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London, England, 1851-10-22 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22.

WITII all deference to theablewriterof acommuni-
cation, published in our yesterday's paper, it is too much
to expect of Louts NeetebLost that he should be a
WASHINGTON. lam royalist," said the liberal
imam 11., "it is my profession." So may say
Lore; Naroteost. lie was ban a Prince, and
cannot inept the ideas and traditions of his family,
even if he had no friends and no party to remind him
of them. And, undoubtedly, what recommended
him to the French electors, whether of the millions,
or the hundreds, was the name that he inherited,
and the power that might be made out of it. The
upper classes
ence tole% MARTINI., because the latter would not turn
tn-achc mushy upon Ltatut•-ltot tie, and to Csvatee Nac,
because that general refused to bind himself to
a policy of reaction. They chose Louts NAPOLEON
as the hest man to put down socialism and the
republic. The masses, on the other hand, gate
Loris N %mese.; their voicem, because their
hustinet told them, that he could not agree with
the men of the recent dynasties, whose principle
had ever been that of conliscsting popular liberties.
In this selection of the same candidate by opposite
parties, there was but one thing upon which both
fully agreed, which was, that the princely character
and name of the new President formed a genuine
and active source of power.
All the parties, therefore, who chase Loris NA-
rot.' ~s, were untrue to the great principles of re-
publicanism. The first law of the genuine republic
should have been an equal measure of exile dealt
upon the three royal races, and their ineligibility
even to seats in the legislature. Had the American
barks' chosen for their president any younger brother
of Ornitt.r. 111., who might have shown him-
*elf favourable in parliament to the American cause,
who could have believed in their sincere republi-
canism?
Thu present miserable state of France proceeds
from the re being no principle in the country, and
fmin no one's acting even upon the princi-
ple he profess. There are legitimists and
champions of divine right, who despairing of forcing
HENRY V upon the country, give their votes
to Louts N yoretest one election, and his per-
sonal foe VII ter, MOM the next ; the Orleanists, or
constitutional monarehiste, am they call themselves,
have lace running about like a elapnum in a market,
offering their intim nee for sale. As the legitimists
wont to arrive at the restoration of HENRY V.
through a general disturbance, the Orleanists
ark to arrive at Heaven knows what, but
certainly not a republic., by the election of the Prince
be Jot N VILLE. Then there are tiocialiets, who would
do all in their power to establish the preslominatice
of their idea, which would he impassible witheut a
dictatorship; and they would very readily igo that
auti•republieten length.
Now.. how was it to be expected that Louts NA.
PoLION, chosen president precisely Imam* he wax a
prince, should be a sincere repuhlican in a country
where neither the upper nor lower classes are true
republicans, and where the middle classes are pro-
foundly indifferent and unsettled. How can there
be principle in a country, in which almost every
public• man says one thing one day, and another thing
the. next ; and where the most honest politi-
cal elearacters have been turbulent under the
monarchy till they meet it and conspi-
nth" under the republic. Nor is tergiversa-
tion maim. Ito the great division of monarchy and
republic. M. Tens:its wrote smile of the volumes of
his able history in a style adoring Nattoteoe ; he
has written the last to vilipend Neeoteos and to
fling dirt mien the. Empire. Is M. Manor a mon-
archist, who opal Lewis Pitimere ? Is he republi-
can, that sanetioned the l'orr'y restoration by
bayonets? Ideas lose their distinction and words
their value in such a political hotchpotch. Philoso-
phy is inapplicable to ; and the precedents of other
personages and other times suit, none of them,
the present state of I:ranee and of the French.
The fuult that we have fecund with LovisN teOLEON,
is not that ho strives to be re-elected and to per-
petuate his power, but that he has been fool enough
to imagine that he could accomplish such an
end by means of the legitinusta and re-
actionaries of all kinds. During the three years
which have elapsed, France had a solemn
duty, to establish its own liberties, independently
of any form of government, and to lend its support
to the party at least of progress in Europe. France
under Lot is N erm.t.os has done neither of these
thing*. The greatest contempt has been shown fur
individual liberty, and the foreign policy of France is
Shown at present by the close affiance and identity
of the Austrian anti French police.
Tlw progress of Frame at home, and its salutary 11
influents: übructd, are in our opinion of fur more int-
portanee than the question of monarchy and repub-
lic. 'the' one, as we see. may be as tyrannical and
retrograde as the other. With respect to the chances
of duration and the probable solidity of each eystent
of government, we should sty, that a restored mo-
narchy under a Routine's,. or a red republic under
CARNOT, would have either of them small chance of
lasting "tutees& Both would have to contend
with a minority too formidable to be kept
down by anything but tyranny, which might
either be popular or military, equally bad both of
them, and equally insecure. 'Nothing but a compro-
mise is possible ; and the best compromise is, perhaps
that of Leet•is N tr4)LEON confiding in, and supported
by. constitutional republicunism.
• It is said that NAPOLEON has come round to
to this conviction; unfortunately he has lost
precious years in beating round the po-
litical centimes; he has, with a fatuity that
might be tolled itifantine, were it not critnineti, shun-
dotted power without an effort into the hands of the
reset' ts. Hy this he sought to conciliate them,
when in truth he did but earn their contempt. lie now
fairly reaps what he has sown. Audio his embarrass-
ment he may very probably be able to do nothing more
than fall into Hie hands that have made use of him
for very retrograde purposes. and who no homer con-
ceal their determination to discard and crush him.
Should Lorry NAPOLEON, however, succeed in
attaching to his ministry and rallying round his
cause, thorough liberals tike BILIAU LT ; should he
speak in plain and sincere. language to the people
of France, late as this comes it may make an im-
ply...dun; it may re-kindle hopes in the guidance of
him who inherits the name., and the convictions, and
the teudencies of the great Neitoteose. Measures in
consonance with such declarations such as the repeal
of odious elective resstrictiems, the cessation of
persecutions of the press, and a new respect for the
lib ertiesof Frenchmen impressed upon police and law
authorities—theee may redeem the character of
the PRESIIWENT. It will never, indeed, give him
the confidence and support of the Boefttiox par-
ties, but three-fourths of the people arc opposed to
these. and Lot's NAPOLEON may perhaps captivate
their suffrages.ated legally obtain the reversal of that
prospective attainder 'A hieh forbids his appealing to
them.
All this may be; but we must admit that, even ia
sketching such a picture, we have but small hopes
of string it realised.

THE ccmstitution of California appears to be a
modification of that which has been adopted b}• the
other states of the .►merican Union--a " seedling
variety" ay horticulturists describe a new species of
tree or shrub. In all the rest of the states the people,
after appointing governors or other extvutivc officers,
have respected and obeyed the wurk of their own
Lands ; in California they treat them u cavalierly as
they could kings or princes claiming to rule over
them by right divine. To the west of the Rocky