New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-05-28
Preparations for Eapoieon's Coming War
on the Rhine.

BERLIN. May 1.-The notion that Iouis BONG
pari.e = spoa. 70 put the German question the
taps prevalis mere among all classes OF society,"
In to-day's National zeaung, correspondent even
afirms that he knows, from sources saost a,,sIan
tic, that Badinguet taa Louis Bonaparte i fami.
Rhenish campaign, and that Lord John Ruiseli
had just been informed of this scheme when sone
weeks ago, he rose from his seat to frighten the
4 House of Commons by fierce invectives against
the Emperor of the French, and the sudden an
nonncement that England was now going in search
for new alliances. The tone and temper Of French
semi-offcial prints are far from aaying these ap-
prehensions. Read, for instance, the following
extract from Buffers Correspondence, Paris
publication from which most of the provincial
journalists in France derive their inspiration.
"a friend of mine, who is addicted to prophetic
pleasantries, said to me the other day: You'll
see the Emperor go to the Rhine to offer his
alliances to the King of Prussia, coupled with a
\ slight rectifcation Of frontiers replied By q
4 quotation from the pamphlet NAPOLEON III Y
itde: 1t ia better to settle territorial modifca-
tion in friendly way than to have it to do the day
after a victory"
England was concluded, the French Government
| threw out hint to the Prussian Ambassador at
Paris that an application for similar treaty be-
tween France and the Zolyerein would be fayorably
\ received. but the Prussan Government answering
that Hollverein was not at all desirous to make
such treaty. surprise and displeasure were ex-
pressed in terms far from courteous. Moreover,
the Prussian Government was, at the time, fully
Louis Bonaparte had recently opened with the
Bavarian Court, in order to induce the latter to
cede to France the fortress Of Landau, which, it
was said, having been left to France by the treaty
treaty OF 1915. Inc popular rumors OF an i'm
pending rupture with France are, consequently,
strengthened by official suspicion.
Prussia Is position at present bears, in some re-
spects, strong likeness to that of Austria after
the Conclusion of the Oriental war. She fattered
herself that she had humbIed Russia, her danger
ous sneighbor, without incurring any trouble be-
yond the mobilization Of her forces. Having played
the armed mediator while the Western Powers had
to bear the brunt of war, she might, after the pro-
clamation Of peace, fancy she had broken, by the
arms of the Western Alliance, the ascendaney
Russia had won over her since the Hungarian
events of 1S49 and there were indeed at that time
many compliments bestowed upon the clever di-
plonatic tactics Of the Vienna Cabinet. In point
of fact however, the ambiguous attitude main
tanned by Austria during the Oriental war left her
4 without allies, and enabled Louis Bonaparte to
localze the Italian war Prussia, in her turn,
maintained her resources intact during the italian
war. She shoulGered her arms but had not used
them, and contented herself with spilng, instead
of blood, the patient ink of her political wseacres
After the peace Of Villafranca, Prussia seemed
n to have weakened the rival House Of Hapsburg
through the ipstrumentality Of French Victories,
and opened to herself the road to paramount power
in Germany. Still, the very pretexts on which
the treaty Of Villafranca was proclaimed ought to
have rent the delusions she labored under. While
and threats of an eventual intervention had blunt
ed the sword Of France, Austria declared that her
own power of resistance had split upon the equiv
ocal neutrality Of Prussia. During The whole War
Prussia had displayed pretensons ludicrously con
tradicted by her acts. Before Austria and the
minor German States she appealed to her duties as
European power; before England and Russia she
appealed to her obligations as the paramount Ger
man power; and resting her claims upon these
double pretensions, she demanded from France to
be acknowledged as the armed mediator Of Europe.
To her claims as the German power par excellence,
she acted up by allowing Russia to fntimidate, in
circular Of unprecedented insoence, the minor
German courts, and by tiIuidly listening, in the
person Of Herr Won Sehleinitz to Lord John Rus
sells fppant lectures on the constitutional law
of nations
Her claims as a European Power she made
good by hushing up the warlike impulses of the
, minor German Princes and BY an attempt to turr
the military defeats Of Austria into as many titles
for usurping the place formerly held by her riva
| in the councils Of the German Confederation
When at last forced, by the progress Of the Frencl
arms. to assume something like warlike attitude
she met with the cold resistance of the minor Ger
man States, which hardly thought it worth Will,
to dissimuate their dstrust to the ultimate nten
tiens of the Prussian Court The peace Of Villa
franca found Prussia completely insulated no
!, only in Europe, but in Germany, while the subse
quent annexation of Savoy, by greatly contractn!
the exposed front of France, greatly improved
, her chances of victorious campaign on the Rhine
Under these circumstances the line of polio
which Prussia now affected to follow, both in he
internal and external relations appears alike faulty
Despite all the vain-glorious declamations of th
!, Prussian newspapers and Representative Chan
bers nothing has been altered in her internal al
fairs, save the phraseology Of her officials. TIL
propositions on army reform, while not at al
i Strengthening her military force for the impending
J., | emergency, aim at permanent enlargement 0
> the standing army, already too large: the over
burdening of the financial resources already over
: strained, and the annhilation of the only Demo
cratic institution of the eountry-the Landwehr
| 80 laxr 1a a,,taru rtohto N
association the municipal administration the rela
: tions of landlords and peasants the bureaucratic
y tutelage, the ubiquity Of the police, have bee
o carefully maintained. Even the infamous statute
" relating to marriages contracted between noble
and the common stock of mankind have not bee
rescnded. The very idea of restoring the Gonst
$ tuition, overthrown by coup d'etat, is hooted as
VI wild dream.
d will give you one single instance of the civ
liberty now enjoyed by Prussian subject. A na
tive of Rhenish Prussia had, during the worst per
cd of the reaction, been condemned by packe
e jury, because of what was then called politica
n crime, to seven years Imprisonment in Prussia
fortress. The period of his banshment, nc
abridged by the liberal ministry, having come t
t. an end, he repaired to Cologne, there to be drive
out by order of the police. He then SCI out fo
his native town, but, strange to say, was informe
by the authorities that having absentea himself fo
seven years from the place. he had lost his ctizel
le ed that his absence had not been voluntary ON
At but all in vain. From Berlin, where he then +,
- sorted, he was again elected on the plea that b
q had no means Of existence TO show, except h
y personal resources of labor and knowledge all h
PROF erty having been consumed during his in
Al prisonment.
y He at last betook himself to Breslau, where a
old acquaintance of his employed him as one of h
agents, but being one morning summoned to til
police he was told that his permission of resdenc
in could be prolonged only for few weeks If, in til
meanwhile, he should not have procured eitize
ship in Breslau. On his appliance to the Bresia
municipal authority, many petty difficulties We
@ thrown in his way, which, being removed by i
e, interference Of Jealous friends, his petition f
Of citizenship was at last granted, but, together wi
or the grant he received big bill, paradng an arrs
=. of fees, all to be paid by any unhappy mortal {
IN his entrance into the ranks OF Breslau citizens.
his friends had not possessed the means by clu
bing to raise the sum required, this Prussian su
~ iect would, like the Wandering Jew, have found
- :. place in his glorious fatierland where to lay
u. head.
ne The Lecturer In Imperial Rome.
es A recent number of the Westminster Reyie
contains very able article on "Plutarch and
Times" from which we extract the followi
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