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the dinner-table , so that he may not be within reach ; and that at the ball , His Majesty should be placed on a platform , above the rest of the company . It has also been decided that the original cards of invitation should be cancelled ; those re-issued , instead of being transferable , to be available only to the persons whose names they bear . . It is expected that the incidents , of the ball will give rise to considerable scandal , as , in consequence of the number of military men ( from 1600 to 2000 ) who are to be present , there would not be room for civilians . The wives , therefore , of the public functionaries have
been invited to attend without their husbands . Something like another Rape of the Sabines is anticipated The proverbial gallantry of the French soldier cannot fail to do great execution on the occasion . We are to have more than one Helen , and Menelaus' in abundance . Moreover , if the Oonstitutionnel is to be believed , the ladies are specially reserved for the pleasures of the Sultan Bonaparte ; and with this view , they ' are to form a line in front of the imperial platform ; there to be ogled "by his Highness . The Constitutionnel omits telling us whether the Sultan is expected to throw the mouchoir to any of these ladies !
The affairs of the Lottery of the Lingots d'Or , have just been exhibited before a court of law . You will remember that the scheme of this Californian lottery was Seven Millions of tickets * at one f ranc each , the alleged object being to provide funds for the emigration of a party of volunteers'to California . But its real purpose was to raise money to pay four million ' s worth of Louis Bonaparte ' s clamorous debts . The other two millions to be divided amongst the greedy adventurers hanging about the Ely see , and the remaining million to go to M . Carlier , the prefect of police ; the real projector of the lottery , under an
assumed name . At first * the money caine in freely ; the receipts in a few days amounted to two millions and a half , and were ( middy transferred from the pockets of the public to those of M . Bonaparte . Then came doubts ^ the papers hinting at disclosures . The receipts stopped . The directors were desirousof stimulating the enterprise of the public , and to show that the capital was really intended for an expedition to California , they determined upon making the preparations necessary for the departure of the first body of emigrants . To do this , however , money was required , but as the receipts had hitherto been handed over to
Louis Bonaparte , there was no cash in hand . The following swindling expedient was , therefore , decided upon . Duplicates of the two millions and a-half of the lottery tidkets already sold were despatched to the provinces . Puffing advertisements were at . the same time placarded everywhere . The sale again became brisk , and in August last , the lottery again wore an air of prosperity ; when , one fine day , a gentleman from the provinces , walking in the Rue Montmartre , noticed some lottery tickets for sale in a tobacconist ' s window , bearing precisely the same numbers as some which ho had in his own pocket ; whereupon our provincial friend demanded loudly for an explanation . A crowd
gathered , and a row ensued . Great was the consternation of tlie directors : they resigned . Statements wore forwarded to the newspapers by the prefect of police , acknowledging that a few duplicate tickets had been inadvertently issued , &c ., &c ., and announcing the drawing to tako place on the 11 th of November . Before the end of a week from that time , thoi * o were forty-tlxreo claimants for first twenty-five prizes , The directors in a fix , required a month to decide . In the meantime camo the 2 nd of December , bringing with it , of course , a verdict of acquittal . Not that the dupes ceased their clamour , but the scandal which the- exposure produced through the newspapers , was afterwards confined to the tribunals .
It is on account of one of these claims that the Tribunal of tlio Seine has jusfc condemned the directors of the lottery to pay , wiith costs , the holders of the tickets , and their duplicates , numbered 1 , 732 , 833 ( prizo 25 , 000 francs ) , and 2 , 898 , 291 ( prize 50 , 000 francs ) . This verdict , as you see , aflecta L . Bonaparte . On all aides the opposition to the Government is being orgnnizicd . The departmental National Guard hod been re-constituted . But at Marseilles , having manifested its hostility to the President , the- National Guard has been suspended and disarmed ; and tho snmo steps have been taken against tho National Guard of tho entire department .
In tho Legislativo Body wo have had an ovnmon of one of M . Bonaparte ' s own dcoreoa . Tho autocrat , determined to anticipate t ^ ho effect produced on tho country by tho speeches delivered in that Assembly , had , in the Constitution , forbidden tho publication of any of its proceedings . One of tho deputies , M . Gnyard , having made a speech on tho subject of tho New Coinage , solicited the permission of the Assembly to have ifc printed , which was granted by a large majority .
The Legislative Body is equally resolved to demand an explanation relative to L . Bonaparte ' s recent autocratic decree , creatingj without the initiative of the Chamber , four millions and a half of " 3 per Cent Rentes . As the decree of the 14 th of March provided , that in the event of the conversion of the Rentes , the negotiation should take place publicly , and by competition , the deputies require to be informed upon what ground M . Bonaparte has taken upon himself to award these four millions and a half of rentes to certain persons , in contempt of his own decree , that is to say , privately , and without competition .
I told you , about « a month ago , that to parry the consequences of a coalition of bankers , L . Bonaparte had sent for Messrs . Bothschild , Fould , &c ., and had entered into a secret engagement with them , by which he agreed to give these gentlemen 3 per cent , stock , at their own price , in exchange for whatever amount of 5 per cents , they would undertake to purchase in the market . This was but the beginning of a dirty job , for as soon as the bankers had bought up the 5 per cents ., and had called for the promised 3 per cent .
stock , L . Bonaparte demanded his share of the profits of the transaction . The following is the final arrangement come to between the parties . The 3 per cents , are to be delivered to the bankers at 60 francs 98 cents , which represents 5 per cent , interest per annum . But as the 3 per cents , are quoted in the money market at 70 francs , the net profit on the operation , which represents 4 , 403 , 436 francs dividend , amounts to 13 , 200 , 000 francs ( 528 , 000 ? . ) Of this sum L . Bonaparte claimed half , and it has already been paid down tO him .
This affair is the common talk at the Bourse , and in all Paris ; arid people go to far as to say , that in order to give M . Bonaparte a lesson , the Legislative Body will refuse to vote the stock required for the rentes . The General Canroberty who had been sent into the departments of the centre , has reported to L . Bonaparte , that the liberation of political offenders had produced the worst results . The consequence has been > the entire stispension of pardons . M . PeyrOnni , of the
insurrection in the Lot et Garonne , whose sentence of transportation was to have been commuted to banishment , has recently been shipped to the Colonies . Transportation to Cayenne , which it had been reported was countermanded , is now being carried into execution . The first departure of prisoners for Cayenne included the courageous Miot , representative of the people . The frigate Z « Forte has just sailed with the second body of prisoners for the same destination ; and theMogador and the Erigone are to follow .
It is needless to add , that the provincial press is more persecuted than ever . The Union de la Saute Marne , having presumed to state that the President was not received with much enthusiasm at Chaumont , the prefect sent & first-warning to the editor ; informing him that , on tho contrary , the enthusiasm had never been greater . One of these days we shall bo having the prefects decreeing , that we are the happiest people on earth . _ S .
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CONTINENTAL NOTES . Wednesday being tho anniversary of tho death of tho Emperor Napoleon , a grand funeral service , at which tho President assisted , was porformed at tho Church of the Invalides . Tho "fall of tho Four-and-a-Half por Centa . oxcitos groat attention . There is a strong rumour at tho Bourse that the Emporor of Russia has demanded tho reimbursement of tlio fifty millions of 6 por Cents . Rentes which ho holds . Cautious but significant articles appear in tho independent journals . For instance , tho DSbats says : •—" Tho Bourso was very heavy . Tho public cry was , ' tho Emporor of Russia is soiling off his Rontos . ' By whom— - sinoo ¦ when- —how doos it happen—who has soon it P Useloss questions all . Tho fact is settled . The impression , at first insignificant , has become deeper and doepor . When tho Emporor bought , it was a groat fact ; but now that ho soils , what doos that moan P Tho day was spont in commentaries , and yot tho fact is not surprising . Tho Emporor of Russia is not tho only rentier whom tho conversion has brought to tho market . " Tho Slecle has a fow words on tho samo dolicato subject : — " Tho Four-and-a-JIalf por Cents , havo fallen bolow par . Tho Bourso , which hart witnessed all tho offorts that had boon , making for eomo time to prevent this stock from lalling bolow par , has boon dooply affected by this result ,
which is tho « inoro Horious as foreign holders hayo yot ton days lioforo thorn to demand roimbursomont . It is probably in consoquonco of this circumstance that rumours havo arisen of largo demands of this kind having arrived from St . Potorsburgh . ji lEowovor that may bo , sovoral heavy banking operations havo boon observed to end in important remissions to London . Thoro has also reappeared a slight premium on gold . " Tho D 6 hata gives tho following from London , on tho Banish question : — " It appears certain that tho treaty which is to be signed at the Foreign Offico on tho 4 th or 5 th botwoon tho plenipotentiaries of England , Austria , Franco , Prussia , Russia , and Bwodon , will not only havo for object to rogulato a now order of succession in Donmark , but alflb to secure tho integrity of tho Danish monarchy , This important rosult will not , it is said , havo
been obtained without considerable ; difficulty ; and it lain that circumstance that may be attributed thedelay of th signature . The Gtermanio powers , particularl y Prussia ate said to have sought every means to impede the oonclu ' sion of the treaty , which is only due to the firm resolution ^ evinced by the cabinets Of St . ^ et ^ rsburgh and Paris ^ which / haye throughout the whole negociations acted with the most . perfect and constant accord . Lord Malmesburv has , it is said , shown himself anxious to unite his efforts to those of the French and Russian governments . " On the 26 th ult . the powderinagazines of the Boure Dora ( Turin ) Jblew : up just when the workmen were quitting their work . The king animated by his presence tlie labourers engaged ii suppressing the fire and extricating
the workmen . The number oi wounded taken to the nearest hospital amounted to fifty , including ten children and fifteen women ; among the men , wjio are mostl y soldiers , there is also a priest . Thegreater part are doine well . On the 29 th the persons killed were" interred wita great solemnity ; the Duke of Genoa followed the hearses on foot , together with General Maffei , Commandant of the National Guard , the Syndic of Turin , and a deputation from themunicipality . The corps of artillery brought up the rear . ' .. '" .. The Spanish Government having refused to modif y the recent ordinances on the press , the opposition journals have resolved to suspend their publication for three months from the 4 th of May , the eve of the day on which the new law of the press comes into operation . The editors intend to appoint a " standing committee , who will prosecute ex
ojjficio the ministerial journals that should not have complied with all the rigorous conditions of the new law . These resolutions were adopted at a meeting of the directors on the 27 th . The JPresse has intelligence from its correspondent at Alexandriaj writing on the 22 nd ult ., stating that the Turbo-Egyptian difference is terminated . Fuad-Effendi , justifying all the hopes which his mission , had given birth to , has -come to a complete understanding with the Egyptian government , whose _ jjjooa inteiitipns and perfect fair dealing he admits . The viceroy accepts the tanzimat with the modifications called for by thestate of the country , and which the Turco-Egyptian © ommissioners had afready fixed in their conferences at Constantinople . On its » de the Porte accords to the Viceroy the right of applying the punishment of death during seven years , without reference to the divans
The King of Prussia was-to start for Silesia on the 5 th inst ., to meet the Empress of Russia ( his sister ) at Breslau * ' , ' The BerUn journals of the 28 th ult . bring details upon the subject of the royal message of the 28 th ult . The communication : was made to both , chambers ; and , as appears by the parliamentary reports , is not a decree abolishing the articles of the constitution , and regulating the organization of the peerage by the royal will , but a new bill , which is in the Second Chamber to go through the ordinary course . In the First Chamber it was resolved to refer the bill to the existing committee on tho constitution of the body concerned . In tho Second consider the
Chamber a committee was appointed to measure . The minister desired that the matter might bp quickly despatched . In the same sitting of the 28 th , the Second Chamber camo to two other important votes , it rejected by a majority of 186 to 82 the resolution of tho First Chamber , and which , dividing the budget of ordinary and extraordinary expenses , decided that tlio lirsc should be no longer fixed annually , but once for oU , and that no futuro modification ^ should take place , except by a law . It also rejected by 226 to 67 another decision ot tho First Chamber , by which it had declared , in opposition to the constitution , that it could vote tie budget , article Dy articlo , like tho Second Chamber . Navarro , the righteous judge , has died at Naples .
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" HILL-TOF * OB "VALLEY-BOTTOM" WATEEP The Committee of the Metropolitan Sanitary Association have issued the following Memorandum on tlio metropolitan water bills now pending before tho solect committee of the House of CommonB : — « Tho Committee of tho Metropolitan Sanitary Associa tion viewing with great alarm and apprehension the proaenj posture of tho metropolis water flupply question , submit ,, nw the consideration of tho London wator-consumors and raw
payers , the following important facts : — ,, iAnnco 1 It appears from various official reports «» <^ K on water supply , and especially from a report ot tho ot of Health , ' dated . 1850 , embodying the evidonco of many ominont oAgineors and chemists , that water from t ) axron Mil tops is invariably purer and better then ; w et-oi nom cultivated valley bottoms ; and that the sandy hUl i o t pw roy , in particular , furnish perennial springs of water rmj degrees softer and purer than tho water of tho m Thames , which ia tho main-drain of a hoav . ly »» nurcu and populous vulloy , ¦ PrnftBSorfl f < & Tho report of throo ominont cliomists , Pi ol ^ o Graham , Miller , and Iloffman , to whom tlio late Oov mont referred this water report oi tho B ° ard ol Jio P / infirma its chomioal conclusions as to tho g ° » '" , i ,.
riority of hill-top over valloy-bottom water , ana n « * particular fluporfority of tho water from tho « mdy ^ of Surroy over tho valloy-drained wa or of *» o x » a polluted as tl . atrivor is , ovon above the tldl * Vv taoJniuiiff London sowage , with tho sowago of a ^ " ^ nillion , population , afroady numboving tliroo-a « ar M s ol ^ . and roooiving , moreover , oa it dooa , uw sunuv ( ii « - of numoroue oattlo-dungod roa < ls and f treots > ^ ft" \ di l ; ion to gorgoments of many uemi-atagnant djtohoe , in w tho flood-watora from tho cultivated l 1 ftndB -., nHho a ]}( , aei " 3 . Tho scientific ovidonco further sliowfl that tjo [^ power of rlvor-wator to clear iteolf from organic l > o . L it runs , is not o suaiciont ground for senotio ng continued sup - p ly to tho populatron-: flr 8 t , bocauso v ^ purifioatioA of riyor w 4 or hafl Uwtfl which < uo oxoi ;
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Leader (1850-1860), May 8, 1852, page 436, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1934/page/8/
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