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Letters From Paris. [From Our Own Corres...
- „? tM 1 sous and a half in Paris * it is now at was at tea . sous ana g of oontW to fil ? thepckeU of the farmers in the BU ^? hniiiLodofParis . Now theinanufacturersmust neig hbourhooa 01 rj . popularity , Louis Bonaha Sd ^ ave to low ^ ro ^ essivelf SsTS * ^^ nvJhis ^ n ^ L the Various depu-SSSri * ' £ ? receives , the maniifactuters demand the SSntenance o ?« protective " tarifls ; and Bonaparte fc ^ to these Semands . This system , you per-Sive compels Bonaparte to foster erery abuse r had SoThe nower to get rid of them jail , he would not use & ^ ofc ^/ his position is more absolute ^ W M- Fould / Ministerof Finance , had devised two JSnd measuresi the first was to substitute the Bank Stance for the Receivers-General in the collection of the public revenues , and thereby to realize a vast economy in the public service , ahd ^ to _ concentrate an amount of specie in the coffers of the Bank . The f ^ vera-General petitioned Bonaparte in person .
Bonaparte took their part against M . -Fould ; m omer words , he sacrificed the pubHe good to the claims fo kfew personal interests . M . Fould was also desirous ? as Ithink I have told you ) to convert the Five p ^ er iw ts ^ o ^ Ttoe-4 > er ^ entsi ^^ was bulling '' the funds ^^ rtificiar ^ tiBiulantSi-His object was to get the Three peiT Centsjip to T ^ and then to offir to holders of Fives , Threes at 75 . which would represent Four per Gents . This «™ ik have been a great economy to the Treasury ,
and a measure of high pubUc ^ utility . ^ Well ! the holders of Fives , alarmed at M . Fould s project , " entered " a complaint to the President , who at once signified to * M . Fould to desist from his plan . In all things , and on all occasions , Bonaparte is compelled by the fatality of his position to sacrifice the public welfare to the interests of a few privileged persons . It is this opposition to the Minister s plans that induced M . Fould to offer his resignation . Hence the reports of a Ministerial crisis , which are stilland will long be , prevalent . #
, Do what he may , then , Louis Bonaparte is condemned to helpless impotence . Every time he desires to destroy an abuse he is met by vested interests , ¦ which declare themselves the sole support of his authority ; and j in the face of their remonstrances , he stops short . It is still the old rut into which Government after Government has fallen , and been overturned , in France . In the meantime , Louis Bonaparte silently pursues his design of an Imperial Restoration , A secret circular has been addressed to all the public functionaries ,
" inviting" them to designate him in their letters and in their official documents as " Prince , " and to give him the title of « 'Monseigneur . " The reports of the Ministers to the President now carry these designations . Another circular invites all the authorities in the departments to rechristen the streets of provincial towns which had received Republican names , and to restore their monarchical titles . The same measure , having been applied last week to Paris , is made general .
The Palace of the Tuileries is being restored . A first credit of 200 , 000 francs ( £ 8000 ) has been appropriated to this object ; but the " Court circle " persist in insinuating that the condition in which Louis Philippe left the Palace is quite unworthy of the Chief of the State "; and that to restore it as it ought to be restored > will require a very large sum to be expended . Something even " richer" remains to be told . The furniture of the Tuileries belonged to Louis Philippe , who took it away . There remains , then , no other furniture in perspective but that of the Empire . Now , this furniture is so execrably ugly » so meagre , and bare , in comparison with the sumptuous style of our epoch , that the courtiers recoil with shame from , the idea of relapsing into the wornout dlfroque of the Empire .
To completely refurnish the Tuileries would cost not less than from fifteen to twenty millions of francs ( from £ 600 , 000 to £ 800 , 000 )—a sum calculated to inspire serious reflections on the trifling inconveniences of an Imperial Restoration ! The Reign of Terror continues in Paris and in the departments ; the proscribed representatives have received notice to quit the French territory within four
twenty- hours . In consequence of this order , MM . de Girardin , de Lasteyrie , Creton , Chambolle , and all included in the same category , left Paris on Wednesday last for Belgium . The representatives of the Mountain , " who had been confined at St . I eiagie , have also been conducted to the frontiers by police agents . The seven representatives condemned to transportation have been shipped off , as well as 468 others . ¦ Mio latter were the first batch for Cayenne , but the violent gales in the Channel drove the transport into Cherbourg .
Fresh lists of proscription are still ready to appear , as I had informed you , They are only delayed to allow the emotion produced by the former ones to subside . On these new lists three classes of prisoners are said to figure : — v 1 . Public writers . MM . Solar , Foroado ( of the EW ) . ' , fred Nettement ( of the Opinion PublW 0 ) t Jules Martinet ( of L ' Ordro ) , de R ^ ms ^ o .
2 . Functionaries who served the monarchy of July ; among whom are mentioned MM . de Haussonvule , Piscatory , de Pontalba , & c . 3 , Friends of the princes of the house of Orleans . MM . Paul Daru , Albert de Broglie , & c . & c , all Orleanists . Apropos of the princes of the house of ¦ Orleans , itis positively in contemplation to send to the Moniteur a decree of Confiscation of . the property of the Orleans family . This property would serve as an indemnity to the Bonaparte family . Shall I tell you of a thousand other revolutionary measures ? The rournal ZAO / Y * r ( about which I mentioned last
week flie warning bestowed on the chief editor ) has been suppressed . The order was , to cease to appear . The closing of cafes and cabarets continues . Even shops for cheap grocery have been sacrificed to the rigours of the Government , because they bore the name of " associated shops . " A decree has suppressed the association . ( " pour la vie a bon marche" ) , a sort of Redemption Society ' s Store at Wassighier ( Aisne ) . The result is that the people must . buy dear , that they must cease to have a conscience , " and that the working classes must be victimized by high prices on the first necessaries of life . Arrests go on without intermission . Madame George-Sand has been arrested-at-her-estate in tha
Department de l'lndre . In the Cote d'Or , at Montbas ( the country of Buffon ) , forty-eight persons have been arrested under pretext of having formed a secret society . The number of persons arrested in the Saone and Loire is 46 f . The insurgents of the Var are 1198 in number , confined in the Fort Lamalgue , at Toulon . But the number of those who are in flight , and against whom arrest-warrants have been issued , is reckoned at
8000 . In a private letter , I am told that the number of persons who took part in the resistance hi the Departments of the Var and of the Basses Alpes , is so considerable that agriculture is failing for want of labour . On certain estates in the South the oliyes are rotting on the trees for want of hands to pick them . A decree of the general in command of the Basses Alpes confirms the fact by the rigour it diasoldiers will be billeted
1 . "Within three days on guard in the houses of all persons who have taken flight . 2 . Within , ten days their property wilLbe sequestrated . 3 . Any person who shall have given shelter to an insurgent will be considered an accomplice in the insurrection , and liable to be shot . A new decree has just suspended the reorganization of the National Guard in the departments . The entire mass of the population is to remain disarmed t
at the disposal of the Government . The " error is universal and incredible . Even the working olasses are affected . They are beginning to emigrate . The Association of Tinplate Workmen ( ferblantiers ) , and a fraction of that of the Cabinet-makers , whose furniture was so remarkable at the Great Exposition , have already concluded negotiations with American capitalists . If the movement continues as it has begun , if artists , literary men—the thinkers and the workers—are forced to emigrate , the revolution of the 2 nd of December will have entailed consequences as disastrous as the Revocation of the Edict ot Nantes .
Now that the press is mute , it is the salons that constitute the Opposition . This drawing-room resistance causes serious uneasiness to the Government . Madame de Remusat and twenty other ladies , the wives of distinguished representatives , have kept up an incessant fire of quolibeta and pleasantries against the Government of Louis Bonaparte . To silence this fire , Bonaparte had no other resource than to strike the representatives themselves , and so to attack the wives through their husbands . The list of Senators and Councillors of State ( such as it ib ) is daily oxpeoted . S ,
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Continental Notes. Our Correspondent's L...
CONTINENTAL NOTES . Our Correspondent ' s letter leaves little to be added by way of illustration of the present deplorable condition of France . In the Minister of the Interior ' s Electoral Circular to the Prefects , " cynicism and hypocrisy "—which we have more than once described as the seasoning of all the acts and documents of the coup d ' etat—are pretty equally mingled . For the latter quality , take this paragraph : — •* Nevertheless , as the Government is firmly decided never to use corruption , direct or indirect , and to respect all consciences , the best means of securing to the legislative body the . confidence of the population is to call , to it men perfeotly independent by their situation and charaoter . ' .
Of the former , though a comparatively mild specimen : — - " As noon as you shall have indicated to me in the conditions above-mentioned the candidates who appear to you to have the best chance of uniting the majority ol suffrages , the Government will not hesitate to reoommena them openly to the choice of the electors . " Of both :- — " Formerly , when the suffrage wns restricted , when the electoral influence was divided between certain iamijiea , the abuse of these influences waa odious . A lew ll-deuerved decorationa—a few places—were able to
secure the success of an election in a small college . It was natural that this abuse should revolt consciences , and that the abstinence of the administration from all ostensible interference should have been insisted on . Its action , its preferences , were then occult ; and by that very reason compromised ; its dignity and authority . But at the present time , by what favours is it to be imagined that the Government could seduce this prodigious number of electors ? . By places ? Tfie -Administration of France has not cadres sufficiently vast to contain the population of a canton . By money ? Without speaking of their honourable susceptibility , the whole public treasure would not suffice , " _'<" a a < * . * a *« *• ' *^ .
Then follows an ungenerous allusion to Cavaignac , not in the best taste , as against a fallen opponent—a description of " public opinion" which it would be well for the signer of the Circular to study . " With universal suffrage there is but one powerfu l immense spring , which no human hand can compress nor turn from the current that directs it ; that spring is public opinion ; that imperceptible , indefinable sentiment which abandons or accompanies governments , without their being able to account for it ; nothing is indifferent to universal suffrage ; it appreciates not only acts , but it guesses tendencies ; it forgets nothing , forgives nothing , because it has , and can have , but one moving principle , the
egotistical interest of each individual ; it is sensitive to everything , from the great policy ^ vhich emanates ~ from the chief of the Government , down to the minutest proceedings of local administration ; and the political opinion of a department depends more than pay be thought upon that spirit and conduct of its administration . " The Correspondent of the Daily News writes : — " So great is the horror of the Government of all free circulation of opinion , that a decree has just been issued
by the Prefect of Police , prohibiting manufacturers and , vendors of printing presses , lithographic presses , and copying machines , from selling the above ' dangerous machines / without taking down the name and address of the buyer , which name is to be immediately communicated to the Commissary of Police of the quarter . This regulation will be very effectual in deterring those who might be disposed to write circulars to the free and independent electors in favour of any Opposition candidate . "
A railway from Bordeaux to Bayonne is in . contemplation . The line from Paris to Strasburg will be opened in August . The journey by quick trains will take from ten to twelve hours . Colonel Charras , Captains Cholat and Millotte , expelled representatives , are struck off the lists of the army . The decree of the Provisional Government of March , 1848 , which reduced volunteer service from seven to two years , is repealed . General Cavaignac ' s request to be placed on the retired list of the army has been granted by the Minister of War . The Due de Beuffremontis said to have indignantly refused the office of Senator .
The President has applied to Vienna for the removal of the remains of the Due de Reichstadt ( buried in the Imperial Chapel ) to Paris . The consent of the Austrian Government has been given . It is said that M . de Persigny will-proceed to England on a special mission . What can M . Fialin de Persigny have to do here ? To spy out the nakedness of the land r or to study the refugee question ? or to shake hands with some of his old friends among the refugees of ' 48 ? From Madrid we learn that the recent military riot has been quelled ; but not a few suspected generals have been ordered away from the city , and some banished . The following is extracted from a letter dated Vienna , January 13 , 1852 : —
" You are aware that our Consul-General in Servia is particularly obnoxious to the Austrian Government , and that his blustering Highness , Prince Schwartzenberg , ' registered a vow , ' that both Mr . Fonblanque and hia French colleague ( M . Limperani , a cousin of the President Louis Bonaparte ) , should be driven out of Belgrade . Hence all the attacks upon the consular dwellings and persons , and the calumnies in the Austrian , newspapers against the honourable officers just named . The end of all this is drawing near , for I learn from Constantinople
that the Turkish Government has resolved to sustain , the provincial representatives of the Powers most closely allied to the Porte , and that ample satisfaction will be given for the attack made upon Mr . Fonblanque last autumn . On the other hand , it may be supposed the Austrian and the Russian consulates in Servia are doingall they can to encourage and exasperate the aggressors , and are unceasingly urging the celebrated canon of a . Servian primate t— ' The English fleet cannot come up the Danube . '
" In a recent number of the Vienna Lloyd there has appeared a notice to the following effect , dated Belgrade : —Mr . Fonblanque , the English Coneul-General , made—contrary to the usage of all other " conBuls—no personal visit to the Russian Resident on tho Emperor Nicholas ' s birthday , but sent up his card from the carriage , which he caused to drive to tho door of the house . Tho Russian Consul sent back the card , with the remark that on that particular day he only received personal visits . Mr . Fonblanque , highlv incensed , tore the card , and sent a note demanding satisfaction . Now the visible intention of this statement—which is true as far at > it goes — is to create a belief that tho British agent attempted to put a slight on the Russian agent on a national occasion , and hud consequently acted in an ill bred and impolitio way . But a letter received from Constantinople supplies the suppressio vori of Lloyd's Botarado correspondent , and places the matter m ft .
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 24, 1852, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_24011852/page/3/
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