Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1852-04-20

public mind. Such mistake gave Louis Ma
poleon (with0ut his perceiving it at the time) n
large amount Of political capital, which served
him largely in the latter part of his career. Had
he been weak or irresolute, there might have
been little harm done BY the homage to Napo.
Icons memory shown By the House of Orleans.
But statesmen took the tame eagle of Boulopne
as the crest of Prince Loais and the policy pur.
sued was the public embaifnfhg Of the cause for
which his life had been one Of apostleship.-
The Prince renewed, in London much the same
life which he had before led; and cultivated, it
is stated in these volumes, g a certain class of
notabilities, whose advice and experience have
not been without influence upon his conduct"
5. 1t would be more tedious than the tell
ing of "thrice-told tale" were we to recapit
ulate the subsequent events of the career of
Prince Louis Napoleon. Europe is ringing
with them. His recent acts require logical
meaning from this history of the education of
his life. Let us look at some of the main ele-
nents of his character, as shown in that and in
the works collected here. A passionate sys-
tem-monger is often the most unscrupulotYs of
public characters. Rather than his system
should break down, the man devoted to his plan
will obstiDately adhere even to his errors
Louis Napoleon is presented to us from tho
sketch which we have given, as mentally, a sys-
tem-monger-a thorough Napoleonist from the
first to last morally, as a man of stern and
deliberate atidacity of much phlegmatic resolu-
tion, and of utter recklessness as TO his means.
Accident gave him the opportunity of appealing
to the memory of his uncle, and to the pass
ions of an army. His power rests on what the
late Mr.. Grattan called stratocracy"-an
its endurance cannot be safely predicted The
writings of Prince Louis Napoleon are mere
reproduction of the Emperor's ideas. He seems
to have got by heart all the cant of Napoleon
ism. We see no inventive power in his politi-
cal system: in short, it would be waste of
time to critcise it from philosophical point of
view
FLoKENcE.--In dress, manners and even in
the appearance of the Florentine ladies', there is
little to distinguish them from our own country
women. AT the Opera and on the Corsini you
see Ladies whom you might meet in New York
without supposing them of Foreign BIRTH
Florence is very quiet, orderly city, and one
in which there is very little OF abject poverty
Nor are you, as in most other European cities,
annoyed by beggars. There is neither police
nor watchman, and apparently no necessity for
either. Nor is there, fortunately, any occasion
for Temperance Laws or Societies. The cheap
wines of the country are drank by the peasantry
and the Laborng Glasses generally, but they are
free from " all that intoxicates"
Tuscany, with proper tilage, might be made
to produce enough for population three times
as large as it now supports. In the hands of
American farmers it would make every body so
rich that they would snap their fingers at Cali
fornia But though cultivated by people who
are by no means the dlest of the Italians, they
are immeasurably behind us in enterprise and
industry. The land is generally owned by small
proprletors, who lease it to peasants who supply
the labor, and then the product is divided be-
tween proprietor and peasant. The leases are
for one year, and the agreement is verbal; but
a good farmer keeps his land as long as he plea
ses. The proprietor furnishes the stock-in-
crease is divided All improvements are made
at the expense of the proprietor All the grains
of northern climate along with every descrip-
tion of vegetables, are produced in abundance
Tuscany is one great Vineyard. The fields are
frjnged with vines, which running from tree to
tree, form graceful hedge. They are of luxu.
RANT growth, and yield profusion of grapes.
Tuscany wine is therefore plentiful and cheap.
Large quantities of it are sold in TASKS holding
nearly half gallon, at prices varying from two
TO three cents flask
MOTIVE Power OF NIAGARA.-A paragraph
in Slliman's Journal says, the motive power of
the cataract of Niagara, exceeds, by nearly for
ty fold, all the mechanical force of water and
steam power rendered available in Great Britain,
for the purpose Of imparting motion to all their
machinery, that suffices to perform the mann.