New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-11-16
LOUIS NAPOLEON IN ENGLAND.

The accession of Louis Bonaparte to foully-
gotten power was COMMUNICATED by series Of
original articles in The London Times, eminent
for the unIestrained force of their rhetoric, the
renorseless array Of their facts, and the cOnclu.
siye character of their argument SO thorough
was the castigation, that it produced an unofficial
remembrance from the Elysee, while his English
partsans were for the moment cowed into silence.
Nevertheless the measure Of political honor be-
ing political success in the worlds chapter, the
man who was morally gibbetcd for his crimes,
became in the due course Of social resurrection
an angel of light and the feon of Dec 2 grew
into the blessed elect of Dec. 20. And now the
penbiless adventurer Of Boulegne and Strasbourg,
the reckless debauchee OF London and New-York,
ia to receive the sistery and fraternal embrace
in person of the Queen and Prince Albert. In
December he will visit England and be entertained
first at Osborne and then at Windsor. Ideas GER
tainly have changed since a price was put on
George Washingtons head, and George III. did
not deign to answer the autograph letter Of Ma
poleon l. commenting peace for Humanity's sake.
This recognition by the blood Of the middle
ages of the parvenueshp of the nineteenth century
might be laHdable were it not accompanied By
the sordid aspects Of trade, of political by
pocrisy, and even by want of that unyelding dog
gedness which has been thought to characterize
the English Government. OF real sympathy on
the part Of that Government with the presen.
usurper of France there can be none; his personal
antecedents are as revolving as ever and the wars
with his uncle, which made the Duke, were
begun and carried out to extinguish the parvenu
principle, whether republican or imperial. The
ovation TO Louis Napoleon is turning the English
men of Waterloo into so many myths Of al ex-
ploded antiquity.
Among the comedies to be performed when the
French Emperor lie paying this visit to Her Maj
esty, will be his installation IS knight Of the
Garter. Amid all the glories Of positive science,
in the thick Of the roar Of the forge and the
whirr of the shuttle Of our wOrk-day times,
this musty imPertinence Of the middle ages is
retained in Windsor with as much reverence as
are rag and bone relies in a Roman cathedral.
Yet IS if to indicate the essential worthlessness
Of the decoration, and to proclaim it the sham of
,hams, the English court reserves its brightest
ribbon for the most unmihgated Perurer and
usurper of this century
Tie visit of Louis Napoleon as Emperor, to
England, will be in amusing contrast to his posi-
ton there recently. Then, not unfrequently, he
lad to cast about for the means Of buying din.
rtr; and recently he bestowed pension on an
old brother fllibuster who called on him-bring
iDg by his mere presence the recOllectons of the
time when sovereign was a rarity between
IL EN-; the said pension, Of course, like the gifts
Of every Lorenzo the Magnificent, being distracted
from the peoples pocket. In the meanwhile,
the men who, trusting to hi, honor, admitted
him to France and supported his election, are
either in exile for defending that Constitution
which he swore to sustain, or lie in bloody graves
that he dug for them. But what Of this The
British Queen, honest and pure sOuled as she is,
will meet him on terms of friendly equality, and
the British genteman-the soul Of honor and all
that sort Of thing-will greet him In the very
on sanctuary Of feudsl pride, apd in his company,