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LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 24.

LOUIS NAPOLEON does not pause in his course.
Many expected that his political drama would flag,
that incidents would grow rare, and passion
subside or degenerate into rant. Bat no—
come what may, Louts NAPOLEON is resolved
that his reign shall nut be tame. Every week
is to have its map rVtat or its map de maitre.
A fortnight ago M. do NIORNY made him master of
France. And M. tot MORNY in doing so avenged
the Prince of all his parliamentary enemies. It
roves not ..hough. What consolation is it to send
M. TRIER+ and (leneral CHANGARNIER into exile,
whilst those in whose interest both were,—tho
ORLEANS family—can save them hum want, and make
them comfortable in exile

LOUDI NAPOLEON confiscates at one stroke of his
pen a masa of the Ottiv-uss property. Even
their forests that escaped the auctioneers hammer of
the great resolution, are now to be swept away.
The Duke ti.%t•st tLE must sell all that he inherited
from the last CONDE ; the Duke De:
gives up the estates bought with his wife's dowry.
What I.stifte-Itof.t.tts, and Louts BLANC, and
raolfmtom respected, LOCI• 4 NAPOLEON will not
respect. Pray, aho is the communist now, who the
enemy of property. who the confiscator ?
The Express had an article yesterday evening
showing the utter incompatibility of despotism with
a state in which was concentrated great wealth.
The Thnes at the same moment was likening the
gime of Louts Naeol.Eom to that of the Roman em•
perors. The thought of both writers was that the
uncontrolled master of so wealthy a state as imperial
Rome or France in the present century, must pounce
upon property, and must have recourse to confis-
cation.

Icseteseve has begun by the highest in the
land. Can he stop there? Some of the wealthiest
capitalists in France arc noted Orleanista. If a breath,
a whim, a suspicion of Louts NAPOLEON'S be sufficient
to warrant confiscation, where is the security? Paris
in fact, by this decree, becomes completely metamor-
phased into Constantinople, not Constantinople under
the present humane SULTAN, who has abolished con-
Iscati,m, but what Turkey was under the SoLYMANS
and .V•iierrs. The tenor of the French decree
seems indeed borrowed from the Turkish ones. The
mosques are to have a principal share in the spoil.
The Janissaries are to have another. And the
SULTAN pockets the rest, under the pretence of
giving it to the hospital*. One will find all this in
any Turkish history.
We are not surpreed to find men so astute as M.
DR Mossy, and so time-serving as M. FOULD, refuse
to be pieties to each a measure. As to FOULD, he
believes, like every rational person, that the present
system cannot last, and to have his name down u
inning the first act of confiscation were too bad.
As to M. tie Mottea, he must see it to be more than
a erime,—a fault. In fact, it makes of the Princes
of OBLZees what they never were before,—martyrs.
In exile, no doubt, but still enjoying their 8,0001.
a year from this source, their 10,0001. from
that. Every looker on considered that, after all,
Lovis•Pilittere had not managed so badly, and
that the old man had feathered the twill,' nest in a
Ecunning and durable manner. Money was the
of the greet chief of the house of ORLEANS, and
divinity at least had not hitherto deserted him
or his family. As long as lioulinee and BONAPARTE
drove each other from the throne, or rather stepped
in as den as the people discarded their antagonist,
every one must have felt that this play was a mere
understanding between princely claimants to gall
plebeian multitudes. But confiscation and poverty,
proscription and murder—whether by the execu-
tioner or by the climate of Cayenne—that alters the
entire bearings of the mutter. People become interested
in princes who suffer, not in those who luxuriate in
exile. '1 he ORLEANS princes excite sympathy by be-
coming the victims of confiscation, whilst the confis-
cating prince attracts quite another sentiment by the
inveteracy with which he would deprive him rivals of
independence and income. Moreover, the ORLEANS
party wanted stirring. They were sluggish, tolerant,
and contented to abide their time. But hunger will
sharpen their ambition and their wits. Instead of
the bridge of gold that Louis NAPOLEON ought to
have made for a retreating enemy, Lofts NAPOLEON
has broken the bridge down, and thus forces his
enemy to turn and fight.
With all this we do not deny that the BONAPARTE
family were harshly treated in 1814. and much of
their property %manly and brutally confiscated. This,
however, was no act of the Oat.r.mises, but of those
legitimists whom Loins NAPOLEON flatters. Since
1813 the habits and wiles of political antagonism
have much softened. Who but Loris NAPOLEON
would have dreamed of exiling without a cause,
transporting without trial, confiscating from per-
sonal vengeance, and converting political hostility
into personal iuitagoniun ? There really is but one
thing wanting in the present arbitrary system of
French government to render it perfectly identical
with all that is must odious in French, or in any
history— and that one thing is the guillotine.
Truly at the rate that Loris NAPOLEON is going,
this maid guillotine will not long be absent from the
sine. The personal passions of the dictator, and his
craving for the excitement of new and daily violence,
can already be satisfied with nothing lees than the
ruin of his adversaries; and it seems clear that soon
even this will not satisfy him without blood.