The Express.
London, England, 1868-08-27 00:00:00

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC AND THE
EMPIRE.

Replying to an article in La France, wherein it
is stated that " Liberty went down in a sea of
anarchy in 1848," and that " Napoleon 111. is the
real head of the liberal party," M. E. de Girardin
writes in the following bold strain in La Liberte :
It liberty went down in a sea of anarchy would I, be-
tween 27th October and 10th December, 1848, have the
right and the means of accusing, as I did, and from con-
viction, General Cavaignac, the head of the execu-
tive government, with being the real author of the
days of June? Would I have the right and the
means of upholding with all my might the candidature
of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte for the presidency of the
Republic? Would the electors who were favourable to
this candidature have been allowed to meet in town and
country without restriction or obstacle of any kind P
Would they have dared, or would it have been possible
for them, to have voted 6,500,000 against 1,300,000 P Ye
ingrates, who dishonour liberty, your mother, would you,
if she ceased to exist at the date you say, have been born
on the 10th of December, 1848? Your birth is
the proof that you lie. Offspring of liberty, you
can deny your mother, insult her, strike her,
bind her, but you cannot get over the fact that she
brought you forth at the peril of her own life. Out of
respect for yourselves, then, oease to hold a language,
which, if true, would brand your origin. Cease to exalt,
as you are doing in your leaders, the 2nd of December,
1861. Is it the fact that freedom of the press and liberty
of meeting existed and worked after the 2nd of De-
cember, 1851, as they existed and worked on the 10th of
December, 1848 ? Is it not the fact that on the 2nd of De-
cember, 1861, the most illustrious men in Prance, all
without exception, were conducted to the Maras prison in
vans for criminals? Awake not the past, which sleeps.
Cease your blundering apologies. Provoke not recrimi-
nation. Waste not your talent as writers in vain and
sterile efforts. Try not to glorify the past, but the future,
and that not by sterile words, but by acts which may
make it glorious.

(TIMMS 118IITE111 AGENVY.)
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The attempt made at Havre to popularise bull-
fights in France has not met with sufficient succeas to en-
courage a renewal of the speculation. The seats at 10fr.
have been gradually reduced to 2fr. 50c., and yet the
circus is but thinly attended. The entire company, toms
end toreadors, is about to return to Spain.

A new opera by Flotow, the author of Marta,
ie to be performed nett month at Prague ; its title is The
Aro Campos:a!
A letter from Munich states that the King of
Bavaria has commissioned the painter, Th. Pixie, to vie-

cute pictures representing the principal scenes of the last
opera of Richard Wagner, Die Keister-eanyer.
Mdlle. Granzow made her reappearance on
Monday at the Opera in the ballet 6f the Source, and was
greatly applauded.

The Opera-Comique has in preparation a piece
entitled 1, 'irt- rest, the music of which is by Offenbach.
The principal part will be filled by Capoul.

Mdlle. -Dejeset has been playing at the Celes-
tine at Lyons with extraordinary encomia. The Monsieur
Garet of Victorian Barden, and the flaunts de Literiere
have been wonderfully well received.
THE " FATHER" OP THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
—The Dublin Reeninp Nail announces the retirement
from public and parliamentary life of Sir W. Verner.
The bon. baronet has for many yaws been the " father,"
that is the senior member, of the House of Commons,
where be has sat for forty-two years. In polities he has
always been an Oranernan of the most ultra old school,
. and hie name is associated with the fiercest struggles of
the party. His eon, Hr. E. W. Verner, hopes to succeed
brm ja W 4 rertegvialiga 91 hi mai of Axclogb.