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      Saturday , December 6 . The news from Paris is so little satisfactory , that we cannot do better than present our readers with a selection of the various editorial summaries of the morning journals , and the telegraphic despatches which arrived yesterday . The Morning Chronicle of this d * y writes : — " Louis Napoleon maintains his position with his characteristic courage and coolness ; but the news of another day has not diminished its danger . He still seems to stand on the verge of a precipice , with his feet planted upon ground which , in some parts , is trembling under the pressure . "

      In the leading columns of the Post we find a paragraph framed in the following mild and dicriminating language . " The struggle in Paris between Authority and violence has been fiercer , but not less decisive , than we anticipated . That desperate spirit of insurrection which seems to recoil before no danger , and to shrink from attempting no impossibility , has received a terrible lesson from the vigorous , unhesitating , and well-directed power which it so madly defied . For two days the heavy boom of artillery , and the sharp rattle of the tirailleurs have proclaimed to the capital how stern a sentence had been passed—how fearful a judgment was being executedon what are significantly called the ' bad quarters . ' " The Daily News has at length written something about t . hft revolution .

      " Never were the antagonist elements of brute force and moral opinion more clearly and universally arrayed against other , than in the struggle which Louis Napoleon has had the rashness to enter upon . . Each hour brings testimony of his bayonets prevailing in the streets , and his cause being condemned and denounced by every man of sense and character ; the citizens and the masses who were well inclined to side with him in his first quarrel with the Assembly , all turning the more fiercely against him , since the selfish insolence and insane ravings of his ambition have been promulgated . " The Times has all along just suspected the strict accuracy of the intclligenca received , and has liberally continued the scanty and disjointed supply .

      " The barricades first thrown up on Wednesday evening , were speedily carried by the soldiers ; but the night was spent in further preparations for war . A large column of troops was silently moved along the Boulevard towards the Faubourg St . Antoine , and the positions between the Canal and the Porte St . Martin were strongly occupied . Shots were occasionally fired from houses on the line of march , but these acta of hostility were instantly punished by the summary seizure or slaughter of the inhabitants . A permanent courtmartial was sitting , by whonc orders some , and we are told a large number , of the prisoners taken between the barricades were shot . Yet these operations and this rigour did not prevent the popular movement

      from increasing in extent and in violence . An immense body of troops , or rather an entire army , de-Hcribed to consist of 60 , 000 men , poured towards the scene of action . Yet we find by the latest accounts that barricades had been raised aB fur to the west an the Hue Grange-Butelidre ; the upper Boulevards were continually swept by charged of Lance ™ ; and the cannonade hud alnvoHt readied the fashionable quarter just beyond the Hue Vivienne . It is , of course , impossible to answer for the accuracy of intelligence despatched under such cirewmstances ; but , if tin-He factu uro correct , the simple has extended far beyond the limits of the Maraisi and tbo FaubourgH , and the popular forces can hardly be confined to the revolutionary sections of those districts . "

      There is another rcuuon why it in " impossible to answer for the accuracy of the intelligence . " It in disclosed by the correspondent of the J ' ost ( Bonnpartist orgun)—decidedly an indiscreet , garrulous , young man . He aays , writing on Thursday : — " When I reached the Ministry of the Interior , whence « 11 trleprruphfi are went , the employe" had just gone—I w « n too late to send any despatch . I was not sorry ; for the minister would not have let me send anything alarming , und 1 did not cure to tell you that Parit * wa » tranquil , »» r I feared in but u few hours it would be far other wi «) . " And as tho name journal is deeply implicated in supporting the treachery of M . Bonnpurte , a few more

      words from its talkative agent in Paris will be suggestive . " The President is resolved to do or die . The most energetic measures are being taken . This , for instance , I have just ascertained : all the provincial journals are to be suspended . The Government intends to give the populace of Paris a terrible lesson , and , therefore , has not done much to prevent the commencement of hostilities . When fairly engaged , the army will do its best to punish the insurgents , and think what " the best" of 100 , 000 men is . " Is this not spoliation , pillage , and disorder ? The

      correspondent of the Morning Chronicle writing on Thursday , says : — "In my letter of Monday I mentioned that M . de Casablanca , the Minister of the Finances , had effected a loan of twenty-five millions of francs , on simple bons du tresorc The Minister , on making this demand , alleged simply the want of money to make the necessary payments ; and the Bank of France , suspecting nothing worse , replied that , if the Government intended to abolish the octroi duties , it could not consent to advance the money . Upon this , M . de Casablanca went to the Elysee , and returned with the answer that M for the moment the octroi duties were not to be

      meddled with . A loan of money being no very rare thing on the part of the French Government , this affair passed at the time with the simple remark that the Treasury was hard-up , but it assumes a very different aspect now . It now appears that the money was borrowed for the purpose of carrying out the coup d ' etat , and it is said that the whole of it has got into the hands of the soldiery . " Last night we recived the following message by Electric Telegraph , without any signature to verify it as having been sent by our Paris correspondent : —

      " From Submarine Telegraph , Dover , to the Daily News , London . " Dover , Fifty minutes past Nine , p . m ., December & —The telegraphic communications with Paris have been much delayed , owing to the great pressure of business on account of the French Government . " Intelligence from Paris this evening states" All fear of further disturbance is at an end , and circulation completely reestablished . " This despatch appears also in the Times . A decree appears , ordering that the voting , opening on the 20 th instant , be secret instead of public .

      • ' Paris , Eight o'Clock p . m . —Insurrection in Paris completely subdued . The mode of voting—universal suffrage by secret ballot—has been favourably received . The troops are returning to their barracks . Paris is perfectly tranquil . The number of persons killed yesterday is very considerable , but it is impossible to form an accurate estimate . The Government warns the public not to believe in the thousand false rumours that are flying about . " The persons in possession of the Government have etat has

      published accounts stating , that the coup d ' been received with immense satisfaction in the provinces . Yet rumour asserts that General Neumayer , the sworn friend of Changarnier , is advancing with four regiments , and that Custellane will not support the Government at Lyons , Unquestionably , there was a bloody struggle yesterday in the streets of Paris ; and although the praetorians of Louis Napoleon may hold the metropolis for a time , the popular party must succeed in the end .

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      The Ebbcx , which an ivedyesterday , brings Cape papers up to the 10 th . Generall y speaking , the news is of the usual character ; it consists of small conflicts , cattle stealings , and promenades . The reinforcements had arrived at King William ' s Town . The recent intelligence from the Sovereignty is anything but of a satisfactory character . Bloerri Fontein is represented as in a very precarious situation , and Major Warden has" brought difficulties upon the country which he finds it no easy task to obviate or remove . By the South African Advertiser of the 16 th of October we learn that , ' on the <> th of the same month , the inhabitants of Cape Town assembled in public meeting , and agreed upon u protest to the effect that they had no confidence in the local Legislature , and considered their

      acts a defiance of public duty . They wished for the constitution of the 23 rd of May , 18 / 30 , to be adopted in the colony as speedily as possible . If this were not done und other measures passed , they should hold the Governor-General and the locnl Legislature responsible for any results ; and , further , they expressed their belief that the adoption of the course which they recommended , would have the effect of immediately restoring peace and order in the colony . The protest was signed by 750 inhabitants in Capo Town , 160 in Malineabury , 6 * 40 in the Paarl district , 70 in the Graaf district , and . 'Jo in the Tulburgh district . The Sultan steamer reached Southampton yesterday . We learn that the porto of" Hallee and Kabat have been bombarded und nearly destroyed by the French Admiral , and Tungier w » u threatened with , and probably has by this time suffered , n similar fate .

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      My the mails which arrived on Thursday , with papers dated 2 . 'tnl ultimo , we learn that a terrible catastrophe occurred at one of the ward schools at New York , by which upwards of forty children were killed and about fifty wounded . It appears that , during an alarm caused by the fainting of one of the teachers , the children , about 1800 in number , hearing a cry for water , apprehended that a fire hud broken out , and made u rush for theutaira , whioh gave way and preoipittted the unfortunate children to the bottom ,

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      There is nothing so revolutionary , because there is nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when all the world is by the very law of its creation in . eternal progress . —Dk . Arnold .

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      THE CATILINE OF THE LOWER EMPIRE . Alea . jacta est . The die is cast , and on the hazard of that die is thrown the peace of France , the freedom of Europe , the progress of Humanity . The long lie is now complete , and the Era of the Csesars is inaugurated at last , by perjury as foul and treason as contemptible as the gang of heartless swindlers into whose hands the destinies of a glorious nation have fallen . The Era of the Caesars is ushered in by the violence of midnight burglars let loose by the debauched and hungry gamblers who for three years have swarmed in the

      antechambers of the Elysee and preyed on the vitals of France . It is well that the civilized world should learn to what a traitorous and ignoble usurpation France has succumbed , if , indeed , she has succumbed . It is not three years since M . Louis Napoleon , in the face of the Constituent Assembly , representing ten millions of free electors , swore before God and man to observe faithfully the Constitution and the laws . On the 10 th of December , ' 48 , the Chief of the Executive laid down his powers before the majesty of "the national will . Five millions of votes had carried to power the man

      whose name had obscured from his country ' s gaze the miserable conspirator of Strasburg and Boulogne . General Cavaignac even anticipated the moment of resignation , and by that one act of dignity and self-sacrifice atoned , in some degree at least , for the iniquities of a brief and sanguinary Dictatorship . Nothing in his career of power became him like the leaving of it . So noble an abdication would have pardoned even more flagrant tyranny . M . Louis Napoleon may have been carried to power partly by the brutish

      ignorance of peasants driven like sheep to the poll to vote ( as many of them did ) for the return of the Emperor , who was not dead , to their belief . But it was the faults of his predecessor , and the written opinions and promises of the Prisoner of Ham , the professions of a large and earnest social faith , of compassion for the people ' s sufferings , of an ambition to amend their lot by a new organization of labour , that made the masses , failing in heart and hope , stamp their hearts on their bulletins , and name a name associated with patriotic glories and patriotic misfortunes .

      M . Louis Napoleon was elected President of the French Republic . What ha 6 he done in these three years past to fulfil his promises to ameliorate the social condition of the People , to organize labour , to encourage association , to respond to the hopes of the Revolution , which restored him to his country and to a life of activity ? What are the fruits of his tenure of power ? He has handed over the national dignity abroad to the caprices of despotism ; he is the avowed lacquey of the very tyrannies the great Napoleon crushed and humiliated ; he has converted French soldiers into sbirri

      of Priests and Cardinal ** , to do the dirty work of obscurantist terrorism ; he leagues with the autocracies of Vienna and St . Petersburg against the oppressed Peoples ; for a riband or a star lie sells the past traditions of the French Democracy , and abjures the Republic ; he sends ships to assist the Nero of Naples , and troops to restore tho Pope . He in in all places and at every moment tho mannikin of monarchies , whose favour he craves and whose pomp he lines . And ut home ? Kvery form

      of freedom effaced—every conquest of the Revolution suppressed ; the whole country hound in a network of prtlice spies and gendurincH ; thought , speech , writing , made a crime , when not a servitude . M . Louis Napoleon has been all his life a conspirator and nothing more ; he will die a » he haa lived , u conspirator against law and liberty . If he ever breathed n thought in hclmlf of liberty , it was like all his acts a miserable falsehood . If he onco followed a liberating army , Heaven knows 1 ho huH wince more than atoned for the youthful folly b

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      TO READER 8 AND CORRESPONDENTS . Several letters have been received by our publisher complaining of the non-receipt of papers , or the non-arrival of the Leader , until Monday . We have made inquiry , and find that the errors have not arisen in our office . The Country Edition of the leader is published on Friday , and the Town Edition on the Saturday , and Subscribers should be careful to specify which edition they wish to receive . Complaints of irregularity should be made to the particular news-agent supplying- the paper , and if any difficulty should occur again it will be set right on application direct to our office , 10 , Wellington-street , Strand , London . In reply to inquiries we may state that the Office of the Friends of Italy is No . 10 , Southampton-street , 8 trand . Communications should always be legibly written , and on one aide of the paper only . If long , it increases the difficulty of finding space for them . All letters for the Editor should be addressed to 10 , Wellingtonstreet . Strand , London .

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      Dec . 6 , 1851 . ] © £ * ULta ^ tt . 1159

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      SATURDAY , DECEMBER 6 , 1851 .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 6, 1851, page 1159, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1912/page/11/