New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-04-16

seldom uttered, snd women wept and men tire
up their ta's and cried, "God save the Emperor
"NichOlAs."
Within reach Of the shout that night sat an ,.ier
msn 10 q respectable but not costly lodging, No.
King street, St. James,. He had none Of the
spiritual beauty and look Of com nsad which send
their calm yet terrible shadows over that face which
looks down from the wall Of evety Freuchm.a's
cottage. but he bore that tslismanic name which
finds ahome in every Frenchmans heart. Upon
the Corscsn blood stained with Creole, were
marked the impress Ct his Dutch nativity, aud
the cosmopolitan touch of his losfiog life,
stamping him as thoroughbred gypsy, tue
incarnation Of all that was bad aud wicked
in maby races, and of q nature too lym.
phatic and phlegulatic to develop any germ that
was good. His antecedents were foul. His ex-
plots ridiculous. His associations aud habits ut
the time even coarsely prohigate. His exile not
surrounded with one single spplisnce which could
lend dignity to misfortune. Circumstances which
have changed his position have not changed his
character.
Napoleon, the pennyless roue, and Napoleon,
the PICTURED Emperor, are still the same.
Three ,imes he has shivered with triumphant
scorn, oaths which were built up in the most
binding cement, and broken loose from obllgs.
tons OF honor aud truth. whose sacredness even
the most reckless prohigates respect Yet,
while we write. this man is doubtless, receiving
q counterfeit embrace at the postera OF the
Queen Of Englaud's palace AID will sleep tonight
IN the chamber in which, in 344 slept Nicholas,
the Gar. Some fe y years since at ths same
pOstern, Victoria welcomed Louis Philippe; TO-
day ,he welcomes Louis Napoleon; few years
more, and she may welcome Louis Blanc. So
much for royal principle and royal truth.
Doubtless the air will glitter with light, spark.
ling gossip and pretty prsttle. OF how Vlcsoris
kissed Eugene and Eugeuie kissed the Princess
Alice, and they all kissed each other all the way
round. The one will show her jewels in TIE
boudoir, and the other in the narsery, aud the
world will be told of the undying love of England
for Louis Napoleon, as before for Louis Philippe
and her undy ing friendship for France, as before
for Russia.
There are come truths, however, which it were
we'll not TO oss sight of ia this glare of CALAMITY
However the Queen Of Eng land may think it DO
comes her Is sovereign and LADY to extend an
apparently gracious welcome 70 the Emperor and
Empress Of France, this visit has been forc'bly
imposed on her, and she has only accepted the
imposition as stern and imperative state neces'
sity. To Louis Napoleon it has long been an OBJ
ject of special ambition as afordiDg an introdac.
ton to the family of European sovereigns, and
somewhat of palliative to the scoru With which
Nicholas, and the coltness with which, until re.
Gently Francis Joseph avoided all personal recog'
milton of him. More than once has this visit been
attempted to be thrust upon the British sovereign,
but her own violent and most honorable oppos-
ton, sustained by her Consort aud by Lord Aber-
deem and bis section of the late English Ministry,
protected Der from this inficiion. The same ne.
cessity which forced her to adopt Palmerstoa as
Premier forced her to adopt his friend and
protege as guest
The Court aud Cabinet Of England were thrown
into cobsternation by the projected visit OF the
Emperor to the Crimea. Independent of a null
titude of other reasons, the preparation of such
purpose would have been deathbow to the
Vienna Conference. Lord Clarendon was at
once dispatched to BoulOgre, and met Louis
Napoleon, whose battered vanity was but too
ready to swallow the bait and alter the labels
on bis valiss from SevsstOpOl to Southampton.
The slippery and dangerous Frenchman was
attacked and carried at his weak point and
Palmerston's policy was saved at the expense Of
the Queens feelings.
In country which, like Great Britain, is so
much ruled by precedent, this strange visit will,
indeed, form new page in the book of precedents.
Not that now, for the first time, shameless profit
gates have, under the regulations of Court ell
quette (Which refuses to judge princes BY the
came rules as other mem, been received by British
sovereigns but, from time immeDOrd one abso-
lutte condition Of the ad mission of foreign poten
tate into Buckingham Palace has been Legitimate
descent from Capet, . HobenzOllern, Haps-
burph, or ROmanof. Louis Napoleon is the first
sovereign Of illegitimate descent who has ever
bounded over this insuperable obstacle. While,
then, on the one hand, we rejoice at this reyolu-
tionsry precedent of receiving man who dates
his origin not from millenums back, but from the
present decennium, we must deplore, on the
other, that the first departure Of England from her
strict arstocradc ruBe should lend az ovation to
an unmiligated villain, like this French pretender.
But there is, unfortunately the other point of view
from " hich the reception of this plebeian emperor
and his wife loses many Of its startling features,
ard assumes its real aspect Of degrading compro-
mise to degrading alliance. by the extension
of this royal reception to the murderer of French
liberty France aud its democracy-0f which this
mock emperor is but the mock represen s,tive-are