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him, any regard for the Magyars, or any
dislike of the Viennese Government, should give some
such simple proof of this as would be afforded by
wearing on his bosom the tricolour of the Hun-
garians. A. cockade of red, white, and green,
may be deemed a mere bauble by the
supercilious or the unreflecting, but as an
expression of the views entertained by the
great mass of the people of this country upo❑ matters
of vital consequence to all the nations of the earth,
we cannot by any means regard it as a subject of
little or no importance. If any demonstration what-
ever is to be made as a welcome to KOSSUTH in the
metropolis, let it be one worthy in all respects of the
people of England and of the de jure Governor of the
Hungarians.

Those who are only partially acquainted with
the events of the great Hungarian war, of which
KOSSUTH was the undisputed chieftain, would do
well to examine the masterly narrative by
Mr. PRIDHAM, now on the eve of publication,
From the early sheets of the work, which
have already been submitted to us, we
can perceive that a more lucid or more succinct ac-
count of the whole of those memorable transactions
has not hitherto appeared. The book is entitled
significantly enough " KossuTri and the Magyar
Land," and possesses the peculiar interest of being
the effusion of one who himself penetrated to the
scene of warfare as the correspondent of a leading
morning newspaper.

M. LOUIS NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, unwarned by
the fate of LOUIS PHILIPPE, perseveres in a course
of merely selfish and personal policy which cannot
but end in his ruin, as it did in the ruin of that much
more astute Prince, who, like himself, the created of
a revolution, and raised to power by the voice of the
people to carry out the principles of the revolution,
abused that power for the purpose of betraying those
principles, and endeavoured to escamoter (there is no
English word which can convey our meaning so ac-
curately) that revolution to his own private and
personal advantage. LOUIS PHILIPPE, however,
had the decency to assume the mask of hypocrisy
whatever he did was always with the best
intentions, and although it was palpable that the man
was an impostor, yet so cleverly was the imposition
managed, so adroitly was the mantle of hypocrisy
wrapped around him, that it was impossible not to
admire his consummate tact, and to feel that it was
almost a hopeless work to attempt to show to the
easily-deluded public how completely he was gul-
ling them. M. LOUIS NAPOLEON BONAPARTE has
latterly been endeavouring to imitate the proceedings
Of Louis PHILIPPE, but he does not possess the cun.
ning necessary to carry out his personal
policy, and by his conduct during the last
three weeks he has managed to offend every-
body, to please nobody, and has lost his
chance of being re-elected President into the bargain.
His career since the close of the session of the As-
sembly has been one continued series of blunders, and
of blunders of such a character as to be in politics
worse than crimes. He inaugurated the recess by
refusing to allow to KOSSUTH a passage through
France:; we have already commented at some length
on this gross blunder, and declared when the intelli-
gence first arrived of the refusal, and of the uncour-
teous manner in which it was given, that Louis NA-
POLEON, who up to that moment had possessed greater
chances of being chosen President in 1852 than any
of his competitors, had gone far to destroy those

chances. We have since been informed that the re- 1
fusel did not emanate from Louis NAPOLEON, but was
the act of M. LEON FAUCHER, who, without con-
suiting the PRESIDRN7 oi:the Republic or any of his
colleagues, sent off at pnee the offensive telegraphic
dispatch to Marseillevand_ from the tone of that dis-
graceful communication we are inclined to believe
that we have been rightly informed ; it is the missive
of an angry pedagogue, and could not have been
penned by any man who had mixed in good society,
or was acquainted with the ordinary language cur-
rent among gentlemen. But if the PRESIDENT were
ignorant of the existence of that dispatch until after
it was transmitted to Marseilles, it was a duty he
owed to himself to have at once dismissed the Minister,
and repudiated the document. He has not done sop
and he has thus made himself responsible for that
which was done we believe with the premeditated
purpose of rendering his re-election impossible. A
trap was laid for him into which he fell at once. His
conduct with regard to the repeal of the electoral
law has been equally injudicious. At the time that
M. EUGENE SUE was returned for Paris, the Bur-

graves, who knew that under universal suffrage
they would never have any chance of regaining
power, terrified the PZESIDENT, even then anxious
for his re-election, with visions of the election of
LEDILU RoLLIN in 11362, and scared by these repre-
sentations, he, the elected of six millions Frenchmen,
was induced to betray those who had trusted him,

and,deprive of the franchise those by whose suffrages he
was elected. It is absurd for his partisans now to

say that he never approved of the law. It was
proposed by his own Ministry, not by a Parliamen-
tary Ministry forced on him by the Assembly, but
by the D'HAurronn Ministry, his own personal
Ministry, and he did not exercise the right which he
possessed of, delaying its execution, therefore it must
be taken as his act. He now proposes its repeal.
Why ? The law has produced every effect which the
Ministers of M. Louts NAPOLEON BONAPARTE pro-
pounding it in his name, declared it would produce ;
not one of his expectations regarding the effect of the
law (save an unavowed one) has been falsified, but be-
cause he has discovered that this unavowed expectation,
that, namely, of his own re-election, will not be ful-
filled by that law, he forthwith proposes its repeal, and
hopes by this most transparent device to induce the
Republicans to support his pretensions. Not
one single Republican vote will he gain by this notable
plan. The universal Republican party in France con-
sider that the law of the alst May is ipso facto void,
we believe it would be better that the Assembly
should formally retrace its steps and withdraw it; but
the law itself is at this moment virtually repealed,
and all parties in the Assembly are willing to
consent to its abrogation, or to such a modification of
its provisions as would be tantamount to its abro-
gation. Finding that by his proposal for the repeal
of the law of the 51st May he had alienated the re-
actionaries without securing the support of the
Republicans, he forthwith, in order to con-
ciliate the reactionaries, and also with a
view to secure his re-election by force, if necessary ;
for we can easily imagine what would be the result of
the exercise of universal suffrage under the pressure
of the bayonets of the Bonapartist preatorians, pro-
claims two additional departments in a state of
siege, and for this he alone is responsible. As the
Aa4fional justly observes :
"M. Bonaparte is consistent; he has never ceased
since ho has been in power to oppose liberty on every
point. In vain was a new policy for the future an-
nounced a week since. We knew from the Constitution-
nel that the President would remain faithful to his past.
Two departments the more subjected to the regime of the
sabre sufficiently testifies this. His defenders will not
say that he has been driven to it. It is not the majority
which imposes this measure on him, for it is absent. The
majority is enjoying the sweets of repose, whilst we are
delivered up to Ministerial crises, and to decrees of
state of siege. It is not the Ministers; for the last week
there have been none. No, it is M. Louis Bonaparte,
and he alone, who, by his full and free will, suspends the
action of the civil law in two departments. If France, to
speak like a certain message, again seeks the hand of
the elect of the 10th December, she assuredly must bo
very particular or very blind; for never was the personal
will or the private policy of the President more clearly
manifested. M. Bonaparte exercises his right; be it so.
But it will also be agreed with us, that there is nothing
in common between democracy and a man who every day
places a fresh portion cf France under interdiction."
Such are the feelings entertained towards M.
Louts NAPOLEON BONAPARTE by the Republicans ;
whilst the reactionaries have agreed for the present to
merge their personal differences and to unite the whole
of their forces in support of General CHANGIARNIER as
a candidate for the Presidency in opposition to M. Louis
NAPOLEON. There is yet, however, a chance for him
to regain his position as a political man; it is honestly
and fearlessly to do his duty to the Republic, and to
declare at once that he renounces any candidature
which shall be a violation of the Constitution.

MISS GLYN'S READINGS OP SHAICiPERE.—TiIiS
celebrated tragedian gave a reading of Macbeth last evening
at the Whittington Club. It was what might have been
expected from her admirable impersonation on the stage of the
evil genius of the Scottish usurper; a magnificently declaimed
monologue, delivered with extraordinary power and a dis-
tinctness of enunciation, which did not permit a single
be lost. The spacious room was completely
crowded, to
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