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mn. situation In Europe - NRpoIoOn's
speech on Penoe'
From dbe ". y. Herald
Bv a special telegram through the Atlantic
o,ble dated in Lille, France, Friday after
-, ,,o ware informed that the Emperor Ma
noleon. who met with temporary delay on
bis iournev from Arras towards Paris, appeared
~, tho Bourse of the first named city and
s5a-ossad the assembled inanciers and dealers
-, tbo nresent aspect of political affairs. His
Uoiostv said that "business would progress
I,ot,or n certain journals did not exaggerate
the situation. / hope" added the Emperor,
sqbat commerce will improve with the GER
tsintv of peace, and | shall do everything in
INV power to resstablish confidence"
The city of Lille is perhaps the most inn
portant manufacturing centre in France. Its
artisans have to work hard for small wages.
They are rather poorly housed in crowded
fenements, and not overfed at any time.
Thev are however, intelligent and OF indie
pendent minds, and grumbe ominously when
The country is about to be disturbed and trade
depressed by war, for the men Of Lille have
come of late to prefer the shuttle to the rifle
or sabre. To such a population it must be
very agreeable to have from the imperial lips
an assurance of the certainty of peace"
accompanied by promise that their ruler
would do everything in his power to ere
Establish confidence"
The use of the words "reestablish conf
denoe" leads to the inference that the situa-
ton, as tending to war, had impaired it, and
perhaps the knowledge of this highly import
ant fact imposed on Napoleon what we may
term necessity for the delivery of the very
significant words which our special CORES
pondent transmitted by the cable.
} We learn, indeed, from other sources, under
date of Friday, that more secure feeling
has been created in the mind of the public at
large by the news reports from Paris. We are
told that Napoleon has given pacific assu-
RANGES to Prussia, and that it is expected that
an imperial note will Immediately be issued
from the French Foreign Office declaring like
policy for the empire to the world. Identical
with this, the Stuttgart Gazette, the organ of
the King of Wurtemburg denies that the plan
of South German Bund was even mentioned
during the Salzburg conference, and it is to be
presumed that the King is accurately informed
on the subject.
What does this mean? Has Napoleon
sounded the feeling of France, and read it
more accurately since his visit to the camp at
Chalons and the Salzburg conference. Has he
measured the strength Of North Germany
with more care, and estimated the value of a
South German alliance more truly Perhaps
he has; and, if so, his present professions are
likely to be sincere.
We must not, however, trust too much to
appearances, or place unlimited faith in the
words of the French monarch. We recollect
that on the 1st of January, 1859, the Emperor
Napoleon suddenly and openly delivered his
war insult to Baron Huebner, the Austrian
Minister in Paris, at a levee at the Tuileries
A war panic Immediately followed, and pre-
vailed with great intensity on the Paris Bours'
on the DAYS of the Sd and 4th of the month
On the 7th of January, thirty thousand Aus
trian soldiers had marched for Italy; yet OF
the very same day the Paris HonlteT pub
lished an article written to ''soothe the panic.
A month later on the 7th OF February, 1899
Napoleon opened the session OF the trenci
Legislature with speech, in which he said
s'Far be from us, then, these false alarms
these unjust suspicious, these interested ap
prehensiOns, as peace, hope, will net be dis
turbed. Resume, then, calmly the usua
course of your labors. | have explained t
you the state of our foreign relations, and thl
explanation corresponds with all that hav
made known during the last two months, bot
at home and abroad. You will, fatter my
self, find that my policy has never ceased t
be otherwise than firm, but conclliatory."
On the 10Th of April the Wontteur had
'pacifc' article and yet on the 24th OF tn
same month the commands OF the Frenc
army were assigned to the marshals, and tn
Sardinian frontier was crossed the next day.
Peace may now be maintained IN Europe
but our readers may not be surprised shoul
they hear of war. -
When Shall We Have Peace!
Es-o,,, ybo Tb.iblne