, 1864-04-02

Co., putting in ten thousand dollars.
UlshOeffer, to whom he gave three thou
sand dollars maintains that he always knew
that it would turn out well, and has invested
money in a machine for manufacturing ice.
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Louis Napoleon. u
The Government of the Emperor Of the
French rests on two very solid foundations;
it is the handspring of system of centralized
administration, to which France under her
latest sovereigns had been gradually tending,
but which reached its present stupendous
perfection under the hands of the First Ma
poleon, probably the greatest administrative
and organizing genius the world ever saw -
Like that artillery which he knew so well
how to direct the administrative system which
Napoleon devised for France, tends to equal
ize the dwarf with the giant. Armed with
this tremendous machine, an ordinary man
may feel himself match for the most deep
laid conspiraces and the most formidable re-
volts This, then is one of the Emperor's
GREAT advantages, but it is not the only one
1t would be unjust to deny, what a long PEE
riod of years has abundantly demonstrated,
that the Government of the Emperor of the
French is Government not only of power
but of opinion. Little as it may accord with
English notions, there really seems no ground
for denying that the opinion of France, after
such trial as she has had, is not in favor of
parliamentary government Nobody can re-
gret this more sincerely than we do; but all
our regrets will not alter the fact, ought not
to induce us for a moment to attempt to con
ceal it. France has attained complete uni
ty she is thoroughly organized, as far as
the action Of Government is concerned alike
for war or peace, Her Capital is splendid,
her Court is brilliant and she is content, as
it should seem, to purchase these and SINH
lar advantages at the highest price that a
nation can pay-at the price of that internal
life and regular development which, accord
ing to our creed, political liberty alone can
bestow. The Government of France-that
is to say, the Emperor himself has just sus-
tained two severe defeats in the elections
for Strasburg and the Yosges. The Gov
ernment candidates have been rejected and
those of the opposition are returned by large
majorities. These things will happen in cleo
tiOns it is impossible to secure the unani-
hlOJ III idNOi OFCh VI bhS ilOob PVphidA Wv
ernment. If the Government could secure
the unanimity in the chambers; it would on
ly succeed in demonstrating that there is no
freedom of election at all, since no cause is
so good and no opinions so certain as that
the human mind, if left to itself, will not in
fallibly raise difference of opinion upon it.
Strong as the Government of the Emperor is,
we are persuaded that he cannot continually
exhibit it in this odious and unpopular, and,
above all, unsuccessful character, withoutin-
curing the gravest danger. He is so power
ful that it requires an extraordinary amount
of ingenuity to hit upon any way by which he
can subject himself to a defeat at the hands
of an opposition which, as we have shown, is
neither armed by physical force nor yet with
force of opinion but that opinion against
the existing Government which does not now
exist it may be perfectly possible to create,
and steady adherence to the policy which
on an occasion so public and so interesting
as an election, persists in representing the
Emperor in the odious attitude of one tramp
ling on the liberties he has bestowed, or in
the still worse position of being defeated by
his people in such an attempt can hardly
fail to accomplish this.-LOndon Times Jan.
22d.
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