The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-10-28 00:00:00

PRANCE AND THE EX-EMPEROR.

When the illustrious exile, who now for the
first tinny Suds safety and shelter in England,
was on the throne of France, his utterances
were .I.lways received with consideration for their
importance, whatever views might be entertained
of the policy of the Sovereign. Whether the
Emperor declared his opinions through the me-
dium of the official .11.mifrut, whether he gave
utterance to them in a speech on opening Par-
liament, or whether he announced them in any
other way, his utterances were always carefully
examined throughout Europe. These Napole-
onic utterances were frequently very difficult of
interpretation, but they always exercised more
or less influence on European politics.
Putting aside for a moment the reign of Na-
poleon over France, he is a man of such ex-
tended experience and of such acute intellect,
that any of his opinions, deliberately expressed,
are worthy of consideration. But, hearing in
mind the position which he so long occupied,
the height from which he has fallen, and the
inany influential friends who must still cling to
him in the time of his adversity, the last of his
utterances are of special importance. The Times
states that it has received, from a trustworthy
source, an account of a conversation just held
between the Emperor Napoleon and an inform-
ant who is authorised to publish the statement.
The exact words of this statement are given in
the original, so that there can be no mistake as
to the views expressed, so far as the speaker
chooses to place them on record. These state-
ments and opinions therefore deserve attention.
The Imperial speaker commences by emphati-
cally expressing his disbelief in the assertion
that the Bonapartists are conspiring. It is only
parties, he says, who feel themselves in a mino-
rity in the country who have recourse to under-
hand or oscult tiro'breii r practices. " For him-
self," he says, "remembering that he has been
twenty-three years at the head of a great nation,
he preserves the sentiment of his dignity, the
conviction of his rights, and casts away froiu
him the low intrigues which degrade those who
have recourse to them." The further assuran-
ces which the Emperor gives that he himself is
making no efforts towards the restoration, that
he relies on the justice of the French people,
and that he is resigned to his fate whatever may
be the decrees of Providence, cannot but have a
beneficial effect both here and in France, more
especially as the Emperor adopts the attitude of
merely waiting and watching as that which is
most likely ultimately to promote his cause."
" All agitation," he says„' to attempt the re-es-
tablishment of the Imperial rogime would only
retard the moral reaction which has already
commenced." If the Imperial speaker is to be
believed—and we do not know why in this in.
stance he should not be—these assertions are
certainly of a reassuring character. It may be
that he knows more of the alleged moral reac-
tion than the public of England or of France
can know, but it is at least consolatory to learn
that he is content to rely on this moral reaction
and that he repudiates all conspiracy to take-
advantage of this reaction. Opinions differ as
to the condition of France under Imperial rule
and as to her present position under a Republi-
can form of government. Some maintain that
France was never so well governed as by the
now fallen Ereperer, and that the existing ;state
ef things is only transitional, and that a Mon-
archy or an Empire must follow. The distin-
guished exile ot Chiselhurst doubtless has his
own views on the mutter, and though he repudi-
ates conspiracy and professes to be resigned to
his fate, it may be that he confidently expects
that this fate will be the restoration of the Em-
pire, either in his own person or in that of his
sou, with the Empress as Regent during the
minority of the Prince. But be this as it may,
we are at least glad to find so emphatic a repu-
diation of Napoleonic conspiracies, which conies
at a peculiarly appropriate moment in view of
Prince Napoleon's trip to Corsica. Amongst
other results this manifesto will tend to curb the
over-zeal of some of the ex-Emperor's friends.
He tells them, almost in so many words, that
plots and conspiracies will be of no avail, and
that the only advisable course is to wait for lied
trust in that reaction in which he professes to
believe. •• strong iu my own conscience," he
says, "I restrain the impatience of some, and
despise the treachery and insult of others."
This allusion to impatience is somewhat signiti.
cant, and it looks as if some of the Bonapartists
at least qee conspiring; but if it be au, such con-
spiracy at all events meets with no sanction or
support from the dethroned monarch in whose
interest, it is to be presumed, any such conspi-
racy would be entered upon. But whatever
construction may be put upon the Emperor's
words, one of his utterances is beyond dispute.
"France,' he says, " needs repose to enable her
to recover from her disasters." Never was a
truer word spoken, and never more opportunely,
considering the source from whence it emanates.
There can be little doubt that throughout the
Imperial declaration thu desire of the speaker
was to repress, at least for the present, any inju-
dicious outbreak or agitation on the part of his
adherents, and if this declaration of policy have
the desired effect, Europe will be the gainer,
whatever turn events may take in the future of
France.

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LATEST NEWS.

PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEIRAMS.

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FOREION NEWS.

FRANCE.

PARIS, Thursday.

Prince Napoleon left Corsica yesterday for
Italy. He has I...signed the membership hi
the Connell Croneral.

SPAIN.

MADRID, Thursday.

Important comninideations sre expected to be
matle loy Senor Nocedtd, with regard to the
Carlist movement

AMERICA. •
NEW YORK, Thursday.

A civil snit against Tweed. has been Cool-
meneed by O'Connor, on behalf of the citizens
of New York.

- - According to Messrs. Moffatt, David, and
Co.'s report, to-day's receipts of cotton at all
United States ports have been 16,000 bales.
Boma, Thursday.

The Cunard Steamer Samaria, arrived here at
3 p.m. to-day.

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SHIPPING NEWS.

PLYMOUTH, Friday.
The Ilaunnonia, from New York, arrived here
at 8.30 &M., to-day.
The Elbe arrived her at noon.

QUEENSTOWN, Friday.
The Queen arrived last night from Liverpool,
and proceeded this morning for New York.

tiENERAL NEWS.