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      * For The Consolation Of Our Corresponde...

      Charivari , for want , I suppose , of other topics , had taken the liberty to caricature the " stags" of the Bourse . The editors have been summoned , and recommended to rest rain their pens and pencils on the subject . The dramatic authors , too , have been warned to desist from all att acking or ridiculing in their Christmas extravaganzas ( revues de Jin d ' annee )* the successes of" stags" and stock-jobbers ; "f - They are forbidden , moreover , to joke about the immense jobbery

      ( tripotages ) to which the macadamization of the streets , the demolition of houses for the continuation ( percemeni ) of the Hue de Rivoli , and the ornamental landscape embellishments of the Bois de Boulogne , have supplied nourishment . Well ! believe me , of all these men of business whom Bonaparte has gorged , and courted , and fawned upon , not one renders him a word or thought of thanks . " It wont last long , " they say ; " let us make the most of it . " And thus their gratitude points the moral of the tale .

      Respecting foreign powers , with the exception of your own Queen , who , it is maliciously whispered here , autographically addressed our Bonaparte as " My dear cousin"X they all look coldly on our new Emperor . The three Northern powers , Russia , Austria , and Prussia , do not care to dissemble their profound contempt . Bonaparte ' s representatives abroad are everywhere repulsed . At Berlin , the high dignitaries of State refused to comply with the invitation of the French ambassador to assist at the Te Deum chanted in honour of the Empire . M . D'Arnim is reported to have said apropos of this rebuff " , " They were quite right to decline , for it was not an event to congratulate God upon ' . " ( " Car il n'y avait pas de quoi feliciier JDieu . " )

      Bonaparte is much irritated "by all these successive affronts . The rupture of his marriage with the Princess Wasa , the disdain of Austria , the contumely of Prussia , the insolent airs of Russia , are not encouraging . A few days since , he said to General Magnan : " Those people treat me like a fireman whom you call into a drawing-room to put out a fire , and never condescend to speak to as soon as the fire is put out . " In this false position our Emperor is considerably embarrassed . Hence it was averred that he was endeavouring to negotiate a coalition ( rapprochement ) with the republican party . He had sent for M . Carnot ( so went the report ) , who , you remember , was elected deputy to the Legislature , and resigned on refusal to take the oaths . It is asserted that the Emperor said to M . Carnot that he knew well that he had no reliance

      to place in the monarchical parties , that he had been obliged to appear to lean upon them , but that , en resume , in the march of progressive innovations which he had traced out for his policy , he could expect from the royalists nothing but resistance . " He then proceeded to usk his interlocutor " whether he was prepared to join him , " ( it'll Malt jwvW de . veuir + a ltd . ) M . Carnot § replied by a strong and simple negative , as you may well suppose .

      Even the- Senate shows symptoms of restiveness . All last week was employed'by tho Commission of the ( Senate in discussing the Draft Sonatus-Consultum modifying the Constitution , and in proposing to Bonaparto amendment on 'amendment . There wen ; six against the Seiiiitus-Consultinn and four in its favour . The Commissioners were positively determined , upon reserving . to the Semite the right of control over all the acts of Bonaparte . They claimed to vote : > 11 the items of expenditure , for great public works before their exe-* These " liVtutcs , " for which ( ho Palais Ivojal , Varietes , and Porte St . Martin arc principally distinguished , close ; tlut year , iih our ChristmiiK ]/ aritotniuies and extravaganzas < lo . They < u * s \ however , not seldom ¦ very < lull affairs , and only curried oil" by viisi ; en siu'im and ntl . raetivo nmrcitj / of dre . ss on the purl , of ( . lie ; lighter portion of l . hn t : t > rj / s dramatiqur . They bear , indeed , no comparison with our pantomimes , hut occasional Aristophanic . gleams irradiating thft ulung of " llroda-Kqiinre" -nnil the . ' Quartier Latin , render these , lithium far mom ondiimble Mtun t . hoso periodical uhbuuHm on tin ! I'lngUsh language , wUich are known to . London iih burlesques and e . \ l , ra , viignn : « uu . Ku . . Lcttdcr . f We suppose ' Mtircaittit . in forbidden at ( ho <; i / niuti . sr . Fancy Tho ( hone of Xpcrittufiot , hcinjr interdicted' at . the . Lyceum , when the next mania ( rapidly approaching ) arrives . —10 O . Lc « dt ~ r . X () f oourse , this is incredible : even "with our recently dim-harmed Kre , nch Cook , whose qualities . . Lord J . ) erby has no vividly eulogized , porformmg the part , of" Kujrlund . " ¦ — Ed . Trailer . § The reports of IIiim inciilcnl , in ( he correspondence of the' Tiinen and J \ loru--iuy Chronicle , mention M .. Hethmoiit iih the person to whom these overture . ! were directly made by t , he Kmperor in person . M . Hei . hmont , i (• juny be roinembered , was , for n short , time only , member of the 1 ' rovisioind Government in the linst days of the Republic , i \ nd represented the Luirtartino nititnen in that . body . M . ( Wnot , the . Minister of I ' ublic Instruction in the Provi ional Government , belonged to a more extreme section of opinions , with a certain doc / riiutire east . llin historical littino may possibly have appeulcd to the sympathies , or riitber to tlio traditional apings , of ( he nephew Emperor . — t il ) . Leader .

      cution ; they insisted , besides , that all treaties of commerce should be submitted to their approval . There have been five long days of negotiation between the Luxembourg ( palace of the Senate ) and the Tuileries ( palace of Bonaparte ) . The Emperor had arranged to start last Thursday morning for Compiegne ; orders were given ; , all was in readiness , The obstinate resistance of the Senate compelled him to defer his departure . Nothing less than violent . throats was able to overcome this opposition . Bonaparte refused to yield 6 n d single point , —first , because his omnipotence was in question ; secondly , 'because he apprehended that if at the outset of his reign he began to yield , it would

      be an encouragement to-the opposition which was already in formation ^ even amon g his creatures . It tvas only , then ,, through the menacing intervention of ] VL Baroche that two senators were intimidated into compliance , atid the majority of six against four converted in favour * of the original Draft of the Senatfts-COiis ' ultiim . To-day ( Tuesday ) , the Senate is to assemble for the purpose of passing the measure . No doubt the Corps will vote its master ' s behests unanimously . It is M . Troplong again who is charged with making the Report . He has been rewarded beforehand . Bonaparte has just made him President of the Court of Cassation . , . . ., , . .

      Discord reigns in the Bonapartist camp . Persigny has quarrelled with Fould . M . Fould , you know ^ is a banker ; an adroit , shrewd , keen man , who knows / the weak side of Bonaparte . It is he who traced the path to be pursued in order to win over the men of the Bourse . He did more : be . placed himself at their head , and from his prolific brain have sprung those thousands of schemes whicli would require millions on

      millions to execute . His exceptional position at the head of the banking world gained him the confidence of Bonaparte , who is indebted to his services for probably not less than thirty millions of francs ( 1 , 200 , OOOZ . ) , bagged in the last twelve months . No wonder , then , Bonaparte made him Minister of State . Now , this position , strictly confidential in its character , belonged of right to Persigny . The latter became jealous , and in a sudden ebullition , made a " scene , " which is now

      in everybody ' s mouth . In the Council of Ministers , Persigny openly accused M . Fould of being sustained by a bourgeoisie notoriously alien in sympathies to the Empire . M . Fould replied , " that , for his part , he was essentially a man of the middle class ( qiCil etait ires bourgeois ) , and very little disposed to rely on the peasantry for support . Bonaparte had great difficulty in appeasing this quarrel . It has since broken out again with more bitter virulence than ever . , Persigny bus renewed his attacks on M . Fould , even going so far as to accuse him of / reason . He reproaches him for " surrounding

      the Emperor exclusively with disaffected bowgeois . " At tlie . se words jVT . Fould lost his temper , and the council split into two wrangling cliques . So stands the quarrel as 1 write . But it cannot fail to grow more . envenomed , llonec all the rumours of a change of ministry , which hajie been current tlie . se' lapt days , and which have derived a certain authenticity from the denial of the Monileur . The resistance of Persigny , who in resolved to stick to the Ministry of the Interior , in order the , better to watch the enemies of the Miuperor , has alone ' prevented the change .

      Indeed , the ; situation is a grave one . If Fould goes , the banking world turns its buck on Bonaparte , and Persigny falls into disgrace . lYr . signy being the life and soul of Boimpurtisin , the house of Cards , laboriously built up , by his hands , will tumble to pieces ., at the slightest , breath . There remains but one coiirHe for ttonaparte to choose . It is to keep them hoi . li . Tie will appease IYr . signy by allowing him to share profits with Fouhl \\\ some monstrous speculation , and all will In ; rig ht , \ Let . helle chose qua la puissance de Vor sitr les / towiucs d ' an / eiil I

      1 he I ' uiuls have been rising a little for the la « fc few days . There is , however , a , sort of cabal \\\ openitjon against the IJanqius Mobjlit / re . The rival concern of Kspelela . and ( . 'n . is in operation . The subscriptions wen ; presented at I , he Hourse : in the first hour , there were eigldceti million * ( of francs ) subscribed , and by the evening , the . subscriptionri had readied the fabulous Hum of sfi-iii' » h / -fivn m / Uions (< if francs ) . ' Thin H ' nv . i , if is said , ni : i , (! e Konuparfe open his ' eyes to i . | ie urgency ' of recovering li ' oLhse , liiJd at , miy l > nc " .

      Another foi'inidahlo business is much talked of at thirt moment ,, which would bring in millions , in the shape of preihSmns , to Bonaparte and liis infimnteN , and would proportionately Hwindlo the orowd of giiping fools out of their investments . The project consists in founding an " Algeria Company" ( Cowpai / niv iVAlt / erir ) , on ( , h ( . model of your own Kast India Company . This company is to bo constituted with n capital of forty millions sterling , to havo sovereignty over the whole of Algeria , to bo the proprietary of the soil , and

      to enjoy immense privileges . This affair is , for the present , kept in the profoundest secresy ; but one of these days it will see the light-In France , the regime continues unchanged . Village wineshops ( cabarets ) are closed , and provincial journals are *' -warned . " To'be a journalist , you mast worship every act of Power . The Moniteur , in fact , is almpst the only journal th , at can- really be said to exist . Itr is , the . only journal free , , ¦ " Free , " perhaps even it cannot be called , for it is not free to tell the " truth . It . registers contradictions every day ; and the contradictions are contradicted in turn bv tlie morrow ' s

      eveuts . An . qfficial nptice that lately appeared in its columns , in which the Government protested ao-amst the denomination of " proscribed , " as applied to the exiles , caused a good deal of remark . The Government pleaded u legality !"' f * All the sentences pronounced after the 2 nd of Ipeoen ^ ber , " it exclaims , " tire stamped with the character of legality , since the , military commissions that followed the state of siege were rendered , imperative by the grand law of-the safety of the ' country . ' This lavv of public safety , elevated to therank of legality , strikes everybody as a capital stroke of buffoonery .

      There has just appeared a book , dictated by the Elysee , which has created an immense sensation . This book is entitled , "On the 1 / nnitS of the Empire" ( Des JLimites df t'tynpire ) ' \ It has been exempted from the stampiduty —a , fact in . itself significant . enough . The author , M . I < e Masson , prdtends to prove from history that the limits of France are the .- Rhine , the Scheldt * and the Alps . Consequently , he demands the ineorpi }> ration of Savoy , Piedmont , and Belgium , in the naiae oi " tlie safety and peace of France ., This' book £ » a j ) ilot-balloon ; it : is a harbinger and a signal . Remember that one year before the Empire , Bonaparte dictated to M . Descamps a book "On the Re-establishment of the Empire , " and made M . Rdniieu wiite " TlieEra . of the Caesars . " . , S .

      1226 The Leader- [Saturday, - Iri I — - ...

      1226 THE LEADER- [ Saturday , - iri i — , — - -

      Continental Notes. The Recognition Of Th...

      CONTINENTAL NOTES . The recognition of the Empire has not been so precipitate an affair with the States of the Confederation as with the Neapolitan Government and our ex-Foreign Secretary . With one or two exceptions , such as Frankfort , the States hang back till they get the cue from St . Petersburg . The official journal of Wurtemburg , the Staais Anzeiger , publishes a formal contradiction of the Monitenr ' s announcement , that the Government of Wurtemberg had congratulated the Due de G-uiche on the proclamation of the Empire . The Pope , too , delays sending his credentials to his nuncio at Parts . The ceremony of proclaiming the Empire at Algiers went off bravely on the 12 th . The Prefect ' read the proclamation ; tlie Bishop , with hia clergy , raised the Te Deum ; the batteries struck in with a salvo ; and the troops shouted . " Vive l'Empercur ! " ' There was a dinner at the Governor-Gejierars ; and in the evening a ball was given by the superior Commandant of the Marine . Any portion of the . Orleans property not sold before tho 22 nd of January is to be confiscated or . sequestrated . Among that property is the forest of Guise , belonging to tho Duke d'Aumale , and valued at thirty-five millions of francs ; and as it is difficult to find a purchaser for am estate of such magnitude , a company was formed to eflccfc the bargain . But this tho Government refuses to sanotion ; so that , after all , it may gain its object by the indirect means of shutting out a . purchaser . Tho collection of pictures belonging to the Duchess of Orleans . * h advertised ^ for sale among tho other property .

      General Chadeysson bus demanded of the Council « l . State t , hat a decision of the Prince President , dated hvJt . December , should ' bo revoked . The , Genorul havingmiued , the command of ' tlio Basses-Alps , then in a state of insurrection , wafl ]) laeed on the retired list , in violation of a law which enacts that generals of brigado Khali only he m \> hwi ' A ) r nt the age of 02 . General ChudeyMnon ' s ago i « onl y rtO ; but beeauso he lms served t . hirty-eigl it " . yearH , ol which twenty have been in war , his tlcmnnd was nvjectiul iii virtuo of another law , which gives the Government power to place ije . ne . rals on the retired list after they have

      been thirty years in service . Tho hunt at , CornpiiSgne passed off well on Monday , the weather being line . At tho breakfast ,, '( je ' venil ladies , am amongst them Madame Drouyri de liliuys , \ v <") ro oflicia ! riding Haitifn of ftreeii and gold . Tho dint ' ieii' took placo at five , find at eigtit , the cm-tie Was efl'octod'ili . the courtyard , by toivdilight , whorl u gi-eat irmriy spectator ' s wont allowed to be ; present . The Mediterranean squadron , of evolution returned f ° Toulon on tho li ) th . Ahd-el-Kader has sailed for Turkey . Mr . Bower , whose , iiaine has been so ofl . eiV hefore . Mi " plil ) li (; in eonru ; xion With the dontt \\ of ' Mi ' . Morton , Iiiih MUTOiid < rre . d to tlio Frci ' ii'li authorities , ilnd is now rt _ p « ' » - fsonoi- at , tile C () n < 'iergerie . Tlio trial is fixed for fcn " " of f ) e ( remf » er .

      We l-e . iitj in file ffuis ' so of IWirno Mint , the Prefect of . tliiifcity Had summoned before him all the booktudlerrt <> t <¦)»' pla ' e <) , to JTupiini of theniwhether they Had sold any eopioH of Vietov Hugo's Nitpolt'on-h' -VvtH , atid from whom they had received them . This proceeding , it is Maid , took p lace on the demand of the I'Yenoli ambassador . Tho docks at Dunkirk are the HCeno of extonsivo operations . . Not , only in the Harbour to be enlarged , and _ tho establishments of the Marino greatly increased , Hut , it lfJ intended i ( t placo tho railway Mtft 1 , ic > n in tlio p / irk ol tho Marhxf , and to construct u new basin to tho cunt of tlio

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 25, 1852, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_25121852/page/6/