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      Jn , Paris , M . Garnier-Pages has addressed the following letter to the electors of the fourth circumscription , pending the fresh election : — " I return my sincere thanks to the electors who have been pleased to honour me with -their votes . la the interest of my democratic principles , to which I have devoted the whole of my iife , I request my supporters to transfer their votes to M . Emile OUivier . " " The Opposition , up to the present time , " says a daily contemporary of yesterday , " has obtained only six nominations in all—namely , MM . Carnot and Goudchaux in Paris , Dr . Henon at Lyons , M . Cure at Bordeaux , M . Migeon at Colman , and Viscount Rambourgt , in the Aube . There are certainly some other nominations of persons not comprised among the Government

      candidates , but these gentlemen cannot be claimed by the Opposition . As a set-off to the six candidates named above , the Opposition has lost the five deputies belonging to it in the last Chamber , viz ., the Count de Montalezabert , the Duke d'tTzes , and MM . de Civrac , Charlier , and Desmolles . The Opposition had brought forward il 5 candidates in 58 departments , so that it has been defeated in 111 places . "A somewhat remarkable fact of the late elections is the very limited number of cases in which a second ballot will be necessary , being in fact as yet only six in all—three in Paris , and the three others in the Maine-et-Loire , the Mayenne , and the Somme . In the last three , the contest took place altogether between candidates fully supporting the policy of the Government . "

      The following circular was sent round on Sunday evening from the Hotel de Ville to many of the electors who had not then taken out their tickets : — " Prefecture of the Department of the Seine , Paris , Jane 21 . —Sir , —the elections for deputies to the Legislative Body commenced this day . Each person is at liberty to exercise or not the rights which the constitution confers on him . Now , as certain parties have systematioolly advocated abstaining -from ± h « -vot e , many electors would , perhaps , regret being involuntarily associated with them , either through forgetfulne 3 S , or in consequence of their occupations . I therefore take the liberty of reminding you that the Voting will remain open to-morrow ( Monday ) from eight o ' clock in the moraincr till four in the afternoon . —Receive , Sir , &c ,

      G ~ E . Haussmann , Prefect of the Seine . " " M . Senator Vais ' , exercising the functions of Prefect of the Rhone , "" says- the Daity News Paris correspond e , " wrote a circular to the mayors against the candidatures of MM . Bacot , Henon , P . Morin , and Jule 3 Favre , which , for its open disregard of the promises of the Government that the elections were to be free , transcends anything that has yet teen seen of the like kind . He says : — - Emissaries have heen sent round the country to canvass in favour of republican candidatures . Their ardour and activity have redoubled within the last few Says . In informing you of their intrigues , I make a fresh appeal to your zeal and vigilance to entreat you . to use all the means in your power to prevent , and if necessary to destroy , the effect of these intrigues among the electors at your command . ' "

      " A deputation of the electors oF the third arrondissement , in order to put an end to the doubt about the Opposition candidates taking the oaths , " says the Times Paris correspondent , " called on General Cavaignac in order to ascertain whether it was his intention to do so . The General was ratlier puzzled what to reply . To answer in the negative was to trine with the electors , and to answer in the affirmative he could not do without taking counsel of hia ordinary advisers . Ho said that he could not give an answer then , and asked for time to consider . " M . Billault , the Minister of tlie Interior , previous to the elections , addressed the following circular to the prefects of departments : —

      " Monsieur le ProTet , —It is not sufficient that universal suffrage should bo free ; it roust likewise be enlightened . The law in granting the candidates exceptional facilities freely to proclaim and explain themselves during the twenty days which precede the ballot wished that the country , being thus perfectly instructed , should decide . "Wo are arriving at the conclusion of this period of instruction and discussion . The Government has scrupulously watched over the maintenance of the franchise of all ; somo have endeavoured to abuse it , and , uudor pretence of distributing voting tickets , wished to revive among the mass of the population the leaven of

      old domocratical passions . Tho Government , which , if it were necessary , could show that it has lost none of its force , or of it ' s energetic will for the maintenance of public peace , has allowed these impotent sallies to pass . It would not give oven the slightest pretext for bad faith to calumniate that liberty which our laws securo to tho doctoral struggle . Candidates , journalists , instigators , or propagators of candidatures have nil written and noted frooly . It is now for tho country to meditate and to vo&o . Everybody has given his advice to tho pooplo —tho Government owoa thorn its opinion , and charges you , M . lo Prdfot , to mako it known in all your

      communes . " In the midst of this perfect tranquillity , produced and maintained by tho vigour o ' f tlio Imperial power , and by tho Absolute confidence" which , tho pooplo roposo in tho Emperor—in presence of thogonoral measures whioh

      proposed for re-election all the deputies whose . loyal concurrence in public affairs offered in the past security for the future—it appeared that , with the exception of some individual pretensions without political bearing , no serious difference of opinion would agitate the ballot ; but a small number of persons , setting-themselves up . exclusively as democrats in the face of a Government established oh the most democratic basis which- ever existed , has-thought proper to commence a contest . ' Sheltering themselves under a formula of liberalism , sufficiently vague that its elasticity might save them . from the danger of their own dissensions , they endeavoured to supply the want of numbers by activity , and are making unheard-of efforts everywhere to raise up opposition candidates . But what , then , is the object of this opposition ? The country must know it ; you , Monsieur le PreTet , must explain it to the people .

      " The majority of the candidates brought forward formerly professed Republican or Socialist opinions , and certainly none of them -would declare to-day that he had repudiated them . What , therefore , do they want ? To present again the question of the Republic ! to universal , suffrage , which has three times solemnly condemned it ? . That is not serious . To take the oath to the Empire , and by submitting . to the constitution honourably to fulfil the mission of deputy ? Nobody will believe it ., Then , what remains ? To endeavour to sow trouble and agitation , to embarrass the action of the Emperor , and to enfeeble , both at home aud abroad , the feeling which all Europe entertains of his power , the prtstige with which he has done so much during the last six yeara for the glory and prosperity of the country . But they will not succeed ; their efforts will be shattered against those electoral masses whose good sense and patriotism founded the Empire ; it will suffice that these masses present

      themselves at the ballot . Explain to them well , Monsieur le PreTet , how they have put the question . One of their journals said that it would be resolved by the country centralized in Paris . Paris will disappoint their hopes , and the 350 , 000 electors of the department of the Seine will not separate themselves from the 9 , 000 , 0 tfG electors inscribed in the eighty-five other departments . Remind tUose who possess property of the security which the Empire has given , them ; those who labour , of the marvellous conditions of activity created for them ; those who suffer , of the incessant anxiety of the Emperor on account of the distress of the people ; all , of the glorious and respected position to which he has restored our country , iiet them all , therefore , come and give their opinion on affairs which are their own . They are well aware that th «> Empire repays them with usury in glory and in prosperity that which they give it in confidence and self-devotion ,.

      • ' Repeat to them , Monsieur le Profet , that their duty as well as their interest calls them to the ballot . The verification of their voles will prove that if the enemies of the Empire hoped to find a point of support in the electoral urn , they have . oho © « wk mistaken the power of the bonds which unite the Emperor to the people , and calumniated universal suffrage . Receive , Monsieur le Prdfet , the assurance of my very distinguished consideration . BirXADLT . " It is stated that the distributors of Opposition bulletins at several of the provincial elections have been set upon and beaten with bludgeons by bodies of ruffians , and that the police have actud in the most arbitrary hi mself

      manner , arresting any one ^ who reiTderod distasteful . The Ere JfouveJle of La Rochelle publishes a complaint by M . Fabius Filippi , an Opposition candidate , setting forth tiiat the men employed by him to placard his address had been threatened with arrest by the commissary of police , who , assisted by tho gnrde champotre , had torn down his addresses from the walls in tho presence of many witnesses ; that his son , having culled on . the Mayor to complain of these outrages , could obtain no redress ^ but had been called a mountebank ; and that , for all these and many other still more serious reasons , ho protests against the election of General Vust Vimoux , the Government candidate .

      Tho Prefect of the Gers has suspended M . Gounon , tho Mayor of Eauzo , for coming forward as an Opposition candidate .

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      CONTINENTAL NOTES . FIUNOB . Thb Plenipotentiaries of Austria , Franco , England , Prussia , Russia , Sardinia , and Turkey met on the 19 th inst . nt tho Ministry of Foreign Affairs , for the purpose of signing tho treaty for tho frontier settlement in Bosuarabia , and for regulating tho question of tho Islo of Serpents nnd tho Delta of the Danubo . Tho Moniteur confirms tho fact that a treaty of commerce was signed between Franco and Russia on tho 14 th of the presont month . Tho Emporor loft at ton o ' clock on Thursday morning for Plombifcros , by way of Chalons . Tho Council of tho Bank of Franco has roduood tho rate of discount on commercial bills ( caoompte doa <\ ffbt 8 de commerce ) to 5 ^ per cent . It mulntulns tho Interest on advances at 0 per cont .

      , A Paris oorrosponclont of fa Nord speaks of the augmentation to 5000 inon of the Austrian contingent of tho

      garrison at Rastadt , which has given rise , he says , to various conjectures as to what can be the cause of such , a reinforcement on the frontier . . A grand festival has been held in Vienna in honour of the hundredth anniversary of the Austrian Military Order of Maria Theresa . The ceremonies included a grand ' military mass' outside the Franzens-gate , at which the Emperor was present , a banquet in the galleries and garden of the Palace of Schonbrunn , at which the Emperor presided , and an appropriate thea- * trical performance at the chief theatre .. Here the Emperor was again present . The Empress , who is completely prostrated by the death of her daughter , passed the whole day in retirement at Laxenburg .

      ITALY . The number of young persons at Milan who present themselves to receive ecclesiastical orders has fallen this year from seventy-, which waa the average , to thirtytwo only . This is ascribed by a correspondent of tho Independence Beige to the disrepute into which tlie . priesthood has fallen since the Austrian concordat . Some interpellations addressed to Count Cavour by Signor Brofferio in the Chamber of Deputies on the 16 th inst . have led to certain statements by the Foreign Minister . With respect to the journey of the . Cavaliers Boncompagni to Bologna at "the time the Pope was there , Count CavouT said that the only errand of

      Boncompagni was to -pay his respects to the Pontiff as the supreme head of the religion professed by the grand majority of the Sardinian people *; he had not been invested with any authority to say a word about an arrangement with Rome , or to seek anybody ' s good offices with the Court of Vienna . Aa regards certain persecutions of the press , of which Signor BrofFerlo had complained , Count Cavour said that the laws must be executed as they stand . Those laws , he admitted , are not altogether good , and the institutions of the countryrequire that they shall be improved ; but Government could not , by its own authority , suspend the course of justice in accordance with existing laws .

      The Pope has granted pardons to Advocate Francesco Sturbinetti , President of the Constituent Assembly of Rome in 1849 , and to Count Antonio Mariscotti , who commanded a military body under the Republic . The latter has already returned to Rome . Some sanguinary and fatal conflicts have taken place between the French and native Italian troops at Rome . There are reports , requiring confirmation , of the Bang of Naples having been again attacked and wounded .

      BELGIUM . A hundred electric clocks are about to be established in Brussels . The municipal authorities have acquainted the inhabitants of some of the streets that the wires will run along the top of their houses , and have called upon them to allow the workmen to make the necessary arrangements .

      SPAIN . The Government has decided upon accepting the re ' signation of Marshal Serrano , the present Ambassador at Paris . The Epoca states that , in consequence of intelligence relative to the Spanish question which had reached Cuba , General Concha had ordered the departure for Vera Cruz of part of the Spanish squa&T&n ; and , accordingly two steamers , Colon and Isabel II ., had sailed on the 13 th . The hopes of a pacific arrangement diminish every day . In Cuba it was feared that tho United States would oxcito Mexico to hostilities against Spain . Catalonia is in a very disturbed state .

      PRUSSIA . The Thorn steamer , bolonglng to the Vistula Navigation Company , blew up on the 17 th near Wiszogrod . All the persons on board were either killed or wounded . Several Italians were arrested In Paris last week on , suspicion of being concerned in a political plot . Arms , it is s » id , wore found upon them . Count Paul KAssoleff wont last Saturday to St . Cloud to deliver to the Empress , on the part of hia sovereigu , tho Grand Cordon of the Ordor of &t . Gatheriup . OKRMA .-NT .

      The Dlot of the Duohy of Saxo-Gotha , in its Bitting of tho 18 th , adopted unanimously tho proposition for « complete union of tho two Duchies of Gotha and Coburg The Diot was immediately afterwards prorogued . It la supposod that tho Diet of Saxo-Uobuvg will voto to tlw contrary sense .

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      IRELAND . Tub Murdhsu qv Mr . Lra . ' uo . — Tho perpetrator of that atrocious doed whioh filled Ireland with consternation in tho course of last year , would seem « t length to bo in tlio power of the police , A house painter , named Spollon , has boon arrested on . tho evidence of his own wife . Ho was employed about Mr . Little ' s offloo on tha day of tho murder , and at night brought homo ( as nis wife noyr alleges ) a quantity of gold and «» ver , ana told her that ho had robbed and murdorod . Mr . lAtuo . She savo that she flaw him burn a pookot-book ana aiao hla omvat ; that she saw him oovor with paint tlw bloodstains ou his clothes , and that ho told Uec bo Had

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      June 27 , 1857 J ___ THE LEADEB . GOt

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    • Leader (1850-1860), June 27, 1857, page 607, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2199/page/7/