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LONDON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13.

Recatitrs are at a premium. Both in military
and political concerns the supply is exceeded by the
demand. Mr. WALPOLE has not been able to get
his expected contingents of militia men in one-half
the populous districts of England; and when =Ber-
et-fact Lords-Lieutenants of counties write for in-
structions to the Home-office, he is wholly unable to
tell them what they. are to do. Ascribing his Ul-
m-else to Anti-Militia placards, the Home flume-
TART, it is said, intends to prosecute a few members
of the Peace Society. How much good will that do
him f The Right lion.
Gentleman is apparently very '
much in the distressing predicament which still ex-
cites all infant sympathies fur a certain mythic per-
sonage,
who " lost his sheep, and didn't know where
to find them." His learned mind no doubt is revolv-
ing some novel scheme of bounties or ballot—impez-
tial impressment or special pay, in order to eke out ,
the imperfect returns of each volunteer quota. He was
warned abundantly that the system proposed last ses-
sion would to a great extent fail, and the revolt has
proved it. To a question of pounds, shillings and
penes the question must sooner or later come; and
if the House of Commons are not disposed to entrust
Mein BERTSTORD with a million or so foe extra
bounties and pay, he will continue to be oat-bid by
Australian and iftlifornian attractions, in half the
market towns in the kingdom. Whether the country
wants the militia, or thinks it does, is quite a dif-
ferent question. AU we arc just now concerned
with is the administrative emergency which clearly ,
indicates that no more recruits arc to be had without
minable consideration.
The political recruiting establishment is said to be
in about as unsatisfactory a condition. The Swat-
TART of the 'Mr ASURT begins to count the days that ,
are still to pass before the assembling of parliament ;
yet a majority of reliable votes do not appear even on ,
paper. On summing up the list of casualties and ac- ,
oessioos after the general election, the muster roll ,
did not contain above 290 names of members to
whom Mr. FOREKS !Sheets= could venture to ad-
dress a circular. The interval that has since elapsed
has doubtless been occupied in energetic blandish-
ments and touching navvies.
We may readily imagine with what benignity the
smallest favour has been granted, and with what
impatient zeal every casual opening has been seized
for the re-establishment of intimate relations with
long alienated friends. The mystic words, " A safe
man wanted for Derby," seem to have been uttered
in the creak of every official hinge and echoed in the
ring of every official bell. A whole corps of "safe "
men were wanting for Derby ; and despite of all the
arts and suasion of the Whipper-in, many are want- ,
ing still.
It is surprising how little progress has been made
towards the attainment of the much desired majority. ,
English Radicals and Irish Catholics prove alike im-
practicable : and as for disappointed Whip, there
arc not half a dozen in the three kingdoms who are
subject to even the suspicion of meditating apostacy.
Who these are we shall willingly abstain from men-
tioning by name, until they either record their ,
renegade votes, or are recorded as having obtained ,
their respective recompences in the columns of the ,
Ilezette. Should that Jay. never actually arrive we
shall thus be spared the pain, and the public the dis-
gust, of such scandals: but if, on the other hand,
it should become necessary we shall not shrink from
designating as they deserve those who may betray
public confidence, by siding with • faction sworn to
keep down and repress what it terms " the noxious '
and dangerous influence" of the people. Our duties '
in this behalf, however, are fortunately not likely to
be very onerous or irki:ome. No sincere Liberal of
any shade of sentiment can hesitate in lending his
hearty aid in driving . contemptuously from office on
the first suitable occasion a set of men who, if they
adhere to their professed convictions, are only lying
in official ambush beei.le the path of Industry, Com-
merce, and Art, waiting for the word from
their chief " Up, Guards, and at them!"
and who, if they have renounced their prin-
ciples in the hop and for the easel retaining power,
are no better than a party of a political swell mob,
travelling under the assumed name of "Farmers'
Friends,' and offering to play with false dice. Even
lukewarm Liberals will eschew the damaging repute
of tacit complicity in a scheme of which whatever is
not toryissn is trickery, and whatever is not trickery
is terrain.
But there are a certain number of individuals in
the House of Commons whose position it may be
fairly avowed is distinguishable in some degree from
the great bulk of those who fill the benches of op-
position. We allude to the portion of the Peelite
party who daring the latter months of last erasion
were accustomed to sit as it is termed below the
someway, desiring thereby to mark their distince
hen from the members of the late and
its supporters. We do not allude to the eiramutance
in say spirit of cavil or unkindliness• bat imply in
mike to smelt a bet that ammo sometimes to be
sembekedi—ummely, that of the adherents of the
Ms Sir BM= Peat. there wem even during last
melee those separate 'victimise—one that 611014
united with the Liberals,—another that as decidedly
took its side with ministers,—and • third of wham
isolated position we have spoken above. Among
those who frees the day on which Lord Jollx
Rousts. quitted aloe took their seats beside him
wen Sir JAR= GRAHAM and Mr. CULDWRLIA
The present Duke of Wiuntarom (then Lord
Dorm), and several others, avowed with equal
promptitude their resolution to re-unite themselves
with the bulk of the Tory party. But a section,
numbering altogether perhaps some forty votes,
.reseed occupying a neutral post, reserving to
themselves the right of eventually determining
either individually or collectively their future line of
action. Of these it is no limper doubtful that some
have dually resolved on joining the Derhyites.
Their doing so can excite no surprise. None of
them are persons of any pretensions to leadership
even arson their own immediate friends. They are
each and all of them men who, to do them Justice,
never problem' to be Whip of any class or
They were led into acquiescence in, rather than
very vehemest 6114111111114111 far. Sir Ronan PIST:11
liborabeing anions, hem a conviction
that by • sem isms wee it_possible to rolbtlaittey
emeservadve petty together. Having once espoused
Free Trade as • poissig% they felt bound, as ha-
noorable saes, not to eeaYMe with its open assail-
ants; but they map imbed, and were ksowa to
desire, the abrogation et that sale MST of severance
between !bees sad their brow asseeistes. And
when the sesame their natural piety en the Tory
benches, k will doubtless be open the pis* gives
and ressitod, that Free Trade is no mere le be ine-
Ts sonlemnd soeh men withmemento to
remoillknia. would not be quite just. They have
never been anything but Tones neutralised in
their hostility to freedom of commerce by the
infiuenes of the illustrious statesman whom
they especially followed : but on all other
points sl popular desire or demand thoroughly
adverse and opposed to us. Such a man is Mr.
WILSON PATTEN, member for North Lancashire,
who has qualities which render him personally a
favourite with some who dig-r most widely from
him ; and whose experience in the business of the
House renders it not impossible that he may be
proposed as Chairman of Committees.
But giving them the benefit of all such supporters,
ministers are still in a minority, and aro certain to
remain so. Men of earnest convictions, like Mr.
GLADSTONE, can never bring themselves to coalesce
with shabbiness and shuffling. The ministerial in-
tellectual helplessness continues what it was from
the °utast, for no men who has ever sat is a former
cabinet hoe been persuaded to risk his reputation
by joining them ; and we trust that no man of this
descripties will.

Tat expeditions to tbs isy North have thrown
no light upon the fate of the gallant seamen
who sailed with Sir JOHN FRANKLIN in the Erebus

and Terror. Those who hare wattled from tinge to
time the results obtained , by each secesedve
navigator who has gone 46 the march mast
have noted that the only authentic and un-
doubted information which has been gleaned is
that which Captain AUSTIN R.N., and Captaitt
PENNY obtained in the autumn of 1850, at Cape
Riley and the neighbouring points of the coast
of Wellington Channel. It was ascertained
that Sir lone FRANKLIN passed on those
shores the first winter of his hasardons enter-
prise,—that during that winter only two deaths
occurred amongst the companies of his two vessels,
and that in the ensuing spring the squadron again
set sail, without leaving behind it any indication of
its course. This is the sum total of the knowledge
we poems'. Yet, small se this is, it is highly proba-
ble that if the unhappy obstacle-' about professional
jealousies and naval etiquette which at last obstructed
Captain PENNY'S exertions had been equally for-
midable at an earlier portion of his career, neither
Sir 11. Aurne nor ourselves would now have even
that modicum of knowledge to boast of. All beyond
is left to conjecture. Yet we are not without some
clue to make conjecture probable. Subsequent
researches—and for these we must not for-
get that the country is indebted to the
energy and unfailing bounty of Lady FRANKLIN—
have ascertained almost beyond the possibility of
doubt that Sir JOHN FRANKLIN'S squadron, on leav-
ing their winter quarters, did not pus either to the
southward or westward of Barrow's Straits. The
Prince Albert, • little vessel of some 80 tons, twice
equipped by her ladyship for the enterprise, has now
returned from her second voyage, after passing up-
wards of a twelvemonth in the Arctic circle. The
results of the labours of her indefatigable commander,
Mr. KENNEDY, in that perilous investigation, were
yesterday communicated to the public. It is now
perfectly clear that even if Sir JOHN FRANKLIN
and the lost ships reached Cape Walker, they never
got beyond it.
Capt. PENNY'S discoveries have made it tolerably
clear, that northward and north-west of the Wel-
lington Channel there exists a passage open when
Barrow's Straits are closed, leading into • climate
comparatively temperate, and fitted for the habita-
tion of man, and extending probably to the
eastern shores of northern Asia. It further appears,
that some five days before the arrival of the Priem
Albert at Beechy Island (where her commander re-
ceived the despatches of Sir EDWARD BELCHER from
which we extract these particulars) the squadron under
the orders of that gallant commander had steamed
up the channel to the point indicated by Capt. PINNY,
and hod sot retuned! Yet the distance is short, and
if no such passage had existed, Sir EDWARD BELCHER,
on detecting the mistake, would indubitably have re-
turned to the rendezvous at Beechy Island. We
may take it for granted, therefore, that the passage
does exist, and that Sir EDWARD BELCHER has
entered it. May we not equally infer that Sir Jong
FRANKLIN did the same before him? It is, at least,
good for us to think so, for that is the only hypothesis
'on which can be grounded the strong belief still
cherished by many that some at least of that gallant
company still survive to reward the expectation of
their anxious country.
In the present state of geographical science it is
difficult if not impossible to come to any other con-
clusion than that Sir Jong FRANKLIN—not having
passed down Prince Regent's Inlet, nor weathered
•11 Walker, nor returned home— must have gone
up the Wellington Channel and entered the Queen's
ChanneL It is true that adverse winds or currents
may have afterwards driven him to the eastward
and southward of his course, and that his rands
may at last have foundered in some of the
straits which are supposed to connect those
channels with the upper portion of Baffin's
Bay. In that ease Sir EDWARD BELCHER and
the ships under his command may fail to discover the
traces of the loot squadron; but the boats and sledges
under the immediate command of his surgeon, Mr.
WCoamice, may be more fortunate. That gentle.
man, a few hours before the departure of the Prince
Albert, had started from Beeehy Island in quest of
a passage from Wellington Channel into Baffin's Bay.
The strange tale of the cairn of stooge and the
bivouac seen on the shores of Jones's Bound by the
crew of a passing whaler will, at all events, be now
cleared up by Mr. M'Coinace.
Some surprise has very naturally been excited by
the absence of all definite memorials of Sir JOHN
FRANKLIN'S intended route. It is hard to account
for the omission; but so it is, that not • document
was left by our unfortunate countrymen at any one
of the stations which have been visited, by which
their future course could be even guessed at. But it
is scarcely less extraordinary that there should have
been nothing in SirJoett FRANKLIN'S instructions—
minute as they were—to lead him to suppose that
such was the pleasure of the Admiralty. He is
directed "frequently to throw overboard a bottle er
cylinder," for the purpose of ascertaining the
currents of the Arctic Ocean ; but, of leaving
landmarks, or despatches, or any other beau-
teous of his route for the information of those who
might come after him, not one syllable is NIL
Nevertheless this neglect on his part, in a matter
where he was not bound to await instructions, is as
unaccountable as its consequences have been un-
fortunate.

Shall we conclude without drawing public atten-
tion to a matter in which the honour of a great and
generous nation is deeply concerned f Services the
most important have been rendered by Lady
FMANIELDI to the cause of humanity. Her private
fortune has been expended in thaw accomplish-
neat. The Prince Albert. whisk for the
mead time, anticipating all ether amens of
eseanumisation at the disposal of remanent,
has named to the Admiralty the tidings of its ewe
commanders discoveries, and of the program of thaw
of the magma actually engaged its the Antis Seas,
is asmetheime a mere merchant ship--pmehased,
equipped, sad manned stench at the expense efLady
Fastezint. Is it creditable to this satin that it
should allow each sacrifices to be male dK aa &-
not which couserns not alone the earreatsg badly
of Sir lows noxious', -but else Madre& nem
and, above all, the country whisk they hays sarved,
and in serving which they are perishing' as lave
perished- Parliament should mato this.

Mi. Hosinwo's PLAN ON h CIZIT&AL ADDITION TO
Till BILITIIII MUVII:11.—M11 Ida II hue *LW to Mr.
Hooking I. reprint ths mat Isthereserthepreposal in Mr.
Hosking's own words, es poseentsd to the trustees of the
Mumma la 1849: "My peellest b, thee, to bend in the
middle et the qwwhengebe sail, thrissed by the mesas
mak bwildlews of the Ithseerth be the weber arm is the
eginiormial; pith, • thedidled .thy of he Pilleekelle at
Rene—that is to say, of the thipsisiewssed rotunda
knew that asna—e• nearly the hi she se risible.
y with the sine of the thee, ad with the Mirth%
of the linnet lthilisse, sad is to have a grand thstral
hall he the exlibiliss el the tar lad an. hapertant
works or maple% ef es& -Mbar ehjeln law to the
purposes ef the Mama es nest mph, dui theory and
equable light wldeb b se well obeethed hunt the et a
earth. A quadrilateral ball, mateln ethyl,
would bed frees the proems astrrese eastihnie tithe Me-
th.= isle the peed sestrel hal is setneit, end by the
lose M the rota& Vol" • aseidor Oath it le the
oath, web, rd worth seepsetively, threwith wow
ethepeehasthe added le oaths leveler the flesselthe
bower pledger M the Maths ; sad the thaw=
weal bid up in • se massed Mew ea the
dew if the upper obey, where wen *Mae therkisr
abase the setnwis wail afford sloths itelithe of web
sa the wpm seth west, and north pi tit" with* the
riratread she arks the canintudeetiee eleleike•
ernek plasm '
be , The ISOM
say. Ow wive believes, Weisel ft • met net es.
thedies that or myths of the esdshisi tides et the Mona.."
—The &wader.

-
FdIOCITT or A Cir.—A floe child about ten
years of sp, the daughter of Mr. Cornwall, a superannu
aced methodist primebora residing at Nuns Wand in this
tows, um. by bet death this week, as we are informed, in
a very unusual manner. It moms that, amongst the do-
seestis animals of the house, this gentleman had • eat which
was in the habit of lying upon his eldldrom when asleep,
aad on a repeat OblasiOU seratehed one of them severely.
The animal was, in consequence, ordered to be drowned,
and the servant accordingly tied • atone to its neck, and
gang it into the river. It was, of course, supposed to be
dead, but after a week it reappeared at the house in a
very famished and wild-looking audition. Having got
into one of the upper rooms, it was shut in there by the
family, who were terrified by its ferocious appearance, and
' wished to starve it to death. In a short time, however, it
i got out of its prison while the family were all at prayers
with the exception of the deceased child, who happened to
be ulcep in the kitchen. The eat iastantly attacked her in
the most furious mentor, and, before any areistance could
be rendered, had torn her face anti throat so vicalent!y as to
clue her death in a few days.—Golway Mercury.
Paocrzoneos I.r Eaaon.—By the Common Law
Procedure Act, writs of error are abolished. Error must
be brought within six years, instead of twenty years, as
under the old system.

IMPREFS;

FRANCE.
X Evaxiso.
The great sews of to-day is the President's speech
at the dinner at Bordeaux, for which everybody has
been anxiously inquiring all the morning. I send a
translation :

The object of say journey, as yes an aware, was to be-
owes personally acquainted with oar beautiful provinces of
the south, and to study their sinusitis*. It has, however,
gives occasion for a auk more important result. In feet,
and I my it with a frankness as far removed hem vanity as
false modesty, never did a people testify in • direct, owe
spontaneous, more unanimous manner, their determination
to relieve themselves from anxiety for their future condi
ties by consolidating in one hand a power with which
they sympathies. (Applause.) This is because the people sow
knows both the deceitful hopes with whishit was deluded and
the danger with which It was threatened. It knows that
in 1862 society must have rushed to Antra :tion, bemuse
every party consoled itself beforehand in the prospect of
the general wreck, by the hope of planting its own flag
upon the rains which might remain. (Sensation, and
cries of " Vire l'Empereur.") Disebesed of absurd theo-
ries, the people has now acquired the conviction that its
pretended reformers wen but dreamers, for there was ever
a disproportion—s want of logical consequence—between
their power of action and the promised result. (Loud ap-
plause, and cries of " True, true.") The nation now
surrounds me with its sympathy, because I do
not belong to the family of " ideologues." To achieve
the well-being of the country, then is no necessity for the
application of new systems, but it is before all things neces-
sary to give confidence in the present, and security for the
future. This is the reason why France appears to wish to re-
turn to the empire. (" Yes, yes." "Bravo." " Vive l'Empe-
rear.") There is, nevertheless, one spprehession to which
I must allude. In • spirit of mistrust, caftan people ex-
claim, " The empire is war." Bat I soy, "The empire is
peace." It is peace, far France desire it, sad when
France is °Patented, the world is tranquil. (These
words pronounced is • arm and emphatic tone
produced ea immense seseation.) Obey may be
bequeathed as an inheritance, but sot war.
Did those primes who gloried in being the descend-
ants of Louis XIV. re•eommenee his combats? War

Is not made for pleasure, it is made from atoarity, and at
those epochs of transition when, side by side with so many
elements of prosperity, so many causes of death also ger-
minate, we may well say with truth, caned be he who
shall be the first to give the signal in Europe of a coalition
the cosseqsene• of which would be iseelesilable. I admit,
however, that I, like the Emperor, have many coa-
quests to make. I desire, as he did, to conquer, by
conciliation, dissident parties, and to bring back
into the current of the great popular streams those hostile
rivulets which run to nothing, without profit for any one.
I deli» to conquer, by religion, by morality, by prosperity,
that yet numerous part of the population which, in the
midst of a country of faith and belief, scarcely knows the
precepts of Christ—which, in the midst of the most fertile
country in the world, can scarcely enjoy mach of the pro-
dace of the earth as the first necessity requires. (Sensation.)
We have inseam uncultivated territories to clear, roads to
make, ports to deepen, riven to render eavigab!it, canals to
fiaisli, our network of railways to complete. We hare,
opposite to Marseilles, • vast kingdom to assimilate
to France ; we have all oar great western ports to
bring newer to the American continent, by the
rapidity of communication, which we still want;
in a word, we have everywhere ruins to re-raise, false gods
to cast down, truths to make triumph. (Prolonged up
please.) Thus do I understand the empire—if the empire
is to be re-established. (Seemliest. " Vial'Empereur.")
. . . _

Bach are the conquests which I contemplate, and all you
who surround roe, who derive, with me, the good of year
country, you are my soldiers. (" Yes, yes." Repeated
plaudits.)

The importance attached to the speech will be seen
from the following telegraphic despatch in the Mossi-
teur :

Bordeaux, Oct. 9, belt-pest 11 at night.
The PsimeiNi pieseeding to the Maw given by the
Chamber of Carmiseee, posed through ands of the pops
lotion, met mains te Waft awl goo bin with acclama-
tions. At the Moo then nun 111 peons, whilst 800
others circulated is the OWN etas anne ; the reap
d'ail wee adadrabie. The lowan use delivered by
the Prince, in reply to the to prepeeti by the President
of the Chamber of Cinumente. seen essessOsted the whets
attention °lases neon& This epee& is a past event, bean
the expleasdas alas pan Opens anon, sod ef word
I ordered nee - whin the Priam bawds cossoll-
dattai by the LNitatioos whin France sails for. It is
iapendlis is lieseribe the ispression whin it neatest ea
these who bean For=osistegrophod by as wannest
applossell erns ot *he by s onalosne
ery of "'Yin Ploperour! "It will :.". elernal lawn
for the city of Deedeen to bans bees the none of a
declaration dodos* to ennise es gnat an infinons. in the
future gnosele of the country. Alto as dieser the
Prime steprodeerzst.r sasses to anSiespials the spoor
tads of the _ browner,
.by the rah
sod wink sod ass his 1/1 Gadded ea gas Price
ball Worn es Id= by the weld., peodation. The
thin net with a resod= of the son entlosiestie descrip-
tion, with which he esprood his satire satiolindes. After
a is whisk hie bigness teen pot, he with-
drew et tees, eleibe "do a dissend times re-
poses/. a- Morns' !" Vine Ifspeins 111 !"
isneass, Oct. 10, 25 sin. to 12, a.s.
Al* anise bawd are at the cathedral, the Prime got
Ste In toms as the deer of the church, to proceed
directly to the seaway temisue. In spite of the ilia the
crowd irmondirmi es his poop jut as inch as the pre •
coliag dips, sod salon his Higloatee with the warmest
ocianatiene. At twenty .isle pot to the train went
off fa Amnia's, sadist tensions
erne of " Vin
likagrasor !
Chalets, 1 rm.
His Highness has jest errind at Chadic ; he was received
at the nodes by
_the Prefect Si the Chareate, the Dentin,
mod the Coonalianosi. Ali the psysionisasef the nosh-
beensi often bed sambled Se obits the Prime. Os
Ids panne any en es% • throned does Vitiated, was
heard, that of " Vin Merlon "
Sin the Afternon o
His Highness lies saistrilsoylliehil eat,, into Ammo-
leen. The whale weg kin Bevies: wee ea natio& It
is imnelW to deemiks the esdinsion of the paynistien.
Tintiints a the assatry anises to the stuaber of
wee this dkillidiasseed w Os Yes eine swigs, which
WU poled with the not ardent esioadean At the
deo Slits
Perri liam as as Wed a his clergy,
aliellOod the s, ohs led with as greatest triad
5... The Prime's bola is enwillesh

The &eels to-day has the courage to expose a ease
of monstrous oppression that hasps* occurred in the
Kure Four gentlemen of station, residing in that
department, M. Davy, formerly a member of the
Constituent Assembly, M. Flee', an ex-prefeet, M.l
Vaney, see ex-reddent of a tribunal of commerce,
and M. Pepin, an send, lately received an
intimation from the Marquis de St Croix, the
prefect, that some six months ago they had been tried
by a mixed commission and sentenced to the surveil-
, lance of the high polies, and an order to present
themselves on a certain day before the commissary
of police, in pursuance of the mutate& They re-
fund to believe it possible that in a civilised country
',Triremes' to have a constitution, laws, and a regular
government, could now be legally amenable to a 1
a sentence passed, or alleged to be passed, long ago,
by a secret tribunal created in times of trouble and
martial law upon the plea of urgent necessity, for
the purpose of protecting the state from immediate
dangers—they having, till the present moment, re-
mained in utter ignorance not only of the
sentence, but of the accusation and trial upon
which it was founded. Accordingly they, relying
upon tho 'protection of the common law,declined to
welt upon the commissary of police. The next day
the prefect issued a decree, ordering them to leave
their beau within 24 hours, and to reside in remote
rip 'lrmo& M. Davy was to take up his abode
Dijew (Cdte d'Or), within four days; M. Flea% at
Mezilres (Ardennes), within four days; M. Papon, at
Saint Brime (Ciates-du-Nord), within five days; and
M. Verney, at Napoleon Vendfe (Vendee), within
five days. The decree ordered them peremptorily to
appear on that very day at the prefecture to receive
passports for their destination, and directed, that in
case of disobedience, they should be arrested, and
conducted by gendarmes to the towns respectively
maligned for their internment. The &eel. contends
that this decree is illegal, that the courts of law
must hold a sentence of an exceptional tribunal
kept secret for six months either null and void, or
satisfied by prescription. But assuming that no re-
dress can be obtained from the tribunals or the
Council of State, it argues that the Senate, to whom
according to the 20th article of the constitution it
belongs to annul every unconstitutional proceeding,
whether upon the representation of the government
or private individuals, ought to interfere. TMe system
of keeping convictions secretly hanging over men's
heads to bo used against them when convenient, is in
harmony with the policy which every now and then
brings to light a new law in the Aloniteur, dated in
the time of the dictatorship. No men can feel as-
sured of the lsw's protect,on fur either his life, liberty,
or property, because, for ought he knows, they may

lAV EVENING, OCTOBER 12, 1852.

r be affected by split Imams made at a time when all
laws wen
The lastsui74l:Lor the Bullshit des Ades de la
Prffecture of t Somme contains the following do-
cument. important in connection with the coming
empire:
Astlene, Oct. 9,1862.
Messieurs In Sette•Prifete et Maine,-1 baye just re-
ceived, and I bastes to oosamunicate to you, a despatch
from the secretary of the Senate. I request yea to peruse It
with attention. and to wafer= to the reavounendatione
which it contains:

" Palms of the Luxembourg, Oct. 4.
" Menvieur le Prefet,—The signatures whki are on the
petitions addressed to the senate by the ialabitants of the
different communes of your department to demand the re-
establishment of the empire are not all legalised. It is es-
sential that this omission should b remedied. In fact,
the legalisation is necessary in order to give to each signa-
ture • character of authenticity; it also (itemising the Senate
with the means of appreciating with scrupulous exactness
what is the true expression of the national will. at the same
time that it prevents party spirit from disputing the since-
rity of the wishes expressed by the petitiosen. Accept, Itc.
(Signed) " Baron Bs Lerlose&
" Senator and Secretary of the Senate."