The Sun.
London, England, 1860-08-30 00:00:00

StAMPED. 5.P.

THE NEW PARIS.- •
The Moniteur of Saturday contains a mag,oilcent.
eulogium upon the Emperor as the architectural
renovator of old, or rather as the founder of New
Paris. if war fails, and Europe will not fight, the
Emperor Will, at any rate, -go down to poSterity as
a great builder. Nobody will d.r.tny his genius for
brick and mortar. These are, in fact, the two great.
monarchical lines of diaplay—war and build:ll..
The Kings of the (‘yelopean period had, In their
rude way, i e Wee. that they were 'anmortalizing
thc..4kaelYes by masonry. Tllzy doubtless looked
'l;:?.rwardti4 tilo future; an?. considered with great
Rapoity that masx:es of solid stone could not fail to
ra bush (lyelopean dynasties, though the imagin I-
lion of. these mason dugs was very materialistic,
roi4i4ed upon hundred ton weights with too
lituo4.oertainty as pledges' of dynastic tenure. This
Was a Cyclopean miller than a logical argument.
The stones remain, but the dynasty of Royal ma-
sons was gone before history commenced. The
Egyptian lirt,gs were warriors and builders, and a

pyramid was In their days the great achievement
fox• a woluxell, and that which fastened his name

to the sail. The Assyrian monarch said, ' IS not
this great Babylon that I have built r He res!ed
on his .fame as 4 builder quite as much as on that
of a congu.e;or. The oomhinatian was particu-
lavly adole.ted by rren,ch Royalty. Louis XIV. was
pre-eminently a conqueror and a builder. There is
undauhtedly something, particularly satisfying in
-bnilding the Moniteur s,ays,. " The Etn;?eror
understands que le trare,:,7l apaise et ealiad." It is
" something doing,"—an answer to ail impertinent
questions f-coukpersons who demand evidence of!
mer:it h rulers.. It is the " sign" to those who
" seek after
Amis a triumphant list of pnb,ll:k edifices, pa-
laces, stre‘Js' squares, churches, hospitals, tnaisons
dA Ucours, schools, asylums, public fountains, &c.
which demonstrates the building power of the Em-
peror, and raises the eight years between 1852 and
It into one of the greatest building periods of
French history. It is a grand list undoubtedly.
"In 1821," says the Moniteur, " there arrived
from the retireinent of his province a young man,
g-ai, de beaucoup d'entrain. Ile made rapid
progress comme un charwlesit esprit, He W.a.a.
asked one day his " critical opinion of Paris as a
city, and he replied, It is a city, of unfinished pa-
, laces,' The Louvre especially excited his regret.
It was not only unfinished, but even what was
finished, that " eitqf (eeeztvre of grandeur and har-
mony," its eolonnade, could not be seen, because a
mass a dirty houses occupied' the spectator's
standing-ground. " This ground must be cleared,"
he said, and he cleared it, for this young architec-
tural critic was no ether than M. Thiers, But,
though M, Thiers cleared the ground, he did not
finish the palace; another has done what the Mi-
nister of Louis Philippe thought of, and removed
from Paris the archilteetural scandal which the Mi-
nister of Louis Philippe criticised. The reproach
of an unfinished Louvre no longer remains, because
Napoleon 111 has removed it.

This great achievement, however, is only the
crown and heading of a whole work of restoration,
witich has made Paris a new city. The Palais de.
Justice, the Church of St: Clotilde, the Central
Market, and the Bank Barracks, stand first on
the list, Thera we have eleven restored churches
or ecclesiastical edifices, some of them—as the
Church of St. Govinan l'Auxerrois and the
Church,of St. Etienne du Mont—very fine spe-
cimens of architecture; we have six schools, six
barracks, three asylums, five hospitals, nine
maisons de secours, the Hotel de Ville, and the
Mairie du Louvre, while various theatres,
various public buildings connected with the
pollee or trade, are either in course of construction,
or are receiving important additions and repairs.
We have also an enormous addition to the water-
works of Paris, and the number of fountains and
&inches sous trottoirs in connection with them. A
grand new Opera-house is already designed. But
besides public edifices we have a vast new growth
of street architecture. 4,349 houses have been de-
molished and 9,617 have been built in eight years,
and six new squares, besides the grand continua-
tion of. the Rue de Rivoli and the whole new street
plan in that quarter, now adorn Paris. The new
squares are planted, because the Emperor particu-
larly wishes tnat other parts of Paris besides that
around the Tuileries should have their gardens—
" ?utiles succursales du Jardin des Tuileries." Louis
XIV. shut up the garden of the Tuileries, against
the protest of Perrault, who boldly denounced this
exclusion "in the name of the children" of Paris.
But Napoleon 111. gives his subjects fresh garden
space. Nor does the work of improvement and
renovation confine itself to Paris; the places in
the environs, by a new plan, are to be architectu-
rally incorporated in the capital itself, and the
whole is to form one grand design of a capital such
as the world has never yet seen . The great number
of "new views" which have recently been opened in
Paris by the Emperor's plans have already indeed
changed the look of the city; many quarters of
Paris do not know themselves again; the close suf-
focating alleys and labyrinthal collections of pesti-
lential holes and corners are no more; paved and
macadamised roads occupy their place, 400 kilo-
metres of pavement and 100 of macadamisation, 390
of asphalt, and 350 of planted road having been
added Ito the street cleanliness and convenience of
Paris by the present Emperor, to which we may add
great improvements in collecting the dust, that
especial nuisance of Paris. But when the whole
work of renovation has gone on some time longer
—when the Seine has been purified, and its filth
carried off in sewers, when more " new views" have
been opened, and more old recesses of abominations
have been cleared, when the work of demolition and
the work of restoration have gone on a sufficient
time, and when, lastly, the environs of Paris have
been brought by one comprehensive design into
the capital itself,—we shall then have a capital
that as far transcends the Paris of Louis Philippe
as the Paris of Louis Philippe transcended all other
capitals. M. Veron, the writer of the paper in the
Moniteur, compliments the Emperor upon his mar-
vellous success, and gives us his compliment in the
Moniteur :--" I:was with the Emperor," he says,
"in one of, the narrow and sinuous alleys of the
Parc de Boulogne. It was just at the conclusion
of the peace with Russia, and my joy at the event
made a courtier of me. I said, vous faites
Lien la guerre, la paix, et les pares.' " Napoleon
111. has unquestionably a taste for building, and
he has also a knowledge of the French heart, and
of one avenue to it—viz., the apotheosis of Paris.
There is one celestial empire besides that of which
Pekin is the capital. "The kingdom of France,"
said Joseph le Maistre, " is next to the kingdom of
Heaven," and Paris is the centre and absorbent of
France. This and the expeditious machinery of a
despotism must account for the wonderful contrast
in the despatch and method with which these things
are done in Paris and in London.— Times.

THE REV. MR. PRICE AND THE

AG APEMONITES.

The repeated failures which have hitherto been
the only results of the strenuous exertions of the
Rev. Lewis Price to release his wife from the cus-
tody and influence of the Princeites, do not appear
to have had the effect of at all abating the ardour
of that gentleman, for hearing,upon reliable autho-
rity, that Mrs. Price was seen at North Petherton,
on Tuesday last, he at once proceeded to that vil
lage in the hope of being more fortunate than he
was on the previous occasion of seeking her rescue.
His arrival was soon made known, and in the course
of a very short space of time the greater portion of
the inhabitants were on the qui ave. A part of the
houses of Mrs. Amery and Mr. Vearncombe, two
adherents of Prince, were searched, but Mr. Price
expressed himself satisfied with the assurances of
the inmates, and did not proceed to any great length
with his investigations. After his return to Bridg-
water in the evening, he was told that Mrs. Price
had again been seen at Amery's house, and at an
early hour on Wednesday morning he accordingly
made another visit to North Petherton, but was not
fortunate enough to effect his object. It seems to
be quite certain that Mrs. Price was in the village
on Tuesday, but it also appears to be evident that
so great are the apprehensions of the Agapponites
that her husband will succeed in obtaining her res-
cue, that she is frequently removed at night from
one place to another in order to elude the vigilance of
Mr. Price's scouts. We understand that it is the in-
tention of the followers of " My Lord" to apply to
the county magistrates at their meeting to-day
(Thursday) at Bridgwater, for warrants against
several of the persons who took a prominent part in
the storming of the Agapemone on the 21st inst.
Mr. Price has written a letter to Brother Thomas,
offering to indemnify the Princeites for any loss to
which they may have been put in consequence of
attack upon their premises during the evening of
Tuesday week. The general feeling in the sur-
rounding neighbourhood is very strongly in favour
of Mr. Price, who receives constant offers from all
classes who wish to render their aid to his enter-
prise, although, from the fact of the Agapemone
being now guarded by a strong force of the county
constabulary, any future attempt will carry with it
more risk than accompanied previous sorties.

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- _ublunary world, resemble meaner
mortals. T'neYl-a-rendiffeeent measures of percep-
tion and capacity, and are not all gifted_evitlesaga-
city, understanding, observation, or good 'sense.
some amongst them are quick to discern and wise
to observe; they profit by experience and reflection;
they- are taught by the discipline of adversity e they
are schooled by events, 4iici guide and govern elieze-
.Seleas With wisdom, shaping their courses the
possible and the practicable—by the bene,4enius,
and tendency of the times in which their-.l 4 here :e
heloee is eeet. Others of them, ur e.iu, arnrimprac
ticable and -unteet.ch'eble---we had sailincor-
rigible--and never advance -r ',.cfr" Fp) or
therm ancient, mediaeval, and modern hisenries have
significant warnings, and have been written
wholly in vain. For them the events of 1789,
1793, 1829, 1830, and 1848 have been acted and •
happened in vain. Were Plato and Socrate4, were
Sully and De Witt, were Bacon and Burke, were •
Miraln au and .Malesherbes to rise from the tomb
and preach to there silly and thoughtless rulers, it._
would be all in vain. They learn nothieg and theta
forget nothing ; and, obstinate, untaught, tied un-
tenelieble, they deeeend to their unregret ted (web.
Princes and Potenates of this character, beret to
high stations, know nothing of the interest s, desires,.
and passions of mankind. They are without ac-
quaintance with the forms of real actual life, and
imagine that monarchs have nothing more to do
than to order and to govern by right divine., and.
subjects no other duties than to pay scot and lot,
to punctually score up their taxes quarterly or
half-yearly, and reverently to obey aettocratic
authority. Such princes were the late Sovereigns
of Modena and Naples, the one sent on hie travels
to Vienna, the other gone to his last fearful ac-
count. Princes of this kind, as Dr. Johnson save,
see the world in a mist, ate d. bound their views to
a narrow compass. Such princes have never had an.
opportunity of personally observing men in a pri-
vate
_cenflitiou, or of attaining that knowledge IX
life and character, and of the motives and springs
or action of the, masses, so neeeesary to successful
and sagacious rulers of men.
It has been observed of Cromwell by a diserimi-
nate and acute thinker, that it was to the private
condition in which he first entered the world that;
he owed his superiority of understanding over the
governors of his time. In a private station he
learned how to manage men, how to judge and dis-
earn, how truly and rightly to estimate causes and.
consequences. The same observation might be ap-
plied to William Prince of Orange, afterwards
"William 111., to Napoleon Bonaparte, to Bernadotte
King of Sweden, to Leopold King of the Belgians,
and to the present Emperor of the French. These
remarkable men had all a species of training and
trial which peculiarly fitted them for their arduous
duties. Some of them knew the precious uses or
adversity, and of early unprosperons fortunes, and
were thus withdrawn from those flatterers who often
hide weaknesses, stimulate bad passions and pride,
and encourege those vain tied futile pleasures, and
that thoughtlessness, listlessness, and insouciance
of mind, so fatal to all excellence.
Though the present Emperor of Austria, Francis
Joseph, in birth, position, and personal environ-
ments somewhat resembled, and in actual position
and power far surpassed and surpasses, his brothers
and kinsmen of Naples and Modena, yet
_we do not
place him in the same category of kings and gover-
nors as these wholly lost men. He wes, and still is,
Emperor of a larger and more civilised kingdom.
He was, and still is, one of the great Potentates of
Europe. He still rules over mixed races and creeds
—over Germans, Bohemians, Hungarians, Roumans,,
Croats, Greeks, Czecks, Servians, and Sclaves ; ho
still exercises sway over Roman Catholics and Pro-
testants of the Helvetic and Augsburg confessions,
over united and schismatic Greeks, Jews, Mahoree_
tans, and other dissidents. Such a monarch, the
successor of a Maria Theresa, a Joseph IL, and a
Leopold, should have large and liberal views. He
should remember that Austria produced good sove-
reigns, wise statesmen, and great soldiers long before
our and his day, and' that at the time she did so Italy
was not plundered or oppressed, or dragooned
into submission by Austrian bayonets; that Hun-
gary enjoyed, so late as in the reigns of Maria
Theresa, Joseph 11., and Leopold 11., her ancient.
constitution and her peculiar laws and privileges ;
and that, in this season, the Bishop of Rome
.aspired to no pre-eminence or authority, within
the wide extent of the Austrian dominions, pre-
judicial to the Crown, because subversive of its
rights and oppressive to the people—because:
trenching on their pockets, and privileges, and
interfering with their sacial freedom, habitudes,
and customs. If the doctrines of the French Revo-
lution of 1789 did not extend seventy-one years ago
into Austria it was because the Austrian monarch
was then sui juris—was then sovereign, not of a
section, but of the whole of his people; ruling over
all justly and fairly by law, and not setting Aus- •
trian against Hungarian, Bohemian against Aus-
trian, and Croat, Servian, and Illyrian against:
Hungarian, Bohemian, and German. The diaboliealt
and despot system of governing men against their
wills and against their interests by the aid of as-
sumed or stimulated antipathies of race and religion
was reserved for the epoch when the successor of
Maria Theresa surrendered his most precious im-
perial and royal prerogatives to an old man beyond.
the mountains—to an old man who is quite inca-
pable of guarding, and cannot govern, guard, or
control, his own small flock within , the walls of
Rome itself. How lamentably unsuccessful this bad
and vicious system has been in a political, financial,
European, and military sense appeared last year in
Italy. The Treaties of Villafranca and Zurich pro-
claim that the Imperial Austrian governmental',"
political, and military system is but a rope of sand,
without coherence, stability, or strength. In three
months the traditions of centuries and the acquisi-
tions of years melted into airy nothings. Worse
than this, a large and a gallant army was signally
defeated, and vast munitions and materials of war,
garnered up and husbanded at immense cost, were
wholly destroyed. The prestige of Austria is
since gone. ' Her finances are in a deplorable
condition, and she is wholly without 'recupera-
tive power—not from the want of natural re-
sources, but- from the leaden weight that op-
presses and stifles her. For a time there were not
wanting Close who hoped, and who even still hope,
much from the Emperor. He is young and in-
genuous, and believed to be well disposed. He has
tasted of adversity, if not of humiliation, in his
young years; and adversity is a stern teacher, an
inexorable taskmaster. Adversity may be yet his
helper and aid. If the Reichsrath is not to be a
mere empty name—if it is to be a reality, end not;
a sham, a deception, and a snare, it may save
Austria, serve Hungary by doing justice to that
nation, and preserve the integrity of the hereditary
dominions. A Hungarian officer of high military
rank and the highest professional repute in the
Austrian army, General Benedek, was some months
ago sent into Hungary, yet he finds his position,
after vain efforts at conciliation, wholly untenable.
He finds men of all ranks, classes, creeds, and call-
ings opposed to the system of the Austrian Govern-
ment, and the Roman Catholic, the Protestant, and
the Greek equally opposed to the imperial system.
Classes, creeds, confessions and nationtelities frater-
nised at Pesth on St. Stephen's day, Paul Magyars,
Croatians, Sclavonians, and Serviens, chimed to-
gether in one deep diapson of discontent against.
the Imperial Government. In the very presence
of the Imperial representative, the, ablest and most
energetic officer of the Austrian army, the Prince-
Primate proposed the health not of the Emperor of
Austria, but of the King of Huntgary, thereby im-
plying that Hungary by her constitution acknow-
ledged no Emperor, but only a King—a King
governing by an ancient constitution and well- -in own
laws. A magnate, the head
con-
fession, following the Prince-Primate,ther
oftheLutheran
clared
that all classes were unanimous in this view, and a
Roman Catholic and an Israelite expressed their
entire hccord. Meier these circumstances the sud-,
den arrival of General Benedek at Vienna may be
well accounted for, and people can understand that
he declares that nothing short of a restoration of
the constitution will satisfy a chivalrous, gallant,
and loyal nation. The Hungarians who are in the
Reichsrath do not possess the confidence of the
Hungarian nation, and it is understood that this
able soldier has sought to impress this truth, not,
merely on the Emperor's Ministers, but on the
Emperor himself. The Emperor, after the sad
experiences of last year, ought to k-nowthat
strength it
is
not
the bulk and quantity of territory that give
to kingdoms, but the cohesion an d contentment pro.•
duced by good government, The strength and force-
of every kingdom is wasted and diminished by jea-
lousy, discontent, and discord. It is not now pos-
sible to the Emperor of Austria to raise and amplify '
his power, for he overmeasured his forces last year;
but it is still in his power so to
manage his affeleo
as to keep them " from precipices
and manifest, ine
conveniences," to use the language of Beam.. To
enlarge his dominions is not now within pos-
sibility, nor if it were would it be his fr.rat duty
or greatest glory. His first duty ought to be and
assuredly it would be
his greatest glory , to diffuse
happiness, security, and contentment b' y governing
Hungary as it was governed in the days of its
ancient constitution and laws. Thr 3 Emperor of
Austria is still a powerful 'prince, • and he ought
to be master of his own house. He r night well take
a leaf out of the book of his victor-o f 1859 and ally
of 1860, and not suffer Rome to c ,vermaster him
either by treaty or concordat. The ; parer of the
French knows the Church of Rom Em
•e to be a good
servant. He will not allow it to be
•ac ome a bad and
imperioustaaster.-.—Norning Post