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      Tuesday Is The Day On Which All Politici...

      Tr aSnr ^^ e - ^ fostrat &^ woSSMppers of tow Juggernaut . Among the p henomena were short petticoats and shorter waists , reminiscent or prescient of the Empire ; Cossackism tranaqendant in jackboots ; Scotland simpering ma kilt ; the ( pleasure ) navy of Great Britain represented by . th ? Captain of her Majesty ' s yacht ; the sister service by we know not what uniforms ; the Lay , Lords , Science , and Eccentricities of England , by Henry Brougham ; the public opinion of Jinglaml by the absence of English worthies and the echoes of the English press . - ' .

      _ The Senate and the Council of State are only remarkable , so far as names are concerned , for a poverty of selection / so transparent ! The tagrag of the Empire and the Exchange , and the apotheosis of Chevaliers d'Industrie . The sullen abstention of the Legitimists , and the mortal enmity of the house of Orleans , leave Louis Bonaparte no resource but popular measures . He tries to conciliate the lowest and the highest ,

      neglecting the great middle class , whose corruption and poltroonery are guarantees enough for good behaviour . But the highest class will * ' none of ^ im ^ and ^ h « 4 ) est ^ fH ^ e-workiiig-men ^ rep arivenr into exile by the razzia against the associations . He had solemnly promised these associations support and sympathy — enough to explain their dissolution . Louis Bonaparte ' s decrees of confiscation have read him one useful lesson- —the inextinguishable force of public opinion . In the midst of a crowd of parasites he stands alone . His isolation is " imperial . " A " « tri ft piirsiips hpr rtesign of a linitpd CommPTcial Germany under her leadership , with some success . Prussia has lost one chance , and may a second . These persevering attempts of Austria to form a Customs Union , her open courting of Bavaria and the minor German States , are facts which prove the still consciously unsettled condition of that powerful State ; and the refusal of Prussia to come into the scheme betrays the conflict of selfish interests among tliose who have been united against the peoples of Europe . The absence of immediate danger may seem to leave them free to indulge their selfishness unchecked ; but they are not out of the wood yet .

      The news from America brings striking proof of the still rapid progress made by the new doctrine of intervention in Europe ^ Kossuth continued to gain favour wherever he went . Although Henry Clay had not directly , joined him , yet Henry Clay ' s support of CasB as candidate for the Presidency was equivalent to a junction with Kossuthj Cass having already pledged himself to the Hungarian cause . Hitherto the Times has followed the New

      York Courier and Inquirer , a paper whose editor , Colonel Webb , had been personally committed against the popular side , and stood almost alone in his political views ; but now the " own correspondent " of the leading journal corrects the false reports which have misled it . He says that within one week he had read a thousand American papers , " and the general tendency unquestionably is towards intervention " : also that the Democrats

      are especially adopting the doctrine as a means of acquiring power ? Why , except because it is popular , and falls in with the national tendency of the Republic ? Yes , the aggressive policy , born within the year , is in the ascendant , and we do not yet despair of bringing the American flag over to Europe in 1852 . We know well that one important interest is arrayed against such an innovation—the official

      interest . No stone will be left unturned to prevent any better understanding between the Peoples of England and America , of England and France ; we may expect quarrelti to be got up for the specific purpose of keeping the nations apart , or embroiling them with each other . The Peoples must be aware of this hostile influence , and must prevent it . We know that Downing-etreet is not England , neither is the Elysde France , nor even the White-house America ,

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      Letters From Paris. [Filoai Oull Own Coi...

      LETTERS FROM PARIS . [ FilOAI OUll OWN CoiUtKSl'ONDiENT . ] Ljjttmu y . Pttiin , Tuepday evening , January | 87 , 1863 . The 'decree , which my lust letter will have led you to anticipate , confiscating the property of the House of Orleans , appeured in the Moniteur of Thuraday . This decree raised a storm of reprobation . All cIushcb of the population were disturbed ; in the higher regions of the political world it wub felt as a ¦ hock . Six Minister ^ out of nine resigned . A now Ministry was formed . Louis Bonaparte decreed this measure in spite of all disauaaion . In a council

      4 rehhmi ; he <> ccasidhrM St . Arnaud , Ducos , and ; Magne , opposed it ; and , what is more , the Marchioness of Douglas , daughter of the Grandduehess of Baden , and the Princess Mathilde , went on their knees to the President ^ beseeching him , with tears , if not to abandon ; at least to adjourn , this fatal decree . Their supplications were coldly repulsed . M . Boulay de la Meurthe , ei-dewnt . Vice-Piesident of the Republic , having ventured to address some observations on the Subject met with , a severe reception . » members of the

      By the first of these decrees * the house of Orleans cannot hold any moveable or immoveable property in France ; they must sell , within a year , all their estates . By the second of the decrees , all the moveable an $ immoveable property forming the bulk of the donation made by Louis Philippe to his sons on the 7 th of August , 1830 , is restored to the domain of the State ; in other words , confiscated . In consequence of these decrees , the six Ministers I have mentioned gave in their resignations . The President solicited General St . Arnaud to withdraw his resignation . The request was complied with , on condition that the following note should appear in the Mont ieur : — " The Ministers of War and of Marine

      have withdrawn thexc-iesignations at . the urgent request of the President of the Republic . " Besides the Ministry , fifteen members of the Consultative Commission of the 2 nd of December sent in their resignations . Among these are the names of MM . de Montalembert , de Montemart , de Moustier , de Merode , Pepin , Lehalleur , le Comte , Augustin Giraud , Giraud ( the ex-Minister ) , Hallez Claparede , & c . The letter written by M . de Montalembert on the subject is pungent enough . It contains an insinuation which every body has remarked . He says that

      ne tenders his resignation as memoer or - tative Commission , which has never once been consulted upon any of the measures of the Executive . M . Dupin himself , who was never known to resign , has , felt it impossible not to resign his office of Prpcureur-General of the Court of Cassation . The letter he addressed to the President is said to have produced a strong impression by the weighty political considerations it advanced . ¦ All the political personages of distinction , all the high namesthat had consented to be nominated to the dignity of Senators , immediately signified to the President that he could na longer expect their concurrence . Hence the delay in publishing the list of Senators which , was announced to appear on the same day ( the 26 th ) as the Council of State . Among the

      malcontents of great name are mentioned Mfyl . de Wagram , de Beauflremont , de Beauveau ^ & c . , Even the Exchange was seriously affected . Two or three days previously , the bare announcem ' ertir'bf these decrees had determined a heavy fall . On the 23 rd , another fall of If . 10 c . In short , before the-decrees the funds were at 106 , they are now at lOlf , 50 c .: a fall of 5 f , 50 c , Among the manufacturers , the large employers , the principal tradesmen , and partu cularly among the capitalists and landowners , there was but one cry of indignation . ' It is a cruel , an infamous act of spoliation , " they all cried with one voice . " Bonaparte is making common cause with the Rouges . He dares what LedruRollin and Louis Blanc would never have dared : he outdoes ' 93 : we are betrayed !"

      To the working classes only it gave satisfaction . Among them there was even a report that Louis Bonaparte intended to renew the proceedings in the suit against the Baroneas de Feucheres , and to cancel the will of the Prince de Conde in favour of the Due d'Auinale . Louis Bonaparte endeavoured to divert public opinion on the eve of the appearance of these decrees by spreading a report through the Ministerial journals of a republico-Orleaniat plot ; and by such a pretext to colour his new coup d'etat against the possessions of the house of Orleans . I need scarcely say that no one believed this new invention of a Government that subsists by lying .

      Ihe decree of confiscation was not alone in the Moniteur of the 23 rd instant . It was accompanied by a decree which remodelled the Ministry , and reestablished the functions of a Minister , Secretary of State , as under the Empire . A Ministry of Police is also created . The Ministries of Agriculture , of Commerce , of Public Instruction , are suppressed , as in the time of the Empire . In short , a now Ministryan out .-and-out Elysean Ministry — is appointed . These are the names of which it is composed . M & LdePersigny , Interior ; Abatucci , Justice ; Bineau , Finance ; St . Arnaud ,. War ; Ducos , Marine ; Turgot ,

      Foreign Affuirfl ; Fortoul , Public Worship ; Lefcvre Durufl 6 , Public Works ; De Maupas , 1 ' olice ; Casabiunca , Minister of State . Your readers will boglud , I dare say , to have some particulars about M . de Persigny , the life and eoul of the new Ministry . In the first place , M . de Pereigny is not u nobleman . De Pcrsigny ia not his namo . His real name is Fialin . lie is the son of an apothecary . It would bo easy , by the way , to compose- him a very handsome coat of arms . Ho is the intimate friend of Louia Bonaparte , over whom ho exercises the most serious influence . He is , indeed , a shrewd , cleyer man , and , moreover , very determined . He ia

      -a-man ^ ehr ^ nk ^ t ^ otW ^ of an Imperial restoratipn . He is eminently revolutionary—* ttpectes of Bonapartist Marat . One of hi 3 favourite-administrative maxims is , that " when the arntt ceases to strike , it becomes paralyzed . " One may foresee the feverish ; energy of such a system as this . M . de Persigny desires to rely for support upon the peasantry and the working classes , rather than upon the bourgeoisie—upon the rural population and the faubourgs , rather than upon the wealth of the towns . . ¦ : ¦¦• ¦¦ M . de Persigny is resolved , too , to go to war—if war be , indeed , according to general anticipation , the sole means of creating a diversion to the formidable opposition which at this very moment is rising up on all sides to the government of Louis Bonaparte . The advent of M . de Persigny to the Ministry has been already signalized by an eruption of violent measures . New lists of proscription are on . the point of making their appearance . The press is threatened in its very existence . The measures in preparation against it are formidable * The conditions under which it is to live are as follows : —1 . Necessity of authorization ; 2 , Power of suppression ; 3 . The censorshi p and the prosecution of offenders—convictions enough to kill the press by a thousand deaths , jf it . onl y wantfiH Trilling at all . —_ _ All that belongs remotely , or nearly , to the demo - cratic party , is hunted down with more ferocity than ever . I will tell you what happened yesterday to an honourable merchant of the first arrondissement—M . Richard , wine merchant , who had been a delegate to the old Democratic Electoral Committee . For a -whole year M . Richard had ceased to meddle with politics . During the days of December he had not even left his house . His neighbours were summoned , and threatened with transportation to Cayenne

      unlessthey deposed to have seen M . Richard" going to the barricades . " After due rehearsal of the charge , M . Richard and his neighbours were cited to the Palais de Justice . Surprised to find himself involved with , his neighbours in one summons , he received a secret intimation from one of them of the necessity that compelled them to depose against ah innocent man , and he Was entreated to make hi £ escape from the Palais de Justice before the moment for their examination should arrive . Two hours

      afterwards M-. Richard was leaving ^ aris by the Northern Railway , an exile ! The master of one of the Masonic lodges has been condemned to a voluntary exile . He . was *• designated by-the Mayor of Montmartre ( a Gorsiean ) ( as" a . man likely .. to exercise a certain influence . . . / Quite unexpectexUy he received the visit of a Comfliis ^ ary ; of Police i- ^ . " Your health , which is very precious . to us , '' said the commissary , ' would be improved by foreign travel for awhile . The Government has charged me to remit you a passport for Germany , Belgium , or 'England ; whichever you . may prefer * You have two hours to get ready . " I might relate seven or eight similar cases . • ¦ "

      It is M . de Persigny , again , who struck off the Army List Colonel Charras , MM . Cholat and Millotte , Captains of Artillery , and Valentin , of the Chasseurs de Vincennes ; all four representatives , ' and in exile . This severity is doubly unjust , inasmuch as it is partial . MM . Changarnier , Lamoriciere , Bedeau , and Leflo , who were to have been caehiered by the same decree , remain on the list . Arrests go on without intermission throughout Fiance . Three inhabitants of St . Omer—a tame and

      peaceable town enough , in all conscience—have just been arrested , dragged to prison , and placed in solitary confinement . Their names are MM . Pierret , merchant , ex-member of the Constituent ; Dumeril , pipe manufacturer , member of the Chamber of Commerce , and a judge of the Tribunal of Commerce ; and Courden , distiller , also a judge of the same tribunal . The Courrier de Nancy states that the gendarmerie have received orders to arrest MM . Louis , advocate ,

      ex-member of the council-general of La Meurthe ; Laflizc , advocate , ex-member of the Constituent ; Antoine , attorney , and De Vallerot , formerly boubprefet of Toul . The government has also given orders to the author ities at Mains to arrest , wherever they may be found , MM . Trouv 6 , Chauvel , banker , exminister , and two of his relatives , and five others . The same measures have been taken against a certain number of persona at La Suze , Saint-Calais ; Montargis , Pontoise , Dax , Angers , Rhodez , andLunoville . Meantime , the transportations are unceasing .

      In the Courrier de la Gironde we read : — " 1 ho number of prisoners for transportation , arrived at Bordeaux , is estimated at nearly 100 . The steamer which was engaged to convey thorn to the trunsport being found too small , and the weather being very rough , they were put on board a larger vessel hired tor the sorvice , and taken to Blaye , where they wore shipped on board the Mogador , for Cayenne . New batches of prisoners compromised in the disturbances of five departments will be forwarded to Bordeaux , for the same destination . To theue must be added 458 at Brest . Courts martial are incessantly at work in morp than forty de partments , transporting to Cayenne or to Senegal . The numbor in the Lot et Guronno alone is Already 300 . '

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 31, 1852, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_31011852/page/2/