The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-12-30

Political parties are pressing closer to each other
and counting up their strength. IL seems
If had all heard from one end OF Europe to the
other voice crying out - us Rise and be doingv
Are we, living always in our recoections and in
oar regrets, TO sink lower and lower In our
dependency The revolutionary party
must not initiate the legitimist party, which, By
abstaining from action, has ended in nullif
We have calculated our strength, and
know that we are great party devoted TO the
Considering that however unwise such sentiments
may appear in the midst of the profound peace
which the country is now enjoying, IL s not right
that few troublesome minds should be permitted
to preach up agitation and appeal TO revolutionary
passions with impunty.
Considering that for the general good, and more
especially for the interest of those hard working
classes which have never in France been more
actively and fully employed tnan by the Emperor,
the government possesses the right and feels 1t it's
duty to hold strictly in check the follies OF those
pretended democrats whose influence, If they ever
had any, might be fatal TO the welfare and the pro-
gress OF those classes which, fortunately, they are
now forever powerless to agtate.
Be il decreed--
Art /. The journal La Presse is suspended for
two months from the 4th of December inst.
Art. 2. The Prefect of Police shall take charge Of
the execution Of the present decree. BrLLACLr.
PARIS, Dec. A. 1857.
1t is not generally known, says the Journal du
Hapre of December g. how many individuals are de-
pendent for living upoa daily paper. The Presse
gives summary of the persons employed in It's es-
tabshment, fOlows:-- Editors, managers clerks,
printers, folders carriers porters couriers Cores
pondents and all other persons attached both casu
ally or permanently to its publication, about TIA. 1t
is said that NJ Milaud has addressed petition to
the Minister Of the Interior, for the purpose Of OBJ
tanning authority to publish the Prssse as an ex.
cusvely literary paper during the two months
suspension to which that journal is condemned. II
in also said the other hand, that the printers OF
the paper under the advice of the business manager,
NJ. Roux, have petitioned the Emperor direct for .
nf ntnrfIpf m
Prssse.
PRESCRIPTION OF THE PRESS IN FRANCE-DBFRC-
TIoN OF EMILE DE GIRARDIS TO THE IMPERIALIsTs.
Correspondence Of the Courier des Etats Unis
You that the Prese has been suspended for
two months in consequence Of an article IN which NJ
Pcyra had severely Nm Carnot and Goudchaux
for having committed inconsequence and derlection
refusing to fulfil mandate which they had solicited
and accepted, and which they betrayed at the moment
'when the had evidently approached for decisive
resolutions and when parties divided for Of their
strength" This suspension of the Ire has been one Of
the marked events of current politics. and ]
happen be better able TO give the facts OF the mat
ter than you obtain them from any other source.
II the article of N Peyrat had in respect ag-
gressive bearing upon the imperial government had
Also in another view conscience with the aims OF the
abseneesm and in It's tenaency to divide the democracy
into two radically opposing factions II also stated that
in the ministerial council where the proposition or tho
suspension taken by NJ Bau u was opposed by N.
Foud who insisted that the article Of NJ Peyrat was more
really useful than mscheyous. Such, however, was not
the opinion of the Minister or the Interior who REPLIED
Do you desire the presence Of the republican opposition
in the legislative CORPS rather than It's continuance in the
streets2 Truly I am OF opinion that they would be far
formidable with legislative vote than with revo-
lutonary muskets in their hands The restoration and the
dynasty of July we're overhrown by the tribunals before
they attacked by the mob The majority OF the
council sanctioned the suspension o. the P'e An order
in the meantime signfhed TO the different
journals, directing them 70 abstain from any reply
TO the article of NJ Peyrat. That order caused
much embarrassment to the iegtmst organs, which the
Irese had with severity, and TO which they lad
prepared lengthy The ministerial journal even,
Pdre had confronted the manifesto Of w. Peyrat at
point Of view as favorable as that taken by Foud
The necessity o Bng the IN their columns vacated
by the suppression "a this matter caused quite delay IN
The article OF NJ Peyrat, who by his frank energetic
and imprudent tone recalled the memory OF Armand
Carre has disposed Of the by which sought
explain the retreat Of NJ Nentzer modification for
the tone Of the Pyesse, In dynastc sense Belgian
journal stated that the manifesto Of M Peyra have
been followed by article from NJ Charles Edmond, des
Dypasaue hut that rtmor was without foundation snd
has been energecaly denied by Peyrat well by
M. g. Edmond who, though attached 10 tho Prince ny
leon, continues TO assert his democratic opinions WIN
complete independence.
An endeavor has also been made 10 represent NJ Pey
having been In this affair the instrument OF In
trgue eoptrved by NM Emile de Girardin and Roux
against NJ Maud, but the suspension incurred by the
Prese much serviceable the OF n. Nil
aud than that OF his adversary In the proceedings udg
ment which has been RENTED TO fortnghts suspcn-
sion by the Tribunal OF Commerce.
Thus as to NJ de Grarain IL will became apparent
that he entertained no hope or perhaps desire TO enter
into the proprieorship Of the prcsse His entrance
another journal (the Courier De Pdr), and the
face under which he reaPpears, has caused almost A.
much noise the suppression OF the Iresse itself 70
which Is the epogue. ON tho day after the Prese
had ceased to issue there appeared in the Cbn-
yiv de Payis an article entitled the Press Cbn-
aitutineIs and signed Cheron de Viicrs, which
argued that the Of MN Darmon, Hsnon and Oil
yer into the Legislative the point Of departure
for the formation Of constitutional opposition substituted
for the revolutionary opposition and approving that sub
stution the point Of departure for new system Of
article emanaied from NJ T. dc Grsrdin who has taken
neres, in the Cosrfe de Paris and comes 70 combat
through ,nat paper favor Of the empire under The
doubedy his style Indicated by the love Of paragraphs,
the phrases characterized by their double pauses and the
rhythm of the alternative sntthess But Il not the
opinion which be evolved when he declared his
wish TO renounoe the life militant Of journa'sm, which ap
pcarcd impossible and condemned 70 death without rerns
under imperial institutions. Finally, all doubt be-
came impossible at the end Of the third article,
which aimed IN show that the saemprs and libey-
tyu could A. readily be reconciled a. che "enpire
and and that the could be - readily aocced
CONCLUSION Of Il dc Girardin IN letter which ss "a.
dressed from Switzerland the ID Of Augus lest, 70 The
ina<ndanes 5e'ss Ihs aseeson o. - ds sirssais S 70
Of liberty has occa-oBed personal surp~bc,
a. knew that he bad that intention since Immediately A.
NE second Of December and that be had not ~
put his purpose la open execution was only because his
wife and friends DID not think they ought 70 allow the psb
OF the profession Of faith which he had addressed
upon this point the Presse and which dated from
Brussels, where he then happened 70 be. N. de Gx1
din s like the administration al Washington, disposed To
recognise politics all the estab shed governments. His
recognition of the empire not, therefore, an incon
sequence 70 tue eyes u nhs lrfcnos, ns sucn
10 the eyes of the public. But other motives
than those which he has given himself have been thought
necessary explain hrs abdicafion OF last year in
with the peculiar circumstances Of his return
this time when the journal which he bad sold has been
temporarily suppressed BY the imperial ccnsure. has
arrayed the opposition press In onslaught upon him.
from which be Is n defended by the government organs
who dsrusful Of their but compromising suxia
~. The Conftuonnei declares 10 him this morning that
rdesres simply the empire such the constitution de-
tines H. and that 'the liberty Of people ought consist
IN the Of the franchises which n support with.
out self extinction This IL the definition OF W. Tropoug
Another writer the Consuuionnel who has left that
paper, but y 10 return said ~ A. de Cceena has
sustained and coufessed already that the empire and lib
erty are two things forever incompatible. Here there
Il an opinion diametrcally opposed 70 that OF r. de
Grardin, and II s unfortunately TO 90 reared that
Il will not appear logical than his own 70 those
whom be has undertaken to serve In his way. They
might before long heartily him for his services,
s true thai The Mmer Of The Interior and the mAorny