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were taken. In others, the ballot did not remain
open the legal time. At Ajaccio, there were 4,000
bulletins found in the ballot-box, although it con-
tained only 2,000 electors. The report recommended
the annulling _the election. M. Lumen Bonaparte, who
mash rtlea the Emperor entered into some ex-
phmations, and declared, that if need were, he would
again present himself to the electors for their votes,
who would, be woe sure, return him with a large
majority. The election was annulled. The discus-
sion the labour in prisons was then resumed. The
prohibition of the sale of articles manufactured in the'
prime was then discussed, and en amendment
wee proposed, that such articles should be used by
the state, which was put to the vote, with the follow-
ing result :
Number of voters
For
Against
The amendment was adopted, as well as the article 3.
The question of the dissolution of the Assembly is
now a subject of such universal discussion in the
that it may be interesting to show the manor
press,
it is treated by one or two of the most ro-
speotable ?mans of public opinion. The Dlbats has
the following upon it :
We do not pretend to fix for such a month or each a day
the fatal term of the mimeses of the Assembly. We see
anther necessity nor special convenienos in the Assembly
hefag ecievoked for the 19th of March rather than for ano-
ther day. The National Assembly will itself fix the day. We
shall respect its derision. Biz weeks more or lea will
set.anieg as to ay usurpation If our opinion be asked, we
would ray that it does not appear tons SIMS the Assembly sea
prolong its existence beyond three months. To speak truly,
the Assembly itself marked its hour when it called seven
million Frenchmen in the electoral comities to nominate a
Presides( of the Republic. The election of president should
have been adjourned if it had been desired to adjourn the re-
newal of the chamber. The chamber would then have re-
mained the only emanation of univenal suffrage, and the
representation of the popular sovereignty, whereby we should
sot have had the strange anomaly of a constituent assembly
with a constituted executive government. By this adjourn-
ment the chamber would have reserved to itself the tame to
make se many organic laws as it could have desired, and it
would not now have had in face of it a government which, in
the event of a conflict, would always he tempted to think • r
to nay to it: " I represent the people better than y on, for I ant
the most recent expression of their will !" For our part, we
should not have bten vexed to see the country spared so
many shocks in so short a time. We had no impatience to
see a President of the Republic nominated. We are, as was
the greatest moralist of his time, Montaigne, at the end of
the sixteenth century : La nouvellete to now plait plus,
quelque visage gu'elk ports. All these pretended novelties
are, however, so litt;e new ; no sooner are they born than
they fade, and we may see under their false youth the
wrinkles of old age. We were almost asenetommi le the
regime of an absolute Cnaaeber. It was not we, ins wood.
I who wished or admitted the term of dm Natiesel Aemealip.
We recognise al.' that there is grave in agitating three time
in a year the maws of universal suffrage, and in giving:
the rate of unhappy Frew* to the chances of the er .
tremor. It la neither enlightenment nor talent, newoosniso,
nor probity which I. wanting to the National Assembly.
j Wnat then does it want / What makes the forced every tee
' presents:ire Assembly—the certain wooed of the represented'
with the representative. There is a doubt whether that
exists, and that is sufficient. We calculate sufficiently on
the patriotism and disintereatednete of the National Minh
bly, to be convinced that it desires itself to see this doubt
cleared up, sod it only can be by new elections.
The a.,nstitestionnel says :
The Constituent Assembly ought to dread lest an °heti-
nary, which nothing can justify on its part, give birth, in the
mind of the electors to doubts which we wish to spare it.
We do not believe that the presence of 900 representatives,
when the constitution only gives 7.50 to the future legislative
assemblies, is a violation of the constitution ; it is an excep-
tional point which circumstances appear to justify. But the
constitution itself coed 'mss to excltuipn 153 of the present
members ; and the modifications which have taken place in
poldie opinion will, without doubt, remove a greater num-
er ; but it may be presumed, without venturing too far, that
electoral checks, above all, await that ultra portion of the
Assembly which has been, for a long time, in complete dia.
accord with the sentiments of the country, and which, on
December 10, experienced a defeat which was the avant-
courier of another still more significant. There is a an®-
deed • umerous minority which knows in advance that
it will be vanquished. which does not deny that its days
are counted, and which, on the eve of returning to com-
plete insignificance, ha.no other resource bat to prolong
indefinitely a mandate which will not be renewed ; each
day added to the duration of the Constituent Assembly
is, for that min drily, a day of political life gained, with
the hope that circumstances, chance, and the thousand
incidents of the future may give some unexpected utility to
these remains of existence. It is known from what side
come to the assembly unexpected protectors who tike it
under their safeguard, counsel it not to make too much
haste, to take its time, and let the world cry out as it likes
around it ; counsels as dodge:one as interested, which conceal,
under a Ult. ry, a national pi ail. The constituent assembly
ought not to conceal from itself that it reckons in its bosom
a certain number of members for whom it/ sepandioa is a
question of life or death, who will struggle to the last
moment egainst the expression of public opinion, and will
dispute a week, nay a dry, to the law which will return them
to their primitive issigiuticance. Let it distrust the desperate
efforts of that portion of iteell ; it would be dangerous for it
to undergo an influence reprehended by lb* whole country,
or even to appear to undergo it."
Yeats, Jan. 9. New Loan, —; Tees per Cants., 45 430
five par Ulna., 73 —; Last Loan. ——; Yours, —. Bataan
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11s11, ; ?holes Banton ; Bowe Loan, 631 ; treasur
Bask Shares. 1655; schema LCIOOO6. SO days.
23 27a orb ; w days, 25 20 man.
Bau.wies.—Parts and Weans, 685 ; Parts and Boots, 437 50;
Roues sad Harm 230 ; Avignon sad Marseilles, 173; Mai.
Soon and Bale, 15 ' • centre VISTIM, 243 75; Amino sad Bou-
logne, —; Bordsaua.37s; North. 390.

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ITALY.

ROMAN STATES.—We have received despatches
from our correspondent at Rome to the 30th ult.
Our correspondent considers that the act of the 29th,
which we have already reported, has put an
end tor ever to the temporal sway of the head of
the catholic church, and observes a coincidence

rather remarkable that the day of the flight of
the Pope from Rome (the 24th November) was the
anniversary of tht foundation of the Papal sovereignty,
the date of which was 24th November, 800. Our
correspondent says that the secular government in
Rome is proceeding with perfect regularity, and that
the administration has announced that it Is prepared
to pay the dividends dne in January, end that the
claisit of the public creditor will be rigorously res-
pected. Count Mamiani was not expected to live.
The supreme junta were reforming Post-office abuses,
lar,d bad dismissed the chief of that establishment
_ _

The Courier Mercantile, of Genoa, utrier date of
Home the 30th ult. says the Prince Corsini, who was
not disposed to became a member of the Junta of
State, had resolved to quit Rome clandestinely after
the theatre. His intention was frustrated, and he
was induced to remain. _ _

The Dicta Italian, of Bologna, gives an account
of the events that took place there on the 30th and
31st tilt, in consequence of the act of adhesion to
the Pope's protest voted on the preceding day by
the Communal Council. On the 30th, the clubs
were assembled, and the battalion Zambeccari was
under arms. After a brief discussion, a protest
against the address of the municipality was adopted
by the clubs, in which, after observing that
the members of the Communal Council, not
being elected by the people, have no right to protest
in the name of the people against any pclitical act,
the late events at Rome are passed under review, the
acts of the Legislative Assemblies approved as measures
of necessity, and the Communal Council advised either
to retract their declaration or to resign. On receiving
this menacing document, supported by an excited
population, Senator Zucchini took twenty-four hours'
time to decide; and meantime the prolegate published
the decree of the junta convoking a Constituent Assem-
bly.
N'ENICE.—The provisional government of Venice
has issued a decree, establishing a permanent Assem-
bly of the representatives of the state of Venice, with
the power of deciding upon everything relating to the
interior or exterior condition of the state. The repre-
sentatives are elected by direct universal suffrage, in
the proportion to the population of Ito 1,500. All
citizens 21 years of age and upwards are electors.
The elections will commence on the 20th of January,
and the representatives will meet immediately after;
their mandate is to last six months.

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