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LOUIS NAPOLEON has virtually accepted the Empire in France ; the greatest event probably not only of the week , but of the year . We say that with some reserve , because , if we mistake not , the election of the American President may prove to be a compensating fact of not less magnitude . The scene in which Louis Napoleon definitively announced that he had accepted the manifest will of the French people , was Bordeaux . His speech is constructed with great care , in reference not only to his immediate hearers , but
to r ranee , to foreig n countries , and to Lngland . To his hearers he held out the promise of great commercial prosperity—he really pledged himself to the prosperity : " you are my soldiers , " he said , alluding to the commercial activity which he intended to foster , and to the conquests of peace with which he intended to rival his uncle . In spite of that peace , and perhaps of the prospect of si more beneficial wine-alliance with England , the people of Bordeaux will not forget that Louis Napoleon has promised to make the Mediterranean
"a French lake . " To the bulk of the French nation , he promised a great stimulus of trade and employment , precisely the two things the expectation of which has made him tolerated by the middle and working classes . To foreign countries lie promised peace , if there should be no coalition "Rninst him ; but a rhetorical hint of retaliation is held out if JUi should be crossed . His assurances lllVl - ^ been received with a wonderful amount of tr'iH ( m this country . The Times indeed finds it "Hicult to believe his assurances while the armv
" mums unreduced , and the navy is in a state of "Kpi-ecedented activity ; and it invites him to make good , his words , by beginning a reduction of > e ami )' . IIis obvious reply is , that he cannot "'duoc his j U . , y w ] , ile Austria , Prussia , and Russia overawe Europe with such huge forces ; and of <¦< " < i-. se no oIu . (> au 1 )( . , lu .,, j n . Ti , ( . Morniixj Os . which has lately been writing in favour of '' OT ( I l * ll | i > w .,... 4 _ • • 1 i " J- 'I .. ' <> Kl 1 u hncrston strives to reconcile
, positively •''" K liuul With the French traitor . The general i > * V S ( '( ms to lu ; ' tiuit vviiiit ! iu ! H i u > aks f » " ° must 'Sieved ; ai conclusion precisely the reverse ; of ( i ' ^ Avhie h would be justified by facts . Before »< second of December , Louis Napoleon always I'oexsed republican fidelity ; be always professes \ vl i" '' ' ' " « "r the exact opposite of that reu " l 1 U ! iut ( ' Iuls to < l 0 - Shrewd calculators ""' ' , tllllt llis »« 'h " -suppoit hus hitherto tle-LIoavn Edition . ]
pended for its basis on the army , that his programme omits any satisfaction to that important body ; that his system of employment has hitherto gone upon the plan of credits , and must be overwhelmed when the general creditor shall send in his "little bill . " An employment for the army , therefore , is almost an essential to his future safety ; and it is to be more than suspected that his secret programme must really include some pressure from without which shall furnish him with a fair pretext for satiating his soldiery , though not out of French treasure .
The countervailing fact would be , the election of a President to the United States with the power and will to wield the strength of the federation in support of liberty . By becoming an Emperor , the French President becomes the sport of circumstances . The American President may be master of an opportunity unprecedented in history ; for at no other juncture in time has there been so open a field simultaneously with the number of civilized nations to be affected by the action of a
true hero . If General Scott should be elected , for which result a New York correspondent of the Times labours to make out more probability than people have calculated , we shall have a goodnatured routine official , willing and compelled to uphold the dignity of the American flag ; but not a master of himself or of the situation . Counter to the opinion of that pains-taking writer , who almost shows that Scott has engaged in his
behalf influences that must antagonize each other , we incline to agree with a very able writer in the New York Herald , that the chances for Pierce an ; preponderating in amount and substantial in their nature . Traversing the analysis of previous elections , the writer shows that the military influence had little effect , perhaps little even in the ( rase of Zaelnuy Taylor ; that the defection of Van Buren and the free-soilers from the
Democratic party in 1 MB was the real secret of Taylor ' s success ; and that the Democratic party is the one which has been making the steadiest and largest progress . The Herald , calculates , therefore , by a comparative examination of the figures at previous elections , that ( ienenil Pierce " will be elected President over ( jeneral Scott by a probable
plurality of !) . 'f , ()() 0 votes in the several states , and 182 electoral votes in the Union . " The speech cultivating Anglo-American relations , which Mr . Thomas Baring has made at Boston , would be seriously damaged by the election of ( General Scott ; who has endeavoured to array on his side the Anti-British feeling of the Canadian bonier .
Cuba remains in a state of the utmost uneasiness . The intelligence received at New Orleans on the 22 nd of September , reports an excessive strictness of the police ; and American shipmasters complain that they are burdened with an additional secret police spy on board each vessel . Another report is , that a captain of a French brig of war , which arrived at Havannah on the 18 th of September , had offered his services to the Captain General of Cuba , in case of necessity ; similar offers were expected from England .
There appears to be a decided connexion between these Cuban alliances and the obligation imposed upon the political refugees in Jersey to place themselves under the immediate surveillance of the police ; while Signor Adriano Lemmi is expelled from Malta because he is the correspondent of Mazzini ; Signor Lemmi , bearing an American passport , and claiming the protection of the American consul ; who protested .
Indeed , the position of our Ministers abroad may be inferred more easily than their position at home . The latest demonstrations on their behalf are almost wholly of a negative character . The Earl of Derby makes a speech to the corporation at Liverpool , but with closed doors , and the only report of itis , thatit actually contained nothingexcept " brilliancy" nwusseux , and after-dinner " pathos . " Mr . William Bercsford has been at
Castle-IIedingham , defining the position of Ministers for the information of the country at large . It was from the castle of that renowned place that Mr . Disraeli first promulgated his doctrine oH readjustment . All that Mr . Beresford has to tell us , however , is , that Ministers did not enter otttce as Protectionists , and that they have not become Free-traders . We learn , therefore , equally from the rattle of Mr . Heresford , and the silence of Lord Derby , that Ministers , in point of fact , have no position . They cannot even decide when the Duke of WelliiiL'ton is to be buried , nor how ! They
cannot decide when Parliament is to meet ; the lust report being the , > th or 6 th of next month . Why not the f > t . h ? with a place specially reserved for Mr . Lucas underneath the House of Lords ? Ludicrous as it may kcchi , it is credibly reported that Ministers are us anxiously as the public trying to conjecture what , their position is to be ; fora scheme of policy , vvhich Mr . Disraeli was deputed to furnish , has not yet been sent home . In the meantime , some new candours have seized the Protectionist party . Mr . Beresford avows tliut they are in a minority in the House of Commons . Although there is a decrease in the
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YOL . III . No . 134 . ] SATUKDAY , OCTOBER 16 , 1852 . [ Price Sixpence .
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NEWS OF THE WEEK— The Arctic Expeditions 935 William , the " Miles Gloriosus" of Latham ' s EthflDlogy NtW * AGB Two Champions of " Religious East Somerset 990 The Habits of Birds »» The Meeting of Parliament 982 Equality" 986 The Third Saint Luke 992 Books on our Table The Queen ' s Eeturn 982 Outrages in Ireland 987 The Spiritual Insolvency of « the ortR-rertl in—The Queen at the Preston Station ... 982 Railway Jousting 987 Church" 992 i-wk ^ uliu-Lord Derby Elected Chancellor of Miscellaneous 987 Lost , Stolen , or Strayed—the En g- Letters of a Vagabond 9 sa Oxford 982 Health of London during the Week 988 lish People 993 Lord Derby at Liverpool 983 Births , Marriages , and Deaths 988 Taxation Reduced to Unityand Sim- THE ARTSThe Revenue 983 P ^ - ¦""¦• " j *® The Theatres 1002 Letters from Paris 083 POSTSCRIPT 989 The Hearse and the Rail 99 o Continental Notes 984 . _ -., „ . i ITFR 4 TUBE- COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSThe Anglo-American Alliance 995 PUBLIC AFFAIRS— LITERATURE General Scott ' s Chances 985 England , France , and America 990 Palissy the Potter 996 Markets , Advertisements , &c . 1003-1004
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11 The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided views ; and by setting aside the distinctions of Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great objeci > -the free development of our spiritual nature . "—Sumboldt ' s Cosmos .
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 16, 1852, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1956/page/1/
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