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be so dangerous , because there was no man who had seemed bis unwilling at all times to bend anything like the profession of principle to his own personal and sinister objects than the present Chancellor of the Exchequer . ( Loud cries of' Hear , hear . ')" He wound up by eulogising the " Manchester school " as the party which had the deepest stake in order and tranquillity . The polling in the contested counties has been as ioHows : — ; Buckingham : shike . —The three first elected . Dupre . . 2000 Disraeli . 1973 Cavendish 1403 Lee . 656 CoENWALL ( East ) . —Two elected , Liberal and Derhyite . Robartes 2608 Kendall 1987 Carew 1976 Heetfoedshibe . —The three first elected , all Derbyites : the second three were Liberals . Halsey 2225 Meux 2219 Lytton 2190 Trevor 2043 Puller 1890 Bosanquet 1868 South WiiiTS . —Here the Derbyite is beaten . Sidney Herbert 1550 William Wyndham .... 1304 B . P . Long 1074 SCOTLAND . " Aye ( Cottnty ) . — Some Liberal - Conservatives of this county brought forward Mr . Cardwell without his knowledge , and , considering the short notice to the electors , he polled a good number . At the close of the poll the numbers were as follow : — Colonel Blair 1301 Mr . Cardwell 1199
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LETTERS FROM PARIS . [ From our own Correspondent . ] Letter XXX . Paris , Tuesday Evening , July 20 th , 1852 . The President is at Strasbourg , enjoying the official ovations that attend on power . He started from Paris on Saturday morning , at nine o ' clock , in the midst of a great display of troops . He was accompanied by the Minister of War , St . Arnaud ; and the Minister of Foreign Affairs , M . Turgot ; Marshal Excelmans , Chancellor of the Legion of Honour ; Count Bacciocchi , Master of the Ceremonies at the Elysee ; Generals
Schramm , D'Hantpoul , &c . ; and a certain number of Senators , Deputies , and Councillors of State , all in official costume . The strictest measures had been taken for the admission of persons invited . Their cards were verified by three or four special commissioners in succession . According to the telegraph , the population displayed the wildest enthusiasm on the passage of the great man—that is to be—through their departments . As to the enthusiasm of the troops , the same excellent authority informs us , it was almost delirious . At Bar Le Due itwas beyond all bounds . There the Prince was welcomed with shouts of Vive V Mmpereur ! At seven o'clock he arrived at Nancy . According to the Imperial ordonnances , which are always observed in ceremonies of this kind , his arrival in tho town was
announced by salutes , and all the church bells rung him in . A great number of sergens da ville , sent expressly from Paris , kept order in the crowd , which was enormous , und chiefly remarkable for the comparative scarcity of blouses , and for its silence . The President went round tho Place Stanislas . During tho procession , an inhabitant ; shouted Vim ) Louis Napoleon Emporcur ! As tho cry met with no response , it excited Home laughter at the expense of tho enthusiast . At Nancy , there were u few Prussian officers to see the President . His suite said that these officers wcro deputed by the King of IVus . sia to compliment tho President in his name . Tho President alighted ut tho Prefecture , and in tho evening a grand ball was held , at which all tho authorities were present .
On Sunday , Louis Honaparfe started at half-pant seven in the morning , for ? Strasbourg . Tho whole population of Alsace , and of the Duchy of Haden , seemed to have appointed a rendezvous in that town . Tho vicinity of tlus railway station was Hooded with peasants And their families , in picturesque costumes . Tho station itself was decorated with standards ; tho arms of tho ehief towns of Krnneo woro engraved on Escutcheons ; overy village in Alsace was represented at tho fete by rustic cars , decked with ribbons , and co-Ve-vl with garlands of flowers . On tho front of theso cuv * Uiero wore different inscriptions—such oh " The town qf Moshoitn to Louis Napoleon ! " " Tho town
of Mosheim : we are proud of our glory ! " " The town of Erstein ! " " Our fathers fought gloriously we shall not forget to imitate them ! " The President did not reach Strasbourg before half-past twelve . He proceeded at once to hear mass . The bishop blessed the engines . Bonaparte then mounted his horse , and , followed by his staff , passed the garrison in review . Thence to the Prefecture , where a magnificent feast awaited him . During the religious ceremony , a vast display of troops , and of sergens de ville , kept all the approaches of the railway , and suffered no one to approach the President . On his passage from the station to the Prefecture , the same order was observed . The
telegraph betrays , in every despatch , the apprehensions of that miserable world of officials whose fate hangs on the breath of one man . Every minute we hear— " The health of the Prince is excellent / " or , " The Prints is very well ; " or , " The Prince does not appear to suffer from the fatigues of his journey . " The sum of it all is , that the Strasbourg expedition is now over . Everything has passed off in true official style . The houses were decorated by order , the shops closed by order , the triumphal arches that had served for Charles X ., and for Louis Philippe , have served for this latest representation in honour of Louis Bonaparte , who will have gained neither a foe nor a friend the more . The next tour in the south is now in deliberation . The Elysee
is divided on the subject . A certain agitation prevails in the twenty departments which extend from Montpellier to Bordeaux . The Legitimists accuse the Socialists , and declare t hat the return of a few liberated prisoners has chiefly contributed to the effervescence . The motive of this accusation is to get rid of men who hamper their designs . It should be remembered that the Legitimists are the principal landed proprietors in the country . Feudal traditions are not yet extinct in many cantons . The peasants are still at the will of their lords . Were it not for the republican propagandists , the Legitimist
army would long ago hav e been raised , and the standard of revolt raised against Bonaparte . As it is , the Legitimists find themselves without reliable troops , so far as the peasantry are concerned : failing which , they have enrolled the Catholic workmen in the towns , and all who are dependent on the priests . At the Elysee , the fear of some mishap to the President , if he venture into the South , prevails . But ho is firm in his determination : he believes " in his star , " and in the prestige that attends his name and person . He expects the entire population to throw itself into his capacious arms , and he has made up his mind to go . Meanwhile he
gorges his creatures with place and pelf , with crosses and pensions . Colonel Vaudrey ( his companion in the Strasbourg affair ) is to be promoted to the rank of General , in spite of St . Arnaud ' s opposition : he is to bo at the same time appointed Governor of all tho Palaces and Chateaux in France , with a salary of 60 , 000 francs ( 2 , 4001 . ) M . Mesonan ( of the Boulogne affair ) is to be restored to a Colonelcy in the army , with the command of the 8 th of Chasseurs d ' Afrique : a step towards a General ' s rank . Another courtier , M . de Beville , is to be promoted to the rank of General , as a reward for his eminent services—in the antichambers of the Elysee . While Louis Bonaparte is heaping favours on bis
adherents , ho has rofuwed tho Marshal ' s baton to the generals in his suite . This refusal has been quite a serious business . Generals St . Arnaud and Magnan had demanded to be made Marshals , und tho President had acceded to their demand . When this transpired , the other Generals , Schramm , d'Hiiutpoul , &c , advanced their superior claims . Bonaparte , greatly embarrassed how to dispose of them , inserted a summary notice in tho Monileur that no now Marshals wen : to bo appointed . Tho curious part of tho affair is the sort of stigma affixed by tho Mon ' deur to tho Generals who lmvo only distinguished themselves by shedding tho blood of the people in the streets of Paris . "According to the terms of tho law , the dignity of Marshal can only be conferred on those Generals of Division who have held tho highest commands agoinst the enemy the eminent services rendered to society by the Generals who commanded the troops when anarchy was defeated and an insurrection suppressed , deserved the gratitude of the Chief of the State , without placing them in tho conditions neoesNiiry to obtain tho baton of u Marshal . The repression of civil war demands great devoted ness : a deep knowledge of military science : fearful risks and cruel dangers : but the glory it reaps is to he deplored even by thone who desire and obtain it . " Consequently , the Hfo ni / e it r cmii . nuYici s tho news given by the journals , of the promotion of the Generals ol Division , who commanded on ( lie Und of December , Another official contradiction in the Monilewr exposes tho miserable double-faced policy of equivocation pursued by the present government , You remember , I informed you thut tho Princess do Licvcn hud beuu
secretly despatched by the President to Wiesbaden , to the Empress of Russia , to beg her to mediate between him and the Czar . It appears that this mission was a complete failure ? hence the complete disavowal . The Princess de Lieven having failed , is henceforth discarded . The confiscation of the Orleans property still continues . Dreux was seized on the 12 th instant , with the exception of the burial-place , and the Chateau and forest of Airibo ' , and the domain of Ferte Vilaine . On the other hand , what I have written you on the subject of the formal recognit ion by the House of Orleans of the Comte de Chambord as king of France
is fully confirmed . It is now a fait accompli . The members of the House of Orleans have ceased to be a banner and a sign , and have disappeared , leaving the field open to the Comte de Chambord . The Due de Montpensier returns to Spain with his family . The Prince de Joinville goes to Brazil . The Duchess of Orleans will re main for some time in close retirement at Eisenach with her children . The Due de Nemours remains alone with the aged Queen Amelie at Claremont . From this day the Orleans party has ceased to exist : some have rallied to Bonaparte , others have gone over without arriere-pensee to the Legitimist camp , which will gain fresh vigour from this powerful accession . The Legitimist forces are now \ thoroughly
organized . They have an acting committee , composed of MM . de la Ferronaye , de la Ferte , de Circourt , de Surville , and Chapot . They have also a c ommittee in each department receiving orders from the central one . By this organization the whole party act like one man . The latest policy decided upon , is to take p ossession of all the municipal and general councils which are now to be elested . Even the oaths will be taken , if necessary ; but , above all , the situations will be secured which it is important not to leave in the enemy ' s hands . This consideration will supersede all others . If the Legitimists go on acting as they do now , they will precipitate a denouement , or , at least , a crisis . Nothing but a coup d ' eclat could then save Bonaparte .
For the present , he is preparing a grand act of spoliation ; I mean the appropriation and monopoly , by the State , of the Fire Assurance Companies . In France , as in England , there are a large number of private companies for insurance against fire . These companies , which have been in existence some thirty years , have amassed considerable capital . The capital is a temptation to our Government , which now proposes
to absorb them in a vast unitary system of assurance by the State . At present , assurance is free . In the Bonaparte system it would be compulsory . Every citizen would be required to declare the amount of his insurable property , and to pay to Government the premium on its insurance . This system , which would certainly be excellent as a form of taxation reduced to unity , will become a terrible instrument of depredation , violence , and extortion in the hands of a needy or dishonest
Government . For the Elysee it will be only one more tax added to the rest ; for the peoplo it will be ono more burden . The strikes of labour continue in almost every town . All the efforts of the authorities are unable to prevent or to put them down ; yet menaces are not spared , as you may guess from the following specimen of a notice placarded / at Mans by tho Prcfet de la Sarthe : — " Even tho passive strike of the working carpenters , although unaccompanied with any material disturbance , constitutes a positive misdemeanour , liable to imprisonment . As this strike causes a cessation of labour detrimental to the progress of the building trade , all such workmen as shall not have returned to work on or before tho
14 th instant , will expose themselves to preventive arrest ! " Notwithstanding this formal threat , the workmen of Mans remained out on strike ; and those of other towns have done the same . S .
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C () NTiNKNTAL NOTES . According to tho Monitc . tu ; tho President remained at Strasbourg two or threo days longer than ho intended , to show hi . s gratitude for liis warm reception . JIo loft Strasbourg on Tuesday afternoon , incoi / nitu , for Hnden-Hadon , to escort , tho Grand Duchess Stephanie and ( lie Marohionoaa of Dougla . s . An occasional correspondent" of tho Daily I \'< uosp \ cn tho following particular of the line of railway just inaugurated id Strasbourg : ---The- total length of the railway from Paris to Strasbourg is M I English miles . Th « cost of its construction will have amounted to 10 , Mi 20 , < XX )/ ., of which 4 , N () 0 , 0 ()()/ . will havo been furruHhed U y tho « tat <> . Tho company , in consideration of the extension ot their grant , from 43 yearn to !»!) , lmvo engaged <<> contribute 4 <)<) , ()()()/ . towards tho construction of tli « branch from Hlosino to Gray , and to execute at , their own expensewithin four yearn , a branch from Motz to Tliionvillo , which is to Ix ) prolonged to tho frontier in the- direction of Luxembourg . Tho grunt of the Strasbourg railway was made in 1 H 15 , ho that the execution of this great undertaking hit boon completed in six . yours and' a hull " , notwithstanding ( lie diflicultioH arising Irompolitical and commercial crises . Tho section from Paris to Moaux was inaugurated July 10 , lb' 19 ; from Menu * to Epornuy , August 21 , lylU ; from
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Jirir 24 , 1852 . ] THE LEADER . 699
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Leader (1850-1860), July 24, 1852, page 699, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1944/page/7/
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