whom I have described in a former epistle, on en- | cunning enough to paste his profession of faith on tering the drawing-room, proceeded to throw his the inside of certain columns on the boulevards and arms on the shoulders of the general's mother, quays.

who presided, and to kiss her on each cheek; the Every accessible wall or surface above ground aged lady is an ultra-democrat. The punsters was covered with the placards and with electionstyle her la mère rouge, with reference to her sup-eering caricatures-near which stood groups more posed predilection for the republic of that color. or less numerous of the working classes reading The most splendid entertainments are those of the president of the Assembly, Marrast, (just reclected,) in the magnificent official edifice. At his recent sumptuous ball, which some of his old associates, now of the Mountain, acrimoniously censure, the Count de Mornay, Soult's son-in-law, noting the elaborate splendors of the scene, and the lofty port and brilliant retinue of Madame Marrast, said to him, "Really, Mr. President, you are the first nobleman (le premier gentilhomme) of the republic democratic and social."

Paris, Sept. 21st, 1848.

You were informed that elections were to be held on the 17th inst., in the department of the Seine, for three members of the National Assembly. Since this day week, all attention and anxiety was fixed on the struggle as between the anarchists and the friends of order, of every description and title. On Monday, the second day, early in the morning, I strolled from the St. Germain railroad station, to the boulevards, along these as far as the Porte St. Martin, thence down the adjacent streets, thence across to the Palais Royal and the Rue de Rivoli. The survey occupied two hours and a half. I have witnessed, in the United States, very animated canvassing, and in Great Britain, terrible polling; but never scenes of the kind to be compared in extent, vivacity, and variety, with those of the French capital. The following newspaper article is not hyperbolical:

and discussing the appeals of General Montholon, and associations of operatives, for Louis Napoleon Bonaparte. Caricatures of the prince, in the several principal events of his life, abounded. Recommendations of Marshal Bugeaud appeared on every side, with counter-addresses. The most atrocious of the proclamations was from Blanqui, dated the keep of Vincennes, where the miscreant is a prisoner. It astonished me that it was tolerated by the police. It presented itself everywhere. I saw only one attempt to tear it down, and this was followed by a small riot. Among the placards was one signed by eleven members of the National Assembly-of the Mountain-vehemently exhorting the people to vote for Cabet, Raspail, and Thoré; the second confined at Vincennes for the attempt of the 15th May on the Assembly, and the third, the prime champion, as an editor, of the red republic in its most fearful aspirations and designs.

Persons were employed in scattering tickets of the several parties and their subdivisions, over the pavements, besides thrusting them into the hands of every passenger. On the day before, the æronaut Green threw them down from his ballood on the fields within some leagues of the capital. Napoleon was the ærial candidate. The extensive arrangements and ingenious devices for his canvass in three different departments, must have cost the prince and his votaries a pretty round sum. He is elected, indeed, in all, and by considerable majorities. He owes his triumph to the masses, in town and country. You can now judge It is believed that he of the prestige of a name.

The Elections!-This is the word which is resounding from the centre to all the corners of Paris. At the general election there were only 80 candi- is among us, and will challenge his seat in the dates for the 34 seats; but now, 115 competitors Assembly, as soon as he has been proclaimed at come forward for the three vacancies. The red re- the opening of the ballots, this day, at the Hotelpublic presents but three apostles of socialism.de-Ville. How the Assembly will receive the This tactic is the most positive, and might be suc-outlaw, and what they will do concerning Raspail cessful but for the good sense of the working class, the prisoner, also elected, remains a matter of which, after the issue of the late events, seems to have reflected upon the vague and dangerous prommanifold speculation and deep concern. To reises made to it. The remaining 112 candidates be-ject Napoleon would be a hazardous extremity. long in general to the moderate party. About 30 The three successful names are Bonaparte, Fould, of these are puffed by the journals, but the rest are and Raspail. The moderate parties, republican, reduced to be content with what their placards may produce, and particularly Louis Napoleon. The professions of faith of these 112 are in general confined to assurances of their upright conduct in future. They respect family ties and property. More than 300,000 placards are ordered from the different printers of Paris, and they are drawn off on papers of all colors. Most of them are headed with the The compact and puissant manifestation and word Nommons. One bill-sticker has hired one skilful array of the red republic have reawakened, hundred and fifty men to paste them upon the and justly, the direst misgivings and alarms. Bowalls, an operation which is performed in the night. The 115 candidates have required & mil-aparte's case is a serious complication, too. The lions of lists, which are distributed to the people distrustful remark-" If he happen to be a man passing through the streets, the squares, and all of desperate audacity, it is possible for him to other public places; and one candidate has been gather, in Paris and the precincts, an army of pro

and ci-devant monarchists, may be said to have yielded the victory to their united and thoroughlydisciplined antagonists, by casting their votes on eighteen or twenty candidates. Fould is a good choice. We had attroupements in every quarter, day and night, but no affrays—beyond a jostle.

létaires, who would at once hail him emperor—a | the apparitions of the étoiles falantes progrescry likely to be echoed by a large part of the gar- sively increase, from the 30th July until the night rison, and, perhaps, of the troops of the line in of the 9th of August, during which it reached its other barracks and camps in the interior." Cav-maximum. On that night, from midnight to one aignac, at least, will take every precaution to res- o'clock in the morning, eighty-six were seen furcue the republic. Yet, any monstrosity may rowing the sky, and the observations alone of the emerge from this vast cauldron of adversary pas-nights of the 9th and 10th of August, gave a total sions and interests. For two hours, yesterday af- of four hundred and fourteen of these meteors. ternoon, the National Assembly was in the utmost disorder and uproar in relation to restrictive or preventive measures against the press, which a member proposed to prohibit in the constitution. He failed. His motion was levelled at Cavaignac. Count Molé, the old minister of Louis Philippe, has prevailed at Bordeaux, which had a representative to elect.

[This letter was sent by the United States, which de Gérando, son of the celebrated writer of that steamer was obliged to put back.]

The grand opera is fortunate in a ballet called Nisida or the Amazons. Nothing can be more beautiful than the scenery of the island on which the female community have secluded themselves and of the ocean which brings them a bark crowded with young Spanish officers who conquer in battle by showers of bouquets, and contrive to captivate the Amazons and break up the scheme. Praise is due to the musical composer, Benoist; he has fulfilled the ballet-master's imaginations. With this exhibition has been coupled an oratorio in two parts -Eden-by Felicien David, whose Desert and Christopher Columbus have won him European renown. The musical critics pronounce the new partition to be at least equal in all merits to the antecedent; Adolphe Adam extols the magnificence of the strains, the imitative harmony, the depth and variety of the feeling characteristic of David's genius. Chaos, the creation, Adam in Paradise, the birth of Eve, the temptation, the disobedience, the exile-inspire the composer according to the sublime, natural, and moral spectacles which they furnish. The instrumentation had wonderful success. Nearly as much excellence may be conceded to the libretto, the poet being Mèry, who has rather failed in his comedy, the Women's Club, a capital subject at this juncture. His Eden, like the composer's, has the true poetry of the topics and scenes. You sometimes admit French texts; let me offer you this quotation :

hospi- memorated: the ministers of the interior and the president of the Assembly promise a succession of them; the latter already regales the dilettanti with the most celebrated professional performance. Thus the republic will prove more Athenian than Spartan; the fine arts and letters must not regret monarchy. The best of the recent melo-dramas is the Free Thinkers (Les Libertins) of Genevaof which the subject is the fate of Servetus from the bigotry and cruelty of Calvin-performed at the Odeon. Few productions of the kind are more powerful by plot, portraiture and diction. The dramatist sins against biographical justice by rendering the great reformer hideous and savage. You will remark that the German Catholic church has raised its head, anew, at Vienna. Ronge is said to kindle more enthusiasm than the political lecturers; he draws immense crowds; he strikes off, at a blow, the trinity, the pope, the saints, the sacraments, and confession; he will brook no celibacy, no monastic orders, no Latin liturgy. Amid the social and political license of doctrine and enterprise, and the general spirit of innovation and lawlessness, any sectarian in religion may hope for a multitude of proselytes in Germany. Nothing of the kind is attempted in France, because the French are far from being prone to religious novelties and polemics. By the way, a singular inscription appears in letters of gold, on the Paris foundling hospital-"Children of the Country." Chateaubriand has left to the Duke of Bordeaux a small number of his favorite books, with his marginal notes-those which he read over and over, in order that they might the better employ the leisure and instruct the mind of the prince. Seneca on Clemency, a rare copy, is included. The booksellers announce the third volume of Amedée Thierry's History of Gaul under the Roman Administration; the fourth and last will soon follow. The two concluding volumes (5th and 6th) of Vaulabelle's History, The Two Restorations, are nearly ready. He is the minister of public instruction at this time, and one of the most ill-fa

L'air est voilé de brume, et l'océan inonde
La planète, volcan où doit fleurir le monde ;
Aucun être ne voit ces bouleversemens,
Ce globe désolé, sous de lugubres teintes,
Ces montagnes en feu, ces montagnes éteintes,
Ces cratères morts ou fumans.....

Et l'océan fuyait, abandonnant aux plaines
Les rayons du soleil, et les fraiches haleines
Qui descendaient du haut des cratères éteints;
L'arbre, se révélant dans sa gràce première;
Déploya, sur un fond d'azur et de lumiere,
Ses rideaux de verdure aux horizons lointains....vored faces that I have seen in the National As-

L'homme arrive! et bientôt à son côté se lève,
Avec toutes les fleurs, la fleur vivante d'Eve!
Alors, les chants d'oiseaux, l'hymne des arbres
verts,

Mélodie inconnue et soudain entonnée,
Annoncèrent partout que la femme était née,

Donnant l'amour à l'univers!

Felicien David has chosen as his themes, grand natural and religious pictures and historical glories. Lucky fellow you," said to him a composer for the drawing room pieces of the Comic Opera, "not to be obliged to set chairs and tables to music." Adolphe Adam, a high authority, reports most favorably of the prospects of music for the winter. The last fortnight has yielded several superior compositions for the stage; there are successful débuts; the troupe of the Grand Opera (which he will not consent to style by its new official title Théatre de la Nation) will be complete in all characters and requisites. Good concerts are com

sembly. The scientific traveller, Alfred Demersay, has returned from Paraguay, and deposited with the ministry a copious report on the culture, preparation, and trade of tobacco in that region. Its main object is to promote commercial intercourse between Paraguay and France. The Academy of Moral and Political Sciences held, last week, a very interesting public anniversary. Baron Charles Dupin, as president, delivered an able discourse on the eminent and useful authors of whom the Academy can boast; and Mignet, the historian, perpetual secretary, surveys, with his usual felicity of method, exposition and style, the career and works of Baron Bignon, whom Napoleon endowed in his will, to write the Diplomatic History so well known. Bignon died at seventy. He belonged as a public man to the revolution, the consulate, and the empire-which enabled the eulogist to dip into each of those periods. The critic of the National complains that, at the sitting, the word re

public was not once pronounced: neither of the lence; there was, on the 26th ult., much popular discourses mentioned the revolution of February. Mignet, who was shoved from his station at the head of the precious archives in the department of foreign affairs, has little reason for gratitude to February.

agitation at Turin. Reschid-Pacha has been reinstated at Constantinople, as grand vizier—a change deemed favorable to France and the cause of liberalism. On the 28th ult., the German National Assembly decreed entire freedom of religious belief, doctrine, and worship. On Sunday next, General Cavaignac will review the National Guards, in the Champs Elyseès, with all pomp and pride of circumstance. Yesterday's sitting of the Assembly was occupied by a very able and instructive debate on the limitation of labor. The minister of the interior, M. Leon Faucher, Baron Charles Dupin, and Pascal Duprat, were the principal speakers. Dupin and Faucher advocated free competition-no government-interference for adults. The report on the constitution, by Marrast, President of the Assembly, was submitted. It fills more than four columns of the Journal des Débats of this day. On the whole, it is not a masterly performance. The argument for the exclusion of a senate lacks all strength. The French must be left to mismanage their own affairs in their own way.

[From our Correspondent's private letter of 17 Sept., we copy the concluding paragraph.]

The affairs of France are as unsettled as ever. Those of Germany grow more and more lurid and portentous. The destinies of Italy are scarcely less problematical and gloomy. What can Great Britain do with Ireland? There is no sunshine except in the United States. If you do not preserve social and political order, there will remain none except in the remote Asiatic despotisms.

Yesterday, we were greeted with war-notes at the highest pitch. The semi-official National, the day before, was decidedly in a bellicose mood: in the morning, it admonished Austria to beware of a conflict with France-to accept, without further hesitation or evasion, the propositions of England and France as mediators-“a refusal might draw with it consequences more perilous to her than to the republic." The Journal des Debats treated the mediation as virtually rejected and hopeless, and, strangely, seemed to encourage the policy of an armed French intervention in Italy. It feared that the government could not refuse what was asked, and what it had promised. All the revolutionary journals urged immediate hostilities as the alternative of utter national shame. La Presse, however, contained a communication, evidently from the Sardinian embassy, which supplies the text of the Austrian reply to the mediating powers. The imperial government regarded the proposal as a good office; as a new and strong security for the maintenance of general peace: but it was negotiating with King Charles Albert, with whom it hoped to conclude satisfactory arrangements, soon, and it therefore begged the representatives of England and France to abstain from discussion until it received further information from Marshal Radetsky of the progress and aspects of the negotiations with Charles Albert. In case of a comprehensive treaty, the mediation THE celebrated German writer, Henry Zschokke, would be superfluous. Stocks fell on the Paris died on the 27th June, at Aarau in Switzerland, in exchange, owing to the blasts of the newspaper the seventy-eighth year of his age. His name fills trumpets, although the general persuasion on the no mean page in the annals of German literature exchange, as elsewhere, was that the Italian ques- and Swiss history. A native of Magdeburg, in tion will be settled pacifically. Some of the edi- Prussia, Zschokke commenced life by joining a comtors contend logically, this morning, that the pany of strolling players, and afterwards studied French government-Assembly and executive-philosophy and divinity at Frankfort-on-the-Oder. is not bound to assert universal Italian indepen- he devoted himself to the education of youth, and After many years of travels and varied adventures, dence, and that if war is pressed by the red re- fixed his residence in Switzerland at the close of the public and its allies, it is for further confusion and last century. His political services to Switzerland anarchy at home, and propagandism and pillage were important, and he ever after considered it as abroad. Lord Palmerston may allow France to his adopted country. For the last forty years he involve herself in Jacobinism and bankruptcy, by resided in his peaceful retreat at Aarau; whilst his expending her blood and treasure beyond the Alps pen almost unceasingly brought forth works of philosophy, history, criticism, and fiction. The and the Rhine, but, doubtless, will not venture to mere enumeration of his productions would conmake Great Britain belligerent over this hemi-siderably exceed the limits of this sketch. They sphere. All Germany and Russia would back belong to the pure school of classic German literAustria. Piedmont dreads French aid. We ature, and his histories of Bavaria and Switzerland have glowing accounts of the French army of the remain as noble monuments of talent. His beautiful Alps-60,000 choice troops, thoroughly disciplin- tales have been translated into almost every laned and equipped, and eager for a march. The guage. His chequered life had endowed him with a rare insight into the springs of human actions; reports of insurrections at St. Petersburg, War- and few writers in any age or country have more saw, and Rome, are exploded. The telegraph largely contributed, during the course of a long life, relates commotions at Montpellier, with bloodshed, to entertain and improve their fellow-men.—Morn which are charged on the legitimist party. Leg-ing Chronicle.

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