The New York Herald Newspaper, February 10, 1852, Page 3

Our Cologne Coprespondence. Co.oens, Muh January, 1852. Becret Preparations for War by the European Nations —Lowis Napoleon's Army Must be Employed— Probable Astack on the Italian States and Sardinia— Austria with Russia Trying to Rule all Ewrope— Svcophancy and Imbectlity of the Prussian King and Cabinct—The Predictions of the Herald Fut- filled—Its Inflwence in Germany— Dishonesty of the German Editors in Citeing the Heraid— The German Despots and their Tyrannies—Distrust of Lewis Napoleon—American Passports— Great Rage of the Autocrats at our Reception of Kos- swith. I gave to you on the 22d ult., a faint description of the effest which coups deat has had in Gormany, whose princes and aristocracy then extolled Louis Napoleon as the saviour of civilization and man- kind. They havo, however, since considerably dimi- Rished their praires, and are beginning to fear that im the end be will bevome dangerous to them, and they fee! chagrined that an adventurer, as they eal) him, might become anemperor and their equal. All the contizental governments are preparing for events which may come from France, and are arm- ing, under the pretext of suppressing entirely the revolutionary movements in their countries; but as none any longer exist—the Germans being as tame and submissive as a dog after he has received a severe whipping--their secret arming cannot be mistaken. Louis Napoleon has made too great promises to the French army, and owes the same too much. Sooner or later be will be obliged to begin some war or other. Germany is too well prepared, and he may therefore turn his views towards Italy, whore Sar- dinia alone offers to him any chance. Austria is 80 unscrupulous, and so bitter in its feeling against that state, that it might even be willing to bea arty with him ; and it ought not to surprise us if, fore the olvse of this year, Sardinia sha‘os the fate of Polacd, and de divided between France and Austria. There is every sign that the construction of continental Europe will beconsiderably changed: the Emperor of Austria, a mere youth, is contina- ally told by his ministers and surrounding persons, that be is destined to share with Rassia the European power. Ail bis ain is directed to imitate the Czar; and whilst be is willing to leave the Orient to him, he is trying by eve:y means—or ratber Schwarzenberg is doing it for him, to fix himself in Germany, where he bas unfortunately Ro one to oppose him serious]y—as the only one who might do so, the King of Prussia, lacks every quality of a man, and, acting under the influence of his queen, yields everything, even honor, to the Austrian pretensions. Prussia could never have been brought down so low nor have been humbied so much had it even lost a hundred battles, as it is now, merely by the sycophancy of its King, and the want ef character and the imbecility of the Prussian Cabinet; even her last sheet anchor, the Zoil- verein, she will, to every appearance, also lose— Austria having made proposals for a general cus tom union, to embrace all Germany and Italy, wherewith it will undoubtedly succeed, and obtain therewith the preponderance not only in all Ger- many, but also im Italy Your views, expressed in the Heracp of the 20d ult, have surprised every body here. You then, at such a distance, foretotd what has since been realized ; and your desoription ofthe Parisian bowrgevise was strikingly faithful, and which applied also fully to the German burghers, who, if they can eat, drink and smoke in quietness, care for nothing else, and prefer absolutiem it it grants this to them, tnan democracy, which may require a little more personal services from them the German newspapers generally take their news from the Hreravp, but uafortunately, in such a garbled way, and make inthem such alterations as repder your articles quite the reverse of what they were intended for, so that most of the German; who bave no opportunity of seeing the Hexap, or are unacquainted with the English language, believe you to be in the pay of their princes; and you may well give to the German eai- tors the advice to use your articles, and their refe- rence to the Henan, at least honestly. Whenever you speak of the institutions of our country, your articles are generally translated in such a manoer as to make them eppear ridisulous. For example, im your money article of Mouday, Deo. 21—6 P. M., you say:—* b/very irraption in Europe,” &c, is translated—‘* Every irruption in Europe, every sudden change in the policy of those governments, show ef their final resulta that, in reality, no change has taken place, and that che European governments are, in the ead, the only safe, solid, permanent governmenis in existence, owing to their Mmonarchical foundation, whilst the American ones are exposed to every wave of populariecling ” Very frequently when | had read the Heratp, and after- wards saw its extra n the German papers, | could not trust my eyes, and had to reperuse the Hexatp to see if I had mis-read those articles, when I inva- riably found that they kad been wutilated, garbled, and forged The German governments, although they begin to distrust Napoicon on account ot his impenal schemes, bave lost all fears for revolutions, and know now no more bounds to their absolutism; the most arbitrary acts ae taking place daily, and quiet andinnocent people are expelied from cities ‘or having expreseed themselves perhaps favorably to one or the other of the exiles, or to one or the ether of the free governments and countries. The least irregularity in a passport is suflicient to shut a tra- veiler out; you ought therefore to recommend well to every American who intends to come over to Europe the necessity of providing himeelf with @ governmental paesport, and to have the same well | authenticated; and, notwithstanding that our go- vernment filis all consulstes on the Contineut with such genticinen as are willing and able to attend to the interes: of our fellow citizens, I can merely con- firm to you, in that respect, my last, of 22d Decem- ber, that at no time before was it more important that we should have efficient consulsin Gormany than at the present one. » The reception of Kossuth in the United States has been wormwood to the German aristocracy. Their bitterners goes even so far, tnat whea the last steamer brought the news of the capitol being burnt, the official newspapers declared it to be a punishment sent by God for the sin of the Ameri- cans in receiving Kossuth in such away. In fact, could they destroy with sword and fire your coun- try, and every one therein, not one of the present Princes of the continent of Earcpe would besitate a moment in doing so. America is a horror to them. Priee Gaimes Our Paris Correspondence. Panis, Jan, 15, 1852, Despotism still the Order of the Doy—The Proscription of Dis- tinguished Statermen—The Neu banding the Re establishment of Titles ras Cuvaignac Desires t h Constite "he New Five Franc Erasure of ali Rez Withdraw under Mar tial Lew Fren ational Guard~ Inscriptions = from the Army—Plocing Departments Stoppe rent Di smi: —The Transportation to Cayenne Opinion President of the Rey Leopold for Rec with Englard—F Poper by the the F , n the French Fi Mershal Duy Honor Sonilt=Funeral Ceremony in ‘arrow Escope of ands 1) mony Hover Napoleon fre Possesson of § Mediteryonean Hungarian C Kossuih's Ret Sperches--C the Grand J Dutchies Affaire Desire of Electric 7 Ledvu RB mored Recal Normanhy— Lam: rival of Mr The political aepect of France is still » pearance of deapotis wale of past governments — citement among the pe f Admire Louis n Asse eto ation Rumore scanya Settiement Denmark | of the the Russian Ceor to have nication with Imerica Squier in aming ®0 ap liel fo the an moch ex. * and all partios Among the mort ex hick e taken place, within the last week, I have to mention, in the first place, the list of prose s published in the Moniteur, Baeturdey morning lest, and containing the names of the | mort distinguished statesmen of France ; and also of our | generale of the best military renown, as Mesers. Lamori- cler’:, Bedeau, Changarnier, and others, I think it urelers to any that th by that | « Such an ur 0 Will be incor. it wil? an be too ex: Somer five frane pieces of Rie ma Sppearance, a few days ago, and have been much in demand by some epecul who have either sent them ont of the country or into the departments, Many of these newly struck pieces have been sold for seven francs. i was offered one of them for five francs and ten cents, but I thought it was mot worth the amount of that premiom. The “beheaded head ’ of Louis Na- poleon is not at all good for that stamp, and, on the whole, it does not show much. I rather prefer the god- dese of liberty, which was om the former five franc pieces, though she was not as pretty he ought to have been represented Louis Napoleon is represented with ‘a bare bead, without the wreath ef laurels woich used to be on his uncle's forehead. No doubt, tae Prince Prosi- dent has not yet dared to a sums such » glory; but we shall sce the change, ere long, if Diew iui prive we, The lettering arcund the face is “Louis Napoleon Boua- parte,” andthis is the more extrao lous. as that now upon all the decrees signed by th Prince President, the only Christisn names of » Louis Napeleon” are written down; as Charles X_ and Louis Philippe ured to do, who never signed their family names— Bourbon and D’Orleans, ‘The stamp of letters will be, for the future, like the piece of five francs, made with the head of Louis Na- polecn, I capnot pass over in silence, on this oocasion, (he, wistake made by La Patrie and Le Constitutionnel, which, either by ignorance or with full knowledge of their mistake, Have published, that in the United States it was customary to tee the heads of the Presidents on the stamps. I have in vain written an explauatory let- ter to the above named journals, explaining how in- stead of seeing the portrait of Mr. Fillmore cm the stamps, we had the likeness of Benjamin Franklin, one of the illustrious mex of America. Tue Patrie and the Consfuutionnel have paid no attention to my letter. ‘This is the way to know the truth about facts of suca a notoriety. In a few days @ decree will be rendered public, by which the titles of Princes, Dukes, Counts, Visoouats, Marqoisees, aud Chevaliers, which ‘hed been abolished by adecree of the provisional government, will be re-es- tablished, as before. It is suid that Louis Napoleon, having desize to see around hima crowd of men with tities, aud not daring to be the only one calied Prince, bas cecided that be would annihilate the decres of 1848, The unifirm formerly worn by the Ministers, Deputies, Peers, and public cflicers, during the Empire, the Res- toration, and evem under the reign of Louis Puilippe, will be also resumed within s short time Is is said that the uniform of the Ministers will cost about $400 each, for they will be covered with gold lace and embrot- deriea. Weil! ail this will be aping the Empire, and vithout any glory. Ali the hberty trees, and the sacramental words— Liberté, Bxaltc, Pravwrriteé—bave been erased from the public squvres and buildings of the goveroment through- out France, ihis 1 cannot blame, for the most of thea Were epuiling the walls aud frontuns of many monuments, General Cavaignas, wbo lift the prison ox the 19th ult., and was married to Madame Odier, bas requested the gevernment to allow him to obtain bis retreat from the French rervice. We do not know yet if his demand has been granted. {he cepartment of Hautes Alpes has been placed under a ttate of siege, and the cause of that movement is, that then it will be directed under martial law, as are the other departments of the neighborhocd—though uo riot bas taken place in that province The first embarkation of deportés for Cayenne, took place on Saturday last and was only composed of galley slaves ; but ing few days, mavy among the polisical men ‘who baye been sentenoed to deportation wil’ be shipped for the same country. Among those, I will mame Mr. Xavier Durrieu, formerly editor of the newspaper called ution, apd Lachambaudie, the renowoed author People’s Fables.”” These two men have been en!y tor their opinions. ice Opinion, ® legitimist paper, which had quite a large circulation in Paris, hus been stopped by the government for having published ene of its numbers in which the place of all the articles which had been suppressed by the Censure bad been left in blank, This sort of protestation against the present arbitrary laws to repress the journalism, bas caused the ruin #f Mr. Nettement, the editor and proprietor of Opinion Puslique, and many of his associates and workmen M. Boulay de la Meurttse, the Vice President of the republic, ceared to hold his office after the end of the month of December. His salary was paid up to that time Before concluding the review of the political acts of Louis Napoleon, I murt say that several diplomatic visits have been made to King Leopsld by the French Ambas- sador at the Court of Brussels, relative to the kind re- ception given by that king to the exiles of France, at the head of whom I will place MM. Thiers, Creton, Lamo. riciere. and Changarnier (the three last gentlemen ar- rived there on Saturday last), It appears that M. de Persigny went immediately to Laken. the actual resi- cence of King Leopold. and requested him, in the most earnest manner, not to receive aay more with honors these exiles, who were the enemies of Louis Napoleon. The King replied that he had nothing to do with the pri vate affairs of the Prince-President, but M de Persigny observed to him that to continue to do s9 would be considered as an offence, and that be had better consider upon it, There ise sortof casus belli tm that affair. ‘The fall of the French stocks during the last three Gays, has # cause. which, though not rendered pubiic, is Whispered in many quarters. It is said that the rumor but it wil to Prisoe. President of an imminent war between France and Ergland is ro general, that nothing would be leas astonishing thaa to see it begin ere long. The hostilities would be made first in Belgium, and then, after, on Eogland. either by Jand, or by naval battles. Time will show the vaiue of there rumors. The grand ceremony in honor of Marshal Soult took place on Tuesday morning at the lavallds The President was Lot present, but au immense number of generals and officers of ell racks attended ths mass suug tn memory of the valiant soldier Toe charch wos flied with avy regiments of all arms, and the caanon re- ounded during wil the time of the ceremony ‘Another fuxeral. at which were present all the lea ‘ing cficers of the navy, also took place, on Monday lest, in the Church of La Madeleine, ia bovor of A imiral Dupotet. Many speeches were delivered over his grave, end a salute of murketry filed before leaving the ceme- tery. Yam told, by e gentleman, upon the veracity of whom Theve full confidence. that an altempt wa: funday afternoon lat, against the lite of Louts Na} i whilst he was promenading in the gardea of the Elysee It appears that a sentry, Who had been unjustly punished by his captein. and had written to Louis Napoleon to have his punishment redrersed, having not received any answer, was £0 much excited on the «adject, that he took the first oppertumity of revenge, and fredat him whiiet aiking with MM. Convean and de Persigny. is Napoleon bad his hat pierce: bya bullet, As for the soldier, he was instantly murderedon the epot. This fact bas been kept secret, but it is certain. Arumor, which has some foundation, is, that the pre- sent project of Engiand is to take poareation of Sicily, under the frat pretext which will be found opportane I think it would be advisable, uuder the present state of things, that the government at Washington shoul teke | rome resolutions to reinforce the American squadron, | The dignity of | which is new in the Mediterranean sea the United States must be kept unshaken io Europe; and po doubt General Care, who has been so longa tine in this country, would be the ablest man to throw souie light on this subject. The celebrated Captain, or Colonel May. formerly commander of the Hungarian artillery at omorn, coai- mitted suicide at Constantinople, whilst in prison, under the accusation of having excited his companions exile to plot against the Austrian government. committed ruicide in the most horrible mauuer, having rolled himself tnto bis sheets and set fire to his bed. It is ewid that the government of Constantinople has fent a note to the British government, which was # pro- testation against tbe project of Kusruth to return there as he bad been liberated under the spectal promise thi he would reside in America. The Porte Ottomam inel upon the execution ot that treaty, for the Sultan desires to live on good terms with the Austrian government. pronounced in the United States, has employe: times the pronoun J; 937 times the word mysr times the words me audio me; aud 6,279 times the pronoun my he Grand Duke har decidedly resolved to ab- dicate ard retire to private life. ‘The affair of the Duchivs is eaid to be entirely eattled ‘The German treops would retire from Aolatein, leaving on'y » bcdy of A at Hamburg The diplomat | who has been lucky enough to have this treaty signed | by the parties. is the Baron de Bolle, of Denmark. | ‘The Vaptain. Pim, who had come to Bt. Pe- | tersburg to request the Gzar to aliow bim to search for Sir John Frapbiin in his northera possessions of Siberis, tin which no politics will be introduced. quier, late Char ; | to Nicaragua arrived bet | last iege. | letter repeat the story. Bebring Btpaits, bas been requested by the Rus- sian Emperor to stu oreibility of ertabusbing a m, ic telegraph 1 go from Bt. Petersburg | to America. avd p trirs into communication Ledra Rollin, it is said goes to Vanada, where he will ¢ his profersion, as an attorney Nortoanby is gone to England with hie lady, and | it is rumored that he is to be recnlied Lamertine has recovered bis health, and hes arrived where his intention Je to publieh a literary news- \eption to remain some time in Paris. Our Irish Correspondence. Destin, Jan. 15, 1852 The Russell Cabinet mus Last Legs—Affairs at the Cape sf Good Hope—Irishand American Steam: ship Line--Shipwrecks—The Parliamentary Cam- paign, §c. It is a fact, Waich will no longer brook concoal- ment, that Lordlohn Russell's cabinet is on ite Every day’s mail, and every private His little lordsbip is at moment ina meloucholy plight. He has sepa- imeclf from the most popular and ablest cabinet, ho ig surrounded by , his old ally, w good stead, ho ow i y to make a0,end to enable 6 pros} jnuange in office, arliow few weeks hence, bave only failure left the cabinebi. a state ofinercas nerally understood, that to Sir James Graham, to the Duke of Newcastle, to Mr. Glad- tone, and to Sydney Herbert, offers were made last order to t ormation of a whig conser- pment The attempt has led to no FORUIL, Wadtove ron My bore Www ve eae OL Lauds n, who is passionate for statistios of all | ated that Kossuth, 'p all the speeches he | ceived from Tuscany annsunce, as 8 positive | ure. These wary politicians would not enlist under saneee | He, is, therefore, left with an awkward squad ot im! to meet Parliament—to carry on the affairs of Downing street—and to pers explanatiens for the hanes of the ie ‘oreign Secretary. Lord John may meet Parliament, but it can caly be to resign. Who will succeed him in office? purely conservative or protectionist ministry have | no chance; while the Manchester ave not | sufficient aristocratic influence, to enable them t> ory on the government of the country. The most likely government, and the one most suitable | to the times would be a cabinet comprising the | chief members of the Peel party, to follow out their | late leader’s views upon commeroial liberty, with | the addition of such members of the Manchester | school as would nteo to the British empire a full measure parliamentary reform. tb us | hope that this isin store for us. A few weeks will | settle the question, for Parliament is to assemble | by the second or third of February. Ireland has no reason to regret that the Russell cabinet is in the last agony, for the Premier, by his maddeni | Durham letter, and his hypocritical Eoclesiastioal Titles bill, showed himeclf utterlyincapablo of viewing with the eyes of a statesman the peculiar position of this portion of the United Kingdom. By the last mail from the Cape of (700d Hope, it | still eppears that our affairs there are anyth but prosperous; and it is to be feared that the t extent of our disasters there ia not fully known. | "The following extract from a private letter, tells some truths which ehould have been known in this country before now:— “Tho aspect of affairs is more lowering here | than ever. In our late affairs there were but | twenty-one dead bodies of Caffres found. We are nearly worn out by the fatigue of this never ceas- ing bush work, with such results to our labor. The fact is, our movements are made without combina- tion, and to the youngest drum boy it is perceptible | that a master mind is sadly wanting to direct them. ‘The Cattires fight with most gallant determination, and with un enthusiasm that really seoms to grow with the duration of the war. Certainly there is | not the least symptom of their giving ia. The ftrength of the positions they now take up, and the way they deiend them is astonishing. Then, from their perfect knowledge of the country, with no impediments of any kind to obstruct their movements in the bush, they bring numbers to bear upon our iselated parties, that nethiog. but cur pluck and discipline have been able to withstand, and that at times with the greatest difficnity; and should they, by chance, on ary occasion, be successful, it will give an impulse to their operations, the result of which it is fearful to contemplate. One thing is certain: if it is in- tended we should exterminate the Caffros, three times the force we have won’t effect the purpose. If the object is only to defend and preserve our own frontiers—and that it will, per jas aut nefus, come to, and frem which principle we have paid dearly for departing—the present war, with its ex- ponditure of treasure and blood, has been most needless.” The writer here points o2zt the very essence of the question. We have erred, and erred ogre- giously, in extending indefinitely the boundaries of the eolony, and we are suffering as we deserve for it now. The only way in which we can hope for a speedy terminatien of the war is to retire within our former territories. Is it not madness for Britain to be sacrificing the lives of her soldiers at the Cape of Good Hope, and spending uzelessly a hun- dred thousand pounds a month, when the state of Europe is such that she may speedily be cailed upon, apd that at a very short warning, to stand op her own defence ? The colonists of the Cape of Good Hopo long ago demacded a local government, and to be left to their own manegement. Had this been done in time, we should not now be a spectacle to tho world. The eolonists would have looked better to their own interests aud thelr own defence than the denizens of Downing street. A step towards this arrangement has just been taken, but we ques- tion if it be not too late A constitution has been sentout. The charter directs that the business of the colony shall be managed by a Governor, a Legislative Council, and a House of Assembly. ‘The Legislative Council is to consist of a chief justice, as president, and fifteen members, who toust poseess landed property of the value of £1,000, or moveable pigreny to the value of £2,000. The Council is elected for ten years. The House of Assembly is to consist of forty-six members, who are to be elected for five years. The franchise is limited to occupants of tenements of £25 vatue. The colonists, it seems, will accept this constitu- tion willingly. Before, however, it bas received the assent of tho British Parliament and Crown, a con- siderable delay must occur, and, during the whole of that period the expense of the war must be borne by this country. It has been a mismanaged con- cerp, from firetto last It will, probably, cost the Lritish bation, as yet, mavy lives, and, perhaps, two or three millioss of money, and, after all, we shall have gained only a loss. To turn now from subjects connected with the three kingdoms to what bas a more particular re- ference to our own couatry, It is matter for con- gratulation thatthere is every prospect of not one but several lines of steamers being engaged in the Irish and American trafiio during the course of this summer. It is said that the member of Par- lament for Dundaik, Torrens McCullagh, has suc- in obtaining frow government @ charter, ling Me dactley, McCalmont, and others, to form themselves into a company, with the inten- che ¢ plying steamers regularly between Galway ane ‘Tbe lose of the Amazon, and the fearful dostrne- tion of human life which it involved; the less, the other day, of the * City of Wexford” steamer, on her voyage fiom Wexford to Liverpool, with all | ber cargo, though passengers and crew were saved; the wreck of the Columbas, Captain MoCerrin, | from New Orleans, with cotton aud Indian coro, | which went on shore at the entrance to Waterford | harbor on Wednesday last, when two ladies, two | steerage passengers, and eight of the crew wera | drowned;—these, and many other late disasters by fea, bave drawn public attention, unfortunately too much, to the great loss receatly sustained upon or near these islands of life and property. This win- ter bas been by far the most disastrous to shipping | for many years. Itis to be feared that three ves eels which sailed from Dublin for New York in Oc- tober last, with emigrants, have also been lost. | ‘There is no word, though now tkree months havo elapsed, of their arrival on your shores. hopeisthatthey have been driven far south, and obtained a landing somewhere in South Amerioa. Poor Irish emigrants! how much have you to ufer! Driven forth from habe native seil by some neartless landlord or brutal agent, you instinctive- y lock 1o America, as the land where you may ox- | pect to fird a permanent homa, as the land of pro- | mise to the expatriated Irishman. But before | reaching the American shores you aro flesced and | plundered in every way. The poor emigrant is | exposed to the most cruel frauds, and far too fre- quently becomes the prey of those unprincipled scoundrels, who, in seaport towas, but especially in | Liverpool, lie in wait for their unsuspecting vic- tims. Under the guise of friendship, under the | pretence of furnishing information, they plunder unmercifully the helpless stranger, who trusts to | thetr guidance and direction The voseel at length gained, the dangers of the sea over, there is reason to fear be yy a be pounced upon in New York, and the little he bas left filched away from him by # new claes of sharpers. To this important | | | and pointing out the positive necessity tor some ex- tensive provision, of a public kind, for the protec: } tien of cmigrants from this heartlose species of vil- The New York Herald will not be behind in this philanthropic and praiseworthy object. wt lend its powerful asestance to this, the | cuuee of society and of charity, and emigran‘s’ tomes will soon be provided on both sides of the Atlantic ‘Tbe New York Exhibition hes been pretty | generally talked of here among our artists and manu- tacturers lately Mr. Carr, who held an offitial appointment under the Executive Committee of the Great Exhibition of 1951, came to Dublin some | lany, ha Let * | little time ago, and bad several interviews with the committee of manufacturers of the Loyal Dublin Society, in reference to the contemplated American cxbibiticn. The inducemonts which ho hold forth to contributors, that they should be relieved from all preliminary expenses, such asfreight or insur- ance; that they would be at liberty to attach prices to their goods, and every facility be afforded for effecting rales; and that all such contributions as should not be sold, were to be reconveyed to the owners, free of all charge. All these advantages have done much to sway the minds of most parti in fevor of tho American World’s Fair, and wo are of opinion that Ircland aud its prolucts aad manu- factures will there be fully represented. The country is at present tranquil. Ribbonism has not again written its name in the blood of any one since | wrote last. Those cursed secret societies will, as yet, be put down it is to be hoped. Partics are preparing oe approa ry ing Par- nt, nota dangerous | liamentary cawpaign committees of the 8 ag yester- ents of the government grant to bave @ public meeting in this city res aro to bo pied for the suppression of Maynooth and its wold Mr. Sheo, serjeant at law of the Eng: » bar, a oman Ca bas just issued an dress te ing their prosont re ig @ gon- ainted, legal cee Jeman with whom I have d lam well aware th g 40 i t a abilities, and exte & vo erudition will eoon make him a man of joark ia the British Parliament, if he be returned as un Irish representative. He is married to a sister of Sir William Gordon, of Lettergowric, Premier Baronet of Nova Scotia, and commander of the detachment of the G6ch_regi- The only | subject, the Liverpool Alinon is calling attention, | Our Scetch Correspondence. Epinsure, January 12, 1852. The Loss of the Amazon—The Launch of the Ara- bia— The Sandwich Islands and Great Britain— Koman Catholicism in Scotland. Tho loss of the Amazon steamer has croated great sensation in this country. Upwards of a hundred soula called at once to their scoount by that most fearful of all catastrophes—firo—and fire too on board ship, with no prospoct of safety but by baving recourse to the boats, and the sea reging around with such stormy violence as to afford to the greater number who flew to them only a change in tho mode of death! It is foarfal to consider the dreadful position of tho unfortunate paseengers and crew, and melancholy indeed to have to chronicle such a deplorable loss ef life in ge gallant a vessel. Only a few days before, the daily papers had an- nounced the departure of the Amazon steamer, be- longing to the Royal West India Mail Steamship Company, under the charge of Captain Symons, and having on board the West India and Mexican mails. It was mentioned that she was the first of the gi antic fleet of West India mail keis which had been got ready for sea; and that sho was the largest mail packet afloat. The Amazon a grand total of priests, including bishops, in Great inp ot) ie —shoning an increase of priests over ear : London Morning Advertiser has the follow- ing artiole on the ress of Catholicism in 1851:— wes Seas seenate dete te one of it ity to olicism, regard to iter aocossions from the Chureh of Eng- land and the increase of its churches and convents. No fewer than nineteen new placos of worship have been opened during the year in the United King dom, including the Church of our Lady ef Victo- ties, Clapham, a convent and schools in Blandford equare, the Church of St. John the Evangelist, and the Church of our Lady, Star of the Sea, Green- wich. One convent and four other churches are also in course of erection. “ Thirty-eight clergymen havo loft the Church of Eng!and—that ‘ bulwark of Protestantism,’ as it ia called—and become ‘reconciled’ to the Church of Rome, during 1851. Four of these were in London, viz: Rev. Henry Bedford, curate of Christ Church, Hoxton ; the Rev. Mr. Dodsworth—the Bishop of London’s ‘dear Dodsworth,’ who was not ‘inoum- bent of St. Pancras,’ as the Catholic prints style him, but of Christ Church, Regent’s park. Then there were the Rev. Mr. Harper, of St. Peter’s, Pimlico; aad the Rev. Mr. Valo, of Buckingham Palace Chapel. ‘Turning to the provinces, we have a similar to of things. Among these arethe Rev. Danvers ke, MA., of Exeter College, Oxford, rural dean and rector of Ipping, Sussex. Then comes Rev.E Cofiin, curate to the Rev. Mr. Wilberforce, when rector of East l’arleigh, Kent. had on beard 1,100 tons of coal, 100 tons of cargo, amongst which was specie to the value of £20,100, and fitty passengers, and it was remarked that she was rather deep in tho water. Thirty hours suf- ficed to breed destruction to the Amazon and tho immense majority of those on board. On Friday, at three o’cleck in the afternoon, she left South- ampton; by one o’clock on Sunday morning the fire appeared; by five o’clock she was a: the bottom ofthe ocean. ‘There seems to be some fatality attached to these West India steamers. Not to speak of the Eolnay, and others, it is only some six weeks since, by the mma eRenee of one of the British pilots, another splendid vessel, the Demerara, was stranded an hour or two after sho was launched. To supply her place, every exertion was made to et the Amazon ready; and, alas! she has only een characterized by a greater amount of mis- fortune I need not give the names of the passengers and mewbers ef the crew, saved or lost, as your files of the London papers will furnish you with thom; but I cannot help alluding to the unhappy loss of one who had earned to himself an honorable name in the ranks of liturature—Mr. Eliot Warburton. His “‘ Crescent and the Cross” was universally read, and bad become, by general acclaim, one of the standard works of the eee language. Eastern seenery stood forth in bold relief under the touches of his pencil; and the knowledge he bad acquired by his extensive travels of the Morningland, its manners, avd its customs, he ae and beau- tifully transferred to his readers. e had just yublished @ new novel entitled ‘Darien, or tte Jerchant Prince,’ founded upon the unfortunate Scottish expedition to the Isthmus of Darien, in the reign of William the Third. Students of nis- tory know how much Scottish blood and treasure | were at that pericd recklessly and ruthlessly sacri- ficed by the British sovereign, and with what bitter feelings William was ever afterwards viewed by tho Scottish nation. The Darien expedition, and tho massacre of Glencoe, lived in their memories, and gave strength and stability to the Jacobite party. Of this subject, as one affording materials of the most interestiog description, Mr. Warburton, with singular felicity had taken possession. And it is but little to say that he had invested the inci- dents of history with a halo of pathos and romanco Itis strange and melanshaly to reflect that, with newly earned laurels, ho had just set forth to view again thoge scenes he had so boautifully and vividly depisted, when this sudden and oP palling catastrophe hurried him away, with, alae! many, many others, to an untimely death. Mr. Warburton had been deputed by the Atlantio acd Pacific Junction Company, to come to a friendly understanding with the Indiaus ef the Isthmus [¢ was also his intention to study more particularly all connected with its natural history, climate, to- pography, available regources, &c., when thus cut oft by a dread'ul death. One of the deputies to the Congress of New Granada is also reported among the lost psesengers. ‘Tbe cause of this melancholy and appalling oc- currence will, in all probability, never be ascer- tained completely. Tne bearings of the engines are epoken of; but it is more generally believed that w quantity of tallow, stowed on board in cask3, and placed above the coals, which were contained in bags which bad many of them formerly held pitch, was the ca of tho destruction of the Amazon. The tallow, it is said, was so much heated by the epgine fire, that it melted through the casks, onthe bags and coals, and tous rendered the whole mass ready for one immense conflsgration We are sorry to be obliged te add to thie already sufliciently distressing intelligence, that the whole of Scotland, more especia!ly the north coast and the shores of the Moray Firth, was vieised, last week, by a atorm of almos: usexampled severity. Du ing Thursday, the 8th ot January, aud Friday, ork @ hurricane swept over the lacd Maay have been wrecked, and harbors demolish: ough, foriunately, as far a3 has yet beon ascertained, bot many lives have been lost. Bat communication in many parts has been completely interrupted by the heavy fall of snow, which has blocked up theroads; and we fear thatevery diy will bring more melancholy intelligence of immense dertruciton of property, both by sea and land, and the lors cf many lives on the coasts of Great Bri- tain and [reland. On Wednesday weck, an addition was made to the Cunard line of royal American mail steamers, by the Jannch of the bia, from the shipbuilding yard of Mesers. Steel & Co., Greenock. The en- gine are to be furnished by Napier, of Glasgow. fi he Arabia promises to be one of the most magni- cent steamers afloat, and it is confidently expected that she will faliy equal, if not surpass, anything that bas yet been done by the Cunard liners. The two engines will be upwards of 1,000 horse | power, working upon low pressure, and the ton- nage is caloulated at upwards of 2,400 tons. Tae Persia, now on the stocks, and in an advanced state, 18 @ similar vessel to the Arabia, and will be ready for launching in Aprilnext. The Arabia is to have two funnels, and only two masts. licr do- pendence will be mainly ou her enormous steam power. She is expected to be ready for her trial | om in about three months. Phe treaty of friendship, commerce, and naviga- tion, between Great Britain and the Sandwich Islands, signed at Honolulu, om the tenth of July last, has just been made public. It is one of entire reciprocal freedom, with the exception as regards | navigation of the coasting trade of the respective | countries. Britigh whalers are to enjoy the privi- leges lately conceded to those of the United States, of entering certain ports, in addition to Honolulu and Lahai nd are to be allowed to trade to the smount of$200 without the payment of duties of apy kind. They may also, upon paying the extra- | ordinary import or export duties, trade to the fur- | ther extent of $1,000 before becoming liable to port charges. A provision is inserted for the surrender of naval or military deserters, which, in consequence of the proximity of California, is not without im- portance; and there is alvo a clause for the rosi- dence of a British packet agent, in case there | should, at any time, bo estabiishod British mail packets toucbing at a pert of the island) The rati- fisation of the treaty is to take place by the tenth of May next. From the “* Roman Catholic Directory for 185: it appears that there are in Scotland, in connection with the Roman Catholic body, 5 bishops and 130 Trieste, 100 churches and chapels, with, besides, above 40 stations, which are either regularly or oo- casionelly occupied. There is one Roman Catholic College in Scotland—St Mary’s, Blairs, Aberdeen- thire. ‘There aro also several foreign colleges con- nected with the Scottish Noman Catholic Mis- sion. These are, the Scotch ae at Rome, the Scotch Coliege at Paris, St. Ambrose’s Scotoh | College at Valladolid, in Spain, and St. James’s Scotch College and Monastery at Ratisbon, in Ba varia. Besides the above, there are students for the Scottish Mission in the sominary of the Propa- anda, Rome; slso, at Cambrai, Arras, and Douay, in Franee. In Scotland, there are four convents. These are, St. Mergaret’s Convent, Edinburg; the Convent of the Good Shepherd, at Dalbeth, near Giaegow ; the Convent of the [!mmaculate Concep- tion, Glasgow ; and the Convent of the Sisters of Mercy, Glargow Kegardipg the Convent of tho Immaculate Con- ception, the “Directory” eays tbat, * during the course of last year, nine young ladies reosived the habit of the order; and om the 16th of July, 1851, eight novices made their religious profession. The convent school! is attended by upwards of sevens; rcholars, besides a numbor of pupil boarders. The sistere alro take charge of three female dav and evening scbools, with an average of from 200 to 800 geholars each. They aleo suporintend Sunday female schools, which are attended by about 2,000 | girle.” Regarding the Convent of tho Sisters of Morey, the samo th y eays that during last year, | five young Jad received white veil in this order.” ‘Lhe religious of t onvent alsu superin- tend girls” day echools, cbildren, and 60 There aro supposed to bo upwards of 160,000 Catholics in Scotiand ; but the majority aro Irish, or of Trieh deace In ngland, the number of Catholics is various! ertimated fiom a million to # million anda half. Of churebes and chapels in England, thoro are 604; three in South Wales, and three in North Walce—making a total of churches and chapels in Great Britain of 710. 4 are 11 co leges in numbering about 400 Sunday schools, numbering about | including bis own civil list and their expenses. | form of it is tl | assigns reasons for its necessity. | had in a manner worn itself out. “ Let us seo what Mr. Hook, tho vioar of Leeds, has aone for Protestantism. During the past yoar, Popery has taken six of Dr Hook’s colleagues at Leeds, viz :—Rev. Messrs. Rooke, Coombs, aud Crawley, three curates of St. Saviour’s, together with the two vicars of the same church, the Rev. J. Minster and the Rev. R. Ward. ‘Then there is the Rev. F. Hathaway, fellow of Woroester col- ego, Oxford, and incumbent of Snadwell, near ods. “* We may notice, too, the venerable Archden ton Manning, of Chichester, with the Rev. Mr. Sapri- mandaye, hiscurate. There was the Hon. and lev. J. Tewry Law, who was brother of Lord Eileubo- revgh, Chancellor of Bath and Wells, »nd vicar of Harborne, and.also the Revds James Orr and J. Woodward, of St Jamea’s, Bristol. é ‘A mongat the lay converts are several distinguish- ed men, including J. R. Hope, Esq , Queen’s Coun- rel, said to be the D CO. L. of the Morning Chron- icle, and who has succeeded Sir Walter Scott in the posers of Abbotsford; Lord Nigel Kennedy, who is brother to the Marquis of Ailsa, ia Soo'land; the Marchioness of Lothian; Lady Newry; Lady Cathe- rine Howard, who is daughter of the Earl of Wick- low; Lady Peat and family; Hon. Miss Brand, daughter of Lord Dacre; tho late Sir J. Talbot, Admiral of the Fleet, and Grand Commander of the Bath; Sir Vere do Vere, baronet, and LudyVere, and Aubrey de Vere, the author of ‘English Misrule and Irish Misdeeds;” Mrs _ Turner, wife of Rev. C. Turner, of Hanwell Park, Middlesex; Mrs. Gerrard, who followed her huabind, Rev. J. H. Gerrard, D.C.L., of the University of London, and Fellow and tutor of Cain’s College, Cambridge, and a host of others.” All this gocs far to show that the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill has been apparently more advantageous ee prejudicial to Catholisity in the United King: om. THE NEW CONSTITUTION CF FRANCE. Opinion of the English Press, {From the London News, Jan. 16 | The Autocrat of France has promulgated the constitution that might have been expected of him. It is precisely that constitution which the favorite clown or charlatan of the day might have announo- ed with enthusiastic applause to the audience that throngs before any theatro of the Boulevard du Templo. It is the very burlesque of representative overnment, the parody of every system that has feck seriously essayed in really free countries. Power without responsibility, debates without pub- licity, a commons house without the faculty of originating a law or modifying a budget, an upper house without hereditary dignity or elective right, a government which is nothing but a police, and an army whose duty is merely that of gondarmes— such is the poli:ical system solemnly proposed for ard to France inthe middle of the ninoteenth century. The congular constitution of the year VIII, from which the mock system is borrowed, was, it is well known, an undisguised and eomplete dictatorship. The council of state were the advocates whom the future emperor paid and consulted. The senators were his valets. The tribunate, or lower house, was composed of his paid talkers, who, when they taiked in apy way that government did pot like, were precluded from talking at all. Soon atter this constitution was originatly grant- ed, the tribunate ag the Hozse of Repre- sentatives was then called, chose to discuss and criticise Napoleon’s two measures of the code and the concordat. The first consul was indignant at their audacity, and withdrew the:e laws, giving the triounate nothing whatever to discuss. They had no power by the constitution of originatiog a law ora motion, consequently their functions were suspended, their place became a sinecure, and they themselves became the laughing-stock ofthe Pari- sians. ‘The tame fate awaits the mock House of Commons of Louis Napoleon, if, indeed, he oan get any Frenchmen above the rank of village school- mastere who would so far domean themselves as to wear the livery, and receive the pay, of popular re- precentatives without the faculty of doing anything fave what they were bidden. Why not issue a do- cree, that the eervants who wait behind the chairs of the guests at the Elysée, shall take tho seats in the morning, and vote the laws of the Meet) t would be just as respectable and genuine a House of Commons as the vasetaille which the mock constitu- tion summons from the provinces. Odious as is a dictatorship, the least humiliatin, which avows what it is, and whlo Bonaparte, in 1800, was not without these reasons. The county had just recovered from civil war and from foreign war, from both of which he who claimed the dicta- torship had saved it. The representative system lis last manifes- tation was a reckless and exuberant royalism, that threatened to give up every boon and conquest of the great revolution. The exsuse of Bonaparte was that he wanted to save the revolution, the benefits and the acquisition of this revolution from a reckless and criminal reaction. ‘To maintain the revoluti to uphold in office, influence, and power, the ideas and the fare which it had pro- duced, such was the idea of Napoleon. Ho was deter- mined to save revolutionary France from the des tic subjugation of Europe, to endow France with new lawe, and with a social and political organization in accordance with tho state of things and of society that the revolution had created, and that the coun er-revolution threatened to destroy. Liberal men admitted that there was some show of reason in these motives. And when Napoleon came for- ward with the code and the concordat and with his system of mixed education, they understood that he had idl Pea ed power for purely selfish pur- poses, and that he made use of that power to placo rance superior te the other European absolutisms, end free from (he worst abuse of the old French ab- solutism. But ig there one of these pleas—ene of those ex- cuges that holds good, or can bo seriously brought forward for the present barefaced, and inglorious, and tricky usurpation? Not ono. Thore is all the tyranny, all the assumption, all the impertinent cogmatirm of setting up as a legislator for a great nation, ata time when that nation has grown to manhood, instead of being as in 1800 in a political nonage. There is really nothing to do, novhing to change, nething to enact. Franco is not menaced by the pala bl and France is menaced by ne priestly or aristocra'ic reaction, which the present ny does not rather flatter and yield to than nought. There is no disorder in the pro- vinces, no defects in the administration, which absolute power must not aggray instead of ro- form. ‘There @ want of honesty and of a high tone of morality in public men. Will Louis Napo- leon mend that? The provinces have boen reduced to nuillitiea, local intelligence and influence crushed; what can Louis Napoleon do but aggravate the evil! The army weighed on the country; it will weigh henceforth toniold. Direct taxes took away halt the revenue of the landed proprietors, the ma- jerity of whom are poor. To inoreage direct tax- ation will bo impossiblo—yet how avoid it if the salt and drink duties be abolished? There is no reform possible, no alleviation feasible in French taxation, except by rieans of economy. Can Louis Napoleon, or ean any military chief, economise? There is, therefore, not one pretence for setting up a dictaturship—one reason, save that thie mode of government alono snits the nephew of Napoleon. As to the constivution just promulgated, i isthe piost audacious of bumbugs, not deigning te nakedners 6 now imy Joepotism. Toper arbitrary power, but to associate and | ¢ with it all those notable or capable ment, at prevent quartered in (Qaehoe, North Amerivws England, 17 religious hor of men, 62 convents; ee te Linplaud with Wien, O00 PLwnue 5 Manone | yes OL ibe BLL anu eau Spparour pweeiveurse ve cue | mouny ex property, ax ko | the trouble to cover with even a decent veil the | All that it attempts ts | nation under the autocratic dictates of its author, will scarcely be found to be realized in tho doow: ments which we ee elsevhere. Except so far as the unhappy circumstances which accompany tho promulgation constitute a suspicious gloss upon isd text, the instramact p 2 par by Louis Napoleon ig, perhaps, not much more open to objection thar most others of the cous‘ itutions which revolution has imposed oa France. There is ne very conspicuous departure from the spirit of that appeal to the peoe ple with which the President commenced his @état; and though the constitution of the year Vill is expressly referred to, tha: colossal fraud has nob been made an exact precedent for faleifying or evading Pledges which the occasion had once madd neces: 7, The privilege of voting laws and im- sts is lodged with che popular branch of the sew jegislature; and the elec oral body which nominate? that Assembly is constivuced by univarsal suffrage. Contrary to general expectation, the legisiative corps is to debate on the measures submitted go its but the debates are only to be published under tho surveillance of the President of tue chamber. Thaal+ jugion of the introductory proclamation to the pare manency (inamovibil:tc) ot the judicature is more sae tisfactory. The implied recogmition of this principle as one of the still surviving institutions which bear witness to the Emperor Napoleon’s gonius, ia & cone siderably better guarantes ior its maintenance than would be any express provision to the same effect in the body of the constitution. Tho rights of the Press receive no such homage. Apparently, this ig one of the subjects to bo regulated in the forthe coming series of organic laws. It 13 possible, howe ever, to construe the single ; assage in which nowse papers are mentioned as inconsistent with an inten« tion to debar them altogether from criticism an@ remark. ‘J One principal novelty is the exclusion of Ministers from participasion in tho basiae: either chamber, introduced with a categorical de« claration that in future they are simply to be deemed heads of the departments confided respec- tively to their direction The practice of the United States may be pleaded as an oxamplo in point, and no exception oun be taken to the tormal reasoning of Louis Napowon, alleging that the reapousiviity of the vxvcutive Chiof renders idle that of his subordinates, if the tormor be really enforced. What chance thero may practically be of calling to account suva @ Presideat ag the existe ing one, 13 @ question which our imaginations are lett to unriddle. Another innovation is the proe hibition against pubitsuing any report of the de« vates which is not officially sanctioned and qaeie fled—a rule which evideuily may bo tarned to eure poses of very gros# deveption, Tue most starting change—and it is one so grave thatit may probebly require further cousidera‘ion at our hands—conrista in depriving the Lower House of the power of initiative, and ofthe right of amending government propositions, and in looging these with tho Sena‘a. ‘his is an exact reversal of the arrangemests habitual with consittuinaliy governed cous and it wears eo little resemblance to kaowo dent that we can only jadge of its operation by watching the actual oxperiment. To say that these documents are honorablo or cree ditable to Louis Nupoleon, would be to employ terms which have no application in this connection. Atthe same time they throw @light on his character waick, exhibits it as somewhat dificring trom the yulgarly selfish idiosyneracy of a merely successful usurper. From the commencerrent to the close they bear witness to a mind absolutely enslaved by vonora— tion for the Emperor, and completely, if conve. niently, habituated to a confusion between the rights or claims of the mighty dead, and those of the individual who happeus to bear his name. No peacant in France could profess the Napoleonian creed with more astonishing naiveté than does the President of the republic. And by the side of these convictions—and not in the least inconsistent with them—there seems to be an equally servile respect, for the authority of the democracy in ita widest ace ceptation. Hisseven millions of votes, and his res lationship to Napoleon, apper to havo inspired the President with asort of belicf in himseif as tho trustee ofa divine mission. Motives flowing fronz this belief are the most respectable that can be as- signed for the many flagrant enormities in iis corduct since the 2d of Desember, and for tho comparatively few absurdities in the new contti- tution. Napoleon manacled the press—Napolon swept the streets of Paris with grapp—Napolon transported jacobites and royalists pell-mell to Cayenne. Thess exampies, together with the poll of the 20th, have probably closed the Previdert’s breast against compunotion for the cruclties whck are scored against him in the conscience of the world. In the same way, between recollections ofthe Emperor’s continual appeals to univerial suffrage and his personal impression of its santti« ty, Louis Napoleon has preserved tho unlimied franchise against the advice of his most devobd counsellors, whilst he has engrafted on his newin- stitutions trange an excreseence as tho wuld has ever witnessed, in the shape of a perpetiat right of extra constitu’ional appeal to the peoyle against the Constitution itself. Somebudy tas satirically defined the theory of Sovislism as te- solving itself ints an iaivite succession of strilos. Louis Napoieon’s idea of progress involves apyae rently an infiui e successicn 0! coups d’éat. The commencing paragraphs of the Proclawse tion strike ue as bi chiy characteristic and itlusitae tive. The Presideut usserts that every single one of the etandivg inetitutions of France was created by his uncle. ‘* !he greater portion,” he write: “of the measures which concern the progress of industry, of commercs, of literature, of scienee, and of the arts, from the stacutes of the Theatre Francas to thoso of the Institute of France, from the institution of * prud’hommes’ to the creation of the Legion of Honor, have been fixed by the decrees of that (the Imporial) time. Jt may then be affirmed that the trame of our social edifice is the work of the Emperor— which bas stood firm, resisting his fall and the shocks of three revolutions. Wherefore, since they have the same origin, should not hia politica! institutions have the same chance of da- ration!’ This last question discloses the fallacy which is misleading the President—fatally, we be- lieve, andto his own dishonor. Tho political in- stitutions of the empire are out of date, because they were comprised in the genius of the Emperor himself, and the Emperor is no moro. if Louis Na- poleon can siijl the airat hsme with the roar of victorious cannon abroad—if he can absorb the in- stincte of independence in the pride of domination ~-ifhe can tempt the eye which would be inquisi- tive in domestic concerns to lose itself in the wide prospect ofa conquered continent--he may govern France, though he accord to Frenchmen a much scanticr measure of freedom than is ranteed in hisconstitutien He whocan bend the hero’s bow may enter upon his entire inheritance. Butif thie is beyond his reach—and compass it he certain! cannot—the people will turn his political contri- vences against him as easily as thoy turned tho charter against Charles X. We are not prepared tosay that rational frecdom is impossible uader the new institutions; but if Louis Napoleon pro- ceeds a step further in the imperial career of frau- dulent usurpation, he may be sure that the me- obanical checks he creates will last just up to the point—which is always reached eventua!ly—waore public opinion becomes stronger than terrorism. [From the London Times, Jan. 17] The text of the French constitution, which wo have now before us ina more complete form, ene ables us to pursue the observations we have al- ready made on tho proclamation by which it is accompanied, andon the general tenor of theso in- stitutions. But even now it must be remarked that this scheme is rather an outline than a completo work, and that much depends on the various |: decree and Senatys- Consults by which the pre ject {so bo completed. Such a constitution se cures: eee for it opposes no direct or insur mountable obstacle to any acts of the [xecutive beh though it might still, if liberally construed, leave a greater latitude for the expression of opinion than the declared adversaries of parliamentary go+ vernment had desired. Of the powers assumed by the Prosident in hig own office, little need bo said, for they override every other portion of the government. We ro mark, that while an oath of fidelity to tho consti tution and tho President is to be exasted from the | members of all the koverning and logislativo as~ | temblies, no oath is provided for the President him- ‘elf; but recent experience has shown that moral pies bet adel neg on en nen and ho has ceased to acknowlo any legal obligation to ¢ rights of the nations” : =z ‘he Miniaters are to be moro clorks of the hoad of the government, and itis carefully provide that. no sueb thing as a collective administration is to exist. The President is himself tho whole governs ment, assisted in eaeh department by a minister. The duration of tho President’s office boing limited | by the terms of the plébrscite to ten years, thors is, of course, no ostensible claim to any hereditar dig: nity; but, by a singular provision, it is proposed that Louis Napoleon should have the power of making g sort of political “Jast will and testament” to de: nate hig own successor, in cave of death; a préecau- tion which canhardly beve boen takon agai ab auy natural termination of vis life and power. So most important and interesting soction of (be constitution is thot which defines the powors and compesition of the Senate. lta members are who ornsent to barter independence for office, and | to ve irremovable, and mtined for life; tho oardic who rubmit to wear the despot’s livory in return for | va'y, admirals, and mersbals, aro to havo ta of liberty, to ebare with the dictator (bo spoils of tho | right; the functions of mombers are nominally ttate. No honest or upright man will take ¢ iitour, though the President may confor o under euch a mock coustitution ; and it a sufficient an incemo of 30.000f. at his pleas on puuber of Frenchmen of education and capacity ther hand, only 80 sonators out of 150 azo to be be icund to do so, ail we can cay is, that thia will | appointed in tho first yoar, so that tho government sinmp indelible dirgrace upon ‘cy without ad- | roteing the power of swampingenil opposition be ding to the durab’ yusiatency ofa government | a irech nomination. ‘Tov situngs aro secret, and which is an anacl m to the ago, anda disgrace | tho proceedings unpublished. If sush a body wora to (be country, jo whore history it muet survive ae | constituted with any view to politioal or pors onal an indellible bumiliation i ened, it is invested with powors whick, —— might bo uscd with advantage. ‘Thusit is obarged [Prem the Londen Uhronicls, Jan. 16 like the Snpreme ( ot the United i, to | The Worn: wutioipations of those wlio angured af | appore laws contrary to the constitution, to che lie tha new Freneh conmtitntion, from tha vir a. | Wert thin, tha F nf tha weracn, *s sine La lO tho permauoy vf ga