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AINERTISER.—France is again in
crisis. If Paris be not in a state of agitation, it is be-
;e Paris is in a state o` siege. The people are tran-
quil, because they cannot assemble together to inter-
change their feelings or to act in any way in concert.
The siege was proclaimed yesterday morning at an early
hour. The declaration of Paris being in a state of siege,
was the accompaniment of an edict from the Dykes) dis-
solving the National Assembly and the Council of State,
followed by an appeal to the country on the principle of
universal suffrage, in favour of a ten years' Presidency,
and two legislative Chambers. For such information,
which at best is but exceedingly scanty, as has reached
this country, by means of the electric telegraph, re-
specting the circumstances under which this startling
change in the position of matters has taken place,
we must refer to another part of our paper. There
is every reason to assume that the bold step which
Louis Napoleon has taken was, so far as regards
the particular moment, the result of some sudden
impulse. We cannot on any other supposition
account for the circumstance of its being so entirely un-
expected, even in the best informed circles in Paris.
It is clear that the moneyed men—the men who have the
credit of knowing things before they can well be said to
had
have taken place—it is beyond all question, that they
not the remotest idea of what was coming. There
rfoisres,oameed
wweepreksh
could be no better proof of this than is furnished by the
and declaring fact, that ne,
ee to e close of business hours on the
Bourse the previous evening, the funds continued to
stateo !u ti on
a suddenly. formed deter of tees` hambersbe in of
pigat at the close than they had been
sieg the particular itahreirng therefore,par
time 'must have been the effect of
must have kept his ovvnesrwination,
secrets in a manner which few
persons in such a positionee
we wonder at what has h
elapsed since we said that thea isto thedia"
what has occurred? Assuredlyaeened? Are we surpriseolat
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—a majority composed of fusunirhonoiafaj:
personalr
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his personal
templating. To be so charged, and foinfivihim with c°ll-
- goading him on every day, anci
the day, to commit the very crime of svhichavthry him, was more than could be borne. There eay accused
to patience: there are bounds to forbearance. hour of
rehliits enduring creature in the wide domain of animals e most
ence will not tamely submit to be always troddenxi- --
and hurt, without at least evincing a disposition to
re-
sistance.on Why, then, should we wonder at the step
which Louis Napoleon has taken? Human nature could
not have borne the provocation he had received at the
hands of the Burgraves. It is their act and deed quite as
much as hie. They have done it all, so far as regards
the motive. The ground for surprise 18, not
pedient now, but that he so long refrained from taking
the step.
sthuaPtpltyhie President has had recourse to this extreme ex-
ng
Never did man, in his situation, bear so
much and so long. The majority in the Asaembly
seemed to imagine that their sole mission, as members of
the Legislature, was to harass, annoy, and in every pos-
sible way, insult the President. And assuredly, had that
been the express purpose for which their constituents
had returned them to the Assembly, they could not have
more faithfully or perseveringly fulfilled their mission.
For nearly two years there has scarcely been a day in
which some new manifestation of personal hostility to-
Lous Napoleon, has not been made. And even when an
adjournment of the Assembly took place, it was not until
a Committee of Permanence was appointed, to watcth
with vigilant eye every movement of Louis Napoleon',
under the pretext that he was suppose 1 to entertain put-
poses at variance with the Constitution. Nor did this
feeling of personal hostility, prompting ofttimes to acts of
intentional insult, in any degree abate with the lapse of
time. It seemed, on the contrary, to become more
intense with every fresh rising and setting of
the sun. It only appeared to have reaohed its
climax, when the implacable personal foes of the Presi-
dent gravely proposed, some four or five weeks ago, to
deprive the Executive of all right of control over the
army, and to assume that power to itself. Had they suc-
ceeded in that attempt, they would have had their re-
venge gratified to the full on Louis Napoleon. They
would have wreaked their wrath with no sparing hand
on his devoted head. The dungeons of Vincennes would
have been his first destiny, to be followed, very possibly,
by something even worse than that. Though defeated
in that attempt, they still determined to persist in
affronting and seeking to injure Louis Napoleon. Close
on the heels of the majority's defeat on the question to
which we have just alluded, came the attempt to carry
the Responsibility Bill, and even so late as Saturday last,
the commission appointed by the Assembly to prepare
a measure in accordance with the principle of Presidential
responsibility, as laid down by tho majority, devoted
a sitting of several hours to the consideration of the
propriety of impeaching the President, in certain
contingencies, which they regarded as of possible occur-
rence. We give in the words of the communication,
from our able Paris correspondent, which appeared in
our impression of yesterday, the proceedings before the
commission on Saturday. "M. Prudie," says our cor-
respondent, " who lately proposed as an amendment,
that the President of the Assembly should be invested
with power to call out any troops that he may require
for the defence of the Assembly, again presented an.
other amendment, to this effect:—` The President shall
be impeached fa- high treason if be should att,mpt an
unconstitutional re-election, by causing the law to be
violated, or not punishing any public functionaries who
may attempt to further his re-election.' Another
simendin, nt, equally hostile to the Presith nt, was pre-
sented by M. Combal de Lyval: It shall be high trea-
son for the President to provoke the violation of the Con-
stitution by bribes, threats, or promises, or other arti-
fices.' Both of these amendments, directly aimed at
the President if he should attempt his re-election, were
rejected after strong discussion, when M. Berryer pro-
posed The President shall be impeached for high
treason if he attempt to violate the 45th article of the
Constitution,' M. Zanvier said that he thought all
these propositions so objectionable that be should vote
for none of them. A tremendous scene of recrimination
then followed, when, finally, M. Berryer's proposition
was carried by seven votes to six." What mortal, we
again ask, could always submit to the system of insult
and attempt to injure, of which these proceedings of Sa-
turday constituted but the last scenes? The wonder, we
repeat, is, that Louis Napoleon could have displayed the
forbearance he has done, under such great and manifold
provocations. But the crisis has come at last. The day
of forbearance has passed. Louis Napoleon has ap-
pealed from his personal enemies in the Assembly, to
the people. Ho will not appeal to them in vain. They
have not been inattentive to what has been passing
before them during the last two years. They have nut
been unconcerned spectators of the scenes which have
lately been exhibited in the Assembly. They are with
Louis Napoleon—with him almost to a man. Ilia foes
have no party without the walls of the Chamber. They
stand alum/. And now that matters have come to a
climax, they will quarrel and become divided among
themselves. Like a nest of conspirators who have been
detected and defeated, they will begin to indulge in
mutual recriminations. We shall have a new illustration
of the old adage respecting hottest men getting their
own, when a certain class of persons fall oat. We are
sure that, in France, the universal feeling must have
been one of utter weariness at the state of things which
has latterly prevailed, and that there must be a corre-
sponding delight that, an end has been put to it. We
have, we repeat, no apprehensions of the result of the
should a still greater number vote
would not surprise us,
appeal which Louis Napoleon has made to France. It
-for his re-election than voted for his elevation to the
Presidency of the Republic in 1818.

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