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C () NTIN E N T A L N K \ V 8 . The . party of the revision in actively operating upon the Parliamentary (' lubw . The utmost ell ' tu Is will ho used to ensure a legal majority ; and earl y in June , tho Duke < le J 5 ro # ! ie , who lia . s undertaken this important question , will move t . he £ revi « ion . The 1 iisioiiists make no way compared with the revision party ; out this is partly Ik-ciiuhc the two ideas are . not necessarily opposed . V <» u may revise the constitution in a fusion sens * ' -thai , in , abolish it , and this in eertuinlv the niiu of Giii / . otiuos .
' 1 wo facts <; ome out , very strongly m tho news ot the week . Dr . Veron , the editor ol" i . lic i ' onstitittioimtl , wrote , . si ;; iu ( I , and published an article on Saturday , boldly advoeiiting the rip .-al of ( he law of the . 'lint of May , which restricts the nuffiage . Tho Pays , \ mmai tine ' s paper , cnlln it , lo coup d'Hat du ban sens ;
the National , the Presse , and the Siicle equally applaud the course adopted by the Constitutionnel . Now , -what is this conversion of a journal , hitherto one of the stanchest advocates of the policy of exclusrveness and resistance , supposed to mean ? It means we are assured that the President is disposed to abrogate the law , and this meaning is based on the fact that Dr . Veron is a great man at the Elysee . But how much is that supposititious meaning worth wheri we read the following telegraphic despatch from trie Minister of the Interior , Leon Faucher , directly antagonistic to the Constitittionnel—from Leon Faucher , really the Prime Minister of Louis Napoleon ?—" The Minister of the Interior to the Prefect of the Landes .
" In presence of the manoeuvres which the advanced opposition direct against the law of May 31 , 18 / 50 , you are to declare , and to cause to be delared by the subprefects , that , in the opinion of the Government , the electors , friends of order , cannot , in consulting the interest of the country , give their votes to any candidate but one who is very decided to maintain the electoral law of the 31 st May . " N . B . The party of order supports unanimously General Darrieu , the only candidate who has declared in favour of maintaining the law of May . " Now the whole of this document is of immense importance at the present moment . There is an election for the Landes . The Minister of the
Interior writes to the Prefect of the Landes , and points at a party in the state , in the first place , and recommends a candidate in the second ; making approbation of the treacherous decision of the 31 st of May , the watchword of the party of order . How can we reconcile this with the alleged withheld thoughts of the Elvsee as interpreted by Dr . Veron ? One thing onlyis clear , that at the Elysee they act two parts ; that the policy of the Elysee is a Janus policy—one face , Dr . Veron , looking towards the restoration of Universal Suffrage ; the other , Leon Faucher , looking towards Imperialism .
The accusation brought by Emile de Girardin against Generals Chan gamier and Cavaignac , relative to the publication in the official journal of Algeria , of a false telegraphic despatch , has been in some sense met by a statement of M . Lacroix that the despatch was inserted by the mistake of an em ' ploy 6 who was told to insert as a rumour from Marseilles "what he put in the form of a despatch . By a curious coincidence . Emile de Girardin was arrested
by Cavaignac on the very day the Algerian Moniteur i containing the despatch , reached Paris in June 1848 . The other accusation has been disregarded by Changarnier , and what is morestrange , by the newspapers Only the Ripublique has noticed it , and while ridiculing the idea , warned Changarnier that he must refute it , if he would not have it stick , to him . A proposition to impose a republic on England with 12 , 000 men , appears to the writer in the It 6 publique nothing les * than " supremely ridiculous .
The following extract from a private letter from Paris is an interesting comment on the regal conspiracy . It was written before the fete of the 4 th of May by one who is well acquainted with the state of popular feeling : — " I can write you little about our political situation , because it is quite impossible for me to foresee anything till next year but a febrile agitation iu all hearts , and a perfect tranquillity in the streets . Our imprudent monarchist factions , and their papers , do all in their power to tire out the patience of the people . But the people is fully determined to remain a quiet spectator of their dreams and of their ephemeral laws , till its turn of
defeating them by wiser representatives 18 arrived . And us to the army you may depend on this : it would net unanimously and Rtrenuously against the masses , if the hitter loHt patience and recurred to violence before their day . But more than half of the officers ( judge by that of the soldiers !) would declare against the legislative or executive power , if either one or the other were bold enough to try one of the ridiculous solutions which are every day proposed by the organs of the Klysoe and the Bourbon with aue . h contemptible oblivion of the uneasiness which they spread . It is not difficult to perceive that an
army divided by half is a certain victory for the people . This yenr will be disastrous through the failure of work in every kind of production not intended for exportation . But it will strengthen the Republic . Between the respectable calmness of the poorer classes , and the shocking tiomhinntioiiH of the richer , it . is impossible for any sensible person not to see clearly that the intriguers who for twenty yearn have influenced our affairs , either in power or in . opposition , und who now fail ho shamefully in their promises to their electors , are the only cause of the want , of credit , iui' 1 of all the other evils which this great country is now suffering . "
In themunieipal elections of La ( ituillotie . ro , Lyons * tin ; red purt . y hi » s won the day , the councillors cliOKen being almost exclusively Socialists . The national guard of Rouilly , Heine-et-Marne , has been dissolvud by the Government , Home of the ofliceo having attempted to replant it tret * of liberty . A hundred and one oflicem of the national guard of ( jrcnol ) lc out of hundred and sixty having resigned , General 1 ' aithomeaux has oulered the disarmament of the > j , uai < ls , with the exception of the company of ihejn . cu , uono of whono oilicoru huvo resigned .
M . Dana is the new Vice-President , and Yvan the Secretary of the Assembly . Eighty political prisoners , transported to Africa , were pardoned on the 4 th of May . The Portuguese revolution marches with great strides—for Portugal . The latest news is up to the 10 th instant . The Iberia , which brings the mails , brings also Count Thorhar ! The King has resigned his command in chief over the army , and the Queen seems only to hold her throne by the sufferance of the Duke of Saldanha , who dismisses military and civil
officers , appoints others in their room , raises volunteer troops , issues financial decrees—in a word , exercises full dictatorial power . So opposed was the feeling of the people to the Queen and her late Government , that neither she , nor her Royal husband , nor even their servants in liveries , dared venture into the public streets . No Ministry had been formed ; but the Duke of Saldanha had called a military council to consider the subject , at which the only point decided was that M . Jose Passos , who was Chief of the Oporto Junta in 1847 , should be the President of the Council . It was understood that the Duke had
refused to take any office in the Cabinet , as he would have other occupations to engage his attention . The Duke was expected to enter Lisbon at the head of an imposing army on the 13 th , when it was thought highly probable that the greatest excitement would take place , which might lead to an attack on the Royal palace , and possibly to the abdication or flight of the Queen . The event of the day in Spain is the publication of what is called a copy of the Concordat recently settled with the Court of Rome , in the Clamor Publico of the 8 th of May . By this document the number of bishops is reduced by four ; the education of the
country is placed under church control ; the introduction into Spain , or reprinting , of such books as they may not approve—namely , all those calculated to enlighten or instruct the people— is left to the clergy . No other than the Roman Catholic religion is to be tolerated . The re-establishment of the monastic orders of San Vincente de Paul , San Felipe Neri , and one other of those sanctioned by the Pope , is provided for . The property belonging to the convents of nuns now in existence is to be sold in exchange for three per cent . Perpetual Inscriptions , but the Government admits and guarantees the right which the church has to acquire property , no matter by
what means , provided they conform to those formerly in practice . The annual income of the archbishops is to vary , according to the different provinces , from £ 1200 to £ 1500 ; that of the bishops from £ 700 to £ 1000 , independent of their fees , which are very high—such , of these as may happen to be cardinals are to have £ 200 more per annum , with the understanding that these sums are to be increased as soon bs possible . No clergyman is to hold more than one living or one church appointment ; which is very proper . The whole of the unsold church property , returned to the clergy in virtue of the roya 2 decree of April 3 , 1845 , is to be hereafter considered as legally belonging to it . A tax is to be levied on
the produce of the land , to be collected by the clergy itself , as was the case formerly with respect to the tithes , to provide for whatever may be wanted to make up the required sum . Here we have a return to the tithe system for the abolition of which the Spanish Liberals fought against Don Carlos . The Pope , after obtaining all these and many other boons , generouslycondescenda to approve th « sales of church lands previously made by Government , so that the purchaser may now sleep in quietness , having his Iloliness ' s permission to consider oe his own that which was bought according the law of the land . If such turn out to be the stipulations of the Concordat , Spain will recede to the wretched clerical preponderance of 1800 . The Clamor Publico wae seized for this publication .
The German Potentates are again flocking to Warsaw , to meet their great northern patron . Mante ufel will be present , and also Count Nesselrode , It is a pity Lord Palmerston dare not go . In liussinn Poland a large army is concentrated , and in Berlin there was an improbable rumour afloat on the 7 th instant , that the Prussian army would again bo called out , though for what wo cannot iearn .
The PruBsian Chambers were cloned on the 9 th . The press laws had been previously voted in the teeth of a strong protest from the opposition . Tho King ' s Hpeeeh whh read by proxy . The only passages of interest arc those relating to the democratic party and the German Unity question : —• " A retrospect of this session is also calculated to corroborate the conviction that the good sense of Prussia remains undisturbed under the new forms of the constitution , and Mint the main condition of the development of the future destinies of Prussia must be the
maintenance of historic foundations , that the convulsive period we have just piiHHcd through has not been uble to shake . The , enemies o ( Hun beneficial development , the enemies of all divine and human nrdinuuucH , are ax reutlesmis t he puHsioiin thut ugitate them . But the revolution , in whutover form it , may show itHelf , will find his Majesty ' h Government watchful and linn , and Prussia armed . The threatening position of these enemies , makes it / other reasons apart , the moat urgent duty of all German GovernmentB no longer to leave Germany -without a central power , recognized on nil « i < kfl , nt home nnd abroad .
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tain the character of the citizens of London for hospitality . There will be , it is supposed , a most strenuous rivalry . It having been determined that on and after the 26 th of this month the charge for admission into the Exhibition shall be reduced to one shilling for four days in th e week , her Majesty ' s Commissioners have again had under their consideration the question of making arrangements for the accommodation of the working classes , who may be expected to arrive from the country for the purpose of visiting it . This subject has engaged the attention of the Commissioners from a very early period , and when , in July last , Mr . Alexander Redgrave , of the Homeoffice , was appointed for the special purpose of cooperating with Colonel Reid in obtaining such information and making such arrangements as might facilitate the visits of the labouring population to the Exhibition , he was particularly desired to consider the advisability of instituting a register of lodging and lodging-houses for the information of visitors arriving from the country . The general result of the inquiries which the Commissioners have made is , that it will be better for them to leave this matter to the exertions of visitors themselves , and to abstain from attempting to organize a system for their accommodation , as it appears that by doing so they would interfere with many praiseworthy undertakings of private individuals , by means of which it is now probable that their object will be more fully accomplished than it could be by any system of central action . The Commissioners have learnt with much satisfaction that in many cases very liberal arrangements have been made for the reception of persons coming from particular districts ; where this is not the case , they recommend that mechanics about to visit the Exhibition should endeavour by mutual cooperation , and by arrangements made before leaving their homes , to obviate the inconvenience which might arise from their coming together in large numbers , without previously preparing for their accommodation . The receipts for admission upon each day since the opening of the Exhibition to the public , independently of the receipts for the sale of season tickets , have been as follows : — May 2 nd , at £ 1 £ 560 0 0 May 3 rd , at £ l 482 0 0 May 5 th , at 5 s 1 C 62 10 0 May 6 th , at 5 s 1458 10 0 May 7 th , at 5 s 1790 15 0 May 8 th , at 5 s 2018 0 0 May 9 th , at 5 s 1824 10 0 - May 10 th , at 5 s 1843 15 0 May 12 th , at 5 s . 1597 10 0 May 13 th , at 5 s 2200 0 0 Total £ 15 , 137 10 0 On Wednesday a large accession was made to the funds of the Commission , amounting altogether to upwards of £ 2500 . The entertainment to be given by the metropolitan to the foreign commissioners of the Great Exhibition will take place on Tuesday next . The Castle , at Richmond , has been engaged for the occasion . The noble chairman and commissioners will give a reception to their guests on the lawn , now in beautiful order , during which the band of the Second Regiment of Life Guards will perform some favourite selections . The scene will be further enlivened by a regatta immediately under the terrace , given by the commissioners , to enable their guests to witness one of our most national sports . Ilerr von Viebahn , of the Zollvercin , with a deputation of the commissioners from North Germany , had an audience of Prince Albert , on Monday , at twelve o ' clock . Ilerr von George Viebahn , chief commissioner of the Zollverein , delivered an address to his Royal Highness of which the following is the substaric-c : —The commissioners of Germany ( Zollverein and North Germany ) approach the Prince to thank him on their own account , and also on behalf of their different Governments , for the great , and magnificent idea , which having been realised under the patronage of her Majesty the Queen , has now brought , together the produce ; uid inhabitants of the whole world in London . The Germans have answered the call of England nearly in every branch , and the Zollverein has sent li ) 6 ' , ' 5 , and North Germany , l /> 0 ; together Yl \\\ exhibitors ; and the produce , arts , &c , are before the world , and they are ready to begin , commercial relations with every nation . It is on account of tins , nnd also by the desire of their different Governments , especially considering his . Royal Highness as a German , that the commissioners hasten to express their thanks , which all are , proud to < lo , and hoping and wishing thai the Exhibition will have a benelieiiil influence in the welfare of nation ^ , moHt sincerely hoping it will be bo , particularly for Germany . With wishes for the hnpj > iiiess of the Royal Family of . England , and of his Royal Highness in particular , the commissioners hope for the general prosperity of all natioiiH .
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Leader (1850-1860), May 17, 1851, page 456, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1883/page/4/
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