The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1859-08-06

\ AAoW the French sRootsA she 1oee En-
ElSsh Parliamentary ADeeches.
The Paris correspondent Of the New York
Herald Writes:- -.4
Il is possible that the armistics Just nov re-
solved upon may give people time to make 4
| rational survey Of that which II matters do not
speedily mend. will soon have to be termed Ia
Qssstion a Angsassrrs. The hesrt-burnings
daily generated By the various speeches Of
statesmen, comments Of the press, &c., are con-
stantly on the increase. PAris 10 almost de-
serted BY its neighbors across the channel. Il
! Is not long since that return was made BY
the Police Of 5000 English, living in DWELL
ings furnished By themselves. Their return
made at Christmas showed decrease Of 5000.
Il Lord Howden's remarks on the anxiety on
the part Of every Frenchman to draw the teeth
OF England, produced lively sensation here,
! and such they did, most uHQuestionably, it IL
| absolu ely nothing to the exacefbasions caused
BY the speech Of Lord Lyndhurst. THAT speech
has been translated word for word. It has not
only been circulated in every journal through
out the Empire, but copies Of e have been sent
into every town, village and hamlet Of France.
Every soldier who can read, hes one In his hand.
and his comrAde who cannot hangs wissfully
over bis shoulder, while what every one SCENE
determined to call the outrageous insult Of Eng
sort Of emphasis and accentuation in bis hear
ing. ft
One . really astonished to see the nerve, the
exultation of spirit with which comparatively
illterate men enter historically, geographically,
and politically, into the subject.
France, it is protested on oil hands, even
though the Emperor be disposed to exhibit his
CHARACTERISTIC forbearance, viii not, cannot put
up with II. England has now need Of France
Tar more than France Of her. 4 fg for her
Navyl 1t cannot be everywhere. She has not
colony belonging to her that France might not
make her own to- morrow.
fee, tis gross insult not to believe great
country when she declares, BY her representa-
tive, in the face Of the world, that she has no
ambition, no desire for anything but tranquility
and repose, except it may be that moral weight
which the truly great and good mnst ever hope
to possess. 1t is to put arms of offence in her
hands, to drag her from her peaceful hearth and
compel her to assume she panoply Of injured
dignity. What! Ia it for this that she has
borne with Christian meekness the assassination
of her great captain in that lone Isle whose
name is ever like . trumpet summonink every
child of France to deeds Of vengeance? Is il
for this that she has SO long forgotten and for.
given her humiliation in the sight of the civil
lied world when the Bourbon was imposed upon
her BY mockery purchased with English gold
And is it for this that insult after insult has been
passed BY, overlooked, by monarch and people,
for half century, that now We should be told
our word is not worth the breath which it cost
to give it, that our soul is 10 its very essence
deceitful, and desperately base /?
The fact is that the mind OF the people is i'm
exalted with the wonderful success
that has followed the French troops in the
Italian campaign. Supposing him to have the
most sincere desire to do so, Napoleon will 6nd
it by no means the least difficult of all the hard
labors he has triumphantly surmounted. to curb
the spirit that has been reused. The nation,
backed by these victorious legions, will be like
touch-paper, and Misunderstanding, that might
otherwise have been soothed down, will now be |
regarded in emnently naughty spirit, prone to
offense and prompt to demand explanation. II |
Lord Lyndhurst has succeeded in rousing the
English nation thoroughly to the nature Of its
position, he has done the State some service,
whatever aggravation be may have caused here.