rica. In many cases they were returning for their
families--in others, from disappointment and unfitness for work in the
United States.----A Mr. Bateson, manager of the great estates of Lord
Templeton, in the county of Monoghan, was shot at, and then beaten with
bludgeons, so that he died, by three men in the street; the act was in
revenge for some evictions he had made against dishonest tenants.

In SCOTLAND a very large meeting was held in Edinburgh on the 9th, to
protest against the grant to Maynooth College. In the course of the
debates it was stated that 540 petitions, with 307,278 names, had been
sent in against the grant. A resolution was adopted, promising to use
every possible effort to "procure the passage of a bill for the entire
repeal of said grant" at the next session of Parliament.

The events of the month in France have been of transcendent interest. The
Constitution has been abolished, the National Assembly dissolved, martial
law proclaimed, and the Republic transformed into a Monarchy, elective in
name but absolute in fact.

This change was effected by violence on the morning of Tuesday, December
2d. Our Record of last month noticed the dissensions between the President
and the Assembly, and the refusal of the latter to abolish the law
restricting suffrage, and the failure of its attempt to obtain command
over the army. A law was also pending authorizing the impeachment of the
President in case he should seek a re-election in violation of the
provisions of the Constitution. During the night of Monday the 1st,
preparations were made by the President for destroying all authority but
his own. He wrote letters to his Ministers announcing to them that he had
made up his mind to resist the attempt of his enemies to sacrifice him,
and that, as he did not wish them to be compromised by his acts, they had
better resign. The hint of course was taken, and they sent in letters of
resignation at once. The principal streets of Paris were occupied by
strong bodies of troops at about 5 o'clock on Tuesday morning; and before
that hour all the leading representatives and military men whom Louis
Napoleon knew to be opposed to his designs, were arrested and committed to
prison. Detachments of the police, accompanied by portions of the guard,
visited their houses, and arrested Generals Cavaignac, Changarnier, De
Lamoriciere, Bedeau, and Leflo, Colonel Charras, MM. Thiers, Lagrange,
Valentine, Panat, Michel (de Bourges), B