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      an unheard of freedom of developement , and what is it now ? Dependent for its vitality on outlying stations , and prisoner in its own capital to the troops of France . Will the London Union reflect that no healthy freedom of developement for the Church is possible , unaccompanied by the freedom of humanity . The antipodes of St . Martin ' s-hall are they who assembled at Crosby-hall—small descendants of the great Puritans of another ' 48 . Will these

      estimable persons reflect also , that in practice " voluntary" education too often ends in being involuntary ignorance . Stern Protestants stand up for their " denominations , " as earnestly as the Church of the London Union stands up for " her own children " ; rendering national education impossible and national ignorance still very possible and actual . Why will not each meet on the common ground of secular instruction , and each separate again for the purpose of religious

      education ? Expansive substances seem warring on the human race just now , or the human race is getting too confident of its mastery over dangerous agencies . Last week , gunpowder was the manslayer ; this week , steam , gas , and fire-damp are the fatal agents . A boiler at Footscray explodes , nobody knows why—but why does nobody know ? At Liverpool , a young man enters a room with a light , sees a blue flame for a moment , and instantly the

      house is shaken to pieces by an explosion . At the village of Woodthorpe , two miles or so fiom Sheffield , there is a coal-pit . One of the avenues of the pit was known to be " surcharged with inflammable gas "; nevertheless , with an exposed light , a youth went down the avenue : result , youth himself " burned to ashes , " and two others killed . Cause , pit ventilated by one shaft instead of two . This manslaughter is set down as a " colliery accident , " of course !

      But more striking explosions of a moral kind are those in Ireland—the disclosure of the connexion between the Lord-Lieutenant ^ and a Dublin newspaper ; the resuscitation of ' Orangeism ; and the resurrection of Ribandism . The story of Lord Clarendon ' s subsidizing a journal is old , but the fact is confirmed by the trial in the Court of Queen ' s Bench . Lord Clarendon ' s share in the matter is indicative of laxity and a certain " green " reliance on newspaper puffing for the maintenance of " law and order , " rather than for any baser purpose . The trait does not indicate much capacity for vigorous government . Orangeism is taking the mild form of a benefit organization .

      Rihamlism displays itself as fiercely as ever in midday murder : Air . Thomas Douglas Bateson is assaulted in the highway , and beaten to death ; not a soul interfering to rescue him , or to capture the murderers—Kihandinen summoned to the work from a distance . Districts are " proclaimed " under the Coercion Act as disturbed ; and the Northern Whiff speaks of Ribandism as extensive . JSo commences the winter in Ireland !

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      THE BONAPAIITIST REVOLUTION . " SOCIKTY IS SAVKD . " " Paris in perfectly tranquil , " was the laconic announcement of the telegraph on Saturday morning , lint how was Paris brought into a state of tranquillity ? The answer in Hhort and terrible—by the massacre of 2700 persons , hundreds of whom were nhnt in cold blood in the Champ de Mars , on Friday ni fjht . The fitful proceedings of Wednesday were succeeded by a bloody conflict on the following day . Determined to utrike tenor into all hi . s opponents , M . llonnparte suffered the hot-headed youth of Paris to raise some barricades , in order that he might have

      a pretext for the use oi his cannon and bayonets . And on Thursday about mid-day , in ho public a place as the Porte St . Denis , a large barricade was raised , defended on the ilankn and in the rear by Himilar structures . Very few men were engaged in the work . and a vast concourse looked on . Not a soldier was in . sight , not a policeman visible . Suddenly , up came a vast body of troops sweeping the Htreets , supported by cavalry and artillery , under the command ofYieneral Cauelet . Jlow long they were

      - onHUged in storming this barricade it . is miponfor the accounts are derived from the " , and are therefore imtniHtworthy ; but ' > grim fact before us that the barricade ' " those of itH defenders who were not ¦ yoncted in iho assault , carried away and ' cold blood in the Champ de Ma ™ . wen- acted on other points : in the oiH . Monicre , at the Porte St . Martin , in « an , and the Houlevard Bonne Nouwas hot resistance ; there were great yHec that the real men of the barri-¦ |

      cades would turn out ; but St . Antoine would not move ; St . Marceau was quiet ; Montmartre was provokingly calm . ; the old fighting grounds were undisputed , and the disappointed praetorians inarched up and down with horse and foot and met no foe . The phrase used by a workman has become famous , " there was nothing to fight about . " No one pan , complain of the slaughter at the barricades . If men take arms , they must run all risks , and the last men to regret would be the victims themselves . But there were other slaughters , not at barricades , perpetrated by the troops . They were of this kind . In the Rue Poissoniere , a

      small body of persons were walking along the trottoir , "when up inarched a regiment of infantry . The commanding officer perceived in the crowd a man whom he declared had been defending a barricade . Instantly the supposed " insurgent" was arrested . His companions cried Vive la Bepublique and without a moment ' s warning the soldiers fired on the people , killing upwards of thirty on the spot . Detachments scoured the streets , capturing isolated , weakly built , weakly defended barricades , and replying to every shot from the houses by tremendous discharges of musketry , and sometimes of cannon . Imagine the consternation of respectable Paris when it learned that the Maison d'Oree , the

      Cafe de Paris , the Cafe Tortoni , and a large tailoring establishment , together with several other houses , had been smashed in with musketry and cannon balls . Cuirassiers rode in among the crowds on the pavement , and lancers used their weapons without ceremony . The slaughter was immense , both of the resisting and unresisting . In the evening the Minister of War issued the following audacious proclamation to the army . " Soldiers !—You have to-day accomplished a great act

      of your military life . You have preserved the country from anarchy and pillage , and saved the Republic . You have shown yourselves what you will always be—brave , devoted , and indefatigable . France admires yju , and thanks you . The President of the Republic will never forget your devotedness . " Victory could not be doubtful ; the true people , all honest men , are with you . In all the garrisons of France your companions in arms are proud of you , and will , when called on , follow your example . " A . de Saint-Aknaud . "

      To the civilians came a proclamation signed De Maupas . " The emeute is suppressed . Our enemies are henceforth powerless to raise barricades . Nevertheless , the excitement to revolt continues . Ardent demagogues mix with the trroups to excite to agitation and circulate false news . The Montagnard ex-representatives turn to account the last remnants of their old prestige to lead the people with them . Furnished lodging-houses , cafes , and suspected houses become the receptacle of

      conspirators and insurgents . Arms , ammunition , and incendiary writings are concealed there . All the causes of HL'itation must be suppressed by practising on a large scale a . system of search and arrests . It is the means of restoring to the capital that peace and tranquillity which a handful of factious men have sought to take from it . You have all done your duty with so much devotedness and courage that 1 doubt not but that , in order to fulfil this new and important mission , you will display all the vigilance and energy which are called for by circumstances . Da Mautas . "

      But it was on this night also that M . Bonaparte received the following letter , to which he returned a cold and evasive reply . " My djiah Nephew , —French blood ie flowing ; stop it by serious appeal to the people . Your pentimente are badly understood . The aecond proclamation , in which you talk of plebiscite , is badly received by the people , who do not consider it the reestabliahment of the right of suffrage . Liberty is without guarantee if an Assembly does not suit the constitution of the Republic . The army has the upper hand . It is the moment to complete

      the material victory by a moral victory ; and what the Government cunnot do when it is beaten it ought frequently to do when it is victorious . After having beaten the ancient parties , restore the people ; proclaim that univernal suffrage , sincere , unshackled , acting in accordance with the greatest liberty , will nominate the President and a Constituent Assembly , to nuve and restore the Republic . It is in the name of the memory of my brother , and partaking his horror of civil war , that I write to you . Believe in ray old experience ; think that France , Europe , and posterity will well judge you .

      "Your affectionate uncle , Jkkomk 15 onai'Autk . " The next morning the fighting was renewed ; but the only barricade of importance which was defended wa » in the Rue Kochechouart , and that wuh taken without much difficulty . All day long , however , the cavalry careered through the Htreetn , and occupied the ' strong position ** . What , took place in the way of shooting down the people we know not . Hut there muHt have been great butchery ( somewhere , or upwards of ' 2000 could not . have been slain . Saturday passed oft " , as far « 8 Paris was concerned , " tranquilly" ; but it wuh the tranquillity of death . The tttrei-ta were lull of upectatoiH .

      The Moniteur published the following decree of the President of the Republic , on the 7 « li , restoring tin ? nncient church of Ste . ( lenevieve to the Roman Catholic worship , conformably to the intention of itH founder : — " In the name of the French People , the Prenident

      fLSzSSS !** °° ' ' ^^ nsc t Haviag considered the la , the ^^ ^ ^ 1806 H ' ™ « " »*•«* *• < taree of the 20 th of Frtua , / aZSss&f *™* ' the donn ^ * * . ^ „; " Decrees : — " Art . 1 . —The ancient church of Stp p « . , restored to public worship , confor mably to ? he ffi " - is of its founder , under the invocation of Ite Gew ^ ? patron of Paris . ^ enevieve the " Measures P shall be taken at a later period " to r * lhSSr « rch . maaent eXGrCiSeOf ^ ° ath 0 lic -shK i . re ™ ked : ~ The ° ° nnance of the 26 th of August , 1830 ,

      " Art . 3 . —The Minister of Public Inatrim * - Religious worship and the Minister of Pub b Workf ° charged , each as far as concerns him , with the ! , t " of the present decxee , which shall ^ einserte ^^ S Bulletin des lots . iea m '" e « Paris , December ' 6 ° * AP 0 M 0 * ° ^ ahxb . " The Minister of Public Instruction and Worship , " H . FOHTOUL . " Does the uninitiated reader recognize the stin » of this affectedly formal decree ? The church of Ste Genevieve is—we beg pardon , was—the Pantheon where the ashes of the heroes of France , whose laurels were not won with the sword , were deposed by a grateful country . The Pantheon , wherein the dust of Voltaire and Rousseau and Mirabeau reposes is henceforth sacred to the Pope and the Inquisition !

      On the same day the Constitutionnel , with , an effrontery only equalled by its master , wrote , ?* This is the first time for more than fifty years that the country understands its true interests . " The next day appeared that document , surpassing the brutal gasconnadesof the Constitutionnel in impudence , and containing the immense phrase we have used as the sub-title to this narrative . " Frenchmen , —Disturbances have disappeared . What ever be the decision of the people , society is saved . " The first part of my task is accomplished . " The appeal to the nation to terminate the struggles of parties occasioned , I knew , no serioxis risk to public tranquillity . " Why should the people rife against me ?

      " It 1 have not your confidence , if your ideas are changed , there is no necessity to shed precious blood ; you have only to deposit in the urn a contrary vote . " I always respect the decision of the nation ; but , till the nation has spoken , I shall not hesitate at any sacrifice to baffle the attempts of the factious . " The task , besides , is now become easy . On one hand , it has been seen how mad it was to contend against an army united and disciplined , animated by honour and patriotism ; on the other , the tranquil attitude of the people of Paris , the reprobation with which they stigmatized the insurrection , show for whom the capital pronounced . formerlthe insur

      "In the populous quarters where y - rection recruited itself so quickly among the workmen easy of seduction , anarchy now encountered only the greatest repugnance for its detestable excitements " Thanks for such a change is due to the intelligent and patriotic population of Paris . Let them be convinced more and more that my only ambition is to secure the repose and prosperity of France . Let the people of 1 ans continue to aid the authorities , and the country will soon be able to perform in calmness the solemn act which is to inaugurate a new era for the Republic . " The proper comment on the above is to be iound in the Moniteur of the same day :- — .

      . „ , " The departments of the Herault and the Uard in a Hate of siege . The Fifth Legion of the National Guard of Paris is dissolved and disarmed . ''

      THE DEPARTMENTS . Nearly all France is by this time in a state of eiege . On so muny points has resistance been made with more or less determination that quite sufficient pretext has been given to the ruling military faction !« assume all the powers of the state . Numbers ot departments have been lumped together , and extraordinary commiHsioners set over them , with almost unlimited powers-men like M . Carher , m w ioho hands will be the control of the coming farce oi an election . Isolated and separate riots quelled y gendarmerie and National Guards have occurred an over France , but no serious movement except pc 9 -j w _ ¦ * 1 l _ 1 > ivur / kif ¦ W ^ Ml howevi r

      Imps in the South . It is impossible , arrive at the truth . Immense agitation previu h ,, » the fact is that one-fourth of France has bee n p intui n a htato of siege . How far we can accept the Ic » J » h correct we know not . It ie from the tl uMJ journal the Fays , edited by la Guerro . ue . e , who wrote the flattering portrait of M . Bonaparte . " Jaeyucri * has raiaed its flag . B- » dH of » 8 H « J « nJ traverse the country , march on towns , n . va « lt m houses , pillage , burn , kill , leav . ng everywln-re * < in paHHuge abominable crimes , which bring uh batJ t SSSSSSSKssk To meet Huch a » tate of things the organ of M .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 13, 1851, page 1174, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1913/page/2/