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London, England, 1852-04-30 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 30.

THE French PRESIDENT will allow no fetters to bo
imposed on his absolute will b 7 the law or its tri-
bunals. The Tribunal of the Seine having welled
its jurisdiction in the questions arising out of the
ORLEANS confiscation, the PnEstnEsr has submitted
the ease to his Council of State. Ile withdraws it
from the judgment of a court which must regulate its
decisions by strict known maxims of law, and which
inquires, reasons, pronounces judgment in public, and
he submits it to men who will decide according to their
own vague arbitrary notions of policy—who hold
their appointments at his pleasure—and who are
shielded from public censure by the secresy of their
proceedings.
Even under the old arbitrary monarchy of France
the violation of judicial inch pendency by a resort to
a " lit dejusticewas an event as rare as it was
perilous to the perpetrator. Such violation of
judicial independence is avowedly a general rule of
action under the constitution set up by the
PRESIDENT. Since the era of the Reformation
the independence of the courts of law has—in theory
at least—been respected by every European govern-
ment ; in modern France it is to be systematically
trodden under foot. Frenchmen have now less se-
curity for the safety of their persons and propertie,
than Englishmen under lIENRT VIII. or CHARLES 1.,
than Prussians under FREI/ERIC THE GREAT. They
are reduced to a level with the subjects of those
Oriental despotisms in which the word of the sove-
reign is law. The French PRESIDENT is resolved to
rule upon JACK CADE'S principle—all the laws of
France are to come out of his mouth.

The appeal against the competence of the courts of
law to entertain questions arising out of the confis-
cation of the ORLEANS property, was presented to the
Council of State by the Proeureur-General on Mon-
day afternoon. Next morning was published in the
Moniteur the report of Colonel KSPINIIBBE, one of
the comet l- ners sent into the provinces to revise
the of the ital commissions. Col.

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Eartaassx—who it will be remembered com-
manded on the morning of the 2nd of December
the soldiers who took possession of the le-
gislative palace—tells the PRESIDENT in this
report that government have been dealing far too
leniently with their political opponents. The mixed
commissions, he says, " have only committed the
fault at an excess of leniency." " The individual
pardons," be adds, " which you have already granted,
mosesigneur, have in general produced a bad impair-
ion in the country." The affected independence
which remonstrates thus with a master is perfectly
sadentood : it is an old trick of the courtier to tell
the object of his flattery magnanimously that he is
patting too much control on his inclinations, pre-
.ring the interests of others to his own. The pub-
lication of Colonel Eseixassx's report is preparatory
to the withdrawal of the hollow professions lately
made by the PRESIDENT that he was about to abate
the rigours of his ecercion. It is a declaration that
the reign of terror is to bo prolonged in France—a
enwiemsen that only by terrorism can the PRESIDENT
uphold his power in France ; and it is promulgated
immediately after a legal tribunal has declared its
determination to assert the authority of the law even
Ia opposition to the wishes and commands of the
PRESIDENT. These are the natural sad necessary
fruits of the coup d'elat of 2nd December.