The Sun.
London, England, 1851-12-03 00:00:00

r_t DECEMBER 3, 1851.
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N°.18,470.] LONDON, WEDNESDAY

ANGLO-CALIFORNIAN GOLD MINING
COMPANY.
(Incorporated pursuant to 7 and 8 Vict.)
Offices—No. 11, Adam-street, Adelphi.
Capital, 50,000/.,
In 100,000 Shares of 10s. (fully paid up) each.
No Shareholder will be liable beyond the amount of his Shares.
TRUSTEES.
Charles Herbert Cottrell, Esq., Hadley, Herts.
George Emmott Green, Esq., Emmott Hall, Lancashire.
James Harmer, Esq., Ingress Park, Grecnhithe, Kent.
CHAIRMAN.
GEORGE EDWARD COTTRELL, Esq., James-street, Buck-
ingham-gate; and New-square, Lincoln's Inn.
TICE-CHAIRMAN.
FRANCIS DENNIS MASSY DAWSON, Esq., Victoria-
square; and Flo wen-buildings, Temple.
DIRECTORS.
John Barker, M.D., Richmoud, Surrey.
Symeon Taylor Bartlett, LL.D. Cambridge.
Jonathan Folder, Esq., Penrith.
Charles /Lucks, Esq., Birmingham.
Joseph George Parker, Esq., Warminster.
Sir C. S. Rumbold, Bart., Argyll-street, Regent-street.
RESIDENT DIRECTOR IN CALIFORNIA.
Captain Sir Henry Vere Huntley, R.N.
BANKERS.
London and County Bank, Lombard-street.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Coombe and Nickell, Bridge-street, Westminster.
SUFBRINTENDENTS IN CALIFORNIA.
James Maconochie, Esq. William Godfrey Huet, Esq.
SECRETARY (ad interim).
Mr. George Frederick Goodman.
This Company being now completely registered, the Directors
take the earliest opportunity of laying before the Shareholders a
statement of its progress and prospects.
It may be confidently asserted that no Company was ever brought
before the public with equal prospect of speedy and successful
results.
The prompt assistance afforded by the Shareholders to the Direc-
tors, and the perfect confidence in the management displayed by
them, have enabled the Directors to take such steps as must ensure
an enormous dividend within a few months.
Sir Henry Huntley, the resident Director in California, has been
in that country five months, and the course adopted by the Directors
for carrs ing out this Clt...prig. results from the experience obtained
by ht.. aging that period. The instructions given to Sir Henry
Hunt ey were, in effect, that he should make every possible inquiry
relative to the state of the country. the tenure of land, the com-
parative merit: of the different quartz veins in the several districts
of California, and after mature deliberation to advise the Directors
as to their best course of proceeding, and to take such measures as
would enable them to carry out his views as speedily as possible.
Following these instructions, he has secured for the benefit of the
Company, sufficient lands for all mining purposes ; but he is clearly
of opinion, that for the present, at least, it is not desirable to under-
take mining operations, but to crush and amalgamate quartz to
be supplied by those who are possessed of mines, and have raised
the quartz. With the assistance of some gentlemen of great
experience in geology and mining matters, he has inspected and
tested a great variety of veins in the Mariposa, Nevada, Grass
Valley, and other districts, and has comp to the conclusion,
upon sound reasons, that the vicinity of Grass Valley and
Nevada City, is that which affords the greatest advantages for car-
rying on our enterprise. Ile has, therefore, entered into an agree-
ment with some An erican gentlemen, who have formed a company,
and have opened, and, to a considerable extent, worked a vein of
quartz, di, tant about three miles from Grass:Valley and Nevada
City, and about thirty miles from Sacramento City, to crush and
amalgamate the quartz to be raised from the mine opened by
them. By means of machinery, he has already cm hed
and amalgamated considerable quantities of the quartz sup-
plied him from this mine; and the rtsuit of his operations
has been to satisfy himself that the vein is of a full average
richness, and that the locality offers many important advantages in
the way of water, fuel, means of transit, &c., &c. He has, there-
fore, entered into a formal agreement with that Company, which, in
a few words, amounts to this: he Is to be supplied by them with as
much quartz as his machinery shall be found capable of crushing;
the quarts is to be deposited at the mills free of expense;
he is to crush and amalgamate it at his own expense, and
the gad produced is to be divided equally between the owners
of the vein and our Company. Formal and legal agreements
for carrying out the above arrangement fairly and honestly, and
without any copartnership, have been entered into. Steam-engines
and machinery estimated to crush about thirty tons of quartz a day,
with fends sufficient for putting it in motion, have been placed under
the control of Sir Henry Huntley ; and, unless some unexpected
delay has arisen, the machinery is now actually at work, and a
return will be made about Christmas next.
Far the satisfaction of the existing shareholders of this Company,
and without wishing, in any manner, to deteriorate from the merits
of other Companies, the Directors are desirous of calling attention
to some of the more prominent advantages possessed by this Com-
pany over others now in the field. Shareholders in other Companies
must mainly rely upm reports sent over by persons interested in
selling the mine; we rely upon the reports of our own resident
Director and his practical assistants on the spot, whose only
interest is to give us facts. The Directors of other
pan
Comies generally base the estimate of the value of
their mine upon calculations founded on experiments
upon a few pieces of specimen quartz, sent over to this country for
the express purpose of advertising the commodity offered for sale to
the British public ; we found our calculations upon experiments
tried, during several weeks, on quartz raised from the mine, and
crushed and amalgamated by our own Superintendent, and with our
own machinery and apparatus. Other Companies propose to
incur the expense and risk of carrying out miniug operations
apon their vein, before the quartz arrives at their mill, and, should
their labours prove successful, they must then pay out of their
profits large per-centages for obtaining their leases, and large royal
ties to their lessors ; whereas we have secured as much quartz as
our machinery is capable of crushing, the title to which is as secure
as that of any other company, unfettered by any per-centage or
royalty. The half of the produce to be paid by this Company to the
parties who supply us, free of expense, with the quartz, being in fact
merely equivalent to the dividend upon the outlay of capital ex-
pended in raising the quartz, and lodging it at the mill. All the
new companies, unlike this, must be a considerable time before
their arrangements and machinery can be ready for carrying out
their schemes—this Company alone is actually at work.
The paid-up capital of the Company will not exceed 20,0001. An
elm ist certain estimate of the produce of our machinery can be
formed, and, from the calculations made, the Directors confidently
anticipate being able even at the most moderate estimate, to afford
a dividend of 200 per cent., at the least, within the next twelve
months. According to the data furnished to us, the quartz which
we are now working yields upon an average 4d. per pound, or 11.
17s. 4d. per cwt., or 371. Os. Bd. per ton ; and, as we can crush and
amalgamate at least 20 tons per diem, that would amount to 7461.
13e. 4d., or 3731. 65. Bd. per diem as the share of this Company,
By the peculiar arrangements this Company has made, based
upon praetic.4l,expertenee. th_e_econotay iyorkifkluceS 314 Z,
Silltilkas to render the cu an tulay `lllloatitri
In case dieumstaiices should induce, th Directors to altlflyi;
system tow adopted, and lead them to undertake mining operatiOns
of their own, arrangements have teen made securing four distinct
sites, most carefully selected for their eligibility for mining pur-
poses, and Sir Henry Huntley has on the spot Cornish miners who
went out with him, and who have voluntarily retendered him their
services.
The gentlemen who formed the Provisional Committee of this
Company, have added to their number several gentlemen possessing
the acquaintance and entire confidence of a very large body of
Shareholders in the provincial districts. To add such men to the
Dire dory was due to those Shareholders who have in fac
bet eken
lished and nobly supported this Company. Measures will
for further augmenting the Directory, and a Special General Meet-
ing of the Shareholders will be convened for the middle of January.
In conclusion, the Directors beg to offer heirs best thanks to the
Shareholders for the uniform support they have eceived, and they
pledge tnemselves that the affairs of this Comaany shall be con-
ducted with the most rigid economy, and with the sole view of for-
warding the interest of the Shareholders.
The Directors beg to call the attention of Shareholders particularly
to the fact that, from the system adopted by this Company, it can-
not be affected by the question now agitated between the holders of
leases and Colonel Fremont or his agents. The district selected for
the operations of this Company is far removed from the tract claimed
by Colonel Fremont. The difficulty arising out of the many points
now raised relative to the tenure of land under leases, had been long
known to and was maturely considered by those having the control
of the affairs of this Company, and was one of the reasons which in-
duced them to parsue for the present the course they have, and not
to incur certain heavy expenses with doubtful results.
The Directors trust that Shareholders will approve of the prudence
of the course they have adopted.
Prospectuses may be had upon application at the offices of the
Company.

PRESERVED SOUPS, ace.
PRIZE MEDAL GREAT EXHIBITION, 1851.
At this season of the year a basin of really good Soup is a great
treat. Those desirous of obtaining such are recommended to pur-
chase RITCHIE and 3PC ILL'S Patent Household Soups, which,
with various descriptions of made dishes, &c., are put up in canisters,
hermetically sealed, so as to be ready for use at any moment. With
a few of these canisters at hand, a first-rate dinner may be put upon
the table as quickly as the cloth can be laid. Turtle Soup, 15s. per
quart; Mock Turtle, Ox.-tail, Giblet, 2s. 9d.; Mulligatawny, Hare,
Green Pea Soups, 3s. per quart. Entrees, &c., at prices equally
reasonable.
To be had of all the principal 011 and Italian warehousemen in
town and country; and, wholesale, of RITCHIE and M.`CALL,
137, Houndsditch.
London Sample Hampers, 1/. each, containing an assortment, for-
warded to any part of the kingdom on receipt of a Post-office order.
Detailed price lists, post free, on application.

THE DETERMINED ATTACK ON LOUIS
NAPOLEON.—?here is no question but that a crisis is now
near at hand, and that one of three important parties will shortly be
settled as dominant in France—the Red Republicans, the Legitima-
tists, or the friends of the present Government. The attacks made
in the Assembly on the Government of Louis Napoleon have been all
but successful, and yet have signally failed ; but the last and worst
attack was when the majority sought, by a Bill which has been
sleeping nearly two years, to enpower the Assembly to impeach the
President, the Ministry, and whoever else should favour the re-
election of Louis Napoleon. While, however, the French people are
at loggerheads about clothing the Assembly or the Government with
power, we on this side of the Channel are thinking about clothing
ourselves ; and the be=t opportunity in the world presents itself, for
the unique stock of Messrs. E. MOSES and SON is more novel,
more extensive, and more elegant than at any former season. Each
morning their extensive warehouses are crammed with new and
elegant costume, however reduced tit, quantity may be by night.
Their Winter Clothing sapasses everything of the kind to be found in
Europe, and Messrs. E. MOSES and SON are only anxious that rho
public may visit their display at the Monarch Mart in Aldgate and
the Minories, or their magnitcently fitted-up West-sad Branch
Establishment in New Oxford-street, corner of Hart-street, for
nothing but seeing will give anybody an idea of the elegance,
quality, style, durability, and cOS hea
ES apnndess
SON, of every article they make.
E. M
London City Establishment, 154, 155, 156, and 157, Minories, 83,
14, 85, and 86, Aldgate, opposite the Church, all communicating.
London West-end Branch, 506, 507, 508, New Oxford-street, 1, I,
tnd 3, Hart-street, all communicating.
Bradford " Yorkshire"
Fargate. Branch, 19, Bridge-street.
iheflield Branch, 36,
rs Hosiers, Furriers, Beet and Shoe-
Tailors, Clothiers, Hatte ,
nakers, and General Outfitters for Ladies and Gentlemen.
rearmed The
till Twelve o'clock. Establishments are closed from sunset Friday to sunset Sa-
n Arty. when business La

IN SIX LANGUAGES—
F EEE D
EDITION.
CONTAINING THE REMEDY FOR PREVENTION OF DISEASE.
THE SILENTOFRRTIrENT.
,Illustrated by One Hundred Anatomical
ON PHYSICAL DISQUALIFICATIONS, GENERATIVE INCA-
PACITY, AND IMPEDIMENTS
TO MARRIAGE.
Coloured Engravings.
A. Now Edition, enlarged to 196
pages, price 20. 6d. _ by post, from
theS Establishment, 39. 6d. in stamp*.
HE SILENT FRIEND, a
the exhaustion and physical decay of
preventive lotion,
excessive indulgence, the consequences of infection, or the abase of
mercury, with directions for the use of the preven.
fol-
lowed by observations on Marriage, p By R. and L.
prevent it. Illustrated by 100 Coloured Engraving •
the Medical system, Work produced obny
ana the disoalificationsemwfbricdh.
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PART I. treats of the anatomy and physiology of the re-productive
organs, and is illustrated by 28 Coloured Engravings.
PosT It. treats of the consequences resulting from excessive in-
dalgence, and their lamentable effects on the system, producing
mental and bodily weakness, nervous excitement, and generative
incapacity. Illustrated by 10 Explanatory Engravings.
PART 111. treats of the diseases resulting from infection, either in
the primary or secondary form, and contains explicit directions for
their treatment. This section is illustrated by 62 Coloured &Way'
ings.

Psalm IT. contains a Remedy for the Prevention of Disease by a
simple application, by which the danger of infection is obviated.
PART V. is devoted to the consideration of marriage, and its du-
ties. The causes of unproductive union are also considered, and the
whole subject critically and philosophically inquired into.

Tax CORDIAL BALM OF SYRTACOM is exclusively employed in
resting nervous and sexual debility, impotence, &c., I Is. and 335.
per bottle. The Concentrated Detorsivo Essence, an anti-syphilitic
remedy, for purifying the blood in cases of infection, secondary
symptoms, eruptions, and the abuse of mercury, 11 s. and 335. per
bottle. Ferry's Purifying Specific Pills, is. 90-, 4s. fid., and I Is.
per box, a certain remedy for gonorrhma, gleet, stricture, and
chronic inflammation of the bladder. Consultation feo, if by letter,
1/. A minute detail of tho case is required: age, habits, and posi-
tion in society. 51. Packets, with advice, to bo had at the Feta-
blisument ctly, by which the fee, 11., is saved. Messrs. Perry,
Surgeons, are in attendance, daily, at 19, Ilerners-street, Oxford-
wept, London, from Eleven till livo, and Five to tight ; on Sun-
day* tom Notoo

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RAVENSCLIFFE. By the Author of Emilia Wyndham,
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FIRST WORK OF A NEW NOVELIST.
Just published, and may be had at all the Libraries.
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Fifth Edition, price 18s. cloth,
HAYDN'S - DICTIONARY OF DATES
AND UNIVERSAL REFERENCE.
" A volume containing upwards of 15,000 articles, and perhaps
more than 15 times 15,000 facts. What the London Directory is to
the merchant. this Dictionary of Dates will be found to be to those
who are searching after information, whether classical, political, do-
mestic, or general."—rimes.
Edward Noxell, Dover-street.

FRANCE.—All who are interested in, or require
the BEST and LATEST Account, up to Sunday Morning,
of the DOINGS IN FRANCE, should order LLOYD'S WEEKLY
LONDON NEWSPAPER, price only Threepence, post free.
Office, 12, Salisbury •square, Fleet-street, London.

LAURENT'S CASINO.
ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street,
St. James's, is OPEN every Evening for the Winter Season.
Lairent:s .well-known and celebrated Band, principal Cornet-a-
Piston, M. Boulcourt.
During the recess the Rooms have been re-decorated, and many
improvements made, under the sole direction of Mr. G F. Bryei'.
Doors open at Half-past Eight, to commence at Nine o'clock.
Admission—ONE SHILLING.

THE COUNTRY MARKETS.
IPS WICH, DEC. 2.

Wo can only report a small market this day, and con-
sequently not a large supply of any grain. Wheats evi-
dently partook of the advance reported in London, and
the general feeling is that it must be yet much dearer.
Barleys did not sell quite so briskly, nor command quite
such high figures. Beans and peas sold readily, at 30s
to 32s per qr.

PER QUARTER. PER QUARTER.
Wheat, red 3Bs to 403 Beans 3os to 32s
Do., new oos to 00s Peas
Do., white 42s to 48s Oats..
Barley, malting 283 to 306 Rye.. oos to 008
Do., choice oos to 00s Malt .. 00s to 00s
Do., grinding... 24s to 26s Flour, per sack.. 00s to 00e
AVERAGES FOR THE WEEK ENDING NOV. 29.
Wheat 1,141 quarters at 39s 7d.
Barley
Peas 74 „ 29s 10d.
Oats
Beans 23 „ 30s 10d.
HULL, DEc. 2.
Messrs. Taylor and Bright's circular states:—lmports
continue moderate notwithstanding the open weather,
and all articles move off from shipboard at our quota-
tions. We were fairly supplied with wheat to-day
from our own farmers, and good dry samples met ready
sale at fully the current rates of last week; indeed, in
some instances, is more money was paid. Very little
business passing in foreign, the import continuing light,
and granaried stocks are held above their relative value.
We are more plentifully supplied with barley, both
English and new foreign—our own farmers being en-
gaged in thrashing this article more than any other, and
the market is hardly so,well supported. There is less
' fjoa_ita.ta-nrejaw.w *ad-
beans and good-domdittoned
liars. Owing to the mild
is hardly so firm, but cakes
eking, remained unaltered.
but cakes are more in-

he'ti~rn d.

Ireq

La are-also

peas, both ,Vriuding and boi
weather the linseed market

from the limited quantity
Nothing doing in rapeseed

quired for.
The following are the presen
8. s.
Wheat, English, red 36 to 38
Do. white 3B 45
Dantzic and Ko-
nigsberg 4l 44
Pomeranian and
Hamburgh . 36 40'
Danish, Holstein, &
Friesland
Russian and Odessa 30 34
Oats, English
Do. Danish....
Do. Friesland l9 21
Do. Russ. & Odessa 17 191
Barley,malting 25 281
Do. grinding 23 —25 F
Beans 2O 34
Do., foreign 26 30

t prices of grain :

8. 8
Peas, white and yeL 29 32
Do. grey
Linseed, Black Sea 44 46
Do. Petersburgh
Do. Riga & Archngl 3B 42
iDo. Konigsberg
Per ton.
ILins. c, Hull 71 158 0d to 810 s
Do. fine for. 61 15s Od to 7158
Do. inf. foreign ... 0/ to 615 s
Rapeseed 22l lOs to 00/
Rape cakes...77s 6d to 00s Od
Tares, English oos
Do. foreign o's— 00s
Guano 5/ 71 to 10/
Bones, do 95s Od to 00s
Rye Meal O/ Os

CORK, DEC. 1.

Barrels. Currency.
35 White wheat 20s Od to 00s 03 00s Od-20 stone
46 Red wheat l6s 3d to 18s 3d 00s Od-20 do
124 Ditto lBs 3d to 18s 9d
26 Ditto lBs 9d to 19. Od
379 Barley 10. Od to lls 8d
86 Ditto lls 8d to Hs 10d} 00s 03-16 do
0 Ditto
0 Bere
269 Oats. ... 9s Od to 103 Od
298 Ditto lO. Od to lOs 62} 00s 03-14 do
89 Ditto lOs 6d to 105 10d
350 Pigs 24s Od to 321 Od 28s 6d per owt
Quantity sold at the Highest Prices:-
0 barrels white wheat; 26 red; 26 barley; 0 here; 53 oats;
1 pig.
Quantity of Grain and Number of Pigs sold last week :
Wheat, 1,723. Barley, 2,682. Oats, 6,380. Pigs, 1,350.
PRICES OF BUTTER.
CANT.
First quality ............... 79s First quality ......... 70.
Second quality ............ 741 Second quality
Third quality 6Bs Third quality .
Fourth quality ............ 66s Fourth quality
Fifth quality
Sixth quality 50s Sixth quality
Return of Cattle sold for week ending Nov. 22.
Pigs, 1,122. Sheep, 199. Cows, 203.
Coax.—Flour—First 11. 6d to 12s 6d; extra 13s Od;
seconds, lOs Od to I ls Od; households 8s to 10s Od; thirds, 7s toes
per cwt. Oatmeal 1016 d to lls; Indian meal 6s 3d to 6s 93; wheat-
meal, 9s to 9s 63 per cwt. Indian corn 61 Os Od to 617. 6d per
ton. Bran 82s 6d to 85s per ton. Hay—Farmers 22. to 30s; average
28s ; dealers 32s to 40s Od; average 35s per ton. Sti aw— Farmers
15s Od to 23s Od ; average ' 18. ; dealers 25. Od to 00s Od;
average 00s Od per ton. Bread—Wheaten loaf bid to 6d ;
household loaf 41d to 5d per 41b. Fresh butter, 9d to
10d per lb. Eggs-5s 10d to 6s Od per hundred. Coals—
Newport 16s Od ; Lydney 178 ' • Landore 00s ; Culm,
13. Od per ton. Tallow 00s Od to 401 per cwt.
Whisky, 25 o. p., 5s 9d per imperial gallon. Meat
—Beef 41d to 7d ; mutton 5d to 61d ; veal 4d to
6d ; pork 4d to Od ; bacon 6d to 7d ; sausages 5d per lb.
Hops 818 s to 9/ Os per cwt. Bangor slates 21 17s 6d to 3/ Os pe,
ton. Bark—Barbary 71 Os to 8! Os ; Valonia 151 to Oli French
61 Os ; Spanish 01 per ton. Fleece Wool 141 to 15s per atone.
Hemp 29/ to 34/ per ton. Fish—Scotch herrings 201 to 00s; new
ditto, 233 to 00s per barrel ; Newfoundland, 1010 s to 11/ per
ton. Timber—Memel, 70s per ton; red pine, 31 5s •' yellow
ditto, 2/ 15s per ton; deals, 151 to 181 per 100. Hides—
Market 21a to 30s; milted 22. to 30. per owt ; calf skins
3d to 3id per lb. Potatoes, white 7d to 11 d ; Minions,
00d to 00d. Guano—Peruvian, 11l lOs; Ichaboe, Si to 91 Cs
per ton. Tar—Archangel, 19per barrel.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
BRISTOL, Disc. 2.
STOFDE EXCHANGE.— Tbe share market has been very
active to-day, and prices have again advanced. The
transactions were as follow :—Bristol and Exeter, 81—Great
Western, 87%—Taff Vale, 150—Ditto, New, 1!4 p.

LIVERPOOL, DEC. 2.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market opened this
morning flatter than yesterday, but towards the evening it
improved, and closed better. The transactions were as
follow :—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire, 10% dis.—
Caledonian, 15—Eastern Counties, 7ys Lancashire and
Yorkshire, 57—Ditto, Preference, G per cent. 1314—Lan-
caster and Carlisle, Thirds, 8 p.—London and North-
Western, 1153% —Ditto, New Quarters, 3 c. p.—Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 61. New Preference, 9.16 p.—
Midland, 64—North-Western, 15/. Preference, UN—South-
Eastern and Dover, 20X.
MANCHESTER, DEC. 2.

STOCK EXCEIANGE.—The business started to-day at fair
prices, but the news received per electric telegraph as to
France caused considerable sensation in the market, and
much fluctuation. The transactions were as follow:
Eastern Counties, 7 1-16—East Lancashire, 15 11-16
Cheshire Junction, 10% dis.—Leeds, 5614—Ditto, Fifths,
81,4 dis. —Manchester, .Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 343%
Ditto, Preference, 121,4—Ditto, New Preference, 9-16 p.—
North Staffordshire, 8 dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, 2034
—Caledonian, 161/,x—Ditto, Preference, 7% Clitheroe (No.
1), 4 13-16—Midland, 5414.
BIRMINGHAM, T)xc. 2.
STOCK EXCHANGE. —There was little or nothing done in
the share market to-day. The only sale reported was—
South Staffordshire, 2 dis.

The Princess Montleart, mother of the late King
Charles Albert of Sardinia, has just died in Paris, at the age
of 72. Her remains will be conveyed to Vienna for inter-
ment.

EVENTS IN PARIS.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS;
TIMES.—The French Revolution has once more re-
sumed its eccentric and irresistible course; and this in-
effectual compromise between the institutions of a
Democratic Republic and the representative of Imperial
Government is already overthrown. The step just taken
by Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, whatever may be its
ulterior consequences, at- once overleaps the barrier
between law and revolution. • The future government of
the country, and even the existence of its constituted
authorities, rest altogether on the fortune of the moment
and the fidelity of the army. The electric spark which
transmitted to us yesterday morning the intelligence of
events not yet consummated upon the theatre of action,
is not more swift than their changes; and even at the
hour at which we write we are still in ignorance of the
forces brought to bear'on this revolution and of the re-
sistance it may have to encounter in the nation. This
much is, however, already certain, that Louis Napoleon
bad burst the legal conditions of his power, that the
laws and limitations by which he held the highest office
in the State are either annihilated by this blow or turned
against himself, as the chief enemy of the constitution,
and that he stands, either amenable, by failure, to the
supreme judicature of the country, or becomes by suc-
cess the popular candidate for unlimited personal power.
There is no other alteruatl4, and the events of yester-
day must either .p4sigrMince, for the present, to a
Bonapartist dictatorihip, or send Louis Bonaparte to
Vincennes. The Government, however, seems prepared
to make its act decisive ,and complete. The military
chief of the Assembly, Generals Changarnier, Cavaignac,
Lamoriciere, and Charras, are reported to have been
arrested at the outset of the revolution. and transferred
to the fortress in which they would willingly have im-
mured Louis Napoleon himself; and after the part which
M. Thiers has played for the last few years in the revo-
lutions of 'France, it will excite no regret to learn
that he too has been committed- to this new Bastile.
This measure was doubtless taken to prevent the effect
which might have been produced by an appeal from
these leaders to the army or the members of the Assem-
bly, and to strike terror into those who might otherwise
have turned their arms against the President, or rallied
the scattered forces of the Assembly. We learn fur-
ther, that upon the closing of the Legislature a consi-
derable body of members, belonging chiefly to the Le-
gitimist party, assembled at the adjoining Mairie, where
they were surrounded by troops, and conveyed' under
arrest to the neighbouring barracks. A more sweeping
extinction of legislative authority, and a more utter con-
tempt for the representatives of a great people, has not
been witnessed since the dissolution of the Long Parlia-
ment of the expulsion of the Council of 500 from the
Orangery of St. Cloud. From the first announcement of
the President's intention to demand the abrogation of
the Electoral Law, accompanied by the summary
dismissal of the Faucher Cabinet, and followed by
the appointment of so significant a Minister as General
St. Arnaud with his most insignificant colleagues, we
have anticipated the occurrence of events and the re-
newal of adventures which would probably change the
provisional condition of France. These apprehensions
have been greatly increased by the factious conduct of
the Assembly, by the unprincipled coalitions formed
between the President's personal enemies and his Re-
publican opponents, and by the attitude assumed by the
Government under the increasing encouragement of the
populace of Paris. The very last time we had occasion
to discuss the condition of France we observed, " That
if the law itself affords no relief to a nation in such a
predicament, the course of events will be arrested by
some violent suspension of the law, that is, by a revolu-
tion;" and we added that, "if such a measure be dic-
tated by an imperative necessity, it would claim an in-
demnity from the suffrages of the nation." That sentence,
published 48 hours before the event, appears accurately
to describe the present emergency; for, whether any
such " imperative necessity" existed or not; it had be-
come evident that the impatience of the executive power
was increased by the cabals of its Parliamentary anta-
gonists, and inflamed by the favour of the people. But,
though we have long deplored the factious spirit of the
Assembly, and the ascendancy almost involuntarily con-
ceded in that body to the most mischievous of its
members, the circumstances at present known to us are
not such as to account for and justify a coup d'itat
which tramples underfoot the whole legal system of the
country. The constitution of 1848, however, contained
from the first the germ of such a revolution; for it bad
placed the highest political authority in the Assembly,
while it conferred upon an independent executive Go-
vernment, stimulated by perpetual rivalry and frequent
collision, the physical and political means of destroying
an obstacle it pould not otherwise remove. The history
of, the aeLtheei pat.3.lm,bastkAlse history of this 'eon.
mat. autras the time'Wrew near at which the legal
powers of the .contending parties were to expire the
danger of an explosion became imminent. We conclude
from the political elements which have alone sur-
vived the protracted convulsions of France—the throne
being overturned, the aristocracy destroyed, the
country centralized, and the army paramount—that
the French people must either be governed by a dicta-
torial power not seriously controlled by any representa-
tive Assembly, or by an Assembly disposing obsoletely
of the executive authority; and an imperial despotism
is at least preferable to anarchy or to the government of
a Committee of Public Safety. The measures of the
Government have been taken with that boldness which
tells most in revolutions. The military authorities had
for some days past held the army in immediate prepara-
tion and on the verge of action. General Perrot, the
Commandant of the National Guard of Paris, had just
been removed in consequence of an attempt to place on
his staff a man obnoxious to himself, and known by the
violence he had displayed on former occasions. The
command of the civic troops was thereupon transferred
to M. de Turgot, late Minister of Foreign Affairs, whose
presence in that post might at least have the ffect of
paralyzing the hostile activity of the
'legions. M. de
Morny, well known as a member of what was, termed
the progressive party under M. Guiist's administration,
and nearly connected with Louis Napoleon by blood,
is introduced into the Cabinet as Minister of the Inte-
rior, and M. Fould has resumed his place as Minister of
Finance. But the issue of the crisis depends
altogether on the army, and the army on General
from
regular deference
chiefs, t o any
especially commands
as
it has St. Arnaud. There is every reason to believe that the
army will act in perfect unison, and without the
slightest
its
de-
prived of the ablest of its other leaders. Tho French
people are so apt to obey a given impulse in any direc-
tion, that we are surprised to find this revolution ac-
complished thus far without any serious resistance, and
hailed, as usual, by popular acclamation. The Assem-
bly, which was so ardently discussing but yesterday the
measures to be taken for its defence and the rights of
Parliamentary resistance, was deserted by public opinion
before it was assailed by the Executive Power; and the
catastrophe at which it has now arrived is no more than
the result of the destructive and contemptible line of
policy adopted by the majority at the commencement of
the year now hurrying to its close. But the Assembly
has done more than annihilate its own influence and
authority. It has injured and disgraced the cause
of constitutional and representative government in
France. It has put the seal of doom on that, experi-
ment of representative government which has been
tried in France with so many vicissitudes and so
little success for upwards of 60 years; and it has left the
land it professed to rule to be the spoil of these myrmi-
dons of military power. Tho appeal made by Louis Na-
poleon to universal suffrage can only be interpreted to
mean an appeal to the people in his own favour, and no
reliance will be placed on the existence of Chambers
depending on his pleasure, when the National Assembly
of the Republic has just been overthrown by his will.
It is not improbable, indeed, that this change will be ac-
cepted by a people attached to no traditions of the past,
despising the present, and incredulous of the future.
But it will be accepted, if it be so accepted, without
genuine enthusiasm or confidence. If the entire party
once known 'as that of the Conservative majority be
annihilated by this revolution, including as it does what-
ever has hitherto been moat eminent in the councils or
the armies of France, it is not the less certain that
the revolutionary and republican elements to which
Louis Napoleon is most strongly opposed still exist
in full organization and vigour. They may be
stunned by this blow; they will be coerced by the army,
and prosecuted by th laws; bu
in .
which t they consist of men not
likely to desist from a cantest they have now
but one opponent, even though that opponent be desig-
nated by universal suffrage. The fortunes of Louis
Napoleon are therefore by no means decided by the
occurrences'of yesterday; for his Government, if esta-
blished, enters upon a new and more violent field of con-
flict, to which it is impossible to assign a limit or any
certain.object. The step now irretrievably taken opens
revolutionary annals a new period in the
of Europe, of the most momentous Interest to the cause
of the world;
of civilization and the peace but, whatever
may be the results of these events, it is but too certain
that the true interests of
e freedom and the nobler prin-
ciples of constitutional government are already
sacrified.
The humiliation of February, 1848, is avenged by the
humiliation of December, 1851; and France is doomed
onto more to descend, step by step, from the horrors and
bondage
folly of popular revolution to f the sterno
mili-
tary rule.
lIERALD.—If yesterday we had to remark on the
state of uncertainty in which we were left by the results
so admirable and wonderful in some respects of the
working of the submarine and electric telegraphs—in
reference to the death of a celebrated individual—how
shall we express to-day the state of surprise and amaze-
ment into which we have been thrown by intelligence
which concerns, not merely the interest and welfare of
and
a nation—intelligence which may have a positive
direct influence on the greater portion of Europe. For
the last month, indeed, during which the leaders of par-
ties jinthe French Chamber have exhibited all the worst
vices of intriguers and plotters under the lower Empire
—during which time we have seen them false and faith-
less to every priuoiple, and working only for paltry per-

sonal interests, without any touch of patriotism or love
of country—for the last month or more, we say, every
observing man must have remarked that the Assembly
was fast falling into contempt, and that a people prover-
bially grateful and attached to champions of the po-
pular cause were wont to speak of the proceedings
of the Legislature without respect, if not with feel-
ings of dissatisfaction, and almost, indeed, of deri-
sion and contempt. But though this was known to
be the feeling among the majority of the Parisian com-
munity, high and low—and to be the universal feeling
of the people i❑ the country parts of France—yet the
people of this happy country, accustomed to legality,
precedent, and routine, were not yet prepared for ex-
treme measures—and generally considered that this old
year would pass over without any sudden or startling
changes. This appeared the more probable, as Paris
was, even so late as on Sunday, tranquil—as the funds
were steady—as the Chamber met on Monday as usual
—and as the election of a representative for the metro-
polis, in the place of General Ilagnan, quietly proceeded
and terminated in the midst of a profound calm and
tranquillity. But though all this is undoubted and in-
controvertible fact—though the workmen are generally
employed, and everybody was looking forward to a
pleasant Christmas and a brilliant opening of the new
year in the gay and civilised metropolis of France, yet it
may be that these latter expectations will not be grati-
fied. With what surprise the news which we published
in a third edition yesterday would be generally received
in Paris may be well imagined. Admitting, however, to
the fullest extent that the Chamber has on more than
one occasion menaced and insulted the President—ad-
mitting, also, that the Council of State has been an
accessory in this unwise, undignified, and unstatesman-
like poliey, both before and uftWThelact—admitting
also that the most unnatural coalitions between parties
had taken place in the Chamber—nevertheless we be.
lieve most well-informed persons, both here and abroad,
were of opinion that the President and his Government
would have allowed the Chamber and the Burgraves to
proceed to more overt acts of hostility than anywhere
appears recorded in their proceedings. Bat whether it
is that a conspiracy has been discovered of which it was
arranged that a branch of the house of Orleans should be
the blind instrument, and M. Thiers the motive and ma-
neging power—whether it is that the proposition sought
to be brought forward by M. Laborde (namely, that
the principle of Monarchy or Republic should be for+
wally considered)—excited and moved the President to
action—we know not, and cannot pronounce, for the de-
tails are not yet come to hand. But whatever the
motive, or whatever the provocation, certain it is, that
both the Assembly and the Council of State are dis-
solved, and that Paris itself is placed in a state of siege.
The reason fur an extreme measure of this kind was
doubtless great and overwhelming, for it were acting
disingenuously with our readers not to declare that it is
a measure beyond the assigned limits of the Constitution.
As little do we aver—that a case has arisen of a very
urgent and overwhelming nature—in which the placing
of Paris in a state of siege has been justifiable. But such
case must indeed have been an urgent one, for it is pro-
vided by the 106th article of the Constitution that the
forms and effects of a state of siege must be regulated by
an express law. It may be remembered that we expressly
defended in this journal the state of siege in which Paris
was placed in June, 1848, by General Cavaignac. But
it should be recollected that the Reds and Socialists
were then in open insurrection—that demagoguic clubs
were sitting in permanence—and that a civil war was
actually raging. Public safety and the salvation of so-
ciety we freely admitted absolutely required such a
measure in 1848, and may require such a measure again
in December, 1851, for aught we know to the contrary.
But, in the absence of all details and all information, it
cannot be supposed we are prepared to speculate upon
motives and grounds with which we are wholly unite-
quainted. We may, however, here remark, that up to
June, 1848, the conditions of a state of siege were regu-
lated by the laws of Bth July, 1791—by the laws of the
10th Fructidor—and the decree of the 24th December,lBll.
That the hard and onerous conditions of a state of siege
should be so specifically regulated there can be no
doubt, for, according to the military law of France, a
city placed in a state of siege is like a city in a state of
war. The civil authority passes entirely into the
hands of the military commander, who, in reference to
subsistence, organization, and entire command, may
be considered supreme and absolute arbiter. Every
civil and military authority is for the time under
him —judges, prefects, mayors, artillery, cavalry,
engineers, national guard, municipal guard, chasseurs
de Vincennes, sappers and miners, as well as bishops,
priests, and monks, are under his entire control. He
alone decides in every resort according to secret in-
structions which he receives from the executive. Such
powers as these are more than plenary ; they are abso-
lute and autocratic. There have been extreme cases,
where such a complete dictature is not only admissible,
but supremely necessary—where such a mvister populi
as Cicero speaks of in his" Fragment of the Republic"
can be tolerated and even applauded. But the cases
are very exceptional, and the instances very rare in-
deed, where such power should be conferred or as-
sumed. There must be a justification for such a course;
but until we know the facts, it would be imprudent, as
well as unjust, to pronounce upon them. The Presi-
dent, we are told in conclusion, restores universal suf-
frage, and appeals to the nation. This looks as though
ho rested a firm reliance upon the motives by which he
has been urged, and upon the necessity for the course
he has adopted. Such appears to us to be the reason-
able inference to be drawn from an appeal to the people
of France.

CLIRONICLE.—Criticism of the stunning intelli-
gence which reached us yesterday must obviously be
confined to the succession of facts as they occurred,
leaving untouched for the present the mighty eventuali-
ties with which they are remotely pregnant. Although,
by yesterday noon, we had been even more distinctly
advised than were probably the population in the
suburbs of Paris, that the Assembly had been forcibly
dissolved, and that Louis Napoleon had taken military
possession of the principal points in the city; we felt
that wo had been admitted to but a glimpse of the secret
of a great drama; nor are we even now much more
confident as to the extent to which we have penetrated
it. Still there is no want of magnitude in the in-
cidents themselves, and they cast a flood of light
upon mach that has preceded them. All through
Sunday and Monday rumour had been busier than
usual in Paris. It was said that orders had been
transmitted to the Prefects of departments, and to
the Generals commanding the districts which were
under military law, to the effect that they were to hold
themselves in readiness against a danger which was close
at hand. Some of the reports added that all the troops,
within twenty miles of the capital, had been warned that
they must be prepared to march at a moment's notice,
and that the superintendents of the railway companies
bad been commanded to keep the road completely free
for the passage of soldiery. The representatives, who
crowded to the Ministry of the Interior for information
and guidance, were acquainted by M. de Thorigny that
the preparations in question had really been made, and
that their object was to provide against an outbreak of
the Socialist democracy, which bad been fixed for the
day of the Paris election. All who heard the answer
interpreted it in accordance with those perverse notions
of Louis Napoleon's character and capacity, at which
we have so often expressed our astonishment. Although
General Loewenstein had just been placed, in lieu of Ge-
neral Perrot, at the head of the National Guards—and
although it was known that the principal subordinate of
the new comminder was Colonel Vieyra, the unscrupulous
officer who destroyed the printing presses of tho Repub-
lican newspapers after the abortive demonstration in
June, 1849--no one eye seems to have been opened to
the true nature of the movements which were admitted

to be going on. It was the old story, they said. The
Legitimists and Orleanists were assured by their news•
papers that the President had invented this clumsy fable
of a plot, as an excuse for making an imposing display of
energy, and so proving to the Conservative party how
useful was his vigilance and how indispensable his aid.
The National of Monday declared ironically that the
Ministers would be obliged to it for saving them the
trouble of announcing that the plot was all a mistake.
In fact, the adversaries of the ElyEee walked right into
the pitfall, with loud asseverations of their contempt for
the hand which had dug it. The conspiracy, which had
thus tainted the air all day, exploded in the night.
The Parisians awoke on Tuesday morning to find every
position of importance in the occupation of the mili-
tary. Then came the news that all the officers who

might have influenced the army unfavourably for Louis
Napoleon's designs had been roused from their beds
to be placed under arrest. The great African Generals,
Changarnier, Cavaignac, and Lamoriciere, with Bedeau,
Leflo, and the Republican Colonel Charras, were already
lodged in the prison of Mezzos. To these had been
added MM. Thiers, Lagrange, and upwards of sixty other
representatives. The Palace of the Assembly was
closed and surrounded; and the walls of Paris wero pla-
carded with the following decree:—

"In the name of the French people, the President of
;he Republic decrees—

_
" ARTICLE I.
The National Assembly is dissolved.
" ARTICLE 11.

" Universal suffrage is re-established, The Lviv of
,he 31st May is repealed.

" ARTICLE 111.

" The French people are convoked in their communes
'roni the 14th to the 21st December.

" ARTICLE IV.

" The state of siege is decreed in the whole of the
first military division.

" ARTICLE V.
"The Couccil of State is dissolved.

" ARTICLE VI.
" The Minister of the Interior is charged with the
execution of this decree.
" LOUIS NAPOLEON BONAPARTE."
Such aro the facts of Tuesday morning; and up to the
moment at which we write, there is nothing to load us to
believe that this extraordinary blow has not been struck
with success the most signal and unqualified. The only
cheek—if such it can bs called—which Louis Napoleon
has sustained, is the Ltd that, early in the day, about
two hundred Members of the Assembly met at the
Maid° of the 101 arrondimement, under M. Daru'o pre-

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sof recent date. Now that the attempt has been
actually made, its commencement may be carried back to
the period at which General Magnan's acceptance of a
command vacated his seat for Paris, and placed at the
disposal of the Executive an opportunity of which it
must have at once discerned all the uses. By the ex-
isting law, a casual election, such as that of last Sun-
day and Monday, might be fixed at any period within
six months after the vacancy. To appoint a day for
the polling before the unpopular Electoral Law could
possibly be repealed—to pretend that the spectacle of an
cott hstwoouslr oict
ghnaigensmtireas u:tleelt
oligarchy enjoying the rights of the people of Paris
would provoke an outbreak of the indignant democracy
—to mask the assemblage of an immense me
representing it as a needful precaution against the anti-
cipated demonstration—all these are links in the chain of
conspiracy which hang evenly together, and which indi-
cateard force by
to us the point from which they are suspended. More-
over, the inference that the blow has not beenquite
extemporised is strengthened by another fact which has
attracted notice—we allude to the ostentatious neutrality
which Louis Napoleon's personal adherents maintained'
in the late divisions, as though they were desirous of
protesting that the Assembly had forfeited its rights.
On the other band, it is difficult to set aside, as having
exercised no influence on this measure, the extraordi-
nary result of the debates on the Municipal Bill. One
can scarcely conceive a more plausible occasion for an
appeal to the people than a division which stereotyped
an unpopular principle in the most fundamental of laws,
and which was known, all the while, to have been
vitiated
by fraud or mistake. It may be, however,
that this is only another instance of the felicity with
which, up to the critical moment, fortune has played
into Louis Napoleon's hands. The only man in France
who has sworn obedience to the Constitution has broken
it. Keeping fully in view the palliations afforded by
the malice, the recklessness, the selfishness, and
the provocations of his enemies, we cannot
forget that, according to the letter of the moral
and positive law, the act just perpetrated amounts
both to perjury and to treason. If it be suc-
cessfully accomplished, we can only hope that the ex-
cuses for his conduct will seem so conclusive to Louis
Napoleon as to preserve his self-respect unimpaired.
Once confirmed in a systematic carelessness of obliga-
tions, ho will find himself courted by precipice after pre-
cipice in the path on which he has entered. With an
army to support him, there will be a perpetual tempta-
tion to beat down domestic opposition by its help. With
an army to keep in good humour, there will be a perpe-
tual temptation to engage in foreign war for its aggran-
disement. But we must keep our promise to refrain at
present from speculation or contingencies like these. One
consequence of the coup- dual must indeed be men-
tioned, though the statement of it appears very like a
bathos. The English Whig Ministry—on the point of
falling to pieces through the revived disagreements of
the Palmerston and Grey factions—has perhaps been
saved by the events at Paris from a forced resignation,
which we should otherwise, in all probability, have had
to ennounce in the course of yesterday afternoon. Our
patriotic Whig statesmen will find a bond of union and
a reason for holding place in the events which have oc
curred in Paris.

POST.—Louis Napoleon has at last made his
threatened appeal from the adverse decisions and ag-
gressive legislation of the National Assembly to the
voice and will of the people at large, as the only compe-
tent arbitrators on the great questions at issue. With
the leading facts of this important turn in the course of
events our readers were yesterday made acquainted in
quick succession, and, in fact, almost as they occurred.
The extreme conciseness which the medium of the
electric telegraph combines with its wonderful rapidity
!eaves us, however, at the moment of writing, in some
uncertainty as to the precise mode in which the bold
measures of the President have been carried into effect,

and as to the exact circumstances which may have de-
termined or precipitated thQir exectrion. The important
points are that the Assembly has been actually dissolved
by command of the Executive—that Universal Suffrage
was declared by the President to be the basis on
which alone any rattled Government could b 3 formed

—that the people were invited to resume their
sovereignty and elect a chief—that the troops
were steady under arms—that the city was
quiet and the people acquiescent. From the
attitude of both the contending parties for some time
past, it was clear that affairs were rapidly converging
to such a necessity as that into which the Executive
has now been forced. The Assembly had proved, by
the time and mode in which they had revived and car-
ried forward the augmented Bill on the responsibility
of the Executive., that they were bent on reducing to
nullity all power in the State except their own. The
President, on every possible occasion, had manifested
the strongest determination not to submit to such an
extinction, nor to permit the seizure of military power
by the leading factions of the Assembly. To have done
so would, in fact, have been to sacrifice not his own
position alone, but the constitutional rights—the means
and hopes of settled and tranquil political existence—
entrusted to him by his vast constituency. The only
chance of preserving such political quiet clearly lay in
clumsyin the re-construction, t while
Constitution,it
experience sunk into deeper condemnation, as absurd
in theory, and unmanageable in practice. En-
tangledeverythe in the bonds of M. Marrast's contradic-
torywas
and involved provisions of fundamental law,
it was evident that the country could have no chance of
making its way safely through the dangers of disturb-
ance and anarchy that beset the coming year. Yet the
Assembly refused to remove those bonds, rejected every
Practicable solution proposed to it, occupied itself in un•
justifiable combinations for objects that lay backward in
the pa,t, instead of co-operating honestly with the Go-
vernment to meet the difficulties of the future. In short,
the nation, anxious to be rid of the clog that threatened
to drag it down into every kind of danger, could look
only to one man for release, and that man was Louis
Napoleon. Foiled in every attempt to deal with the
obstacle within the walls of the Assembly, he has fol-
lowed the prompting voice of the most influential classes
of the people, by cutting the knot which he was not per-
mitted to loosen. Nothing could show more strongly
the profound conviction prevalent through France, that
the Assembly had forgotten its duties and mistaken
its proper course, than the quiet approval with which
the middle classes contemplated the impending fate
of their representative; while a coup d'dtat was
merely a thing talked of; and it seems, as we judged
would be the case, that nothing could be more
complete than the indifference with which the actual
cessation of their existence, as a member of the body
politic, has been regarded by tho citizens of Paris. The
complete failure of the successive attempts at military
domination en the part of the leaders of the Assembly
could not fail to bring utter ruin to their ambitious hopes,
and to establish more strongly the power against which
their machinations were directed. Military usurpation
was the last chance of success for the chiefs of the old

parties; for they had done nothing to win the confidence
of the people, and had promised nothing to gain their
support. They had no principle on which to rely—could
declare no course on which they were agreed—were surg-
ing blindly, recklessly on to anarchy. The appeal pro-
posed by Louis Napoleon to the only possible foundation
of a political system that revolution has left to France,
namely, universal suffrage, was, in fact, the last and so-
litary way of escape from a revival of that instrument of
evil, the Convention, and perhaps from all the horrors
of 1793. To the result of such an appeal everything
that has yet occurred leads us to look with confidence.
The intrigues of those unwise adherents of the two
branches of Monarchy, to whom so much mischief
has of late been traced, may be considered to have re-
ceived their finishing stroke. These persons must, in
French phrase, " accept the situation," and be content
to abandon their projects for such Government as the
nation is prepared to accept and welcome. The diffi-
culty which the Executive Power will yet have to
eet
will, no doubt, be that ancient one of revolution, the
reconciliation of Republican jealousy with the necessary
restrictions of a Government that forms a new part in a
sixty years' course of political troubles.
appealing for its very creation, and depending
An Executive
very existence on the most DOMOC . radtrc principles, will
yet be charged with the strictest for its
pression of the dangerous tendencies
most vigorous rfn
practice. In this difficult part of heisestas.,olif, Dtheem4acirnaquP-
port of the President, if Louis Napoleon electedbewith to
that pest, will be in the loyalwhich,
even in these last bold
principle professed by him throeghout—that the peoplee
in the widest sense, and they tdhered to the
alone, must, inc the
present state of France, be the source of power, 11
hheas Ywhatever ruler they may choose. Of himself
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free-
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self so disposed to employ its lastdays
to which the coup
that free action of public opinion
hole settlement of future govern-
d'etat refers the w
ment. Louis Napoleon has done his part, and bas
done it boldly yet moderately. It is now for France
to do hers resolutely, yet, let us hope, peace-
fully. A chief chosen by the universal voice, hold-
ing his office for ton years, supported by a Council of
State, and by a double Chamber—such are the recom-
mendations of Louis Napoleon; and with whatever frel-
jugs tboy may be received by the more advanced sec- ,
Lion- of the iepublican body or the partizans-`of -the mo- '
narchic houses, they must be admitted to present to the
middle classes of France ti better prospect of a fair field