Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1852-02-28

APPREHE NDED INVASION OF ENGLAND
Strange AS il seeRIs 10 as, en- this side of
she water, there is really an apprehension
among intelligent men in England that the
President of France may seriously mediate
an invasion of the island. TheiEnglish pa
pers are fall Of the subject, and If we may
credit the reports, tae government has par
taken OF the popular alarm, and has taken
measures to strengthen the detences, and
concentrate the forces around London
Nothing can seem more absurd than the
invasion Of England, but this is the age of
splendid absurdities, and we must be aston
ished at nothing which is done by Louis
Napoleon. Nothing can suspass the pueriIe
folly of the attempt at BoGlogne, nothing
the successful audacty of the coup d'etat
The stale of the funds aud of trade does not
indicate that this fear has seized upon the
commercial classes, usually the most sensi.
tive to any thing of the kind
The following extract from the London
Morning Chronicle corresponds with Tie
tone OF large portion OF the London press.
1t Is from letter written by the Paris cor
respondent OF the Chlonicle:
1.-The lmpression is becoming daily strong
er that We are on the eve OF war Those
who are acquainted with the sentiments of
Louis Napoleon on the subject, all admit
that he will not only do nothing to avoid
war, but that he will be glad OF the oppor-
tunity of waging it. His firm and decided
opinion is that martial success is necessary
10 the consolidation of his power, and that
his surest means of retaining hold of the
French people, and more especially of the
French army, is to give employment TO The
troops. The idea of war is not new to
Louis Napoleon. 1t was his first thought
after his election in 1913. 1t was the first
suggestion he made 10 M. THEIRS, when that
statesman went 10 the Elysee; aud if, in
Difference to the opinion of his ministers,
and ia face of the opposition OF the Assem-
bly,, he then postponed the fulfllment of
his idea, il must not be supposed that he
has abandoned il. II is well known that
one The peculiar characteristics of Louis
Napoleon, that he never abandons wish or
an idea which he thinks will contribute to
his own Interests. Since his election as
President, we have had many instances of
that fact; bat the latest aud most notorious
is the confscation Of the Orleans posses
sions. There is hardly tradition connected
with the empire thar he does to resesciiate
from the continental blockade and the
Rhine frontier, to the invasion of England.
am credibiy informed that at the present
moment the Presidents whole idea is with
respect 10 the invasion of England that he
has consulted generals studied the liaus Of
the Boulogne expedition, received reports
on the feasibility of the passage ofthe chan
mel, &c.
There is not a man connected with the
Elysee that does NOT affect TO speak of the
invasion as an affair that is not only practi-
cable, but which will be attempted. Let
il not be supposed that a pretext is neces-
sary. There are, unhappiiy, too many
points on all of which il would be easy 10
rouse the feelings of the French nation,
any one of which would be an excuse foI
war The friends of Louis Napoleon i'm.
agine truly--that the French people want
10 have revenge for the defeat at Waterloo
and for the imprisonment oil the Emperor al
ST. Helena Such a war they say would
be popular, and in such circumstances why
should they not undertake liz | know
nothing of the feelings of other countries
but here the belief is that Russia would join
in any attack which France might be dis
posed to make on England Certain it is
that since the I'd of December the represen-
tatiye Of PRUSSIA has been the most assiduous
in his attendance at the Elysee, and The
most hoRored of the diplomatic corps; the
Russian mobiles are more plentiful ia Paris
at the present mament than they have ever
been since l646; and that both amongst the
French and the Russians il is currently sta
ted that an arrangement between France
and Russia could easily be managed, for
that Sussia would not interfere with the
extension of the French frontier to the
Rhine, il France would permit Russia to
seize on ConstantinopIe. What | now
wriie is the conversation viii b hear
arodud me, have reason to think that the
opinion of the most clear sighted politician
/ q that war is unavoidable. am therefore
glad 10 see that the question Of our national