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    receive the support of a majority of the representatives of Ireland There is a great attempt making to prove with liberals of England that they can have nothing in common with the Catholic representatives of Ireland . I confess , from my observation of the Irish Liberal representatives , that I am of a different opinion . ( Hear . ) I am not about to justify the part that some of them may have taken , nor would I ask them to approve of all that 1 have done ; but I must say that in the main , with scarcely an exception , the Catholic and Liberal members from Ireland , upon all questions affecting the people , whether of Great Britain or Ireland , have never been found adverse to liberty and to progress . Upon the Reform Bill , slave emancipation , Municipal Corporations Bill , and Free-trade , we always

    had a majority of the Irish representatives of Ireland upon our side ; and he , in my opinion , is an enemy of both countries who endeavours to make it appear that there are no objects which we can work in common . Take the Freetrade question and Parliamentary reform , and see if there is any doubt whatever but that we will work harmoniously on those subjects . ( Hear , hear . ) Take the question of the Ballot ( cheers)—and let me ask can we not co-operate on that ? ( Hear , and cheers . ) We have heard strange things in England of what has been done in this country during the recent elections ; we have have been told of the doings of Lord Londonderry in a neighbouring county , and strange things of what certain ecclesiastics did further south and west ; but I find that the press does not say as much about the landlords as about the priests , and yet

    nobody pretends that the priests wanted to make the people vote against their opinions or their feelings , whilst it is notorious that the landlords did so . ( Cheers . ) It might be said that the measure of compulsion on the part of the priests was proportioned to that exercised by the landlords , but it is not a fair measure , for it does not measure at all . What the priests wanted was , that the people should withstand the tyranny of the landlords , and should vote in accordance with their own sentiments and wishes . ( Cheers . ) The only remedy , however , offered for the evil is by the priests , and that is the establishment of the ballot . ( Loud and continued cheering . ) I believe that no Liberal Government can come into office or remain in office that is not prepared to bring forward a bill for the establishment of the Ballot . " ( Cheers . )

    He wound up by declaring that Englishmen , spite of supremacy in the Church , and aristocracy in the Government , had none but the best wishes for Ireland .

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    LETTERS FROM PARIS . [ From our owjst Correspondent . ] Letter XLI . Paris , October 6 , 1852 . We are beginning to learn the truth about the pretended triumphs of Louis Bonaparte in the South . He has been everywhere received with the coldest and most disdainful silence . The authorities display a formidable mise en scene : all that bears an official or semi-official character is forced to throng the passage of the hero , but there begins and ends the pretended population , rushing to welcome the " Prince" with acclamations . Not only the public functionaries of every kind and grade , not only the magistracy of the towns , not only the district judges and the country priests , but even every locsil tax-gatherer , down to the very rats de cave , ( excise-men , ) the custom-house officers , the foresters , the rural police , are summoned to attend . All the municipal councils in every department are convoked . At Marseilles the societies of mutual assistance were forced to join the cortege . So it lias been with the old soldiers of tho Empire ; all grouped , disposed , arranged like a stage procession , to produce effect . But , unfortunately , the enthusiasm lms been wanting : the slaves who swell the triumph , and throng the victor's car , remain silent , and the crowd of gazers

    follow their example . At a given moment , even tlie slaves avenge themselves . At Marseilles , with its population of 100 , 000 souls , and about 12 , 000 rich merchants , only twenty men of good will could be found to serve as an escort of honour to Bonaparte . Besides , the municipal council , which hiul voted funds for the reception , was convened to vote an address , and rejected by a large majority the coinpliinentary address proposed by the Mayor . At Roanne , where , according to the Monileur , the enthusiasm exceeded all bounds , the municipal elections huvo just taken place . The members

    composing the municipal council which had received Itonajmrtc , were rejected by an immense majority , and replaced by men of the opposition ; and the mayor , M . Andre" Fuuvel , whose daughter bad presented a bouquet , to the I ' reHident , replaced by a republican , a man j > olitically condemned , and reatrictcd to residence { intern / ' ) at Kounuc . At Montpellior , where , according to the Monileur , Bonaparte wbs received with the liveliest enthusiasm , oiii of 1 ;{ , <)()() electors , only 1250 einne forward to vote for tho candidates of ( Jovernineut : the remaining 10 , 050 electors abstained from voting altogether .

    Neither nt Marseilles , Toulon , nor Montjielher , did the ] M )]) ulation join in the shouts of the funcMonurie-H eager for promotion . Indeed , tho real population > h carefully kept out of tin * way . 10 very where the passage of l . lu : President ., and tho approacheM of the streets , are barred by linen of soldiers . The horo can only bo neon from a distance . As thia extmvugunco of precaution

    is observed , the gazers remain silent and thoughtful . The soldiers themselves look gloomy and depressed , and raise no shout . At Toulon , the mode of reception to be pursued by the fleet had been pre-arranged with excessive particularity . Even the shouts had been regulated beforehand : the officers and crews were to shout Vive Louis Napoleon ! When Bonaparte passed the ship ' s companies in review , the officers alone shouted , to give the signal to the crews : but the crews maintained an obstinate silence . We hear that Bonaparte made a horrible grimace at this reception .

    His progress continues . He returned from Toulon to Marseilles on the 29 th ult ., and set out again on the 30 th for Aix . On the first of this month he was at Montpellier , where he went to the Cathedral to receive the incense of the priests and the benediction of the Bishop , as usual . On the 2 nd he arrived at Narbonne , and on the 3 rd assisted at high mass in the Cathedral of that town . On the 4 th he was at Carcassonne . As I write , he is at Toulouse , where he is receiving all the honours and ovations which the famous Prefect of Toulouse has been so long preparing—namely , the mayors of all the communes of his department , with deputations , and banners , and drums , and hautboys , crowned with flowers . To-day , too , he is to witness a representation of the great Battle of Toulouse .

    Throughout his journey this pale copyist of the Emperor launches his decrees . Napoleon the Great dated from Berlin the Continental Blockade , from Moscow the organization of the Theatre Francais : Napoleon the Little dates from Grenoble a decree on the rural police ( gardes champetres ); and at Marseilles , without consulting Ministers or Budget , he decrees a sum of 2 , 500 , 000 francs ( 100 , OOOJ . ) for rebuilding the Cathedral of that city . Really this gentleman disposes of

    French money as if it were his own . On the occasion of this donation , being complimented by the Bishop , Bonaparte replied , " that his Government was the only one that had not made of religion a political instrument . " It is true , that while he was making this veracious reply , the Moniteur was informing us that " all the allocations addressed to the Prince by the municipal authorities , and hy the clergy , tended to the transformation of the powers held by the Elect of the People . "

    Au reste , this transformation goes bravely on . The reconstruction of the throne at the Tuileries is completed . Most active preparations are being made in that palace for the reception of the conquering hero on his return . More than 2000 workmen are now employed in restoring the palace to a fit state to be inhabited by " His Imperial Highness . " A triumphal entry into Paris is in contemplation , such as was never witnessed , even here . Unfortunately the city is quite exhausted of its funds .

    Instead of returning to Paris on Friday , the 15 th inst ., Bonaparte will not re-enter the city before Sunday , the I 7 tb , in order that there may be a larger concourse of people on his passage . He is to arrive , about ten o ' clock in the morning , at the Terminus of the Orleans Railway , and from thence proceed direct to the Cathedral of Notre Dame , where a Te Deum will be chanted . Thence he will proceed along the Quaya to the Champs p ] lysees , through an uninterrupted double line of troops . The National Guards of Paris and the banlieue will be under arms . There the famous mise en scene of the Departments will be repeated . All the

    municipal councils of the Department of thy Seine , with drums and banners at their head , will l > o assembled . Young girls will present flowers , the soldiers will present arms ; the priests will throw incense , and there will be a salute from the artillery . Some say that immediately after the ceremony Bonaparte will be installed at the Tuileries ; others that be will go to St . Cloud , where a second triumphal entry will take place in the presence of deputations from all the communes of the- Department of tho Seine et , Oiso . This mania for triumphs is becoming sheer insanity in Honupurtc . At , all events , the Senate will be convoked at the end of the month , to declare that the unanimous desire of the population is the Empire , with Louis Bonupirt . o

    as Emperor . The question now is , how long will this ridiculous parody of the Empire last ? Will the imperial restoration bo more fortunate- than the royal ? Will it , be followed , us was the elder monarchy , by an Empire of the younger brunch ? If it , should not be ho , it , certainly will not , bo the fault , of Napoleon-JeVome JIo is intriguing in every direction , feeling bin way , digging tho ground , indefatigubly . Or will the awakened people , in the day of their wrath , uwcop away all these mountebanks , with all the gowgnWH of their imperial comedy ? This last , is the moat , likely hypothesis . In the meantime , everything is making ready for the dsnoiienumt of tho comedy . Already u Biiddlor luui received an order to have tho imperial arniH engraved on all the harnews of Bonaparte ' H household .

    Pieces of money with the imperial effigy are already coined . Many of the names selected for the resuscitation of the imperial dignities are already mentioned M . Baroche is to be the Arch Chancellor , with the Elysee for his residence . The entire press , with the single exception of the Moniteur , to be suppressed Universal suffrage itself will almost cease to be consuited . The legislative corps will be modified , and the tribune suppressed . No new editions of such a speech as M . de Montalembert ' s will be tolerated : the Legig . lature will be strictly a corps of mutes . Happily , indeed , Bonaparte , with all his decrees cannot decree us a one-armed people ; and the day will come when we shall recover the use of both .

    It would appear by the Journal le Frankfort that the European Powers are disposed to let the iJmpire pass without a protest , on the sole condition that Bonaparte respect ( what remains of ) the territorial arrangements of the treaties of 1815 . Napoleon the Little is to accept Waterloo ! That will be curious and piquant enough ! He contents himself with parodying the big phrases of the Emperor . The other day , at Marseilles , it was , " The Mediterranean should become a French lake . " One of these days he will halt on the Place de la Concorde , and , pointing to the peaceful obelisk of Luxor , he will exclaim to his soldiers , " From the summit of this obelisk , " &c . &c .

    They do , indeed , contemplate the army ; and they behold our soldiers massacring their defenceless brethren in the name of discipline , and receiving the honours and pay of a campaign for that glorious service ! The attitude of the population begins to cause some uneasiness to Bonaparte and his adherents . All the rigorous measures of December are resumed . In every department persons confined to certain districts ( internes ) are suddenly torn from their houses and deposited on the frontier , if not transported to Algeria .

    Fresh arrests are taking place in Paris and in the provinces . A number of workmen , suspected of more than commonly ardent republicanism , are driven out of Paris . Numerous domiciliary visits take place in the towns and villages . We are living under the loi des suspects of 1793 . The other day the house of Pilhes was absolutely besieged because it was known that Aristide Pilhes , the ex-representative , had taken refuge there . He had been condemned to transportation , and had made bis escape from the prison of Foix .

    The Prefect of Vaucluse , in concert with the Procureur de la Republique , surprised Tarascon in the dead of night , at the head of a whole force of gendarmerie , in the department , and surrounded the town . They proceeded to search every house . Seventeen houses were thus broken into in succession . The minutest researches , prolonged for several hours , led to no result . The press is still the object of continual persecutions . The Siecle has been condemned to a thousand francs fine and a year ' s imprisonment . No one knows for what article , deserving so severe a sentence . M . Louis Jourdan , the editor of the Siecle , affected by this penalty , is a man known for his extreme reserve and singular moderation . His condemnation has produced a most

    unfavourable impression . The Censorship is not less active . A new pieWt called Richard the Third , was in preparation at the Porte St . Martin , in which the words tyrant and ¦ usurper occurred more than once . All the passages were expunged . What a pity it is that tie censors cannot suppress history ! History is guilty of a thousand other allusions equally criminal . Even in Swit / erlana , Bonaparte boa forbidden the publication of Victoi Hugo ' s brochure , on the pretext of insults agamat « friendly government . , The ' elections of Paris are over . The ( government

    candidates ( two highly respectable merchants ) w 0 ™ *^ turned by an insignificant , majority . One halt electors abstained altogether from voting ; the vo < ^ of the other half were about equally divided 1 ) ofc ^ the Government and the opposition . Onv <> f tho c tors had written upon his ticket thw formidable thrcii " If lionafarte . makes himself Emperor , I talce il solemn oath to hill him . " wiu

    Another electoral fact , equally si gnificant , » ticed in tho Department of tho Ho ot Vihune , bignac , in the communal oloctioiw . Not a Bin *!; lo «' waH presented himself during tho two days the balloopen . Tho official bureau , finding that no votd'H . forward , also declined to vote , and wont away , " ^ the ballot-boxes empty . This is a fuct unoxiunp " tho history of elections . ,., j i () „ .,, „ Tim garrison of tho Vnr liftH boon doubled . ^^ qnent communications between tho Vnr und . llHi Oii refugees in Piedmont , made Bonaparte fair nn l ( J . of that Department . In tho Department ol d _ rondo , n number of depot * of arum und <> 1 g » 1 ^ have boon diucovoml . Everywhere , in ««*» ' ' ov ! ti Hignn of agitation . Tho quarrel with Belgium b

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    QfiO THE LE ADER . [ Saturday ,

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 9, 1852, page 960, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1955/page/4/