New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-06-07
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! The london correspondent Of the phiadelRhia
genngYlv thais writes about The falatiops Of
/ France and England
@ Tie deers aad daily increasing sympathy between
/ tile Courts Of ST. Petersburg and Paris, is exciting
the hreliest alaEn1 among our Bfitian AZ
though tue Willy ard big Cabinet aftecf Y
ignore its existence. However, although peace has
1 been concluded, yet the labors Of the RetfflSing
Sergeant have not ceased, and the nervous at1xlety OF
oar Government ID raise an army and TO dseMbody
tie nita ii apparent TO the dulIest observer Land
unlike all other species of property, has not been
originally acquired BY industry, but by suceessfni
robbery gycophaney and the PRESENT generatien
are broaching curious questions ao ss tt1es
Of Our oIigarehy, founded on the gift 6f fegdaf
sovereign, Or the suppression Of monastery WREN
Henry WIN arbitrarily turned church Lands to lay
IN fact, the aristoeracy feel tIat their
ID the courts of Europe and 1t Is remarkable cir
custance iii the secret history Of the revolution Of
1885, that the unfortunate James the Second lost his
crorot for the oppression of his
sf,biscts nos because le profsssed te Catholic re-
iigfon not becansc he Babdfeated de- INT be-
cause he declared chat the Ruessels Cavendshes
etc, should dfsgorge their plundsr Of the = beey
lands This was tfe real cause Of William the Third
being invited To the British throne Louis Napoleon
has ved long among MS, and has deeply atHdied our
political history and the social o. eur seye
raj Classes. GepEfG
Of his knowledge at no distant day. He knows that
England ii wealthy and defsnseless and that although
her wealth can create a navy and her commercial
seamen man II on nemergency YET tEat her treas
nry could not procure her an arly, nor er military
colleges produce an officer capable of commanding
one Nothing Is now mere firmly believed n England
than that the late war Nas hy the
sources. sources II u, aGronssadss ReVeT And Riga have
smiled at our navy. Mfr. Grampton will inform him
where We expect TO raise men 70 fight our battles
viii elueidate the skill and competency Of our conn
man6eFs. Louis Napoleon further knows that pro-
camation for the resumption 0f lands would convert
the apathy OF our community into decided hostility
to our government, who look Wiff1 dssruat On an
armed militia lest another Cromwell shoald be found
in their ranks, Sir Robert Pselfet that, to give her
middle classes virtual interest 70 the sol o
was indispensable to her own internal tranquility,
and the peace and safety OF an empire threatened
each instant with disInemherTnens this he extern
sively effected through the agency of The Encum
bered Estate Court but this establishment wrought
the transfer Of land from the oigaschy 80 efeetuay,
to threaten their very existence separate order
that Island and proposal TO introduce similar
measure into England and Scotland was consequently
violently opposed in the utmost CONSERVATION by the
British Aristocraey. Late events have proved shat
England possesses few continental allies and thus,
should hostile junction Of Russia with France be
formed against her the English nobility might tread
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The daring project Of the Arch Duke Gonstan-
a deep impression on the minds of our statesmen.
and preparations to defend the southern shore of
England are now the theme of anxious discussion,
| and work published BY Mr. Ferguson, on the ma
tonal defenses has attracted the attention of
/ our military authorities. So open are the present
Notifications that he calculates that only ten minutes
would eiapse between screw steamer coming within
range Of our guns and her becoming master Of Ports
i mouth About ten years since, French invasion
i was considered to be neither an impossible
/ probable event, and, accordingly the Parliament Of
the then day voted considerable to construct
i permanent Gefenses at Portsmouth Gospors Davea-
j wort, Guernsey Iderney, etc These works we're
4 eagerly commenced but the revolution of 1873,
II which hurled Louis Philippe from his throne slack
ened ZEAL and they theneeforfh proceeded rather
langaidy. However, Mr.. Ferguson's system of forth
fcation differ widely from those of his predecessors
Vanban, Gohon, MontalanlbeTt etc, that these late
lines together with those erected in the days of Char
n les the Second, William the Third and George the
Il Third are comparatively worthless. His plan has,
indeed all the merit Of simplicity, consisting merely
of three successive tiers of ramparts armed with
three thousand guns, extending from Frater Point to
n the western extremity of Stokes Bay-plaeed four
Z Thousand five hundred yards from the Rdock-yard,
quite beyond the range Of shot or she'll faced by
ditch two hundred feet wide, with fifteen feet Of
Conflicting opinions prevail among our military men,
as to the superiority Of Mr. Fergusons design but
the necessity of some Notifications on our Southern
coast is admitted by all parties by those who
hypoeritcay smile at the danger they are meant to
! avert. Louis Napoleon is as treacherous as he is
smootht tongued-the perured Consul of the inviO-
Iables Republic is the crowned despot Of to-day and
our French ally Of 1856 might possibly beour French
E Invader Of 1857 EgfAA S