The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-11-22
Foreign Affairs.

gives very good insight into the present work
ing of the new machinery there, and reliable in
formation as to the actual condition of France
at the present moment The want of accurate
information on the topics of which it treats, has
led, and will still lead, both writers and speakers
on those topics into the utterance of great alb
surdities.- From the subsequent proceedings of
the Assembly, in the rejection of the PROPOSE
ton of his new ministers that his recommenda-
tons in reference to the extension of the suf-
frage should be voted urgent" il is evident
that his {" coup d'eta" has proved failure. The
intelligent and accurate correspondent of the
Commercial Advertiser, gives the following in
teresting account of the reception of the mes
sage:
The effect on the Assembly was anything
but favorable; the opposition we're annoyed by
the hard epithets applied to them, and the re-
actionists not ut all softened by the batteries adj
| dressed them, and the assurances of renew ed
severity against the Socialists. Never was an
executive communication treated with more dis
respect Victor Hugo himself would not have
excited more derision, laughter, aud insulting
remarks on the benches of the majority. Alas !
for M. Bonaparte's hope of giving" new lustre
and dignity to the principle of authority" in
France; that principle is almost dead in the ma
tional manners. So many executives have been
either beheaded, or led, or chased away, or po
litey bowed over the frontier, that disrespect to
one of them no longer shocks public sentiment.
Even if Henry V. should come back and sur.
round himself with laced lackeys, frilled and
rutfled cOurtiers in short clothes and long stock.
, in md all ba iob
royalty he would find them but a frail barrier
against the rude scrutiny of public opinion; he
would soon learn that even the noisy monarch
J lists are not monarchists except from the lips
outwards. A half crazy street preacher could
scarcely have been treated with more disrespect
than the President was by the very men who
are necessarily clamoring about the necessity OF
t erecting monarchy and giving prestige to the
. executive power.
The ministry demanded an early discussion OF
= its project of electoral law. This was refused
bya vote of 1888 to $50, but the Republicans
8 and 80 EIyseans voting in favor NJ Berger
n led the attack against the President, having
= veered round since the close of last session
This defeat was followed on Wednesday by a
more signal one; in the election for officers by
!, the fifteen bureaux into which the Assembly is
divided, every Bonaparist was excluded The
|
der the immediate patronage of the Eiysee, at
tack the President and his ministry with the
, unsparing animosity while the Republican pa
pers continue to doubt his sincerity, and call on
him for vigorous acts in order to prove it,"
From this it would seem, that the chances
of the nephew of his uncle" for reelection,
were growing small by degrees and beautifully
less The came observer further adds:
"The next few months will be agitated by
the struggles, quarres, and intrigues of the dit
ferent fractions of the old re-actonary coalition,
and the attempts Of the Republicans to preserve
the free institutions of the country, and secure
some liberty of action for themselves The
great danger lies in the needless and desperate
compression of the people, agreed on by the en-
tire reaction. This may lead to civil war; and,
through that, to very disastrous political results.
9 But if this be avoided by the entire or partial
restoration of universal suffrage, it matters lit
tie whether Bonaparte, or Joinville, or Chan
GARNER, be at the head of affairs, the fundamen-
tai principles of French institutions must receive
their gradual development, and the country
must move onward in the route of Industrial
and democratic progress"
The English papers are filled with the pro-
ceedings in honor of, and responses made there
TO, by KossUTH. Our own country has not pro-
duced more indefatigable or dextrous stump
speaker than Se has proved himself to be. The
mails bring us by the last arrival no less than
two lengthy speeches, and one short one all
emanating from the same prolific brain and ready
tongue, that preached sanguine-tinged democra-
cy at Observation-Disclosures monarchy in
Great Britain-and now on the eve of departure
for this land of liberty, rroclaims our republic
the great model and exemplar. KossUTH may
be consistent with himself and his own ulterior
public ends-but his speeches on the occasions
indicated, are very hard to rcconcile-uness the
great Magyar is supposed to be so very impress.
BILE as to vary his principles and policy, with
each successive change of climate, or environ
ment One of his last speeches was made to a
mass meeting of the workngmen of London
and in it he gives free utterance to thoroughly
democratic republican sentiments. We shall
republish the most striking portions of this
speech in our next issue.
While openly declaring his design and desire
of making Hungary Republic, he, at the same
time denounces Socialism, and those other shapes
of radicasm that assail the rights of property
and would lay the axe of" reform" at the very
roots of society.
In another speech addressed to the friends of
Italy, he deprecates interference with the con-
Germs of other countries, and leaves to MAzzIEr
the task Of ogitating for the liberation of his
own country. His third and last speech was a
brief response to deputation of French Demo.
Gratis headed by LOUIS BLASc-from which we
extract the following passages
any address to the city Of Marseilles has made
known that in my heart should not make France
responsible for the inhospitality of Louis Bona
parte. have also affirmed in that address that
wish for my country the government of re-
public am convinced that there is nothing
possible honceforth in Eurape but the republi,
based on universal suffrage, with the principle
of the solidarity of peoples and the independence