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      Revolution has again encamped in Paris , Belgravia warmly approving ; the official and officious organs of Russia and the Foreign-office in ecstasies ; British aristocracy rejoicing in the overthrow of parvenu Conservatism in France , and saluting with rapture the last move of a used-up political adventurer . Tuesday brought with it the startling intelligence , by submarine electric telegraph , that M . Bonaparte had broken down all the barriers of order and legality , and , by a military revolution , possessed himself of supreme power . On Tuesday morning , Paris awoke in a " state of siege , " with its Assembly of incapables dissolved , its generals

      arrested , its press " suspended , " the whole constitution broken up and set aside , and in the place of the will of France , the will of M . Bonaparte ! Never was surprise more brilliant and complete ; that is to say , never was surprise more unscrupulous and immoral . By the aid of brigand Praetorians the " nephew of his uncle " violated his oath , as he would demolish a bonbon ; and under pretext of appealing to the people , placed himself above and beyond the law . Tuesday was the anniversary of Austeriitz , and the crowning of the Emperor . The Marengo of M . Bonaparte was at Satory , his Lodi at Dijon , his Austcrlitz at the Cirque National , his Im {) erial crowning—the Place : dc la Grove ?

      Possibly , in the history of nations , a more insane parody was never perpetrated than this of the proceedings of the Napoleon in 1804 . M . Bonaparte borrows even the constitution of Sioyes . He borrows the hypocritical appeal , he gags the press , he declares the state of siege , he jnakes similar ilattering overtures to the soldiery . This close parod y is at once the characteristic and the Condemnation of the new revolution of personal ambition . It is too transparent . We laugh at the absolute want of genius . It is a mere common burg lary of power . But we grieve when we read that this miserable Special-Constable Emperor has caused the death of aa heroic ( 'hurras , an eloquent » nd noble minded-Esquiron . Thierw goes to prison Unlrtin ented by any one ; and we cannot repine if j-avaignae , and Changarnier , and Bedeau , and ljai"ori <; iori ; have , fallen victims to their distrust of »»« people . The " majority" deserve their fate . "ut clearl y these events are only the beginning ° } Uie end , which is not yet . All the army , a por" <> m of which voted for the Montagnards in 1 H 4 <) a » d iHfio , cannot be more devoted lo M . Bona-P'lrtu than to their country . After all , Hiiecossful ] lH things now appear , the hero of unpaid debts , liiuaages , cigars , champagne , and Imperial puro-„ . ' "» ln : i y yet be the convict of lk ; lli : islt ) , or Nuka-Uiva . Stated nakedly , and without a waste of phmneH , w » a assumption of mipreine power by Louis JNapo-I'ltoww l&orri < m . 'l

      leon is nothing more nor less than an incident in the grand Russo-Austrian conspiracy now in progress against Continental liberty , and gradually advancing to the attack of England ! As Louis Bonaparte was planning ignominy , like a thief in the night;—far away , in quiet rural solitudes , the last of a race of giants in an age of heroes , was sinking peacefully and full of years into his last , well-won repose . Jean-de-Dieu Soult , the astute , the far-seeing , the cool-headed , the impassible—Soult , who , albeit a Frenchman

      to the core , had lived to look on Wellington and on England without envy—nay , with heroic sympathy . Brave old Soult sleeps well—a monumental sleep —¦ before the pigmy nephew has turned Imperial glory to contempt and shame . Brave old Soult ! sprung from the People—a Republican at heart , but a Frenchman too—attached to his country as wejl as to his principles—Soult is dead . " Felix non vitse tantum felicitate , sed etiam opportunitate mortis . " What miseries , what degradations , has he not escaped !

      In Italy , the peculiarities are of " seizing , " but not unusual , interest . Insult and obstruction to English travellers in the Neapolitan states ; inundations in the North ; and the restoration and renewed activity of that most conservative of institutions—the ( juiillotine , at Koine . The great Reform Conference at Manchester has proved a respectable failure . Numbers attended , but the spirit was neither harmonious nor animated . The meeting almost negatives the maxim , " Happy the people whose annals arc Hat . " The record of the Manchester Conference is Hal , but those who

      were there were not happy . The meeting was al first understood to be one only for Lancashire and the West Riding of Yorkshire—Manehestershire and Cobdenshire ; it was also regarded as a secession from the Parliamentary Reform Association . A deputation from that Society was not invited , but did attend ; and people from other parts of the country also volunteered a presence not to be repelled . Mr . Bright was put forward as the spokesman for Manchester , to the amazement of many who thought him too advanced and sturdy for the mere l ' iee-trade party . Sir Joshua Walmsley attended for the Parliamentary Reformers , with Mr . ( ieorge Thompson

      as second in command ; Mr . Cohdcn played the part of mediator , and patted the President of the Parliamentarians on the back with an encouragement only too transparent to conceal the latent sarcasm . The project which so many people were . summoned to Manchester to consider , was one that might quite as well have been Niihmittcd to them by po . st—a poor rate qualification not defined , but apparently to be unlimited in lowness—that is , every man rated to the poor ( should have a vote ; also , a certain copyhold or leasehold forty-shilling Iraneliifit' for town as well as county ; consolidation of small boroughs , leaving no constituency smaller than 5000 ; ballot , abolition of property

      qualification , and triennial Parliaments . This is very like Mr . Hume ' s little Charter , and the Parliamentarian plan . It extends the franchise all but to universal suffrage . In a political sense it is not striking , and it has astonished nobody . The reading of th . 3 programme fell flat upon the meeting ; and we venture to say that if any one had raised a cry of " Universal Suffrage , " it would have drawn out the real spirit latent in the body of the assemblage .

      The Parliamentarians appear to us to have made two mistakes : by way of amendment they proposed , not their own plan , but Mr . Hume ' s ! and they lost their temper . However , it was understood that they did not go there to divert , so much as to test the meeting ; and that if the Manchester section should prove recreant , the Parliamentary would take up stronger ground elsewhere . The public , therefore , awaits the result of the mission to Manchester .

      Your judges are the boys for revolutionizing the Statute Book . They have knocked a desperate hole in the Newspaper Stamp Act , by declaring Charles Dickens ' s Household Narrative not liable to the tax . The majority of the judges held , against all the rules of syntax , that the different sections of the schedule must be taken , not severally , as indicating different classes of publication amenable to the

      tax , but cumulatively , as indicating all the attributes tube found in any publication to make it amenable to the tax . At least , such is the general effect of the judgment ; Baron Parke dissenting . Talk of " repealing" acts of Parliament : only get enough "judgments " on them , and you soon reduce them to mincemeat . This Newspaper Stamp Act , for instance—it is evident that in five or six bouts a few Judges could knock it to pieces .

      Manchester has not onl y been active in the political , but in the educational movements of the day . The Public School Association met on Monday , and , to add lo clause vi . powers for taking possession of existing schools supported on the voluntary principle , provided that said schools should agree to impart secular instruction and doctrinal religion at stated and separate times . This was stealing a march on the Manchester and Sal ford Society , which the latter resented at its

      meeting on Wednesday . These gen ( leniei ) , consistently represented b y the State Churclnsin of Dr . Lee and of Mr . Canon Stowed , were grievously annoyed at thus having the ground cut . from under their feel ..: so they reasserted their old positions , indulged in copious sclf-appluu . se , assailed honest Dr . Watts and noble ( ieorge Anthony Denison , and expressed their determination to persevere . The Public School Association might , as well expect , to amalgamate with Mr . Haiiics as to conciliate Dr . Lee , Mr . Kntwistle , and Mr . Canon

      Stowell . At the siinie time it is quite clear tlmt no scheme of instruction will obtain the support of the masses unless it be secular , and none will be effective unless it also provide a physical discipline for the neojjlc .

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      VOL . II . —No . 89 . SATURDAY , DECEMBER 6 , 1851 . Pkice 6 d .

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      Npws of tub Week— * Page The Life and Der . tli of Marshal . ^ Political Letters . —I . England not TTunt H'j ? TheBonapartist Revolution in Paris 1150 Soult 1156 Downing-street 1162 Federative Union 1167 Proclamation of the Kefug-ees in A IIaid Case 1157 Litkp . atuke— Open * Council—London .. 1153 " Fast " Life in the Army 1157 Mantell ' s Petrifactions and their I ' ldineratou and his Opponents .... 11 G 3 Continental Notes 1153 Public Affaiks— Teaching's 1163 Defence of the Freehold-Land Anniversary of the l ' olish Revolution 'the Catiline of the Lower Empire 1159 Spencer ' s European Turkey 1 li > 3 Movement 11 CS of the 29 th of November , 1830 .. 1154 The Manchester Finality Keform Babylon and Jerusalem 1164 The Queen versus Rowland and The Ueform Campaign 1151 Bill » 11 H 0 Portfolio— Others 11 G 8 Customs'Reform H 5 . i Jewish Rights and Official Wrongs 1160 The Useful and the Beautiful 1166 Commercial Akfaius—Manchester Educational Movement 115 ( 5 A Railway Tournament 1161 Organizations of thk People— j \ iarket 3 , Gazettes , Advertisements , The Statutes of Thurles 1155 Progress of Assurance , ' 1161 Kossuth , O'Connor , and Thornton kc 1168-1173

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      • 'The one Idea ¦ which History exnibits a 3 evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity—tne noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided views ; and by setting aside the distinctions of Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race aa one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development of our amntua . ! nature . "—Homboldt ' s Cosmos .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 6, 1851, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1912/page/1/