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London, England, 1863-10-09 00:00:00

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LONDON, PRIDA Y, OCTOBER 9.

Tee design attributed to the Emperor NAPotuo:v
of taking possession of Texas under cover of some
agreement with Mr. JEFFERSON DAVIS, may exist
only in the imagination of American writers. But
there is no doubt that any prospect of the founda-
tion of an attractive colony in the Now World
would be applauded by a few Frenchmen of •
higher order than those who usually support the
EMPEROR'S schemes. Before M. MICHEL CHEVA-
LIER, French writers had begun to deplore the un-
willingness of their countrymen to go boldly out
into the world and do something better than fight-
ing for the honour of France. But in vain.
Thirty years ago a territory was acquired and a
colony founded at the very gates of France, in the
hope of extending French civilization in North
Africa. It was one of the moetfertilecountries in the
world, the granary of ancient Italy. But Algeria has
notably failed to draw out the peaceful energy and
enterprise of its conquerors. In 1854 the number
of emigrants from France to Algeria was only 7,684,
in 1855 it was 9,802, and since then it has steadily
declined. Nor has the colony proved more attractive
to settlers of other nations, although as much as
70,000,000/. sterling have been expended in deve-
loping its resources. The European population of
Algeria at this time numbers only 170,000 persons,
of whom 60 per cent. are Frenchmen, 24 Spaniards,
5 Italians, and 3 Germans. If instead of taking
a single colony we look at the general emigration
from France, we find the same indisposition to
remove from the native soil. In 1852, when
368,000 emigrants left our shores, the total emi-
gration from France was under 10,000. In
1858 the number of our emigrants had fallen to
113,000, bat even then it exceeded by 100,000
the number of emigrants from France.
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There must be a cause for this reluctance to
profit by the immense advantages which emigra-
tion offers to a people so industrious as the French,
and 90 addicted to the culture of the soil. The
great motive force of emigration in modern times
is a desire to advance in the conditions of material
well-being. It is this which impels hundreds of
thousands of our people to cross the ocean every
year. The desire must exist in equal intensity in
France, where labour is neither more abundant
nor better rewarded than it is here, and where
population has come to a stand, while that of
England increases from census to census. The
reason which French writers love to assign is the
want of some eligible colony. Belgium and Italy
'supply the countries of the Plate River and same
of the States of the American Union with smignorts
who, like the Germans in the United States, form
little communities, in which they preserve the
manners and customs of their native land. But a
Frenchman, it is said, cannot live under any other,
flag than that of his country. It is a feeling to be
respected, and no doubt has its influence in de-
terring from emigration. But it would not., we
may be sere, altogether repress the energies of a
people who had any decided aptitude for colonial
life. We are an intensely national and also a co-
looking people, but even we send more emigrants
to one foreign State than to all our colonies taken
together. A profounder cause of the phenomenon
nay be found in the habit of thought and life
which the successive Governments of P'renos,

Royal, Republican, and Imperial, have cultivated
for generation after generation. We are a colo-
nizing people because, happily, all our institutions
tend to make us a self-helping people. We never
ask • Government to do for us what we can do for
ourselves. We have valued the faculty of self-
kelp, and therefore we poems it in a high degree.
Had we listened to the teachings of hero-wor-
shippers who extol the superior organisation of
despotism, and can see nothing to admire in the
free unfolding of national energies, we should
have been ea helpless as Anne of our neighbours.
The French are not, and cannot for • long time
become a colonizing people, because from their
cradle they are taught and trained to look for the
guidance of authority. They are not a self-
governing people. They have been accustomed to
tutelage, and they expect and need it. The found-
ers of the American. States were trainedin the school
of free institutions and mimicipal government, and
an acquired that h►bit of thinking and acting for
themselves, which one of the greatest of French
political writers has said is indispensable in a new
country, where sumer depends before all things
upon the individual exertions of the settlers. It
is to the individuality of the Anglo-Saxon that
America owes her astonishing success. But the
institutions of France appear to have been ex-
pressly devised to prevent the free play of indivi-1
dual forces, and in the end to dentroy them.
Moirresotrisu has said, "Les pays soot cnitivis
" non en raison de lour fertnite main en raison de
" leur liberty." Free countries attract the
emigrant, and where the municipal system with
civil and religious liberty is found, there
strong communities grow up. But these are not
things which French Governments have cultivated.
And as for the Second Empire, it is not likely to
surpass in the department of colonial administra-
tion the great feat by which it gave so signal an
impulse to the population of Guiana in 1852.

A HARD electoral battle has been fought at
Coventry for Mr. Emies's vacant seat. Both
parties claim the victory, Mr. Arnim Pria.'s
Committee quoting • majority of 7, and Mr.
MORGAN TREHLIINZ'S • majority of 147, for their
respective candidate.. If Mr. Tanneszs is really
returned, the proceedings of the House of Com-
mons may again be enlivened by some of the
originality and vivacity which have been wanting
in them since the days of the lamented 81/STIVIM
Although put forward by the Conservative party,
Mr. TMEILNE is not • Conservative. It is his
pleasure to describe himself as an "unmitigated
"Tory." As such he contested the borough before
the paring of the Reform Bill ; he has been
doing it ever since, and he boasts that his opinions
are now what they were in the fine old days
when his followers marched under the blue
banners of " Chnrch and King." The reports
of the canvass and election speeches in
the local journals show ns that " the party "I

has this time got a representative of
strong individuality. Mr. TssWEENE prod
fesses a " thorough and hearty detestation of
" Whip," which he sometimes expresses strongly,
and sometimes in a delicate manner. " Every-
" body and everything about him appeared to
" hate Whiggery. He had a parrot at home
" which cried, ' Damn the Whip ;' and although
" he should be very sorry to use such language
" himself—even if he did express himself strongly
" sometimes—he could not say that his feelings
" towards the Whip were more friendly than
" those of his parrot." But Mr. THRIIERSE dis-
dains to stick at words ; he is • man of action.
Last Saturday he told his followers—" He was
"an old man, but ho could fight a blow or two
" yet, and he never intended to desert his friends.
" He should be very sorry if such interruptions
" were given to them as to render it necessary for
" him to take his place side by side by them ; but
" if the necessity arose he hoped that two of them
" would take and hold him so as not to interrupt
" the action of his arm, but to keep him on his
" legs as long as he was able to strike • blow."
Clearly Mr. PEEL, who neither keeps • parrot nor
challenges his opponents to • fight, met his adver-
s►ry at a great disadvantage. Mr. TREHERNE'S
battle-horse was the French Treaty, which has
"ruined Coventry." He belongs to thatschoolwhich
used to set up toll-gates on all the highways of
commerce. Three years ago we pulled down the gate
on our side of the road to France, and so far made
communication and exchange easier. Mr. Tim-
HERNE tells the Coventry people that this is wrong,
and that if we cannot have the road with no gate
at all, we had better have two gates and double
tolls. He does not mind telling the weavers that
they were robbed when the ribbon-wearers at last
got leave to lay out their money where they could
get the ribbons they liked best. This is the kyle
of politician who succeeds to the seat of the great
manager of the Liberal party. It is a pity that
the representation of an important borough like
Coventry should fall into the hands of a Monomr
• TRERESNE, but it is not surprising. What can
we expect but that the constituencies will go off
wildly upon Wee issues of all kinds, when the
leaders of the Liberal party proclaim that there is
nothing worth fighting for but their own precious
selves f