The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-08-01

over, and remanded the case for an0ther week.
Again, however, there was difficulty, and another
cureur TO the Judge de Pays was read, making DIS
own Statements, upon which letter the judge
mulcted the defendant The night before this al
innate decision the Judge de Pays assisted al o dn
ner at the Procueur's; but even had this delicate
bride been wanting am told that no minor judge IN
France dare have given judgment against 30 imPor-
tant legal officer, who not only holds his promotion
in bis hand, but can do him besides frreparable In
This sort of thing existed before the great Revou-
ton OF 1898, and though the machinery ID now 80
much altered, 1t exists still, and II shows how, amid
all these civil connections and ell the disturbance
the French nation has made in the world for the
last sixty years. how little, after all it has busted
itself about those reforms which to c0psnsQu
countries are the life and soul of their being Take
an instance Of servant being accused Of robbery
is for the police to decide whether the us
es the sdetention. IT. in their opinion, con-
vction IL likely to follow the accused fingers in jail
for weeks or months till his trial takes place. In
America or England the accused must be taken be-
fore magistrate who decides whether the case is,
or Is not, sufficiently strong to induce him to COM
init. Not so in France. Again, the power OF "de
nouncing" another stAl exists Of which the follow
ing ia curious instance
In my neighborhood there Ia an American gentle
man, who has the misfortune to be afflicted With an
idiot osp ing-a little girl under six years OF age
Hoping that as her age advanced her faculties
might possibly improve, and not wishing to injure
her subsequent reputation by bringing her forward
in the eye OF Others he has reg0usly kept the child
under the control of the mother and himself, treat
Ing 1t differently to the rest of his children and not
suffering i to minge out of doors in their ordinary
OF the violent temper OF the child, which necessi-
tated ceaseless vigilance. A few days ago he had
occasion to dismiss servant who had been IN his
employ month, and the servant denounced" him
to the police for i'll usage of his children To his
horror the poor m an learned that he was watched,
logged inquired about, and followed in every direc
ton, the concierge OF his house placed spy upon
him, his tradesmen questioned as to the nature Of
their supplies to him, and the most innocent actions
Of his domestic menage strung and woven together in
order to carry out the denunciation Of this servant
All this, too, without any official apprsa; and but for
the interest which some poor neighbors took in him,
he might have gone on in Ignorance of the foul
charge laid to his door till untoward event had
furnished reason for his apprehension. "Ah, Mon
seur, etes ddn0ace' exclaimed his friends, in
the tone of alarm that men formerly spoke of be-
ing communicated In his dilemma the unfortunate
gentleman came to me, and by my advi ,e addressed
a letter to the Chief of the Police, making clean
breast Of the painful secret which he had preserved
hitherto with 80 much anxiety, and demanding
either instant inquiry or protection for the future
from such invasOns Of his domestic privacy. As
yet he has received no reply.
Imagine, however, an American citizen at home,
in the United States, tamely submitting to such q
state OF things Imagine him standing by while q
superb monument was being voted to the mao who,
having monopolized all power, all authority, Is as
Responsible LOT the vices Oh MS
for the prosperity and renown which he lays claim
to have given to it. II is to be feared that in spite
Of all which tiattering Senate can say or do, IN
spite of triumphal arches and pillars piercing the
skies, in spite of fswning press and seluious
functionaryism, the days of peace will prove Napo
Icons severest days Of trial, and that men now al
leisure to turn their thoughts h0mewards. will begin
to contrast the advantages of that Parliamentary
government the charter Of which it is understood
the Count de Paris has in his pocket with the more
shining but less substantial course of despotic
rule, which dazzles only to blind.
The Steele contains the following on your Presi.
dental selection:-Our sympathcs entirely with
Col. Fremont. We have on the other side OF the
Atlantic numerous friends who are ast0nished, and
who complain that journal which is the organ Of
democratic ideas should not support the democratic
candidate To this we must observe, that the quail
/ fcations Of democrat and wing possess no Longer
the sgnificancy Of former times, and the Steele i
| not unfaithful to its sympathes when It combat
slavery without paying attention to those denomi
nations by which It sought to obtain respect 10
| such system. IL Is not because we are democra.
| that we do not support the democratic candidate
| ut because we are sincere democrats, and because
the very principle OF democracy is hostile to tn
| idea that our race should transform another huma
race into merchandise into cattle, in spite of tn
/ laws of God, who has proclaimed that all men ar
equal before his throne, and before every equitable
| territorial law.