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      Foreign And Colonial;

      FOREIGN AND COLONIAL ;

      Prance. (From Our Own Con Respondent.) P...

      PRANCE . ( from our own con respondent . ) Pabis ,. November 23 rd . The Comedy 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 struct from the register , in order to make it appear that nearly all this electors ; voted . But in spite of this , the government have been compelled to manufacture affirma _^

      tive votes , which every one knows it to be capable enough of doing . As in former elections , negative voting cards have been prohibited , while those bearing oui upon them have been thrust into the hand of every one . Even Abd-el-Kader and Ms 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 niajorityofthem stayed at home . The workmen in the manufactories of MM . Facot at St . Ouen ; Gouin , at Batignolles ; Sandford and Varral , in the Avenue Trudaine ; the Gas-works in the same avenue ; Derosue , Gail , and Co ., Rue Notre Dame des Champs ; Decoster , in the same street , 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 votes of those were divided , nearly half

      voting against the Empire . But a sufficient number of oui ' 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 tiling , 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 Presse 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 _tJie 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 . BeraTd , prefet of the Isere , says : —" You must let the foreigner know your will by a united voice . You remember the

      unfortunate treaties of Iftlo , 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 fires of war in acclaiming the illustrious exile of Elba , you will not 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 Eveque 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 cf Guillatiere , 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 yon 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 Republique ! 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 Lettre au Peupk _> 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 . EverTemeniber that lie has liad 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 —bemen ! 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 religious tyranny ; at the _abol ition of the proletariat ; at the realisation of human solidarity ! Up , Socialists ! no longer stay . This time it will not be fifty years More the Republic inscribes anew on the front of the social edifice the grand revolutionary device , Liberty , Equality , Fraternity . '" In another , the "Invisibles" 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 or 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 _* p to humanitv _thefatarepromiset to pur efforts . Abas VEmpire ! Vive la RepubliqueDemocratique etSociale ! In respect to the doge by Theirs adopted by Disraeli , about which so much has been said in the English _fouriials , jt is said that the real author is Armand Carrel , and that Thiers _iumself 1 S a plagiarist . M . Louis Cormenin , who , by his father ' s apostacy , obtained the direction of the Moniteur , is about to lose his < _H _« uu ft . a yeaT . It appears that he is not merely incompetent , but ias become- absolutely imbecile , Bonaparte is now attem _^ to

      Prance. (From Our Own Con Respondent.) P...

      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 .

      GERMANY . PkussiA .- _^ The Cologne Gazette states that the resolution of the government to tolerate no newspaper attacks upon friendly govern _^ - ments had been signalled to all the Berlin journals . The order forbidding all the travelling or wandernde 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 _fo 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 _ultras-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 _Savoy Gazette states that on the 14 th the pastofal 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 sli ght 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 bloodiest tyrant 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 reli gion , of public violence against the government , of premeditated homicide , and robbery accompanied with acts of violonce . Sentence of death may be pronounced even when the judges are not unanimous on the point . The cnnie of with

      wounding 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 Volterra 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 bossible speedand to all

      , m preference others . Giving false testimony in favour of the accused is to be punished with from three to seven years ' imprisonment with labour at Volterra . To this decree is added a second , by which new powers are entrusted to the police department for tl * TT + ° i crim f Ainon _S the provisions of this decree we find that _$ e delegates of police may inflict eight day ? imprisonment even when transgressions of police order ? are not proved ; that sub-prefects may , in cases of the _compl y o the police , inflict one months imprisonment , and that prefects may in similar nocoo _nn-nArmm + _^ 4 . 1 , 1 > . . * v - _-v - _VJUt > _* " <* j , m similar casescondemn to three months

      , ' imprisonment . Councils of _prefecture may decree a forced change of domicile , _impxisoZent in the house of detention , and confinement in a forte * _s for a period not exceeding three years . Delegates of police , as well as prefects and _sub-pretepts may order any search to be made upon u P fficeut Sus picion . Defendants may appeal against the _decisions _oSSX sub-prefects , and prefects in certain cases specified ! andiK J appeal is to the Minister of the interior . A W irom kreU ' the 16 th , m the Carnere Mercantile of Genoa , states that the a el cree of expulsion has not been generally applied at Florenceand t at a few exceptions have been made . The decree is Xi w _. Tf _S pressing remonstrances of the Pope , Au _^ _S _* _££££££ _S ! _+ _t ° rmatlOn ; eCeived _^ P ° lice _that _MaSiana _' ent ; have lately been spreading treasonable proclamations , letter & c Lombaudy , _—The Milan Gazette state * that L _, _Morosoni and Morelli , have _^ _JfaL _^ t Z _^ named Hugo Bassi _, Garibaldi ' s chaplain . _& miYeis _™? ot _^ _mention of

      United States. (From Our Own Corresponde...

      UNITED STATES . ( from our own correspondent . ) - New York , November 2 Tid Todd , of Ohio , Secretary of _SlST ttt _fT _^ Da _" H _rh- _^ i V ' T _^^ & Postffiaster _*""*

      United States. (From Our Own Corresponde...

      Fulton Ferry , New York ' . On their way clown the person stop _, ped the hackman at the Herald office , and asked him to deliver a package . The hackman did as he was requested , and left in the 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 the Cuba mountains , with letter inside the box . For James Gordon Bennett , proprietor and editor . Office , ] Sj " W . corner of Fultor and Nassau _^ streets . Private and with care "

      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 bos 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 peU lets of paper , and friction matches , so placed as to ignite when the cover of the box was turned round . "

      The Lowell American _, publishes an excellent letter from the Hon , Horace Mann , the Free Soil Candidate for the Governorship 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 tlie vigor of his muscular system , but the beneficial application of that vigor , is immensely improved when his brain is habituajly stimulated and strengthened by mental activity . There are _Natural-jLaws about which there is now no more question than about the law of gravitation , or the revolution of the seasons

      News Fftoh The Gold Digrg-Ings.

      NEWS _FftOH THE GOLD _DIGrG-INGS .

      — 0-Tthe Followiug Is An Extract Of A Le...

      — _0-TThe followiug 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 . _AVell hen tho ~

      t , I also ught it timeto 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 . _Tsh . L- ~ , like every one else , had been to the diggings , and at the period of my arrival was preparing for another start , as lie had done very fairly on his former trip . On the 18 th of March we reached the di ggings , on the banks of the Lodden Riverabout 95 miles NWof Melbourne

      , .. . T-rr - ¦« " - — — — We there found Mr . L—' s party , which had preceded him , They were not doing well ; in fact , the diggings 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 indeed

      was very scarce ; , the creeks were all dried up , and you cannot imagine the rapture with which , after walking by the side of the dray for 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 ( m many places knee-deep ) that the horse had hard work to drag along the heavy-laden dray . At ni ght fall we encamped as near as possible to a water-hole , lighted a fire , cooked our supper , and , _ri _^ r _^ _™ _??^^ . _^ A ™ under _thely , and slept oundleach

      s y , provided with a six-barrelled revolver , well loaded , _leacly to give a welcome to any itinerant convict who might wish to _Swm _L ] i ttle j ° his old iine by breaki _* g into our goods and chat els on he dray , or driving off our horse , _whiwas tied up to L ? Z r u p _n arrived at Beudi g ° ' P itc 1 _^ our tents at _nel /? nT _golden Gully . ' The next day we began to sink a hole _S _™ _, _^ l J ; worked hard with a P « 5 k and shovel ; after _o _tS _ttl r _£ 6 _r _? t 0 the ' _Wt-cW bottom , and began to _cti _\ Z _L _" M The C 1 ' at B W ° _™ _^ _™ to cartthe clay nine miles , to a place called Bullock Creek ; Charles _™^ _l 1 _, ? _r aload > and washed it out at the cradle ; we

      Ldto IpI Y S _T o th 0 U _S ' for _™ _S 8 * ounces of gold . We _Sawd nn m _, i v at BuU ° Creek ' _' lt as _™ _^ ou ? blankets _S _^ _S backs > a tin < pannikin' _slnng to our belts , a paper of _tanS If T : P > _(* _**» _^ _^ ened bread ) , _™ wanted foi nothing , and got back safely . On my return 1 was advised mv _^ i _^ n T ° therS t 0 _S u P digg _^ and to devote all _Sefat h _^ _pLJ _? raCtlCe of m _? P _™ iession , \ s many people had _Stiit _? M T _^ aken _° So from _* time I did nothing State w rt * ° 1 Sted a _J ' % _<* the tent , and displayed a zinc _dysentlrv wEl _^ _* ° the doo _™ y- Just at that time _myfinSSf _^ aIent ' _^ > fto _™ the first I was lucky in

      _mfoaSmSc i f ° t time Sore our ' party We up , _Bendiin Ci a ~~~~ liad set UP a fine wooden store close to _S a J * ! 1 t 0 _S ° live _^ _W _* . I made good tern * there on _tZl _^ f _^ Very chea P indeedf < _* the digging ! . I wen * and Ilmd at hA _, ? ' my _companions _returneTtollelbourne , 3 _laoll t mv fjr T _r satisfa _<* ion of sending a pound _weig ht mivat e 11 If Z _^ ' l _was vef y s _^ g at C—' s , and had a _™ d 001 cut hv the and 2 of _mtientanad tWM _iuuuw

      _egress eress mv . money hpaflTi _M _™« - _;„ v _+ t . & auu _ygiess oi my patients , ana _rteii I continued practising in the same locality r tv 7 nd _WAd _^ time th e winter _was at its greatest sevei snrina _i T _S" _^ DUllers had S _ho _™ , intending to return in andZinlv resol f M 1 _f back to Adelaide , give _np my ° house there , reft aft J n _^ 7 £ _Melbource - You will say , too , I wanted a little _™ _HZ _? ft S ? _V m 0 Uths at the diggings : Accordingly , 16 days _Siesl l fa V Me ? T - I _faw _™* how to describe' the _dilfi-S _tls WP _7 ° _, route ' road ' _which _** en I _™ coming _tlfflc car , Z _\ dUSt ' Was so cut UP on acco _™ _t _<* the immense name carried on by means of ponderous bullock-drays . The price ot

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 27, 1852, page 242, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/nss_27111852/page/2/