The Express.
London, England, 1852-05-13 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY 13.

A SPE.CTACII mare grandly pieturessue than that
presented in the Champ de Manion the 10th of May,
1862, can scarcely be imagined. Fmk& thousand
soldiers, as brave and skilful as any it be world-1
so splendid as gay colours, gold, wadlerigid steel
weld make them—their horses powerful and Weir
ably trained—a hundred piing M
disk sides--usembled merely se espeurstaihiss of
lis French army, to receive iwgimental alsoiseis
indissolubly associated with the memory of the *le.
✓tes of ass who was, perhaps the greatest. certainly
the nest maudiesed general the world has ever seen.
It we the inmenades at military might in a form of
Alasnling bat Mara lissnty. The Romish church
last bar Jima theatrical effects to enhance the
sphadeße of the scene ; myriads of admiring civi-
lians envied to gaze ; foreigners as well as natives
Stand to wonder at the display. It was the triumph
of
disciplined physical force, stately and magnificent.
But what did It mean ?
The sycophants and tools of the French Pazinnzirr
are indefittigably at work to persuade Europe that
all this gay pageantry is utterly devoid of meaning.
They exclaim triumphantly, "It has gone off with-
out any result." They indulge in scornful laughter
at the expense of those who feared that this demon-
' steadies was to be but the prelude to a declaration
of war against Europe, or some part of it; or an
Zortunity to elevate the Paranmer to the im
tote po-
ser wereaoeL►mat that the '
oa P
They
lahbsosurreed
thin impede, asismnity in simple, childish love of
brilliant,semmaning parade—in aimless; ostentation.
In this they thy but a scurvy compliment to their
'biro. They confess that the display was of a kind
to warrant alarm ; and the only way in which they
esi samege that alarm is by rnpresenting their
Pitionnurr as an empty-headed, vain-glorious getter-
up of lath-dramatic shows. "It is true (they say)
that Monsieur BONAPARTE has an unlucky propensity
to play with edge-tools and gunpowder;_ but there
is no harm in him, he does not mean to do any mis-
chief." As much might be said for any ill-conditioned
school-boy, who endangers the safety of his comrades
sad dwelling-house by his amateur pyrotechnics.
The spectacle of the Champ de Mars may be as
destitute of any ulterior practical aim as the kin-
dred spectacles at Agrutr's—pt up like them merely
to please the Eight-mein public. But it is not easy
to pomade Belgium, Switzerland, and Piedmont,
who have already been the subjects of the Paul-
i:mares imperious dictation, that their independence
is quite sewed with his purely military govern-
ment—cell it republic, empire, or what you will—so
near these. And still more difficult is it to persuade
the hinds of rational liberty_ among the intelligent
sad poses-loving classes in France, that their rights
sithens are perfectly safe under one who osten-
tatiously proclaims his undivided dependence
en
the. army for the maintenance of his
power. Tot the protectors of the French Paz-
lIIMONT say what they will, the small and weak
doles on the frontier of France will later-
=his military parade into indirect threats to
yes: all free-spirited Frenchmen will under-
stand it as a warning to them to submit in quiet to
his usurped power.
Splendidomposing though the spectacle of the
10th of May was, it was empty of all moral grandeur.
It meant nothing, or it meant something wrong. At
home the Passing= tells us his whole nation are
Alighted with the semelitation he has given them;
abroad nobody seeks te Mahn with the domestic
=ts of Frames. Ilia why so ostentatiously
loyal subject. Sid losing allies of the
stenrishidming physical fateribs MR wield spinet
Wins
Tbs truth is that all the world sees, and the Piz-
'gin= feels that all the weal semi the delesolirs-
dna of the 10th of May is beers been a env ass
—a losk is tbs pea. It en the innegneatisa riel
grew
her not final to coon The French
sawed, the evesseidee beaters of
=ce hasbeen athanald to en itmtly aiadow, the
French meats of law we i>•p.. y told to take
their we tem the Parazonsta nominee Council
et fits* tizesr at From is placed at his
absolute &malt_ he is surrounded
by one of the sad bat isdplined armies in
the world, he is an sower, an autocrat in every-
thing but in nuns; sad yet he feels to assume
the name would be to hazard the immediate
dissolution of all his seeming power. He has
got posesesion of the throne and diadem of France,
bet upon candidon that he is never to use
think as the
.daughters of the Vicar of Wakefield
had each a guinea in her pocket upon condition that
she was never to change it. He stands like an im-
pure "kit on the verge of a charmed circle which ho
impotent to enter. He trembles before that very
public opinion which he would fain persuade himself
he has bound in indissoluble chains. He recoils from
the danger which he knows would await upon his
fril= the crown that lies within his grasp. He
e
from the empty triumph to curse the pol-
troonery which forbade him to turn the splendid
thew to the account for which he got it up,
The first of May, 1861, presented to the gaze of
the Queen of ENGLAND celebrating the
triumph of industry, safe amid thronging
aaltitades, with a body guard for ornament, not
us; the 10th of May, 1862, presented to the gaze of
Barone the Dictator of France, hedged in by
an imposing, seemingly irresistible military array,
yet not dozing to provoke the French na-
ties by assuming the title which has been
life the one dream of his ambition.
tTliriritnglish festival was prophetic of that
enduring stability of legal order which is
ranteed by respect for public liberty; the French
festival, the insecurity, the constant alarms which are
the consequences of usurped despotic power. The
triumphant display of the Champ de Mars is felt to
be as ephemeral as the score of similar triumphs
which have preceded it in the same locality since
1789. It was meant to deter the friends of parlia-
mentary government in France from reviving the
struggle for their liberties. The PRESIDENT was
surrounded by the military power of France, but he
thought of the majority of the late Assembly, of all
the literary and scientific distinctions of France, of
all that is respected and respectable in its social
circles, of its aggregate bench and bar, standing
aloof in cold, silent, irreconcilable aversion to him
and he shrank from proclaiming in word;
what he would fain persuade himself be is in fact.
He deferred his coresadon sibs die.

NATIONAL Ilocirrw.--thi Tuesday morning, •
valuable testimonial was presented to theltay. A. Wawa,
A.M., Principal of the Westminster Training Institution.,
The testimonial was a massive silver epergne, loaded with
choirs flowers, and the presentation was made in the name
of the austere and miatromes trained in the Westminster
Institution.
RAILWAY OMNIBUS EXTRENIES.—The Groat
Western Railway have established, in commaion with all
their trains, *sprees omnibuses that convey warmers end
their I atßytetram Paddington to the City without stop.'
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