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nous portera malheur . " " The ring was not blessed , that will bring us evil fortune . " The religious ceremony lasted little . more than an Lour . As the Emperor handed his bride to the carriage again he was seen to press her hand tenderly —a movement that everybody remarked with natural interest . The wedding pair looked happier on their return to the palace than on their progress to the church . Bonaparte himself appeared young again with his new happiness . The cortege returned to the Tuileries by the Quais of the left bank of the river , the Pont de la Concorde , and the garden of the Tuileries . An immense * crowd , which
overflowed the city as far as the Place do la Madeleine and the Champs Elysees , thronged this point especially . It has been said that the railways had brought into Paris upwards of 400 , 000 visitors from the provinces , and from abroad . Soon after he had re-entered the Palace of the Tuileries , Bonaparte appeared with his new bride on the balcony overlooking the Carrousel , to present his Empres 3 to the army . A quarter of an hour afterwards he stood upon the balcony that
commands the garden of the Tuileries , giving his hand to the Empress , and with her saluting the crowd . At this moment some cries , and genuine cries I believe , of Vive Vlmperatrice , were raised in the crowd ; but as the cries met with a feeble echo , they soon ceased . A minute after Bonaparte withdrew , and presently left in a chariot for St . Cloud with old Jerome , Napoleon Jerome , his son , and the Countess de Montijo , the mother of the Empress .
Yesterday ( Monday ) Bonaparte did the honours of Versailles to his wife . They dined in the palace of Louis XIV . It has been said in Paris that they remained to sleep there . The marriage of Bonaparte is in itself animmense event . Independently of the attitude the Emperor has assumed on this occasion with respect to foreign Courts , it may be said to be the commencement of a new era , of a new period in our ephemeral history . Bonaparte may now escape the influence of the sabres that surround him , to suffer a gentler and more humanizing sway . It is already affirmed that the two men , par excellence , of
the 2 nd of December , St . Arnaud and Persigny , are to be sacrificed . Persigny , the life and soul , " the prime mover , the man of genius , I may say , of Bonapartism , has made a last and desperate effort to retain the influence which he felt to ba escaping out of his hands . He endeavoured to place his wife in waiting to the Empress—so as to remain , by this double influence , master of both the Lady and the Lord . His request to this effect was positively ^ declined . Will Persigny retire , dismissed by the ingratitude of the man who but for him , he might say , would still be lounging restlessly about the sti'eets of London ? If M . St . Arnaud should iilso retire , these secessions would have important consequences . If , however , as is
possible , Bonaparte softens their dismissal by flattering compensations , the denouement will be less brusque : but the helm no longer being held by a hand of iron , the ship will be likely to miss its course , and fall to pieces on tin ; sunken rocks . Thus suy , or feel , certain Bonapartists . To-morrow ( Wednesday ) there is to be : i council of Ministers . Persigny would probably be succeeded by do Moray , the Emperor ' s brother ; St . Arnaud , by General JKandon , or Caurobert ; M . Drouin de l'Huy . s , who tried to do the chivalrous with foreign powers , by Count Walew . ski ( son of the great Emperor ) , and , as you know , now ambassador at the court of London . M . Bincau is spoken of for the governorship of the Hank of France . As he is a devoted servant of
Bonaparte , be would there have room to play a part of no mean importance , and easy to imagine in the present nlate of our finances . M . Foukl would be the only remaining Minister of any substance in the present Cabinet . I have related to you in previous letters tlio scandalous outbreaks iu the Council of Ministers between him and Persigny . The latter accused him of diverting the Emperor into a wroiif * path , and inducing him to lean on the bourgeoisie in preference to tbo jieasantiy and the army , where ; his true strength lay . Now , if Persigny falls and Fould triumphs , will not the change of system which I have
just hinted bo complete ? At present , it in certain that jVI . Fould enjoyrt considerable influence with the Kinporor , nnd bin wife is u lady-in-waiting to the Knipress . Are we , then , to have a middle-class reiu'tion ? In the Bonajnirtist " terror" to cea . so ? It will bo difficult , to heal the wounds of the 2 nd of December , but much may be . done to assuage them . We shall not get liberty , but some relaxation , perhaps of the fo 1 , tern that gall and crush us now ! We shall not have a liberty of rU / ht , but some kind of liberty of fur . t , —a cjuRHi-liberty of mpeech , of pen , and of act ; and , holievo me , with but thin instalment we 0 I 111 II know how to make up for much lost time !
Three thousand political prisoners in Algeria and Cayenne out of eleven thousand who were transported , have just received an unconditional " pardon , " on the occasion of " our marriage . " What is this scrap of pardon compared with the total number of men transported , compelled to emigrate , driven into exile , or confined in towns under strict surveillance , —a total of something like 100 , 000 men ! Still , it may be accepted as the promise of a change of system , the pledge of our coming deliverance .
The financial crisis is not . yet over . The Funds have continued to decline . Yesterday ( Monday ) they fell to 78 f . 10 c . ; but on the report of a change in the " system , " they rose 50 cents . I should not find it difficult to believe that M . Fould has had something to do with the progressive fall since last ; November 8 th . now nearly three months . At the head of one of the chief banking houses in Europe , actual chief of the cabinet , secret director of the Minist ry of Finance ,
allpowerful at the Bourse and at the Bank , his immense influence permits him an infallible and undisputed control over the rise and fall of the public securities . Suppose , then , that in order to get his old rival Persigny out of the way , he has himself contrived an artificial fall ? At all events , this conjecture of mine—and it is only a conjecture—will soon be verified or disproved by the state of the market that will succeed the approaching changes . S .
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CONTINENTAL NOTES . The Emperor drove to Paris , from St . Cloud , on Wednesday , to attend a Cabinet Council . The Empress accompanied him . They returned to St . Cloud in the evening . They have made excursions to Versailles and to Sevres . Among the objects composing the marriage offering of the Empress , the Emperor placed , instead of the customary purse , a portfolio inclosing 250 , 000 ? . The Empress , however , having expressed a strong desire that this sum should be entirely consecrated to charitable purposes , the sum of 100 , 000 francs will be bestowed on the Maternal Societies , to assist poor lyine-in women in providing for their wants . The charity will be placed under the immediate patronage of her Majesty the Empress , and the sum of 150 , 000 francs will be given to provide new beds at the Hospital of Incurables . A . decree appears in the Moniteur , confirming these grants , on behalf of " our niuch-loved wife , the Empress Eugenie . " Madame Lcsseps , the aunt of the Empress , died last week . In the invitations to attend her funeral , the fact of her relationship to the Empress was totally omitted . The governor of the French penal colony of Guiana , M . Sarda Garrija , has been recalled . M . Mery , the Marseillais , is the Court poet of the Empire . He wrote the cantata for the wedding , to which . Auber set the music . The Presso of Wednesday contained a bold and skilful article on the condition of the press in France , and on the disastrous futility' of tho attempt on the part of the
Government , since the coup d ' otat , to stifle all free discussion ; tho consequence being , that writers had learned " the science of saying everything while saying nothing . " This alludes to the incessant guerilla of apt quotations , met aphors , historical parallels , and other subllo innuendoes , that has been kept up sinco December ] 8 ol sealed tho lips of the journals . The public had como to seize at a glance all the nicotioa of ( his secret language ; and , for want of independent journals , lived on rumours , often false and always injurious . This artieleof Iha 1 ' ressu is a very able exposure of the evils of restricted publicity , and is in itself an evi-( lenco of something like returning liberty .
A fanatic , named Hello !' ., professing ultra-legitimist opinions , has written n series of ferocious letters , which ho calls TyetJrcs Fr / mrqiu's , to tho lOmperor , recommending him to invade England , exterminate Kiiglishmeii 11 fc their own hearths , cripple the resources , and destroy the empiro of Kngland all over the world . Hero ure two choice ; niorceaux of these hitters , which really are 11 very fair Maniple of the gratitude of tho party for whoso King Kngland lavished ho much blood mid treasure . This gratitude for Knglish intervention in as remarkable among the French legitimists , as it is in Spain and Portugal , Austria and Greece : —
" When your victorious Hag waves over the Tower of London , you will summon tho powers to a general congress . Then an alliance ahull be formed which may indeed be called holy . Franco will resume her limits , and all tho maritime positions to which she is entitled . Her colonies will bo restored ( o her : Malta will be ; hers ; Egypt will exist under her laws . I ' oland will have her limits with her independence . Russia will bo supremo in the Kust . Constantinople will once more he Christian . Austria will havo her part in Kuropeun Turkey . Ilunt'ary will bo independent . I ' russiu will absorb tho
associated States . Italy will l > o free from a foreign yoke . Spain and Portugal will form one ; and tho Metliiion treaty , liko so many othora , will be pulverised — mis tin ¦ jiiton . The seas will bo tree ; for all tho samo access , tho same rights , the same tarilln , the Name advantages . There will bo 110 dillerenco . Tho superiority of 0110 will only bo tho result of its greater intelligence and activity ; it will bo man exalted , not as IVoudhon means , but according to tho sentiment , of his interests iiijito ( l , f . <> his dignity ; and tho fraternity of peoples will bo forth a truth . " ^ / In tho postscript , ho exclaims : —
" Prince , distrust the knglish within < piito as much , and perhaps more , than the I'jiif ^ lish without ,. Tho ^ ignorance of the greatest purl , of our publicists and of our statesmen , tho good iaitli of others towards the closo of tho lust century , rondoml them tho fanatical iipuuUco of
English doctrines . We have not in France anything which resembles England — let us incessantly repeat it . The English are protestnn ts , the French are catholics —• they are aristocrats , we are partisans of equality—they are the fathers of privilege and of monopoly in ' , wo are the initiators and the propagators of common rights . The English are for all restrictions , the French for all liberties—in England the land forms a privileged domain , in Franco it may belong to all—England is the country of castes , in France they are for ever abolished ; the English only dream of trouble and anarchy to enrich themselves with tho spoils of the vanquished—tho French only dream of the civilization , the emancipation , and tho grandeur of nations . The English only communicate poison ; the French carry life throughout all the countries where they penetrate . We are not and we cannot lie English in any manner . To be English is this day in France to he more than traitor—to be parricides .
Prince , it is to the English within that we should again owe , in great measure , a new invasion of France by Continental Europe if it was ever conjured , from their imperious desires , rest assured of it . When they say "All by tho English , " . we will answer them contemptuously , ' - ' All by true Frenchmen ; all against tho English ! " Anathema , then , on the English within ! Death to the English without ! All from real Franco and by France ! France will never have any other cry . From , " the north to the south , from the east to the west , the sentiment is the same . All Frenchmen are united in this thought of honour and dignity . And it is with . truth that the poet has said , —¦ " Et la Vendee aiguiscriut son glaive Sur la pierre de Waterloo !"
A decree establishing a Superior Council of Commerce , Agriculture , and Industry , signed by the Emperor on " Wednesday , appeared in Thursday ' s Moniteur . M . Billault is appointed Vice-president of the Council . The Free-trade Debats considers it likely to be favourable to a more liberal ^ system than has j'et prevailed . M . Aladenize lias just been appointed Prefect of the Saone et Loire . M . Aladenize , it will be remembered , was a lieutenant in the garde mobile , but having insulted General Changarnier , he was arrested and sent to Vincennes . He had , however , the good luck to be ono of the intimates of the President of the Eepublic , and is now made first magistrate of a department . He is married to Mademoiselle Volet , an actress of the Varietes .
The Moniteur was looked for yesterday with greedy anxiety by thousands of families , to ascertain if their relatives were included in the Emperor ' s promised political amnesty . Never probably have so many copies of the government journal been published in a single day . Pardons are decreed to no less than 4 , 312 persons { condamnes ) by name , exclusive of the generals and the rcpresentatifs du peuple , who were proscribed or sentenced to durance , in consequence of tho events of December , 1851 , and theexiles are to be forthwith restored to freedom . A few days back , a workman , who was looking into a ' print-shop in the Hue du Coq St . Ilonore , happening to exclaim , alter examining a portrait of the Emperor , " II est bicn laid ! " was immediately seized by two police agents , and carried off , the spectators taking part with the workman , and crying out after the police , " Out , U cut laid , bicn laid . '" This affair became in the end so ridiculous that the man was set at liberty .
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Tho Prussian Chambers have been discussing the reconstruction of the Upper Chamber , giving the nomination of peers to the Crown . An amendment was moved by tho Country party , the Prussian scjiiirerarehy , proposing 11 reconstruction of the Lower Chamber , also , in a senso favourable to the landed aristocracy . Tho speech of the French Emperor , in announcing liH marriage , created ( as might be supposed ) less sensation at Berlin than at Vienna , where the sting of the allusion to Mario Louise was felt . At lierlin , however , it lias been thought , to increase the chances of war . According to tho oflieial list of deaths in Breslau , ten persons liad died thereof cholera the week before last ,. The Kraiiz Zicitnny and the Allt / finriito Z / tilnut / bring the intelligence that the Russian 5 th corps d'armeo , under General von . ltudiger , has received orders to udvunco to the Turkish frontier ; the lib division is also in daily expectation of receiving marching order . s , and has called in its reserves ; .
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It is impossible to get at the truth of the Montenegrin !) struggle among so many contradictory and conjectural accounts . Tho inaccessible nature of the country and the imperfect news from the seat of war leave us in tho dark as to the actual condition of alfairs . It , was not . until the ltith that the concentrated attack 011 Montenegro commenced . Tho Vizier of Antivnri , with ( 5000 men ( of whom l . MOO were regular troops ) , descended from ( ho Sotterinanu , a mountain which forms the extreme southern point , of Montenegro , into the Tzeronnitslia district , and advanced as far as ( ho little river Tshornitza . In the evening , after pillaging , and us koiijo nayburning the fhreo villages of lamljani , < . 'ItilnWo , and
, Pl ' ument / . i , lie fell buck upon tho Sotlermunu . On tho Mill reinforcements arrived from ( be northern districts , and tho Vizier was forced to give up his position . Osinan I'iihIiu , of Scutari , 011 tho I 2 ( , h , entered ( , ho Kiot . sku district from Szubljuk with IHHH ) men , among whom »>> - < 4 H 00 regular troops , "lint , ho was repulsed . " The . Coll . iandcr-in-Chiof , Omar I ' linha , who is supposed to bo at the head of about 1 X 1 OO soldiers of the line , entered the valley of Morutska by way of l ' odgoritzu , evidently with tho intention of hujiporUiig the oMior two corps which wrrv to havo advanced upon CoLtigny . Tho Voivodo of Grahovo , who wan Wrd pushed in llie north-west by the lioHiiian . M ussulmailH , under Meer 1 ' usha , bad fallen back upon tho Auatriau
territory . On tiio night of tho Ifilh , nays tho Trivster ZoitutK / , OHinau 1 ' nnhic took up a wtrong position ut tho foot of " a bill ou tho plain behind Hcuttui . Tho Montenegrin )*
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February 5 , 1853 . ] THE LEADER . 123
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 5, 1853, page 123, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1972/page/3/
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