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¦ bmitted to its judgment : no doubt it will obey *" , This crew would lick the dirty boots of their ^ aster to do him pleasure . You may expect any depth ^ f servility from such men . Yet , as I write these last * ° r rds I aui assured that the Senate has timidly hesi-, j desire to be consulted by the Emperor in all Vs acts . If this be confirmed , I will most gladly n ] -e the amende honorable to these servitors a plat Centre , of all regimes . For the present , I adhere to my expressions . ,. _*_„_ . __ of the ime bforei
The recognitions new reg y gn owers arrive in succRssion . Great Britain was one of the Srst to recognise the Empire . The three Powers of the North will , I am told , present theirs simultarneeusly , an <^ m exa ° tly identical terms . Perhaps this : an indirect and delicate hint to Bonaparte to be a 1-ioocl boy and not provoke a whipping ! The official ¦ journal of Vienna formally threw out this sort of menace ; and I hear that Bonaparte was for a moment bitterly piqued . He even allowed an exclamation to escape him in company of several of his courtiers to this effect , " If Prince Schwarzenberg were still alive , we should understand each other better . "
Another vexation for this great man zncompns You remember , I told you that Bonaparte had the pretension of composing his household exclusively of Tjersonages belonging to the old noblesse . This gentlemaa modestly designed the descendants of the Crusaders for liis valets de chambre . He addressed himself successively to M . le Due de Mortemart , to whom he proposed the title of Marshal of France , and Grand 31 arshal of the Palace , to M . le Due de Mouchy , to M . le Due de Bauffremont , and to the Due de Guiche .
All the four successively declined the honour . Bonaparte then , ¦ unmasking the secret object of his wishes , simply proposed to the wives of these gentlemen to be ladies in waiting to the Empress . The beautiful . Duchesse de Mouchy sharply replied to him " that he should have waited till he had an Empress to . make the proposal . " To appreciate all the mordant of this reply , you should know that on . that very morning the report was current , and is so still , that the marriage with the Princess Wasa was definitively broken offhand that Bonaparte was obliged to lower his pretensions , ( de se rabattre sur un plus maigre gibier . )
An immense activity is observable at the Ministries of War and the Marine . Orders are being sent off every day to all tho chefs de corps to get up the warlike spirit of the soldiers . In all the military and naval arsenals all is movement . Just now , a new system of iirtillery , devised by the Emperor , is being experimented upon in the various polygones . This system consists in reducing to a single calibre all tho various field-pieces , which are now composed of four different calibrespieces of four , light artillery ; pieces of eight , artillery of the line ; pieces of twelve , artillery of reserve ; and six-inch howitzers . Tho uniform calibre proposed by
' Bonaparte is to be that of twelve . Now to make you understand all the importance of this change , I should add , that these pieces of twelve curry 1600 yards , wliilo the other p ieces carry only from 800 to 1000 yards . These experiments , I repeat , are being actively carried on . Don't be too confident in our veracious Emperor ' s pacific assurances . It may be that , some morning , all IOurope will awake ( us Paris did on tho 2 nd of December ) to find the iinny of Paris on the frontiers of the Rhine . There are sober people- who believe in this eventuality , as they do in to-morrow ' s smirif > e . Besides this change of system in tho artillery , an
equally grave modification is proposed in our present recruiting system . A own-ding' to tho existing law , 80 , 000 men are enlisted every year , for woven yours service—just one quarter of the actual mule population . In the new system , the entire , male ' population would be called upon 1 <> nerve ; but instead of serving for a period of seven yearn , the men destined lor the infantry would only nerve ono year . As to the men destined lor special corps , such an cavalry , artillery , engineers , grenadiers , and imperial guard , they will
i-cmiiiu in service , . sumo eight , the others seven years . Tho . soldiers discharged will be liable to be recalled to serve , until they arcs thirty-three years of age . . Here in the formidable , levy we should bo able to take the field with at any given moment i - -1 st , The nrniy actually in service , 400 , 000 men ; 2 nd , Reserve ol twelve ' classes , from twenty-one yearn of iigc . to l . hirtytlnw , UHO . OOO men , in each c . Ihsnrtf . MO . OOl ) , soldiers for Clio twelve , classes ; gei , < fral total , : » , 7 < iO , 0 O <) men . Tlu .-re is enough , and more ^ tlian enough , to sweep tlut world !
Meanwhile , Bonaparte mid bin friends are not . neglecting tlu-ir little pecuniary intorcHts . Tho project "f «> ostal > rmhini ? , the gambling-houHCM and tlielottenes , which 1 mentioned inonMm ngo , and which- was only nrrcHtod by Ihu roinonstrnncnH of the clergy , him been resumed . . Doctor Wtoii , who was the promoter of the original scheme , \ h to lmvo no almro in tho present one .
The immediate entourage is to have all the secret profits of the operations . The State will have the remainder . The company is already formed : it is to be worked in shares . A subvention of seven millions ( of francs ) will be paid by the company to the State for the exploitation , which ( subject to intervening arrangements ) will commence in January next , at four chief establishments : —1 . 113 , Palais Koyal . 2 . In an hotel in the Place Vendome . 3 . In a house on the Boulevard des Italiens . 4 . In the faubourg St . Honore . The details are precise , you perceive .
A provisional commercial treaty has been signed with Belgium . Belgium having , as you are aware , consented to prosecute judicially the press for attacks against Bonaparte , the Emperor has condescended to take off the surtax of ten per cent , on Belgian coal and iron . A commercial treaty with England is also spoken of . Bonaparte only waits for the promulgation of the Senatus-Consulte , which is to accord to him absolute omnipotence in matters of commercial treaties , to sign the project with England . English coal is to be admitted into France at a minimum duty . We are not yet informed whether there will be any compensation on the English side in the shape of a reduction of duties
on French wines . The system of severe measures is still in force . There has been an amnesty , on paper , for offences of the press . Meanwhile , two editors are still in prison . ^ As to ' * warnings , " they have begun again . A legitimist paper of Angers , & Union de I'Ouest , has been the first to enjoy the honour . Domiciliary visits are paid to all the printing-houses , in the hope of seizing certain clandestine writings which annoy his Majesty the Emperor . Printers , masters and workmen alike , are whisked off from their homes in the dead of night , thrown into solitary confinement , and examined separately . _ '
Such municipal councils as omitted to keep holiday on the 5 th of December , the day of the inauguration of the Emperor , are dissolved . This has been the fate of the mimicipal council of Frontignan , who took the liberty not to vote a distribution of bread to the poor on that day , after receiving express orders to that effect from the Minister of the Interior . S .
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CONTINENTAL NOTES . M . Chavoix , ex-representative of the peoplo , has written to the Pays to deny the authorship of a letter imputed to him , accepting m very humble and submissive terms the gracious " pardon" of the Emperor . This letter , which was published , very conspicuously in all the Government journals , was a forgery . " I neither wrote it nor signed it ; I know not who is the author , " says M . ChavoVx . Not a single person of note has yet accepted the general conditional amnesty of the Government . By a decreo of the Emperor , the administration of the Civil List and of the dotation of tho Crown , is confided to M . Achille Fould , who takes the title of Minister of State and of the Household of tho Emperor . He is charged to establish , on the proposition of the high functionaries of the household , tho general budget , and submit it to the approbation of tho Emperor , and all tho expenses of tho household will bo paid by the treasurer on the order of the Minister . Jfe will have the general management of the revenues of the Crown , and of the Civil List , of whatever kind they may be . On Sunday , the 12 th inst ., t , ho Emperor gave a grand military dinner at tho Tuileries to the marshals of Franco and tho general and other officers commanding corps in tho army of Paris . j \ U tho Ministers were present . Abd-el-Kadcr has left Amboise . lie arrived in Lyons on tho night of the 12 th inst ., and was to resume his journey without delay for Marseilles , but at the instance of General de Castellane , he consented to pans Monday m that city . M . Ducori contradicts tho report , of his reply to a deputation from the maritime depart incuts , on the increased naval armaments of England . In like manner the speech i , f i . h « c . hmrimm at the dinner of the Ecolo Militniro is
pronounced to bo a fabrication . We cannot , however , ¦ forget that the denials of the present French ( . ' oveninient havo proved as trustworthy as its assertions audits promises . At , present it is convenient to deny that is all . The Paris correspondent of the ( Jto / x ; writing lust Wednesday , tells a pretty story of Louis Napoleon , whicli will win the hearts of " all mothers ; and to prove our willingness to give even the Kuipcror his due , hero is tho story , Yor what it is worth . It reads well . '' A curious incident occurred yesterday in the garden oi the Tuileries whilst tho Emperor was walking there . A . little girl , who was with her lather , exclaimed , ' Oh , how I should like to touch tho Kmpcror ' s bund ! ' The Kmporor heard her , and called her to him . Tho little-girl wan led to him by tho lather , and the Kniperor , taking her by tho hand , walked witli her to the Tuileries , where be nuide her a j > rc . Hciil , of an elegant bonbon box an a souvenir ol their acquaintance . "
ThM-o ban been an important debate nl the lielgum Chamber on . lho budgd . <> f public instruction . IY 1 . Vorhaegeiij . one of the founders of Belgian nationality , in-Hinted that ,, hh there vvhh no stale religion in Itolgiiuu , tho national schools should not be under exclusive Konianeiilholie direction . f ) mitig this discuHsion , M . do Moufu-Icmbort was in ono of tho reserved galleries . Tho Second Chruuher of tho States-General of Holland hns adopted tint conversion of tho Kour per Cent , Itontos infoThroo-and-Throo-Quartera , at 1 M ) , or Threc-und-a-llall at 5 ) 7 , at tho option of tho Government .
The Parisian correspondent of the Independancc Beige pretends that the reason of the precipitate ™ S ° ° * the Emperor by Naples , was the desire of X *?™ £ j £ m cure French aid against English designs on Sicily . -Mean while , it is reported that Lucien Murat has ™ f ™ * demand on the Neapolitan Government of twenty millions of francs , and already talks of tho " throne of Ins ancestors . "
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Important modifications of the Constitutional system in Prussia have been submitted to the Chambers . ± ne intention of the Government is to abolish the principle oi annual Parliamentary sessions and of annual budgets , and to remodel the First Chamber upon a normal basis ot prerogative , by vesting the right of nominating members , heredTtarily or temporarily , according to birth , property , or position , exclusively in the Crown . A quasi-restoration of certain feudal provincial privileges abolished m 1848 , by a completely new code of provincial , district , municipal and communal law , is also announced . These measures were signified to the Chambers , with very little paraphrase , by tho Minister of the Interior , on the 6 th mst . It is said that in consideration of eventualities , Austria and Prussia have come to an understanding to sink their commercial rivalries for awhile , and the maintenance ot tho Prussian Zollverein for the next twelve years is considered certain . , The Austrian musket , writes the Roman correspondent of the JDaVy News , continues to enforce attachment and fidelity to the imperial banner . Five more soldiers ot the Hungarian regiment now in garrison at Ancona were shot on the morning of the 4 th for desertion . Thus a considerable number of men have suffered death since the arrival of the regiment from Bologna , where many had already been shot for the same offence . The poor fellows apparently serve the chivalrous Emperor with no great good will since they risk and frequently meet their death in order to escape from his trammels . The wine shops resound with their revolutionary songs , and cheers ior Aiu ?' cary and Italy—a spirit which excites such distrust in the Austrian general , that he allows none of the soldiers to quit the town singly , only regular parties can pass the jrates . '
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The state of affairs in Spain is becoming , to use a French expression , " very strained . " The Due de Sotomayor has been prevented holding meetings at his house . General Narvaez has been sent out of Spain into honourable exile , to examine military archives at Vienna . " Pronunciamentos at Barcelona and othor important towns , are apprehended .
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The Eoman States are infested with brigands . The Bank of Constantinople refuses to receive the paper money of the state . This decision has produced an immense sensation . A monetary crisis is considered imminent . „ Tho Turkish government has prohibited navigation ot the Bosp horus by foreign steamers . The service is to bo exclusively performed by Turkish steamers . The Austrian Lloy d ' s Company has protested against this measure . It is said that the ' Turkish government has purchased ten steamers in England . Piracy has become so formidable in the Archipelago , that trade in those waters is almost at an end , the maritime insurance companies refusing any longer to insure vessels . ... . . .
A Turkish ship had been seized by pirates within sight of Smyrna , and all the passengers and crow had been put to death . From Syria we learn that neither the Seraskier nor the Druses being- able io claim tho victory , after much marching , and some fighting they had concluded an armistice . It was proposed to reduce < he . Druses by negotiation . The Prince of Montenegro has issued a decree threatening exile to all those of his subjects who should refuse to take arms against tho Turks . ' Various skirmishes bad taken place with tho Turkish troops , and a decisive battlo was expected . The Pacha of Scutari bad taken the field , ut the head of l () , 0 ()<) men , against the Montcnogriiies .
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AMERICAN GOSSIP . In the New VorJc Tribune of the 1 st , instant , we have a detailed account ol" Thackeray ' s third lecture , on " Sfeele , and the Times of Queen Anne . " As before , the audience was crowded , and an announcement was made previous to the lecture that the course would bo repeated , so that those persons who could not obtain tickets' for the lirst delivery might have an opportunity of heurinu ; them . We conclude that the critic in the New York : Herald , who fell into a lit of abusive delirium on lie ; iring Mr . Thackeray ' s lirst , lecture , is in a very small minority . Mr . Gordon Bennett was in Europe when Thackeray sailed ; did he leave instructions to ubuso the great , novelist ; or has the , critic acted without , orders V
Another of our Kuropran celebrities , Jiontng , is drawing crowded audiences in New York . That so accomplished un artist hn . s found her concerts ^ really popular in Chftt city , augurs well for the decay of musical clap-trap there " as a lucrative branch of commerce . Wo quote tin * following from the Tribune .--- " Mr . rercwl , who was deputed by a Jar ^ e number of Hungarians , ' in Jewey , England , sniil 1 ' aris , to mil , for them , made a ' puivhase last , month of two townships , situated near | ) nvenpor / ,, in Iowa , for a Hungarian colony , and in the spring the jjjrent body of the purchasers design cini ' rrat , iiig to this country and settling upon their purchaser . Among tho number is General Moritz Perc / . ol . Each person in indigont circumstances will
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I December 18 , 1852 . ] T H E L E A D E R . 1203 H
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 18, 1852, page 1203, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1965/page/7/
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