Daily American telegraph., 1852-01-14
FRANCE AND ROME.

Correspondence OF the Commercial advertiser.
LONDON, December 90, 1851
France is still the topic of attention, and yet
the indifference to what is taking place there
is remarkable. The extinction of free press
and the control over the post office prevents
the possibility of ascertaining the real balance
of parties, and all the news which comes from
the Government is estimated as if from great
gambling house This morning we have par
tial intelligence of the progress of the voting
"yes" or mo" for ten years Presidency,
and thus far, although the majority for Louis
Napoleon is relatively enormous, the aggregate
number of suffrages is not large. The tee-
graph, however, will most likely convey to you
| the ultimate and exact result. In no case will
it be of much Importance If the votes were
ever so numerous they would prove nothing
more for the stability of Louis Napoleon than
the forced loans in Lombardy prove with re-
spect to the financial credit Of Austria.
Tickets with the printed word "yes' were
freely distributed through the Government
officials, and on the other side not only were
persons arrested who aventured to recommend
| their friends to vote in the negative, but the
printers were afraid to print tickets with the
word emo" and the peasantry, therefore, a
large majority of whom are unable to write
were left with no choice but to vote yes" or
to abstain The possibility of one individual
getting another to write for him was almost
| out of the question, since the request might be
made as trick, and the party complying
might be sent to prison. Previously to the
election a notice was issued by NJ de MOrny.
| the Minister of the Interior, that no sheet,
pamphlet or book, less than 100 pages, would
| thenccforth be allowed to be published unless
| first submitted for his approval
The total number of electors on the registers
is about ten millions. The votes in favor of
| Louis Napoleon under the constitution which he
has violated were six millions. Up to the pres
ent hour, the total reported on this occasion is
| 3 3,10S639 The negatives amount to 514, ,962,
| | entertain little doubt however, that the re-
suit will come up to the precise figures which
the Minister of the Interior may deem exped-
ent. The whole thing, contend, is an impos-
| ture such as rational persons must decline to
talk about.
1t is also to be remarked, that even if the
genuineness of the vote could be relied upon
and if oil the population of the country had
joined in it unanimously, it would have been Of
no value as an indication for the future,
| 1t would merely show that the people had
got some fresh delusion which their new deity
Is to work out for them. the more monstrous
/ their IatUn, tTp SOOHBT Will buCJ DC
ed. and the more severe will be the whipping
| for their idol. Three years ago the grand
vision was the freedom of Oppressed nation
alities," now it is "order and the Catholic re-
Iigon.n All predictions of what will take place
must consequently be vain, except such as are
inspired by sense of the principles upon
which God rules the world Those who pos
sess that sense can look on and wait and they
would regret nothing more than that the igno-
rant revenge of man, either by assassination or
any other means. should avert what will other
wise come to pass.
Meanwhile the Joy of the spectators and
capitalists on the Paris Bourse is very great
Reversing the moral at last brought home to
| Macbeth that there is no sure foundation set
in blood, they congratulate each other that they
have now got man who will show no mercy
to the Reds" and anything else he may do
will be overlooked This is the burden, almost
without exception, of all the letters from the
principal bankers and money-lenders,
Arrests arc still going on in oil quarters, and
no house is free from police visits. Although
the outbreaks in the Provinces have been sub
dued, isolated stragglers taken with arms in
their hands are reported occasionally as hav-
ing been shot Victor Hugo has escaped by a
false passport to Belgium.
| There are increasing signs OF the coercion
soon to be attempted against Belgium, Switzer-
land and Sardinia. Representations also have
been made by Russia, Austria and Prussia to
the British legations at Vienna and Frankfort,
against the refuge given to exilcs in England.
Austria uncquivocally notifies that if they
continue to be granted an asylum here, she
will adopt measures to render it inconvenient
or difficult for English travellers to remain in
her States.
Although nothing can be more complete than
the unitness of the French people for immigra-
ton, the result of the prevailing tyranny is
strong enough to cause many to resolve upon
it. But here, again, the President steps in II
was proposed by several persons to 60 out in
company to Montevideo. Immediately, it ap.
pears the Government issued notice that no
foreign passports could be granted In special
| cases permission will be given to proceed to