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London, England, 1849-06-29 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE 29.

Mather French made for freedom ? Are they ca-
pable of constitutional government P These are
questions which, when put by legitimist or ultra-
royalist, always awakened indignation. T.s doubt
of French capabilities for freedom was to doubt of
half of the enlightened population of the world. And
yet, with what is passing now haws our eyes, are can
bat with shame and with pith admit that inch ques-
tions may be fairly asked, and ouch doubts rationally
entertained. That the POLIGNACS from ore school
and Lunges ROLLIN from another, should raise a dic-
tatorship, and seek to rale by exceptional rather than
by constitutional law—that a King, who thought
of nothing save his dynasts-, and who confined his
ideas within Etc wall* of his court, should h.pse into
the dream of Louis Queroug,whilethe democracy of
the nineteenth century bussed outside his palatee win-
dows—theso hallucinations of mind, placed in ex-
treme ensitioes, created astonishment, but not despair.
Bat when at lest one sees such men as ODILLON BAR-
SOT,Dt'rAVIti., aIIaTOCQUIVILLE, proscribing the press,
establishing aernsurship, and framing laws precisely of
the same nature as Peaeossefs, rendering writers
amenable to fine and castigaion far their tewiencies,
then, indeed, we do seriously despair, if not of the
capability of the French nation for freedom, at !cast
of the aptness or capac:ty of the present race of
French statesmen to found it.
It has seldom been our fate to peruse more unwar-
rantable balderdash that has been put forward by
M. Dc-TACItE and M. BARROT as the grounds for
their following the worst aberrations of Cfraahsa
the TriNvu's government. The only pretence at a
steam for their lib,-ticide acts is the neceesity of
putting down socialism, and those doctrines which
are subversive of the rights of property, the duties of
the family, and the first elements of order.
Ole should have thought that the events of the
last twelve months fully showed that the must effi-
cient way to expose and discredit and explode such
idle theories, is to give them the fullest nowise for de-
velopment, ter argum, at, and for reasoning. Whoever
at the present time considers thedectrims of Leroux
or CuNswEitarr u dangerous, and who deems the
institutions of property and of family ties in peril--
we can only pity him. The socialists have been ex-
posed and refuted, not by their antsgooisa, by M
num. and M. Defoe, but by themselves. And
Athens was just in as much danger of being univer-
sally converted to cynicism by MOGEN KS, as France
is likely to ad ,pt the creed of her socialist philo-
sephers.
Bat if the philosophy of socialism is exploded, the
name still remains as the distinctive appelietion of a
popular body opposed to the political domination of
those. combined parties who monopolise the title co
moderate. At the commencement of thee, M. BARK°
was at the head of a party, which employ el the
Mtillti of agitation of the press and of baguets to
overthrow M. GCUOT. There is now a party
loch attacks M. BASROT by the same means and for
the sorkei nd. If tbisparty has recourse to arms, let them
be put don n ; if to coospirney, let them be tried, cot,
dimmed, and punished. But to deny them the right
of diecuesies, to tell them because some have failed in
raising harricide, that all shall be precluded from
pahli-hing art.cles—all this is not only the mn-I
shameful rentigadoism on the part of M. BAIIROT, but
it is the must mistaken policy.
'line moderate and middle cleaves are in power.
Their fast aim should be to show that they can pre-
serve that power by constitutional means after con-
stitutional principles. They should (therms the
eilumwes of the popular party, which accused the
ieneyeuis4 of bidet; as despotic and repressive
as the aristocracy itself, whenever it had the
pew. r: or Use excuse. We are sorry to say
that the middle class, or the bourgeoisie, as represented
by M. B easter, is now but too fully prexing the
justice of the reproach, by following out the self-same
track of exo ptienal law and arbitrary reyime in
which the Foucifee, and the POLIO sacs, and the
UVIZOTS, unswervingly drove.
And yet to anyoce sho calmly seeks to dissever
what savi d France from their recent plots and at-
tempt., it must plainly appear that publicity saved it.
The ecoispimey, instead of being an occult, was a
public oe.e. M. Lxuau ROLLIN'S appeal to arms
was made in fuil parliament, the press in his interest•
spoke out, a clearly. And it was precisely because
the chullenos were given loudly and publicly, that
government were enabled to fill the whole circatt of the
l'arean lx ulevards with tr.oops, and so, by the over-
whelmng number of bayonets, precluded the possi-
bility of ruling even one barricade.
But n t un," can say that the government was right.
All must admit that its bombardment of Rome was not
only a returnee deed of itself, but a manifest breach
of the o,uscitution. It was u fair a provocation to
revolt as could be given. ALA the revolt being put
down, is it fair for the same government to forbd the
perm even to syllogise an accusation ? A more =-
wet rateable stretch of power was never inade by the
moot nespetio of ministers. Mumma himsed would
have had more maananimity.
Aad to what result does this imitation of Spanish
constitutionalism—for in truth M. BASRoT has made
himself a mere imitator of Nenveu—whither does
this lead? It leads to converting an open,
if not a constitutional opposition, into ono of
secret sucietiss. Socialism in the broad day-
light has nothing dangerous. The poison eva-
porates in the counteracting sanity of the vast and
open atmosphere. But socialism in a cellar or a
concilinbule is something dangerous. For it is that
kind of co-' bustible which mast be compressed in
order to be dangerous in its explosion. This is pre-
cisely what M BARROVS government is doing tor
socialism, driving it from the harmless and open in-
dulgence of journalism and ratiocination, into hidden
phis, secret oath., with all the fanaticism aud dange-
rous insanity of underground association..
All this on the part of the French government is
very impolitic arid very discreditable. It is constltu-
dual government without freedom o: either the person
or the press. It is not only bad in itself, but is a pre-
cedent for the Socialists themselves to follow. Should
France be ever so unfortunate as to undergo their
domination, they need but rule by the BABROT code,
and their tyranny of the middle class will be rigid
enough.
It may be that M. DUFAIME and M. Ds Tocoug-
et tne do nut intend to do what they are doing. They
art well meaning men, carried away by their own
fears, or by the fears of their colleagues. But it is
not enough to mean well. M. Da TOCQUEVILLS does
nut mean to bombard Rome, to destroy Its monu-
ments and its liberties. But be lets this be done, and
his name will remain, as one of the perpetrators, on the
saanunent which records it. Neither does M. De
lueue, VILLE probably mean to extinguish publicity
and the press. But the acts of his cabinet do this.
Armed with military power, they are stifling liberty
at hone and abroad. What matters it to the world,
whether these atrocious deeds are committed in ma-
lignity or in weakness ?

Ma. Ow n.= Psalms has bees rewarded for his
perseverance. He has forced epos parliament a re-
consideration of the great gamins of prison disci-
pline. There will ho a committee appointed next
session, by which time ample materials for judgment
any two trAlettsd rovi prepared at home and abroad ;
afid thi upportuudy will be afforded of testing
the pt.iLnt ,T 0111,4 the (conocnie, the rigid, the cure-
t:ve, tLe 1.,1.e ottive, and the poeo.curante systems of
Lou ing. mout‘ging, and punishing prisoner,.
We have no fen o, as yet, to regret the experi-
ments, however costly, that have been made. Cost,
under preeert system, ne financial management, must
at least be stated; anti we are always able to nicer-
tait the price which the community pay for the
extra ems m cute of its diseased and peccant mem- ,