The Express.
London, England, 1852-10-13 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, TOSIDAT E•1:41110.
The President's, I had almost said the Emptroes,
"seek, is piscarded in the streets this morning, and
repthessonds with intense interest. Although
the olloisll7 isseribed as a " great event,"
and eawsum =se am an important
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mittioto, it is that the aspect of in
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wig serve Prom ander ear title of sesame,
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board to make hinted Sapozor ow his return to
Preis.

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Several weeks ago M. Fonld, the Minister st the
State, dictated to a Council-general in a remote cor-
ner of the Hautes Pyrenees an address whisk left no
doubt of the settled purpose of the goesenment to
voestablish the empire as a revival ot an hereditary
right. Till then there were some
_grounds for sup-
posing it possible that the title of Preshbot or Em-
forpave life might have been taken by way of a
beginning. The importance, therefore, of the Bor-
deaux speech as a deitration that Louis Napoleon
will consent to accept the hereditary empire, was
anticipated by his minister of state before he set out
on his tour. It is amusing enough to find the Pre-
sident gravely telling the Bordeaux people that the
object of his tour, "as they knew," was to became
acquainted with the beautiful provinces of the
south, and representing the empire as the
collateral result of the ex 'doe, which bad
come upon. him by surprise. ' aside the bum►
parent insincerity of this mode et a state
of things brought about in parssistme of a delibe-
rately farmed plan, aided in its emessiftie by all the
immense resources of the state, the speech is able,
judicious, and in many passages eloquent. Mb de-
fence of himself against the imputation era be me-
ditates aggression upon foreign countries is singularly
happy and striking. "Glory may be bequeathed
as an inheritance, but not war," is a sentence
that will be remembered. Equally felicitous
is the assertion that " War is not made for
pleasure, but from necessity." Nothing could
be more nicely adapted to produce the intended
impression. People will readily believe that Louis
Napoleon enthroned in the Tuileries, surrounded by
flattering courtiers, and enjoying in the fullest mea-
sure the pomp and luxury so congenial to his tastes,
would not wantonly peril his position by running a
muck at Europe. The speech will be very generally
accepted as a credible declaration that, whatever the
Prince may have said or thought at the former
periods of his life, he does not now believe himself
impelled by irresistible destiny to avenge Waterloo.
When, however, ho lays down the proposition that
the " Empire is peace he arrives at the conclusion
by a process of reasoning which suggests some mis-
givings. " The empire is peace, he says, because
France desires it, aid when France is contented the
world is tranquil." The palpable fallacy of this argil-
meet is the assumption that Fran, o will long remain
contented with the bauble for which she is now
crying. It is impossible, with the history of the
last sixty years before our eyes, to admit this
I premise. There is, however, one point of view
in which it is impossible not to regard the
speech with satisfaction. It is an electioneering
address, and, whatever differences of opinion may
' exist as to the tree value of Louis Napoleon's pacific
declarations, it is a comfortable reflection, with re-
ference to the disposition of the French people, that
he finds it neommary to court popularity by an em-
phatic repudiation of a war policy, and large pro-
, mime of progress in the arts of peace.