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tays set to work extravagantly ; and,
carry out what they engage to do in first.
rate style, they overlay it with an expense
which long
impedes the public benefit to be derived from it. The
R. Commission, on the contrary, as trustees of the
funds collected for the Exhibition, did not scruple to
screw everything down as tightly as possible; and
they had in the acting members of their Executive two
men singularly well qualified to control the extrava.
gance of the accomplished artists and clever projec.
tors by whom they were surrounded. For the labour
performed, therefore, the economical management of
the recent spectacle in
Hyde-park is probably unpa-
ralleled in this country; and we sincerely hope that
in that respect the Crystal Palace Company will not
be too self-confident to imitate a safe and prudent
example. Magnificence and prodigality in the pre-
sent day are not necessarily synonimous ; and even the
fAvour of the million may be overestimated.—Tinges.

gn o mi n('y tj iN
intot A 1-4 S
which
;--2. PißlEiTs._orif
bteheahly'sUs FsaLliC j
Louis Bonaparte is plunging the French nation
seems to become daily more unfathomable. No sooner
have we explored one portion of the gloomy gulf in
which the past, the present, and the future of Prance
seem to be buried, than we are aware of lower depths
and daaker shadows. We have ransacked ancient
history to afford us parallels in order to bring mere
vividle to our own minds end those of our readers a
state of things for which mocia.rn Europe, happily,
amid all its disorders and retrogression, affords no
precedes;. Tee games of Philip or Cominodus may
faintly image the fetes and spectacles offered to Paris
in exchange for her liberty, and the annals of Rome
before the Reformation may efford miracles as false
and demands as shameless as those of the Bishop of
Lucon ; but for his last stroke of genius the Presi-
dent need fear no historic parallel; it is happily
unique and original, a Napoleonic idea, and only Na-
poleonic. The effort of the President has been not
merely to enslave the country which, seduced by
oaths and promises, trusted her liberty in his faithless
hands, but to make - the nation itself the accom-
plice in its own degradation. Repression is carried
to such " eztentand she power exerted is so
,
peremptory and absolute, that people are
com-
pelled not merely to acquiesce, but to take an
active and eager interest in rivetting their own fetters.
Domitian, as Tacitus tells us, kept_a register of men's
sighs. Louis Bonaparte must haie his every act of
aggression welcomed with smiles. Many have
,
snatched absolute power by violence, or clutched it
by fraud; he clone demands as a gift that which be
asaright. But, more than this
of his people entreaties for
he
eas puts alreinadtoy takenthe
mouths
slavery and petitions for degradation, sanctioned and
enforced by an appeal to the deepest and tenderest
passions of human nature. If it were possible to raise
a free voice or wield a free pen in France, there is no
topic to which the writer or orator would so readily
resort as the blighted hopes and ruined destinies of the
rising generation of Frenchmen. "You are content,"
Constant might have said or Courier have writtene--,
power as
r`v`iyonoinalaureeacsofnrtaeundt to
dforefgorocaell that your
Bec.estors
conquered for you, for yourselves, and to bow before a
Your lives and libertiessquande
much more odious than that of the Grand
are worse than here-
ditary claims and an-
wi f
whom
mu
youplea please,
may
think
thhiestoric traditions. fi it so.
your children ! They,deampt r
il
are your own, and you y,
them on any adventurer with
!Lifer than yourselves. But
veeadst,bwere born into free-
dom; they were not
own of this right, and they
from you. Let natural affection s
chi any act of their
of public spirit, and, if not for your sake, at any
your lands and
claim its continuance
supply the defects
for theirs, be free. You leave them rate
your goods ; leave them also the inheritance of equal
law and popular government, without Which the pro-
prietor is a ry ot, and the millionaire a mere deposi-
tory for the State." Will it be believed that thisin
very appeal, so irresistibly urging to freedom, Le,
Napoleon Bonaparte is now making to France, or
rather requiring France to make to him, in order
that he may perpetuate her slavery ? On behalf of
the children whom they may fondle on their knees,
as they value the hopes of the dearest objects of
parental love, the fathers of France are instructed
to beseech Louis Bonaparte to break yet one
more oath by declaring his power perpetual, and
thus to secure the future of millions, whose existence
they are made to assure him hangs upon his breath.
There is something in this passing the limits of ordi-
nary degradation, and the very sacrament of nature is
profaned and invaded when the love of the parent
for his child is put forward as a ground for selling
him into servitude. Let our readers judge for them-
selves. There is now printed and circulated in.
France a petition to the Senate, prepared by an
ardent supporter of the President, under the direc-
tion of the Minister of the Interior, for the re-es-
teblishment of hereditary power in the person of
Louis Bonaparte. This document, which we have
elsewhere given at length, purports to be signed by
fathers of families and labourers. It states, that in
a country like France all interests are placed under
the sovereign influence of the Chief of the State;
that who is to be this chief ought not to he made
a periodical question ; that otherwise a father cannot
possibly know the politico: conjuncture under which
be will provide for the marriage of the child whom
be fondles upon his knee; that therefore such a
presidency cannot satisfy the loftiest and sweetest
sentiments of parental and conjugal love; that, were
it otherwise, the births ought in a peculiar manner to
correspond to the renovation of the Executive; and
that the present generation, having conquered
anarchy, would violate all the duties which it owes to
succeeding generations if it were to allow the prin-
ciple of resistance to be individualized ; and prays,
for these and other reasons, that Louis Napoleon may
be invested with an hereditary succession. We can
imagine no grosser insult offered to any nation than
that contained in this really official document. Go-
vernment in France, where the Moniteur lately as..
sured us "an essay was being made of the most un-
boonulyndgeudeslitbioeu is in
liberty," is
whosealwayhsatnds thatobeab absolute
anpdowthere
is
petition, ae o
mn
o-
pisliathoebde
fvaeestte;d.
auDd,espaeootiosrmdining
Ftora to
other form of government is possible. All that
can be done for future generations is to make it
stable and permanent, and, in order to gratify the
affectionate yearnings of fathers of fames,irto
vestige
deprive posterity of the last
the power of selecting her own master. So com-
pletely are the people of France considered to be
the property of their present and future rulers, that
it is even suggested, in ••of • • land dbn-
- a spirit ironies . ,
temptuous exaggeration, that no parent ougas___,_t°
bring up a child except he be born at the particular
period at which the change of dynasty is to take
place. France has lost all control over her own des-
tiny ; she cannot tell what will become of her—she
does not presume to offer an opinion on the subject.
All she wishes is, that the last relic of influence over
her fate may be LA:taken from her for ever. The father
tin be has, as
. far as
of a family cannot be happy,
human institutions can, deprived his unconscious f
regaining the freedom
off-
spring of the last possibility
degenerateo hands. "It was
which has slipped from
histedliess" in the President to
great and noble disinteres
decennial archon when it was open to
make himself a
him to have carried out thepart of Pisistratus. But
greedy of servitude,
aredisgusted at
the petitioners, _
d are moved by this noble and
such prudery, prudery,oarneg
uire that his authority should be as
terested man t
n time as in amount. We need not doubt
unlimited
'Wiwi will be graciously received, that the
that the pe
affections of fathers and families will be held an
fond zeal with which they canvass the de-
excuse for the
President has
to which theh
tails of a constitution .
the inviolable seal of his oath, and that in mercy
given . .
the rising generation he will be persuaded, by the
to
prayers he has dictated himself, to suffer the gentle
, violence of converting the ownership of France and
Frenchmen from a term of years into a fee-simple.
Such is the language held, such are the sentiments
expressed, in the country of Mirabeau and Lafayette.
Happily it is not in the power of the French
nation to confer on the existing state of
things
the stability which is asked. Were it
possiige
to mortgage or alienate the rights of
we believe that there is servility and baseness
enough in the country to assign them over in the
most solemn and binding manner. But, happily
for the destiny of mankind, theright
reverts, the
instrument is cancelled, and human tors'
into possession of the dignity _ . nature re-en
Which it was sought to
forestall and destroy ; the a
nation ca possessor of land may
alienate the patrimony of h•
but n
la heirs ,
only squander the patrimony of the present. How
often those rights have been surrendered and re-
conquered by France history can tell, and we are
much mistaken if the prayer
and hope of every honest
father of a family is not that his children may escape
the snares with which his own path has been strewn,
and that, free alike from unbridled license and un-
bounded despotism, they may go forward in the path
of moderate progress, not holding their lives, their
liberty, and their property as the free gift of an abso-
lute tyrant, but protected by equal law, and gun..
ranteed by national spirit and enlightened public
.
opinion.

DOTER.—It bas become a common remark, that in
no season has Dover experienced so large and continued
successions of visitors o during the one of 1852—visitors of
a day or two—embracing the facilities for travel, both on sea
and land, to stir abroad from busy inland scenes, and sip the
salubrious air of our south-eastern coast, to catch a glimpse
of the land of Frenchman, and retire home to wonder at the
variety and distance of objects brought by steam within the
scope of A day's holiday. This class of tourists cannot in.-
clude our list of fashionables, with whom Dover is tolerably
well filled.—Doter Telegraph.

The Dudley Gallery of Pictures and Sculpture,
containing the celebrated statue of the Greek Slave,by Hiram
Power, also a Venue by Canova, is still open to the publie
(free), at the Egyptian-hall, Piccadilly, without orders or
cards, every day but Mondays. Visitors are only required
to write their amea in A book kept for that wpm.