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LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 10.

Iv ever chief or sovereign had an excuse for quarrel-
ing with and defyieg a body of troublesome cennsel•
lore, imiwesed upon him by the state, LOUIS NAPOLEON
has certainly that excuse; for never, esrtainly, were
a set of politicians so inveterate, and impracticable,
and inconsistent, so unable to sgree amongst them-
*elver or govern by thi motives, and yet at the same
time so determined to let no one else govern, as that
cola c' ion of totables who constitute the par:earner tar;
majority in Paris, and who are and were the leaders
of opinion in influential and general society.
'lbis knot of politicians lent their utmost efforts to
placing Lows Neeoetos where he is. They did so
avowedly in their own interest,. For, first of ell,
they offered the presidency to General teveweaC,
and w( uld have supported and carried his election,
setting at the same time Lows Neewetoe aside, had
General eAVAIGNAC consented to conditions, and
given assurance" that he would govern by the advice
of the professional politicians, and not by the counsels
of republeane, however m•vderate. General revale•
NAP woul make no such promise, and the parliamen-
tary notable-. flung their influence into ,the scale of
Louie Nerettroe.
What has he done since to disoblige them? He
offend them the government personally if they would
have it; hut M. BERRTER, the legitimist, and M.
Tutus, the Grleanist, could not in decency be minis-
ter, t the republic. Tney not socering, Louis
NA V.. 1 gave office and power to men most accept-
able in these parliamentary magnates, whilst his
policy, f (reign and domestic, has been in direct ae-
corditece with the most retrograde and ultra-conserva-
tive policy. The preen has been pot under severer
reetreeion than in the time of Lusts PHILIPPE its
orgars of any spirit ruined by fine, their editors
by proscription aid imprisonment, whilst even
the conservative press his been rednetd to nul-
lity by the individual signature. The popular
▪ ..as teen crippled Go vi at
least one third of the voters. Education has been
given op to the clergy, arid everything that EL, poS-
sibls done to deste y municipal independence. In
foreign policy Lowe NAPOLEON consented to sUow
his generals to play the part of Heyteu in Italy.
crashing the last veviges of liberty, constitutional
or unconstitutional, whilst in German politics the
French cabinet has with little variation abetted the
design* of Austria and Ramie. To please these same
parliamentary notables, Louts NeroLnos's ministers
joined the cabal last year against Lord I'ALMERSTON,
and Ors 3 ear against Prussia. Such • complete mono-
poly of power could never have been wielded by the
alts ieid rusts under ar y morarchv, any minis-
try, or any other form of eoverament. And yet they
are higliir dissatisfied with Louis Nerohlox. Lows
PHILIPPE would give the BARSOTS the MOLES, and
the Till ensee no power at all, and they roused the
people to overthrow him and the monarchy too.
During the last two years Louts NAPOLEON has
given them all power. And yet they treat him with
the same c interne ly as Louis Filthier!, and are jest
as eagi r rind inveterate in getting op =termedc
forces to destroy him.
The fact is, that however amenable Lows NAPO-
LEON has been in his policy, the more the political
notahles harm of him, t ,e lees they would like hints
a master. Foe were he completely master, they are
sot the minister, to whom Le would trust power,
or giro mobil' nee. There is a dash of the'
libertine and the adventurer about hint, that
leads him to enjoy other compsoions than
sack • pundit as 'el. Deem. And were the
great miltory and fiscal resources of such an empire
as Frame in the bards of Louie Nerotene, there is
se knowing or imagining what he might or might
sot do with them.
Bot this is the great defect of monarchy founded ors
military ircitutions. In a purely civilian monarchy
like oar owe, the sovereign is inevitably and neces-
sarily in the hands of smelt parliamentary notables as
those we speak of in France. But in • military
monarchy or a military republic, those forms of go-
vernment which have now b:come the fashion, and
which prevail in Europe, and which the French
notable* have so strenuously end( avoured to establish,
civilian coussellors in reality go for little. What
need Lows NAPOLEON care (or M. Tutees, Of the
King of PRUSSIA for Herr MANTRUPPEL, or his young
Majesty of AUSTRIA for liter BACH, Mt even Prince
Beerweaeeensac? The real weight his with the
RAIIET:4I,P4, the WRVIGELI, and the CHAROARNIERS.

The army has taken the place of the people in these
sew monarchies and new republics. Real power I.
is the camp, and in the opinions of the camp.
Up to this moment the soldiers throughout Europe
have behaved, as a body, with great modesty and foe-
hearancre. Whatever brutality bus been committed,
has bees is consequence of the orders of the monarchic'
generals. But the soldiers, as a body, in or out of
France, have shown a most praiseworthy moderation
to support the government of the time being, do its
bidding, and in nowise take management or influ-
ence into their own hands.
That this forbearance of the military will last very
long, we do not believe. Those who rally possum
power soon come to be consciousof it ; and if slug-
gish in thin respect, there are abundance of in-
terested and cunning persons to tell them. The most
unwise thing, however, that civilians could do would
be to inform the army, prepensely and openly,
that they are the people and the source of power, and
that to them is to be made the great appeal.
Now this, unfortunately, is what the French Na-
tional Assembly is ab nit to do in quarrelling with the
PRESIDENT, and erseing a military standard, for so
they threaten, against him. Loris NAPOLEON, SS we
have shown, has been in reality as amenable as the
parliament could desire, or ought to expect. He has
rendered his policy subset vitnt to them, and has
sacrificed his character and popularity by that sub-
serviency.
And yet, notwithstanding this, the As-
sembly, full of mistrust, refuses the PRESIDENT the mili-
tary command even in the capital. Because he objects
to such • slur upon his dignity, the Assembly resolve to
refuse him the same memos they motet last year.
Of course Louts NAPOLEON rebels. He sees that
all hisobsequiousnew has not earned for him either
trait or gratitude us the part of the Assembly. It
was not to be expected that he should hold such a
place, petaet deters to prolong his power, or be re-
eiscted it. It wse not in human nature that he, a
BONAPARTE, should not have ambition of the kind,