Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-11-22 00:00:00

the habit of making promises which, he means to

violate, and professions which are only meant as
a disguise ? Nay, if Louis NAPOLEON were in
the-most marked inaniier—e-vokingifiTitiaaiiiof
;his countrymen, and words' threaten-
ing England with an- -invasion, perhaps most
people.thight take such. frankness as the best
security for peace ! .We know that the French
Emperor uses events with no other consideration
than howthey may be turned to his advantage.
In fact most men in his position do precisely the
same. Fidelity to previous promises, the truth
of words once uttered but' now nothing but idle
and wasted breath, never form an element of the
inquiry. The word of princes is proverbially
untrustworthy, and the .precedents of Louis
NAPOLEON'S career have certainly contributed
nothing to re-establish its credit.

lgark then the inconsistency of the Mlles.
He justifies to the world the increasing arma-
ments of England, by the natural repugnance of
a nationito feel'secure only " on sufferance," and
to living in dependance upon the word of, any
foreign potentate. Yet he is now anxious to
elicit from Louis NAPOLEON, re-assurances which
are to make us feel secure ; and the word, upon
which we may depend! The only logical reason
for his appeal to the French Government is, a wish

what kind of it " list of candidates for the-
Legislature" does the reader nuppose it is, from
which, by means of the Balloti they are to make..
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an independent selection ? Why, it is of such ~3
character, according to this American oUrna*
himself, of course, a republican of the first .water,
that it really can matter very little by what
means the electors make a selection from it. The
theory 'of a republican government is, that the
people shall be in a position to choose, for puhlle
office, the men best fitted and most trustworthy"
men of- respectable standing in society, and wha
deserve to enjoy the confidence of all geed
citizens. But hOw different is the practice where
the Ballot is employed to aid in carrying out the
principles of purity and independence! For, 00
the same republican writer we have quoted i 5
constrained to adinit,—" it happens inconsistent-1i
enough,- that sometimes, nay, most frequentlP
men are chosen to sit in our legislative chamber*
and to make laWs to goVern us, for no other
reason than because they have. distinguished
themselves as loafers, thieves, bullies, shoulder
hitters, emigrant runners, swindlers, barkeePer*
pettifogging lawyers, and in other cognate 1011/s
of life." Such are the characters who ,preee°t
themselves as candidates under the opertOs
of the Ballot ; and there is this inelt.
remarkable result of it " very gener6lll
comes to pass, that should there hapPeU
to be mingled a few men of a very
ferent complexion,—men such as those suppeee's-
.by the theory of a Republic to be most likelf
to secure the choice of the electors—they are el"
most sure, under the operation of the Ballot, t°
be set aside, and the others preferred to them es
the more popular men ! And so it is more than
probable: it was on this occasion. " For," saYe
the American journalist again, "at the election'
to-morrow, our citizens will have to make.selee'
tions from among eighty or a hundred-candidate*
of whom .a large proportion come within the
foregoing general definitions." This was in Nov
York ; and- it may be taken, we believe, as a fair
sample of all the rest.