The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-11-11


has come to that at last And it may soon super
sede the OsteDd manifesto and the Kansas issue
Who knows?
The Split Between the Moniteur and the
English Press.
We publish elsewhere an article from the P Paris
.Nonitey rejecting on the course lately pursued by
the English press in reference to France, and the
reply Of the London Times. 1t seems that the EN-
peror who long since resorted to the defensive mea
sure Of excluding the London journals from the
French capital, finds that this precaution will not
suffice, and desires cooperate against them athome.
1t viii be remembered that he did SO once before,
shortly after the coup desa, and actually so far
succeeded as to excite good deal Of animosity
against the Times among the mercantile classes
of England. We apprehend that he viii not be
as fortunate this time. Though the Morning Post
has been directed to give semi-approval to the
course of the Mon6tur, it stands alone in the
press: the Tines and the lower organs of opinion
not only express no contrition, but indulge in re-
fectiops marked by unusual severity with regard
10 the Emperor and his cabinet.
Two truths are made plainly apparent by this
business: the one, that the French government
mas reached the point where Fictitious progress
ceases and reaction begins; the other, that rail-
roads, telegraphs and the other agents Of rapid
communication are rendering despotic thraldom
Of speech and thought utterly impossible.
All that the best friends of the Emperor urge
on his behalf is that he has improved Paris,
stimulated trade and expenditure, carried great
war to successful close, and maintained himself
on the throne for third Of generation. What
little credit the last mentioned exploit reflects is
his due: but it must be remembered that no man
Of courage was ever overthrown by revolution
in Paris. The victims of revolution have all
been poltroons or imbeciles- For the rest, Napo-
leon the Third has achieved all his other claims
TO glory by discounting the future. He has con-
stantly mortgaged years to come in order to
diminish and conceal the necessities OF the present
time. His war, his expenditures at Paris his
extensive payments to keep down the price Of
bread, the magnidccnce of his court, have all
failed him, he resorted to extraordinary mea-
sures He stimulated a speculative fever; he
licensed Credit Mobilier; he gambled himself
and led others to gamble on the Bourse. These
means procured him what he wanted-money
but it was at cost which it is frightful to con-
template The day for the redemption Of some
Of these due bills on posterity is coming sooner
than was expected: the bank threatens suspen-
sion: money is five per cent month; railroads,
bankers, merchants are breaking: the whole
edifce is menaced with precipitate sain This is
the turning point in the financial fsFanes Of the
Emperor. Like Nick Biddle be is resorting to all
kinds Of desperate eypedients TO save himself;
but like that notorious fnancier, be does so with
very little faith indeed in their efficacy.
II IL more gratifying to look at the other view
If the casc-ihe one in which IL illustrates the i'm
potency Of despotisms to fetter thought. One
would have supposed that the French govern
ment would have been able to despse journals
published in foreign country and in foreign
tongue. 1t seems not 1t was found necessary to
exclude not only the journals Of London, but not
unfrequently our own as well. Buteven this tyran-
meal measure does not appear to meet the case.
The Aonaer calls for more protection. These Eag-
lsh newspapers, published abroad, in Language
which not one Frenchman out of thousand ca.
read, and strictly prohibited from entering France
are still 70 powerful that the Emperor ia,imases
Lis inability TO govern his empire according to
It's best interests, II they are not slenced. This
is the plain inference from the language OF the
Nonaew in reference TO the alliance Could
there be q more startling proof Of the incompe-
tency Of despotisms to crush truth
We must, indeed, expect some folly in France
at this time. That portion Of the French people
Of which We hear in the papers, has never been
remarkable for common sense. Jus. now all the
leading men of France are involved more or less
in these financial schemes which are on the eve
Of destruction little dclirium on their part i
only what we must naturally expect