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——«> "Thokough" is the motto of M . Bonaparte . With unexampled vigour and directness , without visible scruples or emotion , yet with much unseen flinching , the army has done its appointed task o £ taking French society by assault . For the moment , the blow of the 2 nd and the massacre of the 4 th of December are entirely successful . Wares glitter in the shop windows- gay crowds throng the Boulevards ; the press is as an Eastern mute ; the departments are bayoneted into silent acquiescence ; the remnants of the Imperial Guard banquet together , and applaud General Magnan Sor saving society ; the Church consorts with the Elya <' e ; and the Rentes are above par ! Is not this re ^ i success ? France has become a " geographical expression "—it is not France but Bonaparte . Meanwhile , the V ^ tpr sits in the Klysee , engaged with sage Councillors in ^ rawing up a constitution . To-morrow the people is calltj upon to vote " Yes " or " No "—for or against Bonaparte . The gentlemen in the grocery line are said to be all for the "Prince "—therefore his election is certain . How can it be otherwise , when the only Journal which recommended the Republicans to vote " No " in great numbers , i . s instantly suspended ? When will the most Christian Emperor , . Napoleon II ., take up his abode at the Tuileries ? But the fact of facts is the open coalition of " the Church " of the Jesuits with the perjured President . The letter of M . de Montalembert reveals so much ! Kingcraft and Priestcraft band in hand as usual—the terrors of earth and the terrors of hell , saving society hy menace and masnacre , and combining to rule it henceforth . Profound is the sensation caused by this revelation of the identity of purpose existing between military despotism and priestly domination . The Pope •» un nothing to fear from the Prince . Bonaparte ' s famous letter l . o Colonel Edgar Noy is emphatically a dead letter . This junction of the soutane and the sabre nets all doubt , at rest as to the Austro' tiiNsiau conspiracy . But what does it matter ? An ; not Mr . Cobden and " England" at peace with J » H the world ? Madrid , in its humble way , imitates Paris , and J » : > N its miniature " ; oup d ' etat . " Most curious of "oineidences ! General Narvaoz leaven Paris a lew ill before the 2 nd of Deceinhcr ; and 11 lew days ( hv " arrival in Madrid the Cortes is dissolved <>»• Nuspen , i ,, ( lj l )( . ( . ,,, , the " grave events in the ., ! I ! "" irin ff »» A » iiblir" are morn important , than l » H > he d . scu . sHions . ( Oilier , that . What a con" 'np . uous mode «> f « <; uUing " the Cortes—it is " !>« ply upoken of as t | , J \ ivu < mal Debating ttouety 1 Well , perhaps , tluit is all it \ n kent for ! 1 'lcuHant , also , is it to read of the leniency with ICoUNTJtY EoiVlOH . j
which the amiable Pope Pius IX . regards the conduct of his fratricidal son . There is a sportive lightness of heart which is quite touching in the fact that the Pope ! good man , smiled down approval on the news , while the Cardinals sniggered with delight . Somehow , the sons of the Church who give most joy to their tender parent are those who crawl through the blood of their fellows to the feet of St . Peter . Thus the conspiracy daily unfolds itself before the eyes of Englishmen , who read the quotations of the Stock Exchange and take no heed .
It is said that Schwarzenberg has demanded possession of a Piedrnontese fortress for Austrian troops . The allied despots are drawing round Switzerland . Still , no one believes in the conspiracy . Some day England will be the last of the Constitutional states in Europe ; and , when we are quite isolated , it is just possible even the Stock Exchange and Lombard-street may believe—but will it not be too lute ? The gloom louring over the whole European Continent is terrible . Midnight arrests ; midday judicial murders ; blood ilowing everywhere ; the conditions of peace nowhere ; neither life nor property secure . What a storm there is brewing When and where will it burst ?
From the great transatlantic Republic we have a President ' s Message , not conveyed to an astounded people through the medium of hot lead and cold steel , but read peacefully to a listening Congress . What a document it is ! Prolix , smooth , carefully worded , an enormous but necessary platitude . Happy the people who can in these fiery days afford quiet Messages ! In spite of its dead level , there is vast significance in this state paner . It marks , in sharp outline , the termination of the policy of non-intervention bequeathed hy the great chiefs of the Revolution , a policy which the nation has outgrown ; while the declarations of the Democratic party , now rising into power , bind them to the policy of intervention und an alliance ol Peoples .
Kossutb lias reached the " States , " and much powder has been burnt at the Battery and elsewhere in bis honour . Daniel Webster , it is said , is resolved to furnish a further proof that he and bis are too deeply implicated with diplomacy to be fearlessly national . The valiant . Secretary will not receive Kos . suth ollicially . Wluvt a humiliation for the Peoplo of America : Webster aping Pahnerston !
Home news is not . striking , either in variety or interest . Mr . Bright , has championed the Manchester Reform Resolutions at Stockport . One sentence in bis speech requires explanation . ' Does Mr . John Bright mean to Ntigumti / . e all persons , who may not get upon the rate-book , under the operation of an Act . iounded on bin resolutions , an bad , illiberal , and ill-intentioned ? It is probable that Manchester may know what good cotton in , and bo infallible ia that .
But , as Political Pope , damning and saving the reputation of thousands of Englishmen alive , we certainly do not recognize her " authority . " If we are to take Mr . Bright at his word , and judge these resolutions by his character of them , then are they and he condemned for offering a gratuitous insult to the mass of the people . The Reform Campaign is likely to be supremely victorious at this rate !
Protection unfolded last week the mysteries surrounding its existence . What was revealed ? A great party in a state of the most promising anarchy , pretending to cling hopefully to an exploded theory and a disastrous practice ; while in reality the minds of the speakers wandered to Financial Reform , Rights of Citizenship , Emigration , the Republic , and—Association . The bonds of the party snap at every writhe of its huge body . Soon the elements , once so compact , will separate . What
then ? They must unite again , upon the principle of Concert . They must act on principles similar to those ruling the Isle of Thanet Agricultural Association , which has actually made pauperism pay But how can landowners expect to prosper , either as individuals or as a party , while they uphold the atrocious game laws ? Read the accounts of frays in Notts and Norfolk . Police for the preservation of pheasants ! The policeman arrests , and the parson commits , the poacher . What a singular collocation of persons !
Careful in the preservation of game , and careless of the education of the People—is not that the characteristic of the Squirearchy ? Is or was ? Not so in towns . Some efforts are made there to instruct and educate the People . A Chancellor of the Exchequer is found in a Mechanics' Institute at Halifax ; even Viscount licwisharn , M . P ., lectures at Bilston , on the happy subject of " Civility considered aa Benevolence in Trides " : and Earl
Fitzwilliam inaugurates new rooms at Northampton ; very laudable , but Avhy deliver a lecture on . the authenticity of Christianity , because Mr . Luyard happened to be present ? Sir Charles Wood's speech was Whig to the kernel , but it did not touch any of the religious questions of the day . Perhaps the real reason of Earl Fitzwilliuin ' t * wanderings i . s to be found in the fact , that the " 8 U () present " were " all in full dress " !
More troops for the Cape . A rifle corps which has not been much more than twelvemonths in England is ordered out . The alternative ^ preHeuUdl by the letter of a field ofliccr is encouraging—more troops or an interminable war . Will Lord ilvtiy require help from the Duke of Wellington ? Strange miceesH is that of Sir Henry Smith . Tim Kafirs an ; beaten at all points ; but they swarm everywhere . The Ainatolas are swept clear of combatants ; Maeoiuo is driven from the Waterkloof ; but the Kulirs haunt the very camp of the Commandcr-in- ( Jhief , and assault his « entrien arid ollicv . ra on guard with a daring that makes Haid oilicera uluei ) under the protection of revolvera I
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 20, 1851, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_20121851/page/1/
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