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LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 29.

Ws have given our frank opinion of the manure
confiscating the property of the Delmore family.
harsh, precipitate, and unjust in itself. it was even
sore alarming by the spirit of vindictiveress and the
defiance of decorum which it evinced in the French
government. But, adhering to all this, we must say
that the confiscation of the ORLEANS property is a
touch leas heinous crime than the confiscation of the
constitutional liberties of a whole nation.
Yet there are Frenchmen of eminence and good
sense, and pretenders to consistency, who accepted
with content and hailed with satisection LOUIS NA-
POLEON'S ,r,bit of the 2nd of December, nay,
who made neither protest nor objection to the aseump-
lion of a dictatorship, announced in the decrees
which followed it, and yet who, after having swal-
lowed all this, cannot endure the severity of confis-
cating the property of the exiled princes.
However we may agree with there persons in con-
demning the confiscation, we must confess to have
very little rtspect for either their principle* or their
common sense. The men who are ready to how
down before absolute power, and applaud in setting
it up. must be mere children to complain or protest
against what is but the natural consequence of abso-
lute power. To act a prince above all law and then
expect him to observe the law, to endow him with
unlimited authority and suppose that he will not use
it, to encircle the brows of a TiREIIIVII with an im-
perial crown and then affect disappointment at
not finding him • Taiiiste, evinces con-
duct and calculation more worthy of children
than of men. Yet such has been the conduct not
meetly tat M. tie -Movie and M. FOUL% but of M.
Dims. Count NIONTALEMBERY, and Count FLA-
HAVIr. To disinherit France of its liberties, cancel
its constitution, quash the press, gag private society,
and compel the people by bayonets and jugglery to
give a muck vote for the dictatorship of an indi-
vidual. all this was nothing. But to seize the
appanage of ORLEANS was sacrilege.
It Resew), too, that those who, as ministers, would
not sign, or as functionaries could not sanction, the
decree of confiscation, can still make up their minds
to sit in Lout:. NAPOLEON's senate. DUPES and
Fore!) are there, we see, and the PRE.SIDENT can
grant them the same salaries. The Constantionnel,
indeed, compliments that discreet and useful class of
ministers who have but to retire from office in order
to allow any bold or obnoxious measure to
be signed and passed, and who readily resume
office the day after, as if they were thus
utterly freed from complaints, and not precluded, by
having joined the Biestesere spoliation, from be-
coming ministers of the despoiled princes on the day
of their restoration. Such a taint on the government
by the journal of Louts NAPOLEON must prove highly
tattering to Senator FOULD and Senator DVPIN.
It is a lame list, this same Senate of princely
selection. Except Daoexs 1)x LIIUYS, it does not
contain a statesman. It does not comprise a man
capable of making a speech save Deets. But he to
be sure counts for two, as he can check on both sides.
There arc the old BONAPARTE names, the wearers of
which could scarcely refuse to form part of the Im-
perial Senate. Although they bring no strength to
it, there is a sprinkling of legitimists, generals, and
admirals in abundance. But as pretending to repre-
sent the birth, wealth, eminence, or intellect of
France, Louis NAPOLEON'S Senate is a mockery, a
mere string of courtiers.
The Council of State is poorer in its composition
than even the Senate. Feathers and stars may sup-
ply the place of brains in the one. But the Coun-
cil of State is the working department of the govern-
ment. And in it there is in truth not one name in

which the country could put trust. FERDINAND
BARROT, however, is on the list. So are JenVIER
and MICHEL CUF.VALIER, each and all with their
I,OOW. a year. At such a price Loris Nseoteos
ought to have made up a much better C.numil of
State, instead of paying, as ho does, dearly for nul-
lities and cyphers.
A measure of the government, certainly of no less
import than the organisation of such of the higher
class as adhere to it, as a Senate and a Council of
State, is the order of the police minister, forbidding
co-operative associations. Whatever opinion may be
theoretically held on the subject of artisans working
together, and doing without a middle man or an em-
ployer, there can be no doubt of the legal and social
right of every working man to do this, if he can find
capital. And, in fact, by the very act of coopera-
tion the artisan becomes a capitalist. For
what is capital but accumulated provision
and material ? But, independent of the right
of workmen to form co-operative societies,
there is the fact of their having accomplished them
not only with success as industrial speculations,
but also with advantage to the public tranquillity,
for the united tradostolk in Paris and the great
cities have notoriously kept aloof Irons political
movements, and even remained silent on the great
questions of the day. But the arbitrary police of the
new regime will not allow operatives to work to-
gether no more than gentlemen and ladies to talk
together, unless it be praise of Louis Nseoteos.
The co-operative societies are ordered to be broken
up, and each artisan is bidden to go find and work
for a master.
This is the government that was to do so much for
the working classes,--that was to give them what
the constitutional monarchy and the republic both
tailed in giving. This was the dictator that was to
eat down the tall poppies, but to add verdure to each
humble blade of grass. But it is now difilcult toss y
what class of society is most ground, most aggrieved
moat harassed, by this übiquitous, jealous, and
nervous tyranny, that trembles at every breath, and
strikes at every shadow • that issues a decree against
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evening party of ladies for talking, which for-
bids men of letters to write, and which moves heaven
sad earth to prevent a score of tailors from cutting
and stitching in community unless under the eye of a
muter.
There are some twelve or some twenty accredited
stockbrokers in Paris. None others can buy or selL
These places are purchased, and a man embarks his
fortune in them. It was signified to them gen-
tlemen that they must not dare to sell stock under
certain prices. For if they did, they would have
the next day a score added to their number, thus
destroying their position, tartans, and prospects. Of
course the French funds of hate have gone up, and
could not go down. It is the suss with everything.
In every department of goverment, of industry, and
of society, is seen the bold unscrupulous hand of ir-
responsible power, persecuting, menacing, concealing,
robbing. making slaves and puppets of high and low,
and literally trying to what point of degradation the
French people may be compressed, and how far their
patience may bear the most criminal and fatuous
tyranny.

WIIERY is a French army of fifty thousand men to
land ? " A Soldier " in our coluums yesterday.
At a distance of twenty.two miles from Calais there
is a small ■pot on our shore, which is generally
known by the name of Dover. In former days,
when our ancestors were men of mettle, and when
Kings of England invaded France sea royal pastime,
Dover was considered a port of great importance. i
There was a very ge wral feeling that if it was so
easy toga from Dover to Calais it might be just as
easy to go from Calais to 1)over; and conseiuently,
Dover was defended by a royal fortress, and formed
one of the Cinque Ports. Again, during the
preparations made at Boulogne in P 404,
splendid works were made on the Cliffs of
Dover, which command the town, and a
military road was constructed there. But of late
year+, our government, with its usual discrimination,
thought it necessary to cconomive,—not by reducing
official salaries and by displacing unnecessary place-
men, but by letting our forts he turned into griming
grounds, and our batteries become useless from want
of due cure. And now let us see what Dover iv sup-
posed to be. and what Dover actually is. Ordnance
maps and plans tell us that as you enter the harbour,
a fort, known by the name of Archcliff, commands the
entrance; that the castle is strongly fortified, and