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May 29, 1852.] THE LEABER. 507
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CONTINENTAL NOTES. •Tiie Maniteur of tho...
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THE BRITISH EXILES OF '48. Iir the Galwa...
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AMERICA. With respect to the abrupt depa...
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Letters From Paris. [Fflom Our Own Corre...
v blic education , / which he desires to see passed by the ? ffislafcive Body before the end of the session ; Boharte ' s mania for adopting different uniforms as each casion may require , is considered very amusing . He ° . compared to Maitre Jaqiies , Harpagon's cook and ^ achman , who says to his master , — " Is it as coach-C or as cook you address me ? If it be as coachman , Sait until I put " on my livery ; If as cook , I will quickly put on my white apron . " The Legislative Body oppose this hill ; they would prefer the Falloux Act passed last year . The clandestine hostility of the Assembly to the Government waxes anace , and increases in intensity . The commission nn the budget invited the Ministers to attend upon
them to furnish details and explanations on several items entered in the budget . The Ministers sent word they had other business to attend to , and referred the committee to their clerks . The clerks , when applied to answered they had nothing to say on the subject ; that they had furnished all the necessary documents to thei Council of State , and that therefore the Council was the proper quarter to apply to . The deputies , much irritated at this treatment , delegated M . Billault ,
president of the Legislative Body , and M . Gouin , chairman of the committee on the budget , to lay their grievances before Bonaparte . Bonaparte replied ,, that Ms Constitution forbade any communication , whatever between the Legislative Body and the Executive , and that it was the dnty of the Legislative Body to conform to this rule . MM . Billault and Gouin . withdrew , considerably mortified . They are , however , determined to reject certain articles of the budget .
la the Provinces the agitation increases . In the aowtli , tw anrtioriiiies are continually being insulted ; and in the rural districts it requires the military force to disperse the congregation of the people . There has been an outbreak at Lambessa , at which the troops were obliged to fire on the transported exiles . Four of the prisoners were afterwards shot . The war of " Notices" still rages against the press .
The pretexts for giving these warnings are most absurd and derisory . The Conciliateur de I'Indre received a " notice" for having declared the press was not free ; " which / ' said the prefect , "is an insult to the law on the press , and to the government which originated it . " The Prefect of Amiens went still further , he summoned the journal of that town to insert a speech delivered at the Hotel de Ville of Paris . If this state
of things goes on much longer , the papers will be filled with official notices , or with articles on matters which do not interest their respective localities , but forced upon them by the Government . Let the Conciliateur de I'Indre bewaro in future of asserting that the press is not free . Oj'ders have been issued for the sale of the furniture of the Chateau d'Eu , belonging to the house of Orleans . The decrees of the 22 nd of January are still being enforced , as you perceive . On this subject it is said the Council of State is prepared to act in opposition to
Bonaparte . M . Cornudet , who was entrusted with the drawing up of the report on the matter of competencies , which had been submitted to the Council of State , has been advised by the Prefect of the Seine , that the tribunal of Paris had declared itself competent to decide upon tho validit y of the decrees of the 22 nd of January . Tho report is , therefore , adverse to the pretensions of the executive , and declares ' tho ordinary tribunals to bo competent to judge in tho matter . President Maillard , M . Marchand , and many moro councillors aro of this opinion . S .
May 29, 1852.] The Leaber. 507
May 29 , 1852 . ] THE LEABER . 507
Continental Notes. •Tiie Maniteur Of Tho...
CONTINENTAL NOTES . Tiie Maniteur of tho 27 fch jnst . declares that thoro is not fno slightest foundation for tho statoment in some foroign journals that tho President of tho Itopublio exorcises at l moment at Madrid an influonco contrary to tho Constitution . General Bodoau's lottor of refusal to take- tho oath , runs as follows : Monaiouro lo Ministro , —A decree fixes tho delay within inch tho oath imposed upon soldiora ought to bo taken . j » 'o » wed of tho bonofit of tho law since tho 2 nd of Dccom-° ' \ i mi ght abstain from responding to this injunction . ¦ am unwilling that my silonco should bo misinterpreted . im ° i liavo ua ( * ftlways for principle and aim fcho rosft | " < vn . ( 'efonco of tho laws . I havo boon for thin causo iusM Vlol ° y arrested , imprisoned , and proscribed . Inj lco a "d porsocutionUlo not chango tho convictions of an wnoiiraW o man . I refuse tlio oath .--Bkdkau , Gonorul . "' Moral hal \ 6 , ono of tho Quostoraof tho Assembly , has B'imoofr a "obl ° ttnd touching lottor from Jorsoy , to tho dui' ! n ° ii llftvo boon Rr ( lnd foastings and carousals at Berlin hourl ? i"li Btay ° l " lho G / Alr > ™ llaa hmn scaling tho Diitm . i soldiors and ladies , and giving lessons in Tl P *> vwiynonfc to Prussia and Hanovar . catinn 1 ! ? . "U 8 topiaV crisis at ; Turin has roaultod in a modifl-C'lpa , m 1 1 ° ' A . ff lio miniabry . MM . d'Azoglio , Paloofif i . v'' . l or » ati have resumed thoir rosnootivo portfolios
com Z , Aflaira » Public Works , and Interior ; M . Bonbv M V ? i ^ coptod tho dopartmont of Justice , vacalod tor of in Va n ° 5 n ™ l M . Oibrario has boon named Mjnis-4 "Mwo , in liou of M , Oavour . TUo Department of
Public Instruction , lately held by M . Farini , is provisionally entrusted to S £ . Boncompagni . M . Lamarmora retains the department of War , to which that of Marine is added . . M . d'Azeglio has declared to the Chamber that the late crisis was occasioned , not by any difference between him and his late colleagues in matter of principles , but only in the manner of applying them—that all were de-VQted to the constitution and meant to support it . It . seems probable that M . Cavour will return to office . He has promised to support his provisional locum tenens , . Gibrario .
The late Minister of Public Instruction , M . Farini , is said to have been obnoxious as a Eornan refugee , and a s a moderate liberal , to the diplomatic allies of the Pope . Great a g itation prevails in Switzerland , in the Catholic canton of Fribourg ( the leading member of the Sonderbund , in 1847 ) . The government of the canton is democratic , but the majority of the population , Catholic and reactionist , had refused to acknowledge the radical constitution . The opposition is supported by the Federal Council at Berne , and fomented by France and Austria . The programme for a grand popular meeting to be held at Posieux , near Basle , on the 24 th inst ., was published in the Suisse of the 20 th , and approved by the Federal Council .
The Cantonal Government having seized the proclamation and stopped the presses from which it issued , two members of the provisional committee repaired to Berne for ^ Federal protection ; whereupon the Federal Government openl y declared against the proceedings of the cantonal council of Fribourg m interdicting the meeting . M . Charles , a member of the provisional committee who drew up the proclamation , has since been arrested by the Cantonal Government , and various other arrests have followed . A collision was feared on the 24 th .
Meanwhile , in the AssemblSe Rationale of Paris appears a long letter addressed to M . de Montalembert , on the subject of Switzerland , which is the more worthy of notice , as at this moment , under the countenance of the French government , agents of the Papal government are recruiting soldiers for the Popo uvtW regions of the Do ubs and Jura , where the influence of the head of the church party is paramount , In this letter , signed by M . Leopold de Gaillard , the uppermost proposition enforced throughout is an opinion uttered by Napoleon when First Consul : " Either a Switzerland'friendly to France , or no Switzerland at all . " This correspondent describes as a political
necessity the design of the First Consul to annex to France all those parts of Switzerland whose inhabitants resembled in their manners and ideas the population of Franche Comta " . The presence of General I ) ufour , as negotiator of the confederation , at Paris , and his frequent interviews with Count Turgot , the Minister of Foreign Affairs , and Louis Napoleon , give considerable prominence at this moment to the Swiss question , and the progress of " events in that fermenting union of small states is watched with considerable interest . The Empress of Eussia arrived at "Wiesbaden on . the evening of tho 23 d .
The Leipsic Gazette announces that , in the highest financial circles of Frankfort , a report was current that the Emperor of Russia had given orders to subscribe to the loan of thirty-five millions of florins opened in Austria , in order to employ the twenty-nine millions of francs which ho has drawn from France in consequence of tho conversion of the 6 per cents . The Emperor has not received any of tho diplomatic corps : but on the occasion of a review , ho conversed with tho British Ambassador , on horseback . This meeting was of course pre-arranged .
The Vienna Imperial Gazette contains in its official columns a statement , in which , after acknowledging tho urgent necessity for restricting tho public expenditure as far as possible , tho government announces its intontion to regard frugality as an © special duty . The ministers have submitted tho oxpensos of tho sovoral buroaux to a strict examination , ana announce reductions to tho extent of 14 , 268 , 290 florins , exclusive of a saving of 2 , 600 , 000 florins on tho military budget . It is singular that this announcement should bo simultaneous with the projected loan of 3 , 600 , 000 / ., now afloat in London and Frankfort . It is said that somo 28 , 000 men will manomvro at Czeglod , on tho occasion of tho Emperor ' s approaching visit to Hungary . Tho abolition of tho constitut ion of 1848 has caused groat dissatisfaction amongst tho Modcrato party in Tuscany .
Somo persons go tho longth of boing apprehensivo of demonstrations at tho end of May , on tho annivorsarios of tho combats of Montanara and Curtatona , whoro tho Tuscans bohaved gallantly . Tho names of tho persons who thoro distinguished themselves wore inscribed in tho church of Santa Croco , and tho government has given orders to have thorn removed . Tho clorgy of Luccn , supported by tho Court of Romo , continuo to offer opposition to tho Loopoldino laws , to which tho Tuscan clergy hnvo boon long subjected . It is said that M . do Montossuy , tho French minister , who has returned to Floronco , is charged to support M . Baldassoroni , tho President of tho Council , in tho stops which ho may think fit to take for tho maintenance of thoso laws . A lottor from Romo states that M . Thiors has had an intorvibw with tho Pono and with Cardinal Antonolli .
A lottor from Romo of tho 20 th states that a now contract has juot boon concluded by tlio municipa l council with a British' capitalist , for tho lighting of Homo hv gas . Four or flvo years ago , anoth er had boon concluded for tho samo purposo with two JJologneso , who , though they paid down caution money to tlio amount of 50 , O 00 f ., novor commenced tho works . This caution money is now to bo applied towards carrying out tho now contract . Tho aquuro of St . Potor ' s , tho' Vatican , tho Corso , and tho Piazza dol Popolo , di Spagna and Colonna , aro to bo lighted first , and from thoso points tho pipoa aro gradually to branch out into tho adjacent stroots . Edward Murray h , m boon . romoYcd . to tho CflBWO of Spoloto .
The British Exiles Of '48. Iir The Galwa...
THE BRITISH EXILES OF ' 48 . Iir the Galway Vindicator vie found an interesting letter respecting the exiles of ' 48 , written by William P . Dowling , a young Irish artist , who resided in Lon- ^ don , and took an active part in the Chartist demonstrations of ' 48 . He was transported to Van piemen ' s Land , under the "Whig gagging act of 1848 . " Cuffy is working tit his trade , which , until lately , was not very brisk ; but the recent gold discoveries in the neighbouring continent has made every trade good now—he is much respected as a sober and industrious man . Fay has always been in constant employment ,
and he is considered the best workman in the colony . Lacey has opened a shop in Launceston , his wife and five children have come to him , and he is in a , fair way of reaping a fortune , having a great number of men employed , and > particularly since the gold discoveries , has received more orders than he can procure men to execute . Ritchie has not heen very fortunate , but is now in employment . With respect to the country Chartists , none of them have heen able to get employment at their trades , there being no factories of any consequence in the colony : they are , however , employed somewhere in the interior as gardeners , & c .
Smith O'Brien , since his acceptance of a ticket of leave , has lived in great privacy and retirementin the vale of Avoca , having , in order to employ his highly cultivated mind , condescended to become tutor to the young sons of an eminent Irish physician who resides in that retired place . His constant and dignified demeanour has procured him the respect of all , even of those most opposed to him in principles and politics . He is now , I am informed , in very bad health , so much so that he has been obliged to give up the employment he had accepted , and has got permission to reside in a different locality . Mitchel has been joined by his wife and family ; and with such a family , and with the society
of his old and excellent friend , Mr . John Martin , he must be as happy as it is possible for an exiled rebel to be . O'Meagher still resides in his solitary domicile at Lake Sprell , save that the solitude is now somewhat disturbed by the presence of his amiable and beautiful bride . O'Donohoe is at present in this town , and has just completed a history of his persecutions in this colony , which would be published immediately , but , in consequence of the gold discovery , printers cannot "be procured at any price— -they are all gone to the diggings . He purposes to have it published in Dublin and London , for the benefit of his family , as well as in the colonies and America . Letters have been received here from
M'Manus , enclosing his business cards to his friendsamong others , to the Governor and the Comptroller-General . O'JDoherty is practising his profession in Hobart Town , and is universally respected . When last I had the pleasure of seeing him he was in excellent health . "
America. With Respect To The Abrupt Depa...
AMERICA . With respect to the abrupt departure of Mr . Hulsemann , the Austrian minister at Washington , wo have news up to the 18 th of May . The New York Herald contains the following letter : — " Washington , May 13 , 1852 . " I telegraphed at tho time of Chevalier Hulsomann ' s departure from this city , that ho had addressed an insulting letter to Mr . "Webster . I learn from an authentic source tho following additional particulars : —Tho lottor is dated April 29 , and states that in November and December Mr . Ilulsomann had remonstrated with tho Secretary on account of his communications and interviews , and their
subjects , being treated with ridicule and dorision , in certain public journals of New York and Philadelphia . Tho Secretary ' s treatment of tho Kossuth affair , and particularly his ' spcccli at tho Kossuth Congressional banquet , had mado it tho duty of Mr . HulHomann to ascertain whether such sentiments ns tho Secretary had made expression of woro thoso of tho government ot tho United States . Tho vorbal explanation and assurances mado to him on thoBO occasions had boon followed b y no change in tho manner in which his transactions with this government woro treated by tho public press . That , particularly , somo articles published in Now Orleans had recently been tho occasion of tho Austrian ministry suffering considerable unp leasantness and annoyance Under thoao circumstances , ho considered ifc his duty to withdraw from any longer relations with tho government , which could only bo
continued through tho medium of ono who was a promoter of Kossuth , and unfriendly to tho Austrian government ; and , therefore , that Mr . Bolmont , Austrian Consul-Gonoral at Now York , would hereafter , if occasion required , bo tlio xnoanB of such communications as tho Austrian government might have to make . Tho Chovalior then presents tho President his thanks for his kindness , urbanity , & c , and aslcB tho Secretary to accept assurance of hia high coiiHidomtion , & c . ¦ . " Tho lottor covers eovoral pagos of foolscap , and is writton in very ill humour , and quite tart and piquant . " Tho reply is by tho acting Socrotary of State , and is dated May a . It acknowledges tho receipt of tho Chovalior ' fl lottor very briefly , and moroly says such communications a « tho Austrian government may have occasion to make through Mr . Bolmont will bo respectfully received / " A Hungarian named Szcdlulcy bus published , a
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Leader (1850-1860), May 29, 1852, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_29051852/page/7/
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