New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-05-08

our frank and loyal couYtesy toward INC e~ 49,
sovereign Of France should be allowed 70 nPeh
/" and TO warm into cordial and afectionate aamifs,
" ton only az far and a. fat a. his pshcy tarneu
"out such az we could honestly and righteous!
"sPprove." Instead Of applying thus sna"t
scale to their Bonapartism, the English peoPo-
constitutional people, have lavished on an bihPo-
" ror who had destroyed the constitutional hoerue'
"of bis subjects, attentions such as were never
" fore bestowed On Z constitutional king WHO hAu
"granted and respected them. And wnen he wa
angry and lrrltated We have stopped 70 soo.ne
"hm BY language Of fuisome adulation "nicn
sounded marvellous from English lips. Our pro,
" csediDgs and our language have aiena@d al
"those sections Of the French people In whose
"tyes Louis Napoleon ia either usurPer or
military despOt. 1t has especially rrltated ana ais
"gusted the Parliamentary party in France, wneinei
" Republican or Oreanist." The Economist disco''
ers st atthat this prOstraton before lucky usuper
was far from prudent. l." IL is impossible, he say,
to believe that the existing regime in France eau
&" be the permanent one under which that energetic
" and restless nation will consent to live.
Is it wise, therefore, 10 ally ourselves Win
passing phase Of government in France as 10 eh.
" cite the enmity of its future and more permanent
" Development" Moreover the English alliance
was more necessary to BOnaparte than his alliance
70 England. In 1852, be was an adventurer-a
successful one, but still an adventurer. tie was
" not recognized in Europe; it was questionable
whether he would BIZ recognized But England
"prOmptly and unhesitatingly accepted him; ac'
knOwledged bis title deeds at once; admitted MIN
to the circle Of royal excusiveness, and gave him
." thus currency among the courts OF Europe.
% Nay, more by the exchange Of visits and cordla'
" cOslltiO0s, our Court allowed mountaineering 10
fpen into intimacy. those ehel'
Uprising moneyed and commercial classes, BY whom
at Was especially important to him TO be supported;
" saw at once how vast was the strength he gained
/" by the clOseness and cOrdiality Of the alliance
with England" That alliance was necessary for
bin, and he "woudihave bought it at almost any
price" Did the English Government prove their
commercial acumen and wonted sharpness in fixing
that price They asked no price at all; they IN.
sisted upon no condition whatever; but, like Oriental
satrsps, craWled in the dust while handing to him
the gift Ct the alliance. No infamy on his part was
colossal enough to make them halt for one moment
in their race " Of thriftless generosity" as The
Economist calls it-Of reckless funkeyism, as we
should call it. at would be hard to prove, con.
ftsses the English sinner, that of all his various
measures for notwithstanding Professionalism, for
progressing thought, for destroying municipal ac-
ton, for reducing Senstes and Chambers to
"mockery, We have manifested our dissatisfaction
with single one by much as passing
Goodness or a casual frOwn." Whatever he has
"doDe, whOmsOeyer he has prescribed, how many
"journals he has seized or repressed, whatever the
" limsy pretexts on which he has dismissed honor-
cable and eminent professors from their posts
"our language has still been the same; he has still
"been this great man, this wise aud sagacous
"statesman, this eminent and firm ruler" Not only
have the English thus fostered, supported and pro-
NOTED bis abominsble domestic policy, but, as The
Economist avOws, allowed MIN to hamper, modify,
eInasculate and degrade their foreign policy To
continue longer in such false position" concludes
The Economist, "may rebound neither to our honor
- nor to our profit, nor to the benefit of the COM
"monwealth of nations" Compare this declaration
with that of the Pdtrie, and there can remIin no
doubt that the Anglo.French alliance is gone, aud
with it the only international prop of the second
Empire