The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-09-26
FRANCE.

Nspoieon's ConvaIescence and Outdoor Exer-
rise-Age Creeping on Apnce--DOn't Like
the Doctors-The Senatns Consuitum and
Observation-Disclosures and Socialism,
Prince Napoleon and His Friends-The
Amnesty.
PARIS, Sept. 10, 1869.
To-day has been wet and cold. yet in spite OF it all
the report has spread through Paris that the En-
perOr has driven in from st. Cloud, some six miles,
and made the tour Of the Boulevards This Is very
bold OF the imperial invalid, ana Is taking great
risk for nothing. His illness has caused great
anxiety and panic on the Bourse; but this ought
TO teach the Parisians the value to them of all
OF the life OF that man whom they took such delight
in voting down IN the month Of May last. No won
der the Emperor Is IN such haste to appear all right
again. instead of INDUCING the great delight Of see
ing The Partisan world prey to the most violent ag
tatOn. not to say the iveest terror the chance OF
HIS abandoning them forever. The Emperor must
really feel more sympathy for the interests Of the peo
pie of Paris who are greatly damaged in various ways
by the anxiety and suspense prevailing there. than
they had Of late exhibited for him to incur all the
dangers OF relapse, by turning out on this ncle
ment day and passing upwards OF an hour in
carriage. 1t Will be somewhat strange il he does
not pay for his plucky imprudence. There is no
doubt of the fact this time that his Majesty has had
u
perous necessity OF putting his house in order This
is by far the severess attack his health has ever
suffered. At sixty years OF age his constitution has
lost vital power OF resistance to disease. The strik
ing characteristics G the man have revealed them
selves conspcuously during his recent illness.
Whether he is the determined fatast 1t is asserted
or only the shrewd, suspicious man he has often
proved himself TO be, 1t is quite certain that he
shows very little difference to the faculty, whose
greatest celebrities have surrounded MIN. II it
were not but respect for usage, as well as to aay
the feverish anxieties Of his family ento,Dage he
w0ud probably reuse to receive any physician at ALL
and prefer TO fight out his maladles alone unaided.
AS 1t is, the doctors all call him a Mouuats
ntdtdds, bad patient, for he ressts remedies
as much as he can ana only submits to their treat
ment little as he can. Some sceptics like himself
may think MS chances Of life are considerably
increased by this profane want of faith IN medical
doctrine but far be it from me to venture on such
delicate ground. In 1868 the Emperor mad q sudden
attack similar to the present. but not prolonged
ON that occasion the Empress persuaded him to
accept the services OF a celebrated homeopathic in
which she had uno ounded confidence and TO which
he made no objection at all, having little conf.
dence in one school, it would SEEM "a in another.
DR.. c. was called In ana began his treatment,
but he was greatly surprised. II not disconnected,
doctor, don't want you TO cure me; simply man.
age that by tomorrow should seem to be cured
for 1t IL absolutely necessary that for days just
now l should appear TO be in good health" For
tunatey for the doctors reputation the Emperor
was able In day or two to resume his work and go
out as usual; but his rapid recovery can hardly
be attributed TO the remedies prescribed for the
Emperor scarcely eyer took one Of them. His
Majesty Is very fond OF Joking in his dry way and 1t
seemed very amusing to him 10 badger the cele-
brated homeopathic by asking him to explain the
composition OF all the little gobues administered
and the particular erect meant 70 be produced he
prepare them on the spot and offered TO supply the
materials, which the DOCTOR however, with the
greatest Difference, took care to evade caring
reveal all the mysteries Of the shop The doctors
who have been called In during bis last attack have
not Jared, from all accounts, much better for they
have had to undergo more than once some playful
display Of a settled scepticsm of medical lnfallibity
or what was worse In their eyes, some sly disregard
OF their strongest njunctlons. Die when he may, il
IL squite certain the conscientious opinion OF the
professors who may oaiciate on that occasion VIII
surely be that Napoleon Ill persisted simply because
he would turn deaf ear to all their best advice and
obstnatey ignore their most energetic efforts to save
him.
The Sendtus COnsultiiDl was voted unanimously
barring the dissentients; but this q matter OF
course The constitution OF 1852 is, therefore, legally
m0dned TO the extent OF The concessions made, and
they are, as you know, large enough to enable the
Legislative body TO control the executive govern
ment II they Know how. This Is now the next great
problem; but 1 viii not venture to pronounce any
cynical misgvlngs on the.suhJect. The next session
VIII settle all that pretty conciusively. The
brief sitting OF the French senate was dstin.
guished chiefly by two or three speeches that have
led to good deal or comment. The well known
economist Michel Cbevaher seized the occasion TO
ventiate his knowledge OF English parliamentary
history, and after giving his antastioa version
OF all the Constitutional viclssiudes that England
has been heir TO, he wound up with the conclusion
that he did not see why France should not come out
~ good parliamentary government a. any Anglo.
Saxon country whatever, whether on this side OF
she Atlantic or the other. j hope he may live
to see this phenomenon, and that wound be giving
a pretty long lease methinks But the grand event .
OF the session was, beyond question: the speech OF
Prince Napoleon II was an out and out democratic
speech, as | predicted come weeks ago 10 would be.
Its three great points national sovereignty, NUM-
clpa selfQovernment and ministerial responsibility
The most abandoned democrat who mas any claim
10 common sense, can't 40 beyond this OF course,
the socialists DO, for they assert that they have
patent mode OF rec0nsiructng society In such an In
Renlous way that there should be no rich nor poor
people. II ever they get chance 10 carry out their
bedlamlte projects-and Louis Blanc still believes
they wl-rll bet that the only rich people who i'll
1--we IN palaces and ride In carriages will be the
prophets OF this new sect But 1t Is always so; /
mean since the days Of the Christian apostles who
were above the irates OF this weak world which,
alas the french socialists are not.
To come back 10 Prince Napoleon. Nothing could
be more clear and positive than hs tenets they
had the stamp and the ring oil the tried metal and
are exactly such as we every day enunctated In
that grave and sententious organ OF the French
democracy, the Steele. Yet-who would believe IL p
the 9iece seems TO be utterly taken back At having
caught such tremendous big fish, or rather such q
magnificent elephant Tor IL Is plain enough they don't
know what to do with him. Instead oil rejoicing over