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      sion , at the mere will of the Government , or of the police ,, if this'invasion of a supposed right were submitted to j and it was decided to meet every Sunday as usual , till the question was settled in one way or another , and to do as much in the way of assemblage and speaking as the police could not prevent . There , then , may r he seen any Sunday thousands . of persons walking about , in order to obey the order to keep moving , and discussing and reading aloud as they walk . "

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      . LETTERS FROM PARIS . [ Fbom our own Correspondent . ] Letter XXV , Paris , Tuesday Evening , loth Juno , 1852 . Louis Bonaparte has had the projected laws for levying additional taxes laid before the Legislative Body . The proposed laws consist of a duty on carriages , a legacy duty , and an exorbitant duty on paper and alcohol . The effect of the tax upon paper will be to increase the cost of that article some 25 to 30 per cent ., and is consequently a serious blow struck at the numerous dependents upon the paper trade , such as printers , booksellers , and engravers . The duty on alcohol , which was to have commenced in January , 1853 , will begin on the 1 st of August . The pecuniary necessities of the Elysee are most urgent .

      These measures were discussed by the Council of State , in Bonaparte ' s presence , last Friday , and were warmly opposed by M . Boinvilliers . He said it was unworthy a strong Government to have recourse to systems of vague , indefinite , and uncertain taxation ; that such means should be left for weak Governments . The last words made a visible impression upon Louis Bonaparte who forthwith reminded the debaters of what he had done in the cause of order . He then explained his theory of taxation , from which it appeared that he advocated that the great weight of taxation should be borne by the rich . The Council of State did not fail to perceive that Louis Bonaparte ' s aim was not

      so much to raise a revenue as to make himself popular . A member of the Council of State then rose , and suggested to Bonaparte that he should , for consistency ' s sake , withdraw the proposed duty on alcohol and salt , which affected . principally the poorer classes . The proposed duty on salt , which produced but little return , was accordingly withdrawn . That on alcohol , which is expected to yield a revenue of twenty millions , was maintained . These fiscal measures met with a poor reception in the Legislative Body . The reading of the bills was several times interrupted by the murmurs of the Assembly , which seemed to have shaken off its usual apathy . The question before the Assembly required an immediate decision . Were the members , with a

      view to save time , and to be able to pass the bills before the end of the session , which terminates on the 28 th of June , to refer these projects of law to the Committee on the Budget , or should they nominate a fresh committee , which , owing to the loss of time it would entail , would be equivalent to an indefinite adjournment . A great number of deputies demanded to be heard in favour of the latter course , which was evontually adopted by a large majority . The fate of these untoward projected laws scorns to be foretold in the reception already given them by the Legislative Body . Tho deputies are determined to reject them .

      Tho Council of . State had another sitting on Saturday , at which Louis Bonaparte was not present , to consider tho detached clauses of tho project of law on tho departmental and communal organization . Tho Govermment project was rejected , the proaent law will therefore bo provisionally maintained . Tho Council of State then wont through the numerous amendments proposed by tho Legislative Body in the Budget of 18 G 3 . Some of tho amendments proposed a reduction of 30 , 000 men in the army , and of twenty-six millions in tho Budget . Tho amendments wore opposed by tho ministers , and one of thorn , Persigny , warmly attacked

      tho Committee on the Budget . After having complained of tho hostility of tho committee , ho said , « ' Wo know tho means adopted by those doxtorous gontlomon to be admitted into tho Committee . " Bonaparto is not loss annoyocf than his ministers . Apropos of the reduction of tho army by 80 , 000 men , nfl proposed by tho committee , ho eomo timo sinco said , "If they vote t his diminution , I will decree- an increaso ofu hundred thousand inon , and wo shall roo who will carry tho day then . " In reply to Bonaparte ' s threats , tho committee on tho Budget adopted tho MoYode amendment exempting tho Orloarifl property from auction duty , offocting thereby a saving of 1 , 800 , 000 francs , which would othcrwiuo have reached tho coffers of tho

      State . Tho appeal instituted by tho Government against tho decision of tho Tribunal of tho Soino , which had declared its competency to take cognizance of tho decree of tho 22 nd January confiscating the Orleans property ,

      wiu be brought before the Council of State this day ( Tuesday ) . M . Cornudet will read the report , which decides , as I stated three weeks ago , in favour of the competency of the ordinary tribunals . M . Reverchon had been designated as the Government Commissary but Bonaparte , having ' heard that he was prepared to decide favoitrably as to the competency , quashed the appointment , and named M . Maigne in his stead . The Council of State was beset in this affair by incessant

      intrigues . I have already alluded to this subject in a former letter . Louis Bonaparte threatened personal violence against a certain , number of the members , and spoke of dismissing every Councillor of State who should vote against the Government in this affair . I suppose , nevertheless , the Council of State will do its duty , arid that , notwithstanding Bonaparte ? s threats , it will reject the arbitrary pretensions of the Government .

      The truckling policy of Louis Bonaparte , as regards the clergy and the foreign powers , continues . To conciliate the good graces of Russia , he has just issued a decree withdrawin g from the Polish refugees -the relief which France had given them for twenty years . The motives of this decree are set forth in the most hypocritical verbiage . To deserve the good graces of the clergy , Bonaparte has authorized the procession of the Feie-Dieu through the streets of all the towns . Nay , more , orders have been given to the troops to accompany these processions . In several towns the inhabitants have derisively sent wax candles to the officers , telling them that wax tapers are the only swords they are worthy to wear . Of course the

      clergy are daily becoming more audacious . For some time past they have recommended , through their organ the Uhivers , the suppression of Ancient History and Letters . Homer , Herodotus , Sophocles , Pindar , Aristotle , Plato , Demosthenes , Cicero , Virgil , Horace , Tacitus , &c , are proscribed by the fiery organs of the priests , who object to these books being put into the hands of young people . This insane proscription , is not confined to ancient classics , it extends to Bossuet and Fenelon / among the moderns . Bossuet , the eagle of Meaux , and Fenelon , the swan of Cambray , are rejected as Gallican by these infuriated ultra-montanists . The dispute at this moment is raging most violently : French bishops are thundering forth their bulls one against another . .

      The refusals to take the oath still prevail , A third of the departmental and municipal councillors throughout France have resigned , and it is expected that the proportion will reach half the whole number of these functionaries . In the list of " resigned" professors , must be added Barthelemy St . Hilaire , of the Museum of Natural History ; Choinel , of the Ecole de Medecine ; Catalan , Professor of Mathematics , St . Louis College j Gourgeon , Professor of History at Bordeaux , who have all refused to take the oath .

      The Legitimists , on their side , obeying tho summons of the Comte do Chambord , are withdrawr ing the oath they h ad already taken . Tho Comte do Villiers , among others , sent in his resignation , in tho following terms : — " Being desirous of following the advice which comes to us from the exiled , I have addressed a letter to tho Mayor of St . Nazaire , containing my resignation of the office of municipal councillor of that commune , and withdrawing tho oath I took a month ago . " Bonaparto had , in some localities , caused citizens to bo prosecuted before the tribunals for

      refusing the oath : M . Vcrney , cx-Presidcnt of tho Tribunal of Commerce at Evroux , was amongst the number * He had beon nccusud of having excited tho hatred and contempt of the people against the Government ; but was acquitted . Bonaparte ' s procureur ( public accuser ) appealed to tho Court of Appeal of Rouen , which , on Saturday , pronounced another acquittal of M . Vcrney , and condemned Bonaparte to pay tho costs . Tho spirit of opposition , as you perceive , is gradually extending in Franco , and everything is being organized

      for resistance . Tho republican party haa at length succeeded in re-organizing itself , and , in a very short timo , you will find it onco more at work . As for tho Logi mists and Orloanwtfl , tho fusion is complete between tho heads , and cannot fail . shortly to extend to tho ranks of tho respective parties . Tho Princes of tho Houho of Orleans have overcome tho opposition of tho Duchess of Orleans , and havo adhered unconditionally to tho absolute supremacy of tho Comto do ChainboiVL * ¦ Persecutions and arrests havo ro-coinmoncod with ronewed vigour . Tho journeymen hatters had appointed delegates to collect n subscription in aid of thoir proscribed brothron . Fifteen of those dologatcs wuro arrested last Friday , at Bldnouu , in tlio Yonno . Sovoral insurgents , who had been sot at liberty , woro re-capturod on tho 9 th of Juno , and sont off to Algiers iininodiutoly . Six others woro romovod from tho sumo

      commune on the next day , and forwarded to the same destination . At Perpignan , the wife of an imfbrtuhate political exile had died of a broken heart ; more than 2000 atizens followed her to the grave . The authorities , viewing this as a culpable Manifestation ; arrested " twenty-five persons for having beent present on the oc . casion . : ' . ¦ ¦ " , •' . ¦ ¦ . •; ' ¦ ¦ . . ¦ ¦ '• . " . ; : ' v ; - ' ' ' ' a

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      CONTINENTAL NOTES . The following is the rejport of the proceedings in the appeal of the Orleans family against the Confiscation Decrees : —•

      M- COUNCIL OF STATE . " Public Sitting of the ' T&fh of Jitne . "M , Baroche , President . " THE PBOPEBT * OP THE OUZE&SB FAMILY . " The Council was this whole day occupied in the consideration of the question brought before it by the prefect of the Seine , respecting the judgment in which the Seine Civil Tribunal of First Instance , in . the early part of last May , declared its competency to take cognizance of * the decrees dated the 22 d of last January , relative to the property belonging to the Orleans family . In conformity with the organic decree of the Council of State , the sitting o £ to-day consisted qf the members of the opposite section , and of an equal number selected from amongst the other sections . The ' sltting was opened at half-past ten , When

      there were but a very few auditors present ; but shortly afterwards : the audience increased rapidly , and at one o ' clock the hall was so densely crowded , that a large number of persons were compelled to take refuge in the outer gallery . " The President having called upon the reporter . " St . Leon Cornudet read his report , in which were related the circumstances that led ta the dispute , and briefly stated the arguments which had been urged either for or against the competency of the tribunal ; but the report did not conclude with any recommendation . "M . Paul Fabre followed the reporter , and in his pleading maintained that the competency of the tribunal had been clearly established . In conclusion , he submitted to the Council as the basis of the discussion the two following questions : —

      " 1 . Have the Princes of Orleans , from 1830 to 1852 been the legitimate ; proprietors of the estates of Monceaux and Neuilly ? " 2 . In case they were recognised as the legitimate proprietors of said estates from 1830 to 1852 , have they ceased to be so in virtue of the _ jdecree of the 22 nd January ? " M . Maigne ^ , Governmen ^ Conxmissary , demanded tho confirmation of the decree so far as related to the property comprised in the grant of August 7 , 1830 ; and that it should be annulled so far as respected the property descended to the Orleans family from Princess Adelaide . " At half-past three the publio were desired to withdraw while the Council were in deliberation . At the sitting of tho Corps lagislatif on Tuesday tho Tobacco Monopoly Bill was renewed for ten years ; and 170 , 000 f , were voted for the restoration of the Church of St . Ouen , at Rouen .

      At the Zollvereiu conference on the 7 th inst . Prussia formally declined the idea of a customs' union with Austria . Prussia states numerous arguments , which force it to decline , for an indefinite length of timo , the idea of a customs' union , with the imperial states . Tho proportion of production and consumption in the two tomtones is too different ; tho mode of dividing tho common revenue , as proposed in tho Vienna draft , is too faulty ; the Austrian state monopolies would , in spite of the union , prevent free intercourse , and eo forth . As regards a treaty of commerce , tho declaration repeats that tho Prussian Government is very willing to effect one , and fully convinced ot its high utility ; but , until the Zollverein Bhall havo been reconstructed , and the one contracting part y thereby called into dofinite existenceit would bo waste ot timo to

      nogo-, tiato , particularly as the business of renewing the Zollvorom involves tho discussion of so many weighty points , ana must occupy bo much time , that tho task dare not bo incumbored by adding all tho difficulties of a treaty witn Austria . With reference to this argumentation tlio official Dresden Gazette makes some remarks , which indicate tho modo in wliioh . tho coalition Governments arc inclined to moot tho declaration in question . " ( Lho Irussian declaration , " it says , " isaronowod refusal ; but its tonour givoa room rathor for tho hope of an agreement than for tho fear of a broach . Prussia ontors for tlio lirss timo on tho morits of tho oaso , and this , indeed , may » o regarded as tho oommonaement of a negotiation ; in argumentation brought forward impopps on tho J . russian nftvnrnmnnt thn rlntv of rolinnuishinff its resistance' as

      Boon as its reasoning against tho oxpedionoy of ontorinjjj on tho troaty with Austria shall have boon ™ lutc " Y On tho othor hand , tho Post Ampt Gaeetta of tho f <* " says : — « Count do Buol Bohauonstein , Austrian Mjnistor of Foreign Affairs , ha « had delivered to Baron do' Mantouffoll a noto , dated tho 23 rd ult ., announcing to mm that all negotiations relative to tho Commercial ana totems' question wore broken ofl " . This noto was written . u reply to a dospatch of M . do Mantoutfol , who had roquosw " a positive declaration . Tho Cabinet of Vienna hasa wo declared to tho qovornmonts of tbo coiaition oiX > ar « isiau tliat it will no longer nogotiato with Prussia . „ . Tho representation of Schillor ' s " -William Toll ww boon prohibited at Trieste . .. ¦ „ -. Germany is throadod in almost all directions by woi bora of tho Imperial Iluadian family , who travel bo 1 » 3 and change thoir place of rosidonca bo ofton , nn '" ,, ' it difficult to follow thoir movomonts . Tho ttmVor $ l ™ tinuos , moantimo , at Warsaw , which is tho scono oi tflw

      roviowe anafHtea . . . . iimvfiVor Tho Weaor Gazotta contains a rumour wmou , Jl " , absurd , is important aB a revelation of tho aims *** . b denoies of tho parti prttr * throughout the conjgw Belgium is , in tbli instwxw , the iooaTo of thw 09 **®*™

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      S 80 T HE IiEABER , [ Saturday ,

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      * Wo repeat our reservation of last week , 04 to the aocoptanco of the funion At Olwomont . —LU » . of Leader . ]

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    • Leader (1850-1860), June 19, 1852, page 580, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1940/page/8/