Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-06-20 00:00:00

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tending toput such a grossindignity Upon the men
who have SacrifiCed so much of personal feeling upon
•
the altar of public adVatitdge. But we say he ought

to know,himself stF9tig;enough_ to
.dismiss at onqp,

to the oh

ity that inevitably awaits them, the

greedy inear

e not had the self-respect

'to get out icif-tlici*ay2'

But the die,--Nie suppose; is
now cast. They are too far gone to draw back.
The experiment must be tried; with all its imperfec-
We 'Shall' not be at all surprised, however, if
it should soon come to'pass,'-that the =Whigs
whoM -it is' too late,' that, as the Star expresses it,
new Parliament is even less dispaed than the
ord to put up witli such bad faith and lia.d-manners:"

MKLMESBURV; "`that I am not one of' those who
believe that the EMPEROR seriously contemplates
war at the present moment. I deduce this opinion
from facts—first, that no preparations for war have
been Made ; secondly, that there is no just Cause for
A variety of circumstances, however, have
occurred lately which have alarmed the public mind
and induced people to' believe that war is at our
The indiscreet language held at Turin ; the
King's Speech to his ChamberS ; the EMPEROR'S
allocution to M. DE HUBNER; his Majesty's speech
in opening the Legislative Session ; the marriage of
Prince NAPOLEON.; the tone of the Ministerial press,
and.the pamphlets said to be published by authority ;
the coldness existing between the Austrian and
French Governments ; the well-known desire of the
Emperor to ameliorate the condition of the Italian
populations .
,by, adininistratiN-e reformS, which Nit is
conjectured - would be opposed by Austria ; and
lastly, the silence maintained by his Majesty with
respect to his real- intentions -- have onb and all
contriblited to produce the uneasy feeling which

pervades not only France, but the greater part of
Europe. Add to this the thousand and one rumours

circulated daily respecting, intentions which are
purely chimerical, and armaments which exist but in
the imagination, and your lordship will under:-
stand,how this panic has maintained itself,.th-Ough
the situation, if reduced to its proper' pr6portions,

is not; so serious as it is generally represehted to be."
would think, must either

Now,

1 COWLEY, on(

have been very blind to 'what was really pas Sing
around hiin, Or -grossly deceived ,by the professions
and assurances of louts 'NAPOLEON. The latter is
the more probable, since his lordship has the
reputation of being a man of some 3 penetration.
Ant_ there is a degree of simplicity evinced
in his .observatioms, which, we: must confess,

we *ere not prepared. to epect from so ex-
perienced a diplomatist. He was induce 4, he says,'
to believ6.' thUtjt,he Freacli Emperor did: .pot

seriously contemplate war, because, among other
the silence maintained by' his Majesty
with ;respect to ,his real intentions." Why, does
not know that, ambitious and

reasois, of

Lord CowLEt really

lemers, like Louis NAPOLEON, generally
maintain "silence as"to their real intentions," towards
those,; especially, who might endeavour, in the
course of 'their duty, to thwart them Had Lord
CowLEy _ forgotten that Louis NAPOLEON was
one who

cunnin

as 7 a disciple of * TALtE.YRAND,
considered that language was given to such
as himself, riot to disclose but to conceal their
—not to divulge, 'but to keep secret their

,entions 9" It 'would seem, at- any rate, that