Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1852-01-08
Arrival of the Canada mt Bossom

AI1tAl VA aaS SsAaasASa" sAS A1S'SVAA
The steamship Canada arrived at her
wharf, Boston, at s o'clock on Sunday MORN
ing,
The news from England is quite unmpor-
tant. In the state of the money market, and
in the price Of government securities as
quoted ut the latest date and ut the date OF
our latest previous intelligence, there was no
sensible change.
We do not observe any incidents in the
more recent intelligence to afford any lndIca-
tion of q direction of public sentiment IN
France which can aid one forming an opinion
of the probable result of Louis Napnleon's
attempt, beyond what might be formed from
the events of the first opening. cir Francis
Bond Head, who recently has returned from
France, in q note addressed TO the London
Times, says:
From date was enabled to collect, | am
induced to believe, and without hesitation
forcteI, that the bold steps he has latcl ly ta-
ken will, by an overwhelming majority, be
approved by the army in France, by the army
in Algeria, by the citizens of Paris. and by
the inhabitants of the whole French Rcpub-
lie.
VII otHSi Ptto va WV 'ho"SS .
note the Times remarks:
For ourselves, after The experience VIC have
now had, and the certainty we have now ac-
Quired that Louis Napoleon and his Govern
ment are restrained in their course by no
earthly consideration of law and duty, we
must confess that our confidence in his future
conduct is extinct AS long rs he remained
within the bounds of the law. far from offer
ing him any opposition, we were disposed TO
view his struggle against factious Assembly
with favor, and we have only reason to regret
that he has acted with less integrity than we
then gave him credit for. We still hope that
he will consider it his interest TO maintain
amicablc arrangements with the British Go
vcrnmcnt, and that he will not add the hor-
rors of foreign war to the evils which already
afflict his country. 1t is not improbable that
his natural jealousy of any brilliant military
achievements accomplished by other leaders
of an army not under his own command will
deter him from engaging in war: and it GER
tainly is tho duty of the British Government
and nation not to allow the opinions they
must entertain of his actions in France Ia
alter or impair the international relations oi
the Western States of Europe.
LAMARTryE on THE CoUP D'ErAT.-In the
Pays, Lamartinc's paper, on Wednesday, the
following occurs" Al present VIC raise our
voices neither to approve nor to protest
We feel that all discussion is impossible, not
only because the government would prevent
us. What we every day asked for was, that
France should be saved from the crisis which
awaited her in 1922 The assembly cung
with obstinacy to the fatal law OF May 81.
and that body has ceased to exist. The As
sembly pcrishcd precisely from two causes,
the disastrous effects Of which we had in
vain attempted to paralysc; the law Of May
3lst, destroyed the majority, and socialism,
destroyed the minority. Between the law OF
May 3lst and socialism, there were the re-
publican and universal suffrage, and it is
precisely thcsc two words which were III
yokcd by Louis Napoleon Bonapartc to dis
solve the assembly. and thus TO destroy the
constitution.
We were marching forward to catastrophcs
amidst those two currents Of passions, anl-
bitiuns, rancours, and hatrcds. the believing
of which scarcely permitted some indcpeIl.
dent voices to make the cry of alarm heard
which France was raising. If those voices
betn repealed. If the revision Of the c0nsii.
tnlinn had been accepted by the majority, il
all the parties had consented to do what
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte had just done
himself-that is, to allow the people to dc,
cidc-we are convinced that what has; hap.
pcned would never have occurred. We nc,
cusc no one; for were we to commence, VIC
should be obliged, perhaps, 10 accuse every
one. The present situation is not our work
We have not desired it: but we take it us ii
is, and with the desire, as public men, 10 full
fiji all the duties which it imposes. The as
scmbly is dissolved, and the constitution has
disappeared. But there remain two great
things, the republic and universal suffrage.
There remain also. what we desire 10 defend
above all things-namcly, France.