The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-08-27

were made ct 81 So red Southern 81 25 81 80
white Southern 1t q 80 81 A. Corn was In fair do
mand but less buoyant old mixed in store sold OF TIC
$780,. new do, in store and afoAt at 800 &c., Western
yellow at &c., and prime whie Southern at soc 92Xc
Pork was heavy and lower, with saes Of at s 49,
hin mess At 49, clear at ST. and prime at $40 $40 80
Sugars active nrer with the negnbor.
hood of about 2oc0 hhds with 33e boxes rates given
IN another place. Coffee firm, while sales were mode
rate. Freights to English ports firm, and among
The engagements 800 bales Of cotton to Liverpool
at 316d. I'd. There was q fair amount Offering tor
Hamburg and Antwerp.
British Calumnics and French chreats-WiI
France Invade England.
The war which the British press has 80 long
been carrying on against Louis Napoleon has
produced its natural result, and the Paris jour-
uals are beginning to unlimber against " the per-
fdious Albion"
The Constitutional, in recent article on the
French army, announces that as soon as certain
labors on which the maritime transports of
France are now engaged are finished, they will
be able to throw sudden and unexpected corps
darmfe on an enemy's shore, and then the enc
mics of France will think twice before provoking
her. This means: "When our ehips have
brought back the army from Italy, the fleet of
transports can be sent round to Cherbourg, and
then, as we can easily throw an army into Eug-
land, the British journals will be more careful
how they abuse France"
This Is resuscitation of the old conflict
of continued insult through the press on
one side, and a constant threat of in
vasion on the other that was so long
carried on between the English tories and
the First Napoleon half a century ago. 1t is
now known that large portion of the state
ments of the British press at that time were
pure inventions; and grave doubts exist at
the present day whether Napoleon ever really
intended to invade England 1t was terrible
threat, for few persons existed who did not en-
terrain the conviction that If Napoleon's trained
legions were once landed on Britain's shore, the
| British Court would have to fee from London,
and perhaps from the island itself. The masses
of undisciplined clodhoppers that would have
been called out to defend the soil would have
been more certain of defeat in proportion to the
greatness of their numbers. But the First Napo.
leon knew that though he might overruu Eng
land, he could not hold it, and if he should have
once succeeded in getting into it, the next ques-
ten would have been how to get out of it.
The same state of things exists now. Through
the miserable policy that the English aristocracy
pursue in their home government, the English
people are set of unframed cockneys and clod-
hoppers, who know no more of the use of
arms, and the common elements of military tao
tics than a COW knows about music. If Louis
Napoleon should once get into England with his
Zouaves and his powder begrimed veterans
from Algeria, the Crimea, and the plains of
Lombardy, he might, 10 one or two battles, scat
| ter the English armies like focks of sheep. But
John Bull would never give up; and, through
the virtue Of continued beating, he would at last
learn to bite cartridge and fire from the shout
der. The aristocracy would fly at the first smell
of the villainous saltpetre, but the yeomen of
England would burst forth in a blaze of patriot
ism. Then would come the scenes of heroic re-
sistance presented not long since in India, doubly
intensified by the love of home, and the con-
temptation of the desolated "reminiscences; and
Louis Napoleon might verify the saying that has
been attributed to him long since, that his des-
tiny was to die fighting in the streets of Lon
| don.
But this war of journalism and these menaces
| of invasion are probably nothing more than po-
| litical ruses to cover some other interest
Menace is part of the Napoleonic pol
icy, but Louis Napoleon is very guarded
in the execution Of his threats, and knows how to
stop short therein. It's not long since the whole
OF Europe trembled at his announcement that
Italy must be free from the Alps to the Adriatic
and later still he has threatened the murmurinp
Italians with the withdrawal of his protecting
hand, and then Austria would rule from Turin to
Messina Yet he stopped short in his victorious
career, and the peace Of Villafranca shocked Ed.
rope with his moderation; and no man believes
that he could ever contemplate the rule of the
Austrian eagle from the Carpathian Alps to the
blue waves of the Sea of Tarentum.
The present contest of words is an old contest
revived for new purpose. Fifty years ago the
tories ruled England, and were able to raise the
national feeling in defence of their old despotism
and feudal theories. To-day more enlightened
school rules there. But the Coburgs and the
tories are carrying on their Vaccinations against
Napoleon with every court in Europe; and be
has raised the old cry Of invasion in order to
awaken the common sense of England to con-
temptation OF the possible results of the
intrigues OF the Court and the Coburgs. aud thus
carry bis war with the latter into their own 10
calitiea The result is very likely to be lust
what he anticipates, for Louis Napoleon knows
the English people far better than the English
aristocracy know them. The idea of an inva-
sion necessitates new armies, new taxes and new
burthens upon commerce. The apprehension Of
these will bring the Coburgs and the tories to Their
senses, and relieve Palmerston in part at least
Of the promises he was lately obliged to make to
them in order to obtain office. IF the truth could