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      among the prostrate worshippers of the new Jumrernaut . Among the p henomena were short petticoats and shorter waists , reminiscent or prescient of the Empire ; Cossackism transcendant in jackboots ; Scotland simpemig in ^ kilt ; the ( pleasure ) navy of Great Britain . represeiMtod by tl » e Captain of her Majesty ' s yachfr ; ^ sister ser * Vice by we know not what finifoijma ; the Law * Lords , Science , and Eccentricities of England , by Henry Brougham ; the public opinion of England by the absence of English worthies and the ech © ea 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 him "; and the best of the working men are ^ driven 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 . "

      Austria pursues her design of a united commercial 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 tne refusal of Prussia to come into the scheme betrays the conflict of selfish interests among those who have been united against the peoples oL 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 Cass as candidate for the Presidency was equivalent to a junction with Kossuth ; 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 , bad 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 quarrels 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-street is not England , neither is the Elysde France , nor even the White-house America .

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      LETTERS FKOM PARIS . [ FjtOH OUB OWN CoiUtHsrONDHNT . ] ' Lettish V . JParia , Tuosday evening , January 27 , 18 G 3 . The decree , which my last letter will have led you ta anticipate , confiscating the property of the House of Orleans , appeared in the Moniteur of Thursday . This decree raised a storm of reprobation . All classes of the population were disturbed ; in the higher regions of the political world it was felt as a hock . Six Ministers out of nine resigned . A new Ministry was formed . Louis Bonaparte decreed this measure in spite of all dissuasion . In a counoil

      By the first of these decrees , the house of Orleans cannot hold any moveable or immoveable property in Prance ; they must sell , within a year , all their estates . By the second of the decrees , all the moveable and 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 otfier 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 m the Moniteur : —" The Ministers of War and of Marine have withdrawn their resignations at the urgent request of-the-President of the . Republic /'

      members of the held on the occasfoa , MM . dfe Mbrny , Fould , Roucher , St . Arnaud , Duqog , *»« & Msgne , 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 hua » with tears , if not to abandon , at least to adjoxini , this fatal decree . Their supplicar tiona ' were coldly repulsed . : M * Boulay <* e . la . Meuithe , cwfemTtf Vice-President ctf the Republic * haying ventured , to address some observations on the subject met with a severe reception . ¦ ¦« ... *• ¦

      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 M 6 rode , Pepin Lehalleur , le Gomte , 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 he tenders his resignation as member of the Consultative Commission , which has never once been consulted upon any of the measures of the Executive . M . Dupin himself , who Was neve * known to resign , has felt it impossible not to resign his office of Procureur-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 names that had consented to be nominated to the dignity of Senators , immediately signified to the President that he could no 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 MM . de Wagram , de Beauffremont , de Beauveau , &c . Even the Exchange was seriously affected . Two or three days previously , the bare announcement of 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 Ledru Rollin and Louis Blanc would never have dared : he outdoes ' 93 : we are betrayed !"

      lo 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 Baroness de Feuchdres , and to cancel the will of the Prince de Conde in favour of the Due d'Aumale . 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-Orleanist plot ; and by such a pretext to colour his new coup d ' e * tat 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 .

      The 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 new Ministryan out-and-out Elysean Ministry — is appointed . These are the names of which it is composed . MM . dePersigny , Interior ; Abatucci , Justice ; Bineau , Finance ; St . Arnaud , War ; Duoos , Marine ; Turgot ,

      Foreign Affairs ; Fortoul , Publjc Worship ; Lefevro Durufle ' , Public Works ; De Maupas , Police ; Casabianca , Minister of State . Your readers will be glad , I dare say , to have some particulars about M . de Persigny , the life and soul of the new Ministry . In the first place , M . de Persigny is not a nobleman . Do Porsigny is not his name . 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 intimato friend of Louis Bonaparte , over whom ho exorcises the most serious influence . Ho is , indeed , a shrewd , clever man , and , moreover , very determined . He is

      a man to shrinjc at iw&ing in carrying out his desien of an Imperial restojatibn . He is eminently ifevolu tionaxy *—Mpecies of Bjanapartist Marat . One of his favourite adminiitxative maxims is , that " when ' " the arm ceases to strike , it becomes paral yzed . " One may foresee the feverish energy of such a system »! this , M . de Persigny desires to relyfor support unon the peasantry and the wbrking classes ,. rather than upon the bourgeoisie—upon the rural population and the faubourgs , rather than , upon the wealth , of the towns . , v ¦ ' ¦ ¦¦ ... ¦¦ ¦ - ¦ ¦¦'' ¦¦ ¦ ¦ '¦ ' ¦•• ' ¦¦ ¦ ¦ v '" ' : ¦ ¦ . ;¦ ; ¦¦ - >

      M . de Persigny is resolved , too , to go to war—if war be ,, indeed , according to general anticipation thg sole means of creating a diversion to the formidable opposition which ¦ ¦• at this very moment is rising ud on all sides to the government of Louis Bonaparte . 1 W 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 : —l . Necessity of authorization ; 2 , Power of suppression ; 3 . The censorship , and the prosecution of offenders—convictions enough to kill the press by a thousand deaths if it only wanted killing at all . '

      AH 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

      unless they 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 ihvolved . with his neighbours in one summons , he received a secret intimatioa . from one of them of the necessity that compelled them to depose against an innocent man , and he was entreated to make his escape from the Palais de Justice before the moment for their examination should "arrive . Two hours

      afterwards M . Richard jwas leaving Paris by the Northern Railway , an exile ! The master of one of the Masonic lodges has been condemned to a voluntary exile . He was designated b y the Mayor of Montmartre ( a Corsican ) as a man likely to exercise a certain influence . Quite unexpectedly he received the visit of a Commissary of Police : —¦ " 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 cashiered by the same decree , remain on the list . Arrests go on without intermission throughout

      France . 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 V . M . Louis , advocate , ex-member of the council-general of La Meurthe ? Laflizo , advocate , ex-member of the Constituent ; Antoine , attorney , and De Vallerot , formerly sousprefet of Toul . The government has alsp given orders to the authorities at Mains to arrest , wherever they maybe 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 persons at La Suze , Saint-Calais , Montargis , Pdntoise , Dax , Angers , Rhodez , andLunevulo . Meantime , the transportations are unceasing .

      In the Courrier de la Gironde we read : ~ " The number of prisoners for transportation , arrived ot Bordeaux , is estimated at nearly 100 . The ateamor which was engaged to convey them to the transport being found too small , and the weather being very roufeh , they were put oh board a larger vesBel hired for . the service , and taken to Blaye , where they were shipped on board the Mogador , for Cayenne , JNeW batches of prisoners compromised in the disturbances of five departments will bo forwarded to Bordeaux , for the same destinutiori , To those must be adaea 458 at Brest .

      Courts martial are incessantly at work in more than forty departments , transporting to Cayenne or to Senegal . , The number in the Lot et Garonne alone 8 already 800 .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 31, 1852, page 94, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1920/page/2/