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Election Matters. A Meeting- Of The Supp...
pressed Ms opinion that It would be prc > ductive of litigation ; and not prove a settlement of the question . ^ A project for a dinner to Lord Haas , at Belfest , evaporated very rapidly , as the leading men of Belfestrefused io join in any compliment to a member of a Protectionist government . ' ¦ ' .., . / , :
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LETTERS FKiOM PARIS . [ From oub own Correspondent . ! Letter XIII . Paris , Mareti 23 rd , 1852 . The election of M . Carnot , the republican candidate for Paris , has caused considerable annoyance to the government . For some time past the Republicans had been overlooked j the Orleanists were monopolising the preoccupations' of M . Bonaparte . But since the Paris elections have disclosed the vitality of the republican
party , an increase of severity has been shown towards them throughout the country . In Paris , twenty-seven citizens , who are guilty of having voted for M . Carnot , must be added to the list of arrests I have already given you . Fresh arrests have been made at Rheims , Bouen > and Beziers , as well as in many other places . Orders fpr the immediate expulsion and transportation of the persons condemned by ' commissions d & partementales ' have been sent by telegraph . " More than . 8000 persons are at this moment embarked for Cayenne or Algiers .
As this number might appear incredible , I will furnish you with the particulars of these condemnations . In the department of the Basses-Alpes , there are 955 transported to Algiers ; 8 jL to Cayenne ; 16 expelled the territory ; 69 imprisoned ; and 346 placed under the surveillance of the police . Eleven merchants from Rheims are being transported to Cayenne or Algiers . From Cette we hear that 400 persons from Gers are expected , and are to be conveyed in the JEclaireur and the Qrqndeur to Algiers . At Strasburg there are 11 persons condemned to be transported to Algiers . The fifth convoi , consisting of 300 prisoners for Algiers ,
were removed on . Thursday night from the forts near Paris . The Messager du Midistates that 83 of the condemned were removed from Montpellier to Cette on their" to Africa . A body of about 120 detenus had also arrived in that town on the 19 th instant . All these men are from the single department of Herault . The Courrier du Havre announces the sailing of the Berthollftityfa . { Saturday for Brest , Laving on board 360 prisbnpjit from the departments of the Nievre , said to be dlaUned either for Cayenne or Lambessa . On the 16 tn instant , orders were received by telegraph for the screw frigate , the Isly , to leave L'Isle d'Aix , near Roehefbrt , for the Gironde , to take on board 400 deVenus politiques at present confined in the citadel of Blaye . The steam frigate Magellan has just arrived in the Gironde to receive 700 of the condemned belonging to the department of Lot-et-Garonne .
To this immense number of transportes are to be added at least aa many who have been shot , on the spot or clandestinely , and those who have been expelled , amounting to double the number , and you may conceive the desolation which now reigns in France . If you reckon over and above all these , the internes and the citizens placed under the surveillance of the police , which I estimate at about 40 , 000 persons , you will find that there are not less than 70 , 000 peaceable citizens who havq been outraged by the events of the 2 nd of December . .
Lot thoughtless people , then , cease to wonder why France , does , not rise en masse . They may read an answer jn these wholesale lists of proscriptions . Sinco M . Cnrnot ' s election , the press has become the object of renewed severity on the part of the government . The Steole has beon officially advised to qualify its opposition . T ? w publdo had failed aa yet to discover any opposition in that journal . M . Bonaparte , moreover , it is said , i « only waiting » . favourable opportunity , aa regards the larger newspapers , to put in force his decree , authorizing thoir suppression without warning , for alleged motives of general security .
Journalists arc , especially , persecuted and harassed . Many are obliged to escape by flight the menaces of the government . Some receive passportH , and aro constrained to leave their homes within twenty-four hours ; others ' are expelled" thoir , departments , " and locked up in some distant priHon . Thus' M . Emilo Crugy , chief editor of the Courrier tie la Q ironde , and M . Cainpan , of tho saino paper , Jmvo been imprisoned , one in the department of Basso-Bretagno , and tho ofchor Jn La Vcndtfo . M . Gaaze * , editor of the republican pnper at Hflvro , has received orders to quit tho French territory within twenty-four hours .
Sinco tho porscctition of tho Republicans has recommenced , tho Legitimists have again become tho object of ^ ho cajoleries of the Government . L . Bonaparte , fearing more than over tho fusiarif of tho two branches , ia incoHHtmt in his advances to tho , Legitimists , For
the last week overtures have been made to effect an alliance with them , against the Republicans , and Orleanists . The Legitimists would be very unwise to . treat such ad vances with aught but supreme contempt . As to the Orleanists , they are still pursued by the Government . Several bankers and leading merchants of the principal towns in . France have received passports to quit their , homes forthwith . In this class are included 80 at Bordeaux , and 8 at Rouen . The Government , moreover , by the coercion of the judges , ( you know that we have no jury ^ now , ) has obtained a verdict of one month ' s imprisonment against M .
Bocher , the defensor of the family of Orleans , who had in the first instance been condemned to a mere fine of 500 francs . The Government has done more—it required from the Belgian Government the condemnation of the Bulletin Francois , an Orleanist journal , published in Brussels by M . D * Haussonville and Alex . Thomas . MM . Berryer arid Odillon Barrot had undertaken the defence of the two accused ^ and would have gone to Brussels to plead their cause ; but M . Bonaparte warned them that if they crossed the frontier , they would not be allowed to return . They were thus compelled to remain in Paris .
General Cavaignac was also threatened m the same manner . He wished to consult with his late colleagues , Lamoriciere and others now in Brussels , as to whether or not he should take the oath required by the members of ; tb . 3 Legislative Body . He was informed the Government would grant him a passport , but that he would find the frontier closed against him when he returned .
The decree for the completion of the Louvre has just appeared . A company , to which the Government r supplies two millions of francs a year , has been entrusted with the execution of the design of M » Visconti . This plan , which I described to you a few weeks ago , converts the Tuileries into a formidable military post . Large buildings are being erected in . ' the angles of the Place du Carrousel . One of them will serve for the bureaux of the Ministry of the Interior and of Police , the telegraph , and national printing-office . The others , for barracks , to contain , says the decree , a sufficient military force .
The review , which was to have taken place on the 21 st , when the Empire was to have been proclaimed , could not be held—the colours which were to have been presented to the troops were not ready . The grand review is therefore postponed until the 5 th May , the anniversary of the death of the Emperor Napoleon . The mauvais plaisant have ; been reporting thai * in , imitation of the old monarchical saying , " JLe JRoi tst mort , vtve le JRoi ! " the heralds of Louis Bonaparte will cause all Paris to resound with the cry , " L'J & mpereur est mort , vive VJEmpereur I "
Meanwhile , great preparations are being made for the ceremony of the opening of the Senate , and the Legislative Assembly , which is to take place on the 29 th March . A throne of red velvet , decorated with tinsel , will be placed on a " platform in the Salle des Marcchaux for the President . Opposite , there will be plain benches for the Senators and Deputies . A formal ceremony for the entrSe and sortie of the President has been decided upon by M . Bonaparte . Wlien . the company have taken their seats he will make his entree solemnelle , will make the opening speech , and receive indinidually the oath of fidelity of each member present .
Only one thing will be wanting , and that is the grand costumes of the Senators and Deputies , which have been dispensed with . For in all Paris there was not found sufficient gold braiding to complete these grand uniforms . Louis Bonaparte , therefore , tinder these circumstances , deigned to authorise these gentlemen to appear in plain clothes . A good thing is reported to have been said on this subject by a tailor , whom one of the Senators was pressing in order to have bis finery by the 29 th : " Tho President / ' replied the tailor , " attends to his business—I do mine . A Senate is soon hatched ; decrees are easily patched together ; but an embroidered coat must not be botched 1 " The question of Louis Bonaparte ' s marriage with one of the natural daughters of . Queen Maria Christina of Spain is more talked about just now than ever . The came of this revival of an old rumour is ; the recent Appearance in Paris of tho famous Munoz , the lifeguard , who was first Queen Christina ' s paramour , and afterwards lioi husband , undor the title of Duke do Rianzdros . This great personage has beon installed for some time in tho Chateau do MalmniHon , formerly tho property of tho Emperor Napoleon , but now bolonging to Maria Christina .
Tho convcrelon of tho Five per Cents , causes much anxiety to Louis Bonaparte ' s government . Some of tho rentier ^ liavo demanded tho payment of thoir capital , and tlio number of applicants is becoming so largo that it will bo impossible to comply-with thoir demands . Tho Five per Conts . have fallen below par ,
in consequence of a coalition of bankers dissatisfied with the measure , who- have all set to work perseveringly to sell out . L . Bonaparte has directed the Bank of France to keep up the price by devoting part of its reserve fund to the purchase of stock . It is only by dint of this unprecedented-operation that the rentes have been kept at par . . ¦ The decree which fixes the budget of 1852 , which I foretold in my last letter , appeared on Friday , the 18 th inst ., in the Mbniteur . Aa the Sihcle Baid , ' it is a positive return to the year 1302 , the epoch when the custom of consulting the nation with regard to the taxes was first commenced . As the Corps Zegislatif is summoned for the 29 th ' of March , this refusal to consult them on the taxation of the country is universally considered as a gratuitous insult , and as a symptom of the enormous malversation ' of whibh Lpuis Bonaparte has no intention to give any account . The expenses of this budget by decree amount to . . . . 1 , 593 , 398 , 846 francs . The receipts only amount to . 1 , 449 , 413 , 604 „ Deficit ... . . •¦" .. . , 53 , 985 , 242 „ And to this deficit of fifty-four millions must be added t ; he civil list of six millions , which Louis Bonaparte will make the senate vote for him . As a proof to the people ihat he only rules Ibr their benefit , the expenses are augmented by : nearly fifty-ihree millions above thebudgetproposed ' ^^ vtiie ^ latCi / yiie ^ i ^ atave Assembly ; 1 . The ministerial' salaries are raised from 60 , 000 francs to 100 , 000 ; andtv ?©* of tnem ^ the Mmisterf of War and of ^ Foreign Affairs , are tb have 130 , 00 & 2 . The Budget ofwar is augmented by twenty-five millions of francs . 3 . Thatof the navy by five millions , 4 . Public works by ten nu ^ ions . & . ; Thfe mterior by six millions , 6 . ThenewMinister of State is to lavei twelve millions at his disposal . 7 . The new Minister of Police is to have three millions nine hundred thousand francs . 8 . And finally , tte Ministers of Justice , of Foreign Affairs , and of Piiblic Worship , are to receive 1 , 550 , 000 francs more thian ^ befbre . The alterations that have been made in the receipts are as" follows :- —the octrois are not suppressed ; but , just as I told you , L . Bonaparte has cqintented ^ iiniself with giving up the tenthi which the government tised to raise from all the octrois of the country . The inanu- f ^ c turers of artificial soda will have if > pay six millions of francs a year for the salt which " & ey consume , and the tax on wine has been raised , as far ajjjbhe working classes are concerned , and diminished for i ; he rich , People who are not over rich usually fray theirwine by the pint or quart dLa public-house ; and this retail sole is loaded wfth an f ^ cUtional tax of 50 per cent . The droit d'octroi which was ten per cent , is now riaised to fifteen . Families in easy circumstances , on the contrary , buy their wine by the barrel , and will have the benefit of a diminution of ten . per cent on the tax . And it must be remarked that in Franco the tax on wine is not regulated . by the value , in other words does not vary with the price and quality , but is levied according to the quantity . As many francs on a hectolitre of hv ferior wine as on the same quantity of wine of the test quality . And therefore by this singular reform the cheap wine drunk by the poorer classes will be burdened with an increased tax of fifty per cent , while tho tax on the good wine consumed by , the higher classes will actually be made lighter by ten per cent . We have just received this evening the news of the acquittal by the Belgian jury of the Orleanist jBuW ™ M-ancais , tho prosecution of which waa instigated by L . Bonaparte . M . d'Haussonvffle defended lumselt . "I plead in my own canse , " said ho , "to save »• Berryer and M . Odillon Barrot from tho exile j » n which they had been threatened / ' " iii ' ' * , \
Continental Notes. Thb Decree "On The Re...
CONTINENTAL NOTES . Thb decree " on the relations of tho Senate and Legislative body with the President and the Council o State" which wa * published in the Moniteur of W day , extending to oighty-mx arti 61 es , may bo sunim ^ up thus : —all bills aro prepared in tho various niinW teriol departments ^ and , eubmittcd to ^ J ™& Z who sends them through the Minister of State wv Council of State : whon a bill has been ^ P " ^ " ? it to Council of State , ii decree of the President ordersi » bo presented to tho Legitilative' Body , wlficU M * right of proposing amendments , to bo subm ^ tou * Council of State , if tho opinion of tho Gounod of BJ ^ bo adverse to tho amendment , it bocomo ^ nuu « ^ A bill cannot bo rejected by the I ^ eg islatiyo Woay ¦ it hns beon disciissod article by article . 1 ™ JLid and proclamations of tho President cannot be ^ ^ by tho Legislative Body , unless «» oy contain hjm [^ tionto thotofleot . Tho Senate ^^^ l ^ M' ^ bills adopted by tho Legislative Wj" ftnd dedictd only on tho question o ^ P ^^ Zbation cunnot votJ any amendment . All signs ot appi
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Leader (1850-1860), March 27, 1852, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_27031852/page/4/
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