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      organized democracy . " " The imperial monarchy has alfthe advantages of the republic , without its dangers ; all the ndvantages of the monarchy , without its inconveniences . " " The republic is really in the Empire , in virtue of t he contractual character of the ins titution , an of the communication and express delegation of power by the people : but the Empire has the advantage of t he republic , in that it is the government of all

      confided t o the moderating action of one , with hereditary succession as a condition , and stability as a consequence . " " Monarchy has this excellence : it bends itself admirably to all the progressive movements of civilization ; by turns , feudal , absolute , and mixed , it remains for it only to traverse the era of democratic transformation . " The conclusion of the Troplong report is , that " The Empire is a democratic monarchy , and a monarchical democracy . "

      These ' wise saws" were received with the loudest acclamations by the senators—those claqueurs at 1200 ? . per annum ! Nevertheless a great intrigue has been going on these three days past . The original draft of the Senatus-Consulte of Thursday last , by its fourth article , assigned the crown to Jerome in default of direct and legitimate heirs of Louis Napoleon . An immense opp osition immediately arose in the Senate and in the commission . The Prelates in the commission were for Jerome ; but the Generals , who are afraid of a new order of things eventuating , which might call them to

      account for their crimes , maintained a violent resistance . Consequently , the commission substituted for that Article IV ., another , by which Louis Bonaparte is himself to regulate the order of succession to the throne . Old Jerome is furious at having been thus befooled . He immediately sent in his resignation of the Presidency of the Senate , and wrote a bald , harsh note to Bonaparte , saying that he did not intend to be cheapened ( marchande ) in this way , and that he would soon let all France understand that he , Jerome , was the only

      legitimate heir of his brother Napoleon . All was topsyturvy at St . Cloud on the receipt of this letter . Jerome , the new Coriolanus , retired majestically to the Invalides , and refused to see any one , to receive any communication , or admit any envoy from Louis Bonaparte . ' Yet Bonaparte transmitted to him a promise of the Viceroyalty of Algeria by way of amends to Napoleon Jerome . _ Algeria would thus constitute a separate kingdom , with an independent government , and a distinct administration . Old Jerome sent about

      their business the deputation who brought him this promise . At the present moment , a great question presents itself . The nation is invoked for the 25 th inst . to vote by ayes or noes on the Senatiis Consulte . Will the people vote , or will they not vote ? "It is said that grave apprehensions exist on this score at St . Cloud . The Protest of Henry V . now circulates in France . I myself have seen a copy , and it permits no alternative . In spite of all the denials of the Government prints , which never relax in their efforts to mislead public "p inion , the true Legitimists are perfectly united .

      C'ircnlars of that party are in active distribution in all directions , and their tnol-cVnrdre is to abstain from voting or to vote against . In the south , the union <> ' Kepublicans and Legitimists is complete . In the 'nee of the common enemy , the two parties will vote as 011 <' . In other parts of France , it is possible that the I'onimon hale will bring about the same results . The ls of ( , li ( . battle now rests entirely on the part which Hie clergy will take . The provincial clergy arc , wifh" » t exception , Legitimists ; they still retain a strong '"' M <> n the peasantry . If the Legitimist party is : i ( lt'oit in bringing the ' influence of the Church to bear 011 tlie peasants , Louis Honaiinrfe may yet experience a l

      " 'v < 'iv check . Unfortunately , I have little faith in this 1 ( s"" - The niml population , hoodwinked by the lying Mories of fl 1 ( . triumphs of Honapnrtc , menaced by the ji'ayors and ( ho jiu / rs dr . pair , who are all creatures of _ ' <¦ r uling power , and sunk during u thousand years of oiiiirch y in ignorance ! and misery , will vote for Bonul'iu-te . 1 ! ,., sides , ; ,, dcfaull , of voles , in the universal Nilenn , off h ( . public voice , in the depth of the political dar kness which the suppression of the tribune and the ' '"' ' lils created , in the absence of all serious control , II () 11 ! i ] mrfe will always have the power of falsifying ( . y list . In the canton of I'h'lan , in the arroitdixxe' "> nU of Montiort , in HriUnny , where the run ' , the u . V"r , and the jin / c dc ' paix only had voled last year , ''¦ ' '" any as 200 , and upwards , of votes , were counted .

      Ml | lJ ... l .. 1 ¦ a ¦ _ _ ' . - a . ¦ ¦ ft ft ¦ 1 1 M scarcel y likel y that the authorities will bo less f || " ' ^'" ' ou 'his occasion . . ' /¦// , rrste , Bonaparte is ' " . V < ' <> iisc , ioi , s that bis fate depends on the priests . ui ' ul " ' ' '"^ ' '" ' . i ol <> M ( lu ' nl witl ' > " W ) rls "'¦""' IcrieH , ( ir " || < OV ( ' "" ' "' ' ' <> msS ( ' M 1 II 1 < 1 » > ' > iinds . A decree ( . U > Mo'titc / ir tmiioiiiiccH I he promotion of archbishops "" '"shopH , and of a , great number of clergy in the "Poriul Order of the Legion of Honour . AH these

      promotions are made among the clergy of the southern departments . Bonaparte , it would seem , is scarcely so well satisfied with his prefects . A sweeping razzia among these hapless functionaries is in contemplation . Bonaparte reproaches them with not making him popular enough . Some are accused of having used violence towards the municipal councils , to compel them to go to meet the President , others of not having sufficiently inflamed the zeal of the population during the progress in the south . In consequence of this neglect , a great number are to be disgraced . The instant necessity of falsifying

      the lists of voters renders it important to replace these tools ( chnes damnees ) by other still more ardent partisans . A orce d ' ardeur la France f inira par senter le roussi . Decidedly , M . de Montalembert is right . It is Catholicism that has reaped the profit of all our troubles and all our revolutions . The best proof of this is not to be found in his book , ( which has already reached a second edition , ) but in the immense legacies of real and personal property that are bequeathed daily in all parts of the country to the Jesuits . The Council of State , which alone has the right of enabling civil

      and reli gious congregations to accept of donations , is alarmed at the colossal proportions which these donations begin to assume . More than fort . v educational establishments may be reckoned already belonging to the Jesuits , and more than 200 fresh demands of authorization are under consideration . Upon each of these religious houses endowments and legacies are showered , and the Council of State , in dismay , submits the question of approval to Bonaparte . His reply is characteristic : — "Approve of everything to-day ; we will disapprove to-morrow /'

      The marriage is again talked of for the 10 th or 20 th of December . Meanwhile , superb apartments are in course of preparation at the Tuileries for the Empress . The Musee du Louvre is about to exchange its title for that of Musee Napoleon . The popular statue of Napoleon in his redingote grise , on the column in the Place Vendome , is to be taken down and replaced by another in imperial costume . The Nephew cannot afford to blush for the Uncle : he cannot suffer in the statue of his Uncle an absence of decorum and etiquette .

      A petty negotiation was recently opened by tins crowned dwarf with the Journal des JJebats . Bonaparte offered to M . Bertin , director of that journal , to resume the title of Journal de I'Empire . M . Bertin replied , that that title was his own property , and that he would use it when and how he liked . Bonaparte , irritated at this reply , authorized the Pays to assume the title henceforth . Tins authorization will probably occasion a very pretty action at law .

      M . de Montalenibert ' s treatise on the Interests of Catholicism lias a very large sale , as I have said . The following sentence has made the fortune of the work . Speaking of universal suffrage , he glances at Bonaparte thus : —" Universal suffrage is a mechanism by which the mob is master for a day , to sell itself to servitude for ages , and to make all slaves like itself . It is a lever winch may be always used by the most adroit and unscrupulous hand , but which gives that hand im irresistible ascendancy . "

      Arrests , dismissals , and other rigorous measures , continue . Twenty workmen have been arrested in Paris on pretence of endeavouring to organize a strike among the masons employed in the new Hue Rivoli , and in the construction of the new Bastille barrack of the Hotel de Ville . Forty individuals of the middle class have been also arrested quite recently . General Bourjolly £ commanding the Department , of the Lower Pyrenees , has been deprived of his command . lie bad received no warning of this disgrace . On the passage of the President through Bordeaux , lie had met with a cbarming reception . We are lost in conjectures as to the eause of this dismissal . > S .

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      CONTINENTAL NOTION . A I'KTITION has been presented f . o the Senate against , the principle of adoption in living I ho order of ( succession to ( lie throne . J < W > mo relumed lolho Invididcs on Monday , and reviewed Hie old Hohliers , expressing his satisfaction to be among I hem again . He ii id ill ; fed them lo . 111 extm allowance of brandy , the quality of which turned ( lie favour awry . A bd-ef-Knder returned on Tuesday to Ainboiso . He was accompanied lo tho Orleans Railway Station Uy ( Jenentl Dninnas . < ) n . Mondny be look leave of Louis Napoleon at . St . ( , 'loitil , and received from bin bunds the present , of 11 Hword of honour , because , said the donor , " 1 11 m huh ; that you will never draw it against , I'Yauco ; " to which Alxl-el-Kndor replied , with renewed professions of etemid amity , and placed adornment in the (' resident ' s bands I ' ull of nimpliinenlH , and expressing a desire t , o return for tho coronation . Ho in l , o biivo horses a I . his disposal an long us ho remaiiiH at Ainboito . Ho vinil , ed , during bin stay in Paris , all tho lu'iucipul monuiuonttf , beoidoa tho xnuooumt ) , Iho

      National Library , and Printing-office , all the M inisters , and the Prefect of the Seine . On Tuesday , the Minister of Justice presented to the Belgian Chamber a bill for the punishing of outrages ^ on foreign sovereigns or heads of governments . This project of law provided that any one found guilty of outraging , by means of the press , images , engravings , &c , the persons of foreign sovereigns , or the heads of government , or of attacking , should be punished by an imprisonment not exceeding a term of two years , find by a fine not exceeding 6000 francs ( 2 O 0 Z . ) It " was furthermore provided , that the plea of having merely reproduced anterior publications , &c , cannot bo admitted in justification or in extenuation of the offence ; that the prosecutions are to take place at the formal demand of the diplomatic agents of

      the foreign governments complaining of any attack cr outrage ; that tho trials are to be regulated according to existing laws—that is to say , in other words , that press offences will still be tried by jury , and that the press law of 1816 is abolished . In the preamble lo the bill ( expose des motifs ) it is- set forth that the law of 181 ( 3 was virtually declared defunct by recent verdicts of juries ; and that a law punishing- outrages on foreign sovereigns is an international necessity , a law based on national right , and one admitted by even the greatest nations of antiquity as well as of modern times . It was stated that the I 3 elgian Government could not and did not undertake to prosecute ex officio , and consequently that the complaint must emanate from the government considering itself outraged , the prosecution to begin -within three months of the alleged offence .

      Tins is the first step in the downward course of concessions to despotic Prance . "Will the Belgians think their nationality worth preserving if such adaptations are persevered in ? Political conciliation is making vay in Switzerland . The Grand Council of Lucerne lias just decided that the members of the Great Council of the Sonderbund , who , upon the defeat of that powerful faction , were deprived of political rights , shall be restored to the full privileges of citizens ; and further , that they shall receive back in money the sums which they were made to pay as a forced loan .

      Hussia is said to have acknowledged the independence of Montenegro , the mountain state between Austria and Turkey . The Porte has protested , and the Prince of Montenegro has appealed to Austria . The results of the recent Prussian elections are decidedly-Liberal , especially in the great cities . The provinces have mostly returned Conservatives . The great majority of the new members will be found to oppose any reactionary revision of the constitution . Abbas Pacha has agreed to pay tlic tribute of 1 S 53-5-1 ( about 300 , 000 / . ) in advance , to the Sultan , to meet the financial dilGculties of the bank of Constantinople .

      The Duke of Leuchienberg died at . St . Petersburg ]! on the 5 th instant , wo know not whether to say , opportunely or otherwise . He was the solo link between the Imperial family of France and Russia . He was the grandson of Josephine and youngest son of Hugone Beauliarnais , and was born October 2 nd , 1817 . By liis marriage with tho Grand Duchess Maria ' , in 1830 , he became the son-inlaw of Nicholas , . Emperor of all the Russias . Since bin marriage , he has resided at the Russian Court , receiving as one of the family of the Czar , the style of His Imperial Highness , lie was an aide-de-camp of the Emperor , and a general in the Jtussian service . The Duke was a man of considerable cultivat ion , and a lover of tho natural sciences .

      It is doubted whether Austria will send any deputation of ollieers to the . Duke ' s funeral , on account of the offence to the . Austrian army , in the person of General J lay nau . The Customs Congress of ( lie coalesced southern states has been opened at , Vienna . The sum of the Austrian minister ' s address was the desire <>( bis government , that the old / jollverein should not . be dissolved , but that , tailing tin ; good will and co-operation of Prussia , Austria would lake l , he lend of a new commercial union . Meantime , Prussia is preparing to meet the dissolution with an array of custom-bouses .

      Sentence of death is pronounced on Kdwurd Murray , on three diMereiit , charges of murder . This sentence , is dated December I 7 tb , I Hf > I . lie is not condemned as a British subject , hut as an inhabitant <> i' the Komnn States , amenable to the laws of the country . The I'ope has , however , commuted the penalty of death into hard labour at , Hie galleys for life . This announcement , bears the date of August , . 'ii-d , lHf > ' 2 , just , previous lo the visit of Sir Henry Bulwcr to Koine . lie will now , in all probability , be sel . at liberty . " No doubt , writes the correspondent of the Ihtili / S ' l'irs , had it not been for Iho prompt interference of Mr . Moore , the consul at . Aiicoini , last spring , and the energetic . steps taken at thai , limo by Mr . I'Yceborn , our consular agent , here , Murray would ( hen have suU ' ered the full penalty of ( he law . "

      Ibe executions id . Ancona on the ~ . "dh inst . may bo reckoned amongst the most , appalling- ever witnessed . Only one of ( lie culprits out ol' nine would listen lo Iho cxhorliit ions of tin- prie . ls . When it was found that , the other «¦ i > - | 11 . were hopelessly rccusnnl , Ibey were allowed to intoxicate IheaiselvoM wilh ruin . The shooting of them wan 4 * 11 ! rusted lo a drlachuienl . of Koinnn artillerymen , armed with . short , carbine ;! , old-fashioned weapons , many of which missed ( ire , so that al . tbetirsl . discbarge some of the prisoner ;! < li ' l no ! , full , but . ran oil ' , with Ibe soldiers pursuing and lirin / f at them repeatedly ; others crawled almul , and one , alter being considered ( lead , made a violent exert ion logcl up , rendering u final coup-dc-tjract ncccsNai-y . ( > t her c . i'critt ions an to foil 010 . The Ministerial crisis in I'iedinonl , 1 . 1 at an end . Tim I'intmotifrNc < i ' n ~> : tt <; of 11 "' ' -Jnd , announced thai , the Iv in / jf of Sardinia had enlrusled ( ' 01111 I . ( ' avoiir with the composition of a . new enlmiel .

      Tho li'isoi ' i / iiiieiito published ( in the . 'trd Ibe following list of the new M initslry : ( ' oiinl , ( ) n vour , I ' residenl . of l . lui Council and MiniMlur of J ' 'inance ; < j ) cii . Duborniida , Jb ' o-

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      ) November 13 , 1852 . ] THE LEADER . 1081

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 13, 1852, page 1081, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1960/page/5/