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      *¦—¦ ¦ — i — ¦ ^ . j ! The Kew Houses of Pabuavbst . — K a w from the report of the Comxnissioners o » ^ . and Forests , just printed , that on tho <> « 1 . t j , e " r lasfc there were 1 , 013 men employ ed ou ^ Houses of Parliament—742 upon the wo- * ^ building , 163 at the workshops and oh » bank . aiid 108 at the other estaMato ^ '

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      FRANCE . A correspondent of the '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 isany elections in England , and at several e « en in America , bat I have never seen a spectacl e , like that of these two melancholy days . People go to the electoral nrn as if to deposit the ashes of a lost friend . Not a smile is . seen on any face . Not a loud word escapes any lip . The only indication of strong feeling is when some honest republican , having had a out imposed u pon him , crushes it Tjpja bis band , or casts it away from him as if it

      were a viper . As for nons I have not yet seen one ; of course , no ons is allowed to distribute them . At any rate nobody does distribute them . This policy is ingeniouB , as it will not only make the result more favourable to Louis Napoleon by some thousands , but it enables the government spies , who abound like vermin in all public places , lo form some Men of the political complexion of each voter . A man who means to v-iie oui , under existing circumstances , has no occasion to be afraid of Mb act . On the contrary , it is well for him that it should be proclaimed from the housetops . To be sure , in nine

      Instances ont of ten he is ashamed of his vote , and in no one instance , from Crest to Antibes , is proud of it ; but then since he vote 3 for Louis Napoleon as matter of interest , or , at best , by reason of cowardice , he 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 , lie takes no ballot with him , but receives one from a distributor , and , joining the long funeral procession , lays it openly on the — tomb of the republic . S < ich a maa is , of course , marked and numbered by the spies , and reported to the authorities as being right side up .

      ' A man who means to vote non , on the contrary , takes his ballot witb him , knowing full well that none will be provide ^ . He takes a out , perhaps , as lie joins tbe dismal concourse ; bat an experienced mouchard can sea at once through a much deeper ruse than ihat . The gnod fellow tries to appear unconcerned , bat in vain . The unconscious compression of his lips and clenching of his hands , the firm step with which he marches on to enter his decided bat useless protest against an unprincipled usurper , all show plainly enough that he is anything under heaven but a Napoleonist .

      1 No one has any enthusiasm for Louis Napoleon . At best he can only be tolerated . For himself personally nobr . dv but his mistress cares a chip . The ouvrier who called him L ' enfant terrible , hit the nail exactly on the bead . He is simply wanted just mow as a scarecrow ; lo leep the crows—that is the socialists—away from the corn . Rigged up in his uncle ' s old hat he answers that purpose to a charm . The legitimists find him useful also as a stepping-stone ; while the shopkeepers think he may do fora while as a counter ; and Uie speculators use him as a broker .

      'To my thinking , he will rise out of the elec torai urn like a ghost , and convert France for a while into a graveyard . Instead of installing him * self at the Tuileries , be should hold his eourt at Pere la Chaise . There ( finding " sermons in stones" ) he can preach tranquillity and terror with soae point . That he will ever gain the affections of the people no oae pretends . I have seen hundreds of people who mean to vole 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 bat two candidates . Monsieur Oui and Monsieur Non ; Monsieur Oui is at least a reality , while Monsieur Non is but a political Mrs . Harris . " And so they vote for Oui . ' I have been struck with the fact that all the

      vote distributors nearly are en llouse . This is a shabby trick to ensnare ignorant ouvriers and to encourage stupid shopkeepers- But the decoy u seen through by everybody , and is matter of general remark and contempt . 'I songbt to enter into conversation witb various people at iha different Mairies , but in vain . Every man ' s month is barricaded . Every heart is in a state of siege . People talk chiefly by winks and shrugs , at the great risk , as it seems to me of becoming all hump-backed and a-squint . ' It was stated * ye 3 terday , and generally believed , that the government had forbidden the printers to print any negative ballots . This is denied in the 11 Moniteur" aa an " absurd and offensive

      imputation . " The " Moniteur" adds : — "It is the wish of the President that the vote should be the 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 of the chefdel ' etaL " * Of course I know nothing more of the "inslruclions of the government , " and the thought of the cJiefde Teiat , than is published in the " Moniteur , " and 'ilazoned « a the walls . But this I know , that having visited several arrondissements , and repeatedly asktd , looked , hinted even for a non , I

      cave been unable tofind one . I would fain have obtained one of theseabsurdlittle adverbs as a curiosity and a souvenir . On returning to my hotel , I asked a well known republican garcon if he had voted . He said yes , but that being unable to find a non , —aud * ' he would sooner take a hot coal in his hand than a oyi "—he had written one for himself , in characters so plain , that the inspector , though a fool , might read it . These are facts : and facts , moreover , which will be treasured ap 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 tvo ago , all the books against Louis Napoleon , and all the books in favour of republicanism , were seized by the government , and ( for aught I know ) burned like so many Ephesian letters . "Where there is no free speech , of course , there can be no free vote . In 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 have boasted that " all the demagogie ( which is tbe official word for democracy , ) are terrified . "

      • In fact , terror is more the order of the day than ever : aud under its influence it is possible , though by no means certain , that the enfant terrible has been elected chef de Vetat . By the way , this little phrase has figured in the " -Moniteur " lately very often , and there is reason fo believe that it will be Louis Napoleon ' s title . The republicans of Paris , however , would fain call him Ratapoil . 'N-B . I forgot testate , in its proper place , that each of the subscribers of ' La Patrie' received with his yesterday ' s paper four impertinent little mis—one of which , begging your pardon for the

      act , I enclose , ' P . S . 5 p . m . —Thinking that there might be some shade of difference in the appearance of the polls as toe hour for closing them approached , I have just made another tonr through tbe twelve arrondissements . There is no perceptible change . It is still impossible to find a non . Many of the vote-distributors have manifested surprise at my asking for cr , e . AH say , a 3 yesterday , c ' estde / endu The goTerniBent have issued a meaningless decree this morning to tbe effect that the printers may print as many nons " as suits them . " This is a canard .

      ' The walls in every part of Pari 3 are covered to-day witb a blue placard signed nominally by half-a-dozen locksmiths , ta-lors , &c , calling upon the ouvriers to vote for Louis Napoleon . Another canard . ' It is very curious in walking about tbe Faubourg St . Antoine to see the remains of smashed and obliterated triangles . In some instances , where tbe offensive symbel 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 cay it is important to notice . Generally , on a fine Sunday before Christanas yon see hardly one of the gaily-dressed crowd upon the pathways without a little packet of some sort , a toy for children , a box of ion-ions , or some sort of eirennw . To-day , although the weatfeer is brilliant , and the streets are crowded witb brisk groups pacing in the smsVine , you hardly meet a person bearing home one of the ChrismaB tovs witb which the tempting abopj swarm . Tbe shop-people , who , a week ago , were sanguine as fo the good effect of the coup-d ' etat , to-day look quite blank at their starved custom , and begin to suspect that they have been duped into hailing a false prophet for their Messiah , and that the settled government they looked to for curing the disasters of J ate years is farther off than « er . *

      M . de Fallous has made a speech at Angers to an audienee of some four or five hundred persons , in which , wishing ; to recommend abstention in tbe present election , and a withholding of all support from the government , heiogeniously shadowed forth the meaning which he dared not to exprew directly , by

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      saying that wineouijht not to be g iven to peeple who are drunk . A government which makes such gross abuse of the force Which it has , ought not to be trusted with more . ' The government , it : seems , is much nettled at the presence of M . Tbiers in London . : They gave out that he was going to Germany , and inde ; d launched him through Strasbourg in that direction . But the current of M . Thiets ' s plans was setting apparently in the opposite direction , and ho sooner had he reached the Rhine than he doubled like an old bare northward , until be was ferried across the Channel at Ostend towards the hospitable mansion of bis old friend Mr . Edward Ellice .

      There is an evident disposition on the part o ! tbe government to indulge a sort of Roman munificence towards the working classes , which would be laud , able were it not bribery for a selfish and mischievous end . Thus in the ' Moniteur' of the 21 st inst . tbe announcement of an intention to establish baths and washouses on a grand scale for the poor . Another of these Greek g ifts is mentioned in a letter of the prefect of tbe Ras-Rbin , stating that the President has given orders that , free leave is to be given to the poor to cut their wood in the . nei ghbouring forest . It is at last perfectly certain . that Gee . Cavaignac is at liberty , and once more restored to his family circle in the Rue du Helder . It is certain that he

      has made no conditions whatever with tbe government in order to procure this advantage over the rest of his fellow-prisoners at Ham . 11 -was only , in fact , in consequence of the assurance that they also would shortly be set free that the general finall y consented to accept his own liberation . ' M . Victor Hugo , who was closely pursued by the police , made his escape into Belgium by means of a false passport . Madame Hugo and her daughter have quitted their hotel to join him at Brussels . The two sons of tbe exiled poet are still confined in the prison of the Conciergerie , in consequence of the verdict of the jury which convicted them of hating published ' seditious libels' in tbe ' Eveneraent . ' : !

      At Amiens , the bishop , the clergy , and the members of the religious congregations , went on Sunday in a sort of solemn procession to the . poll , holding op tickets inscribed with oui . Pius the 9 th has addressed to the nuncio at Paris a letter , in which he expresses his deep sympathy with the acts of Louis Napoleon , which have saved religion and society . He has also addressed a letter to M . de Montalembert to congratulate him upon bis letter of adhesion to the act of Decembe 2 nd , and upon his enrolment in the consultative commission . M . Lamartine , who seems threatened with a relapse into the painful malady which has confined him for nearly two months to his bed , writes as follows to M . de La ' Guerreionere : —

      1 1 have to safeguard and to maintain , before tbe public , friendly or inimical , tbe 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 an entire man . This exceptional situation commands me to pursue a different courae from all those who , not having the same antecedents , have not tbe same duties . ' A decree appears opening to the Minister of Marine an extraordinary credit of 658 , 000 fr . for ' the first measures , necessary for the formation of a

      penitentiary establishment at Cayenne , 58 , 000 ir . of which are assigned for the military expenses , and GOO . OOOfr . for the penitentiary colony- ' M . Bucos , 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 tbe number will be probably included many of the list of tbe fifty barricade-makers arrested on the night of the 1 st inst .

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

      treaties of Vienna of 1815 will be called for , with a view to their revision upon the basis of giving France what is called her old and natnral boundaries . It is whispered that Prussia would be offered Hanover as compensation for her Rhenish provinces , and Piedmont mnde to exchange Savoy for slices of Italian duchies . There is talk , too , of a kingdom of Italy for the Dolce of Leuchtenberg , &c . If the " Constitutionnel" speaks truth , these would be only projects in the air , but that they are entertained in some heads niav be believed . '

      The authorities have arrested an important personage in the Gironde , M . Perronge , formerly chef d ' escadronand officer of the Legion of Honour , who is stated to have headed the insurrection at Marmande . Domiciliary searches made by the police during these last three days , at the homes of persons suspected of belonging to secret societies , have led to tbe discovery of a quantity of papers and arms ; several arrests have been made in consequence . A Boulogne correspondent informs us that all the English papers were stopped on Sunday morning , even those carried by passengers . Another Bishop , the Bishop of Chalons-sur-Marne , 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 Redacteur . — -I have just seen in tbe journals the letter of tbe 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 righttninded 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 ef France , of our dear country . God is with tbe President ; that reason is sufficient why we should all make it a duty of being witb him . ' The following is from tbe Bishop of Strasburg to tbe clergy of his diocese : —

      4 Messieurs , —Although I have already replied in a precise manner to such amongst you as have consuited me on the line of conduct to be followed in the grave circumstances in which we are placed , I consider it my duly 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 the Republic has preserved us by his firmness , and who does not render homage to tbe wisdom of the measures be 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

      ua a man whose arm is sufficiently strong to stop the chariot of the State on the brink of the precipice to which mad passions were impelling us . Let us supplicate the Almighty to cover witb His protection thit man , to endue him with the wisdom aud energy necessary to him to complete the work be bas so 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 ' Yes' to the appeal he has made to us with so much nobleness and confidence . Let us not forget that tbe 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 Palmerston Las addressed three notes to tbe French government since the coup d ' etat . The first of these notes demanded information concerning the ulterior views of Louis Napoleon . The answers of tbe cabinet of tbe Elysee to tbe two first notes have been very civil , and would be satisfactory could the veracity and promises of the French President be depended upon . But conecious that no reliance can be placed on the word of a prince who has violated the most solemn engagements , Lord Palmerston bas sent a third note , requiring stronger guarantees / or the obsep vance of the principles professed in tbe two preceding answers of the French government . '

      Since tbe decree of the 8 tf > , declaring that liberated convicts en rupture de ian 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 tbe . administrative authorities to be sent to a penal settlement without trial . Formerly ten or twelve such cam were disposed of by the tribunals everyday . It is said that no less than 2 , 200 persons are alreadjrdeitined to be transported in pursuance of thit decree . Of these 1 , 700 ara accused of hav .

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      ing broken their ban . The remaining 500 , including many representatives and persons of respectability and station , are to be hurried to a penal settlement for the . alleged offence of ' having belonged ' to a secret society . - ' . . ; M . Boysset , the repre « entative , has just been arrested , as he was trying to escape into Switzerland . It [ s Impossible to describe the ftnxiety felt by the immense , and almost incredible number of shopkeepers and . operatives whose livelihood for months to come depends upon the sale of articles made up expressly for the expected and accustomed demand of this season of the year . Activity in . these

      branches of Viade commo ») y begin about tne 15 yh of the month . Up to the 21 st , with the exception of cakes and toys for children , which are perhaps as muchin request as usual , there is as yet absb- ' lutely nothing doing . Tbe fur trade , notwithstanding the early commencement of winter , is completely stagnant . And , as to those articles of luxury and fancy habituall y selected for Christnmboxes , the universal report is that there are no buyers . It is very much to the credit of the Parisian press as abody ,: tiiat bo few jouraalista should hitherto have consented to place their talents at tbe 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 contemptuousl y ieraarks , to make any comments upon the great and solemn events of the election . TbeBe journals are , the 'Journal , des Debats , ' ' Ordre , ' ' Union , ' ! Opinion Publique , ' ' Siecle , ' ' Asserablee Nationale , ' 'Journal de Ville . des Campagnes , ' and the 'Gazette de France . ' The ' Patrie' mig ht-have added to the list the ' National , ' ' Democratic , ' Republique , ' ' Revolution , ' Messager , ' and the ' Averierae nt , ' 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 the myrmidons of the

      ' Coustitutibnner and the 'Patrie , ' who were long ago in the secret , and who were the principal pioneers of the coup d ' etat . The'Univera , ' under tbe order of the- Jesuits , is the only newspaper ot importance that has been converted to his interests . For although the ' Pays ' and the ' Presse' are also converts . sq far as their printing , materials are concerned , all the men who gave any ' value to those papers bate withdrawn from them . The private apartments of the Royal family of Orleans in tbe Palais Royal are being cleaned and Ornamented . The front of the palace facing the place is also being cleaned and restored .

      The ' Moniteur' is daily crowded with lists of the newly decorated . ¦ . ' . The Minister for Foreign Affairs has introduced a new system of foreign , passports , as follows : — 'In the name of the French Republic—The Minister for Foreign Affairs requests MM . the consuls and diplomatic agents of the nations friendly or allies of France to permitM . topass , proceeding to , without permission to return . — The Minister of Foreign Affairs , Tcrgot . * Those permissions are only given to proceed to England or to the 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 Fobrn , brother-in-law of Prince Anatole Demidoff , has just arrived from Stockholm , in Paris . ' - On Friday several arrests were made at Lyons , and on Saturday the bivouacs in the public places were re-established during the poll . MM . Gent , Longomayino , and Odde , sentenced to transportation hy court-martial at Lyons , sailed for Noukahiva on the 20 th inst . ¦ ¦• .--

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

      Ihe following is an instance of the extent to which tbe spy system is now carried . M . Kuss , the registrar of mortgages at Schlestadt , has been suspended b y . the prefect for having blamed in strong terms the adhesion given to tbe President by one of his colleagues . M . Kuss writes that the expressions complained of were used hy him in a private conversation with a friend with whom he happened to be alone iu one of ihe rooms of the Casino . The words were caught up by some listener in an adjoining room , and at once reported to the nilling ears of the government authorities , and his suspension has been the result . ¦

      An excess of military tyranny , perpetrated by the officer commanding in the AUier , has been stigma-Used by men of political importance . In fact , a decree has been issued by Gen . Eynard , which sequestrates the property of . nineteen persons , under the plea that they have directed as leaders the pillagers of Donjon and the assassins of La Palisse . Several of the victims on this list are wealthy proprietors . This deeree , an unexampled instance in France of the arbitrary power committed to a military officer , is signed ' Moulins , Dec . 18 . " It is stated that in a few days the liberty (?) of the preBS in France will be regulated by a new law which will repeal all existing 5 avrs on the subject , and of which tbe following are said to be the most important clauses : —

      Every editor of a journal at present in 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 suspend 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 be constituted 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 . —Exicited hatred amongst citizens . 3 rd . —An attack on reli gion , family , or property . ' 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 / . to 100 , 000 ' . GERMANY . AUSTRIA . —A correspondent says , writing from Vienna , that it is 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 they were before tbe Revolution of 18-18 , ' but now that the President has succeeded in establishing a military government , and all resistance appears impossible , the long-cherished plan will soon be brought to light : it is entirely to abolish so-called constitutional government on the continent . The following extract from a short article in the ' Lloyd ' of the 17 th inst . will g ive 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 Confedera tion at the British Foreign Office on the 12 th . A similar note W 88 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 iu the Austrian States so long as the just complaints of , the 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 on themselves . '

      It is said that a considerable sum of money which had been forwarded to Hungary b y the London democrats 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 ia 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 great many arrests have recentl y bten made in Hungary , the papers are completely silent on the subject . The nocturnal meetings in the house v , habited by Kossuth ' s relaliaaa vet e a « de kaow ^ to

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      the authorities by two students , one of whom lodged on the ground floor , and heard an unusual noise overhead . It is said that this latter received 200 ducats for the communication ; the other , a Jew declined the proffered reward . The revision of the budget is completed . The credits opened to the Ministers of the Interior , of Justice , and of Public Instruction have been considerably reduced ; those of \ Var , Finance , and Commerce are maintained .

      PRUSSIA . '—The police have seized on the library presented by various patriotic booksellers to the Frankfort Assembly . The books are worth twelve thousand florins | . at the least , and were never intended by theiv donpis to gravity . the Diet , which was believed to have been for dead . Waggons have been coming and going for several days lo and from St . Paul ' s Church ,, removing the furniture and fittings used by the Assembly , and in a few days the building « H 1 be given up to the clergy . . „

      HANOVER . —The Hanoverian Chambers "have voted an address of condolence to the King , from which we make the 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 wa 3 always actively engaged in promoting it . Unhappily , it was not vouchsafed him to complete what he , bad done for this object ; though he had attained tbe utmost term of human life , jet he was taken from this world . too soon for the wishes of his 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 rthat the clearness with which Kins Ernest comprehended his age , his decision , his steady progress in a constitutional course , his manly adherence to bis word in a difficult period , added to the brightness of his Grown ; 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 highly 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 horn Rome of the 8 th . inst ; , states that a great many of the English tourists lately-arrived there having distributed seditious and anti « Catholic pamphlets , and the police having caught some in the fact , the Minister of Finance has given strict orders t . o visit the baggage of travellers with tbe greatest minuteness . ' : ¦' . . i

      PIEDMONT . —A i Turin letter , states that on the 17 th inst .-M . de Foresla , Minister of Grace and Justice , presented a bill in the 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 the ordinary tribunals without the intervention of a jury .. Many members of the Left admitted the necessity of the law in the 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 . atep , made a vow to the Madonna

      and gave the naval gentleman who brought the news additional rank . The next day the official journal , which seldom prints anything but the raosi trivial rubbish , reprinted the 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 Ital y with Louis Napoleon at the head of the affairs in France . He is on very good terms with the King of Naples and the Jesuit 9 , and equally faithful to the court , corrupt , priestly government of Rome . The . court party boast of having known everything that was going to take place in Paris days before the tvent . 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 ' M « y 15 ' were fixed for the 9 th , but they were put off on aceotmt of the illness of one of tbe accused , Archdeacon Patiazzi , an old man , nearly eighty years of age . The medical commission reported his inability to attend the court , The prisonera were all marched to the Vicaria a few days since .

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

      The Europa' has been suppressed and fined 30 , 000 reals ; the 'Mundo Nuevo , the ' Murga , ' and the Tribuna del Pueblo , ' have been repeatedly seized , fined , and have ceased to appear ; the ' Nacion' has been seized 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 the police , aud has one of its editors in prison ; the ' Constitncional' has been seized three times , and fined 20 , 000 reals ; the ' Epoca' seized seven times ; the' Obaervador , ' tbe « Catolico , ' and the ' Novedades' 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 government 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 Cauton 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 Constituttionnel , ' has been nominated to the grade of Officer of the Legion of Honour—a recompense for bis slavish literary services to Louis Napoleon . The Wurtemberg Chamber of Representatives have decided that no citizen shall be permitted to contract marriage till he bring proofs to the civic authorities that he is possessed , if not of a competency , yet of the means and capability of supporting a wife . The ' Constitutional' of Florence , which had 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 governruent . As many as from 300 , 000 to 330 , 000 pieces a-tlay have been struck off , which is a larger num . her than has ever been coined in a day in any mint either French or forei gn . The deposits in the Paris Savinzs-bank on Sunday and Monday amounted to 245 , 633 / .,- the withdrawals to 754 , 875 / .

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      JSew Penal Colonies . —The anticipations we expressed in a recent article on the subject of transportation , that step 9 would be taken with a view to the formation of penal settlements and coaling stations for steamers in the Sourthern Pacific , are , it appears , nbout 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 the South Sea Islands , including New Caledonia and the Fegees , with a view to ascertain

      the capabilities they respectively 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 pubho services of Captain Manxes Deiiham , have appointed him to command the intended expedition . It is likewiae stated , upon the best authority , that her Majesty ' ^ steamer Pluto is about to be despatched to the coast of Africa to commence the survey of the Risht of .-Biafm ft ™

      the point m wh 1 Ch Captain Denham concluded bis : ! ss ;^ 8 sh * *•» *» d $ _ French Factory in CHm .-If we are rifrhtIv informed , our Ministers of CommSe fa-Sf ? S moment projecting the establishment if " French Ba « ft « --S

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      2 THE NORTHERN STAR . ___„ December 27 , 1851 ;

      Ds. Greek. 11, Hutcheson Street, Glasgow, • Professor Of Hytieianism. 'James Gbeeb, Esq., M.0.:. . ¦ __

      DS . GREEK . 11 , HUTCHESON STREET , GLASGOW , PROFESSOR OF HYtiEIANISM . ' James Gbeeb , Esq ., M . 0 .:. . ¦ __

  • 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/vm2-ncseproduct1658/page/2/