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Charivari , for want , I suppose , of other topics , had taken the liberty to caricature the " stags" of the Bourse . The editors have been summoned , and recommended to restrain their pens and pencils on the subject . The dramatic authors , too , have been warned to desist from all attacking or ridiculing in their Christmas extravaganzas ( revues de fin d ' annee )* the successes of " stags" and stock-jobbers . f They are forbidden , moreover , to joke about the immense jobbery
( tripotdges ) to which the macadamization of the streets , the demolition of houses forthe continuation ( percement ) of the Rue de llivoli , and the ornamental landscape embellishments of the Bois de Boulogne , have supplied nourishment . Well ! believe me , of all these men of business whom Bonaparte has gorged , and courted , and fawned upon , not one renders him a word or thought of thanks . " It wont last long , " they say ; " let us make the most of it . " And thus their gratitude points the moral of the tale .
Respecting foreign pbwers , with the exception of your own Queen , who , it is maliciously whispered here , autographically addressed our Bonaparte as " My dear cousin "X they all look coldly on our new Emperor . The three Northern powers , Russia , Austria , and Prussia , do not care to dissemble their profound contempt . Bonaparte ' s representatives abroad are everywhere repulsed . At Berlin , the high dignitaries of State refused to comply with the invitation of the French ambassador to assist at t he Te Deum chanted in honour of the Empire . M . D'Arnim is reported to have said apropos of this rebuff , " They were quite right to decline , for it was not an event to congratulate God upon ! " ( " Car il n'y avait pas de qiioi feliciter Dieur )
Bonaparte is much irritated by all these successive affronts . The rupture of his marriage with the Princess " Wasn , the disdain of Austria , the contumely of Prussia , tho insolent airs of Russia , are not encouraging , A few days since , he said to General Magnan : " Those people treat me like a fireman whom you call into a drawing-room to put out a fire , and never condescend to speak to as soon as the fire is put out . "
In this false position our Emperor is considerably embarrassed . Hence it was averred that he was endeavouring to negotiate a coalition ( rapprochement ) with tho republican party . He had sent for M . Carnot ( so went the report ) , who , you remember , was elected deputy to the Legislature , and resigned on refusal to take the oaths . It is asserted that the Emperor said to M . Carnot that he knew well that he had no reliance
to place in the monarchical parties , that lie had been obliged to appear to lean upon them , but that , en resume , in the march of progressive innovations which he had traced out for his policy , he could expect from the royalists nothing but resistance . " He then proceeded to ask his interlocutor " whether he was preparotl to join him , " ( s'il etail fret de venir ( I lul . ) M . Carnot § replied by a strong and simple negative , a . s you may well suppose .
Even tho Senate shows symptoms of restivoness All last week was employed by the Commission of tho Senate in discussing the Draft Nenatfis-Consultum modifying the Constitution , and in proposing to Bonaparte umendment on amendment . There Mere six against tho tteiiiitus-Consultuni and four in its favour . The Commissioners were positively determined upon reserving- to the Senate tho right of control over all Lint acts of Bonaparte . They claimed to vote all tho itoms of expenditure for groat public works before their e . ve-
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* These ; " Ucnucs , " for which ( ho Palais Koyal , VarieleH , and Porto St .. Martin arc principally < listin ^ uislu'd , close tho year , as our Christinas pantomimes rind extravaganzas do . They ure , however , not seldom very ( lull uiliiirH , and only carried oil' by wise en . irttnn ami a . U ractivo twtircifj / of dress on the part , of the lighter portion of tho carps ilni' )))«/ i <] iit : They lusur , iutlccil , no comparison with our pantomimes , l > u ( occasional Aristophanic gleams irradiating the filling of " Hrf-da-squure" arid tbo Quartier Latin , render tlu'Bo Jlcimox far more endurable than those periodical assaults on the Kngliwh language , which lire known to London an burlesques and extnivii ^ uy / uM . K u . . Lander . f Wesuppo . se Mrrrnttttt is forbidden at t ho <] j / mntisc . Fancy The ( lanu ; of ti peculation being interdicted at the J / i / ccuvi , when the next mania ( rapidly approaching ) nrriveH . —101 ) . Lender . X Of course Mum in incredible : oven' with our reccnlly discharged French Cook , whoso qimlilicM Lord Derby has no vividly eulogized , performing iJie part of " England . "¦ --I ' -1 ) . Lender . § Tlie reports of 1 . 11 is incident , in the eoriVMjiniuli'iice of the VV ;» c . v and Morn hit / ( 'hroniele , incnlion 1 VF . Helhinonl , UH tho porson to whom Hicho overtures with directly niiide by the Kniporor in person . M . Hnthmont , it may he mlncmhcnd , wan , for a tdiort timo only , lnoiubei- of Hie Provisional ( Joverinuent in the lirnt days of tho Republic , and represented the l . imirirtiiui u iKi ' in that body . M . Oarnot , the Minister of l'uhlic Instruction in the Provisional ( lovcrinnenl ,, belonged to a mom extreme section of opinions , with a eorfain doetriuairo cast . II is historical nainc may possibly have appealed to the sympathies , or rathor to tho traditional "pings , of tho nephew Einporor . — Ki > . Leader .
cution ; they insisted , besides , that all treaties of commerce should be submitted to their approval . There have been five long days of negotiation between the Luxembourg ( palace of the Senate ) and the Tuileries ( palace of Bonaparte ) . The Emperor had arranged to start last Thursday morning for Compiegne ; orders were given ; all was in readiness . The obstinate resistance of the Senate compelled him to defer his departure . Nothing less than violent threats was able to overcome this opposition . Bonaparte refused to yield on a single point , —first , because his omnipotence was in question ; secondly , because he apprehe nded that if at the outset of his reign he began to yield , it would
be an encouragement to the opposition which was already in formation , even among his creatures . It was only , then , through the menacing intervention of M . Baroche that two senators were intimidated into compliance , and the majority of six against four converted in favour of the original Draft of the Senatus-Consultum . To-day ( Tuesday ) , the Senate is to assemble for the purpose of passing the measure . No doubt the Corps will vote its master ' s behests unanimously . It is M . Troplong again who is charged with making the Report . He has been rewarded beforehand . Bonaparte has just made him President of the Court of Cassation .
Discord reigns in the Bonapartist camp . Persigny has quarrelled with Fould . M . Fould , you know , is a banker ; an adroit , shrewd , keen man , who knows the weak side of Bonaparte , It is he who traced the path to be pursued in order to win over the men of the Bourse . He did more : be placed himself at their head , and from his prolific brain have sprung those thousands of schemes which would require millions on millions to execute . His exceptional position at the head of the banking world gained him the confidence of Bonaparte , who is indebted to liis . services for probably not less than thirty millions of francs ( 1 , 200 , 000 / . ) ,
bagged in the last twelve months . No wonder , then , Bonaparte made him Minister of State . Now , this position , strictly confidential in its character , belonged of right to Persigny . The latter became jealous , and in a sudden ebullition , made a " scene , " which is now in everybody ' s mouth . In the Council of Ministers , Persigny openly accused M . Fould of being sustained by a bozirgeoisie notoriously alien in sympathies to the Empire . M . Fould replied , " that , for his part , he was essentially a man of the middle class ( qu'il etait tres bourgeois ) , and very little disposed to rely on the peasantry for support .
Bonaparte had great difficulty in appeasing this quarrel . It has since broken out again with more bitter virulence than ever . Persigny has renewed his attacks on M . Fould , even going so far as to accuse him of treason . He reproaches him for " surrounding the Emperor exclusively with disaffected bourgeois . " At these words M . Fould lost his temper , and the council split into two wrangling cliques . Ho stands the quarrel as I write . But it cannot fail to grow more envenomed . Hence sill the rumours of a change of ministry , which have been current tjiesc last days , and which have derived a certain authenticity from the denial of the Monileur . The resistance of
Persigny , who is resolved to stick to the Ministry of the Inferior , in order the better to watch the enemies of the Emperor , has alone prevented the change . Indeed , the situation is a grave one . If Fould goes , the banking world turns its buck on Bonaparte , ami Persigny falls into disgrace , l ' ersigny being the life and soul of BoiKipirtittin , tho house of cards , laboriously built up by bin hands , will tumble to pieces at the slightest breath . Then ; remains but one course ; for Bonaparte to choose . It is to keep them both . He will appease Persi ^ ny by allowing him to share profits with Fould in some monstrous speculation , and all will be right ! La belle chose ( pic la puissance de tor stir les homines d'araent I
The Funds have , been rising a little for the last few days . Then ; in , however , a sort of cabal in operation against the Biuique Mobiliere . The rival concern of Kspcletti and Co . \ h in operation . The subscriptions were presented at the Bourse : in tho lirsf . hour ( here were eighteen , 'millions ( of francs ) subscribed , and by ( he evening , tho subscriptions had reached the fabulous sum of" wncnty-Jive Millions- ( of francs ) . Thin fact , it is said , made Bonaparte open his eyes to the' urgency of recovering Rothschild at any price .
Another formidable buHine . su in imieli talked of at this moment , which would bring in millions , hi the shape of premiums , to Bonaparte and his infimafes , and woidd proportionately swindle , tin ; crowd of gaping fools out of their investments . Tin ; project cousista in founding an "Algeria Company" ( dompagnut d'Atge ' rie ) , on tho model of your own Mast India Company . This company in (<> | )(; constituted with a capital of forty millions sterling , to have sovereignty over the whole of Algeria , to be tho proprietary of tho noil , and
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to enjoy immense privileges . This affair is , for the present , kept in the profoundest secresy ; but one of these days it will see the light . In France , the regime continues unchanged . "Vi llage wineshops ( cabarets ) are closed , and provincial journals are " warned . " To be a journalist , you must worship every act of Power . The Moniteur , in foet , i ^ almost the only journal that can really be said to exist It is the only journal free . " Free , " perhaps even it cannot be called , for it is not free to tell the truth . It , registers contradictions every day ; and the contradictions are contradicted in turn by the morrow ' s ;
events . An official notice that lately appeared in its columns , in which the Government protested against the denomination of " proscribed , " as applied to the exiles , caused a good deal of remark . The Government pleaded " legality . " " All the sentences pronounced after the 2 nd of December , " it exclaims , " are stamped with the character of legality , since the military commissions that followed the state of siege were rendered ' imperative by the grand laio of the safety of thecountry . " This law of public safety , elevated to the rank of legality , strikes everybody as a capital stroke of buffoonery .
There has just appeared a book , dictated by the Elysee , which has created an immense sensation . This book is entitled , "On the Limits of the Empire" LDes Limites de I'Empire ) . It has been exempted from the stamp duty—a fact in itself significant enou gh . The author , M . Le Masson , pretends to prove from history that the limits of France are the Rhine , the Scheldt , and the Alps . Consequently , he demands the incorporation of Savoy , Piedmont , and Belgium , in the name of the safety and peace of France . This book is a pilot-balloon ; it is a harbinger and a si gnal . Remember that one year before the Empire , Bonaparte dictated to M . Descamps a book "On the Re-establishment of the Empire , " and made M . Romieu write " The Era . of the Cassars . " S .
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CONTINENTAL NOTES . The recognition of the Empire has not been so precipitate an affair with the States of the Confederation as with the Neapolitan Government and our ex-Foreign Secretary . With one or two exceptions , such as Frankfort , the States hang back till they get tlie cue from St . Petersburg . The official journal of Wurtemburg , the Staats Anzeiger , publisher a format contradiction of the Moniteur *' s ajmouncoment , that the Government of Wurtemberg had . congratulated the Due de Guiche on the proclamation offclia Empire . The Pope , too , delays sending his . credentials to his nuncio at Paris .
The ceremony of proclaiming the Empire at Algiers went off hravely on the 12 th . The Prefect read the proclamation ; the Bishop , with his clergy , raised the Te Deum ; the batteries struck in with a salvo ; and tho troops shouted " Vive l'Empereur I" There was a dinner at the Governor-General ' s ; and in the evening a ball was given by the superior Commandant of the Marine . Any portion of tho Orleans property not sold before the 22 nd of January is to be confiscated or sequestrated . Among that property is the forest of Guise , belonging to the Duke d'Aumale , and valued at thirty-five millions ot francs ; and as it is difficult to find a purchaser for an estate of such magnitude , a company was formed to effect the bargain . But this the Government refuses to sanction ; so that , after all , it may gain its object hy the ; indirect means of shutting out n , purchaser . The collection of pictures belonging to tlie Duchess of Orleans is advertised for sale among tho other property .
General Chadcysson has demanded of the Council of State that a decision of the Prince President , dated ln . sk . December , Nhould he revoked . The General having refused the command of tho BaHHCH-Alps , then in a state of insurrection , was placed on the retired list , in violation of a law which enacts that generals of brigade shall only he so placed at the age of ( i' 2 . General ' Ohudeynson ' s ago in onlyfiO ; hut hecauso ho Ijuh nerved thirty-eig ht years , <» 1 which twenty have been in war , his demand was rejected in virtue of" another law , which gives the ( Jovernnient power to place generals on tlie retired list afW they have heon thirty yours in service . flic
The hunt at Compiogne passed off well on Monday , weather being line . At the breakfast , several ladies , and nmorigst them Madame Dronyn do I / buys , wore oflieial riding habits of green and gold . Tlie dinner took p laco at live , and at eight the eur / : e' was olt'ccUxl ill the courtyard , hy torchlight :, when a great many spectators were allowed to l > e present . Tho Mediterranean squadron of evolution returned It ' Toulon on the I ' . Hh . Abd-ol-Kador has milled for Turkey . Mr . Hower , whose niimci lias been so often before Mui public ; in connexion with tho death of Mr . INfortoii , hn . » "surrendered to tho I'Yeneh authorities , and in now n P ' * . ' ( oner at the Conciergorie . Tho trial is lixed for the ' - ( of December .
We read in the , SV /\ s \ sv of Berne that the FrofVr * . oHhnl . ' city had munitioned heforn him all the booksellers of tl " place , to inquire of them , whether they bud Hold any copies of Victor ll ' ngo ' H 'iSdpoleon-le-l ' etit , " and front Whom lli < ( y had received tlie-nri . Thin proceeding , it is Maid , took p laco oa ( be demand of tho l'Yonch ambaM . sudor . Tho docks at Dunkirk are the Hcono of extrusive oporil 1 - tioiiH . Not only is the harbour to be ¦ enlarged , and the establishments of tho Marino greatly increased , b \ d j '' ' •* intended to pluco tho railway station in the park <> ' '' ¦"" Marine , and to conotruot a now bayin to tho wink oi < " <»
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1226 T H E L E A PER . [ Saturday ,
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 25, 1852, page 1226, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1966/page/6/
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