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November 8,1856.] THE I* E AD EE. 106*7
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November 8,1856.] The I* E Ad Ee. 106*7
November 8 , 1856 . ] THE I * E AD EE . 106 * 7
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NOTICES TO OOBRESPONDENTS . Tjece Subscription bob Italy . — "Wo lixvo delayed our general report on tl * e Subscription for Italy , in order to dispose of a collateral topic oxmnectod with the personal history of the movomcut . " An Investigator" and " \ V . G . " next week . . ,, ' „ 7 „ ' Histoiiy oh the Sakacens . —Mr . E . A . Freeman writes to assure us that , in his volume on the Saracens , he acknowledges the importance of Erskine ' s -work on the Lives of ¦ Timour and his Successor .- * Wo have , and did not express , any doubt as to the literary integrity of Mr . Freeman .
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T & ere ia nothing so revolutionary , because there is nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed -when all the ¦ world is by the very law of its creation in eternal progress . —Da . Aenold .
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OPINION IN TRANCE AND GOVERNMENT ¦ . ;¦ ¦ ¦;¦ ¦ ¦¦ :: ' : ¦ . . . ; . IN . ENGLAND . .. ' : . , . . If may enable our readers to appreciate the character of the actual crisis in France if we present the opinions of some distinguished men who , standing aloof from factious intrigues , are nevertheless in a position to reflect faithfully -the opinions of the most influential classes . Some men are political by habit others are quietists "by nature , or by necessity . Even these , however , cannot be insensible to tne political influences at work around them ; and the value of their testimony is enhanced if they have been accustomed to avoid illusion , and to j udge independently of the hopes and passions which agitate mere party leaders . The evidence is still more worthy of credit , if it be found that the statement of a professed politician is in literal harmony -with that of men -without any special ' point of view' whatever . We propose to reprodu . ee some of these reflections , without comment or modification . To Frenchmen of the calmest views , then , the actual ' situation ' in Paris appears to be this : — -Public affairs in a detestable condition ; Public opinion in a state of profound irritation and anxiety . As to public affairs , there is a financial
crisis , a commercial crisis , a crisis in the iirocrisis , a commercial crisis , a ' crisis in the provision market . Money is perpetually flowing to the Bourse , tliere to be swallowed up in a vortex of speculation , which is excited by stimulants of the most artificial and unhealthy character . Great schemes are set afloat without the ballast of a centime of real capital . On the other liand , tlie tide of pauperism
rises , especially in the southern departments , and tlie approach of winter aggravates the disquietude of the public mind . USTever , during the past five years , have so many menacing omens multiplied upon the horizon . Throughout France the working classes are enduring extraordinary privations , particularly in the capital , where , in addition to the ordinary sources of
discontent , the difficulty of obtaining lodgings has become a formidable jmblic question . The Attgtjbtus of our ago has demolished almost every neighbourhood in which the ouvricr was accustomed to live in comfort at a low rent , at a convenient distance from his workshop . He is therefore driven to the extremities of Paris , and to the banlieuo , but hero ho is confronted by competing . crowds from the
provinces m search of an Imperial employer . -The workmen of France have been engaged for three or foair years in destroying their own habitations . Rents , therefore ' , havo been raised to an enormous average . On the 8 th of last month—the quarter day of tho faubourgs—vast trains of carts arrived at tho Prefecture of Police , lnden with the property oi the houseless , who had come to petition
this drop of consolation in an ocean of misery . France—Paris especially—is afflicted . But le Hoi s ' amuse . Gloom , and doubt , and suffering , oppress the public mind , but it is the carnival of the Empire . After Plombieres Biarritz , after Biarritz Compiegne , after Compiegne Fontainebleau . There is a masquerade in the forest , and tlie Imperial pleasure-seekers are chasing the deer with hound and horn , in the costume of Loxris XIV ., powder , plaited wigs , silken breeches , and soft morocco boots . The Duke of Maia .: e : hoff ,
the G-overnment for that shelter which they had sought in vain elsewhere . The Government , endeavouring to atone for a desperate policy by a desperate benevolence , undertook to pay the rents of the most necessitous . In one day thirty landlords received their arrears from , the Maine of Belleville . No doubt the workmen relieved were contented ; but what of the next settling day ? and what of the workmen who are not relieved ? It may be imagined how futile is this infinitesimal remedy applied to a universal evil
capers in that degrading frippery by the side of Bosquet and Canbqtsert . " Their hair is white , but not -with years , " but with the powder of the seventeenth century . Two years ago , these fantastic indecencies would have passed unnoticed ; in the midst of poverty and discontent they excite something-more than sliame . The Emperor , lord of the Allegro at Compiegne , finds leisure , it is remarked , for these ridiculous rehearsals , while Frenchmen shrug their slioulders , and
give indirect utterance to their indignation . The change that has come over public opinion is so remarkable that the least clear-sighted — -the friends not less than , the antagonists of the Empire—discern it . Never has disaffection been more widely spread , never has it been more openly expressed . The universal conviction is—that things as they are cannot
last . This conviction , pervading all classes- ^ - the interested and the indifferent , spectators and politicians- —finds utterance in a hundred forms . It is the future contemplated by those who , we repeat , are least addicted to illusion . It is the future pointed at by men who , on the morrow of the cotip d ' etat , declared that the Empire would not be speedily overthrown , but would run its course .
The article in the Moniteur , published in the midst of so much dissatisfaction and so much irony , has produced an effect which cannot but be disastrous to the Empire . It has led to a general belief in the existence of serious differences between the Allied G-overnments ; it has proved that Louis Napoleon" is no longer the client of the English press , and the rumour has floated
about more persistently than ever that the Emperor is mad . He is not mad ; but he is incapable of understanding his position . The disease of his mind is vanity . The attack on tho ^ English journals came from hi m , and wo have the best warrant for saying that , when it appeared , a numerous class of Frenchmen began to believe that tho star of the Emperor was on the wane .
Parallel with these French accounts , to have another , describing l ? rnnce as upon tho declivity of a commercial crisis which threatens to sprend through Europe . Public securities are daily depreciated ; the market is gorged with paper issued under tlie pretext of restoring commercial confidence . Instead of confidence there is gambling . Every
adventurer , intoxicated by tho hope of uiilimitod gain , throws his chanco into tho thousand lotteries of Paris , all branching from that famous Lottery of tho Golden Ingot , which scattered its tickets even under the yorohes and sacristies of the Holy Church . Two milliards of francs spent on tho war , four successive failures of vintages and
harvests , -would have induced a politic government to adopt large measures for the public safety ; but the Empire incites the fury of speculation ; the state budget is constructed on the principle of fat-stalling the public resources and leaving the future to chance , yet not even the risible anxieties of the official class prevent his Majesty fjom amusing himself . Tliis is the burden of the story . All goes merry at Compiegne ; all is merrily planned for Fontainebleau . Hunts , balls , banquets , theatricals—the Empire paying what it can , and owing the rest . The real malady of tne Emperor is financial . t , it is a profound truth that revolutions do not repeat themselves . One revolutionary movement is never a copy of the last , nor is it effected by identical processes . The French Emperor can only govern Paris b y erecting vast barracks at every commanding point , and connecting them "by strategic routes -with its cincture of fortifications . But these will not save him . The light will penetrate even through military walls , and the supply of pay and donations will fail . His position is too fictitious to last . France has not descended , intellectually , to a level with her political degradation . Lours Napoleon" may still say— - "I am the State ; " but he has not extirpated the free thought of the French people—a thought which is treasured up by the noblest citizens , and which will one day be uttered as the signal of national deliverance . The Empire is an accident , not an institution . "When it falls , it will be regretted by paid senators , "by grand chamberlains , by falconers , and flunkeys alone . Such is the Opinion of Paris , if Paris be represented by its men of intellect , and not by the gamblers of the Bourse . With this failing Government , thus condemned by the opinions of the most moderate and intelligent classes , our cnvn Cabinet is connected by the ties of an official alliance . "What , under such circumstances , is the duty of an English minister ? To maintain an English policy , consistent with the highest interests of the English nation , or to double and drift with every variation of French diplomacy ? Lord Palmerston ^ first the p atron of the Empire , then its obsequious agent , and now its jealous partner , is carrying on a game of meddling rivalry abroad . "With the several momentous questions pending on the Danube , at Constantinople , at Naples , between Turkey and the Principalities , Russia and England , Austria and Hussia , Italy , Austria , and France , is it not a time to regret that . we are publicly represented to the world by such a Minister ? The man who has sought to abase Parliament at home , who has deceived the liberal party in every country of Europe , who has never been great in policy , but invariably a juggler and a leader of dupes , is entrusted with the task of steering England through tho midst of events which tend to a European crisis . The authorities of Manchester would have us glory in a Minister who governs , not by forco of intellect , but by tho force of corruption .
Palmerston In Manchester. Palmerston Is ...
PALMERSTON IN MANCHESTER . Palmerston is unquestionably the most stupendous man of tho day . He , the War Minister , had been threatened with Manchester ; he goes down to the centre of manufactures , the head-quarters of the Peace party , and ho has a triumphal entry . He has caught tho spirit of the place , and next session he can toll those who would not meef him on their own cotton-hill , that ho is more member for Manchester than they . Bat though neither Mr . Gibson nor Mr . Brichit was present , Mr . Bazley was there the representative of both , and consequently oJ the Manchester opposition . It was in tho
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 8, 1856, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_08111856/page/11/
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