Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-05-29

will afford shelter for few days 10 the emu Vi next
week Do you ask the cause OF this extraordinary
animation in Paris? 1t is nothing more or less
than the desire to be present at the grand military
fSte to the coming of which your correspondent has
SO often alluded Thousands confident that the
second week in May, week that has already COM
menced, will be marked in history as the commence
ment of another imperial period think that all
such will be disappointed. The Empire is coming as
surely as the world is moving but the nominal procama-
ton of the Empire is not to be heard believe for two or
three months yet great decisive imperiahst manifes
taton will made week OF that there can exist no
doubt But one swallow does not make summer"
True we have had many swallows; but all of them, as
vet like the noisy flock shall Monday Tuesday
and Wednesday next have been merely symptoms of the
summer that is still to The atusconsultum and
the plebisctum to follow, and believe they will be
allowed regularly follow the accamations of the SOL
diery the distribution Of the eagles am still Of opin
ion that things will take the have all along ndi
Gated the natural and probable one.
cannot forbear, while this subject of the Empire,
sending you the following extract from the Public Bona
partist paper of Paris 1t affords the best specimen
lately of the arrogance impudence and
weening sefesmaton which characterize the French in
more marked manner perhaps, than any other people
perhaps than ourselves The article is in au
sion the possible opposition Of the Northern Powers to
the reestablshment of the Bonapare imperial dynasty in
France Here is the article translate from the French
ssWhat Europe will arm if NAPOLEON Ill should be
proclaimed Emperor! What an absurdty Why, it is to
be certain of it it is that the fact may be better
authenticated that every Power the other side of the
Rhine is sending to the Review of the 10th of May her
generals her delegates and her travellers Stupid that
not to know France better ungrateful that
we not to love her more Do then longer hold
that France is the intellect the heart the soul of Europe
However mperious may be the wishes of France; how
exavagant her will; however vast her acts; what
she desires Europe asks what she wills Europe executes
what she accompshes Europe accepts upon her knees
God only knows what may become of the Empires but at
the cry of Fire PEmpe uttered by Paris do you know
what will be the responding cry from the Bosphorus to
the Tagus from the Visula the Ebro Thames
to the Tibers The cry of a hundred millions of of
Pope, of two Emperors of Sultan of twenty Kings
of hundred Princes: Glory him rho has saved 2
And this viii be but justice; for these heads of
empires and of kingdoms who, after the despicabe
voluon of 1S48 had sufficient respect fer France not
to raise voice against the dsgraceful Government
which she had adopted these nations whose eyes are
upon and who love because they know that is
who give to them all that eevates them that nstruct
them that enlghtens Them and that makes them better
this Europe, regenerated by the reawakenng of order
and saved by the I'd Of December expects from God this
supreme browning act of the only efficient, the only
legitimate, the only holy, the last OF reyolutons-te
Empire"
Here is another article which am sure you will well
TO the columns of the Intelligencer. 1t is from
different Journal different subject, dictated by diff
erent spirit founded upon different and deeper philoso
ply The American naval expedition just Japan
from the United States has been matter of comment in all
the French journals. These comments generally in
kindly spirit toward US But have seen none except
in the De6ats which deem worthy Of special note The
Journal des Debats Of the Sd instant contains an article
upon this subject which think remarkable seye
raj that refrain from ransating it
ia Ia m ahl To
rid himself of prejudice judge mparaly the rival
Anglo-Saxon / had seen but two. JOHN
LEMoTNSE, Of the Debdts, is the third He writes as
follows:
In our days children have witnessed several re-
solutions They will yet see many Others for humanity
never hats; and even Nature abhors vacuum the
mind abhors lmmobility While old Europe folds her
self system of concentration, the immortal law Of pro-
gress marks out paths and the spirit of Him who
walked upon the waters the that work
OF expansion and propagation which viii terminate only
at the end Of time. The Proverb says You 20 TO the
right, 60 TO the left and in the end shall meet
Well these words will be realized and they will be
allied in day by the children Of that adventurous in
dOmitabe which scattered the whole universe
and Of which il has been said drisos orbe Brdnaos
The two great currents issuing from the AngoSaxon
race-the English and the American peope-are on the
march, the towards the East and the other towards
the West destined to meet and to unite after having ira
versed the world The place appointed for this solemn
rendezvous the fabulous empire which has been called
the Middle Empire and which we may with the
poet the roab Of the porld'
To complete the circuit and give to each other the hand
there now remains but obstacle to be overthrow il
is the last defence of the old word-the great wall of
China Before long, the English and the Americans
speeding like the winds from opposite extremies of the
earth with their steam and their powder will take this
last entrenchment between two fires and under their
peated attacks it will fall fell the walls Of Jericho at
the sound Of the trumpets."
The writer then goes to describe the rise and pro
gress Of English domination in the East China win
or later fall before them They win not seize upon China
voluntarily any than they have created and built up
their East Indie domination voluntarily Extension pro-
pagston sway is the forced condition Of their tits
destiny "while the English marching to the assault
Of old Asia by the way Of the Red Sea and the Cape OF
Good Hope behold the Americans setting out for the
goal by the way Of the Pacific. The Government
Of the United States is sending feet to Japan By-and
by shall probably see the Americans opening way
with cannon into this motionless as the English
have lately done in China Long have these hardy
and Unsuitable pioneers cast coveng eyes upon those
gons Astounding in riches TO which they forbidden
Heretofore they have visited those regions merely
scouts and reconnoiterers They going pre-
sent themselves sovereign Power"
Then follows article the japan expedition quoted
from the New York Courier and Enquirer, and NJ. LIZ
concludes his remarks with the following passage
1--WE have quoted these words because they place in
striking contrast with each other the two great principles
which waging in the remote East that battle
which commenced in the world eighteen centuries
agothe principle Of exclusion and the principle Of ex
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