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but if the honourable member would permit the previous question to pass , ifc would be his duty to bring forward a measure upon the subject after the recess . Mr . Sergeant Murphy , M ^ Napiek , Mr . Hume , Lord Bernard , Mr . Macouibt ; , Sir John Shelley , Captain Jones , Mr . Fortescue , and Mr . Monsell took part in the subsequent discussion . But the announcement made by Mr . Walpole took away all its interest . Mr . Macguirc , who spoke for the first time , made a good speech , moderate in tone , but thoroughgoing In opinion * The House , after he sat down , grew impatient ;* and , as Mr . Fagan , in spite of intreaties , felt bound to go to a division , the House divided on the " previous question " - — -namely , " That the question be now put , " and there were 140 to 9-4 against putting the question .
National Education ( Ireland ) . — Lord Derby stated on Tuesday , in repl y to Lord Clarendon , that Government had no intention of bringing forward any measure on the subject of the present system . He considered that it would be a very great evil to disturb or alter it . American Fisheries . —In answer to a question from Lord Wiiarncliffe , Lord Malmesbury said that the negotiations on the subject of the North American Fisheries were not yet concluded , and that he could not , therefore , lay the papers and correspondence on the table of the house . He paid a handsome compliment to the memory of Mr . Webster , whose loss he regretted . He had the most sanguine belief that the difference would be amicably settled .
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ELECTION MATTERS . Three elections have taken place this week , at Abingdon , Oldham , and Durham . The Abingdon proceedings were disorderly . Lord Norrcys and Mr . Burr were the candidates . Lord Norreys ranks with tlje Peelites ; Mr . Burr is a Derbyite ; and on the hustings he boasted of his exertions to secure the return of Protectionists in three counties—but lie was not a Protectionist—oh no ! The poll decided the election in favour of Lord Norreys , by a majority of 153 to 129 . At Oldham , Mr . Fox contended with Mr . Heald .
Luckily for Mr . Fox , in one sense at least , he was too ill to attend the nomination , which was a scene of disgraceful rioting ; admitted on all hands to have been instigated by the supporters of Mr . Heald on the platform . Sir Joshua Walmsley spoke for Mr . Fox ; Mr . Heald for himself . The show of hands went for Mr . Heald , as the Derbyites had driven the Foxitcs oft the ground . At tfee poll , Mr . Fox was the winner by at least 89 G to 781 . On the polling day , the Itiot Act was read , and troops , horse and foot , marched into the town . Mr . Fox ' s supporters were shamefully ill-used by the other side .
The Durham election was tolerably peaceable . Lord Adolphus Vane , son and candidate of Lord Londonderry , and Mr . Fcnwick , were the rivals . Lord Adolphus said that Mr . Fenwick was brought by Mr . Henderson , the " King of Durham , " us lie thought himself . Mr . Fenwick retorted that lie was the people ' s nominee , but he would be rather the nominee of the " King of Durham" than the Marquis of Londonderry . Mr . Fenwick had the show of hands . At the poll , Lord Adolphus was the victor by 531 ) to 498 . There lias been also an election til I Jury >*> t . Edmunds . Mr . IIardr : islle and Mr . Oakes were the candidates . At the nomination , on Thursday , tin ; show of hands was in favour of Mr . Oakes . The fanners rode into the ( own on horseback , and drove ; the foot people oil" the ground .
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LKTTHHS FROM PARIS . [ From our own Ookkkspondknt . ] Lktpicr TvLl X . . Tiii'i . H , TucHiiny evening , November ' 10 , 1 . S 52 . Till-: total result of the election is now pretty well ascertained . Exclusive o ( ' some two or ( hive cantons , not yet returned , the number up to this moment has reached 7 , N ( i : 5 , li : / O . Al . least such is ( lie story of this morning ' s I \ loiiil < utr . So the farce is played out Kvervwlnto , v <> ti may imagine , ( he scrutiny has been falsified . ( Copious details are current on this subject .
In ( lie first place , at , I ' aris they begun by striking out . 78 , 000 wording men , who were classed as I Jepulilicans . A I , the vol e of November ti 1 , there weiv only 1 !^ 1 , ()()( > electors inscribed ; on April HO , I 81 S , I here wcro in all . ' 112 , 000 ; so ( hat , besides 7 H , O ()() working men struck out , 4 ' A , <>()(> of the middle class have been . similarly cancelled , probably as " suspected" persons . While I liese erasures were beii |; r made , on I . he ol her , si < le of t he balance elecforal tickets were , being oflicitilly
distributed to the first comer who applied lor them , and this without , asking for any certificate of residence , or of birth , or , in sliorf ,, any document establishing the personal identity of the applicant . Any man might have gone to the forty-eight , oflices where Uw tickets were distributed , and obtained forty-eight tickets if lie wanted them . What is more , they inscribed , under the denomination of fleeteur . i de / xissuu / r , any chnnco customer who happened to ho provided with a passport ,. J . u case of difllculty , even a simple declaration wiw hokl
sufficient . By these two means the door was kept wide open for an immense system of fraud to pass through . All the Decembrists , regularly enrolled and paid , were able to vote , each man at least forty-eight times , under his real name , and at least 200 or 300 times under a supposititious name . In fact , the administrative functionaries had orders to close their eyes to the identity of the electors . This was everywhere the mot d ' or ' dre from tire Government . All this proceeding is an old trick copied from the G ^ v ? c-Napoleon . That great histrionic impostor used to have votingregisters opened in every commune , at every notary ' s , at every tax-gatherer ' s , at the house of every public functionary and officer . You could not go , or send to any of these persons on a matter of business without
having then and there to inscribe or get your vote inscribed . If you had already signed the list at the Mairie , you must sign again at the notary ' s , at the tax-gatherer ' s , at the juge de paix , at the huissier's , and so on . Every Frenchman voted at least twice . Now it was precisely the total of those superfluous ( superfetes ) votes which formed the figure of three millions obtained by Napoleon for his Consulate . The method of the nephew is , you see , a great improvement on that of the uncle . Instead of voting once , the hired Bonapartist age nts have been able to vote a hundred times each at Paris . The figures , indeed , are so bizarre , the results so fabulous , that even at the Corps Legislatif there were among those servile mutes men who could not restrain an exclamation of astonishment .
Really the case has some curious aspects . For instance : in the Republican departments—such as the Allier , the Cher , the Nievre , the Herault , the Basses Alps , the Drome , the Saone et Loire , &c . —scarcely a non has been found : en revanclie , more ouis have been found than were given on December 20 . Some deputies of the Legislative Corps could not help remarking the fact aloud . This will be the only official protest against the said scrutiny . In the departments , moreover , other , lesser means were employed . All the manufacturers drew up a list of their " good" workmen , and a list of their " bad" workmen . The first received
electoral tickets , the second received none . This manoeuvre was employed at Paris with the -working stonemasons , carpenters , and excavators employed in the reconstruction of the Rue de Rivoli—about 30 , 000 workmen in all . The contractors were allowed a certain number of electoral tickets , which they distributed at their discretion among such of their workmen as they considered Men pensans . The " suspected" workmen received no tickets at all . Besides , the workmen were obliged to vote at the sections of their employers , not atMheir own . This fact is in evidence . With such a way of proceeding surely nothing can be less surprising than the result of the vote of November 21 . Notwithstanding all these measures , however , the Government has been unable wholly to stifle the great voice of public opinion in the large towns . In these , without exception , at Lyons , Bordeaux , Toulouse , Nantes , Lille , Rouen , Strasbourg , &c , the united total of noes , and of votes not given , far exceeds the number of ayes . That is the only protest of public opinion which has made itself heard . The Corps Legislatif met on Friday last , to proceed to the general reckoning of the votes . Bonaparte
opened the session by a message . He did not give himself the trouble to read it himself ; he simply sent it , from St . Cloud to his faithful mutes . His words are false and full of duplicity as ever . To reassure the Legislative Corps , lie declares , in his message , that " the Government will only change inform . " From ( his we may conclude that in sybsi , unce ( aufond ) it will still be the same system of oppression , of despotism , of tortuous ways and lying words . March ! Ileudds thai , ho will " contain himself within the limits of
moderation . " The massacres of the Houlevard , the nocturnal fusillades , ( be murders of ( be Chain ]) de Mars , the transportations ( o Cn . yc . niu ; and to Lambessa , the proscription and the exile of sixty thousand citizens - he calls that , " lnodenition ! " After tin : reading of the message , the Corps Legislntif proceeded to the tle-¦ poiti // a > n < " ) i f of the votes . No protest having been Hud ' cred throughout , the MN . OOO communes of I ' ranee , these gentlemen of the Legislative Corps bad only to register the results of Messieurs les I Yelets . The complete ascertaining of ( lie result will be | , enninntcd on
( he evening of December 1 . 11 , is desired that Thursday , December 2 , the anniversary of the coup d ' t ' laf ., may l > e signalized l > y 1 he solemn proclamation of the vote , and , as its comic *| iie . ncc , by the equally Nolemn proclamation of the Kmperor . The- National Guard is convoked , as well as ( he regular troops . lionaparte will set , out , from St . Cloud in the morning , and proceed to the Are de Triomphe de l'Kfoilo : there he will be received in state hy the nuthorit ies of I ' uris ; ho will ( hen betake himself , by the Chumps Klysees , to the Tuilericu . Tho iroopH of tho line and tho National
Guard will form a double line , to keep the ground The proclamation of the Empire will take placi in th Salle du Trone , by the three grand corps of the state Bonaparte will hear the proclamation , sitting- on the throne . The Salle has been magnificentl y deco rated for the occasion . The imperial throne , it is said is of excessive richness ; the canopy , the chair , and cushion , and the table , are of velvet tissue , "bespangled with golden bees . The day of the 2 nd of December
will be entirely devoted to rejoicings . All the public monuments will be illuminated . Largesses will be given to the poor . The municipal council ( nominated by Bonaparte ) has voted 350 , 000 francs to be employed in charitable works , distributions of bread and clothes release of pledges from the pawnbrokers , &c . In the evening-, the Corps Legislatif gives a grand banquet to Bonaparte . A subscription was got up for the purpose , which was instantly signed by all the members
On the occasion of the accession there is to be a nomination of Marshals of France , as in the time of the Empire . I need scarcely say , that the Generals bought by gold on the 2 nd of December , the St . Arnaud , Magnan , &c , will be promoted to this high dignity . The two legitimist Generals , the Comte de Castellane and the Due de Montemart ( great grandnephew of the mistress of Louis XIV ., the celebrated Montespan ) , will also be promoted to the rank of Marshals . Bonaparte , en digne singe de so ? i oncle is anxious to appear to rally the noblesse to his cause and , like a true parvenu , he descends to all sorts of meannesses to be on good terms with the old aristocracy . There will be , at the same time , a batch of new senators .
In pursuance of the same principle , the Marquis de Pastoret , some time agent of Henry V ., is to be raised to that dignity . The Imperial household is now complete . After numerous disputes , Bonaparte has settled the question among his confidants , by pronouncing his own decision . He has given all the great offices to the historical noblesse . The Due de Mortemart , besides his dignity of Marshal of France , is to be Grand Marshal of the Palace ; the Due de Guiche , a grandson of
the Choiseul of Louis XV ., has been recalled from Germany , where he had a diplomatic mission , to be Master of the Hounds . Lastly , the Due de Mouchy is to be Grand Chamberlain . The Duchess is remarkably pretty . The Imperial etiquette is to be re-established in all its rigour , in spite of the doubts of many people , and of the precedent of unceremonious simplicity of the court of Louis Philippe . Bonaparte , henceforth , will take all his meals solus . None but members of his own family will be admitted to his table . He will no longer be served by simple domestics , but by his high officers in waiting . One must be a nobleman to serve that malotru ! Many people hope , however , that tho word " subject" will not be revived . It is well to undeceive them . There neither are nor can be any more citizens in France . There remains only a master and hi * " subjects . " That is an immense progress ! You know that even in Louis Philippe ' s reign the word " subject" had disappeared from the official vocabulary . When , in 1832 , the Ministers attempted to make use of the expression , a , violent protest from the left benches
in the Chamber snubbed the presumption , and since that moment it has never been employed . Now it is to be put in vigour once more , in spite of the principle of the " national sovereignty . " Kvery citizen , in fact , by his quality of member of the sovereign , becomes sovereign himself . Henceforward , Bonaparte will call u . s his " subjects . " Jokes begin to rattle thereupon . " What consoles me , " said an exdeputy , " is that , if I nm ' subject / Honaparte is too . I find Unit he is subject * - to be hung . " The
dinnibcrhiins , vtaUrcs d'hotel , equerries , mid pages "I" Honapnrte , are already nominate *! . The household of the lOmprcsM , too , is in course of active formation ; ladiesin-waiting iui * l maids of honour arc being recruited in every direction ; the wives and daug hters of noble families are particularly ( he object of research . H , lH only parvenus who have such pretensions an these new lords of ours . The Kmperor will not give audience to the first , comer . ; court , or full dress , tights , sword , buckles will ho . de rir / iirm : Poor devil * wlio cant afford to waste 2000 francs ( 80 / . ) on personal decoration for the snk ll (( l | y
shown the door . How many old soldiers , »«> w limI - ' old lenfher-brecchcN , ' how many old Bonaparte <<><> 1 h > will lie made , to look blank ! . The Umpire will be ofliciully announced on ( ho ^ n < of December to nil the ambassadors and ministers <> foreign courts . From the date of him-. 1 i notice the" ' mission will ccuse until they have received new < 11 < 1 ( U / " ^ tials from their Govornmen ' ts . This , again , inn tmditio of 1804 , ridiculously exhumed . . An immense civil list-of tvventy-fivo million" < ( runes ( 1 , 000 , 000 / . ) --in to be appointed to lloJumarU' -
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1152 THE LEADER . [ Saturday ,
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* Fr . tfujot , —a . « ul > joct ; ad . wuoimblo .
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 4, 1852, page 1152, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1963/page/4/
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