The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-08-30 00:00:00

FRANCE AND CHINA.

ONE of the ideas of the Great Napoleon was
that, when France was satisfied, Europe was

tranquil. By her geographical positio-n, the
energy of her people, the genial nature of
her climate, and the fertility of her soil,
France, in the o-pin'.on of the First .consul,
was entitled..to.be considered the arbiter of
the Continent. It was the carrying out of
this notion v.,hieh accounted for the extra-
--ordinary popularity-, of the Napoleonic
legend. It survived even the crowning de-
feat of Waterloo. Its exponent, originally a
corporal in the army, was enabled through
its practical execution to raise himself to the
Imperial purple, and to occupy the palaces
, of a long line of kings -who had preached the
doctrine of legitimacy and Divine rights for
centuries. The military glory of France
under the First Empire was such as the
country had never before witnessed, and
thoroughly appealed to the vanity of a glory-
loving people. The story is told in the in-
scriptions. on the Arc de Triomphe or on the
Vendome Column. NaNeon's bedy was
buried in peace at St. Belem, ; but his name
wilt-H,- evermore in ihe histery of Fiance.
After his downfall, iffilf a generation was
quite enough of the restored Bourbons.
When Chaties X. was dethroned in 1830,
the Crowit was given to the head of the
Orleans branch of the reigning family ; but
this would hot do either, at all events for
long. Louis Phillippe bad been king et
France ten years when he, through his Min-
isters, applied to - the British Government
for permission to remove the remains of
Napoleon Ilona St. Helena to Paris. It was
carried out with 4il the surroundings of a
grand military pageant. , For a quarter of a
century the Napoltbnic worship had
slumbered and slept. .It was now revived.
The bones of the great conqueror were -
placed in the Invalides, and the very fact of
Napoleon's body being in Paris resuscitated
the old t.ffection for his i ame. hi a few,
years Louis Phillipp. was driven from the
throne, as Charles X. had been before him,
and after a brief experiment with a Republic,
a Napoleon NvPs once more swaying the
destinies of a powerful rnpire.
apoleon the Third began his reign with
the remarkable declaration at Bordeahx,
"The .Empire is peace !" But how was it at
1, all pcssible for peace to he in harmony with
Bonapartist traditions and policy? It was
a political -,)aradox. The world had not long
to wait before it had a practical illustration
of What was meant by the Emperor saying
that peace was to reign. First came the
war witli Russia, in which France was joined
by England, Turkey, and Sardinia. Mr.
Kinglake has told us how when England
was putting forth her resources after the
capture of Sebastopol for the prosecution of
the war with renewed vigour, France,
through her Emperor, found it more con-
venient to make peace. The prominent part
which the French had taken in the final
assault. upon the famous , fortress, enabled
113 Emperor t size this fa courable op-
perturii,..y of closing the war while toe
memory f Sebstopoi was still fresh. Here
was a land victoy of very
.consideiable int-
i-ortialce ; Lu ld he war gone (41 England
might nalur.:Hy have expected some results
to toltow from the opeiations of the mighty
fleets which she had despatched to the
Baltic and Black Sea. But it pleased the
Emperor to make peace, and the Treaty was
signed in his own capital. Next, France
made war upon Austria; and after an
alloitive effort to ettablish art Empire in
Mexico, the Emperor rush( d into hos,tilitles
with Gel many, and we all know the result.
It was 1-vsnined that with the exile of the
Emper3r and the dethroremeiA of his
dynasty, Fiance would have subsised into
peace alter the terrible lessons received
at the hands of the German
a3my. We all know how this expectation has
botn fulfilled. France is no tome at rest
under a Republic than she was under the
Lmpire. The Napoleons are banished, and
die on a foreign soil ; but the evil seed which
they have sown increases by thirty, sixty,
and a hundred fold. France, in the wer..s
of M. Ferry, her Prime Minister, is anxious
to tstablish a great colonial empire, and ap-
parently is not very particular who stiffet
in the operation. Her attentions are paid
now to Tunis, then to Mad-tga§car, and again
to China. With a choice of continents for
the Scene o% her operations, France still
presents the spectacle of a great people act-
ing as a disturbing influence amongst the
nations of the earth.

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