The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-04-18
ElEscHl AND HE lNEERNAL MACHINE.

fifth anniversary of the Revolution of 1880,
Louis Philippe, then growing rapidly more
despotic and less popular, was to review the
National Guard of the Seine and the troops of
the garrison of Paris.
Saint Pelagie Prison was full of republican
prisoners. A band of nearly one hundred
Lyonnese conspirators, among when Reverchon
was conspicuous, had lately defended them
selves before the Peers at the Luxembourg with
boldness and eloquence. Mad'lle Lenormand
the fashionable prophecies, had predicted a
politiCal catastrophe about this time.
There is q heat and oppression in the air be-
fore thunder, and also before the outburst of
polilica volcanoes; signs which alarm the
thoughtful. The Duchess of Berry's friends
were suspected of a wish to remove the willy
king Letters from Hamburg, Berlin, Coblentz,
AK Chambery, Turin, spoke vaguely OF mystic
rious murmurs of danger. Now 1t was an am.
buscade on the road to Neuilly, then an ex-
plOsive machine opposite the Ambigu-Comique
Theatre. Houses were searched, arrests made
The bourgeois dreaded the public anniversary
OF the Three Days. yet they scarcely knew why.
IL was generally supposed that the Luxem-
bourg trials had driven the more violent re-
publicans into o bowling frenzy that must
terminate in some insane act of violence.
Ministers were anxious; the mouChards (spes)
were resllessly watchtul; M. Theirs adiured the
king to be on his guard; the queen, Amelia,
besought HIM not to tace the danger The king,
cool in Judgment, unimaginatlve, crafty, bold
brave, and self willed, turned deaf ear to all
these random rumors and bantered those who
tried To arou, bis fears.
On the 2S,h, the citizen king positively refused
10 allow any alteration in the place where the
review was to be held. He was atfable and
Chatty as usual did not manifest the slightest
appTeh nslon, nor ordered any precautiOn to be
taken; but it was secretly resolved to guard and
surround him as If he had been going iuto an
engagement. The only words that Louis Philippe
uttered, alluding to the review, were on the
night before, when, posrpOning some work which
one of his Librarians wished HIM to supervise
he slid:-
omorrow-at least if I am not killed."
Long mpunty had given the king belief in
the utility of conspracies. The Duke of Orleans
shared deeply IN the general apprehension, and
said to General Baudrand, his first aide-de-
Camp:--
"General, they threaten to fire at us. NV
brothers and l will keep constantly near the
king, and make rampant for him with our
bodies. You and the other officers of the cor
tege, on your part, on the least movement, must
draw close and cover his Majesty
Even that brave SCARED old veteran, Mar
Bhal Morter the Duke of Trevi So was ner-
yOus. Morter had been in the retreat from
Russia, and, indeed in all the great battles of
the Revolution and the Empire, and, having
passed through rains Of fire and hallstorms of
bullets, had forgotten what fear meant; but
still the ramors reused him. Although the old
soldiers health was so bad that only five
months before he had been Obliged to surren-
der the presidency of the council he resisted
all the prayers and supplications of his family,
and determined to attend the anniversary re-
view.
EYES," he said, with the old fx-bayonet look
yes, shall go. / am big man, perhaps 1
shall cover the king"
There is no doubt that these alarms arose
from consciousness of the feelings of the
people. You heard the rumors at the mar
BILE tables OF the Gates, and round the
rough deal slabs in the poorest wlneshops.
In 1888, there had been emeutea al 9reno.
we, Lyons, Chalons, Marseilles, and at a dozen
places. In 1884, two thousand persons were
seized or chased oHt OF France, one hundred
and sixty-four political prisoners tried, and four
thousand witnesses examined. The press
dreaded more chains; justice was interfered
with. The prudence of the King in his foreign
relations the old Napoleon party maliciously
construed into neglect Of the dignity and glory
of France. Tolerant and wise men thought the
King too indlsCripinate in his efforts to defend
his power from revolutionists.
He swept into his lawyers net every sort of
opponent. He treated his enemies as if they
had been Gods enemies. There were fears that
Justice was not merely to wear the bandage,
but also to have her eyes put out. The
press was to be gagged and throttled oil
from truth; there were rumors that the
King was going to raise a body-guard, and so
defy the bourgeois soldier, who had burnt pow
der bravely for him before Charles the Tenth
turned his back on Paris. There was no true
liberty, then, after all the fighting for it. King
Stork had unseated King Log.
The July morning came; the sky was blue and
burning, the heat was striking ferCely on the
walls OF the Tuileries and the pavngstones of
the bOulevards, and the leaves of tne trees IN
the Luxembourg gardens were languid with the
heat. The quick, sharp "tam-tamn of the drums
of the National Guard sounded everywhere in
the soldierly city, from the Place of the Bastile
to the Arc de PEtoile. The measured tramp
OF the infantry was heard in the Rue st.
Honore and round the Bourse; behind the
Madelaine and past the Louvre the lines OF
bayonets flashed and glittered; everywhere
there was marching The cavalry, too, were
coming through the barriers; children laughed
and clapped their hands, grisettes and bonnes
smil ed and showed their white teeth; old SOL
diers drew themselves up stitiy, and assumed a
critical air, now and then perhaps passing their
hands across their eyes with JOY and pride when
son or q nephew (deCOre) marched or rode
past among the premiere Legere" or the CuiTas
siers, and nodded shake or helmet to them as
they passed. The men of Austerhtz, to men of
Marengo were there, looking at the yC..hs of
the last revolution, and brOwnfaced sTiplings
fresh from Algiers.
There were many blanks in the ranks of the
National Guard, and that indicated mischefand
dislike. That keen observer, NJ. Louis Blanc,
says:-"The city was alarmed and weighed
down, and on every face there was a sort of
halfdefant apathy. People were silent and
sullen.n
Al halEpast 10 the mockery of the festival to
celebrate a restoration of liberty had begun.
TulleTies, the grenadiers threw their muskets
forward and presented arms, stiff as statues OF
iron. The king bowed and bowed, and still
rode on boWing, to encourage the scanty
cheering. The staff was brilliant The kline
was followed by his three sons, the Dukes
OfIOrleans, Nemours, and Joinyllle, close to
and Watc hful of their father Then came ole
Marshal Mortier, the Grand Chancellor Of the
Legion of Honor against whom steel and lead
had been powerless for sixty years. He, too
looked on the alert and watched the populacC
and the blouses suspiciously, ready to throw
himself before the king, on whom he wasted hi