The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-10-18

1shes letter nom correspondents in London who
appears TO have been endeav0rtnR TO obtain there
traces OF Troppmann and HIS supposed accomplioes.
He writes that young Frenchman answerin& the
9Th and 18th OF September BY several persons and
VINO told them that he had come TO mako inquiries ~
tended 70 Sss w 11SaH Two eds a. Inc eS
the month. ON the 26th or 9th also Frenchman
called on the keeper Of hotel near Leicester
master 9 sum OF money to take him on board
some ship leaving Immediately for any country
found ,nss the o9 vessel leaving
that day was the Rotterdam steamer, to which no
E1aacS n' and then with the
America. One was tall athletic individual: Of
about forty. and who had papers showing that he
was an engineers turner; the other, who was Short
In stature, had the license OF q cab driver.
The funeral or the eight victims took place on
Saturday morning at Turcoing. An immense crowd
awaited the arrival OF the train at the station which
vi naa psSa as Msls
IN 1n,or the pr procession sa@ IT,, to the church AN
assembled from the nelghboring localities ana who
lined the streets through which the c0rtege passed.
bearers that OF the mother in 'front.' and followed by
the others in the order Of their age. Each comm was
which was inscribed the name and age Of the victim.
Inc relatives Of the family, who followed. were
tery s II number Tine IN ns
took TO its charge all the expenses OF Inc intermens;
public subscription has also been opened 70 raise
cof1ns were lowered into the grave funeral
orations We're pronounced by NJ. Dausae.
Brame, deputy for the crcumscrption in which
Turc0ing Is situated. The latter, in his address.
asked pardon OF the memory 9, Gussave lor me
to hang over him.
The only new facts In connection with the Pam
a RI n IF nj nrA
belonging to the latter 1t had been left early IN
Soutz, IN Alsace. by two individuals, one Of whom
Is supposed TO have been Troppmann and the other
Two men have heen uned twenty i've francs each
for hawking portraits OF the victims OF the Pantn
murders without tcense.
The Radical oRcds', ON Napoleon,s Position
aud tho Dynasty.
BY mail from Europe Of October we have copy
OF the following letter, which was addressed BY N.
Louis Blanc to the Paris Temps on the above sub
ject, aud appeared In the columns OF that journal.
M. Blanc writes:-
The illness OF Napoleon III. has deeply Interested
the English The news OF his recovery hos not put
stop TO their interest but merely changed its drec-
ton. When they believed his life 10 be In danger
they asked. with an uneasy curiosity, What would
happen when he should be no more. Now they AK,
with no less curiosity and no less anxiety What Will
happen while he continues to live. So gloomy and
finally created by the empire So inevitable was
1t that all sorts OF alarms should one day arise
full silence and Of apparent immobllity. which
was to save the herd or zen without faith, OF
egotists, Of potroons from the perIls Of the un-
known. Napoleon once dead, people said Q few days
ago, who viii replace himf viii France which has
not waited till he shall have given up tho ghost be-
fore she claims to belong to herself bow beneath the
yoke Of Spanish woman, herself ruled by prlestst
Will France consent to salute as her master child
not yet too old to be fond Of sweetmeatss II the
revolution should take the bit between ts teeth. who
will stay III VIII shef Will he9 To these ques-
lions, owing to the convalescence OF Napoleon III.
lists on this side OF the channel. They arc seeking
the elements OF liberal empire, but they can ind
them nowhere. Neither In the aptitude OF the high
fuHcti0naries whom their long practice OF despotism
at second hand mas completely untitled for the scr.
vice OF liberty, nor Ia the disposition OF tue majority
OF the Legislative BODY, welded "a It Ia to
absolute power; nor In the sentiments Of the par.
liamentary opposition which is composed OF repub-
lcanS nor In the probable result OF universal suf
frage, with which the lrrecOncilables have found
such favor; nor In the tendencies OF those who yield
themselves up to the empire because they are afraid
OF liberty; nor lastly IN the rut worn by regime
against which liberty has many more grievances than
1t can hope to be forgiven when the change comes.
What especially strikes Engishmen is the lmpetu-
osity Of the movement which produced IN France
an impetuosity which makes them ask What Is the
Emperor OF the French going to dof What can he
dor Some think he ID meditating diversion BY
war. Others imagine that he Is preparing q second
coup d'etat Others speak OF PROJECT OF abdcatIon.
/ have before me an article the Pau Mall Gazette
In which these three hypothesis rapidly reviewed.
Z
OF the sentiment expresses ana the importance Of
the public represented by the journal In question.
me Pal Nay Gazette barely stops TO examine the
hazardous and grossly immoral 1t might have
added. land maniestly stupid" 1t Is too late to
try to drown the funeral knell Of despotism IN the
booming Of cannon. At the pass To which thinga
have now come, SO abomnable an article would
deceive no one. Who would not see why the i'm
peria sceptre Is stained with boods And who
would suffer itS Neither does the Pail Mai Gazette
a w IN
gives no reasons; but we can divine them.
First. the army Is not composed OF hired slaughter
ers. II we had to explain the butcheries OF June.
1S4S, and December, 1881, We should ind the expa-
nation in . concourse OF confused circumstances
the most Of, which no longer exist And we need
not go back to the capture Of the Baste to be as
sured that when the air breathed oy every one IL
breast OF the army. No Paris is not the battle ned
when the courage OF the French soldiers dreams OF.
His enemies are-the enemy; aud It is catumny to
think he Ii made to expose himself to murder has
father at the bidding OF his corporal.
which, according to the iaU Nat Gazette, would be-
perhaps OF all the alternatives that to be rsked,
tue best choice OF evils Hereis tue singular draft OF
An imperial proclamation, which the Pau Md6
Gazette puts forward as the last means Of avoiding
the dangers OF the sItuatl0n:-
For twenty France has been under imps
rial BY that rulc she from anarchy, hes
preserved from anarchy, been redeemed from
sna ssa eas he. ~.
20 my aa ra p r
coumcnce. l with In the
establishment of constitutional government with n
form OF government give you Dew sovereign. whohs
desny oreseenas lcen uurtured from bis cradle the
liberal head of constitutional kingdom. Permit
OF its ministers. aud fear not thai my sonsc &C.
Try ana fancy the outburst Of laughter that would
greet language like this IN support or such step
The French mind II essentially logical. 1t would nos
easily comprehend the necessity OF putting an end
to the imperial regime granting that 10 that regime
France owed 1t that she had lived to this day,
tranquil glorious, prosperous, feared, honored.
satisfied. And tho buffoonery OF such con-
tradiction would be more absurd still, coupled with