Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-05-18

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 As.sgc in the ability of their aiers, for they feel how completely # have been falsited the assurance . given by tho Prime Minister in the legislative body-that Franco had s not only no reason to complain, but x every reason to rejoice at what took place last year; that Germany was less strong than bc'orc; that shc was now broken up into three fragments instead of being one compact con federation that Prussia was debar- red from entertaining any further ambitious project-but not word about Luxemburg or Belgium. They see that the whole policy of Prussia is a crushing answer to Nj. Roughcr; that his theory of tho three irag ments is dissipatcd by tho treaties with the Southern States of Ger many; that any secret designs in respect to Belgian are responded to by the marriage of the Count ot Flanders with princess of Iiohen- zolern, and that the pretentons to Luxemburg arc disposed of by the interpolation of M. Bennigsen, by the intense agitation in Germany. and tho appeal to the powers that signed the treaty of 1859. One of the Paris papers, never favorable to instrumentation of that province to France says:
 "The question of Luxcmburg is no longer one of aggrandizement, it is one ofnational dignity and Influence A great country like France is ail- ways atlberty not to put forward pretcntions, but the day 1t does put them forward and considers them just, it cannot renouneo them at the bidding of any foreign power, espe cially whom that power has no right of it's own. The day when it is otherwise, the day when France cx- presses her wish only to bend before the injunction of the torigner, she is no longer power even ot the third rank, and, to use NJ. Thier' cXprcs sions, she is no more than Belgium The conclusion to be drawn from the article of the Etendeeed is, then either the evacuation of burg by Prussia, or war, alter brief delay, between Prussia and France v The apprehensions of the public are moreover increased by tue ru- nor that Marshal MacMahon has been tclegraphed for; that a note "couched in energetic terms" :" rela tive to Lnxemburg has been ad dressed by the French Government to that of Prursia; and that certain officers of the staff have been sent en mission to the Rhine. The truth is that people believe France to be drifting into war with Prussia. In these circumstances it is not sup prlsing that there should be a gen eral stagna,ion of business, and that the spirit of commercial and indus trial enterprise should be oaralyzcd, At the Bourse on Saturday there was not merely fall in rents, but a panic, which effected all sorts Of public securities. On the strength of the dispatches from the Hague it was hoped that it would open with rise. It was quite the con trary, and on reflect it was seen that those dispatches, instead ofshowing that the Luxemburg question was abandoned, only ment that it was displaced; that it was no longer at the Haugue, but at Berlin and that the resolution come to by the King of Holland has the effect of placing France face to face with Prussia. In addition to these causes of uneasi- ness we have tho numerous strikes among the various classes of arti- zans and the combination existing among them; the discontent oc- casioned by tho unfortunate Army Organization bill; and the delicate health of the Prince Imperial, which, however, l nm assured, has haap frraotlv pynrernted