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      0 The Northern Star. / December 37, 1851...

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      FRANCE . A correspondent of tbe 'Daily News' has the following : *—<¦ Paris , Dec 21 . —I have again made a tour of the arrondissements . It has been my fortune to be present at rsauy elections in England , and at several even in America , but I have never seen a spectacle like that of these two melanchol y days . People go to tbe Hectr . ral urn as if to deposit the ashes of a lost friend . Not a smile is seen on any face . No ! a loud word escapes any lip . The only indication of strong feeling is when , some honest republicanhaving had a Qui imposed upon him , crushes it

      , up in his hand , or casts H away from him as if it were a vip ? r . As for nons I have not yet seen one ; of course , no one is allowed to distribute them . At anv rate nobonv does distribute them . This policy is ingenious , as it will not only make the result more favourable to Louis Napoleon by some thousands , but it enabtos the government spies , who abound like vermin in all P « M * places , " > form some idea of vhe political complexion of each voter . A man who means lo vo . e out . under Misting circumstances , ha- > no occasion to be afraid of h . s act . On the contrary , it is well for bun that it should be Droclaimed from the housetops . To be sure , in nine

      instances out of ten he is ashamed of his vote , and in no one instance , from Brest to Antibes , is proud of it ; but then since he votes for Louis Napoleon as matter of interest , or , at best , by reason of cowardice , be would fain have his vote known to all the world , that he may have the personal advantage of it . Accordingly , when he goes to the poll , he takes no ballot with him , but receives one from a distributor , and , joining the long funeral procession , lays it openly on tbe tomb of the repub . lie . Such a man is , of course , marked and numbered by tbe spies , and reported to the authorities as being right side up .

      ' A man who means to note non , on the contrary , takes his ballot with him , knowing full well that none will be provided . He takes a out , perhaps , as he joins the dismal concourse ; but an experienced mouchard can see at once through a much deeper ruse than . 'hat . The good fellow tries to appear unconcerned , but in vain . The unconscious compresssou of his lips and clenching' of his bands , tbe firm step with which he marches on to enter his Sicided but useless protest against an unprincipled usurper , all show plainly enough that he is anything under leaven but a Napoleonis ? .

      'No one has any enthusiasm for Louis Napoleon . At best he can only be tolerated , For himself personally nobody but his mistress cares a chip . The outrier who called him L ' enfant terrible , hit the nail exactly on the head . He is simply wanted just now as a scarecrow ; to keep the crows—that is tbe socialists—away from the corn . Rigged up in bis uncle ' s old bat be answers that purpose to a charm . The legitimists find him useful also as a stepping-stone ; while the shopkeepers think he may dt > for a while as a counter , - and the speculators use him as a broker .

      « To my thinking , he will rise out of the elec ( oral urn like a ghost , and convert France iot a while into a graveyard . Instead of installing himself at the Tuileries , be should hold his court at Fere la Chaise . There ( finding " sermons in stones" ) he can preach tranquillity and terror with some point . That he will ever gain the affections of the people no one pretends . I have seen hundreds of people who mean to vote for him , but they all state the fact in the form of a confession , and apologue for it as for a crime . They say : —• ' There are but two candidates , Monsieur Oui and Monsieur Non ; Monsit ur Oui is at least a reality , while Monsieur Non is but a political Mrs . Harris . " And so tbey vote for Oui . ' I have been struck with the fact that all tbe

      vote distributors nearly are en House . This is a shabby trick to ensnare ignorant ouvriers and to encourage stupid shopkeepers . But the decoy is seen through by everybody , and is matter of general remark and contempt . 'I sought to enter into conversation with various people at the different Mairies , but ia vain . Every man ' s mouth is barricaded . Every heart is in a state of siege . People talk chiefly by winks and shmgs , at the great risk , as it seems to me , of becoming all hump-backed and a-squint .

      1 It was stated yesterday , and generally believed , that tbe government bad forbidden tbe printers to print any negative ballots . This is denied in the "Moniteur' * as an " absurd and offensive imputation . " The *« Moniteur" adds : — "It is the wish of the President that the vote should be tf-e sincere and free expression of the people ' s will , and that all the instructions of the government have been to confirm and reproduce this thought ol the chef'de Fetat . " 1 0 / course 1 know nothing more of tbe " instructions of tbe government , " and the thought of the cJtefde Fetat , than is published in the '' Moniteur , " aud blazoned on the walls . But this I know , tha t baving visited several arrondissements , and repeatedly aiktd , looked , hinted even for a non , I have been unable tofind one . 1 would fain have

      obtained one of theseabsurd little adverbs as a curiosity and a souvenir . On returning to my hotel , I asked a well known republican gnrcon M be had voted . He said yes , but that being unable to find a won , —aud " he would sooner take a hot coal in his hand lhan a oi »'—he had written one for himself , in characters so plain , that tbe inspector , though a fool , might read it . These are facts : and facts , moreover , which will be treasured up against Louis Napoleon to the day of his early downfall .

      To call the vote of to-day free is absurd . Why . only a day or two ago , all the books against Louis Napoleon , and all tbe bo » ks in favour of republicanism , were seized by the government , and ( for augbt I know ) burned like so many Epheeian letters . Where there is no free speech , of course , there can be no tree rote , la truth , the government organs deny their own statements in this regard : for , while to-day they boast that all men are perfectly free , it is well known that every other day they iaye boasted that » all tbe demagogic ( which is the official word for democracy , ) are terrified . "

      ' In fact , terror is more the order of the day than ever : and under its influence it is possible , though by no meens certain , that the enfant terrible has been elected chef de Fetat . By the way , this little phrase has figured in the " Moniteur " lately very often , and there is reason to believe that it will be Louis Napoleon ' s title . Tbe republicans of Paris , however , would fain call him Ratopoil . 'N . B . I forgot to state , in its proper place , that each of the subscribers of ' La Patrie' received with bis yesterday ' s paper four impertinent little ous—one of which , begging your pardon for tbe act , I enclose .

      ' P . S . 5 p . m . —Thinking that there might be some shade of difference in the appearance of the polls as the hour for closing them approached , I have just made another tour through the twelve arrondisiemenls . There is no perceptible change . It is still impossible to find a non . Many of tbe xoie-distributors have manifested surprise at my asking far one . All say , as yertwday , cat defwht The government have issued a meaningless decree this morning to the effect that the printers may print as many nons " as suits them . " This is a canard , ' Tbe walls in every part of Paris are covered to-day with a blue placard signed nominally by half-a-dozen locksmiths , tailors , & c , calling upon the ouvriers to vote for Louis Napoleon . Another canard .

      ' It is very curious in walking about the Faubourg St . Antoine to see the remains of smashed and obliterated triangles . In some instances , where the offensive symbol was merely whitewashed over , it has come out again this morning as red and fresh as ever . ' A letter dated Sunday last says : — # ' One feature of this day it is important to notice . Generally , on a fine Sunday before Christmas you see baidly one of the gaily-dressed crowd upon tbe pathways without a little packet of some sort , a toy for children a box of ion-ionsor some

      , , sort of etrennes . To-day , although the weather is brilliant , and the streets are crowded with brisk groups pacing in the sunshine , you hardly meet a person bearing borne one of tbe Chrismas toys with which tha tempting shops swara . The ahop-peopte , who , a week ago were sanguine aB to tbe good effect of the coup-d ' etat , to-dij look quite blank at their starred custom , and begin to suspect that fttyhwe been duped into bailing a false prophet for their Messiah , and that tbe settled government they looked to for curing the disasters of late rears is farther off than ever . '

      M . de Falioux baa made a speech at Angers to an andienee of some four or five hundred persons , in which , wishing lo recommend abstention in tbe present election , and a withholding of all support from the government , heiogeniously shadowed forth the weaning which he dared not Jo express directly , by

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      saying that wine ought not to be given to people who are drunk . A government which makes such gross a ' -suse of tbe force which it has , ought not to be trusted with more . The government , it seems , is much nettled at the presence of M . Thiers in London . They gave out that he was going to Germany , « " indeed launched him through Strasbourg in that direction . But the current of M . Thiers plans was setting apparently in the opposite direction , and no sooner had he reached the Rhine than he doubled like an old hare northward , until be was ferried across the Channe at Ostend towards the hospitable mansion of hu old friend Mr . Edward Ellice .

      There is an evident disposition on the part of the government to indulge a sort of Roman munificence towards the working classes , which would he laudable were it not bribery for a selfish and mischievous end . Thus in the * Moniteur' of the 21 st inst . the announcement of an intention to establish baths and washouses on a grand scale for the pour . Another of these Greek gifts is mentioned in a letter of the prefect of the Bas-Rhin , stating that the President has irtven orders that free leave is to be siven to the poor to cut their . wood in the neig hbouring forest .

      It is at last perfectly certain that Gen . Cavaignac is at liberty , and once mere restored to his family circle in the Rue du Helder . It is certain that be has made no conditions whatever with the government in order to procure thii advantage over the rest of his fellow-prisoners at Ham . It was only , in > ' act in consequence of tbe assurance that they also would shortly be set free that tbe general finall y consented to accept his own liberation . M . Victor Hugo , who was closely pursued by the police made his escape into Bel gium by means of a false passport . Madame Hugo and her daughter have quitted their hotel to join him at Brussels . The two sons of the exiled poet are still confined in the prison of the Conciergerie , in consequence of this verdict of the jury which convicted them ol having published ' seditious libels * in tbe ' Evenement . '

      At Amiens , the bishop , the clergy , and the members of the religious congregations , went on Sunday ia a sort of solemn procession to tbe poll , holding up tickets inscribed with oui . Pius tbe 9 th has addressed to tbe nuncio at Paris a letter , in which he expresses bis deep sympathy with ibe acts of Louis Napoleon , which have saved religion and society . He has also addressed a letter to M . de Montalembert to congratulate him upon his letter of adhesion to the act of Decembe 2 nd , and upon his enrolment in the consultative

      commission . M . Lamarline , who seems threatened with a relapse into the painful malady which has confined him for nearl y two months to his bed , writes as follows to M . de La Guerreionere : — ' I have lo safeguard and to maintain , before the public , friendly or inimical , the character of a man of the 24 th of February . If I allowed to be doubted in me the moderate but consistent firmness of this part , I should no longer be au entire man . This exceptional situation commands me to pursue a different course horn all thote who , not having the same antecedents , have not tbe same duties . '

      A decree appears opening to the Minister of Marine an extraordinary credit of G 58 , 000 fr . for the first measures , necessary for the formation of a penitentiary establishment at Cayenne , 58 , 000 fr . of which are assigned for the military expenses , and 600 , 000 fr , for the penitentiary colony . M . Ducos , Minister of Marine , announces in the preamble to the decree , that a batch of prisoners , who have been convicted of affiliation to secret societies , and former convicts who have broken their ban , are going to be transported immediately . Among the number will be probably included many of the list of tbe fifty barricade-makers arrested on the ni g ht of the 1 st inst .

      M . Mint , representative of the Nievre , belonging to the Mountain , has just received , in bis prison at St . Pelagie , notice of a warrant issued against him hy the captain-reporter of the court-martial at Bourges , for participation in the insurrection of the Nime . The correspondent of a contemporary ( who , it should be added , is a Bonapartist and a member of tbe Church of Rome ) says : — 1 A congress of all the powers who signed tbe

      treaties of Vienna of 1815 will be called for , with a view to their revision upon the basis of giving France what is called ber old and natural boundaritt . It is whispered that Prussia would be offered Hanover as compensation for her Rhenish provinces , and Piedmont made to exchange Savoy for slices of Italian duchies . There is talk , too , of a kingdom of Italy for the Duke of Leuchtenberg , & c . I ? the " Constitutionnel" speaks troth , these would be only projects in the air , but that they are entertained in some beads may be believed . '

      The authorities have arrested an important personage in tbe Gironde , M . Perronge , formerly chef d ' escadron and officer of the Legion of Honour , who is stated to have headed the insurrection at Marmande . Domiciliary searches made by tbe police during these last three days , at the houses of persons suspected of belonging to secret societies , have led to the discovery of a quantity of papers and arms ; several arrests have been made in consequence , A Boulogne correspondent informs us that ail the English papers were stopped on Sunday morning , even those carried by passengers . Another Bishop , the Bishop of Chalons-sur-Mame , has addressed to the journal of that town a similar letter to that of his * dear brother , ' the Bishop of Chartres , of which the following is a

      copy : •—« Monsieur le Redaeteur . —I have just seen in the journals the letter of the Bishop of Chartres , advising his clergy to vote in favour of our President , Prince Louis Napoleon ; in so doing he has only expressed the idea of all rightminded men , and of all the bishops . From the first day my opinion was known in the diocese , and it is that which has made me abstain from expressing aloud what was so well understood that on that course depends the safety of France , of our dear country . God is with tbe President ; that reason is sufficient why we should all make it a duty of being with him . ' The following is from the Bishop of Straaburg to the clergy of his diocese : —

      • Messieurs , —Although I have already replied in a precise manner to such amongst you as have consulted me on the line of conduct to be followed in the grave circumstances in which we are placed , I consider it my duty to address this circular to you , in order to remove from your minds every sort of doubt and uncertainty . There is no one who does not see at present from what frightful calamities the President of tbe Republic has preserved us b y bis firmness , and who does not render homage to the wisdom of tbe measures he . has adopted . It suffices to open our eyes in order to perceive the abyss into which we were about to be precipitated . Let us return thanks to Providence for having given

      us a man whose arm is sufficiently strong to stop ihe chariot of the State on the brink of tbe precipice to which mad passions were impelling us . Let us supplicate the Almighty to cover with His protection this man , to endue him with the wisdom aud energv necessary to him to complete the work he has 80 well commenced , and let us contribute , ourselves , each in his own sphere , to that great work of public salvation , by answering , and urging our flocks to answer ' Tes' ( o the appeal he has made to us with so much nobleness and confidence . Let us not forget that the happiness or the misfortunes of the country , the preservation or the ruin of social order , depend on the vote that France is called on to g ive on the 20 th and 21 st of this month .

      A correspondent says : — ' I learn from a perfectly sure source that Lord Falmerston has addressed three notes to the French g overnment since the coup d ' etat . The first of these » ot * s demanded information concerning the ulterior views of Louis Napoleon . The answers of the cabinet of the Elysee to the two first notes have been very civil , and would be satisfactory could the veracity and promises of ( he French President be depended upon . But conscious that no reliance can be placed on the word of a prince who has violated the most solemn engagements , Lord Falmerston has sent a third note , requiring stronger guarantees for the observance of the principles professed in the two preceding answers of the French government . '

      Since the decree ot the 8 th , declaring that liberated convicis en rupture de ban at Paris shall be transported , the tribunals of Correctional Police have not had to try any one arrested since that date for that offence—all offenders being given up to the administrative authorities to be sent to a penal settlement without trial . Formerly ten or twelve such cases were disposed of by the tribunals every day . It is said that no less than 2 , 200 persons are already destined to be transported in pursuance of tfau decree . Of these 1 , 700 are accused of hav-

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      ing broken their ban . Tbe remaining 000 . including many representatives and pursuits of rm-poclnbili'y and station , are to be hurried to a penal unltleaimt for tbe alleged oflVnco of ' having bolonted ' to a secret society . M . Bt-ysset , tbe representative , ban just bcrn arrested , as he was trying to escape into Swiizorland . It is impossible to describe tho anxinly fell b y the immense and almost incredible number of sVnpkeepers and operatives whose livelihood for immtln to come depends upon Ihn salt : of articles made tin expressly for the expected and accustomed ilcuwinil of this season of the year . Activity in those

      branches of trade commonly begin about the 15 th of the month . Up to the 21 st , with the exception of cakes and toys for children , which are perhaps as much in request as usual , there is as yet ab » olutely nothing doing . The fur trade , notwithstanding the early commencement of winter , is comp letel y stagnant . And , as to those articles of luxury and fancy habitually selected for Christmasboxes , the universal report is that there are no buyers . It is very much to the credit of tbe Parisian press as a body , that so few journalists should hitherto have consented to place their talents at the disposition of the dictator . 1 he * Patrie' publishes a sort

      of black list of the journals that have not' thought fit , ' as , with very bad taste , it contemptuously lemnrks , to make any comments upon the great and solemn events of the election . These journals are , the 'Journal des Debats , '' Ordre , ' ' Union , '' Opinion Publique , ' ' Siecle , ' ' Assemblee Natlonale , ' -Journal de Ville des Campagnes , ' and the Gazette de France . ' Tbe Patrie' might have added to the list the ' National , ' ' Democratic , ' * Republiquc , ' ' Revolution , ' ' Messager , ' and the ' Avenement , which have not appeared at all since December 2 nd .

      In truth there are not above half-a-dozen writers of any mark or likelihood who support Louis Napoleon , and . these include tbe myrmidons of the 'ConsfitmionBel' and the 'Patrie , ' who were Jong aito in the secret , and who were the . principal pioneers of the coup d ' etat . The' Univers , ' under the order of tbe Jesuits , is the only newspaper of importance that has been converted to his interests . For although the ' Pays' and the ' . Presse' are also converts so far as their printing materials are concerned , all the men who gave any value to those papers have withdrawn from them .

      The private apartments of the Royal family of Orleans in the Palais Royal are being cleaned and ornamented . The front of the palace facing tbe place is also bein . se cleaned and restored . Tbe . Moniteur' is daily crowded with lists of the newly decorated . Tbe Minister for Foreign Affairs has iutroduced a new system of foreign passport * , as follows : — 'In the name of the French Republic . — -The Minister for Foreign Affairs requests MM . the consuls and dip lomatic agents of the nations friendly or allies of France to permit M to pass , proceeding to , without permission to return .- — The Minister of Foreign Affairs , Turgot . '

      Those permissions are only given to proceed to England or to tbe United States . The Minister refuses them to persons wishing to proceed to the continent of Europe . A correspondent says a marriage is on the tapis between Louis Napoleon and a princess of Sweden . In connexion with this news , which reaches me from a sure private source , I may mention that an Aulic Counsellor of the Czar , M . de Despine de Fohrn , brother-in-law of Prince Anatole Demidoff , has just arrived from Stockholm , in Pin ' s . On Friday several arrests were madeat Lyons , and on Saturday the bivouacs in the public places were re-established during the poll . MM . Gent , Longoraayino , and Oilde , sentenced to transportation by court-martial at Lyons , sailed lot Noukahiva on the 20 th inst .

      The sham election for Louis Napoleon has taken place in forty-ei ght departments . The last result known at Paris on Wednesday morning was , Yes , 5 . 497 , 029 ; No , 510 , 017 . Louis Napoleon is not expected b y the best means of calculating to glean more than those who have a million and a half of votes in tbe thirty-eight departments whose returns remain to be known . The votes of the navy , as verified hy the consultation commission are as follows?—Voters , 19 , 695—Yes , 14 , 820 ; No , 4 , 875 ; abstentions , 407 . Tbe Bishop of Marseilles urged all his clergy to support the government .

      The following is an instance of the extent to which the spy system is now carried . M . Kuss , the registrar of mortgages at Scblestadt , has been suspended by the prefect tor liavirg blamed in strong terms the adhesion given to the President by one of his colleagues . M . Kuss writes that tbe expressions complained of were used by him in a private conversation with a friend with whom he happened to bealone in one of the rooms o ( the Casino . The words were caught up by some listener in an adjoining room , and at once reported to the willing ears of the government authorities , and his suspension has been the result .

      An fxcess of military tyranny , perpetrated by the officer commanding in the Allier , has been stigmatised by men of political importance . In fact , a decree has been issued by Gen . Eynard , which sequestrates tbe property of nineteen persons , under the p lea that they have directed as leaders the pil * lagers of Donjon and tbe assassins of La Palisse . Several ot the victims on this list are wealthy proprietors . This deeree , an unexampled instance in France of the arbitrary power committed lo a military officer , is signed ' Moulins , Dec . 18 . ' It is staled that in a few days the liberty (?) ef the press in France will be regulated by a new law which will repeal all existing laws on the subject , and of which the following are said to be tbe most important clauses : —

      'Every editor of a journal at present m existence or to be published in future , will be bound to deposit security money to the amount of 200 , 000 fr . ( £ 8 , 000 , ) which in case of conviction may be increased to 400 , 000 fr . * The executive power will reserve to itself the right to suapend tbe publication of any journal of which the suspension may appear necessary . * Offences of the press are no longer to be submitted to a jury . Special tribunals are to he consti uted for that purpose . ' Offences of the press are to be classed in three categories .

      ' 1 st . —An attack on the President and on the principle of the government . ' 2 nd . —ExicUed hatred amongst citizeas . ' 3 rd . —An attack on religion , family , or properly . ' Each of those offences may be punished by imprisonment of five years , by transportation for twenty years , and by a fine of from 5 , 000 f . to 100 , 000 .

      GERMANY . AUSTRIA . —A correspondent says , writing from Vienna , that it a universally believed in diplomatic circles there that Louis Napoleon ' s , confidential if not his ostensible counsellor was M . de Kisseleff , the Russian Minister at Paris . As long as things were in suspense in France , the northern Powers were unable to carry out their plans for bringing the continental nations as completely under the yoke as tbey were before the Revolution of 1848 , but now that the President has succeeded in establish . ing a military government , and all resistance appears impossible , the long-cherished plan will soon be brought to li ght : it ia entirely to abolish so-called constitutional government on tbe continent . The following extract from a short article in the ' Lloyd ' of the 17 th inst . will give an idea of what England has to expect : —

      ' Notes , complaining of the dangerous support given to political fugitives in England , were presented by the representatives of Russia , Austria Prussia , and the German Confederation at the British Foreign Office on the 12 ih . A similar note was also handed by tbe Bund to Lord Cowley at Frankfort . Austria will not hesitate to adopt measures which will make it inconvenient or difficult for Englishmen to travel in tbe Austrian Slates so long as the just complaints of tbe Imperial Government are not attended to in London , and an organised communication between the Revolutionary party in England and all the continental States is carried on , under the protection of the law . The English will have the less cause to complain , as the duration of the measure will depend en themselves . '

      It is said that a considerable sum of money which had been forwarded to Hungary by the London de . mocrats has fallen into the bands of the Austrian government . As the account-current books of an Austrian banker have been examined without any result , it is supposed that the funds in question were brought into Hungary by emissaries , and this suspicion will induce the authorities to keep a watchful eye on English travellers in this country . Although a g reat many arrests have recently bien made in Hungary , the papers are completely silent on the subject . The nocturnal meetings in tho house inhabited by Kossuth ' s relations were made known to

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      tho ntilboiities by two students , one of whom lodged on tho ground floor , and heard an unusual noise overhead , ft is said that this latter received 200 duciits for the communication ; the other , a Jew ; diiclinr . il Ibe proffered reward . Ttio rcviniiin of the budget is completed . The credits opened to the Ministers of the Interior , of Justice , and of Public Instruction have been con-j Bidnrably reduced ; those of War , Finance , and Commerce arc maintained . !

      PKUSSf A . —The police have seized on the library presented by various patriotic booksellers to thej Frankfort Assembly . Tbe books are worth twelve thniisnntl florins at the least , and were never in- ' tended by their donors to gratify the Diet , which was believed to have been for dead . Waggons have heen coming and going for several days to and from St . Paul's Church , removing the furniture and ( itlings used by tht > Assembly , and in a few days the building "ill be given up to the clergy .

      HANOVER . —The Hanoverian Chambers have voted an address of condolence to the King , from which we make tbe following extracts : — ' in just sorrow the whole nation mourns with your majesty the loss of your beloved father , who had ever at heart the welfare of the people , and who was always actively engaged in promoting it . Unhappily , it was nut vouchsafed him to complete what he had done for this object ; though he had attained the utmost term of human life , yet he wan I'iken from this world too soon for the wishes of bis people .

      ' The " Stande' will not anticipate the verdict of history , that passes judgment on kings . But when already the most varied opinions in Germany and Europe unite in recognising the great qualities of our late Sovereign as a ruler , we can also declare with greatful hearts that the clearness with which Kinn Ernest comprehended his age , his decision , his steady progress in a constitutional course , his manly adherence to his word in a difficult period , added to the brightness of his Crown , and preserved its independence , while it maintained and established the peace and prosperity of the nation .

      ITALY . ROME . —A correspondent ' s letter of the 13 th from Rome announces that the French garrison , with the exception of 300 out of 10 , 000 men , have signed the affirmative certificate . The Pope is hi ghly pleased with the events of France , and with the assurances of protection given to him by the Commander-in-Chief of the French

      army . A letter from Rome of tbe 8 th inst ., slates that a great many of the English tourists lately arrived there having distributed seditious and anti . Catholie pamphlets , and the police having caught some in the fact , the Minister of Finance has given strict orders to visit the baggage of travellers with the greate-st minuteness . PIEDMONT . —A Turin letter states that on the 17 th inst . M . de Forests , Minister of Grace and Justice , presented a bill in tbe Chamber of Deputies , on the regulation of the press . The government asks for power to prosecute newspapers , publishing attacks on foreign princes or governments , before

      tbe ordinary tribunals without tbe intervention of a jury . Many members of the Left admitted the necessity of the law in tbe delicate position in which the Sardinian government was placed ; it being understood that attacks upon Louis Napoleon was what the government was most anxious to obviate . NAPLES . —A letter dated the 14 th inst ., states that France occupies the attention of all parties . His Majesty , on hearing of the success of Louis Napoleon ' s first step , made a vow to tbe Madonna and gave the naval gentleman who brought the news additional rank . Tbe next day tbe official journal , which seldom prints anything but the most

      trivial rubbish , reprinted tbe whole of the account of the late events of France . The constitutional party look upon all this as by no means encouraging ; they argue no hope for Italy with Louis Napoleon at the head of the affairs in France . He is on very good terms with the King of Naples and the Jesuits , and equally faithful to the court , corrupt , priestly government of Rome . Tbe court party boast of having known everything that was going to take place in Paris days before the event . Naples is perfectly tranquil , and all parties look for the arrival of news with the utmost anxiety , There is a strong body of troops at Gaeta .

      The trials called ' May 15 ' were fixed for the 9 th , but they were put off on account of the illuess of one of the accused , Archdeacon Panazzi , an old man , nearly eighty years of age . The medical commission reported his inability to aitend the court . The prisoners were all marched to the Yicnria a few days sincp .

      SPAIN : Tbe Queen was delivered of a princess on tbe 20 th . The ' Heraldo' of Madrid states that orders had heen sent by telegraph to Cad ' z to set at liberty the American prisoners taken at Cuba . The - Gazette ' publishes a royal decrje relative to the sale of some of the property of the clergy , and enacts that it may be paid for in Three per Cent . Stock . The' Epoca' gives an account of the prosecutions instituted against the Madrid press by the existing cabinet , which has not been in power quite a year .

      Tbe Europa' has been suppressed and fined 30 , 000 reals ; the ' Mundo Nuevo , the - Murga , ' and the ' Tribuna d « l Pueblo , ' have been repeatedly seized , fined , and have ceased to appear ; ibe ' Nacion' has been seiz d eleven times , fined 20 , 000 reals , and has an editor in prison ; the ' Heraldo' has been seized ten times , is printed under the surveillance of lie police , aud baa one of its editors in prison ; tbe ' Const ! tucional' has been seized three times , and fined 20 000 reals ; the ' Epoca' se zed seven times ; the ' O ' lservador , ' the 4 Catolico , * and the ' Nevedades' have also been seized several times .

      SWITZERLAND . The canton of Bale has issued an edict preventing the Jews from trading , and proclaiming their expulsion before January 1 st . The French govern , ment has addressed an energetic note to the Federal Council , declaring that all the Swiss citizens in France will be expelled if the Jews are before the 1 st of January expelled from the Canton of Bale . The federal council met on the same day , and resorted to the dilatory measure of sending a federal commissioner to Liesthal .

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      M. Veron , Director Of The * Constitntfc...

      M . Veron , director of the * Constitntfcionnel , ' has been nominated to the grade of Officer of the Legion of Honour—a recompense for hia slavish literary services to Louis Napoleon . The Wurt « mberg Chamber of Representa'ives have decided that no citizen shall be permitted to contract marriage till be bring proofs to tbe civic authorities that he is possessed , if not of a com . petency , yet of the means and capability of supporting a wife . The ' Constitutionale' of Florence , which bad been suspended by order of the government , resumed its publications on the 16 th inst .

      The mint at Strasbourg is at present coining a considerable amount of money for the Swiss govern , ment . As many as from 300 , 000 to 330 , 000 pieces a-day have been struck off , which is a larger nlHr > her than has ever been coined in a day in any mint either Frencli or foreign . The deposits in the Paris Savings-bank on Sunday and Monday amounted to 245 , 633 f . the withdrawals to 754 , 875 f .

      New Pksal Colonies.—The Anticipations We...

      New Pksal Colonies . —The anticipations we expressed in a recent article on the subject of transportation , that steps would be taken with a view to the formation of penal settlements and coaling stations for steamers in the Sourthern Pacific , are , it appears , about to be speedily realised . "We now understand that the Lords of the Admiralty have given directions for the immediate equipment of two vessels , to proceed upon an exploratory expedition among tbe South Sea Islands , including New Caledonia and the Fegees , with a view to ascertain the capabilities tbey respectivel y present for the purposes in question . We also learn that her Majesty ' s ships Herald and Arrow are destined for this service ; and that the Board of Admiralty with a laudable appreciation of the professional

      talents and public services ot Captain Mangles JJenham , have appointed him to command the intended expedition . It is likewise stated , upon the best authority that her M ajesty ' a steamer Pluto is about to be despatched to the coast of Africa to commence the survey of the Right of Biafra from the point at which Captain Denham concluded his operations in her Majesty ' s ship Avon a fewdavs AgO .-Livtrpool Allien . F V a I 6 W UayS FMKOB FacIORT 1 » CHWA . -If we are rf hft intormoa , our Ministers of Commerce is at this moment projecting the establishment of a French factory in China , of the nature of those wvf / vf + ^ Dutch , the English , and other iy ^* SS £ d there . This factory will be placed tnd 2 ^» S superintendance of M .-de Monti gny , u ? consu at Shanghai , and is expected to exer « u « » h « ««„* v . neficialinfluence on our inteSSSwiSTtJ ^ S tial Empire -Journal du Havre ,

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      IW SIX JLAIYGUaGESI . EOURTIETH EDITION , CONTAINING THE REMEDY FOR THE

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      The Sew Houses op Pablumkkt .-K » Pff'J from the report of the Commissioners of W ° o «» and Forests , just printed , that on the 31 st of M « £ " last there were 1 , 013 men employed on the ^ Houses of Parliament—742 upon the works at [ ° building , 163 at the workshops and on the Thair .- * bank , and 108 at the other establishments .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 27, 1851, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_27121851/page/2/