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London, England, 1851-12-15 00:00:00

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LONDAN, MONDAY, DECEMBER 11

was a great outcry throughout France
after July, 1830, that Paris had no right to dispose 1:
so summarily of the fate of the entire country. I low- II
ever heroic in the combat, and moderate after. it, 1,
the Parisians showed themselves upon that occasion, ,
still the provincial; were jealous, and maintained I
that they had a right to be consulted, especially
en such grave oceeesions as the overthrow of al'
dynasty and the remodelling of a consti- '
tuition. When, however, the acts constitution was I
to be Deranged. and when the provinces were
about to elect deputies for the purpose, the provincial
constituencies never thought of insisting or proper-I,
ing that a greater measure of local liberty and self-
government should be given to the pros inces. Had ' ,
such a change been then introduced, and a certain
degree of decentralisation been admitted,—so as to
gist life, independence, and anthority to the pro-
vincte,—the events of ltelti might have been pre-
vented. For Locus-PH LIPPE could never then have
persevered in reigning according to his own personal !
views ; neither could a Parisian mob, or a pusillani-
mous court, have been able to convert in a few hours
the monarchy into the republic.
The French provinces and local interests were,
however, us powerless in Psis as they had been in
115.111. Again they felt their utter want of intim. llet`
at critical moments; and again loud indignation wan
expressed thereat. And it was no doubt in a great
measure this resentment of the provinces against
'eerie that caused the return of so large and en
Scree an anti-republican majority. The National '
Assembly of the republic ditl no more for
the provisoes than the Constitutional Cham-
oe isee, their stele policy and aim was to I,
=elude the lower orders from the elections, and to
keep den ti their turbulence by mesons of their army. I
wtak -fel futile was thin ptlicy is sufficiently
r., ,t 1 by the case with which it we, turned against
its prom et is. The curtailment of the suffrage was
• the eseuste fora row .(:tat, and the army wes
• five-franc picas and brandy--easily converted into
an instrument.
Had the conservatives or the reptildienns ef the
National Atesmalely,--for they were both of them
equally intereeted,--ed ablished bodies in the provinces
of iwruona elected by their fellows and charged with
certain interests and functions of local administra-
tion and taxation, there would never have been so
neatly rallying points against the tyrant who has
laid violent hold of the central authority in the
capital. Iftel the l'refects not such complete power
to override the procinece, and were they not MO
alley ly (It the mercy of the government, military
de Tote euuld not have now, with the appearance
and undue the terms of kat:slily, twee extended its
iron arms all over the country. in (eel, the country
pee...tics 1111 means of risietance, sive the extreme
one of retie llinn. Then, the upper and wealthier
tle esti in Fr,uire are more disorganised than the
lower. The working class, the pee/ retrial in France,
as if here. eing such catastrophes as the present, have
love his a et avrising and pere cling:lom, of general
ae-oeintitet. Th tt these will set to work, devise and
mature a ay: team of self-dth nee and of vengeance,l
we usay be sure. Out the upper chess took no such
precaution. They confided in repreeentative govern-I
meat, snit in the majesty of the law, as if these
creed awe the leild adventurer, s' ho had been raked
to 111. peed of President, and who had been allowed
to le COOIC 0.1.11 more popular than the Assembly.
Even now this very usurper is allowed to triumph
in his ill-doings. chiefly from the disagreement of pus
the. as to the be et mode of superweling military
tyranny. One party favoured a legitimist movement,
another a pewialiet republic ; but neither show howl
legitimacy e.r republic is to take such root in the,
Meade of the people and receive such movement
and immediate support from it, as to be inde-
petideet of a town rabble, a drunken ganieon. or
a cooper:tot like the present.
NI. little Ileixe has published, what is nut usual
for him, a reasonable letter, in which he declares n re-
conciliation between upper and lower classes the telly
basis of a promising and constitutional resistance to
military tyruany. Nuthing more just. But what
are to he the terms of the accord? If there be no
more than the socialist programme of 18th, the pro.
perticd classes will prefer crouching even under the
wing of leeets Nietteetee's bastard eagle to trusting
their fate to a red republic. triumphant and determined
to carry out its social and economic principles. If
that class of French reptildieens who have made
political capital out of socialist doctrines do not ex-
plain their views more satisfactorily than has hitherto
been done, there can be no combined action with the
constitutional ate to preserve the country front mili-
tary and imperial despotism.
there is one ground alone on which legitimists,
One :mists, and constitutionalists, whether republi-
can or monarchic, could unite, and that is, a reform
that would give to the great local centres, their due
local and politieal influence. If the United States
lave enseservrel their constitutional republic—if Eng-
lund hits kept and keeps unscathed its constitutional
monarchy, it is owing to this—the dissemination of
powers, and its leealisation for all purposes of do-
mestic government; which is by no menus found to
mar the strength or weaken the unity of either
country, or its dealings with foreign states, or in its
attitude towards the en.

We are aware that deccntrelisation is unpopular
in France, and that M. Tnixits would start up to
denounce it with quite as much vehemence as M.
Lenity.ltot.t.m. But this revolutionary prejudice
is founded iu error, an error which believes that
France can only conquer. and aggrandise, and extend
its influence by means of a government concentrated
in one hand. But surely, existing circumstances are
sufficient to prove how such concentration may
weaken, nut strengtheu--destroy not preserve. Be-
sides, these oh! ideas of conquest and aggrandisement
ought to be given up. Frenchmen have quite enough
to do to govern France itself, and to keep it upright,
prosperous, free, and happy. And the reason that
Frenchnien fail in this is, that they turn their atten-
tion nut to those humble and domestic tasks, hut to
will4-the-w hip schemes of lording it over Europe,
and restoring the ascendancy of Loris XIV. or of
NAPOLEON.

M. (it-'tor and M. Timlts made, both of them,
this mistake. It is time for such men to dilcern and
to admit juster and more honest ends of policy.

THE GREAT ExttiumoN.—Notwitltstanding the
intimation given to the foreign exhibitors that all the goods
wan to he removed by the 13th inqint, there is still a Urge
tsantity within the building, chiefly belonging to France
andponie of the (henna States. The ditliculties of our French
friends have been materially increased by the events of the
bat teo or twelve days; and either from miscalculating tho
quantity of goods to be re-conveyed to France, or from tho
wont of previous 21TallgeMerlt, filer, are no means of ship-
pine thew elf, and the Fustian-house authorities have been
aLlue,d

to relax somewhat of their strict rules, and allow the
irate to be deposited forth. present on the Ordnance Wharf,
as if in bond. Although the building has been handed
over to the contractors, Messrs. Foe. and Henderson, a small
executive mad, under the command of Lieutenant Ty:er.
still remains. They have the charge of the embryo national
museum, and are the recipients of the samples and speci-
mens coutrabuted by the various exhibitors. It is still
hopeel that the building will be so completely cleared of the
goods that it may be thrown open to the pub:ie use the let
of January, se already arranged. All the entrances have
now been shut up, except the publie entrance un the south
Ude, and the east end, through which the foreign pack-
ages are r4llrtyed away. Here • great deal of bustle
is still observable—lung ranges of carts anal wugons, some
loaded anal moving otf, others drawing up to the kntl1110: to
he dile,l, are to be seen. The interior of the building is
lighted with gas. and the workmen are kept busily em-
ployed to the latest moment. The bat rings at present at
a quaeer poet I o'clock. anal all the packages not then re-
moved are be night bark into the interior, and the building
cleared nut. The number of policemen on duty has now
been reduced toe MK handful, and the vast pile is rapidly
',sinning a look of desolation and gloom as seen in the hue
and teeihgtit of • winter's evening.

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