The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-07-09
BALTIMORE.
FRIDAY, JULY 9, 1858.

The moon has changed in France and another
turn has taken place in the current OF french
notifies. The tide which, during the last six
months has set so strongly and with such uniform
eteodincss, in the direction of Military Despotism
and the establishment of the Army as the ruling
power in the State, has apparently reached its
highest water mark, and is now slowly but sensi-
bly, beginning to recede After the unfortunate
attetat of the l4th Of January, it will be recol-
leced, that the Emperor, in paroyysm of rage
and terror, threw himself unreservedly and uncon-
ditonally into the hands ofthe Army. NJ. PIETRI,
the Corsican Project of Police, whose vigilance
ORsNI and his confederates had succeeded in elud-
ing, was dismissed from his pac" ~ Y. Boil
TELLE an pieatr miltoire and er-ogE Cuiras-
sers, was installed in his stead. ILLAULT
the Minister of the Interior, was made to give place
to General EsPINAssE, the rough soldier upon
whom had devolved, at the time OF the coup d etat
the melancholy duty of turning the National As
sembly out of doors, and extinguishing the last
spark of French liberty, and who now succeeded
with the additional and significant title of Minis
ter of Public Security and armed with extraor-
functions of Ministry, for the first time in the
history of the Government, committed to military
hands Next, the Empire was divided into five
great districts and to the command of each was
assigned Marshal of France. Lastly by way
of symbolisng yet more perfectly the entire subor
dinaton of the civil to the military power, under
the new order of things, NJ. PERsGNY, who at
that time filled the post of French Ambassador in
London, was recalled to make room for the hero of
Algeria and the Malakof Marshal PELIssIER. AT
home and abroad, the sword triumphed over the
pen, and the civilian was made to yield precedence
to the soldier. All this only served, however, to
indicate the extent to which fear and suspicion
had taken possession of the Imperial breast and to
ALLEVIATE from the Emperor, whatever measure ofpop-
ular sympathy and affection, the attempt upon his
life might otherwise have gained for him. With the
new military regime, the first beginnings of which
we have thus briefly sketched, and in consequence
chiefly of the harsh and repressive measures which
followed the appointment of General EsPNAssE to
the Ministry of the Interior, there gradually grew
up feeling of GOODNESS and estrangement, between
the Emperor and his subjects, which extending far
beyond the disaffected classes, the Legtimists the
Oreanists, and the Republicans, has even sensibly
affected the domgeoisie and those sober and con-
sentative middle classes, whose sympathies had
hitherto been the strongest support Of tie Imperial
throne. Since the late barbarous duel between NJ
PENE and the sous-leMenant, NJ. HYENE, with its at
tendant circumstances, still fresh in the recolec-
ton readers this jealousy of The military
power has ripened into open hate-and the hitherto
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famed forth in angry fury. Just at this critical mo-
ment then, when all men were waiting in suspense to
see whether the patient would at length turn and
gore his master, and whether the bow that had been
bent so strongly would stand the severity of its
tension, there comes the news, that change has
taken place in the Imperial policy; that the cord
which had been drawn tightly has been loosened,
and that the yoke which had grown so burden
some has been made more easy. General EsPI-
NAssE has retired from the Ministry of the Interior
having received from the Emperor, plain init
nation that his resignation was expected and
would be accepted. His successor is NJ. DELANGLE,
q civilian and lawyer, and at the time of his ap-
pointment, First President of the Imperial Court.
NJ DELANGLE it is true, has ever been facie and
obsequioGs servant of the Government but the
habits and prejudices of his class can not have
failed to inspire him with a respect for ancient
rights and legal forms, which was altogether
foreign to the military ideas and associations
of his predecessor. General EsPINAssE, meanwhile,
retres with salary of 80, 900 francs per annum,
receives seat in the Senate, and is to have the
privilege of wearing richly embroidered coat,
covered with lace, on State occasions. The next
intimation that we have that the tide of military
power, which has so long been at the flood, has
begun to ebb, is contained in the announcement
that NJ BorTELLE is to give back the place of Project
of Police, to NJ. PIETRI, the former incumbent who
has again been summoned from Corsica to Paris.
Finally, we learn by the steamer City Of Washing
ton, that the discovery has been made that the air
of London does not agree with the health of Mar
shall PELIssIER, and that it is thought advisable
that he, too, should return and be replaced, the
gossips have not quite settled yet by whom, but at
all events by civilian. NJ. PERsIGNy, the former
ambassador, Count WALEwsKI, and NJ. DRoUYN DE
L'Huys, are named among the persons most likely
to receive the appointment. These, then, steps
in the right direction, and they argue well for the
domestic repose of France and the stability of the
Empire. Meanwhile the busy note of preparation
is still heard in French dock-yards and arsenalS.
The activity in maritime ornaments still continues,
and all Europe looks on with amazement and sus-
picion England is manning her Channel fleet,
little Belgium and Sardinia getting their armies
in readiness, and even His Holiness the Pope is
making warlike preparations, which look as though
the Church Militant expected shortly to stand in
need of the weapons of carnal warfare. The Papal
Navy is to be increased from two corvettes to ten
What all this means-who can tell? Who knows
but that beside the desire to tighten the burden
of military rule which has of late borne heavily
upon the shoulders of his people, the Emperor has
other and Interior ends in view, in making the
changes which we have noticed? Who knows but
that he has work cut out for General EsPINAssE,
more nearly in the line of that gentleman's pro-
fession than were the duties of the Home-Office,
and that in recalling Marshal PELIssIER from Lon
don drawing-rooms, he proposes to find for him
more congenial employment in camps and battle
fields?
We learn that the difficulty which has prevailed,
for some days past, at the ship-yard of Messrs.
VIM SKINNER & Sons, was terminated yesterday,
by the employment of the white caulkers. The
negro workmen being afraid to return to their
labor. after their experience of last week, there