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London, England, 1852-09-14 00:00:00

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almost always set to work extravagantly; and,
while they 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
Royal 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 naps-
1.11; and
overestimat prodigality in the pre-
ed.—Tirnes.
ralleled in this country; and we sincerely hope that
in that respect the Crystal Palace Company will not
be too sell-confident to imitate a safe and prudent
day are not necessarily synenimous - and even the
(fxavaomuprl.
of
e the million
be

:eVIRIT of the PULLIC JOURNALS.
TIMES.—The abyss of ignominy into which
Louis liorspire is pluegieg the French notion
st„vias to o-eome doily more unfathomable. No sentner
have we Ciparb•li one portion of the gloomy gult in
which the past, the present, and the future Of France
sstan to be buti..4, tom) we are aware of lower depths
and datkPr sh id,ws. We have ransacked ancient
his,.,•ry to btford us parallels in order to bring more
vividly to our orin minds and thos.- of our readers a
state of things for which modern Europe, happily,
amid all its disordc-rs and retrogressine, affords no
Prete dent. Toe estees of Pitilip or Commodus may
faintly image the fetes and spectacles offered to Paris
in exchange for her liberty, end the annals of Rome
before the Reeirmittion may afford miracles as false
and demands as shameless as those of the Bishop of
Le
; but for his last stroke of genius the Presi-
dent: need fear no historic parallel; it is happily
unique and origirae, a Napoleonic idea, and only Na-
poleonic. The effort of the President. has been not
merely to enslave the country wbich, seduced by
ouths and promises, trusted her liberty in his faithless
hanas, but to make
the nation itself the accom-
plice in its own degradation. Repression is carried
-to such an extent, and the 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.
Domitiau, as Tacitus tells us, kept a. register of men's
sighs. Louis Bonaparte must have his every act of
aggression welcomed with smiles. Many have
snatched absolute power by violence, or clutched it
by fraud; he alone demands as a gift that which he
has already taken as a right. But, more than this,
he puts into the mouths of his people entreaties for
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 tree 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 written,--.
e you are content to forego all that your ancestors
conquered for you, fur yourselves and to bow before a
power as much more odious
than h
claims and historic
oa that
traditions o
.Be f the
iteGrand.e
Montague as fraud and force are worse than here-
ditary
Your lives and liberties are
whom you may think the safer than re
bornintoveu withfree-
domif you please, squander themy on your
any own, and
adventurer you may,
yourselves. But
defectsua
of public spirit, and, if not for your as e, at any raten
your children They, at least,
r e t
; they were not deprived by any act rerf
their
o
own of this right, and they claim its continuance
from you. Let natural affection suptly the
for theirs, be free. You leave them your lands and
your goods ; leave them also the inheritance of equal
law and popular government, without which the pro-
prietor is a ryot, and the millionaire a mere deposi-
tory for the State." Will it be believed that this
very appeal, so irresistibly urging to freedom, Lone,
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 tile 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-
tablishment of hereditary power in the person of
Louis Bonaparte. This dectiment, which we have
elsewhere given at length, purportp• to be signed by
fath?rs 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 be Made
a periodical question ; that oth-revise a father cannot
possibly know the puliticol c.ojui crore under which
he will provide fur the marriage of the child whom
he fondles upon his knee; that therefore such a
presidency cannot satiety 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 .&foniteur lately as-
sured us " an essay was being made of the most un-
bounded liberty," is always to be absolute, and the
only question is in whose bands that absolute power
is to be vested. Despotism in France is an accom-
plished tact; and, according to this petition, no
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 families, to
selecting her own master. So win'
pletely are the
deprive posterity of the last vestige of freedom;
the power of
people of France considered to be
the property of their present and future rulers, that ,
it is even suggested,
in a spirit of ironical and con-
p
temptuous exaggeration, that no parent ought to
bring up a
child except be be born at the particular
period at which the change of de nasty is to take
tiny ; sbe cannot tell what will become of ere
piece. France has lost all control over her own
h des-
tiny
not presume to offer an opinion on sutject.thueencoover
All she wishes is, that the last reiric
roefr. off
The father
her fate may be taker, from her for
ehe has, as far as
of a family cannot be heY
deprived his unconscious off-
human rust itutions
y. of regaining the freedom
epring of the last poem
fro his degenerate hands. "It was
which, has elieir adis-intereeteditees" in the President to
great and bo.,e
decennial archon when it was open to
eliepravritaiofe,Pisistratus. But
d are disgusted at
d are moved by this noble and &sine
such P
r.aticier'fioait-quire that his authority sbouid be as
terestto
inhthiamekpeteohtiihtmiaoilerfc:::7giire-edc.(_,);_totii,)
time as in amount. We need not doubt
unlimited jut will be graciously received, that the
that the pethtion
fend affections of fathers and families will be held an
excuse for the zeal with which they canvass the de-
t
-sii„f. a constitution to which the President has
given the inviolable seal of his oath, and that in mercy
to the rising generation he will be persuaded, by the
prayers be 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 Miraheau and Lafayette.
Happily it is not iu the power of the French
nation to confer on the existing state of thinr,
the stability which is asked. Were
we believe that there is servility
So mortgage or alienate the rightso
it possible
O. posterity
enough in the country to assign and baseness
them over in the
most solemn and binding manner. .
But, happily
for the destiny of mankind, the right reverts, the
instrument is cancelled, and human nature re-enters
into possession of the dignity which it was sought to
forestall and destroy ; the possessor of land may
alienate the patrimony of his heirs, but a nation can
only squander the patrimony of the present. Bow
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 famil 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 tine
may go forward in the path
bounded despotism, they
y
of moderate progress, not holding their lives, their
liberty, and their property
as the free gift of an lsso-
lute tyrant, but gua-
ranteed by national spirit and enlightened public
opinion. protected by equal law, and

DOVEL—It has become a common remark, that in
no season has Dover experienced so large and continued
successions of visitors as 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 swim within the
scope of a day's holiday. This class of tourists cannot in-
clude our lint of fashionables, with whom Dover is tolerably
well filled.—Dover Telegraph.

The Dudley Gallery 4 Pictures end Sculpture,
containing the celebrated statue of the Greek Slave,by Hiram
Power, also a Venus by Canova. is still open to the public
(free), at the Egyptian lull, Piccadilly, without orders or
cards, every day but Mondays. Visitors are only requited,
to write thou' name itz a book kept for that purpose.