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      ¦ i course of friends . There were at least 10 , 000 persons , amoiiw whom were—General l ^ ranklin Pierce , Governor Marcy , of Xow Vnrk ; Mr . Abbott Lawrence , Mr . Edward * Everett , . ?» I " r . Charles Ashman , Governor Eoufcwell , ex-Chancellor Jones , of New York , Judge Sprague , and many other distinguished men ; but the only member of the Cabinet present was Mr . Secretary Conrad . Before the interment took place the body was removed to the lawn in front of the mansion , and placed on a

      bier beneath one of the large poplar trees ; and from nine to half-past one o ' clock the assembled thousands took a last look . The countenance was serene and lifelike . Two garlands of oak-leaves and acorns and two bouquets of flowers were placed on the coffin . Many shed tears and grieved for the loss as of a departed father or dear friend . The whole of the proceedings are described as having been appropriate , solemn , and affecting . Mr . Webster was buried on his own grounds , bv the side of his children

      Daniel Webster was a native of the famous Granite State , New Hampshire . His father was an old soldier , who had served in the war which drove the French out of the Cimadas ; and , subsequently , in the war against the troops of King George III ., which ended in the independence of America . Daniel Webster was born in the back-woods of liis native state , where his father had settled down on a plot of land granted to him after the Canadian War . In his early life , he made incredible eiforts to secure for himself a tolerable education , and , ultimately , not only succeeded for himself , but , by his fruoralitv , enabled his brother Ezekiel

      to participate in similar benefits . After the completion of his college course , he studied tlie law , and was admitted to the bar of Suffolk , Massachussets , in 1805 . Practice was plentiful , but not lucrative . In 1812 he was elected to Congress ; and , in 1813 , he delivered his maiden speed ) , on the Berlin decrees of Napoleon . From that time to the day of his death , he took part in all the great political movements of his age . Although a Whig ,-a supporter of John Quiney Adams , when President , from 1825 to 1829 , both in the House of Representatives and , from 1827 , in the Senate , nevertheless , he supported General Jackson in the

      efforts made by that statesman to preserve the Union against the insane caprices of South Carolina ; but he opposed the anti-United States' Bank policy of the victor of New Orleans . Mr . Webster visited Europe in 18 : 50 . On his return , General Harrison , who bad been elected President , placed Mr . Webster at the bead of the Administration . He ' took a great part , both in and out of office , in negotiating the Ashburton treaty , and . settling the Oregon boundary . Subsequently , by his exertions , the prineip-al maritime powers recognised the independence- of the Sandwich Islands . Dunn '' the administration of Mi : Polk , lie . opposed the

      Mexican War ; 1 ml , when found inevitable , he cordially approved of the conduct of his son , who took a coninruul in a volunteer regiment , and lost his life on the arid plains of Mexico . In March , . 1850 , he supported ilie '' compromise measures" respecting . slavery ; and , on the recession of President Fillinore , he once more tMitered oiiiee . 11 is acls , whether regarding Cuba or the Fisheries question , or ' lie IjoIios Islands , since that , lime , are pretty well known io our readers ; and if ; is only to be regret . leil fhat his declining ( lays showed that" lie had , in some measure , lost that control of liis faculties , which led him io put forward the

      Fishery question in so strange : i light ; and advance and withdraw with equal levity the prc-)>) - ; terous claim to 1 he 1 iobos Islands . Hut , in spit ; - of all his limits , Mr . Webster will retain a , high place in Hie American mind , and in American history , as t he statesman who could conciliate the respect , ot diplomatic Kurope , without abandoning his decided Yankee t' ii . iciicirs and lialiits of thought , ; and in flic history of remarkable men , as one ol those who ( ought his wav upwards , 1 hroiigh all soris of dilUculfies , ( o Mich a prominent and honourable position before the whole world .

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      Cl ! I ! A AM ) T 1 IK liNITKl ) STATUS . Till ! Ibllou ing diicuniciif s have an interest of their own ; ami a : ; they explain ( heni ;; elves need no comment from us . The United Slates' Government , . judging from t ! u I ' ollowiiiv ; letter , in reply l <> n complaint , from flic owners of the Crrsmit- C / 7 // , discountenance the pro ceedingsof Captilin Toiler , her commander : — " | ) ,- ¦ isi i- ( iiiciil oCWtnli ' , \ ViiNlii "|' , t < 'n , Oft . - ! f > .

      "Sir Vour Idler of I lie Mrd ins ! . Iii ' im been received . An no inlclli .-ene . i bus reached I bis depart meiil , from (! ulm Hnce . Mn , | , ubich wits brought , by . your Reamer , it I him no men . hi of L nowiujr t lie iiil . enl ionn of the mil Lor . lies oi Ilie isl . ind oilier llmnuh . it you po . si ; eK » yoiirnell , nnd cannot , |||( . . | o re , inform you whether nmihi or passengers will be permitted to lan . l there or not , It may , however , be inferred , IV . im the | iiimI . proceeding of the authorities , Hint imiila nnd piiBiiciimn-Hconveyed in tho utoamor Croscvnt City

      will not be permitted to land there in case the individual named William Smith should remain on board of her . " I am , Sir , very respectfully , " Your obedient servant , " C . M . Conrad , Acting Secretary . " ? ' To George Law , Esq ., ! New York . " A semi-officiaLarticle in the Washington Republic of the 27 th , desires to propagate a contrary supposition . That paper says : — "We publish the following telegraphic despatch , just

      received from New Orleans , to show the wanton and mischievous falsehoods which find their way through the press and telegraph at this time . The object is transparent . It is to mislead and inflame the public mind , and by wanton misrepresentation affect the election now near at hand : — " ISTew Orleans , Oct . 26 . " Under the glaring caption of 'The United States and Spain—Our Flag Hauled Down—The Fillmore Administration Backed Out , ' with the usual disgraceful editorial comments , the Courier of this morning publishes the following despatch : — has been

      " Hon . Emile La Sere , —Lieutenant Porter summoned to Washington to explain his conduct at Havannah . The result is that the Crescent City goes no more to Havannah—the Georgia , under Lieutenant Porter , being substituted . This yields the point as to Smith , and is regarded as a backing out of our government . The charge was made in the Union of yesterday , and not denied by the Intelligencer or Republic of to-day . "A . G . Penk . " John W . Forney . " This has evidently been concocted for the political effect it is supposed it would produce here .

      " "We have the best authority for saying that the Cabinet at Washington has taken firm and strong ground in opposition to the treatment of tlie Crescent City by the Captain-General of Cuba , and have no doubt that it will be followed by a speedy redress of the wrong complained of . " There will be no 'backing out' on the part of the Administration . The rights and honour of the country will be duly maintained and vindicated . " Lieutenant Porter was ordered to this city for the purpose only of giving full information to the Government , and , at bis own request , has been transferred by the owners to the Georgia , and will return in her to Havannah . " It is impossible to see , as Lieutenant Porter has been transferred to the Georgia , and the Crescent City interdicted on account of Smith , how there has been no " backing- out . "

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      LETTERS FROM PARIS . [ Fiicxm our own Correspondent . ] Letter XLVI . Paris , Tuesday , November 9 , 1852 . The consummation is almost complete . The perjurer is about to reap the harvest of his crime—the assassin to place on his brow a crown steeped in blood . It is blood that has quickened and manured the rank luxuriance of this gaudy growth of a day ! Hypocrisy has thrown away the mask . The name of " Kepnblie , " which had basely disguised liberticide a regressions , is now a i rotisou . There are no longer citizens in France—only . subjects .

      On Sunday last , the 7 th instant , notwithstanding the sacredness of the day , the Senate held a , sifting , in obedience to the formal injunctions of" Honaparfe ; and after hearing tho report of JY 1 . Troplong , adopted the following f ir iuttiis-Con . su / tr : — - "Art . 1 . The . Imperial dignity in re-established . Louis Napoleon BonapnHe is Kmperor of Hie French , under tho name of Napoleon 111 . " Art . 2 . The Iniperinl dignity is hereditary in the direct , descendants , niiturnl and legitimate , of Louis Napoleon linnupartr , from male to mule , by order of primogeniture , iind to t he perpet ual exclusion of the females and their descendant S .

      " Art . ' 5 . Louis Napoleon Honaparle , should be not . have iniy male child , may adopt the children and descendants , natural nnd legitimate , in the malo brunch ol Ihe brol hers of the Kniporor Napoleon I . The ibrniN nnd conditions of such adoption shall be regulated by a SennlUN Consultum . If , itt a . period posterior to such adoption , Louis Napoleon . should hnppen Io havo malechildren , ( lie adopted sons cannot ho culled to the Iliroiio until afler the natural and legitimate descendants . Adoption in interdicted to I he successors of Louis Napoleon lionaparl . e and I heir descendants .

      " Art . 'I ' . In default of any natural and legitimate heir , or of imy adopted heir of Loui ' m Napoleon Koimpnrle , I h < Imperial dignity devolves to Jerome Napoleon lioiwipnrl . e and his natural and legitimate descendants , tho issue ol his niiirriage with the I ' rincess (' nt hcrino of VVurlcmberg , from mule Io mule , in the order of primogeniture , and to Ihe perpetual exclusion of the females nnd their de'ceiidiin Is . '" Art . T > . In delimit of ipiy natural and legil nmtlo or adopted heir of Louis Nnpoleon Honiiparle , and in default of any natural and legitimate heir of Jeronut Napoleon Honaiiiirte and his main descendants , an organic Senntus

      Consult . iiiii , proposed to Hie Senate by the Ministers assembled in ( iomicil , wil h the adjunction of the I'residents , neling as such in the Senate , in the leginlal ive corps , and in I lie ( ' ouneil of Stale , and submitted Io Hut people for accrplniicc , shall inline the Kmpcror , nnd regulate in his family the order of . iiiccession from malo to male , to the pci'iietual exclusion of Ihe females and of their dei : ec ) iibintm . Up to Ilie moment , when the election of the new Umperor in terminated , the ulfnirs of the Stale are Io be governed by ( lie Ministers then in function , who are to form a Council of ( Jovornmonlj and to deliberate by a majority of votes .

      " Art . 6 . The members of the family of Louis Nan I Bonaparte , called by circumstances within the line of cession , and then * descendants of both sexes form « 1 UC " the Imperial family . A Senatus Consultum ' will J ^ f f then- position . They cannot marry without tho conW of the Emperor , and their marriage , contracted -witW such authorization , involves the privation of all claim t the succession , both for him who has contracted itr and f his descendants . Nevertheless , should it so happen thnf there exists no child from such marriage , when brought ; ? an end by death , the prince who had contracted it r covers Ms rights to the succession . Louis Napoleon Bonn parte fixes the titles and the position of the other member " of his family . He regulates then- duties and obli gations hv statutes which shall have the force of law . ^

      " Art . 7 . The Constitution of January 14 , 1852 is m «; , tamed in all the enactments which are not contrary to th present Senatus Consultum , and no modifications' can made in it except in the forms and by the means provided for the purpose . " Art . 8 . The following proposition shall be submitted to the people for acceptance in the forms determined by the decrees of the 2 nd and 4 th of December , 1851 : < Tho people desires the re-establishment of the imperial di < mity in the person of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte , with the " succession in its direct descendants , natural and legitimate or adopted ; and in xiefault of such descendants , in the person of Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte , as has been regulated by the Senatus Consultum . of the 7 th day of November , 1852 . '"

      This Senatus-Consulte was voted by 86 out of 87 . One man only , M . Vieillard , Bonaparte ' s old tutor , and who has always resisted all the temptations of ambition , voted against . This single example of dignity is our solitary consolation for so many acts of baseness . Bonaparte had appointed beforehand three personages , Cardinal Archbishop Donnet , Marshal Vaillant , and the ex-minister Turgot , to present him the Senatus Con . sulte . But the Senate did not think it their duty

      to obey this desire , and by an act of adulation insisted on presenting themselves in a body to their Sovereign , to hand the document to him in person . Napoleon the Little received tne Senate at St . Cloud , in the very same hall where Napoleon the Great had , in 1804 , received the Imperial dignity . He likewise expressed his wish that the Senatus Consulte of 1852 should be voted , and presented to him on the 7 th of November , precisely the anniversary of the Eighteenth of

      JBrumaire . The First of Brmnaire falling on October 21 , the Eig hteenth Brumaire falls on November 7 . I believe I am one of the very few in Paris who remarked this coincidence of dates . Is this mere insolence in Bonaparte , or is it fatalism and superstition ? It is , I believe , both the one and the other . Perhaps , too , it is the spirit of the comedian who follows out the character he plays even to the minutest details . The text of the Plebiscite of 1852 , which is exactly that of

      1804 , seems to confirm this observation . Let me add a few particulars of this hig h comedy played out by the Senate and its Master for the amusement of Europe . Bonaparte addressed a wessng ^ to the Senate , on the question of re-establishing the Empire , in this message he told the Senate that the nation had just emphatically manifested its desire for this Imperial Restoration . ' Then putting bin mouth ( cmbouchant ) to the triumphal trumpet , he exclaimed , " that the rc-establislnnent of the Umpire satislied the just pride of the people , because it raised up apjiun with

      ' liberty and reflection wlmfc Jill Kurope , thirt y-seven years ' before , bad thrown down by force of anus , -in the midst of the disasters of the country . " This message , by its warlike tone , erented an immense sensational Paris . As if to heighten its effect , 100 , 000 copi ^ were . struck off the same evening , to be placarded m every commune throughout France . The rending <> th « message to tins Senate was followed by Ihe i > n >|> " - sifion of a Senafus Consulfe , laid on the table b ^ tri members , and a commission , likewise ; ol ten mi "

      was then and there appointed to examine it . The commission immediately elected M . 'J ' l ) lol' £ for reporter . This gentleman had the repoH m ' ^ pocket . Just as tin ; Senate was dispersing , ^"""^ "J ,, ' , . wnt instructions to the commission to dmg the m on fill Sunday , in order that the Senntus- ( , on . s ^ might be voted and presented on the aiinivcW"J _ the I 8 fh lirnmain : Tim next day ( I'Yidny ) , IV plon- hastened to St . Cloud , to read his rep " ' ' '' ( , naparle . On Saturday , lor the reasons I have < - ^ > nothing took place . Finally , on Sunday , t "' noining i , ook pi ; u . c . nnnnj , » " . ' - | , y

      held their famous . sitting . ^ M . -Tn . plontf H f , /] . reading his report . Never wn : i suck baldenl ^ " U ^ ¦ mulias ) seen or heard im tins choice «"" ' ' " .,, quencc . (' aught , between monarchy and < ' « inl <) [ ' ^ j ,,., . in the teeth of a vice , ho makes the one " <"" ' ^^ the Hiibject of bin eulogy and bin _ abune y ^ . ^ " The imperial monarchy , " be exclaims , " ^ ^ vnUCC , the revolution , and rulo in the democracy . ^ democratic , by her maniuTH , \ n monarchical . r ^ habits mid her in . sfincfH . l > einocnif > e !< 'J ' " j . ^ .,,,, ol the re- < -Hfn , blishinenf of flu ; monarchy in tlie 1 1 (( W ( . ( , ii prince destined to k > Um point <>< 11 UI (> " . ' [ ( he power and tho people , the monarchical W »

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      1080 THE LEADER . [[ Saturday ,

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 13, 1852, page 1080, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1960/page/4/