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Fnetsca.—The chief interest has been concentrated on the returns of that which the. Government organs style the " national vote in reply to the PreaidenCs appeaL" Enough, is known to make it certain that the ballot-box will yield "a vast majority of suffrages in favour of the TJsur- patios, perhaps equal to nine-tenths of all the votes recorded. The ofacial announcement of the votes in the department of the Seine was-made by the Prefect, from the Hotel de Ville of Paris, on Wednesday, in presence of a very few uninterested people. The registered voters of the department were 394,049, and of these 297,230 went to the poll The. votes were—"Oui," 197,091 "Non," 96,511 ; majority for Louis Ns, poleon,„100,580. The Mayors carried the result to the President of the Republic ; and he congratulated himself on receiving a mark of " confidence " greater than that bestowed in December 1848."

The numbers polled throughout the country had been received in Paris yesterday from eighty-one out of the eighty-six departments ; and even so far as they were known, were not known with precision. The gross result was—For Louis. Napoleon, 6,011,000; against him, 709,D00.

It is scarcely necessary to touch on the modes resorted to for procuring such a vote from the people-. Among the numberless violences practised, one of the moat powerfully operative has been underhand intimidations universally held out by. the Government that all printers who printed ne- gative bulletins for the use of the voters should have their licences dis- continued.

The Pope is said to.have addressed to his Nuncio at Paris an expression of deep sympathy with the acts of Louis Napoleon, " which have saved religion and society."

His Holiness has also-written to M. de M.ontalemberfi. congratulating him on his adhesion to the act of December 2, and on his enrolment in the Consultative Commission. On the other hand,. it is said that M. de Falloux has written to M. Montalembert a letter concluding with the words " vans ,meritriez &etre exeommunie." M.. Berryer is also said to have taunted him with. a want of. honesty, and even of personal truthful- n.essimhis policy.

There have been. reports that. hh. Guizot. has expressed his decided ap-- probation of the-coup. d'etat. A deputation of traders and manufacturers went, with M. Sallendrouze de Lemon:mix at their head,. to M. Bonaparte, with an address in this- Nome style--

" Wieoome iathername of a great part of the manufacturing interest of Paristo express to you our deep.gratitude.. You have restored confidence to us: we owe to you order and labour, which constitute the strength and wealth of states. We have come, Prince, to tell you that we place entire faith in your exalted wisdom, and in your enlightened solicitude for the true interests of French industry."

In the provinces, says a Paris writer, "the adhesions of municipal and other public bodies to the President-of the Republic have now become almost general In many of the departments, nearly the whole of the Municipal Councils have voted adhesion, and an immense number have sent to Paris addresses of thanks to the President."

The Constitutionnel parades very prominently a letter from Mr. Charles Stokes, one of the lessees of the Western Railway, in which that gentle- man refused the liberty given by the Minister of the Interior, on account of recent events, to delay payment of the first instalment of one million francs of the loan which the Company is to make to the State, and gave a marked testimony of confidence in the Government, by stating that he had that morning paid the money into the Treasury. The papers continue nearly as strictly suppressed, or gagged, as at first. The Petrie has given a sort of black list of the journals that have not " thought fit to make any comments upon the great and solemn events of the election. These journals- are, the Journal des Debats, the Ordre, the Union, the Opinion Fuldigue, the Slide, the Assembic'e Nationale, the Jour- nal de Ville et deg Campagnes, the Gazette de France." There may be add- ed to the list, the National, the Demoeratie, the Republique, the Revolu- tion, the ifessager, the .Avthienient, which have not appeared at all since the 2d December. " In truth," says the correspondent of the Daily News, " there are not above half-a-dozen writers of any mark or likelihood who support Louis Napoleon ; and these include the myrmidons of the. Con- stitutionnel and the Petrie, who were long ago in the secret, and who were the principal pioneers of the coup d'etat. The Univers, under the order of the Jesuits, is the only newspaper of importance that has been con- verted to his interests. For although the Pays and the Frew are also converts so far as their printing-materials are concerned, all the men who gave any value to those papers have withdrawn from them." An occa- sional correspondent of the Times confirms this—" The journals are literally one mass of falsehood and misrepresentation. No sheet is allowed to go to press until it is first examined by the authorities of the Police. The English journals are not excluded, because of the small number of persons (chiefly English) to whom they are accessible or intelligible ; but all journals in French printed abroad, which are not favourable, are ex- cluded. For eXample, the Independence Belge has been stopped." The Daily .Yews of Tuesday announced the fitting pendant to these measures- " Our Boulogne correspondent informs us that all the English papers were stopped-on Sunday morning, even those carried by passengers." A visitor in Paris throws some light on the pretended resort of the populace to the theatres immediately after the slaughterings of the 4th and bth instant. "For some days after the 4th, the theatres were crowded; but it was with persons collected there by the agents of the Go- vernment' and admitted on gratuitous orders. This could not be long sustained, and, noterithetanding a lavish distribution of paper, these

places are now literally empty. The last two or three nights the. two operas did not contain a, paying, audience representing 200 franca, Strangers are scared away by the massacre of the 4th, and the French people are paralyzed.by the terrific regime under which they so suddenly and unexpectedly find.themselves placed."

The preparation of a. fieet to transport persons politically' opposed to the Usurpation has been followed up by- a decree apportioning to the Minister of Marine and (Monies, M. Dueos; a credit of 64000.franes " for providing- eatables, clothing„ and medicines; is Cayenne"'—"g. marshy island at the mouth of the river Cayenne, on the pestilential. coast of French Guiana."' It was understood that at the commencement of last week there were 1700*r-sons accused of rupture de ban, and 500 persona accused of being chefs de section or members of secret societies,. in the different prisons of Paris. alone andthe number has greatly increased since.

The Gevernment has. refused, to grant foreign passports to all parties: withontdistinetion. The Minister for Foreign Afillini has introduced a new system of foreign passport, as follows- " In the-name of the Reach Republic. The Minister for-Foreign Maine requests MM. the Consuls and diplomatic. agents of the nations friendly or allies- of France to permit M to pass; proceedingto . . . without permission- to return. The Minister for Foreign Atrium, Teener." It was-said to- be "reported in some well-informed quarters" of Pinis, on Meade); that a law on the "liberty of the press." is about to be pro- mulgated: with these rPnoling features,— "Every editor olajournal at present- in existence, or to be-pnbffshed ia. future, will be bound to deposit security-money to the amount of' 200000 francs. (80001.) ; which in case. of conviction may be increased to 400;000 francs. The Executive Power will reserve to itself the-right to suspend the publication of ' any journal of which the suspension may appear necessary.. Offences of the press are no longer to be submitted to ajury. Special tri- bunals are to be constituted for that purpose. Offences of the press are to bee classed in three categories : 1st, An attack on the President and on the prin- ciple of the Government ; 2d, Exciting hatred amongst citizens ; 3d, An at- tack on religion, family, or property. Each of those offences may be punished by imprisonment of five-years, by transportation for twenty years, and by a. fine of from 5000 francs to 100;000 francs."

M. Morny has called together- the syndiesof the printers of Paris,, and: informed them that the Government intends to interdict. the publication of every book or pamphlet of less. thaaten sheets until he. has given.hia- personal licence for each work.. It was also stated that the proprietor. of the Petrie. is, aboatto establish. newspapers.in the principal towns of France: to defend the politics of the Government. "Two of his editors have already left Paris for Rouett.andi Lille, where they propmento, commence- publishing-co-the lst.of January next."

There has been some' talk of au intention to- raise a- lean. The corre- spondent of the Deily News stated at the end of last week; that " the. Go- vemment is about. to raise a loan of eight millions sterling" : but there has been no confirmation of the report. The same writer believed that the octroi-duties and the duties on. wines were to be abolished, and. the enormous. deficit made good. by "az heavy tax, on the rich clasaes)" " which will not bear direotly on the working, classes."'

The Consultative Commission; met on Tuesday ; when 179- members were present, , and,. seven. Standing. Committees- mere named.

Decrees have been published modifying the. organization.of the-Gem. darmerie throughout Frame:: Fifteen Generals of Bligade,. twenty Colonels, and various Lieutenant,- Colonels, have been promoted to the next superior- rank. It was said on Sunday evening that modifications of the-Ministry were in contemplation. "111. de Moray is going on a special mission to St. Petersburg. The alliance with Russia is at- this moment thicker than. ever. The post of Foreign Affairs is destined for M. Walevrski, the French Ambassador in London.. The Marquis de. Lavalettnhas been re- called from Constantinople,. where he will be replaced by the Duke- de Guie.he."

A London correspondent reports, from " a sure private source," that " a marriage is on the tapis between Louis Napoleon and a Princess of Sweden." The private apartments of the Royal Family of Orleans in the Palais Royal are being cleaned and ornamented. The front of the Palace facing the Place is also being cleaned and restored.

General Cavaiguac, who has been bandied about so much between cone tradictory reports, was last.reported as ",decidedly out of prison on Friday night," and as having "left the fortress of Ham on that afternoon." But we do not read that any one has seen him in Paris. Concurrent accounts state that he refused the right of the Government to liberate him, as much as he protested against his imprisonment ; and that he was at last formally removed out of prison under protest.. His marriage- was "positively" to have taken place this week.

As to the otherprisonerst, nothing definite is known. On Wednesday it was stated that Messieurs Duvergier de Hauremne and Bixio and Gene- ral Laydet, lately confined at St. Pelagic, had been set at liberty on Mon- day. There has been a rumour that General Changarnier addressed a letter to a member of the Government, stating that, as General Cavaignac has been set at liberty, there can now be no political reason for detaining him ; "that personally he entertains no. animosity to the President of the Republic, to whom he had rendered important services in other times."

David d'Angiers, the- celebrated statuary, has succeeded with immense difficulty in reaching Brussels ; where he joined the Montagnard Repre- sentatives who preceded him. M. Napoleon Bonaparte, son of the en- King Jerome, has acceded to an intimation sent him on the part of the President, to leave France;. and has set off for London. M. J. Fevre has also taken his passport for a foreign country.

The following paragraph, in the Paris correspondence of the Daily News, diverts M. Thiera from Brussels to quite a new goal- " The Government, it seems, is much nettled at the presence of M. Thiers in London. They gave out that he was going to Germany, and indeed launched him through Strasbourg in that direction. But the current of M. Thiera's plans was setting apparently in the opposite direction ; and no sooner

had he reached the Rhine he doubled like an old hare Northward, until he was ferried across the Channel at Ostend, towards the hospitable mansion of his old friend' Mr. Edward Ellice."

grADT.--aueen Isabella was delivered of a " robust daughter " on the 20th instant.

Powrwasm. —Tim Dories was opened by Queen coins 16th in-

The Royal speech expressed confidence in the devotion of the National Representatives, newly assembled, that they -would carry out with pm- clothe the great Work of reforth—° of revision of the thnditmenttil law of the state "— which had been proclaimed; been embraced by the nation; and been cordially adopted by the Sovereign." A project of law " addi- tional to the Constitutional Charter," for correcting and perfecting it, and " for the better guarantee of the liberty of the Representative Monarchy, and the unalterable principles on which the Charter sought to constitute it," would be submitted by Ministers. In addition, measures would be submitted for the reform of the electoral franchise, for improving and economizing public administration, and fbr making a railroad to Spatn,— a read reinstating Lisbon as the central emporium of the two world, be- Omen which it is situated.

The House of Peers had legally constituted itself on the 19th instant ; and had elected as Secretaries' the Viscount de Benagazie M. Margiochi, Marquis de Leule, and Marquis de Ponta de Lima. The House of De- puties had not yet, on the 19th, assembled in a quorum.

Itieterorett—The Mist Chat:alter voted an address to the King on the 16th instant, in reply to the announcement of his accession. The addreas referred with grateful affection to the steady progress of the late King in a constitutional course, and to his manly adherence to his word in a dif- ficult period,—characteristics which added to the brightness of hie crown and preserved its independence, while they established the peace and pros- perity of the nation ; and it reminded the present King, in plain lan- guage, that his father's honour and his own word are pledged to the maintenance of the constitution.

in the same Chamber, on the same day, a motion for the production of the complaint sent in to the Diet of Frankfort, by the Ritterschaft of Hanover, against the Chambers, was carried, against the opposition df N. Seheele, by a: large majority.

The Second Chamber,. in its sitting of the 18th instant, adhered, by 37 votes to 32,. to the resolution of the First Chamber, to the effect that the Ministry ought to proceed immediately to the execution of the organic laws.

PRUSEILL —Oh the 17th instant, the &cond. Chamber ratified the com- mercial treaty of the 7th September with Hanover. The Chambers ad- journed on the 20th instant, for the Christmas holydays ; they will re, assemble on the 5th of January.

AUSTRIA.—The Austrian Lloyd has put forth the following statements respecting the relations of the Cabinets of Vienna and London.

" Notes, complaining of the dangerous support given to political fugitives in England, were presented by the representatives of Russia, Austria, and Prussia, and the German Confederation, at the British Foreign Office,- on the 12th. A similar 'tote was also handed by the Bund to Lord Cowley at Frankfort. Austria will•not hesitate to adopt measures which will make it inconvenient or difficult fbr Eitglishreet to travel in the Austrian States; as long ae the jot complaidee of thulinperial Government are not attended to in London, and an organised communication between the Revolutionary party in Eng;. lend and all the Continental States is carried on under the protection of the JAW. The English will have the less cause to complain, at the continuation of the measure will depend on themselves."

The correspondent of the Times adds—"From what I hear, I am in- &Iced to believe that the Northern Powers will not rest until thdSardinian Government has followed their example, and the Liberal party in Swit- zerland has been crushed."

Communication was again open between the Austrian and rruasian capitals on the L7th instant The snow has cleared partially away ; but the use of the telegraphs was refused everywhere for private despatches. It ia said in Vienna, that the Government, in order to secure the Trieste route,. has ordered that all telegraphic despatches, conveying tidings brought by the overland mail shall in future take the preference of Go- vernment despatches.

'Marren STATES.—The American news consists almost wholly of a detail of the triumphant reception of Kossuth by the citizens of New York. A precession including twelve regiments of militia, the carriages of the Governor andLieutenant-Governor of the State, of Senators and Representatives in Congress and in the State Legislature, of officers of the army and navy-of the United States, and of a committee of all the officials of New York, met him as he came from Staten Island, and con- acted him to the city. "At two o'clock," says the. New York Herald; "there were probably not less than. 250,000 in and near the Broadway." The populace were wild with excitement; and it is stated that many were hurt seriously in. their endeavours. to gain a sight.

The excitement, however, does not appear to have been wholly of a sympathetic character. "Justice compels me," says one very hearty ad- mirer, "to admit that there is, for some cause or other, a strong under- current against Kossuth. It is imputed to his manners, his reserve, the influence of the Romish priests." It appears that his reply to the address otthe Mayor of New York was made inaudible by antagonistic interrup- tions and had to be supplied by his secretary.

The portions of his oratory specially interesting to the English reader are those touching European politics. He defined the practical' object of his mission by an historical reference to the reception which their fathers gave to Lafayette. "Lafayette had great claims : he was the link of your friendly connexion with France,—a con- nexion the result of which were. two French fleets of more than thirty-eight men of war ; three thousand gallant men, who fought side by side with you against Cornwallis, before Yorktown ; the precious gift of twenty-four thou- sand musket., aloan of nineteen millions of dollars; and even the prelimi- nary treaties of your glorious peace, negotiated at Paris by your immortal FAMIVIII. I hope the people of the United States, now itself in the happy condition to aid those who are in need of aid, as itself was once in need, will, kindly remember these facts; and you, citizens of New York, you. will your- selves become the Lafayettea of Hungary." But Kossuth comes only with the. claims which the unfortunate possess on the sympathies of the happy, which the oppressed have for the sympathy and, aid of the free. If these claims were insufficient, tell him so, at once. Let Europe know at once that she. must fight the battle of Leonidas alone, trusting only to God, her right, and her good sword; that there is no other help for oppressed nations. on earth.

In a Premalusi Portion of his speech, he had spoken, in. a more jubilant tons Even this morning I was honoured, by the express order of the Government, by an official salute from the battertee, of the. United States, in a manner in which, according to the military rules, only a public. high offi- cial capacity can be greeted." He made several sarcastic references to If. Flulsemann, the representative of Austria at Washington. That gentleman. Might frown, and threaten to be of but he would not be so willing to %nit

Washington. He had exceedingly well digested the caustic diplomatic pills already so gloriously administered to him by Mr. Daniel Webster. But.after all, if he did pack off, what would the sovereign people of the United States suffer or care. " It will not care a bit if M. Hulsemann take his padsports tomorrow—bon voyage to him." He concluded by begging a few days' rest for calm reflection, to become ace quainted with the ground on which he stood.

To a deputation from the city of Philadelphia, requesting hinr to visit them, he gave an answer that threw a shadow over his relations with the Washington Cabinet. Some passage in the proceedings of Congress, which is not clearly reported, caused him to make the following observa- tion : A resolution to bid him welcome in the Congress—" simply to bid him welcome "—had been withdrawn, on account of expected opposition. Had he expected that, he might not have come from Europe at all. "His move- ments are now embarrassed " ; whether he could go beyond New York he could not yet say; "he would not wish to intrude."