Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-02-19
Foreign News.

of January, and from London and Paris to the
23d.
Cotton and Flour were both advancing, but
the English funds were depressed in conse-
auence of the unsettled state of foreign af-
fairs. F ~
In England the near approach of the meet
ing of Parliament had given an impetus to
the demand for new Reform Bill. Meet
ings had been held in Manchester, Leeds and
other towns, to sustain Lord John Russell in
his efforts to improve the political franchise.
The demonstrations, however, did not appear
to have been very remarkable for their spirit.
The London journals are in state of per-
turbation respecting the national defences,
and are suggesting various resources and
modes of defense in case of invasion. The
Morning Chronicle is surprised that the ma
ton should so long have been blind to the ne
cessity which exists of availing itself of its
means of protection. Another journal argues
the propriety ofrecalling the ships and steam
ers on service abroad.
From France we have intelligence that
second if not third attempt on the Presi-
dents life had been made, an officer is re-
ported to have snapped his pistol at him as
his carriage was coming out of the carousal.
details, that the wife ofan ex-Prefect had tried
to poignard him. Of course the perjured
scoundrel who has murdered hundreds in cold
blood must expect little else from some kin
dred assas ssin.
BY published decree the Orleans family
cannot possess property of any sort in France
and are bound to sell all their present posses
sions valuable within one year. Another decree
cancels Louis Phillippe's donation to his chill
dren and appropriates it to other purposes,
while the Dutchess of Orleans's dowry Of
100000 francs is maintained.
With the merest legal quibble for its pre-
text, this confiscation strikes blow ct the
rights Of property, and goes beyond the IA
nous socialistic levy upon the rich proposed
by Barbes. A general alarm and depression
must be the consequence, followed in due and
not remote time by the annihlation ol the
tyrant De Morny, the Minister, who has
heretofore stopped at no outrage that the u
surper wished him to perpetrate, refused TO
second this decree of confiscation, and has
been forced to retire from office.
The strict severity with which the tribunls
just now c"nstrue political crime, is note
worthy. A few days ago large qua nifty of
insureclonary tobacco pipes were seized at
81. Omer, having for effigy seditious EN-
blems;" such as The bonnet rogue, portraits
of Robespierre, Danton, and the principal
prescribed Montaguards. One Of the little
merchants on the Boule.aFls sought to turn
an honest penny during the holidays, by sell
ling at his booth portemonnaies adorned with
the names and portraits of Ludru Roliin and
Louis Kossuth. He was arrested, as was an
other tor the same offense, and has since been
condemned to six months imprisonment and
SO francs fine. M. Seraphin Cherubin, tail
or, was condemned to prison for 40 days and
fine OF 16 francs, for shaving in his posses
sion" four ltaden balls.
Hundreds Of the best men in France have
been transported to the pestileRt swamps of
Cayenne, there to die of the raging fevers
constantly generated in that unwholesome
penal colony.
The prisons Of France are overAowing with
human beings, confined for offencses which
they for the most part are wholly ignorant of.
It. is positively certain that between 1900
and 5000 persons, of all ranks and all ages,
indiscriminately siezed in public places, un-
der the decree of the 9Th December, or ar
rested on suspicion, were thrust by wholesale
into the classmates Of the fort of Bicetre.-
There these persons remained, some fort
night, some three weeks, in cold and damp
dungeons, lying on straw, SO closely packed
together that they could hardly rise to
stretch their limbs, and exposed to all the
disgusting horrors which this agglomeration
of human being caused. This is in Paris
In the Provinces it is just as bad A COM
plete reign of terrer is spread over the whole
nation. af#e
Louis Napoleon, who is bachelor, but
who has long lived in state of concubinage
with Madame Howard, "a native of Bal
timore, is preparing to marry aSwedish prin.
cess, and as preliminary step he has discar-
ded his mistress-banished her from France
like felon-expelled her from Paris by force
with his own children in her arms, and CON-
PEELED her to seek an asylum in England from
the migrate and villain whose vows she has
been weak enough to believe.
From other parts of Europe there is nothing
to record save the tyranical acts of reigning
monarchs. There has been several execu-