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FRANCE . An occasional correspondent of the ' Daily News , inalett % r on < he pending eleclioa ( or President , writes as follows : — Paris , Dec . 14 . —I have not written to you for several « lays 5 having been occupied in traversing Psris and watching the movement of its pulse . We con ir . ne to have uanq'iillity but not gladness . The people were never more depressed . There is no confidence , an * Uut ' . \ Ule hope . The shopkeepers despair . Usually , at this season of the year , they are preparing for their harvest . By this time we hava been accustomed to see the windows of the boulevards , the baziaTS . and their contributory
streets glittering with new and beautiful wares . There are no such signs of prosperity now . Trade is paraiysed . And yet all the tradesmen 1 have saen—and 1 have made a point to see many—intend to vote for Louis Napoleon . They say there is no choice , and that his is the only available name in France which is a type of order . That Louis Napoleon will Rf-t the vote—or claim U , at least—seems certain , pamphlets and hundreds of thousands of - "La I ' atrie , " "le O . nstitutionnel , " "Le Pays " ( which has just basely succumbed to the government ) , and other journals , will be scattered over the land like snow-flakes . Ail this time not £ word on the other side of the question can be printed ; and whoever attempts to electionceragainst Louis
Napoleon will he imprisoned . And despite of all this , ¦ pe are caiied upon every day to praise him for his magnanimity and . courage in giving the people uni . xersal suffrage . Pray what is the courage of a man who shrinks before a printing press ; or the magnanimity of a man who immures all his opponents ? * The men whom the people would like , to consult in this crisis are either in prison or exile , 'ihe few still at liberty , who would be likely to influence them in favour of the Republic , are being arrested by the score . All the prisons in France are glutted . 2 ? o respect is paid to age or condition . The mojaaut a man is suspected he is seized . The air is thick with oppression . Spies are everywhere . There is a toad at every ear . One . has to distrust even bis friends .
-1 have looked abroad over this Bingular country , and asked myself , who in all France will come to Xonis Napoleon ' s support ? The answer wbb this —1 . All the imbeciles ; 2 . AH the old women of both sexe 3 ; 3 . All the shopkeepers ; 4 . Half the peasants ; 5 . AH the Jesuits ; 6 . A'l the place-Innters ; 7 . The army and navy ; 8 . M . Tbiers . ' The next question -was , vrho will oppose Louis Napoleon ? The answer is naturally suggested by
the above list . But let as look—1 . All the young ; yonth being naturally truthful , progressive , courage ? on ? , and Protestant . 2 . All men of genius ; genius being essentially and instinctively noble-minded , generous , free , and impatient of restraint . 3 . The merchants ; commerce having always a tendency to enlighten the wind and extend the vision . 4 . All true Liberals of whatever class , not one of whom , bo far as I can learn , has yet shrunk from his principles . 1
Concerning the first class I have not met a young man in Paris who does not feel that the election of Louis Napoleon would be a curse . Of course I except the poor drilling-machines who compose the army . As for the second class , auy one familiar with French literature is well aware that its bri g htest ornaments—Hugo , Beranger , Dupont , Sue t Lamartine , George Sand , Girardin—are all far too liberal and enlightened to be dazzled by a mere name . 4 Of the third class I have information which COD . - vince ? me that the French merchant , like the British , will be the last man in his country to advocate imperialism . ' The fourih class speaks for itsflf . It has sacrificed and suffered far too much to relinquish its principles at such an hour as this .
' Nevertheless , Louis Napoleon Bonaparte Will probably be elected . Nothing can prevent it but a civil war . Whether the disturbances in the departments are sufficiently general and serious to deserve that name at present , no one in Paris , outside of the government , can say . If elected , be will take possession of the Tuileries . It is said that but for M . Tould he would have done so on the 2 nd of December . A * any rate he will keep away from the people . The TuflerUs will be more luxurious than Ham , hut not less a prison . * I have just heard two important rumoura : — 4 — -That Lanuitine , though dangerously ill , has written several letters from Slacon , expressing hira-8 eH strongly aeainst the President .
' 2—That Gen . Changenierand Lamoriciere are to belibeiated before the election ; but that as long us there is disorder in the country General Cavaignac will remain in prison . ' Paris continues calm , abject , tranquil , andslupid . ' A decree appeared authorising the collection of taxes and indirect revenues until April 2 , 1852 , sud opening to th » ministers a provisional credit upon the budget of 1852 . The fourth article opens to the ministers a provisional credit of 369 millions , which is the sum adopted by the committee of ihe budget for the three first " months of 1852 . The fifth article opens a provisional credit of half a million of francs to the Minister of War by anticipation on that of £ 1 , 500 , 000 :. allowed for military pensions . The sixth article authorises the minister
of finance to create for the service of the treasury and negotiations with the Bank of France treasury Mils bearinz interest payable at fixed dates . The definitive composition of the consultative commission appears in the' Monitenr / It contains 178 names , among which are enrolled those of Hie various ministers since October , 1849 , with the exception Of M . Faucher . of the Bonapartist generals , the high church party with Montalembert at their Lead , and generally those members of the late assembly who supported the policy of theElysee . The commission will commence its sittings on the 23 rd inst . The former secretary of the council of state , is appointed secretary-general of the comraisMon , and the former secretary re-dactuer oi the Assembly , is appointed to fulfil the same functions for the commisMnn .
The functions of the commission are the general examination of the -votes of the 20 tb and 21 st inst . To give its opinion on the drafts of decrees in legislative matiers , which will be submitted to the President of the Republic . To fulfil the functions deferred to the council of state except in matters relating to administrative decisions in suits . The commission will be presided over by the President af the Republic , and in his absence by M . Uaroche , vice-president . Several papers have begun to re-appear , among Others' La Presse . ' We learn that M . Etnile de Girardin has retired from its direction and editorship , and also that M . Toulgoet , the most eminent of the writers , after M , E . de Girardin , has also retired .
The only species of opposition yet ventured upon in the papers is a certain manner of arranging the official matter copied from the' Moniteur , ' and the occasional use of italics and large type , so as to bring OUt in bolder relief some of the more salient points of Bonapartist policy . For instance , the' Gazette de France , 'in quoting the recent circular of General St . Arnaud to the generals commanding divisions throughout France , provokes attention by the nse of capital letters 10 the announcement that everybody who resets is to be shot . ' Then the very next paragraph repeats the rumoar from a government organ , that a superior council of five generals is about to be formed , in order to ' further the designs' of the President . This mode of associating two
pieces of purely official news naturally leads the reader to render unto Caesar himself the things that belong to him , and in a feeble degree supplies the place of commentary . The art is doubiess Susceptible of considerable development , but it is not to be supposed that any such devices can Ion * be practised with impunity . Not only will no ' opposition be tolerated , but it is evident that the time is at w I \ " ever vll 0 dy suspected of wanfc of zeal « fT » \ ttg 0 Ternmentmust ex Pe <* t"e visitations ? 1 ! i ™ . wfafchfor the moment replaces loin * on T'T 3 ° deal of «** * h « ° w i ! Si «« bat the most inexorable
Several of the provincial journals nublish the fnl %£ & ftrt {* " ****» HS 2 AS Interior to the Prefects : — < Give the most severe orders to arrest the MoHtasoatd and Socialist chiefs wioinay ondeaYQUr . to quit France after their de-It is said that thirty refagee 3 had attempted tn cross the frontier from Switzerland at Seywel . onir fi * e btf succeeded in getting past the custom-house . T , r re arre 8 led * ' one downed in the Rhone-SIS Vi V ° fled * Oa the ni 8 ht of the 5 tb ' EX Ugee 8 8 Bcceefled k ^ ssing .. « W I * " "Ported from St . Qaentin , that the prefect
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having been dismissed , and the municipal body resigned , a new prefect had been sent , who appointed a municipal committee ; and this body had resigned too , on account of the arrests made . The extraordinary powers confided to M . Maurice Duval in Britany , to M . Carlier in the Central Department , and to M . Berard in the Sorame , are withdrawn by a decree . The Legitimists in Britany have everywhere come forward to aid the government in putting down disturbances , while maintaining their protett against the illegal government imposed upon the
country . The Morbihan and Finistere have followed the example of the Cotes-du-Nord and the llle-at-Vilaine . The councils-general of the former departments have passed unanimously a resolution , stating that they "will be inflexible in assisting the authorities to suppress all disorder ; but they protest against the act of the 2 nd of December as a violent assumption of illegal supremacy . The prefects of three of the above-mentioned departments , who convoked the councils-general , have been dismissed by M . Maurice , government extraordinary commissioner in Britany . The remaining councilgeneral met spontaneously .
M . Alfred Xettement , representative and editor of the 'Opinion Publiqus' ha& been liberated from Vincennes . MM . Cretonand Leo de Lsbordeare still detained . The representatives who remain at Mont "Valerien are MM . Piscatory , Anthony Thouret , Pascal Duprat , Latrade , Besse , Itenaud , and Pean . There had been fighting on the 10 th inst . at Malijac and Mces . There were both killed and wounded . The insurgents amounted at one time to several thousands , who had been led to believe that the authorities would not recognise the acts of Louis Napoleon . They fled in all directions .
General Rostolan , at the head of a column , is marching about in the arrondissernenls of Btziers and Perenas to re-establish tranquillity . The department enjoys the most complete quiet . A letter from Strasburg states that M . Tbiers arrived in that town on the evening of the lOlh infct . on his way to Germany . The police by whom be was escorted from Paris accompanied him as far as Kephl , opposite to Stmburg . The' Obevpost aint » Zeitung' of Frankfort , of the 11 th inst ., states that M . Tfaiers bad passed through that city on his way to Berlin .
On Friday night last three convoys of carriages , containing in all 600 prisoners who were arrested in consequence of the events of last week , successively left the Conciergerie for the fort of Bicetre , where the prisoners were placed in casemates to await ( heir trial by court-martial . Each convoy vras composed of 200 prisoners , flanked on each aids by a Rouble line of Infantry and preceded and followed by * a detachment of lancers . At the present moment the last sparks of insur .
reclion throughout France may he said to be extinct . The extreme strongholds of disturbance iu the Basses-Alpes and Var have been attacked successfully by the troops . The battalions from Mar * settles arrived before Digne , the capital of the Basses-Alpes , on the 7 'h , and immediately dispersed the insurgents . AU resistance to the government may be therefore regarded as definitively put down ; and , if quiet 19 not completely restored in all parts , the troops are everywhere masters of the field .
The different corps of marine at Dunkerque have sent in their adhesion to Ibe President . In order to prove the great commercial expansion consequent on the Revolution of December 2 nd , attention is drawn to the fact that in the six days following that event the number of bales of siik which left the entrepot at Lyons was 489 , whereas , in the three months following the revolution of February no more than 314 bales were taken out . Letters from St . Quentin state that several persons belonging to ihe families of the generals confined at Ham , bad set out for that fortress , provided with an authorisation signed by the Ministers of War and of the Interior to see their imprisoned relatives .
M . Roger du Nord has not been set at libartr , as was reported . The eight prisoners at Ham are still there * General Cavaienac occupies lbs spariments formerly tenanted by Louis Napoleon . On Saturday were sst at liberty , MM . Oudinot , Lauriston , Lagarde , Eugene Sup , Arnaud d « Var , Ceyrap , Ghamiot , Cbarbonneau , Chauet , Cremieux , Jules de Lasteyrie , Delaroatere , Hennequin , Gavarret , Grevter , and Kessner .
The police continue to make numerous arrests of persons concerned in the recent disturbance , or who attempt to create disturbances . Amongst them are ten belonging to Neuitiy , ten of the Batignoiles , and eleven of Grenelle . In the lodgings of each of these men arms , ammunition , and demagogic publications have been seized . On Saturday forty persons were arrested in Paris . The number of political prisoners in the fort of Bicetre is ? 53 . Provisions are supplied from the hospital of Bicetre .
The disturbances of the Var have been ended by a battle before Aups , in which 100 of the people were killed . Only one soldier fell ; two officers and two soldiers were wounded . The functionaries taken prisoners by the insurgents were released ; and the column headed by the prefect , M . Pastourean , returned in triumph to Dragniquan . The most important expression of opinion which has appeared as yet since the events of December 2 , is contained in a letter of Montekmbert , published in the ' Univers . ' In answer to the applications made to him for advice as to what course
t «» follow in the ballot of the 20 ih , M . de Montalembert examines each of the three paths open to theelector . A negative vole , he declares , would be an encouragement to anarchy , an absolution of its frightful excesses ; abstention , cowardice , as long as the demagogic monster roars and he arrives « t the conclusion that an affirmative vote is the only one worthy of & good citizen and a good Christian . Strange to say , the ' Presse ' is , under the direction of its new editor , M . Perodeaux , quite as Napolemiian as the ' Univers ' and its celebrated correspondent .
M . Groce Spine ' iVi , the famous jeweller in the Place de la Bourse , has closed his sliop , and posted the following notice on the shutters ^ : ' Closed on account of political arrests . ' M , Croce Spiuelli is an ardent republican , and a much considered member of that parly on accouat of his great wealth . The government organs , while they seek to justify the deed of the 2 nd of December by the excesses of the communist rebels , as they are called , ominously fore-shadow the despotic intentions of the President in trenchant reforms directed to the extirpation of socialism . ' European opinion demands at this moment from the President onl y one thing—viz ., to finish bis work . Socialism has been
hewu down ; it must now be rooted out . A momentary calm avails little , if there be not , a durable cure . Force alone will not suffice . The dangerous doctrines which now call for suppression by arras have germinated and grown during forty years . They have too often obtained the support of the press , the patronage of philanthropy ,-and even the connivance of the administration . It is time that a good government should occupy and restore to health all minds , and reanimate everywhere social life . ' Thus France , with the daring speculations of her philosophers and publicists , with her ardent spirit of inquiry , with the restles ? activity of her intelligence , and the bold assertion of her opinions , is to be treated like an infant , and put into leading strings held by the Jesuits .
The government is getting uneasy about the state of the press . It begins to find that the fulsome fi&tbrles of privileged journalists , and of notorious hirelings is but an unsatisfactory support , and betrays an anxiety to invite a little semblance of independent eriticistrjf provided always that no really disagreeable truths shall be uttered . It is understood that a new law concerning the press is in preparation , and may shortly be expected to appear in the Moniteur' by the authority of those
sf lf-elected law-givers , L . N . Bonaparte and Mi de Memy . In tbe mratmbile , the government feels strong enough tacitly to relax the rule which prevailed a few days eince , that none but the favoured newspapers should be allowed to comment upon politics , and to allow leading articles of & milk-andwater description , in which neither praise nor blame can be distinguished . The journalists are graduall y taking advantage of this ' scintilla' of liberty .
Toesday . —The 6 th legion of the National Guard is dissolved , This legion corresponds to the district of Paris bounded on the north by the Boulevards of St . Martin and the Temple , and comprises the Rues St . Denis and St . Martin . In recommending this measure the Minister of the Interior says , addressing the President : - < The inflexible resolution which you have manifested to deprive of eve-y chance of success an insurrection in Paris , and SL ^ f ht ° I ^ irty - five mm ° ™ ° * souls , nai induced me to submit to you all the measures proper for gaining this end . " nmmt
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The departments of the Aveyron and Vaucluse are declared in a state of siege . M . Lsrochejacquelin , the leader of one section of the French Legitimists has addressed an energetic protest to the ' French Nation . ' The conclusion is as follows : — ' The constitutional prerogative which M . Bonaparte , under the hollow pretext of a delegation , usurps , would hurl us once more into inconceivable confusion . The time for Cassars cannoi have come for France . As a defender of the princ i ple of the national sovereignty , I must loudly pro . test , even if I stand atone , againit the present violation of this principle . May my sad forebodings for ray native country not be realised . May France see at ' lcngth that her help lies in her own hands , and that in a Republic no one has the right to disposof the destinies of the land except according , to tbe free and full expression of the public will . '
M . ¦ V ictor Hugo has arrived sa f ely in Brussels , and General Cavai ^ nacis released from confinemenl . The Minister of the Interioi has addressed the following letter to the Prefect of Police : — s ' Paris , Dee . 16 , 1851 . ' Monsieur le Prefect , —You have taken cognisance of the decree pas 6 ed on Dec . 8 th against former convicted persons , who have broken their ban , and against persons convicted of affiliation to spcrft societies . This decree is not to be a dead letter
but must be executed with persevering energy . I begyou to take with this view Die promptest measures . The capital must lie absolutely cleared of all the impure and dangerous elements upon which the decision of the government can be brought to bear . Those agitators who mislead weak men and prepare revolutions , must be sent out of Paris , and if need be , out of France . Paris must cease to be the refuge of outlaws of all conn tries , ' and the rendezvous of men who 8 e business ia to imperil
society . I rely on your zeal , and I am convinced that you think as I do , that it is time to impress on theBe ' raen who have plagued the country for thirty yenrs past a salutary terror , in order to re-assure good citizens , and to give to honest work security and good prospects—The Minister of the . Interior , ' A . de MoftNv ' The Minister of the Interior has addressed a circular » o the Prefects , ordering the dissolution of all corps of National Guards which cannot be tru'ted at the present moment ; and the provisional supply of vacant commands , election being- now out of the question , by eitizenB who can be relied upon . The arms not used ate to be carefully removed to tne arsenals .
Dr . Veron , editor of the ' Constilutionnel , who has been the loudest and most shameless advocate of the usurpation , has received a part qf his reward in his nomination to the rank of an officer in the Leeion of Honour . , ,-.. A M . Lamartine has published , a letter , stating .. that he has no longer any li ' . erary or political connexion with the Pays . ' The government journals some time since reported
that rioters near Macon bad sacked and burnt the Chateau rle St . Point , belonging to M . Laraartine , and that he had sent to Macon for troops to protect his residence at Monceaux . He has written to give the statement a flat contradiction . No part of his property wbs either injured or menaced , and he never sent for any troops . [ There are ninny citjjer lies of the same description on the part of the ' government press , which want of room compels us to omit . ]
A correspondent savs , writing on Tuesday—< Missing the " Sieclfc" this morning , I made inquiries , " and found that its publication had been suspended b y the government . The cause alleged for this oppressive measure will appear hardly credible . You . are aware that none eof the independent papers have yet published a single word of comment on the acts and decrees of the government . The "Debats , "" Union , "" Ordre , " "Opinion Piiblique , " arid " Siecle , " have simply copied the
ordinances as they appear in the " Moniteur , " without adding any original remarks whatever . The " Siecle , " it appears , had given umbrage by urging all who were entitled to vote to get themselves in-SGribed without delay fit Ihe different mau-ies . It was naturally inferred that the subscribers of the ' Siecle" wou'd hardly claim their electoral right to nse it in favour of the gaoler of General Cavaisjnac . A visit followed from an asenfc of the authorities , who tendered to the " Siecle" an article in favour
of Louis Napoleon for insnrtion . The article was refused , and the lC Siec ! e" was suppressed . But this is not all . I hear that a similar visit was made to the office of the " Debats , " and that warning has been given to that paper that it cannot be suffered to chronicle in sullen silence the acts of the government . It must adhere or abdicate . SyeophHncy or suppression are the alternatives held out to ( he bland father of tbe French press . ' AW the proofs of the papers are sent to the Minister of the Interior , where they undergo a double censure ; that is , not only are passages struck out , but others are inserted , the omission of which wouM be followed by the suspension of . the papers . Thus the whole press is obliged perforce to propagate whatever lies are imposed by the government .
The ' Independance BeJge las received notice from the Austrian and Prussian governments , that if it attacks the government of Louis Napoleon it will be forbidden in Germany as well as France . The Bishop of Chartres has addressed the following letter to all the cures of his diocese : — ' Chartres , Dec . 12 . « Monsieur le Cure , —Weigh most maturel y t'ie advice contained in this communication , and which I strongly recommend you to follow . On the 20 th and 21 st of this month , the French people will decide if Louis Napoleon is to be for ten years President of our country . The yes or no inscribed on each citizen ' s bulletin will decide that most
important point . Influenced by your own views , and still more by love of your country , of which Jesus Christ has given us the example , you will sign yes , I have not the slightest doubJ . Providence at present gives us only that mode of safety , for it is evident that , if Bonaparte were rejected , France would not find any one to substitute for him . Tbe people , led away by intrigues and false suggestions , might make a detestable ch&ice , which would plunge our country into new and inexpressible misforiuiifs . We have escaped the 2 nd of May , 1852 , vfhich opened to France a frightful abyss , and it would be senseless to bring back that chance of ruin and deatk . All that we have of late learnt d of tbe abominations , horrors , and excesses of the most savage character which have taken place are a slight example of the monstrous things which
would have been committed on a grand scale throughout Prance , had socialism triumphed . You will perceive , sir , tbe irresistible force of these reflections , which must strike all men of common sense , and to which , I believe , they would not hesitate to subscribe . I have tbe honour to be , sir , with a distinguished consideration and an inviolable attachment , your servant , ' x Cl . Hip ., Bishop of Chnrtres . ' While the ultramont ane Bishop of Chartres canvasses for the President , and bails him as the Preserver of society , the liberal Archbishop oi Paris is subjected to the surveillance of the police , because he has not yet acknowledged the usurper . This will have some effect on the vote of Paris ; but not enough , it is feared , to affect materially thf result .
The ' Coiwtitutionnel , ' In order to prove tbe existence of a plot for deposing the President , parades two drafts of decrees seized in the apartments of M . Buze , and drawn up without the knowledge of the President of ths Assembly . Upon inspection these mysterious documents turn out to be neither more nor less than drafts of decrees for carrying out those precautionary measures which were openly debated in the Assembly . The documents , however , have been placed in the hands of tbe legal authorities , and the questors and their accomplices in the alleged plot are to be subjected to a formal trial it is said .
A Frankfort journal says that Louis Blanc was arrested , on tbe lltfe , in tbe Faubourg St . Josseten-Oode , at Brussels , and was conveyed to Ostend , from whence he was to be made to embark for England . Af . Thiers is also on bis way to England from Frankforf , where he is waiting the arrival of his family .
GERMANY . The Prussian Chambers sat again on the 10 th , after an interval of eight days , when a motion on the conduct of the government towards tbe press was submitted , and referred to a committee . Some of the German newspapers state that orders have been given to call out the contingents of the 18 thfederal array corps . The ' LeipzigGazette '' states that the whole frontier of the U pper Rhine will be immediately oscupied with Austrian troops .
It is stated that the Austrian government refuses to allow our Ambassador , the Earl of Westmoreland , to present his credentials , in consequence of the Kog 8 Uth demonnratforj , and the rep l y ef hqti
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Palmerston to the Islington and Finibpry ad . dieuea ; and it appears that a joint Russian and Austrian note has already been despatched o London on this subject . Iu the event oi his not replying it is stated to be the intention of Austria to allow the London embassy to remain vacant . The revenue of Prussia for the ensuing year is calculated at 97 , 345 , 199 thalers , showing an increase of 4 , 050 , 240 tbalers » » re * b » t _ f ° r "JJ " The expenditure is estimated at 99 , 4 o 5 , rJ J tna-Ifrs also more than that oi the present year by 3 112 , 994 thalers , though of ibis sum more than threemiliions are for contingent and extraordinary expenses ; the ordinary and permanent expenditure is covered by 96 , 153 , 933 thalers . The greatest increase of expenditure is in the W « r . < wp « tment , which will require an advance of 1 . 500 , 000 tbalers above that of the same estimate of last year .
The late mobilising of the army has revealed an insufficiency in the number of officers available for the landwehr . To supply the defect , each regimenf . of the regular army is to have an addition of fifteen officers , of whom five will be captains . The regiments ot the line are to be raised to the number of 590 men per battalion , with two years service ; those- of the Guards , who setve for three years to 676 per battalion ; the battalions will thus De kept at the full rate of 1 , 000 men each . The police persecutions lately directed against the members of the Vienna Bourse , have been suspended .
. . _ .. , The ' Neue Preussische Zeitung ' announces , in a correspondence from Tienna , that despatches had been received by Lord Westmoreland , relative fc'j Lord Palraerston ' s answer to the address from Islington , so satisfactory that- the Emueror had g iven a gracious recep tion to the English ambassador . This statement needs confirmation ; no such reception bad been gazetted on the 12 ib
instant . , It is currently reported that the Bund has addressed a formal complaint , in tbe name of all the g ovflrnments it represents , to tbe English cabinet against the conspiracies hatched , it is said , in London , by foreign refugees ; and that the British government is earnestly solicited by the confederation to tafce such measures against ; these unforUu nate exiles as may be likely to frustrate tlieir designs , and so preserve other states from disturbance . ¦ We mention this report , because it has been often repeated in the German papers ; though it is hardly credible that any continental power should be so ignorant of the British constitution as to address such a request to an English ministry . The news of the outbreak in Paris does not an .
pear to have been received with so much surprise and alarm as might have been expected : and , indeed , the strenuous precautions that have been so long taken , and tue . la . rge armies kept on foot by the Absolutist powers , put the success of any sudden rising almost out of tbe question . The armies of Germany are also upon . the *>}\ o \ e faithful , with the exception of the Hungarian and Italian regiments , being well aware that their very existence depends
on the preservation of the present state of things , and that were the cause of the people to triumph , one of their very first acts would be to disband the ridiculously overgrown military establishment of Austria and Prussia . It was said of the Spanish navy , at the beginning of the present century , that it was ' a face upon a nose , instead of being a nose upon a face . ' The same expression would certainly apply to the half million of troops respectively kept on a war footing by Austria and Prussia .
The general discontent in Austria has , however , risen to an alarming height , and no less than 150 petitioners appearing at the last public audience given by the Emperor on the 2 nd inst . The war against liberal principles still goes on with unslackened vigour . The Vienna correspon . dent of the ' Saxon Gazette , ' a paper usually well informed , states that the real cause of the insult recently instigated by Austria against the British Coti « sul General in Servia is to be found in the fact of his h&ving ' protected two strangers ^ who were supposed to be revolutionary emissaries /
Accordingly to ft recent order of government no foreign journals are in future to be received in Hunga » y ( even by the editors of German papers ) which have not been previously submitted to the government censorship . Ths flame practice exists in Russia , where all objectionable articles are cutout of papers before they are delivered ! Tbe result is worthy of remark . The foreign Ambassadors , of course , cannot be prevented receiving them , and the porter of the French charge d ' affaires is said to have made hia fortune , by douceurs received from those whose curiosity he bad contrived to gratify by a peep at them . In fact , nobody ever look the trouble to read the portions delivered to them , but carefully marking the place where an article had been cut out , they flsw to the different officials , and greedily devoured the forbidden fruit .
; The reason ot the measure in questron is a fear of the reports respecting the reception of Kossiith exciling the political passions of Hungary , where his name is ttill regarded by all classes with the most enthusiastic affection .
ITALY . PIEDMONT . —The ' Croce di Savoia' reports that , in consequence of the events in France , thn Minister of War has suspended all furloughs , and sent batteries to Alexandria . The strangest reports upon French events were for a time current in Turin . Of * a bulletin stating that Kossnlh had heen made President of the French Republic , 3 , 000 copies were immediately sold . ROME . —A correspondent , writing on the 10 th
inst ., represents the impression made on the minds of the ecclesiastical authorities by the President's coup d ' etat as favourable on the whole . Lord Middleton had bsen placed ' under the surveillance of the police on account of the colour of his courier ' s hat . The Bishop of Gibraltar was at Rome endeavouring to obtain permission from the Pope to erect a protestant church in the city . A scuisra prevailed in the English protestant congregation , owing to a disagreement between tbe bishop and the church committee touching episcopal jurisdiction .
NAPLES . — -A correspondent , writing on the ! h ! i inst ., states that on the receipt of the Paris news a cabinet council was called , and a body of troops ordered to march to the Roman frowiier .
SPAIN . Madrid , December 9 . —The decree far the suspension of the Cortes has . just been read in the two Chambers . This measure , ostensibly adopted in view of the situation of the Queen , has been determined upon in consequence of the terror ill " spiVed by the stats of affairs in U \ e neighbouring republic . The ministry had endeavoured to effect a union of the different fractions of the moderado party , but Pacheco and tde puritans , as they are called , insisted upon a more liberal policy being adopted , while Bravo Murillo was for increasing the means of suppression . The Nacion' was seized this morning . The secret and public police have recalled all the employes lately discharged upon the ground of economy . The ministerial Orden' is the only newspaper that does not attack M . Bonaparte .
UNITED STATES . The royal mail steam ship Africa , Captain Ryrie , arrived in the Mersey from New York on Suuday , which port &he left on tbe 3 rd inst . at noon , with sixty-three oassengers , an ;! nearly a million and a half of dollars in specie on freight . The principal item of news by this arrival is the President's message , an abstract of which we give below . The Congress had met on the 1 st . The message was delivered on the 2 nd .
Among the proceedings of the Senate , as reported by the telegraph , is the resolution of a national welcome to the illustrious Magyar , as well as a resolution requesting tUe President to interfere in favour of the Irish exiles in Van Diemen ' s Land , appealing to the magnanimit y of the Bciciaa . government a » ri people , and offering them the hospitality of the republic . Kossuth had not arrived in New York when the steamer left , but was hourly espeeted , and appropriate preparations for his teception were completed . Notice of several bills had been already givenone being for a railroad from the Mississippi to the Pacific ; another for a reduction in newspaper postage ; another for a line of steam-shipa from California to China .
Reports from ihe Rio Grande state that Caravaja ! had been reinforced by 400 Americans , and was to renew his attack on Mataraora . The Mexicans Bad mustered in Matamoras to ibe number of 2 000 men . Caravajal was at Caraargo , with only ' e 0 O men , awaiting ^ the arrival of Captain Ford , who had gone to Texas for reinforcements . Taere are aceonn i * from California to the 1 st nf feSd ?^ ' ° ' 000 d ° llarS " toSdit Wbli Of t V ' erestin 2 ««> TO « tt » l la developing itself AtWajh jatfoa . It « ce » fltfjwy tonortwtto Se
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Whigs as well as Democrats that some dsdarat . on should be made as to the future conduct of both parties in relation to the question of slavery and the compromise . The Democratic . members of both houses accordingly held a caucus for the purpose of usT a ing these measure ,, but Unfortunately they did not succeed in establishing a platform . Ihe resolutions to this effect were laid on the table , the fee soil Democrats being unwilling to Mqineiee . On the other hand the Whig members , who might have been more divided , from the fact that the Btreneth laid in their free-soil adherents , almost unanimously adopted resolutions which were agreeable to the ' Soutli , and the consequence » i that at this moment they are in favour with the South , are likelv ( o receive its support , and if they can maintain their position will , in the next Presidential contest , be in the ascendant . This is quite unexpected , and the future looks more brig-Mis ( or them man lor
their opponents . THE PRESIDENT ' S MESSAGE . The following is a briftf abstract of the Message : ' The President congratulated the country on the maintenance of foreign peace , the decrease in agitation oh the slavery question , and on the general prosperity of the "United Siates . He reviewed the Cuban invasion question and mentioned the eftorU being made for release of prisoners . Referring to the outrages at New Orleans , be regretted that it was necessary that indemnity should be granted . The laws for the protection of consuls required amending . ' Tbe Message then alludes to lLossuui in the following manner : —
« On the 28 th of February last a despatch was addressed by the Secretary of State to Mr . Marsh , tbe American Minister ai Constantinople , instructing him to ask of the Turkish government permission for the Hungarians , then imprisoned within the domains o ? the Sublime Porte , to remove to this country . On the 3 rd of March laBt , both Houses of Congress passed a resolution requesting the President to authorise the employment of a public vessel to convey to this country Louis Koa&uth and his associates in captivity .
'The instruction above referred to was complied with , and the Turkish government having released Governor Kossuthand his companions from prison , on the 10 th of September last , they embarked on board of the United States steam-frigate Mississippi , which was selected to carry into effect the resolution of Congress . Governor Kossuth left the Mississippi at Gibraltar , for the purpose of making a visit to England , and may shortly be expected in Kftw York . By communications to the departs *? " * of state he has expressed his grateful acknowledgments for the interposition of this government in behalf of hims ^ f and his associates . This country
has bee * Bjustly regarded as a safe asylum for those whom political events b ' &ve exiled from their own homes in Europe ; and it » recommended to Congress to consider in what manner Governor Kossuth and his companions , brought hither by its authority , shall be received and treated . ' Government was exerting itself to bring to com . yletion the arrangement in regard to the Tehuantepec railroad . The Treasury receipts for the year ending June 30 th bad-been fifty-eight millions ; the expenses forty-eight millions . Seven and a half millions debt had beenipaid off . The debt now amounts to sixty-two miliions . Specific duties and a revision of the tariff are recommended . ' Free trade is thus alluded to . —
c The policy , which dictated a low rate of duties on foreign merchandise , ii was thought by those who promoted and established it , would tend to benefit the farming population of this country by increasing . tbe demand and raising the price of agricultural products in foreign ma ) keis . The foregoing facts , however , seem to show inconteslibly that no such result has followed the adoption of this policy . On the contrary , notwithstanding the repeal ot tbe restrictive corn laws of Engtynd , the foreign demand for the products of the American , farmer-ha-, stsadily declined , since the short cropSi and consequent famine in a portion of Europe , have been happily replaced by full crops and comparative abundance of food . '
An agricultural bureau is also put forward as a requisite . Census returns had been completed in all the states except California . A river and harbour improvement bill is projected . The army required to be increased owing to the Indian outrages on the ifcHcan CtonUer . As \ extra allowance of men for Grinnell ' s expi dition in search of Franklin is approved of ; also the formal ion of a navy yard at California . Coramksicii to settle the private claims against government is wanted . The Fugitive Slane BiU is dismissed , and a determination to persevere in enforciu ?; its provisions announced . Might of search , or watch , of American vessels on the coast of tbe United Staie 3 or seas adjaceut , cannot be allowed .
By the Atlantic we hava three days later intelligence . It left New York on the 6 th inst ., and brings over twenty-cne passengers , and neariy 1 , 000 , 000 dollars in specie . The Atlantic had been detained an hour or two behind her appointed time of sailing , for a mail from Washington , with despatches from the American government to its minister i : i London , having for their object the asking of an immediate explanation of the circumstances connected with the firing into the United States steamer Prometheus in San Juan River , by the British hrig-of-war Express , on the 21 st of November . Kossnlh arrived oat on she 5 th Inst ,, and was on the 6 th at quarantine , till arrangements could be made to receive liira . He was to make his public entry on the Gib .
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The Civil Tribunal of Paris has been occupied with an episode of the case of AI . Charles Bonaparte , Prince de Unnino , against Viscount d'Arlincourt , the libels contained in his work entitled ' Italie Rouge . ' The counsel of the defendant had moved thafctho plaintiff should deposit security for cost , on the ground that , having accepted this offiae of President of the Roman Republic , he bad lost his quality of a French citizen . The court decided tho question in tlie affirmative , and ordered M . Charles Bonaparte to find security to the amount of COOfi-.
The funer . il of Marshal Souli , Duke de Dalm . iti . -i , took place at St . Amnnd-la-Bastide , on the 6 th . An immense concourse of people assembled on tho occasion from the departments of the Hofault , Tarn , and Lot . The Archbishop of AiJy and tho Bisfiop of Cahors officiated , and were assisted by a large hotly of Uie chrgy , occupj-ing the whole of the choir and part of the nave of the small church where the last service was performed . Tho authorities of the Tarn and of the neighbouring departments were prevented from sit / tending , in consequence of tbe disturbed state of the country . They sent formal excuses to the Duchess ' for their absence . Everything passed over with great pomp and in perfect order . The Nizam has paid the full amount duo to tho East India Company .
A letter from Constantinople of the 25 th ult ., in the ' Cologne Gazette , ' states thatM . dfi Lavalette , the French ambassador , after having had several fruitless conferences about the liolv places , has left the matter provisionally in the hands of the Spanish ambassador . The same letter adds that the govenor of the Dardanelles having caused the baetinado to be administered to a dragoman of the Austrian consulate , all the consuls immediately struck their flags . Count d'Arjuzon , a peer of France , prior to 1 S 30 , and Grand Chamberlain to the King of Holland , in the time of the empire , has just died in Paris at the
ago of ninety-one . The linffots formin ? the two principal prizes of the late lottery in Paris Sre stated to be worth 40 Q , 481 fr . 56 ii ., and the second 199 , 690 fr , 67 c , Letters from Lisbon state that a great want of rain in the Peninsula had caused the most serious inconveniences . Cattle were dying in great numbers for want of water . At Cadiz the later boata were wiwUuthftW awwal , and it was necessary to call out the military for their protection dl £ T ° r £ ^ ' ? mean 9 of the submarine telegraph , the Prussian linos have been placed in connenou With those of Greafc Britain , and despatches may now be ttuuuuttett from Berlin to jOndon ..
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" ' v" December 20 , 1851 . o TH ' fl NORTHERN STAR . —
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 20, 1851, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1657/page/2/
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