The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-09-02
THE EVENTS or THE DAY.
Cur London Correspondence.

LONDON, August 19, 1859.
The Rscn lmperid, Necessity for Free Pres
J,7isres II the Eaalish Court-Operdsions Of Primo.
Asbert-Austrta Esranging Herself from France-Aus
ta S,,s Threatened By French Troeps-Syas of Lasdoa,
dc, dc.
The news which you will receive by the AffcR, that
Napoleon III. has granted complete and unlimited
nesty, and restored liberty to the French press s the
proof that your article the 4th The Peace
OF vilaranca" was based accurate knowledge of
the real state Of affairs France In OF my earlier
correspondence with you French politics have had
occasion deplore the fact that Napoleon H. had de-
prved himself Of the bess Of all aldhat of national
press when free and uniesered. he will ba snguIarly
strengthened n his position regards Great Britain
by the course he has taken, because the English
public are systematically kept in the dark 10 the
foreign policy OF their government which is admins
tered solely with view to the interests of German
Queen ard corrupt arsocracy. False statements put
form by the Court Ouch as Prince ADera forged treaty
between Fl and Russia last April, which sent
consos per cent and foreign stocks thirty per cent
and by which he Is said to have Deed half million ser
ling OF the expense Of the eighty firms who ruined
by W cannot be successfully wered by tho Monitsu~
but easily disposed of by the general press, which
Fnown to be free, will acquire power equal 70 that Of
she United States or England.
Little or nothing s known as TO the proceedings q.
Zurich. Well informed dipornatists thai the
entente between Austria and France is by
coriiak az is generally supposed. Austria, with
racteristc stupidity, thinks that she manage to
evhde in detail the btpufAtoDS 10 which her Emperor
with defeat abroad and revolution at home, bat to3
happy to promise sssep Napoleon LII cannot be treaea
tbusth impunty, and there very good reason to be-
ieve that the corps Of 30 0oo left behind omtIue
m.n. in Italy are directed quite as much against Aus
tria as the Itsliars.
Here we have nothing new Parliament s prorogned-
every one out Of london. The Queen s entertaining
. large party Of Germans aud Russians at the Isle
OF Wight, and everything is apparently sumbering.
But the embers Of discord but smouldcring. The
gtrike OF the mechanics n the building trade assuming
FERROUS proportions, and should become general ana
should the unrepresented masses reflect on Sir James
Grahsm's statement that "they pay the interest the
national deb-f26 000 600 per annum-that they do So
moreover, by taxation 10 unfair that the poor
pays eight hundred per cent the value Of his tobacco
ne ricn man paying only thirty per cent-with other in
Stances s nniAirness, less Is truc iu proportion bu
yet quite ntoerabeahould they reflect on this during
year OF commercial distress and scarcity OF food the
have put TO agree on united action and Il will tax
something more than Mr.. Bright Mr. Cobdens Reform
bill 70 keep the German Queen and the whe and tory
Arstocracy In their places. w. .
Tne Great Eastern goes on her trial trip on the 9th Of
September. and sails from Hoybcsd for Portland Me
10Th Of that month"; she ought therefore, 10 ia IN
land harbor on Thursday, I'D September.