Richmond semi-weekly times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 184?-1853, 1852-06-11

exhibited strange disregard OF their own Inter-
est in wrangling for four days over the preten-
sions of Cass, Buchanan, &c. when they had it
in their power to select candidate whose nomi-
nation would be s.hailed with one spontaneous ac
cIamation of enthusiasm by the Democracy
throughout the length and breadth of the land"
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No Liquor.-In the town of Jackson, La, on
the 22d inst, election was had to test the sense
of the people as to the propriety issuing license
for the sale of liquor. The stood as follows
No license, %; license by the quart 10; license,
2; license by the glass, l.. So the Maine liquor
law exists in Jackson until further notice.
The Paris correspondent of the Courier des
Etats UniS says:
the approaching announcement of an Imperial
Government for France, as it will be an example
of usurpation, dangerous to legitimacy, of which
he assumes to be the protector; besides, he fore
sees that such step will be followed by war and
conquest. He feels, moreover, greater necessi-
ty for preparations as the late Prince Swartzen-
berg had shown some favour for the pretensions
Of the Elysee, and as Prussia is in antagonisn, not
only to Austria on the Zollveren question, but
with the second chamber of parliament upon
questions of Constitutional rights.
The journey of the Car to Vienna and to Ber-
lin, where he is to be joined by the Emperor of
Austria, is evidently intended to heal these dissen
sions, at least to postpone the rivalres OF the
two German powers, in order to unite them with
him in a holy alliance, in the event of war with
France.
The proclamation of the Empire at Paris w i'll
not necessarily be signal for war; as since 1880,
the right of people to choose their own form Of
government has been admitted. The league pre-
pared by Russia will be offensive not defensive;
it is nevertheless alarming those who think that
war must necessarily follow an imperial restora-
ton. The financial world is alarmed at the fact,
at first denied, but since confessed, by the minis
terial journals, that the Emperor of Russia had
demanded repayment of a part of the French
rentcs purchased in 1S47, and will cause the rest
to be sold the Bourse. 1t is ascertaned that of
the (35,500, 000) thirty-fve and half millions,
repayment of which has been demanded by
foreign holders, 80 millions belong to the CzarNi
cholas. If this sale is proofof the want Of conf
dence of the Gear in our future relations with him
we ought not to rejoice the less at seeing the
means of influence and of a power of disturbing
our finances which would be dangerous in times
of distress, or in critical state of affairs.
Louis Napoleon is thus served even by his en-
emies. Fortune is god-mother, who only aban-
dons, after numerous instances of ingratitude,
those whom her caprice or foresight has held at
the baptismal font Nevertheless, there are not
wanting prophets of evil, who for the elect of
tho Goth December, sinister omens in the triple
fall of the eagles in their Inauguration at the
door of Eysee, in the ballroom at the Ecole
Militaire and at their distribution on the Champ
de-Mars, where the first eagle presented fell from
the hands of Napoleon himself. These alarm
lists add to these evil omens the letter of Count
Chambord, the disaffection of an important
fraction of the Legitimists party, the review at
Vienna, the arming of England, the sorrowful
impression produced in the army by their let
tors of the prescribed generals, and the dis
content which in spite of its reduction to
fifty thousand mon, the National Guard of
Paris manfcsts, since the military fete of the 18th
May, in whichit was not permitted to partci-
pate. Those who pretend to read the mysterious
book of the Future see in these symptoms collect
ed, what Talleyrand would call the beginning OF
the end But without denying what the study of
the moral dispositions of Europe afford, we must
guard against exaggerations not less than super
stitions. War seemed more imminent in 1880,
1910 and 1e46, and yet it did not arise. The 60
vernment of July and the Republic, as threaten
ing as that of the Empire, were recognized and
accepted by the world. If wisdom and modera-
ton not at fault, the power of Louis Napoleon
will not be soon shaken from Its foundations, be-
cause these foundations are vast and solid they
have for cement, power and numbers-and far
from diminishing, the popularity of the Presis
dent appears to increase.