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    girls who adorned the rustic cars , displayed their enthusiasm according to order , but in their own way . Yes ! they did throw their bouquets at the President , as they paired in order before him ; but what the Government journals don't tell us is , that they made a sly game of throwing them at the President's face the fun was who could hit him on the nose ! The popular enthusiasm is reduced by examination to the enthusiasm of the soldiers . The nine regiments of infantry filed past the President shouting Vive Napoleon ; a company of the 17 th light infantry cried Vive I'Empereur ; the artillery came next—the commanders making some show of respect—the privates keeping- strict silence . Then came the cuirassiers and the lancers , who , as usual , indulged in loud

    acclamations . Such is the truth , the real truth , ( la verite vraie , ) as M . de Lasteyrie once said in the Assembly in noticing the falsehoods of the Government . Certain significant facts , which the journals carefully abstained from relating , have to be mentioned . First , immediately after the passage of the President through Chalons and Nancy , a great number of arrests were effected ; for the purpose , it would seem , of moderating the counter-enthusiasm of certain citizens . At Strasbourg there were several arrests , notably that of M . Genin , a respected

    merchant in that city . Another fact I may relate is as follows : —Among the official rejoicings there was a mat de cocagne ( greasy pole ) erected . This is nothing more than a very lofty pole , well greased with soap and tallow to make its ascent difficult ; and on the top is a large crown stuffed with watches , jewels , money , silk handkerchiefs , &c , the prize of the winner . A young man who had got to the top of the pole shouted out JTive la Mepublique , as he plucked away the foulard which was hanging from the summit of the poll . The shout was caught up by the whole crowd .

    Louis Bonaparte remained only two days at Strasbourg . He crossed the Rhine into the Grand Duchy of Eaden , on a visit to his cousin , the Princess Stephanie . Whereupon rumours of marriage , quite unfounded . It was asserted ihat the President had gone into Baden to have an interview with a young Princess of the ancient house of Wasa . The fact is , that he went into Baden chiefly in order to establish a precedent . He was anxious to assert his right to leave the national territory . The precedent will allow him , on his approaching journey into the south , to go as far as Rome , where he proposes to obtain the benediction of the Pope .

    Apropos of this trip into Baden , the Moniteur published the following fiction ;— " The Prince President has resolved to remain at Strasbourg two or three days longer than he had intended , in order to testify to the population of Alsace his gratitude for the warm reception they have given him . " Now , he did nothing of the sort , for he went into Baden . On Friday the President returned to Paris . He made his solemn entry after the ceremonial prescribed for the entry of Kings . He advanced one . stop more towards the secret aim of his ambition . The announcement of his return roused the whole city . The faubourg's of St . Denis and St . Martin , and tins Boulevards , were crowded with a dense mass of people . The clergy were in waiting , iind all the public functionaries .

    The entire army of Pans , to the number of 40 , 000 men , was ranged in two lines from the railway terminus to the Arc d < - Triomphe de , UKiaile . The President ' s entry was hailed by ringing of the church bells and by Halul . es of cannon . As he left the station , cries of f-Lva Napoleon proceeded from a number of persons present . At the Porte St . Denis the cortege was ; r « . u . ;»; iv » ul with : ui icy silence , as also throughout the lloulevard llonnc Nouvelle . At the corner of tin ; lloulcviird Poissonniere , a group of ' . Dereinhrail I ards shouted p ' tna I'J'Jmpereur ; on the Boulevard des II , aliens some cries ol Vine Napoleon wens uttered by h knot of waiters of the Cafe 'Forlorn . Louis lionapiirtc passed through Paris , without halting , on his way to St . Cloud , there to lay his laurels at this feet of the presiding Goddess of the ]) hiee .

    Tim title ; of " Highness , bestowed upon the President by tin ; oflicial journals , in their reports of the entry into Paris , hits been remarked . Kverybody asks , h hat son ' of IligJmess ! Is it Itoyal Highness ?— -is it Imperial Highness ? livery one discerns another link in tin ; ehuin that leads to 11 k ; lOinp ' nv . Besides , the Imperial Household is now complete ; all the offices ure distributed .

    M . Beville has been appointed Pnj ' cl , du Palais , and M . Merle sous-prclet of the said J ' alais . 1 have in former letters mentioned the names of the other oll ' ieers of the Household of the ; future Kinporor . There is , after all , no reason to be surprised ut Bonaparte ' h assuming the title of Highness : he bus already made nil his adherents Counts and Burons . Tho Mon ' deur luis not registered uiiy of these uonriinitioiw which arc

    done in a corner { sous le manteau de la cheminee ) , but they are not the less public . It is thus that the first stone of the new buildings of the Louvre , which has just been laid , bears an inscription to the effect that it has been laid by the Comte de Casabianca . What is hidden from men is confided to the earth ! It was so with the secret of Midas . On Sunday last , this first ston 6 was laid . The ceremony was marked by no incident . M . de Casabianca made the only speech , in which the following passage was remarked : —" You know the destination of the buildings whose foundations we are laying . The same enceinte is destined to contain the residence of the Chief of the State , three

    Ministries , the telegraphs , the national printing-office , and an imposing military force . " Thus the most active and most energetic forces of Government will be concentrated in the hands of the man to whom France has , by an unanimous vote , confided the trust of her destinies , and who , watching ceaselessly for her repose and for her prosperity , will be able to transmit in an instant to the most remote provinces the expression of Ms sovereign tvill . This address raises Bonaparte at once to the rank of Sovereign . France is henceforth nothing . She is asleep . It is Bonaparte who watches for her . France is no longer Sovereign . Bonaparte is Sovereign in her place .

    You see it is always the same fixed thought in different guises . As to the concentration in the Tuileries of the seat of government , the ministries , the telegraph , and the national printing-office , this idea is stolen from M . Emile de Girardin , who , as long ago as 1838 , drew up a plan of reconstruction of the Tuileries for the purpose . In 1848 , M . de Girardin lost no time in showing this plan to M . Persigny and to Louis Bonaparte , and in expatiating on its importance . The latter find a malicious pleasure , no doubt , in now

    adopting the plan , the more so , that such a concentration at the Tuileries of all the springs of administration , becomes a very formidable instrument of despotism . M . de Girardin unwittingly forged a whip to scourge his own country ! There begins to be a good deal of talk about the forthcoming fete of August 15 , as if it were to be the sale of the empire . But the rumour deserves no credit . The veto of the Emperor of Russia still threatens , and the Princess of Lieven was unable to raise it . The whole fete will be limited to a

    distribution of eagles to what remains of the national guard , purged by Bonaparte . It will be a pale copy of the fete of the 15 th of May . The progress to the south is also much discussed . Bonaparte is determined to undertake it in spite of his entourage . The authorities have received orders to prepare the ground . The journals are full of government puffs . Every town , we are to believe , is to have its railway , its canal , &c . All the munificent expectations of a budget of 1800 millions of francs , are presented to the dazzled eyes of the constituencies . For instance , Marseilles , among other towns , is promised a grand scheme of irrigation , for cleansing , and improving the sanitary condition of , the port . The ; arrival of the President at Bordeaux is

    announced for September 5 th , at Marseilles for the 20 th , and at Lyons for the 27 th of the same month . Meanwhile , a modification of the Ministry is spoken of . MM . Magiu ; and Fould art ; to return to office , the former to the Public Works , the Litter to Finance . Persigny is to become Minister of State , MM . Casabianca and Lefebre Duru / lc to give up their Ministerial port / olios , and retire upon the dignity of Senators . Tho departmental oleotioiiH begin to occupy some stttention . The provincial journals publish numerous lista of candidates . Among the opposition a genornl compromise of opinions Is observable . Tho Government ,

    on the other hand , lets slip no opportunity of intrigue . At Cherbourg , the sou . s-prefet lutely addressed n note to the ; Journal da Cherbourg combating the election of a certain candidate , with an order to tho newspaper to publish his note without rectification or commentary of any kind , inducing the public to believe that the note proceeded from f he editorial direction of the paper . As this fact might possibly appear strange to you , on tho part of a government ho " popular" as Bonaparte ' s , I give you the notification in question , word for word : —

    " The sous-profct of Cherbourg , by tho terms of Art . 1 !) of tho Deem ; of February 17 , 1852 , requires of M . liccauf , Kditor and Proprietor of the Journal de Cherbourg , to insert ., by way of notification , at the ; head of the number of his journal , to appear on Sunday the 78 th instant , the following article , which must neither be followed nor preceded by any comments , not even by this present requisition . " Now , what was this article the Sous-prefet demanded to have inserted without comment ? It was simply a false imputation to get rid of a legitimist candidate .

    Such arc the ; means employed by tho Government to perpetuate tho existing regime , and as such means succeed , noodles bow their heads , and salute tho perpetrator m a beneficent , genius . J . liopo Umt your JGjiglish

    readers , at least ; will refuse to bend the head before success obtained by means like these . The press , or what remains of it , is visited with continual warnings . The sous-prefet of Noyou has gone so far as to forbid a newspaper of that town to speak disparaginglyof Marie Antoinette . What can that signify , you will say ? Don't you see , I reply , the pretension of Louis Bonaparte to be the grand-nephew of the Queen of France ? When the Emperor Napoleon married Marie

    Louise , he rubbed his hands , and said to his entourage with a chuckle , " Now , then , I am the nephew of Louis XVI . " So that Louis Bonaparte , the nephew of his uncle , as he is called in France , is also the grand-nephew of Louis XVI , and Marie Antoinette . But one thing is now wanting to the President ; it is to have the Crown upon his brow , whether royal or imperial , matters little . The petitioning has begun again in good earnest . A rather noticeable affair has taken place in . connexion with the movement . Petitions for the

    reestablishment of , the Empire are m active circulation in the Charente . A certain M . Brunet , a retired officer , living at Angouleme , endeavoured , it seems , to * prevjgit the petitions receiving adhesions . A " coinrnunicatecl" note appeared in the Angouleme journals , blaming this interference of M . Brunet , and a judicial inquiry has been commenced against him . Those who refuse to sign are prosecuted : then everybody will sign ; but will Bonaparte be carried to the throne by popular acclamations ? I leave to the next revolution to answer the question . S .

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    CONTINENTAL NOTES . In the spring , it may be remembered , we alluded more than once to a series of notes exchanged between Russia , Prussia , and Austria , on the possible and probable reestablishment of the Napoleonic Empire in France . The upshot of these notes of the three great powers was , that they might conditionally tolerate , as a government de facto , an elective Empire ; but that any attempt at reviving an hereditary usurpation in denial of the paramount rights of the house of Bourbon , would not onl y not obtain their recognition , but encounter their emphatic resistance—first , in the shape of a protest addressed to Franco herself and to all the European powers , and then in such " ulterior measures" as , after due conference , they might ? think fit to take . They disavowed any interference with the independence of France as to her internal government , but the hereditary right to the throne being an international as well as a national principle , they were resolved , if that right should be usurped , to defend it , —recognising ' no other dynasty than the Bourbons , and no other claimant than the Comte de Chambord . The Morning Chronicle of Wednesday last published , exclusively , an analysis of this treaty , dated May 20 , 1852 , and signed , ratified , and exchanged between Russia , Austria , and Prussia . This convention , like the treaty of the 26 th of September , 1815 , is placed by the three Sovereigns under the invocation of tlie most holy and undivided Trinity . Their Majesties tho Emperor of Austria , the King of Prussia , and the Emperor of Russia , considering—That the basis of European order is hereditary right , that in that respect there is a joint responsibility and interest { solidar ^ iU ) between all European States ; considering also that , as regards France , tho House of Bourbon personifies and represents tho hereditary right , and that tho present head of that house is the Comte de Chambord ;

    That the power exercised by M . Louis Napoleon Bonn > parto is a power de facto , which cannot even prop itself up with tho pretended right of the Emperor Napoleon , since the latter voluntarily renounced , by tho first article of the treaty of Fontaine ' bleau , " for himself , hia successors , and descendants , as well as for each member of his family , all tho rights of sovereignty and domination , as weJl over the French nation and tho kingdom of Italy , as over any other cpuij&ryi" ,.- ¦ .,... - ¦ , ' : ,. iUn . That ; according to tho rules'bT international right , Ui < * violation of tho treaty of Fontainebleau by tho Emperor Napoleon , while it released tho Powers from tho engagements taken by thorn with respect to him , did not release him from his renunciation , for himself and his descendants , of tho crown of Franco ; That , moreover , tho very origin of tho present power ior tho President of tho French Republic is the negation « i

    hereditary right ; For all theso motives , and for many others which It fa useless to " enumerate , tho subscribers to the present convention consider if , their dut . y to determine beforehand , «»*' by common accord , tho conduct which they ought to hol < l in tho event that ; one or other of the eventualities above enumerated should present themselves . In tho case that the Prince Louis Bonaparte , present President of tho French . Republic , should got hinweU elected by universal suffrage us Emperor for life , the Powers will not . recognise that now form of elective power till after explanations shall have been demanded from . Prince Louis Honaparte , an to tho sense and meaning ol

    his new title , and after ho shall have token an engagement ' —first , to respect , tho treaties ; secondly , not to endeavour to extend the territorial limits of Franco ; and , thirdly , formally to renounce all pretension to the continuation of founding of a dynasty . In the case that tile Prince Louis 'Bonaparte should d «> - eluro himself hereditary Emperor , the ' Powers will not . recognise the now Emperor , and will address to the French Government , as well as to all the othor K . uirnpoaii Go » - vernmonls , a protest founded on tho principles of puhlulaw and on tho letter of the treaties . They will aflorwarclrt consult ,, according to the circumstances , iis to tho ulterior measures which they may think it necessary to take . l » the cwso Ulllv ft l > oi > ujax W military uiyyomout should "YW >

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  • Leader (1850-1860), July 31, 1852, page 722, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1945/page/6/