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premium."

Louis Napoleon, in his Message announced that the French government has
proposed to the different Cabinets international relations for putting
an end to the long tolerated abuse of literary and artistic piracy--that
these propositions have been favorably received, in principle, by most
of the Cabinets--and that between France and Sardinia a treaty has
already been signed for the mutual protection of both these species of
property. The announcement has been hailed with great satisfaction by
the literary public.

A correspondent of the Literary Gazette says, that the distinguished
French poet, BERANGER, occupies himself a good deal in writing
biographies, anecdotes, criticisms, &c., of the public men with whom, in
the course of his long career, he came in contact. It is now two years
since he announced his intention of giving such a work to the public,
and he seems to think that it will possess great historical value.

A clever hoax was played off by _La Presse_ against the President. The
day previous to the one when the President's Message was to have
appeared, that journal published a document entitled, "Message of the
President of the Republic to the General Assembly," bearing the
signature L. N. Bonaparte. Under the various heads which such a document
would naturally contain, the most radical and sweeping propositions were
laid down; propositions which nobody suspected the President of
entertaining in the Elysee, whatever his opinions might have been when
meditating in the Castle of Ham. Official communications were at once
dispatched to the evening papers, declaring the publication a forgery;
and stating that the _Procureur_ of the Republic had caused the paper in
question to be seized at the post and in the office of publication. The
next day _La Presse_ opened with an article stating that the paper of
the day before had been seized for publishing such and such an article,
copying its message of the previous day, and declaring it to be genuine,
for that every word of it was the acknowledged publication of the
President. The fact was that it was made up of extracts from various
publications which Bonaparte had put forth at different epochs; and
could hardly be branded as a forgery. Thus far the paper seemed to have
the advantage. But the court soon turned the scale by sentencing the
_gerant_ of the paper, M. Nefftzer, to an imprisonment of a year, and a
fine of 2000 francs.

GERMANY, ETC.

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