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      242 The Stalt Oiiipdom. [November 2t .

      242 THE STAlt OIIIPDOM . [ November 2 T .

      Foseign And Colonial:

      FOSEIGN AND COLONIAL :

      France. (From Our Own Correspondent.) V ...

      FRANCE . ( from our own correspondent . ) v Paris , November 23 rd , The Comedv is over , and Louis Bonaparte has been of course " elected" Emperor of the French . It is next to useless to say , that the whole affair is a monstrous swindle . More than sixty thousand electors have been struck from the . register , in order to make it appear that nearly all the electors voted .. But in spite of this the government have been compelled to manufacture affirmah of

      tive votes , which every one knOws it to be capable enoug doing . As in former elections , negative voting cards have been prohibited , Tv-bile those bearing our upon them have been thrust into the hand of every one . Even Abd-el-Kader and his suite have been induced to vote for the Empire . ' Abstention has been general . The definitive result of the election in Paris and the department of the Seine , according to the Moniteur , is as follows : —Number of electors inscribed , 315 , 501 ; number of voters , 270 , 710 ; " Yes , " 208 , 615 ; " No , " 53 , 617 . This number is so false that it can be proved that in districts where the report the electors almost unanimously voting

      " yes" the vast majorityofthem stayed at home . The workmen m the manufactories of MM . Facot at St ! Ouen ; Gouiri , at ' Batignoltes ; Sandford and Varral , in the Avenue Trudaine ; the Gas-works in the same avenue ; Derosue , Gail , and Co ., Bue Notre Dame des Champs ; Deeoster , in the samestreet , M . Cave , the engineer , in the Faubourg St . Denis , the mechanics employed in the engineering departments of the Lyons , Orleans , Northern , and Western Railway stations , and the cellarmen at Bercy—all loudly declare that they unanimously abstained , yet the return declares them to have voted for the Empire ! From creditable sources , I have learned that only about half the inscribed electors voted ; that the rotes of those were divided , nearly half

      voting against the Empire . But a sufficient number of out ' s were in readiness at each ballotting urn , and were added before the close of the day to make up the requisite majority . It is a most singular thing , and is remarked as significant , that in all the arrondissements of Paris and in the departments , as nearly as possible half the electors voted the first day , and this is * the more suspicious from the well-known fact , that the vast majority of the electors never do appear until the second day of voting . For some days previous to the election , the walls of Paris were covered with addresses from " Committees of Workingmen , " urging the workmen to vote . Relative to these placards the Fresse sarcastically remarks : —

      " Some proclamations signed by operatives made their appearance side by side with official proclamations . The profusion with which they were placarded seems to prove either that their authors do not mind expense , or that they must be animated with very intense political ieeling . " We have had , lately , some fine reasons for voting the Empire , such as the necessity of getting rid of Universal Suffrage , for instance , or for the present splendid continual weather granted by God Almighty , as a mark of his especial favour to Louis Bonaparte , or the need to avenge Waterloo , and such like . Here are some specimens . The Echo del'Est says : —

      " Many electors say they are tired of universal suffrage , well , if they will only vote now with the patriotism and union called ^ for by the occasion ,-we-will undertake to promise them that they shall not be called upon again for a very long time to come . " M . Chapuy de Montanville , prefect of the Haute Garonne , urges his fellow-citizens to vote by a proclamation in which he says : —" Providence , wishing to give a special mark of his favour to Louis Napoleon , sends these splendid autumnal days which are preparing for us the abundance of spring . " M . Berard , prefet of the Isere , says : — " You must let the foreigner know your will by a united voice . You remember the unfortunate treaties of 1815 , and you know that in dropping your ' yes ' into the urn you tear out their last page . Where is the Frenchman

      who would let such an opportunity go by ? And you , especially , inhabitants of Isere , who were not afraid in the great day of March 7 , 1815 , to hurl defiance at Europe , and light up the fares of war in acclaiming the illustrious exile of Elba , yon -will hot shrink to-day from avenging the honour of France by a fearful voting paper , and assuring to all a return of tranquility , peace , and prosperity . " The prefet of Pont Evecme has issued a proclamation , in which he says : — " The sick and infirm in some of our hospitals have expressed their chagrin at finding themselves excluded from the great act which is about to be accomplished ; MM . les Maires are therefore requested to carry the ballot-box round to the hospitals . In the same manner they may receive the votes of the old and sick at their own homes , if desired . " M . Guilloud , Maire of Guitiatiere , thus addresses the electors :

      " You will not abstain from voting , and your bulletins will not contain a single 'No . ' The defeat of Waterloo has long weighed on the heart of France , the Holy Alliance has always appeared to you an insolent menace , the rock of St . Helena in your eyes was only the expiation of our glory . " But notwithstanding all this servility of priest and prefect , the right spirit still exists amongst the people of this country . For instance , at Limoges , a few days since , four men in blouses marched through the town bearing a red flag , on which was inscribed " Death to Louis

      Napoleon ! Vive la Bepublique ! Citizens do not vote ! To arms !" Their banner and themselves were not captured till after a desperate resistance . I learn , also , from the Union de la Sarthe , that within a few days there has been seized in the department of the Sarthe a number of socialist manifestoes , signed " The Committee of the Invisibles . " You will see from the following extracts from two of these documents that they are an echo of the Leitre au Peuple , issued by La Commune Revolutionare , a translation of which was published in your journal . One says : — " Citizens , forget not ! Louis Napoleon has been the chief of the conspiracy of traitors , of thieves and assassins .

      Ever remember that he has had for accomplices the army , the administration , the clergy , and the magistracy . Remember , in fine , that national shame , - plotted and acclaimed by all the capitalist portion of society , and curse alike all who have taken part in the crime of the 2 nd of December ! " Citizens , arise ; be revolutionary as your fathers —be men ! Socialists , number yourselves , and unite . Prepare in secret the arms which will enfranchise you—the ideas by which you will be emancipated . Take courage—France is not dead ; the social revolution will be accomplished , if you will it—if you fearlessly aim at the annihilation of political , social , and rehgious tyranny ; at the

      abolition of the proletariat ; at the realisation of human solidarity Dp , Socialists ! no longer stay . This time it will not be fifty years before the Republic inscribes anew on the front of the social edifice the grand revolutionary device , ' Liberty , Equality , Fraternity . In another , the " Msibles" say : — "No Empire ! The enfranhisement of labour , the abolition of the capitalist privileges , the advent cf social equality for all the citizens by means of credit and association , the abolition of the prolitarial rendered easy by the discoveries of science and the activity of industry : such will be the inevitable

      consequences of the Revolution of February ! , The reactionary and catholic Empire will not long prevent France opening up to humanity the future promiset to our efforts . Abas VEmpire I Vive la Repubuqua Bemocratique et Sociale ! In respect to the cloge by Theirs adopted by Disraeli , about which so much has been said in the English journals , it is said that the real author is Armand Carrel , and that Thiers himself is a plagiarist . M . Louis Cormenin , who , by his father ' s apostacy , obtained the direction of the Monitcar , is about to lose his MOO fr . a year . It appears that he is not merely incompetent , but has become absolutely imbecile . Bonaparte is now attempting to

      France. (From Our Own Correspondent.) V ...

      gull the European powers by a pretended reduction of the army . It is a mere sham—the army will be not ' a with less effective after his pretended reduction of 30 , 000 men than it is at the present time . The general summing up of the Votes of Paris and of the eighty communes of the departments , will take place at the Hotel de Ville on Thursday morning . Vely-Pacha has arrived in Paris . ' ( xERMANY . Peussia . —The Cologne Gazette stakes that the resolution of the government to tolerate no newspaper attacks upon friendly governments had been signalled to ail the Berlin journals . The order forbidding all the travelling or wandemde Prussian workmen from

      entering Switzerland has appeared . The " destructive tendencies" of the workmen ' s associations in the cantons are alleged as the cause of this renewed prohibition . All foreign workmen who remain in Switzerland after the 1 st of January next will not be allowed to enter Prussia , and if they are compelled to cross the Prussian territory to gain their homes , their route will be fixed , and they will not be permitted to deviate from it . All Prussian workmen in the Confederation are to leave it in a given time ; if they remain beyond it without special permission , their license to travel at all will be taken away from them when they return . "

      Bavaria . — -The Bavarian government has ordered that in every parish a public magazine of corn be established at the cost of community , on pretext of making provision against dearth in bad harvests ; the real motive , however , is suspected to be the wish of having a store at the disposal of government in case of war .

      DENMARK . The Danish Popular Chamber , in its sitting of the 17 th , voted , after a long and stormy discussion , an article of the Conscription Act , declaring that the troops raised in Denmark should never form part of the German Federal Contingent . This resolution is in . direct contradiction with the principle of the unity of the monarchy , which has lately been asserted at so great cost .

      SWITZERLAND . The elections of the Grand Council of Geneva are over , and the party of Mr . James Fazy has again carried its list . The state of parties in this canton is peculiar and remarkable . The moderate radical party , of which . President Fazy is the head , is always strengthened at the elections by the support of the catholic party , the latter willingly overlooking the wide gulf which separates them from the principles of their allies in order to secure a continuance of that freedom in the exercise of which they have already achieved so much in

      the birthplace and capital of Calvinism . The opposition , which is widely separated in opinion , consisting of the old conservative and protestant party so long in power and the ultra-radical party , has on this occasion , as at the last elections , put forth all its strength , and was sanguine of success , but the majority of Mr . Fazy is nevertheless overwhelming The fire at the Grimsel-spital is believed to be the work of an incendiary . Zybach , the " wirth , " whom every one who has visited the Grimsel will remember , is in custody with his son . He has made an attempt upon his life .

      ITALY . Piedmont . —The Turin correspondent of the Official Savotj Gazette states that on the 14 th the pastoral letter , signed by several Piedmontese bishops—among whom is the exiled Archbishop of Turin , M . Franzoni—threatening excommunication to all who shall henceforward peruse liberal newspapers , was publicly read from all the pulpits of Turin . The churches were thronged with people on the occasion , but no disturbance ensued .

      Tuscany . —The Grand Duke braves it out . He affects to despise the execration of Europe , and causes it to be understood that the imprisonment of the Madiai is but a slight foretaste of the zeal which he is prepared to exhibit as a true son of the church . He has been heard to say , " I will root- out heresy from my dominions , though I should be regarded as the Woodiest tymnt known to history . " He has issued a decree , dated Florence , 16 th inst ., which re-establishes the punishment of death by the guillotine for crimes against religion , of public violence against the government , of premeditated homicide , and robbery accompanied with acts of violence . Sentence of death may be

      pronounced even when the judges are . not unanimous on the point . The crime of wounding with sharp weapons or firearms , with premeditation , but without intention to kill , the . punishment is to be from 7 to 15 years' hard labour , if danger of life or limb have ensued ; if not , from three to seven years' imprisonment with hard labour at Yolterra . The maximum of the above punishments is to be applied in every case in which the wound has been inflicted by a sharp weapon of an illegal length ( that is , under three-fourths of a Florentine braccio , or about a foot and a half ) , or else by firearms of any kind . All criminal cases contemplated by this decree are to be henceforward tried with all possible and in

      speed , preference to all others . Giving false testimony in favour of the accused is to be punished with from three to seven years ' imprisonment with labour , at Yolterra . To this decree is added a second , by which new powers are entrusted to the police department for the discovery of crimes . Among the provisions of this decree we find that the delegates of police may inflict eight days ' imprisonment even when transgressions of police orders are not proved ; that sub-prefects may , in cases of the competency of the police , mflict one months' imprisonment , and that prefects may , in similar cases , condemn to three months' imprisonment . Councils of prefecture may decree a forced change of domicile , imprisonment in the house of detentionand

      , Confinement in a fortress for a period not exceeding three years . Delegates of police , as well as prefects and sub-prefects , may order any search to be made upon sufficient suspicion . Defendants may appeal against the decisions of the delegates , sub-prefects , and prefects in certain cases specified , and the last appeal is to ^ the . Minister of the interior . A letter from Florence of the loth , in the Camere Mercantile of Genoa , states that thelate decree of expulsion has not been generally applied ' at Florence , and that a xew exceptions have been made . The decree is attributed to the pressing remonstrances of the Pope , Austria , and Mooeria , in consequence of information received by the police that Mazzinian -io-enfe have lately been spreading treasonable proclamations letters ' &?'

      , _ LoMBARDY-The Mikm Gazette states that two men , named Morosoniand Morelh , have been condemned at Boloona by courtmartial to two years' careers duro , for having posted up incendiary proclamations m the stilts on the anniversary of the execution of Hugo Bassi , Garibaldis chaplain . w

      \ United States. (Fr05i Our Own Co-Respo...

      \ UNITED STATES . ( FR 05 I OUR OWN CO-RESPONDENT . ) ' New York , November 2 . The democratic journals continue , to . crow oyer the triumph of Pierce . The . following list is stated to be ^ e , probable one of th finure cabmefy-James . Buchanan of Pennsyl 4 ia , Secretay f t ^ J ^ av ? ' *? - ^\ ^ W of the Treasury . David Todd , of Ohio Secretary of the Interior . Robert F . Stoitom of New Jersey , Secretary of the Navy . Samuel Houston , of ' Texas S * SK ^ o ^^ < £ & e * "So ^ Hs the 18 th ult , a mad employed vM ^^ ttl aS t ° o

      \ United States. (Fr05i Our Own Co-Respo...

      the Fulton Ferry , New York . On their way down the person stopped the hackman at the Herald office , and asked him to deliver a package . The hackman did as he was requested , and left in tho Herald office a small round box . The box was subsequently handed to Mr . Bennett . It was , as is said , marked as follows : — « Native silver and copper ore from theCuba mountains , with letter inside fchc box . For James Gordon Bennett , proprietor and editor . Office , N W . corner , of Fultor and Nassau-streets . Private and with cave . " Accompanying the box was a card , on which was printed with a pen as follows : " Senor V . Alcazor , ' of Cuba , for Mr . Bennett , who will

      call on his return to the city , " The . outer envelope being removed , the following inscription was read : " Specimens and private documents' from the interior of Havana for Mr . Bennett ( only ) . Should he be out of town keep for him , Island of Cuba , September , 1852 . " As the box could not be readily opened , Mr . Hudson ; one of the editors of the Herald , who was present , made an incision with a knife , when some black grains of some hard substance rolled out upon his desk . These grains proved to be powder , and a subsequent investi gation proved that the paper box contained a quantity of explosive pellets of paper , and . friction matches , so placed as to ignite when the cover of the box was turned round . "

      The LotveM American , publishes an excellent letter from the Hon . Horace Mann , the Free Soil Candidate for the Governoi-ship of Massachusetts on the labour question , in which he shows the debasing effects of the present long hours of labour . In the following remarks I perfectly agree , as will doubtless every man who has attentivel y studied this important question : — " In all parts of our State , and wherever I have spoken of that department of education which pertains to the Laws of Health and Life , there must be hundreds of persons who have heard me lament that artificial and most unnatural division of labour , by which almost all that is muscular is assigned to one portion of the community , and

      almost all that is mental to another portion . Both parties suffer incalculably from this false arrangement . No person can possess a full measure of health , or attain the highest scope of his mental faculties , who does not invigorate his bodily system by exercise , and take no inconsiderable part of this exercise in the open air . Every person should exercise ad sudorem , as Lord Byron expressed it , —that is , to the point of free perspiration , —several times every day . And every man ' s general health , and not only the vigor of his muscular system , but the beneficial application of that vigor , is immensely improved when his brain is habitually stimulated and strengthened by mental activity . There are Natural Laws about which there is now no more question than about the law of gravitation , or the revolution of the seasons .

      Hews Feom The Gold Diggings. The Followi...

      HEWS FEOM THE GOLD DIGGINGS . The following is an extract of a letter from a young medical man to his friends : — " Adelaide , July 10 , 1852 . " My dear , — In my last letter home , I told you exactly how things were going , or , rather , had gone , to the bad in Adelaide . Every one being off to the diggings , all business is at a stand-still . Well

      then , I also thought it time to start ; and , to begin at the beginning , on the 23 d of last February , I tore myself from my dear wife , and took my passage in a ship bound for Melbourne . My time on shipboard was a miserable one ; the ship was crammed full of all kinds of people —but I will not detail all that happened there . Thank God , it was soon over , as we landed in Melbourne on the tenth day . I called on my old friends , the L—s , and was most affectionately received . , Mr . L— , like every one else , had been to the diggings , and at the period of my arrival was preparing for another start , as he had done very fairly

      on his former trip . On the 18 th of March we reached the diggings , on the banks of the Loddeu Elver , about 85 miles N . W . of Melbourne . We there found Mr . L—' s party , which had preceded him . They were not doing well ; in fact , the di ggings in that locality were deserted , and the rumours which reached us of a newly-discovered digging at a place called Bendigo-creek , about 38 miles further north , made us all determine to move on there . The weather was intolerably hot , the dust frigthful , and our unfortunate hands and faces were mangled by myriads of sand flies and mosquitoes . Water

      was very scarce ; indeed , the creeks were all dried up , and you cannot imagine the rapture with which , after walking by the side of the drayibr 10 or 15 miles , we espied a little hole of muddy water . We had to make short stages , as the dust lay so very thick on the socalled road ( in many places knee-deep ) that the horse had hard work to drag along the heavy-laden dray . At night fall we encamped as near as possible to a water-hole , lighted a fire , cooked our supper , and , wrapping ourselves in our blankets , lay down under the dray , and slept soundly , each provided with a six-barrelled revolver , wellloaded , readto

      y give a welcome to any itinerant convict who might wish to amuse himself by a little job in his old line by breaking into our goods and chattels on the dray , or driving off our horse , who was tied up to it . On tno third day we . arrived at Bendigo , and pitched our tents at the motof < Golden Gully . ' The next day we began to sink a hole next to L s party . I worked hard with a pick and shovel ; after sinking about five feet we came to the « pipe-clay' bottom , and beonn to pic * out a little gold . The creek at Bendigo was dry , so we had to cart the clay nine miles , to a place called Bullock Creek ; Charles ii—audi took down a load , and washed it out at the cradle ; we luckthan

      were more y we thought , for we got H ounces of aold . We hag to sleep a night at Bullock Creek ; but as we had on ? blankets strapped on our backs , a tin ' pannikin' slung to our belts , a paper ot tea , and half o a ten-pound ' damper' ( Mgtoz unleavened bread ) . we wanted for nothing , and got back safely . On my return 1 was advised oy iur . L- ~ and many others to give' up the di ggings , and to devote all Z % 7 * on ^ e F ^ tice of my profession , as many people had called at the tent during my absence ; so from that time I did nothing at the mining . I hoisted a red flag on the tent , and displayed a zinc plate , with my name and titles over the doorway . Just at that time dyjenuery was very prevalent . Thank God , from the first I was lucky in f thlS t 0

      vp ' W ° dlS f ' S 00 U U ^ ^ connexion . Sore eyes also were very prevalent ; we all suffered from them , and very annoying , hey were . My partners continued the digging ; they worked hard , out were not very successful ; we all endured many hardships . At the StwT ^ f f ! vedab 0 Ut £ l 2 ° ' thQy M not made so much , so hey said they had got enough of the digginss , especially as the winter wassettrng m fast . A short time before our party broke up , my old shipmate , Mr . C had set up a fine wooden store close to Bendigo . He asked me to go and live with him . I made good terms ~ d 0 s . a jeek , which was very cheap indeed for the diggings ' . I went there on he 12 th of May , and my companions returned to Melboume , ? iw \ 1 S ST time Iie satisfection of sending a pound weiht

      n r g oi _ gold to my dear t . I was verv « , «„¦ „ t . ni _ t «» a i , nJ .. 2 Ki y T ? VT" l ^ ™ T «««¦ at C— % and had a & £ ttnZ 7 f fgress and egress of my patients , and money began fc pour m fast , I continued practisin g in the same locality riu ^ L T \ ^ * - 11 S tn f wiut 8 r ™ at its greatest seve-| f f 1 ^? ^ gone home , intending to return in w lii 1 ? ^{ j ^ back ^ Adelaide , give up my house there , ^ S ~ T ^ Melbou 1 riie - You will say , too , I wanted a little , o ! ft \ fw ly t „ mtmths at *» " > diggings . Accordingly , W days Sinif i dt 0 rMeb 0 ? ' J . kW 5 * W to describe the difficulties and dangers of the route , the road , which when I was coming up was knee-deep m dust , was so cut up on account of the immense traffic carried on by means of ponderous bullock-drays . The price of

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    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 27, 1852, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_27111852/page/2/