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      ^ pronounced these words in a hard dry tone of voice , like a man out of humour . Indeed , he has had small reason to be in good temper . The northern powers , In order not to have to congratulate him on New Year ' s Day , deferred their recognition of the Emperor , under the title of Napoleon III ., till this day . There have been great negotiations opened on this subject . The northern powers require that Bonaparte shall recognise the treaties of 1815 . They have the intention of remitting a note , in which they "take note" of the declaration on the part of Bonaparte of his " solidarity " with preceding Governments , and in which the consequences of such " solidarity" are specially enumerated .

      The formal recognition of the treaties of 1815 is there mominatively insisted upon . Bonaparte is reported to have hesitated in accepting these conditions . And well he may ! The day he accepts them he ceases to ihave any ground of existence , or raison d ' etre , in Prance : he . ceases to be a . living protest of France against the treaties which were imposed on her in 1815 : he belies his mission , he abjures his mandate . He is no longer the principle called Napoleon : he is nothing but a mere police agent of the holy alliance . And yet he will accept ; for in him there is but the histrio , there is nothing of the man . He has not the sentiment of personal dignity : how then can he have that of the national dignity ?

      Several deputies sent in their resignation in consequence of the Senatus-Consulte of "December 23 rd , which almost deprives the Legislative Corps of the Tight of voting the Budget . Among others , M . Monnier de la Sigeranne is mentioned , M . Billault , the President of the Legislative Corps , having sent to him last Friday evening to invite him to join his colleagues in going to the Tuileries on the following day . "No , " replied the deputy , rather wittily , " my deputy ' s coat was so badly torn on the 23 rd of December , that I have not been able to get it mended yet . " ( " Mon haiii de depute a recu un trop fort accroc le 23 Decemhre pour qu'il me soit possible de le remettre de sitot . " )

      A new organic decree has just modified the attributions of the Senate , the Legislative Corps , and the Council of State . With regard to the Senate , the dotation of 30 , 000 francs , which was not mentioned in the old decree , is positively specified in the new one . The Legislative Corps , you may remember , had refused to allow this dotation to figure in the chapter of the public debfcj tlio new decree : determines that it shall figure there henceforth . Before the Empire , the necessity of modifying the Republican Constitution had rendered it necessary to vest in the Senate full powers for that modification . Now that all is accomplished , and the Empire is proclaimed , Bonaparte almost strips ± he Senate of the right of proposing any fresh modifir . ations in the Constitution . He establishes for that

      purpose a host of formalities , which render the exercise of that right illusory , not to say impossible . It is only another pieco of machinery which Bonaparte , no longer wanting , breaks . As to what concerns the Legislative Corps , the new decree takes more away than it gives . On all puerile questions , of etiquette , of ceremonial , it makes concessions—on all essential points , on tho contrary , such as fcho question of publicity of debates , for instance , it reduces tho legislative body to utter mutism . According to tho old regulation , tho committees of tho Legislative Corps used to be constituted for the whole session , each

      bureau was presided over by tho senior in age , and tho youngest member filled tho office . of secretary ; according to tho now order , tho bureaux arc to bo reconstituted ovory month by lot , and . they will have to elect their presidents and . secretaries . The commissioners to be niunod by tho bureaux for the examination of Bills ( prtrjals da loi ) may consist , according to tho naturo of such Bills , of from fourteen members to Hovon . Tho legislative corps used to havo tho right of rejecting any article of tho budget , and in that case , of replacing it by such amendments an might bo adopted . Now , however , that it lias no longer tho

      power of voting tho budget by clauses , nor even by chapter * , but only by ministries , it is forbidden to propose nny amendments at all , and it must oithor vote or reject altogether tho ono or two hundred millions ( of franc ' s ) to each ministry , without reserve . The speeches of tho orators aro to he no longer published in any form . At leant ,, ko grout « ro tho obstacles thrown in tho way of their publication , that it certainly becomes impossible . The report ( oompfio rendu ) of tho sittings will contain nothing but a bald nummary of tho opinions advanced by the HpeukerH ; and even tho names of tho HiMMikci'H W 1 U U ( ' withheld . To this shadow has tho national representation of Franco shrunk under

      Napoleon 111 . The order of Advocates of Paris has recently pro-Hented tho Emperor with a New-year ' gift , after a fashion . Tho Monitor hud received ordoru to delude

      France by an announcement that the different corporations and constituted bodies of the State had been to pay their homage to the Emperor on New-year ' s day , and in the list was made to figure the order of the Advocates of Paris . In consequence of this announcement , M . Berryer , batonnier of the order , addressed the following contradiction to the Moniteur : — '" Me . Editor , —The Moniteur of this day , in placing the council of the order of Advocates among the number

      of constituted bodies who were received yesterday at the Tuileries , has committed an error , which I beg you to be so kind as to rectify . The order of Advocates is neither a corps of public functionaries , nor a company of ministerial officers , which it could not be called to join , and in which no rank could possibly be assigned it . I have the honour , &c . ( Signed ) " Bekeyee , Batonnier of the order of Advocates of Paris . "

      Every day Bonaparte receives similar affronts . Everybody delights in making these salutations to his Majesty . It is an incessant war of quolibets , of lampoons , of puns , of bon-mots ; it is a war a coups d ' epingleyou may say ; but a coup d'epingle for a cockchafer is as good as a sabre-thrust on the body of a man , S .

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      CONTINENTAL NOTES . The Austrian and Prussian ambassadors in . Paris have at length , received their letters of credence to the Emperor . A supplement of the Moniteur on " Wednesday announced that the Russian ambassador had presented his credentials . It is understood , however , that the recognition of the Empire is not made by the three great Powers without reserve or condition . They are said to refuse to acknowledge him as the third monarch , of his race , and insist on the observance of the treaties of 1815 ^ The German Diet has officially recognised the French Empire . The Ministers of the United States , Wurtemburg , Bavaria , Tuscany , Hanover , Baden , and Saxony have received their credentials . The Moniteur says : — " The ratifications of the commercial convention between France and , Belgium of the 9 th ult . were exchanged on the 31 st , at Brussels . It is known that this convention again places in vigour the former treaty . " Accounts have been received of Abd-el-Kader having quitted Messina for Syra , on board the French steam frigate Labrador . The Constitutionnel of Wednesday has a long article on thft restoration of the Church of St . Genevieve to the

      purposes of religious worship . The writer declares that tho restitution of the Church , to holy uses is not only a religious event , but a political one of the highest importance . The victory of Doctrine over infidelity is identified with the triumph of order and authority over anarchical principlcs . But in the excess of its new religious zeal , this estimable journal oversteps tho bounds of prudence , and forgeta tho trifling virtue of veracity . After celebrating , in one paragraph , the restoration of tho ashes of the Saint from Notre Dame to tho Cathedral , it asserts that those eamo ashes were scattered to tho winds in tho troubled

      days of tho Firdt Revolution . M . Druey , the Federal Minister of Justice , has addressed a note to tho police authorities of Berne , calling on them to put a stop to tho dissemination of works by Victor Hugo and Eugono Suo . Tho Danish Government having repudiated its engagement to pension tho invalid and discharged officers of tho Schlcswig-IIolstein army , on fcho plea that no favour can bo shown to participators in a revolutionary was , tho Duko of Saxo-Cohurg-Gotha has presented a memorial to tho Frankfort Diet on behalf of these officers . It will bo seen that tho reproach of tho Danish crown applies equally with Hohleswig-llolstein to tho German states and princes who took part in tho war . into tho

      The new Belgian Press Law camo operation on 1 st instant . Tho Indipcndanco states that on that day tho booksellers of Brussels removed from their windows nil such books and pictures as might subject them to penalties under tho now system of restriction . Letters from Vienna say that numerous arrests oi workmen aro taking placo daily . Tho new English Ministry ia not much relished in official Austrian circled . Tho J ' ost ( Jazcttoul' Frankfort informs us that the nrinienno military magazines at Coblenz aro receiving provisions and munitions of all kinds , in quantities which suggest an expectation of extraordinary events . Tho Hreslau Gazette states that , ( . he Austrian Government lias resolved , on the recommendation of a military commission , to surround tho capital with a continuous wall of fortification , tho extent , of which will be live German miles ( aliout twenty-two Knglish miles ) .

      Tho municipal elections at Leipsie have gono entirel y against tho Conservative party . " Not one of their candidates bus been chosen . This result has occasioned great excitement in Dresden . Several Austrian vessels , stationed at Trieste and at I ' obi , havo been ordered , with all despatch , to Mio Boron di Cuttaro , to watch tho < expected movements of _ tlio Turkish flotilla . Tho Czar , it is said , has udvised f ' rineo Daniel to givo up tho Curt of Zabljnk , and to withdraw into tho mountains . Tho forces of Montenegro am loo small to cope with Turkey in tho open plains , wlnlo i < - would ho equally disadvantageous for tho Turks to pursuo them into the mountains . Moreover , in the independence * of Montonogro , . Russia gains her point , and tho aggrandisement of tho principality may very well bo postponed . Tho port , of Cattaro is overhung by tho " black

      mountains ; " a Russian transaction with Austria , tor securing this to Montenegro as to an independent stato , would bo U > tlio ( Jaiir , in hjfl permanent relations to tho Vvlxowwu

      family , in all respects equivalent to tho acquisition of a Russian port in the Adriatic . Later accounts state that Prince Daniel had fortified every point of strategetic importance in the neighbourhood of Zabljak , that several skirmishes have taken , place , and that the Turks had been repulsed , and 600 killed , at a promontory , called Kerba , on the Lake Scutari . The loss'of the Montenegrins was also considerable . Letters from Posen and Warsaw , in the Frankfort Post Gazette ,- state that the movement of troops towards the western frontier of Russian Poland is going on very slowly , and on some points has been suspended . The provisioning of the magazines , however , proceeds with undiminished vigour .

      The Emperor of Russia has given orders that in future strictly scientific works shall come under the standing prohibition , which has hitherto forbidden newspapers to make any application of legislative , financial , or commercial principles to the actual state of things in the imperial dominions . New imprisonments of citizens have taken placo at Rome , at the instance of General Gemeau . The correspondent of the Augsburg Gazette states that the portrait of the new French Emperor has suddenly disappeared from the windows , and the faces of Louis Philippe and the Comte de Chambord once more see the day . A grand-ducal decree at Florence forbids the wearing of masks or any disguises during the next carnival .

      The Corriere Mercantile of Genoa , of the 30 th ult ., quotes letters from Naples , stating that the King of the Two Sicilies continues to display much goodwill towards France , and has despatched conciliatory offers to Paris respecting the indemnity claimed by Prince Lucien Murat , for the capital and interest representing the furnfture and jewels belonging to King Joachim Murat , which the Bourbon family found after his flight , and never returned . The amount of these claims is stated at twelve millions . The King of Naples , it is stated , offers to reimburse the original sum without the thirty-five years' interest , but as yet no answer to this offer has been received at Naples . From Madridywe hear that the royal decree , modifying the new law on the press , was expected shortly to appear in the Gazette .

      On the 29 th ult ., M . Martinez de la Roza had a long conference with M . Llorente , the Minister of the Interior . It is understood that the Government consents to restore the honourable gentleman to his post of President of the Royal Council , and to support his candidature for Madrid . On the same day the moderate electoral committee held a sitting , which is described as very stormy . Its members separated without coming to any agreement . Marshal Haynau has been residing at Florence , where he has been received with great distinction by certain Austrianized aristocratic Italian houses , especially the Orsini .

      The reduction of the whole funded debt of Portugal to a three per cent , stock has been most unfavourably received . . The promulgation of other dictatorial decrees , on the eve of the meeting of the Cortes , is considered an intentional aggression upon representative government .

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      ABSTRACT OF THE BOMBAY ASSOCIATION'S PETITION TO PARLIAMENT . [ Petitions to Parliament , of which the following is an abstract , havo been signed by several thousands of native British subjects in Bombay , praying for important alterations in the Government of India . Those documents not having arrived in time to be presented to Parliament , during its session just closed , this abstract of them is submitted with tho view of drawing timely attention to tho suggestions of petitioners so deeply interested in the subject . Tho petition itself will bo duly circulated hereafter , in accordance with tho usages of Parliament , and with tho attention which will no doubt bo given to tho representations of a largo body of tho natives of India , who now avail themselves , it is bolioved for tho first time , of their constitutional right of submitting to Parliament thoir views of the improvements required in tho government of their native land . J- Cjiai-maw . U x , YVeHtbourue-park-roiul , L ' addington , Dec . a « , 1 H ( W . ;| Tlio first paragraph adverts to 1 ' arliumo . nt having tho " nnturo , constitution , and practical working of th « Indian Government under if . n consideration , " mid submits tlio views of tlio petitioners " with respect to Ilio existing system of Government , and Home of tlio improvements of which it . in miscopt iblo . " Und par .- Tho petitioners attribute the many blessings enjoyed under Hritish rule to the Hrilish character , mther thim to Mm plan of Government , which plan , they say , is " the result of circumstances rather tltnii of design , " ami i' < i » eoiisou . uoin' . ly "littlo milled to tho present state of the country , and to Uio lair demands ol' the people of 1 ndia . " : ird par . —Here they say Mint tlio last Charter Act " was confessedlu concession " of princiles" lor lonnmnting Mio

      Comy p paiiy \ M " riglit of properly in Mm country , und " obtain exclusive right * of Ending , " and MUU- * , on tlio evidence contained in tlio 1711 , v < il of tho " Papers" printed in IS . tlt , by order ol l . ho Court of Directors , that , it was understood by both Mm Government and I ho Knst India Company , that "Iho nature oi tho arrunge-¦ nontH for the future government of I ndia should remain an open 4 lltO . Mt . 101 l . . . ., — till pur . All " Hiitocodeiil , diflieiiltics to tho introduction oi " " a good system of government for Mio millions of noiuioful and loyal ' Itritish Indian subjects , " Mum being now , "for tho un * t liino " removed , tho potitionorM think the Honourable JIouhoh will Hud it easy to " devise a Constitution for India , which , wliilo it shall contain all the good elements ol' tho existing system , shall b <> John cumbersome , lens exclusive , less HCeret , low * despot . ie , more directly responsible , and inllnitely more otliciont und nioro acceptable to tlio govornod . "

      J ' nrs . 5 lo 7 aro neftipiod in explaining " tlio iniltility and in-HHeie-iMiy of two such clashing authorities as tho Court <> t Directors and Mio Hoard of Control , " and in their illuntnitioiiM Mio petitioner )! quote Mio rocout evidence of Lord Ellonborouj ; li » Mr . Ooiurtouay ' B ovidouco in iwsz , aud th « rouuoaiiiK oi Mill Dm

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      Jakuary 8 , 1853 . ] THE LEADER . 31

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 8, 1853, page 31, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1968/page/7/