Sunday dispatch. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1845-1854, 1852-04-11
CORRESPONDENCE,


THE EXPENSES OF THE GOVERNMENT.
No W. nder that Louis Napoleon did not re-
spect the Constitution of lS48, when ne has not
respected that of which he was himself the
founder. Already he has Several times violated
it, yet it was hardly conceivable that he would
go SO far as to regulate the budget according to
his own will The Constitution of the Dictator
says formally that the vote Of impOst belongs
alone to the Legislative body. Yet what can
we hope from man who does not respect even a
Constitution founded according to his own good
pleasure
The budget which has been raised to three
hundred million dollars, speaks more powerfully
against the system of government which now
exists in France than anything else that can be
urged against it, There were people who
thought that the tyranny and despotism of
Louis Napoleon would be in some degree COM
pensated BY the great economy of the admins
tration. My humble Judgment has always pre-
dicted the contrary, and see to-day that have
not been mistaken. An evil government can
only support itself by injustice, can only exist
by the employment Of brute force and corrup-
tion, and such measures do not admit of econ
omy The budget which the Dictator has voted
himself exceeds by $l4 0O00 900 that of last
year, and in this computation the civil list of
the Prince President does not figure. It is sup
posed that this civil list will amount to eighteen
or twenty million francs. To blind the ignorant
there is given out with this budget, as revenue
of the State, the alienation of portion of the
peoples property, consisting of forests and lines
Of railroad But ruin is certain to him who thus
uses his capital as his revenue.
How long will this odious tyranny, this ruin
Gus system exist 2 Certainly not for any great
length Of time. It is generally believed that
the Dictator is about to proclaim himself En-
peror, and that the event will take place on the
lst of May on the occasion of the distribution
Of the new flags to the army. This is the fixed
-. .oFA Il ID 1ryfob 10
into the tomb bearing the title of his uncle. 1t
is possible that he may do 80, if he dies before
he becomes an old man, but otherwise am con-
vinced that the assumption of the crown will
lead him to exile, as it did his uncle to st. He
lena. I have been informed by a gentleman
that he has actually seen the imperial MANTLE
that It is completed, and is unequalled in splen-
dor. The title of Emperor can but be fatter-
ing to the vanity of the Prince President, for it
has been his beacon star since the I'd December,
e day in the calendar forever to be marked with
a black stone, not only by France, but the whole
of Europe.
EXPECTED RESIGNATION OF THE REPUBLICAN
MINISTER'S.
II generally considered certain that the three
Republicans elected to the Legislature, two in
Paris and one in Lyons, will resign their seats
when called upon to take the oath Of fidelity to
the tvrant M. Carnot is in Paris c0ncerting
with General Cavaignsc on the best manner Of
resiguSng the honor which the Independent cleo
tors have conferred upon them as their represen-
tatiVes.
ARRESTS.
The Minister Of Police in order to show his
usefulness and Importance is making incessant
warfare on those persons who refuse to worship at
the shrine of Louis Napoleon. Arrests are BE-
coming more frequent tnan ever, and as fast as
some are transported their places in the prisons
are filed with Others There are no people on
the earth who have q government so barbarous
and Einiduitous as the French nation at this
moment. There is no need Of being republican
in feeling, to abhor such tyranny, the heart Of
the velies aristOcrat if he possesses the feelings
Of humanity, must rebel against it.
All, we'll will it be believed that the deprav-
ed official journals counsel still greater severty,
and urge the utter determination ofevery French
man who dares to disaporove Of the reign OF the
despot Such was the language used BY Ia Pa
trie, the Bonapartiss journal par e1csfencs, but
the chief editor tbinkir this cannibA zeal lgte
exaggerated, made sort of an apology on the
following doy, saying that he should always ap-
prove of such measures of cIemeHcy as IL might
1le1se the government 10 use Up 60 the present
time, the clemency of the President resembles
that of the good King Of Naples, and Is in wor-
thy emulation of Nero.
PREPARATIONS FOR THE EMPIRE.
On Sunday last the dictator reviewed, in the
Place de CGTT0USet, a division OF the garrison OF
Paris. Thus it was that he preluded the Coup
d'Etat of the ID December, and probably this is
the prelude to his elevation to the Empire
But & he who raiseth himself shall be abased
and he who abaseth himself shall be exalted" :"
say the Holy Scriptures, and the great NapoIe con,
Charles X, and Louis Philippe have received a
lesson in this wise Emaxim; but forget myself,
tyrants have but one maxim and that is force and
cruelty. History isnothing in their eyes slavery
and supreme authority over slaves, is their
motto. Nevertheless, it is very certain that
there is no man who can long grind down the
people of Europe, beneath the yoke Of despotism
to which they are now subjected. The revOlu-
tion Of February ls4S is still remembered and
at the bottom of the hearts of the people re-
dictionary spirit exists, which will seize the first
opportunity to break forever the chains which
hold the old world in bondage, and to give to it
the glorious institutions which obtain in the i'm
inense continent of America, bounded only. by
The two creat oceans Of the world. Think Of us,
friends, IN the new world, help the cause of lib
ertv. which is that of all mankind, hasten for
ward the general triumph Of humanity.