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Trould probably reign twenty years ! Any other constitution is impossible . > , „ ¦ '¦ : ¦' :. _ T return for a moment to the " conquest of Belgium . " A friend of mine , Just returned from Sience , says that throughout toe kingdom the pre-Sg ' topic is—annexation to France . The . whole JiatiuLjtuVing wprld ^ the middle classes , the peagS ^ Se al ^ e to the ques tion . Be wett assured Of this fact : The map ofEurope % b about to be resettled without the content of England . The ^ repossession of the " Frontier of the Rhine" would make Louis Napoleon extremely popular ^ and would close the liDS ^ of all opponents , who , m the bottom of their hearts would thank him for the act . Louis Napoleon would thus be established in power for a long time . It is too strong a guarantee for the three
Sovereigns of Russia , Austria , and Jfrussia , to aiiow them to resist the project . I have just obtained some further and ; as I think , reliable information on the subject . The" Frontier of the Rhine ' * is to be conceded to France . Switzerland would be handed over to Austria . Mecklenburgh would be thrown in to Prussia . This arrangement is said to be on thepoint of execution . More than this , the very modes of procedure are indicated . Engl and , it is said , will receive
a summons to get rid of all political refugees ~ French , Italian , German , and Hungarian—to whom she now accords hospitality . In case of refusal , declaration of war : not a war of broadsides , but a war of hostile tariffs . All the ports of Europe will be closed against her . It is hoped that this measure alone will reduce the City to compliance , and that the merchants themselves will be the first to demand the expulsion of the refugees . All this will inevitably end , as you now see clearly , —by WAR . S .
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The Moniteur of Monday last contained the decree for disbanding the National _ Guard ^ throughout France , and its redrganiza |^ ^ ermfieht might deem fit * upon the principle of making it an instrument in the hands of the Executive , instead of an elective municipal force for the defence of the public liberties . The-President will appoint the commandant , colonels , and lieutenantcolonels . The National Guards of the Seine will be reorganized by battalions under the orders of the Commander-inchief . The service is obligatory for all Frenchmen between the ages of twenty-five and fifty who shall be deemed ant by the conseil de recensement . The
Government will nevertheless fix the number of National Guards for each locality . The National Guard is reorganised in all communes where the Government deem necessary ; it is dissolved and reorganized as circumstances require . The President appoints the officers pf all ranks on the presentation of the Minister of the Interior , according to the proposals of the Commander-in Chief of the Department of the Seine , and according to the proposals of the prefects in the other departments . The adjutant non-commissioned officers are appointed by the chef de bataillon , who appoints also to all posts of non-commissioned officers and corporals , on the presentation of commanders of companies . The National Guard is placed under the authority of the mayor , subprefects , prefects , and Minister of the Interior . The citizens cannot take arms , or meet as National Guards ,
without the order of their officers , nor can the order be Siven by these without a requisition of the civil authority . To commander of a post can distribute cartridges to the National Guards placed under his command , except by virtue of a precise order , or in case of an attack . The eonseil de recensetnent is composed as follows : —1 . For company : of the captain , as president , and of two members appointed by the sub-prefect . 2 . For a battalion : of the chef de bataillon , as president , and of the captains of each of the companies . Provisionally , and until the appointment of officers , it is composed of three members for each company , and of nine members for each battalion , appointed by the prefect or sub-prefect . At Paris the appointment shall be made by the Minister of the Interior , on the presentation of the general commanding . The conseil de recenaement decides on
ad-. To sum up briefly the changes made by this decree in the National Guard , hitherto all Frenchmen , with certain exceptions fixed by the law , were National Guards , chose their own officers , and were at the disposal of the municipal authorities of the commune . Now the officers are appointed by the President and the prefects , and none are admitted to serve , except those chosen by the central authorities . In the mean while this force , which is placed entirely under the control of the executive , lies at the charge of the municipalities . Other decrees follow , appointing General de Laurestine Commander-in-Chief , and M ; . Vieyra colonel and head of the staff of the National Guard of the Seine .
Ihe Moniteur of the 10 th instant contained three lists of proscription . By the first sixty-eix Repub ^ lican representatives are banished , with the threat that , if they reenter their country , they will subject themselves to transportation . A second list of seventeen includes the most illustrious French statesmen and generals of the day . The penalty of their reentering France is not mentioned . The third list condemns five ex-representatives of the Mountain to deportation to Cayenne , without form of law or trial , or « vea ftoouBRtion . Here tire these iniquitous IIGQK 69 S ,
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" FRENCH BEPT / BLIO . 'In the name of the French people , Louis Napoleon , President of the Republic , decrees : •—" Art . 1 . Are expelled from the French territory , from that of Algiers and of the colonies , for the sake of general safety , . the former representativesof the Legislative Assembly , whose names follow : —E ; Valentin , P . Raeouchot , A . Perdifljuier , E . Cholat , L . Latrade , M . Renaud , [ J . Benoit ( du Rh 6 ne ) , J . Burgard , J . Colfavru , JT . Faure ( du Rhdne ) , P . Ch . Gambon , C . Latrranae . M . Nadaud , B . Terrier , V . Hugo , Cassal ,
Signard , Viguier , Charrassin , Bandsept , Savoye , Joly , Combier , Boysset , Duche " , Ennery , Guilgot , Hochstuhl , Michot-Boutet , Baune , Bertholon , Schoelcher , De Flotte , Joigneaux , Laboulaye , Bruys , Esquiros , Madier-Montjau , N . Parfait , E . Pean , Pelletier , Raspail , T . Bac , Bancel , Belin ( Drdme ) , Besse , Bourzat , Brives , Chavoix , Dulac , Dupont ; ( de Bussac ) , G . Dusaoubs , Guiter , Lafon , Lamarque , P . Lefranc , J . Leroux , F . Maigtte , Malardier , Mathieu ( Drome ) , Millotte , Roselli-Mollet , Charras , Saint-Ferreol , Sommier ,, Testelin ( Nord ) .
V Art . 2 . In the case in which , contrary to the present decree , one of the individuals designated in the first article should reenter the territories interdicted to him , he may be transported by measure of public safety [ that is , by decree of the executive power ] . —Done at the Palace of the Tuileries , ^ the Council of Ministers having been heard , January 9 , 1852 . "Louis Napoleon . " The second decree is as follows : — " Art . I . Are from the present moment banished from
the French territory , and that of Algiers , for the sake of general security , the former representatives of the Legislative Assembly , whose names follow : —' Duvergier de Hauranne , Creton , General de Lamoriciere , General Changarnier , Baze , General Leflo , General Bedeau , Thiers , Cbambolle , De Remusat , J . de Lasteyrie , E . de Girardin , General Laidet , P . Duprat , E . Quinet , A . Thouret , V . Chaffour , Versigny . ' "Art . 2 . They cannot enter France or Algeria , except by virtue of a special authorization of the President of the Republic . "
The non-official part of the Moniteur begins with the following statement relative to the lists of proscription : — " . " The Government , firmly determined to prevent any cause of troubles , has taken measures against certain persons whose presence in France might impede the reestabUshment of tranquillity . These measures are applied to three categories . In the first are the individuals convicted of having taken part in the recent insurrections ; they will be transported to French Guiana or to Algeria , according to their degree of guilt . In the second are the recognized chiefs of Socialism ; their residence in France would be likely to foment civil war :
they will be expelled from the territory of the Republic , and will be transported should they return to it . In the third category are included the political men who have made themselves remarked by their violent hostility to the Government , and whose presence would be a cause of agitation ; they will be temporarily expelled from France . Under existing circumstances , the duty of the Government is firmness ; but it will know how to exercise its repressive measures within just limits . The different decrees which precede only regard the exrepresentatives . Marc-Dufraisse , Greppo , Miot , Mathe " , and Richardet , will be transported to French Guiana . "
Our esteemed contributor , Mr . William Coningham , has sent to the Times the following statement , which he received from a friend of Colonel Charras , for whose honour and veracity he pledges himself . " The Belgian journals have very inaccurately reported the details of the enlargement of the prisoners from the fort of Ham , viz ,, Generals Bedeau , Changarnier , Lamoriciere , and Leflo , Colonel Charras , and M . Baze . Information received from an authentic source allows us to place the facts in their proper light . The prisoners were each separately apprised that they would be sent out of France ; they were asked to which frontier they desired to be conducted , and passports prepared in
fictitious names were offered to them . All gave answer that they protested against this expulsion ; they would not quit unless violence were used against them , that consequentl y it was not for them , to indicate the frontier towards which they were to be conducted . With regard to the false passports , they rejected them , energetically expressing their opinion of a proceeding so well in accordance with the habits of life , both civil and political , of the men who for the moment are governing France . In spite of the protest of the prisoners , their removal was immediately proceeded with . Each of them was placed in a separate carriage , and aocomponied by police agents . General Changarnier and Colonel Charras were
despatched towards Guiedvain , M . Baze and General Lamoricidre were despatched one to Cologne and the other to Aix-la-Chapelle , and Generals Bedeau and Leflo started in another direction . At Valenciennes the carriage which conveyed MM . Ghnqgarnier and Charras was stopped by the local police , who imagined the prisoners ., were making their escape . After a long . delay , the agents caused them to proceed on their journey , and crossed the Belgian frontier with them . The prisoners having remarked to the agents that they were
committing a flagrant violation of the Belgian territory , and that at the first summons the authorities of Belgium would lend their assistance to the victims of such an abuse of power , the agents replied that they had orders to conduct M . Changarnier to Mont and M . Charras to BrusBela , and to employ violence if those gentlemen should endeavour to withdraw from their surveillance . " The two prisoners for a moment entertained the idea of enforcing respect to the right of nations thus audaciously violated , but on reflection both agreed as to the propriety of maintaining silence . To olaim the , support
of the Belgian authorities would be to raise up a cause of difference between the de facto Government of France and the de jure Government of Belgium . This event , this pretext for a rupture , for an attack vi et armis , had been foreseen , calculated on perhaps ^ Austria and Russia had , perhaps , included this trap in the programme imposed upon M . Bonaparte , in order to raise up an occasion for acting against the only remaining monarchy on ""the Continent , whose subjects enjoy liberal institutions . MM . Changarnier and Charras cOuld not consent to vindicate their rights at the expense , perhaps , of the independence of a free nation . M . Baze , who had rejoined them , and M . Lamoriciere , who followed them at a short distance , yielded
to the same sentiments . Another consideration of a less serious character equall y ^ concerned them ; from a simple disagreement complications might arise which would force the Belgian Government to refuse hospitality to the numerous exiles with whom vengeance , cupidity , or fear fill the lists of the proscribed . No official protest was therefore made against the violation of the Belgian territory . But it is nevertheless an established fact that the prisoners of Ham yielded only to violence ; that they entered into no compromise with M . Bonaparte ; that they asked for nothing and promised nothing . They will one day , perhaps , pardon the indignities to which they have been personally subjected ; but they will never forget the shame inflicted on their country , and oh the army of which they were the glory . "
The Salle de Carton , in which the Constituent and Legislative Assemblies held their sittings , has completely disappeared . The materials have been sold for £ 1720 . The erection , of the building , less than , four years ago , cost £ 16 , 000 . The effigy of Louis Napoleon is to figure on the postage stamps , instead of the female head of , the Republic . In addition to the 658 , 000 f . already granted , a fresh credit of 3 , 587 , 00 Qf . is opened to the Ministry of Marine and of the Colonies , to provide for the expenses of forming a penal colony in French Guiana . _ . Telegraphic communications are being-established between the Tuileries and all the Ministries .
News have been received-fronv Algeria up to the 5 th instant . -The colony was perfectly quiet . On Thursday evening an analysis of the New Constitution , and the accompanying Proclamation of the President , reached London by Submarine Telegraph . The leading features of the Document had been correctly anticipated by our Correspondent . The President is to preserve his present title ; he is responsible before the people , to whom he can always appeal . He commands the land and sea forces . He alone has the initiative of the laws ; he has a right to declare the state of siege , saving the referring of it to the Senate . He presents oiie message every year . No accusation can be brought against Ministers but by the Senate . They are only responsible for their respective duties .
The functionaries take the oath of obedience to the Constitution and fidelity to the President . In case of the death of the President the Senate calls upon the nation for a new election . The President has the right , by a secret deed , deposited with the Senate , to designate to the people the citizen whom he recommends to the suffrage , until the election of a new President . The President of the Senate governs jointly with
Ministers . The number of senators not to exceed one hundred and fifty . It is fixed at eighty for the first year . The senators are named for life by the President . Their functions aTe performed gratuitously . However , the President may grant a salary not exceeding thirty thousand francs . The sitting of the Senate not to be public . It regulates the constitution of colonies , and all that has not been provided for by the constitution . It may ^ propose modifications of the constitution ; but any modification of the bases laid in the proclamation of December 2 will bo referred to universal suffrage . There will be a deputy to the legislative body for every thirty-five thousand electors , elected by universal suffrage for ten years , and receiving no emolument .
All adopted amendments to be sent , without discussion , before the Council of State , and cannot be discussed if not equally adopted by this one . The sittings will last three months . Reports of the sittings by newspapers will be confined to the official reports of the proceedings drawn up by the bureau . The president and vice-president are nominated by the President of the Republio for a year . Ministers cannot be deputies . Petitions may be addressed to the Senate , but none to the legislative body . The President of the Republio convokes , adjourns , prorogues , and dissolves the legislative body . ' In case of dissolution , a new one to be convoked within six months .
The Council of State , composed of forty or fifty members , is nominated and presided over , by the President , who may revoke its members . They receive an annual salary of twenty-five thousand francs . They draw up the project of laws , and discuss them before the Legislature . There will be a High Court of Justice , without appeal , before which will bo tried all attempts aguinst the Stato or its chief . . The muyors aro appointed by the executive power . The dissolution of the National Guard may be considered one of the organio laws , which will be the complement of the Constitution ,
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 17, 1852, page 47, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1918/page/3/
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