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LONDON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER is.

Lord Dstnoesut's ungenerous and insolent demand,
are now as conveniently fresh in the recollection of
our contemporary's cheats—when the money has
been found.
Instabilities of opinion such as these might be safely
left to the discernment of a public quick to detect in-
consistencies were ii 'not that then: is still reason to
apprehend that,—under this semblance of juster
views and a better appreciation of the question,—
still lies concealed the old animus the animus
which has for twenty years been hostile to
the continued existence of the Deccan as a native
state, with a native court, with a native trade, with
a native society, with native institutions, with a na-
tive army, and with a native population unaccus-
tomed to our dominion. Let us not, then, be quite
sure that this amusing change of opinion in the co-
lumns of the Times, —thougeapparently for the better,
—involves any real change of policy. For what, after
all, it practically amounts to is an alternative sug-
gestion of a very suspicious character. " Either the
contingent should be placed more at the disposal of
the NIZA3I, or it should be brought more to the
charge of the Company."
The notion first of' keeping up a great subsidiary
force in the Deccan which has nothing on earth to do
except to consume and eat up, unprofitably, the reve-
nues of the ceded districts,—which has not smelt any
powder but its own for the last thirty years,—and
which exists to protect the NIzAM against foreign
foes, who themselves have no existence;—and then,
instead of allowing that Prince to have te use in his
internal affairs of this army, for which he
surrendered the ceded districts, to force another
great army on him on that pretence and then to deny
him its use—and lastly to drive hint into the neces-
sity of c,uploying a third army of his own, which,
because it in sonic degree is available by him, the
British government hates and detests and slanders—
this is sufficiently absurd. But this state of things, the
alternative suggestion meets or remedies most im-
perfectly.
For if " the contingent be placed more at the dis-
posal of the himin; then, of course, he will be re-
quired to disband his native army; and, having dis-
banded it, he will be at the entire ne:rcy of the East
India Company. For, try and disguise it as we please,
it is quite as much the existence, the ardour, and the
temper of his native troops that have saved the
Deccan, as payment of Lord DAtitoustes demand.
And what is really aimed ut now, as the next step
in the destruction of the SIZAId, is to place him mili-
tarily within our power, by getting rid in the
Deccan of all troops not entirely under our control.
The alternative is that the contingent "should be
brought more to the charge of the Company." This
is perfectly just and proper in itself: for the
, Company now have the revenue oldie ceded districts
without any corresponding advuntage to the NIZ.tM;
and if they will keep up troops in the Deccan for
their own, and not for his or his subjects' purposes,
the Company ought to pay for them. To bring the
, contingent more to the charge of the Company would
greatly relieve the Nrz.in's finances. But he would
, still require troops of his own to carryon his govern-
, merit.

TUE first want of France,—the grand thing to be
desired by those who look to a dehaitive settlement
and pacification of that country,—is, or rather was, a
reconciliation between the upper and lower classes of I
society. It was the total breach, the wide schism,
between those classes, created by, or at least termi-
nating in, the communistic tendeucies of the one
class and the ultra-conservative tendencies of the
other, that has ruined France, and laid its liberties
and its existence at the feet of an usurper. We have
often said, and we again repeat, that no one will suc-
ceed in lwcaming permanent head of the French
nation unless he succeeds in effecting this great com-
promise, this vital reconciliation.
there was, perhaps, no person better placed to effect
this compromise than Louts NAPOLI:ON, previous to
his late COllll or when he first assumed the office
of President. lie was sufficiently strong in conserva•
tive support, and in the necessary adhesion of the
wealthier classes, to bare addressed the people in
sonic other language than that of bayonet and re-
pression.
By allowing full scope and play to discus-
sion and association, and to the ventilation of ideas,
he might, whilst putting down conspiracy, have soon
convinced the communists of the folly of their schemes,
or at least exposed them to the ridicule of all. 'fbe
demands of the more rational of the popular party
could easily have been reduced to some standard
conioatible with society and with government. And
the Notional Assembly, instead of being an arena Mr
the conflicting. passions and mutual challenges of the
two classes, might have been made the scene and the
means of their common understanding.
After all, kid Lolls Nll'ol.eoSl the true sense of '
his own interests and position, it is with the people
he would have identified himself. Ilia birth, his
name, and the respect borne to both by the working
classes, mid by no other, suggested such a policy.
But the dandy of the west end of London could
not stoop to be anything less than the heir of an
Emperor; and so tic trusted Ms fortunes and his
political guidance to the representatives of the
wealthier classes, all of whom placed their hopes
and reposed their fealty in a very different dynasty
from his.
thie might have thought that when Louts NAP°.
Eros had made full discovery ut this; when lie had
seen that the other monarchic parties would never
more tolerate him, and would never let pass an op-
portunity for conspiring meting him, or against the
republic ; one would think such a conviction
would have prompted the PierAtiesr to ad-
dress himself sincerely to the lk °plc. It was,
perhaps, nut tea late on the second of December. If
there ever lurked a really generous and liberal ten-
dency in Lours NAPOLEON, it must have displayed
its. It then. It could :tut be then said that he stood
in awe of the Aseemblv, or that he was compelled to
bow to its majority. Ile was master of his actions,
and free to profess any doctrine. And yet he ehooeos
this very moment to profess in the face of the world
the most retrograde principles of government of the
two most retrograde schools. All that is bigoted in
legitininer. with all that is violent and arbitrary in a
purely military .government, unite to form the ChM.
tit tee and political creed of LOU us Nerott.os.
We call conceive such a policy, if representative or
parliamentary government was to be continued, and
if it were necessary to win over some hundred mem-
bers of a hostile majority. But parliaments are at
an end, and the word majority. a delusion. The
question is, of what use legitimist adhesion will be
to Louts Naeotros: throughout the country. We
may answer at MICe, that it will do as much harm
as guod, aid produce as much weakness as strength.
Fur every pirtisan who may be won from
the high noblesse and the ultra-montane clergy to
last us NAPOLI:IIN, an hundred liberal Mull will be
disgusted. Besides, all the charlotanerie of the
PRI:SIDI:NT will never win over the more respectable
and moderate of either the legitimists or of the
churchmen. That Pitthhrierrs of France,—the Bishop
of Cif Uintr-4,—ulay write circular lsistora!s in Nara
atria's favour; and Count MON T.l LEM ItlitT nay
intercede for him, by alleging that people may sup-
port him without becoming approvers of all his acts. I
But this will not affect such met, as the Due de
No or the Archbishop of PAU'S. It is but the
very ultra section of the legitimists that will go with
him and the more ultra-montane of the clergy. And

And that requirementdiseloses the real question at
issue. The Niz.tw is a sovereign prince, whom the
East India Company is afraid of allowing to have
the means, the freedom, and the power of governing
the Deccan. By the Company's restrictions, impo-
sitions, treaties, and constant interference the.
Nusst's power for good is paralysed. Ile is placed
a position false to the Company and falser to his own
people; he is under more than Egyptian bondage ; bricks
are required from, though straw is denied, him ; he
is surrounded by overwhelming strength, the object of
perpetual hostile criticism, the aim of constant in-
trigues. All India regards him as doomed; the
annexation of his immense country would yield a
rich harvest of patronage at home; his destruction
would be in conformity with our general policy of
aggression. !lard, and difficult, and heroic is the
struggle of this unfortunate Prince to preserve his
state and to prolong his dynasty. And if we take a
deep interest in his fate, it is rather to use it as an
instructive warning to ourselves, than in the ex-
pectation of averting it ; —even though we have by
the discussion succeeded in teaching the Times at
least one lesson in the history of British India.

sine effect of this will be to create or to widen
the schism which =hits both in the legitimist party
and in the Frendt ehurch—a schism that, far from
diminishing the enemies or opponents of LOUIS NA-
POLEON, will %try seriously and widely increase
them.
Should, however, even the apparent result be that
the legitimists., as a body, lend a silent and passive
support to Louts NAPtILF:ON, whilst the constitution-
alists abstain altogether, and hold aloof alike from
the hustings and front political discussion, then it
will become trident to the people that their cause, as
well as that of liberty of all and of every• kind, has
been abandoned by the upper classes, and that
the only hope of recovering those blessings
without whit h life has neither dignity nor security
rests with the working classes. Of all the convic-
tions that could ezpond through France, we own
that this is the tuost serious. For the abdication of
the wealthy, the high-born, and the highly educated,
—listing the post of danger and of duty to those
beneath them,—gives a new force to those doctrines
which represent the people as alone possessed of cou-
rage and of virtue, and which depict wealth and rank
as the great corrupter and degrader of the citizen.
This doctrine, with the state of things and
of opinion on which it is founded, prevails not
inertly in France, but extends over Germany
and Italy, through a great portion of Europe.
And it is such confessions and admissions as these
which give new force and vitality to
_parties and to
causes that are led by such men as ?Junto. It is
such an universal bowing of the head and prostra-
timi of the spirit which compels such spirits as Kos-
strit—men who never rest, and who cannot despair
—it is this which drives them to look and to cry for
help no longer to the cowed upper classes or effemi-
nate educated ones, but to the broad, untutored, and
uncompromising popular masses.

THE 7Vine3,— the organ, it is to be hoped, of what
is far more important, the directors of the East
India Company. has, in the affairs of the Deccan,
veered round to the point whence we long ago started
in the discussion. The Times now admits that the
WHAM is a Sovereign Prince, who, though in subor-
dinate alliance with the English government, has
nevertheless well defined rights, which arc not to be
disregarded and set at naught, whenever a °overflew-
General is far enough from constitutional advisers,
to think of " annexing" the NtrAn's dominions.
A few months ago, It was, we were told, mere senti-
ment to talk of the continued existence of the
Niz.su ; now our proposition is repeated for such a
revision of the existing relations with his Highness
as shall give him further securities for the prolonga-
tion of his dynasty. Then Lord DALHOUSIE was
urged to deprive him of every inch of the Deccan ;
now he is recommended to give him greater power '
therein over the Hyderabad contingent commanded
by British officers. Then the NIZASI was describ‘d
as a Prince utterly regardless of his duties to the
British government; now the obligations imposed on
him by that government are found out to be
too weighty for him to bear. Then the whole course
of anterior history—how we, after the downfall of
TH.rno SULTAN, first rewarded the Nir.a3s with the
ceded districts, and then took them from him; how
we forced on him a great subsidiary force to protect
hint against the 'Mahrattas, and then kept it up for
our own purposes after the Muhrattas were de-
'trot vd ; how we deluded him into the payment of a
Hyderabad contingent to carry on his internal affairs,
and then won't allow him to have the use
of it ; how he was consequently obliged to
raise for himself on Arab army of his
own ; and how the finances of the Deccan
broke down under this accumulation of wrong and
injustice. All these things, conveniently forgotten
whilst it was supposed the NIZAM could not pay

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 18. PH.

FRANCE.

rARIs, Will:FL/11MT EVIISING.
el announces that General Ca•

reigna; was set at liberty. yesterday morning.
Anxious to ascertain if this important news were
worthier of credit than some other statements
emanating from the same source, I called at
No. 17, Rue de Helder, the house of General csvaig-
nac, and learned from his servant that he was cer-
tainly at liberty although he had not reached home.
He was expected to-night. I am told that the gene-
ral's marriage with Mademoiselle Odier was solemnised
in the fort at Ham, and that the newly-married pair
are about to take their departure for Holland, where
the family of Madame Odier reside. It appears pro-
bable that the expectation of the general's house-
hold with regard to his visit to Paris will not be
realised.
_ _

The Public, a new Bonapartist journal, now sold
in the streets for the price of the stamp, only one
sous--and consequently at a loss to somebody—
published a letter purporting to be an adhe-
sion of General Cavaignoc to the Presi-
dent. M. de Morny has written to the journal
to say that the government does not wish to surprise
the faith of any one, and that it is certain that the
letter quoted by them was not written by General
Cavaignac.
The Minister of the Interior has addressed the fol-
lowing letter to the Prefect of Police :
_ .

Paris, Dee. 16, 1851.
Monsieur le Prefet,—You have taken cognizance of the
decree passed on Dec. 8 against former convicted persons,
who have broken their ban, and against persons convicted
of affiliation to secret societies. This decree is not to be a
dead letter, but must be executed with persevering energy.
I beg you to take with this view the promptest measures.
The capital must he absolutely cleared of all the im-
pure and dangerous elements upon which the decision
of the government can be brought to bear. Those agitators
who mislead weak men and prepare revolutions, must be
sent out of Paris, and if need be, out of France. Paris
must cease to be the refuge of outlaws of all countries, and
the rendezvous of men whose business is to imperil society.
I rely on your zeal, and I ant convinced that you think as
I do, that it is time to impress on these men who have
plagued the country for thirty years past a salutary terror,
invader to re-assure good citizens, and to Five to honest
work security and good prospects.—The Minister of the
Interior, A. DE MOREY.

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The Minister of the Interior has addressed a circu-
lar to the Prefects, ordering the dissolution of all
corps of National Guards which cannot be trusted at
the present moment; and the provisional supply of
vacant commands, election being now out of the
question, by citizens who can be relied upon. The
arms not used arc to be carefully removed to the
arsenals._ _

The representation of the drama of "Richard Dar-
lington has been prohibited, on account of the ti-
redo against ambitious persons.
The law which is about to regulate the press will,
I am assured, subject each ;grant of a journal to a
tort of license, which will be withdrawn from him
without any previous ceremony, after two warnings
from the government on the nature of the polemics
followed by the journal.
I hear that M. Emile de Oirardin has sold his
shares in the Pram to the Elysee for a million of
francs.
Besides the felicitations that the President has re-
ceived from the courts of the North, I hear that a
splendid carriage and four first-rate hones have been
presented to bum by the Emperor of Austria.
The creation of a ministry of police is spoken of,
and M. Carlier is mentioned as the personage who is
to be installed in this new office. But the talkative
disposition of the ex-prefect of police is regarded
with distrust by the taciturn occupant of the Elysee.
The extraordinary commissioners proved, on ac-
count of their dictatorial powers, a great source of
embarrassment. For clashing orders sometimes
came from head-quarters which threw the arrange-
ments of the commissioners into confusion. Thus,
two prefects arrived at Bermes at the same moment,
to take possession of the command of the department
of Ile-et•Vilaine—one appointed by M. Maurice Duval,
and another by the government.
The regiments of Africa, I hear to-day, have voted
against the President, and throughout Algeria there
prevails a hostile feeling to his policy. Several
regiments have voted in the negative, and
others abstained. On this account the votes of
the army are no longer published. The Elysee is
greatly piqued also at the hostile votes of the Ecolo
Polytechnique, the Ecolo de St. Cyr, the Ecole
d'Application at Metz, and the pupils of the military
hospital of the Val de Grace.
The gratification given to the troops during the
days of the I,liaelite was some francs daily to each
soldier, of 501 r. paid at once to each non-commis-
sioned officer, of 110 fr. for the captains, 1201 r. for
the lieutenantF, and of 150 fr. for the sub-lieutenants.
It will excite your surprise to hear that the latter
officers received a higher remuneration than the
' lieutenants; but such is the case 1 am assured from
a spume which cannot be doubted. . .

The adjudication of the Avignon Railway has been
postponed to January 3, in consequence of the fol-
lowing alterations made by decree in the law on the
Lyons and Avignon Railway :
Art. 1. The text of the second paragraph of Article 1 of
the law of Der. 1, 15,51, is modified and replaced by the
following provision :
The ratios (difference of offers) shall apply to the amount
of the fixed convention at the charge of the state.
The Minister of Public Works shall determine in a scaled
letter the maximum above wtich the adjudication cannot
take place. This maximum shall not exceed 60 millions.
Art. 2, Articles 3 and 4 of the crthierdes changes annexed
to the said law are modified at lollowa :

Art. 3. The Minister of Public orks engages to pay, by
way of suliveution, a sum, which shall in no case ere •ed
130,000,000 fr. The company is to submit to the approbation
of the administration the detailed plans and estimates of the
gores (termini), stations, and ateliers, as well as the acqui-
sitions of grounds necessary fur their establishment.
Art. 4. The subvention at the charge of the state shallb;
delivered in3o equal payments, the company being charged
to prove the realisation and employment ; for the first 1.5, of
a sum exceeding by 50 per cent. the amount of each pay-
ment ; for the last 15, of a sum calculated so that the com-
pany shall have paid 50 millions when the state shall have
paid the whole amount of the subvention at its charge.
The decree of the President of the Republic, min-
ting to the matters to be submitted to the " Section
d'Adminiatration" of the consultative commission
directs that the projects of regulations of public ad-
ministmt;on, and of decrees on the registration of
bulls and other nets of the Holy Sec; proceedings
against ecclesiastical authorities for abuse of power;
authorisation of religious congregations, and the
verification of their statutes ; authorisation of
proceedings against agents of the government; natu-
ralisations; maritime captures; tae creation of tei-
bunaba of commerce, or of conseils de prud'hommes ;
concession of portions of the domain of the state and
concessions of mines; the authorisation of societes

It is really nauseating to hear the boastful manner
in which the soldiers narrate their exploits in shoot-
ing down and bayonetting harmless people during
the days of the e,ne+tte.
At the Tuileries I am assured that some of the
soldiers were seen loading their muskets with balls
cut in quarters. This was said to be done by order.
Count Bcugnot, not content with having printed
some thousands of cards to inform the people that he
is not a member of the consultative commission, has
written a letter to the President, in which he pro-
tests against the dishonour conferred upon him in
the following terms
After your perjury of the 2nd of Dec. you thought fit
to appoint me member of the consultative commission,
without having consulted me. I think it my duty to in-
form you that I should deem myself dishonoured by ac-
cepting such omission.
The following letter, addressed by M. de Monte-
lembcrt to the Constitatiound, will confirm to you
my statement with regard to the intentions and
statements of M. de Falloux :
Paris, 10th litlitor,—ln your number of yester-
day, you inform me that a provincial journal has declared,
on the faith of a letter written by me, that M. de
1•'allou= advised all the legitimists to vote in favour
of Louis Napoleon. I never wrote or said anything
of the kind. 1 confined myself to repeating, accord
lug to the wish of M. de Fallen: himself. that be and his
best authorised friends had counselled their party not to
deposit a single negative vote in the ballot of the 20th
December. 1 beg of you to be kind enough, sir, to insert,
as soon as possible, this correction, which fairness demands,
and which the absence of M. de Falloux renders the more
obligatory.
At the Bourse the Five per Cents. rose 75e., and
closed at 101.23. The Threes rose 1.30, and closed
at 64.240. Bunk of France shares fell 20fr. Railways
were generally well supported.

(1110 M AN °CC/MA/NAL CORREi4PONDENT.)
PARIS, DEC. 16.
Crowds of people, in many instances obstructing
the street, are seen from day to day at all the twelve
mairics of Paris, eager to inscribe themselves as
electors. To do this, it is necessary to present a
certificate of birth, proving the bearer to be in the
first place a Frenchman, and in the next place
21 years of age, and then to give satisfactory evidence
that he has resided in Pans for the previous six
mouths.

anonymes, and tontines; the cNtablisbment of depart-
mental roads, canals, branch railways; and other
mutters heretofore in the department of the council
of state, arc to be submitted to committees.

These formalities complied with, the applicant's
name is taken, and if, on examination, it is found
that he has never been a convict, and that he is in
the enjoyment of his other political rights, he is then
inscribed on the electoral list, and entitled to his
electoral card, which will be delivered to him on
either of the three days immediately preceding the
election.

The ilys(!e is at this moment besieged by the de-
mands of the military,who follow the rule of striking
while the iron is hot. I hear that the colonel of a
regiment was telling, at mess, in high-flown style,
the brilliant reception he had met with from the
President, and encouraging the officers with hopes of
rich rewards. " Yes,' replied a captain, " but there
is another regiment still higher in favour at the
Elysee than ours." "Which is that ?" The captain
then mentioned the regiment which invaded the As-
sembly; and added that the President, as a token of
his great contentment, had embraced the colonel who
had captured the questors. You will have seen, by
my letter of yesterday, by what breach of confidence
this was done. and infer the degree of honour to be
attached to personal distinction lavished for such
services.
Dupin has excited general disgust by having re-
tained his place of procureur-general to the Court
of Cessation. It is evident that the government
counted on his poltroonery, or he would have been
arrested. The announcement of the Convtitutionnel
that the decrees for appointing a parliamentary ge-
neral, found in the apartment of M. Baze, were
stamped with the seal of the presidency without the
knowledge of Duple, is a painful indication of the
tergiversation of the head of the Assembly against
his colleagues ; and a general belief is expressed that
the questors could not possibly have been guilty of
using the seal of the president surreptitiously. There
appears in the Coistitationnei an apology for the
coup detat, said to be written by an eminent lawyer,
and generally attributed, from its style, to the pro-
cureur-generul of the Court of Caseation.
The results of an inquiry instituted into the cir-
cumstances which attended the cannonding of the
houses on the south side of the Boulevard l'oisson-
niere have been communicated to me from a private
source, and are such as to deserve attention. AI. Bil-
lecocq, the proprietor of the house which has suffered
most, I mean the shawl-magazine next to the house
of M. Sallandrouze, was out on business when the
boulevard was invested with troops. The firing had
not yet commenced when he returned, and found, to
his amazement and horror, a battery of heavy guns
pointed against his house, with gunners match in
hand. He made his way to the colonel in command
of the artillery, and inquired the meaning of this
extraordinary measure for the destruction of the ha-
bitation, property, and family of a peaceable and
nnoffending citizen. The colonel replied that the
prefect of police had signalised the house to
him as one where secret seditious meetings were
held. lie added that insurgents were evidently
there, as a shot had been fired from the windows on
the troops. In vain M. Billecocq protested that he
knew every soul in the house, which was inhabited
only by beings of the most harmless description.
Orders were given to diseharie the cannon. A
breach was soon effected in the entresol. In this
part of the house there lodged a bill-broker, who was
engaged with his clerk in removing his effects as
speedily as possible out of shot-range. A fragment
of the shattered wall knocked the old man down,
while the clerk fell from fright. Thus they both lay,
fortunately without receiving further hurt, until the
entrance of the troops, when they were extricated
from the ruins of the battered walls.

These peaceful operations are going on very
quietly. To-morrow the curds will be flying about
in every direction. No operation could be more
peaceful or pleasant: so much more agreeable are
ballots than bullets. And yet some one has said that
" too often the ballot is the threat of which the bul-
let is the execution." May it not prove so in this
instance !

At the President's reception last evening, all the
ambassadors were present except the American, who
has not presented himself at the Elysee since the
coup traut. I have this last fact on authority. The
United States being a constitutional republic, and
the people of that country having iin almost super-
stitious reverence for their constitution, the course of
Mr. Rives, towards a President who has deliberately
violated his constitutional oath, is perfectly

The insurrection in the Basses Alpes is now said
to be completely repressed, except at Bareelonette,
which still holds out. The prefect has gone thither
with troops. _ . .

A pamphlet entitled ‘.Des Principes en matier•
de coups crkat," and supposed to be written by Louis
Napoleon, has just been published.
The documents seized in the apartments of MM.
Bare and LAO have been placed in the hands of the
legal authorities, and the questors and thcir accom-
plices in the alleged plot for the usurpation of the
ex, cutive power are to be subjected to a formal trial.
To-day the Siecle reappears, and is even sold upon
the boulevards, whence, us you are aware, all liberal
journals were, as long as they escaped the censure,
banished by the prefect of police. But now, their
'eeth are knocked out, and their clams are pared, all
liberty is granted to the poor mutilated things to get
sold anywhere they can. "How cruel are the mercies
of the 14 ielLti ."

natural and justifiable. The general rule, hoWever, of
American diplomacy kas been to accept at once
the government de facto. In 1830, when Charles
X. was deposed, Mr. Rush, then the American minis-
ter, was the first to recognise Louis-Philippe; and
in 181$ he was equally prompt to recognise the pro-
visional government. The present care, however, is
exceptional. It is understood, however, of course,
that if the people ratify the course of Louis Napo-
leon by electing him as their " chief;' Mr. Rives
will then feel bound to acknowledge his authority.
Another significant fact is that the Archbishop of
Paris has not yet acknowledged the usurper. This
will have some effect on the vote of Paris ; but not
enough, it is feared, to affect materially the result.
It is reported that Leon Faucher regrets the course
he has taken. He was not weather-wise. That he
is allowed to remain in Paris after his decided and
manly letter to the President, refusing to serve on
his packed council, is proof enough that the govern-
ment has nothing to fear from him.
The Presidents of the Court of Caseation, and the
Court of Appeal, have given in their adhesion ; and
other notabilities are "coming round" from every
quarter. Indeed it is plain enough that, for the
present, Louis Napoleon will have his own way.
I have no other news. The reign of terror and
tranquillity continues, and Paris is rejoicing over au
armed peace. The streets are no longer patrolled by
troops; but the soldiers are lounging about the wine-
shops and eating their " laurels. Patches of white
paper on innumerable shop windows continue to in-
dicate to the passer-by the panes which were perfo-
rated during the recent battles; while groups
of curious people dotted about here and there, show
plainly enough the locations of the 50 barricades.
Business still lags, though the Exchange answers
to the official wires and works to a charm; people
say the Bourse is Fould.
It is rumoured today that the late Prefect, M.
Cartier, is to be appointed Minister of Police.

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