The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-11-04
EIPOLEON'S HEALTH.
state influence OF the Empress.

The Paris correspondent Of the London
News, writing OH tie nth ult., says:
Your readers may perhaps remember that was
the first person who, even ut the end of last win,
never venture to resist the onward movement
that was then beginning. Almost all the press OF
alton ana affected to believe Tor dill h:iievc, that
the Emperor would consent 10 no m0stilcailunS
OF the constitution IN liberal sense: MY es'iinn,e
Eml cror's character led me to HE opinion ! en-
pressed, and you sec that | have not been
wrong. lie began by giving I'm TO popular opin-
ion, because he was afraid OF not doing so hc
has ended by na,uralizimg @ n his Inns lIst ,Is tmeo'
fear; tho fear Of yielding too much. But ! do
not think that even nj this moment. after 80
the duration OF the cimprc-I do not think that
oven now you are aware of what the strength OF
the nnti-dynasiic sentiment here hNs grown 10.
AZ no pcri0d oi modern French history has the
public feeling of the country hccn so unanimous
or so powerful. II was nothing approaching to
the July revolution tell you that IL could not have
had n chance of success had the government had
sion likely TO be produced by the fntal o,t'On-
4dnceS The movement OF 1889 was q very cir
the country now, and If you read one after the
other the famous articles OF the Journal lies lie
Roi ii and any leader OF the Rappc or other AL.
vanced newspaper or the present day, you will see
how immeasnrably preferable was the position OF
the already doomed Charles Y to that OF the cx-
haustcd Caesar, who still f;u,cics he can dispose
oume 81 the aE Ml, epHrp&Gct Hr&G tYsSa Victor Hugo alone
dared to- able debility OF health Of
lne CHIEF OF the State has virtually subjected him
who rules now, with the notion OF being cclc-
brated Us n second Maria Theresa. Tile Empress
is very insTep a person, with IL as have
This obstinacy Is held by her TO be Synonymous
with powcr-with real strength. The principal
object Of her recent efforts has been the de TIctO
Punishment Of all her spouse's old friends and as
socatcs. She has always dlsllkcd them intensely,
forgiven any one of them the attempts they one
and oil made TO prevent her marriage with Louis
heT sentcnts SS and @ Until 'Vi the hour Wien crena
stances gave her prepondcrancc In the govern
ment the Empress was friendly with everyb"ly--
with NJ. dc Pcrsigny rs with Count Walcwski; with
4. dc Morny, Will NJ. Drouyn dc Lhuys, with III.
Poud and with al. Rouher Her first act Of real arl-
thority has been the getting rid OF General Feury,
and grca, sensation It creates. It is quite true
that one argument used by the Empress is n very
strong one - the notorious absence of moral
worth or personal respectability on the part Of
Lous Nnpoleon's private friends ana out-and-out
adhercnls. She puts This forward. now OIL all oc.
sons She condemns. But whom does she propose
IN their steady Men politically worse, because
which they are required to uphold. Men like
General Feury, who remember The early days OF
the country then was, know what the present
movement means, AMI what It may come to- be-
rank and wealth, they disposed to do what
ever may be necessary TO preserve their position,
A1u their s,ght IL prop0rttOnatcly shurpcncd.
There would he no reason why the man who
mainly helped to commit the crimes OF tile coup
detdt without whom Louis Napoleon never would
nave yenturcd TO commit it) might not become
Me Inauguration OF ail freedom In France;
oil he is aiming ut Is not losing the advantages
nc possesses, and once prove to him that the
country will have its old liberties, or throw
OF those who refuse them, and General Picury
would indubItably, were he minister. do every
thing that his own Interests demanded. I,ut the
Empress IDEAS OF government tend In thorough
y different directions. In the first place IL H. I'm
her mind, O humiliation for q sovereign to he die
tatcd to by the people, and she looks upon what
Is called "nrmncss" as n cardinal virtue Ton the
eve OF '4S NJ. GuZot, too, said that 'resistance
Was the only form OF pr0grcss';l and, added TO
this the first duty that the Empress holds 10 De
incumbent on France Is that OF forcing the yoke
OF the Papacy more and more upon the poiula-
tion Now, In all these attempts she meets with
the resistance OF the so-caled cnt0urdJp, who
arc by no means Papistical. She has hecn for the
last two years trying to get rid OF General Flcury
but after the many deaths that have deprived
The Emperor OF his old companions PersgUy anu
Fleury are about the only remaining Ones and
the Grand Ecuper endured.
Before leaving for her Eastern journey, how
ever, the Empress achieved the virtual exile OF
her adversary. The General petitioned for Flor
encc; but the Empress Insisted on NJ. dc Malarct's
remaining there. To his perfect annoyance then
Flcury is dispatched TO Russia anu the Empress
has succeeded.