The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-02-14 00:00:00

by a lady of honour, went out in an open carriage, and
without escort; that her Majesty followed the lines of the
Rue de Rivoli and Champ Elysees, and directed herself
towards the Derriere de l'Etoile, and returned towards four
o'clock by the Qaai des Tuileries." Very interesting:all
this, truly; but scarcely news of sufficient magnitude to
claim place in the columas of the Patric. Bit the move
meats of the Prince Imperial are the niest remarkable
According to the same journal that I have just alluded to,
this future great man actually left the palace of the
Tuileries towards mid-day by the pavilion d'Aorloge, in a
little carriage drawn by two goats ! His Highness
promenaded in the private garden, accompanied by
his gouvernante and his nurse. ' Some of our
institutes it would, doubtless, be desirable to in-
troduce into France, but assuredly the court newsman
is not one of theni. French people are wickedly
merry with these announcements of the doings of the
Imperial family. The Univers has fallen foul of the Siecle
again, in canseq ience of an article in the latter journal
respecting the assassin Verger. Of course, iu this news-
paper warfare, no one looks for decent speech from such
a highly seasoned religious organ as the Univers The
breieers cries out against the Sleds much as the John Ball,
thirty years ago, might have cried out against some
unholy Holy well-street publication. Nothing less than
the suppression of the Siecle will appease its ire.
It declares that since, the publication of the article
in question. priests can no longer walk through the
streets without being insulted ; not by workmen in
blouses, but by well dressed people in black suits and
oaletots. The Sieelci with humorous irony, replies to this
by expressing its surprise and grief that a change has
come over the spirit of the Parisian citizens within a
month, and that priests are publicly insulted in .the
streets. if such be the case, it says, it is strange that no
journal has yet spoken of it. It reminds the Univers
that priests, like all other men, can, if subjected to
brutal outrages, obtain the help of the authorities,
and regrets that they hive not brought the offenders
to the tribunal of justice. The article of the Steels
Ts not, however, all in this tone. ft discusses, with a
gravity and force, some of the evils at present rife among
the priesthood, and defends its position and its opinions
with judgment and effect. The Government, apparently,
does not object is these religious discussions. It thinks,
perhaps that some overplus of the dislike men feel to the
State may thus be directed towards the Church. Louis
Napoleon evidently leans with the clergy : not because he
values them as friends, but because he fears them as
enemies. I alluded some time ago to the frightful
check to the increase of population produced by the Em-
pire. 'lhe fact continues to occupy French publicists.
The 'owned des Debuts now points out that, in 53 out of 81
departments, the population has actually diminished ;
whilst the population of the remaining 16 has increased.
The fact seems to be that, in the villages and small towns,
the persecution and annoyance exercised by the prefects,
metres, and other officials of all grades, absolutely drives
all active minded and independent people away. They
fly to the great towns, as in Oriental oountries, in
order to escape the pursuit of authority. In Paris, Lyons,
Marseilles, and other large places, indeed,- it is im-
possible to exercise the same petty and wretched tyranny
as in the provinces. In Paris, for example, people
are only prevented from talking politics, from criti-
cising the ants of administration, from saying that the
Emperor is ugly or growing old, that the Empress is not
so handsome as she used to be, that the Imperial Prince has
a snub nose and woolly hair, that the French army lost a
good many men at Sebastopol, that provisions are dear,
that taxes are heavy, that something ought to be done, that
a bad spring may lead to an unfortunate summer, and
so forth. Provided people avoid making these mistakes,
and do not happen to be personal enemies of the
uncle, brother, or cousin of a policeman, or are not
informed against by a malicious neighbour, or do
net keep portraits of Ledru Rollin or of General
C tvaignac in their rooms, or do not go to the Place
de la Bastille on the 24th of February, or do not show any
particular signs of being studious or clever, or do not
offend a priest, or omit to take off their hat when a funeral
passes, there is not very much danger of Cayenne. Ia the
provinces, however, in addition to all these annoyances, the
police adds many that are still more bitter; you must not
wear a red cravat, you may scarcely wear a beard in many
places, you must not receive a certain paper, you must read
the Moniteur ; indeed, in villages and country towns, the
condition of the French people is as minutely influenced as
that of the serfs of Russia. This it is that explaies, in:great
part, the tendency of the people to flew towards the great
towns. The work provided by the Government i 3 another
cruse; but this mast soon come to an end. Financial
embarrassments are threatening every day to become
graver: and it is reported that M. Fould has recently ad-
vised the same remedy which he once perfidiously suggested
to the Republic—a national bankruptcy. The complaints
that mode so much noise a little time ago about the high
figure of nm's have not recently been so loud. I am assured
that whilst affecting commisseration, and giving some partial
assistance, the government took more energetic measures
to put a stop to complaints that might have led to the
emezete which must come sooner or later—a great number
of the fiercest talkers were quietly whisked off to Cayenne
and elsewhere. These facts soon become known in the
Fanhourgs, and account for the cessation of the public
grumbling, Discontent, however, is as rife as ever ; and
it is expected that rents will take another rise in the spring,
on account of the new " improvements" contemplated, and
which the Emperor dare not put off.

THE CRIMEAN COMIVIIiSIONERS.—A London Morning
Coteraporary makes the following sensible remarks, on the
statement of Lord Palmerston and the House of Commons,
on Thursday evening, that it was not intended to recognize
in any special manner, the services of Colonel Tulloch and
Sir John M`Neil. And now, Colonel Tulloch, after being
baited to a bed of sickness, after being stignaatieed by im-
plication as an author of calumnious charges ; after seeing
la's work undone ; after being insulted, degraded and
rebuked, is told that he is to have no rewar —he
wio .went to the Crimea to discover how 10,000
soldiers had perished unnecessarily within seven
months; who saw in the British cavalry "an army
of living skeletOns," " a brigade of spectres ;" who fixed his
firm hand on the causes of that blot of burning shame in
the annals of English war ; who did his duty, with
unflinching honour, and was then meanly and vilely deserted
by the government which had commissioned him ! Who
lost our splendid cavalry, in which every rider was a
Rupert ? Who sacrificed our incomparable guards, brave
as Red Cross Knights, brilliant as Greeks, steady as
Romans ? These were the problems submitted to Colonel
Tulloch ; he solved them, and because, in the name of
British justice, in the interest of the B...itish Empire, and
for the sake of an endangered army, he dared to
impute neglect and incapacity in quarters where in-
capacity and neglect had been proved to exist, he has
been discarded, his claims have been repudiated, and
unless the public intervenes, he will be persecuted
mad his chances of advancement have la2en withered by
the corrosive malice of detected inferiority. However,
he is not less spiri•ed in polemics than as a soldier ; it was
impossible to argue his case fairly before the Chelsea
Board ; but he has boldly subjected the report of the Gene
ral officers to such a process of scrutiny that the miserable
document is reduced to shreds and tatters. Paragraph by
paragraph, answer by answer, Colonel Tulloeh analyses the
work of the seven dull dupes, the whitewashers of Crimean
infamy- The public will accept his paMphlet, entitled " The
Crimean Commission and the Chelsea Board," and not the
Chelsea blue-book, as a true interpretation of those eventsat
the seat of war which humbled us, cast a stigma on our
national character, and half destroyed the value of our
victories. It would, obviously, be out of place to enter
minutely into the cases separately considered, while it would
be impossible, without such minute reference, to bring out
the points at issue. We recommend our readers to peruse
Colonel Tulloch's reply for themselves, and indeed, we are
better pleased to leave this part of the question to be
solved by individual judgments, because it is not a matter
of detail that elicits our protest. Colonel Tulloch does