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in club and saloon bets are laid as to the when ?—retrospectively . * * # # # # * * A suicide has recently afflicted the Bonaparte family . Gount Cainerata , grandson of the Princess Eliza Bonaparte , sister of the great Napoleon , has blown out his brains with a pistol . He had , I believe , lost 200 , 000 francs ( 8000 ? . ) on the Bourse , and the consciousness of being utterly unable to meet his engagements drove him to despair . He was only twenty-five , and bore a certain resemblance to the great Emperor . On the evening of the 3 rd inst ., he ordered his valet de chamlre to pass the night at his bedside ; but at eight o ' clock the next morning , when the servant had left his room , he took a pistol , it seems , placed the muzzle to h ! s right temple , and blew out his brains .
The Council of State has concluded the discussion of the Budget . It has suppressed by a vote an institution emanating from the personal initiative of Bonapartethe Inspectors-General of Police . There is a mystery in the matter which is not yet explained . Persigny , to check the Inspectors of Police , had created Inspectors of the Prefectures . The two institutions had the same object—the surveillance of the Prefects . Only , the former corresponded directly with the Emperor himself , while the latter corresponded with the Minister . The one was an obstacle to , and a drag upon Persigny—the other was entirely dependent upon him , and obedient to his exclusive orders . Now , by an inexplicable
resolution , the Moniteur declares the former suppressed , and the latter maintained . Is Persigny then , in fact , stronger than Bonaparte ? Is he our master , after all ? The Moniteur has regaled us , moreover , with a new batch of Senators . Public attention has been keenly excited by the apparition at the head of the list the name of the famous Marquis de Boissy , the ex-peer of France , whose incessant interruptions and unremitting persecutions blanched the hair of poor M . Pasquier , the President of the Chamber of Peers . It is expected that his presence in the Senate will give us a pleasant diversion . His opposition will awake up the palsied echoes of the Luxembourg . Great is Boredom , and it will prevail !
Nothing new in the Corps Legislatif , except the expulsion of M . Bouhier de rEcluse . The fortnight ' s delay accorded to each deputy to take the oaths having expired , M . Billault pronounced the election of M . Bouhier de FEcluse to be cancelled , and gave orders that he should be forbidden to enter tbe Chamber when he next presented himself . An usher and a gendarme were set in ambusb behind the door . M . Boubier de FEcluse did try to enter , but the usher and the gendarme popped out from their ambuscade and barred the passage of the champion of legitimate monarchy .
Apropos of legitimate monarchy , the Legitimists who had accepted public offices since the second of December , and who had thereupon taken the oaths to Bonaparte , now all refuse to take the same oaths to the Emperor . Every day comes a fresh list of resignations . The Presse , the Assemblee Nationale , and the Mode , received a first " warning" on the same day . ( The Siecle has since been warned . ) M . Einile de Girardin , oil the following day , addressed to the Assemblee Nationale a sarcastic article , which all Paris enjoyed . The article whs written in the
mocking style of Voltaire . Every word was a fusee which burst at the feet of the Government . With regard to the foreign correspondents , it seems I was in error in announcing that all had been released . Two Legitimists , M . do Coctlojon and Virmaitre , are still in confinement ut Mazua . The Palrie says they will have to pay for their accomplices . What say you to this word accomplices , applied to people who don't even know each other personally ? On tho day of the Mi-careme ( Mid-Lent day ) , u grand hall was given at the TuilerieK , notwithstanding the positive announcement that during the holy twason of Lent the Court would renounce tho diabolical exercises of the dance .
When , upon Ash-Wednesday , Bonaparte ; announced that determination in tho Moniteur , he meant to please tho clergy ; but an tho mcusuro was received witli bitter displeasure by the tradespeople- of Paris ,
Bonaparte , to please them , changed his mind . Now this is a specimen of what the tribe of asses ( les imbeciles ) call clever policy ( de VTialileU politique ) . Bonaparte oscillates between the Church and the counter : between the altar and the till . To please the one he must offend the other , and so on , see-saw ad libitum . The ball at the Tuileries was remarkable only for the immenso influx of your countrymen . Every Englishman in Paris made a point of being presented by his ambassador to the Emperor and the Empress , in order to have admission to the ball . I £ t ainsi en a-t-il ete .
The Secret Societies , if we are to believe the official prints , are forming again . The journals of the Gard state that " the Prefet , the General in command of the Department , and the officers of Justice , escorted by a strong detachment of the 16 th Light Dragoons , have deemed it expedient to visit the Cantons of Anduze and of St . Jean du Gard , where certain agitators had been endeavouring , for the last ten days , to put together again the broken links of the Secret Societies , and to propagate false news of an attack upon the life of his Majesty the Emperor . Twelve arrests were effected .
On the other hand , emissaries , pretending to be sent by the chiefs of the Republican party , have this week gone the round of the ateliers of Paris , inviting the working-men not to enter into any organization . The pretext assigned was , that " it was useless to descend iuto the streets , that the Government of Bonaparte was falling daily , that it was better to let it die a natural death , ( mourir de sa belle mort , )—that an entente would only preserve it . " These reasons are sound ; but to pretend to deduce from them , by way of conclusion , that all organization is unadvisable , that
it is better to remain isolated from any common action , at the very moment when the Government trembles to see the threads of the secret societies re-knit ; this is evidently to play the game of our enemies ; it is precisely the course our enemies are most anxious we should pur-8 ue . Ifc is one thing to rush to arms in the streets , and another to wait for the storm to gather , and , meanwhile , to organize vigorously . Such are the safe tactics and the true principles of action ; to give any other advice is an act of treachery , or , worse still , an act of imbecility . Avis aux amateurs .
This beloved government of ours has yet another subject of anxiety to brood over . I mean , a sermon . Father Lacordaire , of the order of Dominicans ( I need not remind you that France abounds in Dominicans , Capucins , arfl Jesuits , again , now ) , preached a sermon on the first Sunday in Lent , which was , from beginning to end , a violent philippic against Bonaparte . In the name of outraged liberty he inveighed against despotism and despots . He has since received orders to leave Paris . But Bonaparte has not yet escaped the preacher . Father Lacordaire has bad his sermon printed , and it
is now passing from hand to hand . The Emperor , it is understood , was much affectod by this blow . He had hoped , le mallteureux ! . through the clergy , to bring back by slow degrees the population to faith—in liimself But this sermon of F ather Lacordaire ' s has given a rough shake to the fortunes of Bonaparte (< 2 porte un rude coup de hache dans les oeuvres vives du navire qui porte lionaparfe et ses fortunes ) . 1 . Hy enlightening the clergy on their duty . 2 . Hy proving to tho population , ostensibly , that the clergy itself resists tho prevailing despotism . S .
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CONTINENTAL NOTES . Tnu Moniteur of tho 9 th inat . publishes tho nomination of three now senators : General Aupick , Ambassador at Madrid ; M . Lebrun , member of tho French Academy , ex-Peer of France , ex-director of the National Printing Office , author of tho tragedy of " Mario Stuart ; " and Baron Theuiellen , Deputy to tho Corps Logislatif . LouiH Napoleon seems to have a mania for " inspectors general . " The same number of tho Moniteur contains a decree ro-organizing tho eervico for tho conservation of diocesan edifices , niid appointing threo " inspectors general" to that service , at a salary of 0000 frunes per annum . Another batch of political convicts was to sail for Cayenne on tho 10 th inst ., unless counter orders reached Toulon . Thin butch consists of a certain number of persons who wore condomnod by Courts-martini after the coup-d'Hat of December , 1851 , some to simple transportation , others to transportation to a fortified place . Their punishment had been commuted to 15 yearn of hard labour either at tho bagno of Toulon or at tho penitentiary colony of Cayenne , at their choice . They hfld chosen Cayenne , thinking that they would be , there classed in tho category of political convicts , but when they bad made their elioico , they were informed that' they would bo assimilated to ordinary convicts . Theso persona wroto immediately to Paris to obtain , if possible , tho revocation of their commutation , preferring a condemnation , for hfo to a lighter but more degrading condemnation . M . do Lavalotto , ox-Ambassador to Turkey , hns arrived
^^ mm ^^^—^^ mm ^^ m ^ m ^^^ mmmm ^—^ mmmm ^ m ^^^^^^ — - By a decree in the Moniteur of the 8 th insi , afyat 4 «> china imported from the possessions of Great Britain in . ' Europe , will no longer be subject to the restrictionsestablished by ordonance of February 8 , 1830 . In the place of the suppressed General and Special-Inspectors of Police , a Central Commissary of Police for each department is appointed , with salaries from 2000 f . to SOOOf . each , and an allowance for travelling expenses , and frais de bureaux , of from ISOOf . to 2000 f . a yoar . Thebudget of expenditure vtill be rather increased than diminished by the suppression of the inspectors , as the total expenses of their substitutes will be little short' of half ' a million of francs per annum , besides special periodical commissions , which the Minister of Police is empowered to issue : an additional expense of about 200 , 000 f .
perannum . A telegraphic despatch from . Vienna of the 8 th inst .,, announces that the status quo had been re-established in Montenegro , all hostilities suspended , and the political refugees removed to the interior . Kleck and Sutorina are guaranteed to Austria , and the Porte assures the Bosniac Christians of its protection . The series of 'faenegatinos" by the French Government ,, to which we briefly referred last week , is a curious specimen . ' , of Moniteurism . The French Government had not addressed a personal note to the Federal Government of
Switzerland on the subject of tbe refugees , but had given * cordial advice . The Emperor had not with his own hands ? transmitted telegraphic congratulations to the Emperor of Austria , on his escape from assassination ; but had sent am autographic letter to be presented through his ambassador * at Vienna . The Emperor had not joined in any note ix » the English Government on the subject of the refugees ^ but relied on the English government discharging : all th » duties of " good neighbourhood , " ' The French Government had not offered its- medSation to Turkey in the Austrian difficulty : the fact being that the mediation was solicited , not offered .
Such are the denials of the Moniteur , by wai « h we maygauge the value of its assertions . Marshal St . Arnaud is said to be ill , and going to Hyeres for his health . It is more than probable that he will not resume his office . He has long been in the way . Th e words used by Father Lacordaire in the sermon which hasprocured him the honours of exile were as follows . His theme was the nobleness of a truthful character which , disdained to win a temporary success by criminal means . In fact , it was a protest against the old Jesuit doctrine of- " Do evil that good may come . " He exclaimed—
. . " However magnificent the design , however grand the- < execution , even if the object be to effect what is called the saving of a nation , he who to effect this object makes use * of villainous means , is himself nothing but a villain . " The Marquis de Moustier is named Envoy-Extraori dinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of France in Prussia : By an Imperial decree a General Exhibition of the manufacturing and agricultural products of France is anw nounced to be opened in Paris on the 1 st of May , 1855 ..
to examine the protest of Narvaea , - dressed to the Senate a violent denunciation of the arbitrary and illegal measures of the Government . There have been debates of great violence upon the conduct of tho Ministry , who do not seem to put a good face upon i their own unconstitutional proceedings . Altogether the situation is becoming very strained , and it becomes a question how long parliamentary government will be borne - with in the present temper of the authorities at Madrid . The press is not allowed to publish any reports of the proceedings in tho Chatnbors beyond tho summary contained ! in tho Gazette . This is wholly unconstitutional , and borrowed directly from the institutions of Louis Napoleon .
Marshal who had ad The Spanish Cortes were opened on the 1 st by a ample decree . The Government finds itself in presence > or a vigorous opposition , especially in the Senate . In . oanstituting the Board of the Senate , the four secretaries atected were all candidates of the opposition . The Second Chamber is more conciliatory , not to say subservient . M . Martinez de la Rosa , a sort of liberal Conservative , was elected ! President , being supported by the Government andi by the moderate opposition . The Senate have appointed a committee , in spite of the Government , to . consider the condition of the Press , as represented in the- petitions of the principal journals ; and have also named ; a committee
in Franco . Lord Stratford do Redelifl ' e , enrouto to Vienna and Constantinople , has been received in private audionco by the JCmiioror . Tho French Government booms to bo groping its way towards a flomowlmt Iobb reutrictivo commercial policy .
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The trial of Gervinus , says tho Atherueum—tho arraigp * - ment of naturo , providence , and history—has taken pl ' -wa . * at Mannheim . Before appearing in the courts , the learnecU Professor applied to tho law Faculty of Gottingen . tf > r their opinion on tho validity of the prosecution , —andXtho Faculty transmitted a collective answer to Heidelberg in which they say that tho charge against him founded on his book is absurd . The public prosecutor , however , would not think so—and tho question has been regularly argued .
Tho sitting was remarkable chiefly for tho few worda spoken byl Gervinus himsolf—who showed very clearly that tho indictment was neither " pious nor wise" in its spirit , nor possible in its effect . Propositions , phrases , declamation , said tho Professor , were uniformly avoided in hi » book , and to facts alone was weight allowed . If tho conclusion of a scientific procosa thus conducted were favourable to self-government—that was to say , to tho participation of many rather than of fowin tho work of governmentthat was not of his doing , but should bo laid to tho account ; of that Providence- which watched over the course and
development of the liurnan race . Ho allowed that tho-Courts might for a time silence the historian—but thoy could not , ho said , tulonce History , and nature was proclaiming aloud tho great facts of tho age . He showed that his doctrine was no new doctrine ; it was tlie doctrine of Aristotle , of Maehiavelli , of Hegel , and of other thinkers . It was puerile , he urged , to dream of changing by a verdict at law the human conception of history . " The voice of history , " ho said , " is as euro to speak as tho course of history is to run . " That they could ehut him up in a dungeon for four montha ho ofiowod—but oa tho wtli , k *
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* Our correspondent here adds tho various stories in circulation , making up a perfect chronique scandalouse , with dates and conversations in duo order and succession . Wo forbear to publish these reports , which , indeod , wo have no doubt our correspondent " very properly" lurnished us a titre de document only , and not for publication . Wo
have elsewhere given our opinion of tho roal value , m tho present state of France , of rumours—an opinion fortified by a letter of Voltaire ' H , written at a time of political compression and public Hilonee , paralleled too tuithfully by the existing regime . ' Hut wo find no plttanuro in upreading scanduls against tho honour ' tof a woman because she has the misfortuno to bo the wife of an ISnipcror— -which scandals , after nil , soon or late , timo will convict of calumny , if not of truth—more uneoonaly for being true . —Ed . Leader .
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Leader (1850-1860), March 12, 1853, page 246, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1977/page/6/
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