The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-04-01
Interesting from France.

The news from FTance, received by the steamer
Niagara and Fulton, is possessed of considerable
interest We take the annexed interesting items
hom the latest Paris letter of the correspondent
of the %ew York Commercials:
Ion the present occasion the chief item of intel
Rgence is that of document in pamphlet form
but which III TACT may be regarded aB u political
manifesto. has been issued in Paris on the reIa
tions o! the Emperor Napoleon with England Its
expressions aud sentiments are admitted TO have
been inspired 10y that persOUage, and it has been
tucked Tor with great curiosity. The effect pro
dnced has not been favorable. To the unrefect.
my multitude, who are carried away by few nice
u rounded platitulrs. ii appears "A temperate and
cu0cllatory statement; but experienced persons
Hhu have Outgro~n the habit of accepting every
assumption that casuist may commence with,
ttncy that = more transparent attempt to get the
start OF the worlds opinion in intended quarrel
vas never made.
Its entire bearing may be shown in few lines
The Emperor boasts that in commencing his sway
'n France, he avoided revival OF his animosities
ot the hrst Napoleon, and the thought of his ven
geauce; that he tostered the alliance with Eng.
land, aud peace with other European states ihint-
lHg that this was desirable to uphold Europe
against America; j that he was true throughout
Ehe Russian war, and was indeed, every thing to
us during that strugge: that when the Indian
lnsurrectlon broke out he did not take advantage
al IL, bnt subscribed to the Indian relief fund :
that throughout all this period he has been ex-
posed TO attacks from conspirutors and refugees.
sheltered ia England; that both the late and the
present British Cabinet have admitted the trutb
OF these clrcumstances; that consequently he has
right to demand guarantees for The repression
OF the dangers with which he is threatened: that
england. recognizing the proper value of the ALI.
auce, viii OF course hasten 10 give these guaran
tees, and finally that if she should fail to do so tho
world viii perCeiVs that France has been entirely
without TeproaCh' and that the responsibility
t # an enlargement hich will be disastrous tC
oil "A in mn At p IT t4uft ul.y,
''Al this in flowing language appears fine Side
by side however, with each paragraph, should bt
set he following. When the Emperor after shoot
ing down the men who endeayored to fight for the
kepublic to which he himself had sworn fidelity
lied the throne he not in position to declare
War against England. There is nothing extraor
dnary, therefore, in his having at that period hui
uut or postponed any plan for avenging st. Helena
lie might have had a better motive, but when
man begins to boast of not having at certain pc
ri0d done a wicked thing, it is fair to examine all
the points of his position. Next, with the regart
to the cooperation with England in the war with
Russia. Here again We have proud appeal thai
the Emperor did not prove false, if talsehoOt
Hud not fair dealings ought to be the ordinary
CtuTse, and an abstinence from it should be con
slered an astonishing instance OF SelEsacrificing
virtue.
Louis Napoleon. since he has been in power, has
exiled $4,000 men. OF these 10000 have been par
doned. Ali the men arrested since the attempt Of
the Rue Lepelletier in Paris aud the departments.
we're men embraced in the 10000 pardoned. At
least we are Informed by the Government All
the men arrested in the departments have been
brought to Paris, and prisons are full OF polit
zeal offenders, They no doubt to be tried here,
because they are all believed to belong to the same
conspiracy, and there v i'll thus be no repetition
Of testimony, and no transporting of witnes, es
from ono department to another. Notice has been
sent To the penal colony TO prepare for the arrival
Sc on of considerable number OF political prison
eIs. The number brought from Chalons, and who
were supposed TO be the chiefs of that miniature
Il yolntloB, is fifteen. Their attempt was quite as
ridiculous as the famous Strasbourg IN 1886,
or that on Bolegne in 1870. But it seems that in
France nothing s small enough to be ridiculous.
''en Thursday night last the NoRiteur adds,
taother let OF arrests was made at Paris, thaying
forgotten the numter) and il states further that
tie revolt at Chalons was IN the same chain as the
others, and that all Wore excited by the legti-
msts. But the revolt Rt Chalsn was made to the
cry Of 'lire u fe?whqfsi The republic has
been declared Paris Aud it is ditficu, tu con
eeiYe how the legitmists hope to reach the throne
through the cry of "Pipe ID R,pubiiqusf' The To-
.itimists, however. prefer the republic to Louis
Napoleon, and II is barely pos. ibe that they have
changed their tactics, aud distributing their
money aud promises in the interest of the repub-
lie. They have money TO spare, and desperate men
catch at straw