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London, England, 1851-11-20 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1851,

The Republican party in France is, we have always
contermied, the reel party of order, because it is the
party of justice, the party of progress, the party of
peace. The organs of the Burgrave, Bonapartist, and
Parti-pretre conspiracy (now happily broken up into
separate portions and rendered in consequence im-
potent for further evil) deny this assertion, and usurp
for themselves the tints which we have claimed and
still claim, as belonging to the great Republican
party.
The Burgraves and Bonapartists are, we
are told, the party of peace ; and republican
ascendancy in France would inevitably lead
to an European war in consequence of the
attacks which the Republicans would make
upon the independence of neighbouring states. 'crow
we would beg to remind the unprincipled coiners of
these falsehoods, and the dupes of thesecoiners who,
parrot-like, repeat, and as thoughtlessly accept as
truths the fabrications of the absolutist and obscu-
rantist Chanceries, of what took pitz-,--4. in the year 1848, j

immediately after the revolution of February. Late
one evening, a general officer, whose appearance bore
evidence that he had journeyed in haste from afar,
appeared at the hotel of the Minister of the Inte-
rior, and demanded an interview with M. LEDRU
RoLLIN. He was told that the Minister would not
be disengaged until two o'clock in the morning, and he
stated he would wait; he did wait, he had an interview
with M. LBDRU ROLLIN, who recognised him at
once as an officer holding a high command in Africa,
who was absent without leave. This officer proposed
to M. LEDRU ROLLIN to organize an expedition
secretly for the invasion of England, without any
declaration of war, offering himself to take the com-
mand of it, undertaking to destroy Woolwich and
London before he returned, and engaging, should the
expedition fail, to take the whole responsibility on
himself, and to suffer execution as a brigand rather
than acknowledge that he had been acting under
the orders of the French Government. The proposi•
tion was indignantly rejected by M. LEDRU ROLLIN,
and the proposer covered with shame withdrew.
Who was the proposer of this brigand expedition ?
Not a Red,i not a Republican, but a Burgrave, the
great General of the great party of order, the trusted
of the Bourbons, the eulogised of the parti-pretre,
the man the ascendancy of whom in France we were
told two years since was absolutely necessary to pre-
serve the peace of 'Europe : the proposer of this ex-
pedition was no other than General CHANGARNIER.
So much for the Burgraves being the party of peace.
But we are told the Bonapartists are the party of
peace ! Are we to consider the expedition to Rome
as an evidence of their love of the doctrines of non-
interference and of their peaceable intentions?
Fortunately, however, for the peace of France and of
the world, whilst the real party of order in the
country, the party of peace, of the Constitution, and
of legality, has been consolidating its forces, and now
remains in an attitude of calm dignity, inspired by
the possession of conscious power, watching the
course of events, and so directing them as to consoli-
date and secure the Republic, which is henceforth the
only possible form of government in France, the
reactionary conspiracy is broken up, and the con-
spirators who plotted the destruction of the
Republic are now turning their arms against
each other ; anything like a reconciliation be-
tween the Bonapartists and the Burgraves is
new impossible; the reactionary conspiracy can never
again be reorganized on its former footing. If we
needed any additional proof of this we should find it
in the debate of Monday on the Questors' Bill. Who
would have imagined that M. TRIERS would have
been hooted down by the partisans of M. BONAPARTE ?
Yet so it happened. Who would have imagined that
the Ministers of If. BONAPARTE would have been
roughly questionfml by General BEDEAU, and that M.
BERRTER would have threatened to impeach not only
the Ministers, but the PRESIDENT himself ? Yet so it
happened. Who would have imagined that those who
refused to listenjto either M.ITHIERS or to the Minis-
ters of M. BONAPARTE would have eagerly drunk in
the words of M. MIC LIEL (de Bourges) and M.
JULES FAVRE ? Yet so it happened. The different
fractions of the reactionary conspiracy knew that
their fate rested in the hands of the Re-
publicans, and they therefore listened attentively to
the Republican orators, who carried away the
honours of the sitting. Of the state of dissolution
in which what was once the reactionary party is at
present our readers may judge from the following
passage, which we copy from the observations of the
Journal des Debuts on the debate of Monday :
" Question any one who was present at the sitting, for
which we could have wished closed doors had been de-
manded, and ho will tell you that never, at any of the
most tumultuous and most stormy periods, did the As-
sembly present a more lamentable spectacle of disorder.
I❑ a pitched battle in which every one combats around
his flag, there is at least grandeur and something that
elevates the mind; and besides, defeat is almost as noble
as victory; but what was witnessed on Monday was ❑ot
a conflict, it was general anarchy, it was chaos, it was
dissolution."

Yes, the reactionary party is in a state of chaos,
and dissolution, and it is not by such cunningly de-
vised schemes as a partial restoration of the fran-
chise to the peasantry, under the guise of a new Mu-
nicipal Bill, whilst the disfranchisement of the work-
men in the towns is continued by the Law of 31st
May, that the party can be reconstructed. The
Republicans will accept nothing short of the complete
restoration of universal suffrage, and they, therefore,
properly abstain from taking any part in the discus-
sion of the Municipal Bill; and we may be very cer-
tain that the PRESIDENT will accept of no such
compromise, because it will not give him
a single additional chance of re-election. We
consider, therefore, that the Republicans from prin-
ciple, and that the PRESIDENT from interest, will per-
severe in their demands for the abrogation of the Law
of May, 1850, and the Burgraves will not venture a
second time to refuse it. The victory throughout
these contests has been, and must eventually remain,
with the Republicans.

The Commissioners for the Sale of Encumbered
Estates in Ireland are actively engaged in their voca-
tion, and properties to the amount of tens of thousands
of pounds sterling are changing hands day after day,
the old families, whose inheritances have been
squandered away, being replaced by new corners.
We should indeed be rejoiced if we could state that
there had been a marked improvement in the rates of
purchase, or that a desire to become landed pro-
prietors in the sister kingdom had influenced English
capitalists to enter the market. But no, the same
excessive caution—nervous timidity might be the more
proper term—is still but too painfully apparent, and
at every sale well circumstanced estates are knocked
down at little more than one-half their actual value.
These are indeed "alarming" sacrifices, and, unfor-
tunately, almost as " deplorable" as they are " alarm-
ing." They proclaim in the most unequivocal terms
the wretched condition of the nation, where real
property, once so anxiously sought after—the fa-
vourite description of investment—has fallen to so
heavy a discount, and that notwithstanding the
unusually favourable terms as to title, for the first

time tendered for public acceptance. On every for-
mer occasion—even.on sales under the highest tribunal
in the country—the purchaser should observe the
old maxim, caveat evaptor. He should pay his money
in full dependence on the accuracy and acuteness of
his solicitor and advising counsel. On the accuracy
of the former—for if the abstract of title were in-
correct in any particular, the most experienced
conveyancer might be deceived, and that without
any fault of his own ; while, on the other
hand, the :slightest negligence or oversight,
arising possibly from a disordered stomach or inci-
pient gout, might occasion some fatal mistake, such
as the overlooking of some latent blot on the title,
that would lead to the loss of the entire purchase-
money, and reduce the unfortunate purchaser to abso-
lute ruin.

But these serious dangers did not constitute the
only evils of the ancient system. Although the con-
fidence of the purchaser in his legal advisers of either
branch of the profession were fully merited, although
no mistake of any kind should be admitted, and that
a title could thus be obtained that would have the
scrutiny of the most stringent investigation, that
would be proof against the captious objections of an
unwilling purchaser, great annoyance, delay, and
expense would necessarily take place before the
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transaction could be completed. Months would be
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searches positive and
negative for judgments, Crown bonds, and recogni-
'ances, as well as for all
acts affecting the
estate in question (we are speaking of property in
Ireland), would consume some additional weeks.
Then the result of the searches would again be laid
before counsel. New requisitions and new objections
might, and in all human probability would, then be
put forward, founded on the additional premises.
Any member of the profession in Ireland, any
vendor or purchaser of property in that
country, before the recent Act came into
operation, will say that we hare not by
any means overcolcured the picture, and that
many months.u:sually intervened between the contract
for the sale and the completion of the transaction,
during which the purchase money was lying compa-
ratively idle and unproductive, to the serious loss of
one or other of the parties. When all these matters
had been completed—when the differences about the
deed of settlement had been fully arranged—

when it had been "perused and amended" on
behalf of every executing party, the bills of
costs remained to be settled ; and these, by no
means unfrequently, made both parties deeply
regret tl le transaction, when considering the goodly
slice of the inheritance (or rather the hard cash
amonnti ng to a large per centage on the purchase-
money), which fell into the lawyers' hands. Such
was the routine whether the property was disposed
of uneter the decree of a court of equity
or by private contract, the former being of course
the most oppressive and the amount absorbed the
largest.

TE is is, however, completely changed under the
nouveau regime. The estate is put up for sale—
knocked down to the highest and fairest bidder.
There is no difficulty as to title ; that is
placed on the most satisfactory footing.
There is a Parliamentary guarantee, con-
stituting a completely new root of the title, a
matter the importance of which will be
appreciated by every person having the
slightest experience in the transfer or
charging of estates ; a person totally unacquainted
with law—aye, a mere child—might bid, with the
full assurance that if his offer was accepted he
would receive that which he believed he was pur-
chasing, and that his right would be indefeasible. The
deed of conveyance would contain no prosy recitals,
or vain repetitions. Useless prolixity being especially
eschewed, all would be terse and appropriate, going
directly to the point, which " he who runs may read."
It will be ready for receiving the official imprimatur
within a few minutes after the cer-
tificate for the payment of the consideration is
produced, and it is by no means unusual to have a
transaction concluded and the purchaser to be actually
in possession of his acquisition on the very day of the
sale. The expense (save as to the stamp duty, which
is fixed by Act of Parliament), is as trivial as the
process is summary. It is then truly " alarming" to
find these extraordinary advantages disregarded, and
landed property remaining a drug in the market, not-
withstanding these great inducements.
It is also deplorable to find inheritors turned
out of the lands that have been in the possession
of their families for centuries, and that without any-
thing to break their fall, or even the most trifling
surplus, to enable them to enter anew upon
the battle of life. But for the un-
warranted depreciation of prices there would
at least be something to look forward to,
every creditor would be paid
_to the last farthing ;
while those who had been brought up in comfort and
affluence would not be reduced to absolute destitution,
and left in want of the commonest necessaries of life ;
and yet, if Sir JOHN ROMILLY'S Bill had received the
legislative sanction, these frightful and melancholy evils
would have been averted. What have those to an-
swer for who wasted the time of the Imperial Par-
liament during the two last sessions, and prevented
this vitally important measure from becoming the
law of the land

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The Assembly yesterday resumed the discussion of
the clauses in the Communal Bill. The following
clause was under discussion :

" Are to be inscribed on the register of the commune
—lst, Frenchmen, 21 years of age, born in the com-
mune, and residing in it for six months; those whose
father aed mother is mentioned in the certificate of birth,
as having his or her domicile or residence in the com-
mune, are considered to be born in it. 2d. Frenchmen,
aged 21, who, not being born in the commune, have
resided is it for three years. 3d. The officials and
ministers of religious worship, invested with these
functions for life. 4th. The military, serving in the
land or sea forces, who have drawn the coascription in
the commune, whatever may be the duration of the re-
sidence of the citizens, mentioned in the 3d and 4th
paragraphs."

The Opinion Publique thus analyses the late vote
in the Assembly on the proposition of the Ques-
tors :—" The 408 votes against it were divided
as follows : 185 belonging to the Mountain,
213 Bonapartists or timid Conservatives, and
10 now or formerly belonging to the Le-
gitirnatist Parliamentary Club. Among the
minority of *OO were 134 Legitimatists, 33
Tiers-party, 101 Conservatives, Fusionists, &c., 27
Republicans, 5 Montagnards, or revolutionists.
Amongst those who abstained, or were absent, are 22
Conservatives,A Legitimatists, and 13 members of the
Opposition of the Left. It will be observed that the
Left is divided into Republicans, and Revolutionists,
or Mon tagnards. The Republicans voted for taking
the proposition into consideration, and the Montag-
nards, or Revolutionists, with the exception of five,
against it."

The opinions of the different generals who have
seats in the National Assembly, on the proposition of
the Questors, may be seen from the manner in which
they voted on it. Generals Bedeau, Cavaiguac, Chan-
garnier, de Lamoricike, le Flo, Radonit de Lafosse,
and Rulhlre, voted for the proposition, and Generals
Achard, Arrighi de Padoue, de Bar, Baraguay-
d'Hilliers, de Chasseloup-Laubat, Durrien, Fabvier,
Gourgaud, de Grammont, de Grouchy, d'Hautpoul,
Musson, Laidet, Lebreton, Montholon, Ornano, Ou-
dinot de Reggio, Pelet, Rapatel, Regnault de Saint-
Jean d'Angely, Rey, Roge, Subervie, Vast-Vimeux,
and Admiral Cticille against it.
M. SCHOELCHER has laid a proposition on the bureau
of the Assembly, to the effect that the public ballot
at the tribune shall take place de jure, when de-
manded by 40 members. The object of this propo-
sition is to modify Art. 54 of the regulations, which
fixes the number at 20 members, and besides requires
that the Assembly should be consulted.
A telegraphic dispatch, received last evening in
Paris, announces that Marshal Souza' had been sud-
denly attacked with violent inflammation in the chest,
and was seriously ill at his chateau of Soult-Berg, in
the Tarn. M. DB DALMATIE, his son, and M. DE
MORNAY, his son-in-law, left Paris immediately for
Souls-Berg.

The Bourse was not so much agitated as yesterday.
The Five per Cents. opened at 91f. 70c., fell to
91f. 45c., rose subsequently to 91f. 75c., and
closed at 91f. 65c. for the end of the month ; the
Three per Cents. closed at 56f. 60e. ; Orleans Railroad
Shares, 876 f. 250.; Rouen, 572 f. 50c.; Havre, 210 f.;
Great Northern, 465 E; Avignon, 208 f. 750.; Vierzon,
437 f. 50c.; Basle, 150 E; Bordeaux, 377 E 50c.; Paris and
Strasburgh, 368 f. 75c.; Tours and Nantes, 257 f. 50c.;
Amiens to Boulogne, 262 f. 50c.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Nov. 19.
Boulogne and Amiens, 101 A—Central of France (Orleans
and Vierzon), 1744—Luxembourg (Railway), VA—Orleans
and Bordeaux, 41A Paris and Rouen, 22 Paris and
Strasbourg, 12% Rouen and Havre, 8 Tours and
Nantes, 6%.