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LONDON, THCIBISDAY.I.4NUARY I.

TO-DAT we enter upon a New Year, which—
judging by the present aspect of the political horizon
—promises to be as fruitful in interesting events as
any one that has of late gone before it.
“ No one," says CHARLES L "ever regarded
the First of January with indifference. It is that
from which all date their time, and count upon what
is left. It 'is the nativity of our common Adam.' I
never hear the peal which rings out the old year
without a gathering up of my mind to a concentra-
tion of all the images that have been diffused over
the past twelvemonth ; all 1 have done or suffered,
reformed or neglected, in that regretted time.
begin to know its worth as when a per-
son dies." Every one must acknowledge the
profound truth and beauty of these words. For
the journalist, however,—who, in additiou to the con-
sciousness derived from his distinctive personality,
is the depositary and exponent of the corporate con-
sciousness of large masses,—they have an extended
meaning. We who have felt vividly the pulsations
of the heart of great movements,—and have worked
with various degrees of ability and success to carry
out their objects,—look back upon the register of the
public doings of the past year with something of a
personal interest in the retrospect. We feel a kind
of responsibility as to this corporate consciousnese, and
are depressed or elated just as the successive images
in the phantasmagoria of lust year's eventsaresubjects
of sorrow or of joy. We are anxious to strike a
favourable balance of those transactions of the year in
orkieh we have sympathised or participated just as
the merchant is when he posts his ledger to aacertain
his losses and his gains. Seen in this light, the events of
1531, although not sufficiently satisfactory to warrant
indulgence in extravagant anticipations of a milk-
nium, are still of a kind that enables us to entertain
hops that the cause of progress will not only
maintain its ground bat make advances in the New
Year on which we this day enter.
Although it was not very pleasant at the com-
mencement of the year 1531 to learn that no party
would take the trouble of governing us,—and that from
sheer inability to find ally one else who would under-
take the task, we were obliged to place the power
thus left, in the hands of those who had thrown
it up,—still there is great consolation in the fact that
the functions of the body politic, went on as well
without a government ss with it. This recollection
is abundantly refreshing at a time when a change
of ministry in any other r country in Europe
is either produced by, or productive of, a new
'fetal, which paralyses all the national move-
ments, puts the towns in a state of siege, and
converts peaceable citizens into targets for the
musketry of a brutal soldiery. Very consolatory also
is this fact, as showing that the oscillations of the
political pendulum between whig and tory are so
small, that the public begin to pay comparatively little
attention to them, and are expecting, and
will find, deliverance from some other guar
ter. Again, although the proceedings of the
Pore, in anathematising education in Ireland,
in sowing the seeds of religious discord in
England, in turning his back against liberal prin-
ciples all over Europe, and in patronising the
hatchery in the streets of Paris, are melancholy
mutters enough,—there is comfort in the thought that
the very extravagance of this conduct is serving to
, envies, even catholiseof the fact—which protestants
fait me of long age—that the pretensions of the
Porgy are utterly umempatible with the preserve-
des of free governmeat. Bo also, although we
might regret that the universal public, do
set declare that the toleration of the opium*
hiesureby in its penent ammehne dab is
• ele,—we have roam% on the ether hetail, hi thank
we stare that the Dielhope, by the whiten heeed
disne them about the essintioe of this revessoe. and
the emhimitiag impudence of their dim. ban tine
mush am town& enabling us to refaces the abases
they Mud by, than could have been
ley say ether than themselves. It is .4—Jr ed
rith-
eat doubt to reflect that the Bishop of Eerie' tried
• pt a number of his clay together to break
the but it is essig to know that
the haewledge of what the synod did is
WI Pensively in the brains of certain
awl* old Wit* who prattle about it
hi a mom similar is that ia whisk their prototype
=ben spaidng of Meg Queues visit to
Mho • wail almost as loudly
as ever, it to rein het the My snoy-
sihis in rhaell‘ll-1111K0 men-
IM▪ theylS bee Mini their mite. If the eeverydneetion
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ersest meth& he the whole kingtions,--mill
ism the point et settling it he herself.
Allas*XL4trana is still in prison, in spite efLord Los-
montmer'sepiatelary and Lord Muneronts_partical
tshata--bat thin Leasers
in free. end is landlinir
a the whisk duped= will fled it a Mil matter to
Wag Destaa's prodemation are vile
woad I modenee,—bat then an they not so
waste paper wdgiced against Mr. OLanurghos
pamphlets ? - this way we might pp throu_ihe
'ests it the wham year 'est gone hem es. dnding
emponsedes—mi smemtkleg one--/or all the evil
that we shoal ban hi iment, and then—leaving
this evil ent at the gneetion—put down as clear gain
a let of lewdest home tbst maid include, increase
el the nem% dimildied Motion, the Greet Ex-
hibition, inemilleael hospitality, submarine tele-
gritran!! pew
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thonlindene warrant us in Waging
is hope he the him► although there is no haying
that a her dark dude keg over the pant The
diet difficulty of omen diem iMdf es the Otedir
asst. The preparations for piping the red
gem between- fres betitutins- and-deopellma aw
peeseeding more weft they ever. TM the sans
et hoodoos is moseng with remiss is
tree : thee it will embody tai me it WIND
a sin to doubt. The greet groand for Inge link
the fast that the bas sew thrown or the'
mash
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noise false colours.
After eageedieg tee six awl years between
liberalism and absolutism. the governments of
the eselbest have now decided for the latter, and
the Roman catholic climb is solemnizing, the union
with all opindeer. The world is waiting with
breathless 1 fir the result of the roateli.
In the msaataatr let us be grateful that pesos is
with as undistuthod. Diplomatists still smile out-
wardly upon each other an every court in Europe.
Every thing is am yet cooleur do roe/ on this New-
year's wag. Ambassadors are preparing to
andmage esortnies with the governments of the
_states in Minh they are !midget. Formerly it
was the mien hi seeks costly sweats to monarchs
is We day, and smoke we set estrequeatly taken
to Aeon such le as maid men advice in a'
manner more or evident. Thus LATIMER, we
know, on New-Yeses-Dar rented Hausa PILL
with a New Testament. an a leaf doubled down at
Hebrews int., 4, nanying a very significant
hint of the bell bishop', reel eindaseste
about Hittite posmodingt mairimeniaL A Mlle
fancy might in She own fed Ititegsszle=
is deviate apingelele gills to he p
to the mime nueselps dlhrepu. This the Wag I
Of NAPI:III.4Ir be plemeini nin a mil and ems
the &th
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THE

'RES& THIJW3DAT

TIIIS DAY'S NEWS FROM PARIS.
THE FINAL RESULT OP TER PRESIDENTS
ELECTION.

(BY SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.)

FROM OI.•i OWN COMIUMONDINT.
PARTS, TxruD►T MoININO.
The Eagle is re-established on the banner of the
army, and on the Cross of the Legion of Honour.
The Consultative Commission presented last night
the result of votes favourable to the President.
Voters, 8,118,773. Yes, 7,439,218. No, 640,737.
The Archbishop of Paris and the clergy have pre-
sented their felicitations and good wishes to the
President.

PARIS, WIDNIIIDAT MOILYING.
The differences between the new constitution and
that of the First Consul, which serves as bsais of
the former, are hinted in a remarkable article of the
Petrie. The main distinction is the suppression of
the Tribunat, whose functions are deferred to the
Corps Legislatif. The latter body will thus be per-
mitted a certain amount of discussion. The Paine
says This assembly. (the legislative) will discuss,
before adopting or rejecting them, in their entire
form, without being able to modify their spe-
cial provisions, the bills which will be pre-
sented to it by the government, which the
Council of State will have prepared, and which
will be defended in the Assembly by members of the
former body." After dwelling upon the necessity of
establishing a stable government in France, the
Petrie quotes the organic Senates Consultum of 1804,
which settle. the imperial dignity upon the descend-
ants of the Emperor and his brothers Joseph and
Louis ; and remarks that in no case was this settle-
ment to bo turned to the advantage of the other
brothers and their descendants; but a new illl-
perial election wu provided for in cue of
the extinction of the issue of the two brothers

mentioned. The article proceeds to pourtray the em-
pire as " one of those wholes full of harmony and
grandeur, of force, and vitality, which seize the
imagination at the same time that they satisfy the
reason. The Emperor was the principle of autho-
ritv made man. The idea of stability was in the
hereditary transmission of the imperial dignity." I
have quoted the preceding passages that you may
see clearly the direction and the pace of the fortunes
of the Elysee. It is clear that the empire is already.
looming large upon us.
The President has addressed the following letter
to the bishops of France:
Monseigneur l'Evique,—ln order to call down the bless•
legs of Heaven upon France and upon the great mission
wog& d to me by the French people, I beg you to cause to
be sung in your cathedral church, on Thursday the lit of
January, • solemn Ti Demo of thanksEiving.
Accept, fie., ocis-Naroteori.
M. de Montalembert has addressed to the Univers
a letter, giving his adhesion to the catholic and con-
' servative press of Germany. Ho says that the evils
inseparable from the liberty of the press can only be
attenuated by the energetic and disciplined efforts of
religious newspapers.
The prefect of the Seine has delivered to the
mayors of Paris 80,000 fr. to be distributed to the
poor on the occasion of the ceremony to-morrow.
The committee charged to examine the lists of sub-
scription deposited by each of the five compa-
nies competing for the Railway from Lyons to
Avignon, has held a meeting, and after having dis-
cussed the worth of these lists, proposed to exclude
from the adjudication the company of the Menagerie,
Generale'', the company represented by General
Daulle, and the company of Jules Seguin and Co.
If this proposition is admitted, the competition will
lie between the company of MM. Seguin, Brothers,
and Co., and the company of the iron-masters.
Mention is made of an ingenious contrivance, by
which, during the lasting of the Bourse, the quota-
tions of the Rennie, instead of being notified by a
crier, are to be marked aloft in a transparent dial,
distinctly visible from all corners of the hall.
General Gerandon, in command of the state of
siege in the Gen, has addressed to the Minister of
War a report, giving an account of the late insurrec-
tionary proceedings in that department. It narrates
in particular the invasion of Auch on the 4th inst.,
by the insurrectionary bands, when three squadrons
(90 men) of the 6th hoses's, under Colonel de
Cognard, beat back *early 6,000 insurgents, whom
they charged without hesitation, and eventually dis-
ipersed, though not without considerable loss to them-
selves. A quarter-master and one huger were
killed, three officers and eighteen privates wounded,
and two horses killed and ten wounded. This con-
duct of the military, the report says, saved the town
from certain devastation, and the department from a
general conflagration.

Onr Perin despatches of last evening's date had
not arrived at the time of going to prem.

01011 AN OCCASIONAL COIIiSPONDINTI
PARIS, Dic. 30.
Although the chef de retat has made his ap-
pearance in one instance on the Champa-Rlynes, and,
in another, at the opera, and although he was re-
ceived in the last instance with a degree or two less
of coldness than in the first, he has by no means be-
come unterrified. On the contrary, as you have been
informed by the Moeiteur, he was afraid to have his
regular reception last evening, and, in fact, has
banished Monday evenings from his official calendar.
As another precaution he has had all the chimneys
of the Pasha de l'Elyne covered with a framework
which, without preventing the escape of smoke or
vs, will effectually prevent the descent of bomb-
shells or demagogues. Whether similar precautions
have been adopted at the Tuileries we are not in-
formed. Nothing is more evident, however, than
that the President stands in bodily fear. The terror
with which the atmosphere is charged has insinuated
itself, hi e a moral plague, into the imperial presence
I itself. Tranquillity, meanwhile, is confined to the
*
fis.
" As for the Parisians they are re-
ilnd vivacity, and the whole min-
ium a crystal. In a few days the coup
rill will have been forgotten, and Ladino°
Napoleon (as the church calls the President), will
have become a consecrated and common-place
tyrant.
As I look from my window this moment I see
thousands on thousands of people swarming along
the whole line of the Boulevards, from the Made-
leine to the Place de la Bastille. They fill every
be of ground, and seem to be crawling over each
ease like ants. And for what P To pan in
review some thousands of wooden shanties, just
erected for the sale of dolls and bon-bons. Never
were a people so " pleased with a rattle, tickled with
a straw. same shanties will serve to amuse
and distract them for • week ; and after that the
people will be ready for another coup cretat, and more
coupe de canon.
The other night I was at several of the theatres ;
they were all crowded to excess. In a play at the
°don a slight alludes was made to the Revolution
- • of

by having reversed the fortune one of the &e-
-recters, and transformed him from a gentleman into
• concierge ; but it was received with decided disap-
probation. Numerous hits, however, were made at
socialism, and they were all well received. Indeed,
Or socialist of the stage is always a safe character
le attack, if for no other reason, because ho is never
hes* maywhere else.
ham what I can nee, all places of public amuse-
Ind ese as much frequented as ever. But it should
ha bons in mind that a Frenchman thinks much
asre of his play than of his dinner. The latter is a
lairary, the former a necessary ; so if one must be
dispensed with it will be the dinner. The currier
contrives out of his franc or two a day to Nave enough
for at least one evening a week at the theatre,
not only for himself, but for his " cousine," while she,
too, Naves something to pay for gloves and palette. It
is important that the Parisian should be fed, but it is
of equal importance that he be entertained. Quand
it a des thiotres i s'amuse : et guand it s'onsuse, tout
to bier.

JANUARY 1, 1852..

rest of Belgium alone, but of European peace in
general.
At Munich the Minister of War has declare that
the increasing applications of military officers for
their discharge, in order to take situations as rail-
way guards, cannot be attended to, such trander
being derogatory to the service.
It is announced that M. Persigny,, accompanied
by the secretary of tho French Foreign office, will
shortly arrive at Frankfurt, as bearer of a special
mission from Louis Napoleon to the Diet.
The deficiency of corn in Hungary is so alarming,
that an Austrian commissioner has been sent with a
view to establishing magazines at the government
expense. The dearth has not arisen so much from
bad harvest as from the devastated condition of the
country, and the peasant's inability to cultivate it.

VIENNA, Dec. 25.
' The great struggle at present going on in Ger-
many may be said to be a sort of diplomatic war
between Austria and Prussia. They are both too
heartily frightened just now to enter upon open
hostilities, but like the Diable bullets: and his rival
imp, they have shaken hands, and hate each other
now worse than ever. There was a time when the
supremacy of Germany for which they are strug-
gling was, as wo all know, offered to Prussia, but it
was clogged with certain conditions, and the King
had neither wit nor courage enough to accept it.
Since then he has, however, been constantly
struggling for the prize that slipped through his
fingers. At present the influence of Prussia is at the
lowest possible ebb, and the King, humiliated and
out of temper with himself, would- do anything to
recover his lost ground. Ile is making every possible
effort, both by diplomatic exertions and a bought
press, to counteract the present commercial policy of
Austria, but the task is not so easy. Austria has
also a venal and slavish press, and she has been of
late remarkably well served by her representatives
in foreign countries. The strife has waxed warm,
and is likely to wax warmer, for both parties are
conscious of the immense advantage of being the
head of a general German Customs' Union as a
starting. point for future operations. Indeed, which-
ever gains the prize will find her object half accom-
plished.
Meantime, when thieves quarrel, honest men come
by their own, and the minor states of Germany arc
reaping the greatest advantage from the differences
and dissensions of the great rowers. Prussia, having
offended the members of the Zollverein by the recent
treaty with Hanover, is making the most energetic
efforts to conciliate them, and her arguments are not
without sonic show of reason. _

Hanover has, it appears, no less than 75 per cent.
more than her share, according to her population, in
the receipts of the Zollverein, but it cannot be denied
that she has made many sacrifices, and the price of
many of the necessaries of life will be considerably
increased by her union with Prussia. It is obvious,
therefore, that she is entitled to some compensation
which may enable government to diminish the taxes
in other respects.
A committee has been appointed to ;inquire into
the pay and allowance of the Austrian army, with&
view to increasing them. No stone is left unturned
to secure the personal popularity of the Emperor
with the troops. Ho seems indeed to devote his
whole time and attention to this object. No eye has
ever seen him since his accession to the throne out of
uniform, and woe betide the officer who should meet
his eyes in plain clothes. Ile once put six generals
under arrest on the same day for being out of uni-
form. Now we hear of his getting up before day-
break and visiting the barracks on the outskirts of
the town, to show the soldiers that his eye is upon
them; and a few days ago, at a review of the
garrison, both the Emperor and his adjutant, Field
Marshal Grilnne, appeared in the dress of private
soldiers, and the newspapers were instructed on the
following day to comment upon the fact with admi-
ration. " Only think," they cried in chorus, " that
the all highest himself our of-all-love-worthiest-
-21-year-old-high-spirittd-Ciesar not having disdained
to wear the same dress as a poor and miserable
private soldier." History, said the writers, with the
sword of censorship suspended by a split-hair over
their heads, could show no example equal to this.
If Turkey had wished to offer Austria a plausible
excuse to avenge herself for the liberation of Kos-
suth, events could scarcely have turned out more un-
luckily, some crazy old Mohammedan pacha at the
Dardanelles, intoxicated with religious pride and kif
(a sort of opium) together, having just allowed an
Austrian vice-consul to be beaten by his attendants,
because that functionary had neglected to obey a
very proper order to keep the street clean belere his
house. Our private opinion may be that the Aus-
trian vice-consul very richly merited what he got,
and much more, for having by his filthiness invited
fevers, &c., in a warm climate, but there can be no
doubt that having him thus officially belaboured was
a violation of the rights of legation.
But the Turk did not stop here. The Austrian
vice-consul, sore with his bruises, immediately struck
his flag, and with the Swedish vice-consul, also a
leafferer, put himself under protection of the Basilian
representative. The Pacha, therefore, the next day,
sent for all the vice-consuls, and assuring them they
were a pestilent race, utterly unfit to live, warned
them emphatically against incurring his displeasure
for the future, and instead of offering any apology to
the Austrian, threatened to repeat the indignity.
What will be the result of this it is hard to say.
Russia will have also a right to require indemnity,
and it is likely to be exacted to the last farthing ;
while Turkey may thank her stars that the present
state of affairs in Europe is likely to prevent more
serious reprisals.
Consuls generally have been rather unlucky lately.
Our own at Belgrade, Mr. Fonblanque, having been
recently struck and insulted, but for this offence pro-
per reparation is believed to have been already made
by the Prince of Servia.
the contradiction of the report of the death of M.
Kossuth'. mother contained in a Vienna paper of the
24th, is not corroborated by any other, and may
likely enough be a ruse of the government to quiet
general indignation. Of Hungary, about as little is
known in Vienna as of Timbuctoo or the interior of
China; but good authority states that Kossuth's
sisters are still in prison, and harshly treated ; that
many important political arrests have been recently
made; and some sportsmen, having determined on a
Intim in the neighbourhood of Smolnok, were
all arrested without parley and marched off to prison
under the accusation of having assembled for the
purpose of political agitation. Tho flogging and
hanging, and shooting and imprisoning, and the
military tribunals and government prosecutions, all
go on as briskly as ever; and as we know this, it is
perhaps fortunate for us that we are not distressed
by news of the other miseries that reign in Ilungary.
Huth from hunger is said to be as common there u
in Ireland. Violations, armed robberies, incendiaries,
and such things commoner.
A writer in the Edinburgh Review, and in a very
able article, in other respects, tells us that he should
like to see the general public express their real
opinion about " one united Germany," the favourite
theory of Gagern ; and he adds, that u the press is
free, and there is no impediment in the way of public
meetings, he is surprised some one anxious for poli-
tical distinction does not take the sense of the countryo4.
on a point so important. All this is a very
specimen of what is known in England, and the data
on which tho opinions of people are formed se to
Austro-German affairs. And neither the writer, nor
one person in 10,000 besides had any idea that no
man in Germany dares say his soul is his own ; that
the opposition press is mute, and that half a dozen
gentlemen cannot meet to go hare-shooting in
safety !
A man has just been arrested for carrying on a
strange sort of commerce. He bought children at
about 10.. (9 florins) a piece, to take to London as
street musicians, and was embarking with about 20
of them, when the police laid hands on him. His
name is Humpf.
When the order for disarming the National Guard
appeared, government promised to allow about 14s.
for a good musket, but they are now actually paying
only 20 km., about Rd., and well intentioned people
are expected to give them up for nothing.
Five per Cents., Metalliques, 944, 94; London,
11.59.

GREECE.

A Munich letter states that the Queen of Greece
will be prevented from making her projected visit to
Germany in consequence of the illness of the King.

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