New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-03-28
THE ATLANTIC's NEWS,

Louis Napoleon seems determined that he
shall stard ever as the prominent character on the
European stage. Europe is still sgitated with
the sudden shock o,casioned BY the death of the
great Car, when hestartles 1t afresh by threat
tned disrupti0n-at least tuch is the ru mor-sf
that alliance Of counterfeit affection which has
hitherto subsisted with such apparent harmony
between England and France. We had never,
from the hour of its unnatural birth, placed cay
faith in the duration of that wonderful alliancs.
nor could We believe it was ever destined to
FIJI an snblszoned page in the history Of
England. Those healthy rules which are good
for an individual, are equally COOL for a
nation. The honest citizen will not form part
nersbip with the reckless gambler. The Gov
eminent aspiring to be considered constitutional
should not consort with the desperate depot.
Some unpleasant memories Of the past must
sometimes too hare stolen upon the tenderest
hours of France and Ensland-incoDgrous union
and at last difference, which required the
meeting Of Louis Napoleon and the Eoglish For
eien Minister at BOulOgne, TO prevent it grow
ing into rupture has suddenly arisen out Of one
Of those small incidents from which great events
so often spring.
To II at ILquisition upon the aristocrat;e au-
thOrs Of the Crimean blunders which was estab
lished on the motion of Mr.. Roebuck and IL now
daily holding its searching sittings, under his
direction, Louis Napoleon has insuperable objec-
ton. He fears that the disclosures which this
inquiry will unfold may rouse the EnglliA people
into Iudsr action than they have yet evinced,
| III hat fha of
in its strong rebound, lash With some Of
its spray even his own throne. He there
fore resolved TO carry out in England somewha.
of similar coup to that be carried out in France.
Cavaignac, Lamoriciere and Barrat were seized
and banished because they aspred to maint Ain
freedom. Roebuck, Lsysrd and Lowe are to bo
fquelched because they aspire to obtain justices
This Is the only construction which we can put
on the choice presented with cool audacity by
Louis Napoleon to England, between dissolution
Of the Roebuck Committee OF dissolution Of the
French Alliance.
The momentary countenance given to 70 mon
strous a proposal in Lord CIarendon's going to
Boulogne, 10 sufficiently humiliatipg to England.
But If her people once fully take in the notion
that Louis Napoleon, not satisfied with being
Dictator Of France, aspires, also, to be Dictator
of England, We much mistake their character if
a feeling 10 not roased which it will require
something more than meetings at Boulogue to
satisfy. The political heavens in England are
jult now still, but it is much of that stillaess
which precedes a storm. As long as the jus.
demands Of the people are granted, they rest sat
issed; but If any attempt is male to interrupt q
fair inquiry, spirit may at moment rise which
would threaten even the throne of Victoria One
thing is certain this insolen! dictaiion of Nspo.
leon will strike rude blow at his popularity in
England, and skivers much Of the cement which
holds together the alliance. And this feeling will
gather additional strength from the publication
Of the forbidden Crimean disclosures, 10 which
Napoleon figures as the sole deviser OF the Sevn.
topoi failure, and the creator of many of those
disasters which have disgraced the conduct of the
whole campaign.
In the English House of Lords We have the
full explanation Of the celebrated charge of " the
brave ak hundred Of Bslsklava," which relieves
Lord Raglan completely of blame and 61e, the
crime Of that fatal nshnem upon Lord Luc.u.
We never for moment entertained the smallest
doubt ~ to this officers entire incapacity. II.
had never seen sty service, and had passed. tbs