The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-10 00:00:00

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LOUIS NAPOLEON THREATENING THE
ENGLISH PRE'.3S.
ImpenitY is said to beget ins JerniF.,—and that it does
se we `ad new pioof ia the lett tact of Louis Napoleon.
Witheut his uncle's genitea.he huh many of that nncle's
-feiltnes; and amongst the rest inherits the First Constrl's
inability to discover where it is wise to stop. Useiez
overrun Italy end Germany, the uncle ventured upon
Russia: having-fleeced Franca of -her liberiies, the ne-
phew ventures upon something very like insult to
English freedom. The gagged press of Francelies.help-
lees at his fcet—and now be seeks to intimidate the free
press of England. On Tuesday, the agent of the French
penee, who huh under his epociel charge the newspapers
of France; sent for the Paris correspondents of two or
three of the
.London daily papers, teat he might com-
municate to them the future intentions of Miffs Napo-
leon towards the English press. In performing-this task
the agent, M. Latour-Dumoulin, is describedeas bringing
the maecee, an:l language of cultivated life to bear
upon the week in hand, evidaitly in order that its real
character. might seem lees abominehle. But tyeannY7
however bleed, is still tyranny, toad in this case there
was no room for misteke. In his interview with the
eerrespendent of the Daily News,'Thr, "firgt Intimation
M. Damoulin gave. was,. that what . he was 'about to
state must -be regarded as, an official notice of the
Freneb,,,Government. Lie than went mto say that the
English newspapers had been outrageous towards the
President, acd !tided that in all future 'eases, when
anything effensivelippear-eel in the columns elf an Eng-
lish newspaper, its representative in Paris would be
made responsible for it, and be forthwith expelled from
Ftance! Astonished by such a threat, our correspon-
dent replied:—
That if the French Government made the Paris coree-
spondent of. an English paper responsible for whatever
appeared in that paper relative. to F raper, it would .act
neither according to the principles of justice, law, nor in-
oroendafiedteionetisolf
ternational usage: It was known that the responsibility
A correspondent formed no part of what the French call the
hceoulhdadoonfln.yollatihweiwnith the editor of the newspaper id
laetptearspe,r.thellreeswpoasosiabipiirtiy7totte.
whose publication
owhhlioossteionht
the clearly against the news-
paper, French, President lay
...Which to :do with. The remedy of
he might either prosecute in the English
courts a diplomatic complaint against
ii:rohalateyver
with the English t 'which'wohld, in point of fact,
come to the . same thinthe latter ease the,Fretich
Government would w only in
hold he English authorities responsible
o
for the prosecutionth eh GOVernment
had recently followed s e paper. The Fran
ch a course in Belgium. When the
Prince President's uncle' attaeked
with violence by a paper, became emperor, he was _
He caused a criminal i and he took this means of redress.
editor of -the newspaperormation to be filed against the
Mackintosh. The upshot of was defended by Sir James
of the newspaper to considerableaffair was the condemnation
moulin answered that the damages. M. Latour-Du-
accept the theOry of irresponsibility,"
,Government could toot
Louis Napoleon will hold Y.'
liable, he says, for what en editor Paris correspondent
of his acts, although he knows perfectly england. may
"Y
respondent has no more influence o:etir. well that a cor-
respondent
of the paper he writes for, than the leading co-
Gazette at St. Petersburgh. Bat the editor
the Royal
the President's jurisdiction—the corres otordis beyond
his power; and so upon the innocent Phen ?IA is in
threatens
to wreak the vengeance impotent to reach those
offend him by telling truth. In the old hbarba-
rous days a similar despotism was often indulged,
Many a successful tyrant has murdered, in cold blood,
the wife and children of an opponent who was out of
reach, and now one man is to be punished in Paris be-
cause another is troublesonae in London. Was there
ever a more unblushing stretch of power than to make
man responsible for that over which he has no control?
But having, fora time, succeeded in stopping free discus-
sion its France, the hero of the coup d'etat seeks to force
the meshes of his tyranny across the English Channel.
His agent talks of dissemination of " false news;" but it
is not false news that offends, but true. Is the story of
the coup d'etat "false news?" Is the tragedy of the un-
armed Parisians shot down by thousands in the streets
in December—is that "false taws?" Is the list of emir
neat and patriotic 'Frenchmen exiled from their country
"false news?" Are the groans of thousands transported
without trial to Cayenne—are they " false news?" Are
the refusals of the best generals and statesmen of France
to take the oath to Louis Napoleon's Government—are
they " false newt?" Are the decrees ordering the spo-
liation ,of the private property of the Orleans family
"false news?" Yet these are the things that have made
the free journals of this country couple Louis Napo-
leon's name with those terms that make him anxious
to expel English writers from France, and these are
things let him remember which have become part of the
sad story of the fine country he now holds in bondage.
If no other news came from Paris for a century, here is
a catalogue full enough of texts for volumes of written
condemnation. But does Louis Napoleon think it pos-
sible for him to expel every Englishman from France?
Because until he does so he may rely uponit the Daily
News and the other London daily papers will have in-
telligence of all that happens there. If our present cor-
respondent were expelled to-morrow we have another
ready on the instant to fill his post. Let him expel a
second—and a third will spring up. There are French-
men, too, as well as Englishmen, ready for such emer-
gencies. If the President carries on this system, as each
writer is expelled he will find " another and another
sill succeed." Faithful to the laws that rule other things
the demand for men ready to carry on the important mis-
sion of the Press will secure a supply. We shall, therefore,
despite police arrangements, be ever able to learn the
truth about what is being dune in the capital of great
and enlightened, but now enslaved and unhappy France.
So long as this journal is faithful to that cause which it
was founded to promote, and from which it has never
yet swerved, so long will no threats and no fear of
consequences prevent it from speaking what is known
to be the truth. Foreign Governments shall be sub-
jected in its columns to the same free sand wholesome
criticism employed in discussing our home affaies. The
sins of the Elyse 3 equally with those of Naples or of
Russia shall be denounced as fearlessly and openly as
they deserve to be, and tyranny and injustice shall still
be called by their true names—tyranny and injustice—
and nothing less. We wish to say nothing that is
false—are will never conceal anything that is true. In
Eogland we have the great privilege of enjoying that
freedom of the press which Milton claimed, and which
so many have since suffered to secure—a freedom of the
press subject always to the law. That law, if we say
aught illegal or wrong, is ever ready to do justice to
the' really injured; that law is open to Louis Napo.
leoe as it was open to Napoleon Bonaparte. TO it
- we owe respect, and by it we are ready to
abide. But whilst we enjoy this wholesome
liberty of the press, the hero of the coup d'etat may rely
upon this,ehat though truth may be strangled in euris
and may be whispered only in Belgium, it will yet be
told fully and aloud by the press of London. lei, po-
lice agent talks of "false news." This is the old sham.
Fele news" was the plea when Charles 11. put down
the press that had grown up under the cemrnonwealth;
" false news" was the excuse under which James IL cf
England, and Charles X. and Louis Philippe of Fran
menced their persecutions of the., press. But ce,
corn them
three kings were all overthrown by the very victim
they
selected. for their insane wrath—newspaper, were too
much for them, as each had leisure to discover
in exile.
And why? Because the press in its integrity
come a neeeasity of modern eivilizetioa—he,lla;s b,e,.-
integrity it is a thing the world daily Nee:s
bog will have. Prevented from freed -its and want-
an-d freedom of' criticism its intee •• 0:n of narration
becomes a dead, gaunt, hollow be °ItY is gone, and it
this hour in Paris. And with sucahlike the press at
modern civilized people will not long so
soulless corpse a
of his predecessors—feerfal t Crng he content. Two
successfully, a war of ietele t: nth— for a while
Napoleon knows their f I.Lien with the press. Louis
Aiews.

The T Queen's:CHE ASCOT CUPS.
by up and the Emperor's Vase &redesigned
-
Garrard, of the H waymarket. The Queen's Cup is Mr. Cotterill, and executed in silver by the Moil"'
group,.
the subject of which is taken from the first
been treated, either instaaanhtn't'
Spencer's " Fairy Queen," where the " gentle knelmg ore
encounters the lady mounted " upon a lowtlyfraesuently
white than snows.," has 1,1(1)il,
though it
possesses most of the ingredients calculated,
This
sterill has handled it
an attractive compobitinn. Mr. Co--- manner; and
in n striking and Piwler°B "i to form
qn(l
shape to his
while he has secured the pyramidal
I members of it with great
group, has disposed the severs
of
,;,,e the three animals, the
Judgment. The intrechmb, forms an agreeable con-
horse, the ass, and the lamsilver _
is in some parts bur-
trest. The surface of the silt' _
ed and deadened; bat this
niched, and in others f ,
frost he general effect, and has a
is done without destroying
n The Emperor's Vase is a can-
very pleasing inchesaPPewta-ee. in height, the base ornamented
delabrurn, 3 feet 6 ,arcs,
the subject of which is
with B COMpOSitiOriso of pg
"Thomas the Rhymer." The
w ott's
taken from Sir —:n this grout, is where Thomas meets
incident depicted
!riding down by the Elden tree." The
, " lady brightlted beading his knee, doffing his cap,
the
rnymer is repren.c ,y.
The whole effect of this piece of
and hailing the
inttZ.
beautiful The branches for the
is extre
llate , fully from the composition beneath,
ights tr„irmee, ' substantial but extremely elegant base,
which forms animals being designed with Mr. Cot-
the figures a
talent.
terill's usual I Hunt Cap is designed by Mr. A. Brown,
The BeYe
an red by Alessi's. Hunt and Roskell, of
d Disnatactu
New Bond street. It consists of a tezza-formed
pp ted by broken and entangled birch and
cup,au— nbreneath which is a group taken from the
Sr trees,
f• the "Russian Fugitive," by William
P°6llloThe group represents the hunter
Wordsworth.
at the moment ° e f the stag's death, when the fugitive
forth from her retreat and exclaims, " In
maiden rushes
me behold a stricken hind pursued by destiny." It is a
racing plate, and
very handsome
det,ig-enr and the firm by whom it has been executed
in silver.

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