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'‘l LONDON, 27718 DAY, NAY 26.
An inagesing spectacle was witnessed last Bator-
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day st the office of the iisdastriel of St. Germain.
Forty-two officers of the French army marched
to the doe, in full uniform, and presented to
the Manager and Editor a peremptory requisi-
tion to publish in their Journal a statement
from see of the seconds of the assassin of M. Di
PRIM. Coder the existing military rAgiirse of
France, the luckless Manager and Editor had
nothing for it but to comply. In this country,
where the law is paramount, the result might
have bees different The gallant heroes would
have best informed, with all due courtesy,
that their communication might, upon payment,
be inserted as an advertisement ; and had they
witted any disposition to swagger, they would have
beset handed over to the police.
The existing Government of France is beginning
to 'hew itself in its true colours. Even in the
Btrestioneg and Boulogne expeditions Loots NAPO-
LOON appealed to the Army exclusively. The distri-
bution of sausages and champagne at Batory wee
• the peeliminary step to the subversion of the Repub-
lic. In every department of French administrative
government, in every foreign mission, the gentlemen
who wear uniforms are jostling out the civilians. No
wonder the young and hot-headed among the sol-
diery- begin to fancy " rEtat c'eat Arnsie." One
tolerable indication of this overweening spirit wee
given at the time of the affair of the Rue Inpelle-
tier, when certain gallant colonels so magnani-
mously shook their swords in the face of unoffend-
ing Ragland. The assassination of M. Da Pews,
and the intimidation of the directors of the Inclustria,
show that there are heroes in the French nuke
gaits as ready to turn their swords against their
countrymen as against foreigners.
We will not do the gallant French army the in-
joetice to accept these Rectors as fair samples of
its officers. We know that there is still many an
ARMAND CAVIL in its ranks. But it is clear that
the eROMMTI court paid by the existing Government
to the Army has turned the heads of some of its keel
sensible members. Throe men begin to ape the tons
which (according to Dr. Vslots) prevailed in the
Army daring the worst period of the first
Empire. This is an inadequate expression of their
•
offensive bellying. Even the soldiers in Wain-
)" shirt's Lope. and the Neou quetoires of Danis
fall short of their extravagance. To discover ado-
' Tate prototypes of the heroes who insist upon a
poor journalist expiating the offence of an innocent
joke cracked upon anything that wears a uniform,
by running the gauntlet of forty or fifty sword*—
, same of them held by professional fencing-tnastere--
we mast revert to the exploits of our own English
I( Mohawks, as described in the pages of STEEL/ and
ADDISON.
;11 We know France too well to imagine for a mo-
- meat that this licence of a mercenary soldiery will
be tamely endured by its high-spirited eiviliaa
youth. We are much mistaken if the better spirits
• among the officers of the army themselves do not in-
terpose an effective protest against this brutal as silly
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fashion of retorting jests by sword thrusts. Union
the authorities interfere to put a stop to such mar-
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demos proceedings as those of the wood of Vesinet,
and such serio-comic proceseions as that of St. Oer-
main, more lives will be lost in France, in a time of
peace, in personal rencontree, than would furnish
• forth a tolerable " butcher's bill" for a campaign.
Louis NAPOLION is now on his trial. It will now be
I seen whether be has the moral courage to exercise
inarewbel 'Get* between soldier end civilian. It
will new ne man whether he really is Emperor of
the FRANCE or only Gemini of the peat army en-
camped in France.
The spirit of 1789 is not dead but liveth, on the
other side of the Channel. Even in the apparent
extinction of political vitality, the LE FATHRS and
°MATTERS nobly hold aloft the banner of regulated,
constitutional liberty. The memory of more than
thirty years of Parliamentary government has not
been effaced from the public mind of France. Whet
a nation is surcharged with the electricity of free
• aspirations it is not always great provocations that
cause
the scharg
tbe mite. lefeeGetieoncma wgland, whenhat
it
would scat to mho the Royal Parks, and close
them against the general public, the reply was,
" Only a Crown, madame." So in Paris, the crib-
bing of a private garden from the public garden
of the Tuileries has possibly awakened a
warmer resentment than the forcible closing of
the doors of the National Aasembly. And if that
encroachment is followed by a display of ander
favouritism for the murderers of M. DI PINT and
their abettors—why then it may be time to prepare
apartments at Miunfe for the reception of another
refugee ameareit and his family.
We speak only of a possibility, but of a possibility
that has been on the cards any time sines 1862.
A great mistake has been made by many English.
men both in and oat of office. An entente mediae
between the French and English nations is the great,
the rely, security for the repose of Europe. But the
man e& eerdoile is not to be established and main-
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tailed by Englishmen fawning obsequiously upon the
Goversnient of France for the time being. Coed-
durable umbrage was given at Paris, at the time of
the Exhibition, by the ultreAmpsrialiam of many of
our Cockney tourists. If there should be some of
these days a change of Government in France—and
champs of Government in France have been, and
for half a century yet may continue to be, nearly as
frequent as English change' of Ministers—if the
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hiders of any political section of the French pantie
that was forcibly put down in December, 1862, were
S. soma in a short tiers to the power now wielded
by the Barrusoa, would the partisan spirit in