priests . At the Elysee , the fear of some mishap to the President , if he venture into the South , prevails . But he is firm in his determination : he believes " in his star , " and in the prestige that attends his name and person . He expects the entire population to throw itself into his capacious arms , and he has made up his mind to go . Meanwhile he gorges his creatures with place and pelf , with crosses and pensions . Colonel Vaudrey ( his companion in the

      Strasbourg affair ) is to be promoted to the rank of General , in spite of St . Arnaud ' s opposition : he is to be at the same time appointed Governor of all the Palaces and Chateaux in France , with a salary of 60 , 000 francs ( 2 , 400 _£ . ) M . Mesonan ( of the Boulogne affair ) is to be restored to a Colonelcy in the army , with the command of the 8 th of Chasseurs d'Afrique : a step towards a General ' s rank . Another courtier , M . de Beville , is to be promoted to the rank of General , as a reward for his eminent services—in the antichainbers of the Elysee .

      While Louis Bonaparte is heaping favours on his adherents , he has refused the Marshal ' s baton to the _gonerals in his suite . This refusal has been quite a serious business . Generals St . Arnaud and Magnau had demanded to bo made Marshals , and tho President had acceded to their demand . When this transpired , "'" other Generals , Schramm , d'Hautpoul , & c , advanced their superior claims . Bonaparte , greatly embarrassed how to dispose of them , inserted a ' summary notice in the Moniteur that no new Marshals were to bo appointed . The curious part of the affair is tbe sort of stigma affixed by the Moniteur to the Generals who have only distinguished themselves by shedding tho blood of the people in the streets of Paris .

      " According to the terms of the law , the dignity of Marshal can only be conferred on those Generals of Division who have held fhe highest commands against tho , enemy—the eminent services rendered to society by the Generals who commanded the troops when anarchy was defeated and an insurrection suppressed , deserved the gratitude of the Chief of the- State , without placing them in the conditions necessary to obtain the baton of a Marshal . The repression of civil war demands great _devotedness : a deep knowledge of military science : fearful risks and cruel dangers : but the glory it reaps is to be deplored even by those who desire and obtain if . "

      Consequently , the / I / o »/ 7 c « reonfradiets tho news given by the journals , of the promotion of the Generals of Division , who ooniniiuidcd on the 2 nd of December . Another official contradiction in the Moniteur exposes the miserable double-faced policy of equivocation pursued by the present government , YoU remember , I informed you that tho Prineetjsj do Lioven had been

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

      secretly despatched by the President to Wiesbaden , to the Empress of Russia , to beg her to mediate between him and the Czar . It appears that this mission was a complete failure ; hence the complete disavowal . The Princess de Lieven having failed , is henceforth discarded . The confiscation of the Orleans property still continues . Dreux was seized on the 12 th instant , with the exception of the burial-place , and the Chateau and forest of Amboise , and the domain of Ferte Vilaine . On the other hand , what I have written you on the subject of the formal recognition by the House of Orleans' of the Comte de Chambord as king of France is fully confirmed . It is now a fait accompli . The members of the House of Orleans have ceased to be a

      banner and a sign , and have disappeared , leaving the field open to the Comte de Chambord . The Due de Montpensier returns to Spain with his family . The Prince de Joinville goes to Brazil . The Duchess of Orleans will remain for some time in close retirement at Eisenach with her children . The Due do Nemours remains alone with the aged Queen Amelie at Claremont . From this day the Orleans party has ceased to exist : some have rallied to Bonaparte , others have gone over without arriere-pensee to the Legitimist camp , which will gain fresh vigour from this powerful accession . The Legitimist forces are now thoroughly organized . They have an acting committee , composed

      of MM . de la Ferronaye , de la Ferte , de Circourt , de Surville , and Chapot . They have also a committee in each department receiving orders from the central one . By this organization the whole party act like one man . The latest policy decided upon , is to take possession of all the municipal and general councils which are now to he elected . . Even the oaths will be taken , if necessary ; but , above all , the situations will be secured which it is important not to leave in the enemy ' s hands . This consideration will supersede all others . If the Legitimists go on acting as they do now , they will precipitate a denouement , or , at least , a crisis . Nothing but a coup d ' eclat could then save Bonaparte .

      For the present , he is preparing a grand act of spoliation ; I mean the appropriation and monopoly , by the State , of the Fire Assurance Companies . In France , as in England , there are a large number of private companies for insurance against fire . These companies , which have been in existence some thirty years , have amassed considerable capital . The capital is a temptation to our Government , which now proposes to absorb them in a vast unitary system of assurance

      by the State . At present , assurance is free . In the Bonaparte system it would he compulsory . Every citizen would be required to declare the amount of his insurable property , and to pay to Government the premium on its insurance . This system , which would certainly be excellent as a form of taxation reduced to unity , will become a terrible instrument of depredation , violence , and extortion in the hands of a needy or dishonest Government . For the Elysee it will be only one more tax added to the rest ; for the people it will be one

      more burden . The strikes of labour continue in almost every town . All the efforts of the authorities are unable to prevent or to put them down ; yet menaces are not spared , aa you may guess from the following specimen of a notice placarded at Mans by the Prefet de la Sarthe : — " Even the passive strike of the working carpenters , although unaccompanied with any material disturbance , constitutes a positive misdemeanour , liable to imprisonment . As this strike causes a cessation of labour detrimental to the , progress of the building trade , all such workmen as shall not have returned to work on or before tho

      14 th instant , will expose themselves to preventive _jirrcnl , ! " _Kofcw-itbf . _taiidi _> _. _£ this formal threat , the workmen of Mans remained out on strike ; and those of other towns have done the same . S .

      Contjnkntal Notes. According To The Moni...

      CONTjNKNTAL NOTES . According to the Moniteur , the President remained at Strasbourg two or three days longer tluui he intended , to show his gratitude for his warm reception . He loft Strasbourg on Tuesday afternoon , incognito , for _Baden-Baden , to escort the tf rand Duchess Stephanie and the Marchioness of Douglas . An " occasional correspondent" of the Daily News gives the following particulars of the line of railway just , inaugurated at , Strasbourg -. The total length of the railway ironi Puns to Strasbourg i . s III I Knglish miles . The cost of its construction will have amounted fo _KKJUO _. ODO / ., of

      which _l _. HOO _. _OOW . will have been furnished by the state . The company , in consideration of the extension of their grant from 43 years ( o St ;) , have engaged to contribute 4 <> 0 , ( M ) O / . towards tbe construction of the branch front Blesino fo Gray , anil to execute at their own expense , within four years , a branch front Motz t *> Thionville , which is fo be prolonged ! . !) the frontier in ( _liediroel ion of Luxembourg . The grant of the Strasbourg mil way was made in _IH-ti _) , so that the execution of this great undertaking him been completed in _si _\ years and it half , notwithstanding the _dilliciilties arising from political and commercial crises . The section from I ' aria to _JVieitux . waa _inuuguritted J uly 10 , IBID j from Moiuu to _Epcruny , _Auguat ai , 1819 ; from

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), July 24, 1852, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_24071852/page/7/