The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-11-04
KAfoLEoN's HEALTH.
state .1nausnse OF the Empress.
The Paris correspondent Of the Londo

The Paris correspondent of the London
News, writing on the 18th ult, says:
Your readers may perhaps remember tnat wa was
the frat person Who even at the end Oh iast WIN,
ter distinctly affirmed that Louis Napoeon t mouit
never venture to resist the onward movement :
f6a Comment took the opposite view OF the STU.
alton and adeeted to believe Tor dld peneVel snat
the Emperor would consent to no modincations
OF the constitution in liberal sense. NY estna.e ~
az fhe excessive timidity and uncertainty OF the
Euar eroris character led me to the opinion ex-
pressed, and you see that have not been
wrong. he began by giving In to popular opln-
lon, because he was AFRAID OF not dOing 80 ne
has ended by naturaliziug all his hrst theo-
sTetieai concessions from the same motveS
fear: the fear OF yielding too much. But l oo
not think that even at this moment, aIter 81
much has occurred TO prove the impossiointy OF
the duration OF the empire-I do not THINK lnat
eyers new Won are aware Of what the strength OF
the antfdynastic sentiment here has grown TO-
no period Of modern PTense e nlso'T So min
ar so powerful. 1t was nothing approaching 20
its present state in 1880. Men who were actors IN
ne July revolution tell Jou that II conld not nass
oeforehand the slightest suspicion OF the lmpres-
.sion likely 60 be produced by tine Iatal oTGO,s- on.
51tl,l0es Tue movement OF 1889 was very clr-
snmscribed one compared to that which agitatses s
the country now, and II you read one after the
6SiiSr the famous articles OF the Journal des De
hafs ending "Malheureuse France Maheureux
and any o q 1Ss Sa u You win
now fInuieasurably preferable was the position OF
fhe already doomed Charles x 10 that Of tne ex-
nausted Cesar VINO still fancies ne can DISPOSE
Of the army and whose name is now openly
Sn,sied NE with enithets such as Victor Hugo alone
dared TO utter few years age:
The incontestabe debility OF heatn OF
the cn otne State has virtually ~ Ss wife e
Mh0 rules new, with the notion OF oeng cele,
0rafed as o second Maria Theresa. Ihe Empress
Is very Inferior person. VIA as nave nHre n,tv
Tbis obstinacy Is held by her to be synonymous
nth poWer-Yith real strength The principal
object Of her recent efforts has been the de Jacto
banishment Of an her spouse,s od irienas anu as
aociates She has always disliked them intensely,
and for more than enc reason, and she mas never
Jereiyen any one Of them the attempts they one
and an made to prevent her marriage with LOUIS
But sas a mas %oss tse When crcu
stances gave her preponderance In the govern
Hsnt the Empress was friendly VILE everypoay.[,
EiSA II. de Persigny as with Count WalewsH; WIN y
Fouid ana with a. Rouher. Her first act OF real au-
fhority has been the getting rid OF General feury,
and eSrreat sensation It creates. 1t i5 quite true
that one argument used ny tne smpseasM ~ y very
worth or personal respectaeility on the part OF
Louis Eapoleon's private friends ana out-snd,ous
nfherenfs. She puts this forward now on Al oc-
easiOus: and there Is now no defending the per-
eous me condemns. But whom does she propose
n fheir stead Men politically worse, because
ahey are utterly wanting In any faith IN tnat
which they are required TO uphold. Men Ike
General Fleu-y, who remember the early days OF
re Fenruary Revoiution, andSwhat the temper OF
the eountyy then was, know what tse present
noT6ment means, and what 1t may come 70; oe'
Gfdes which, having been raised from nothing 10
,rank and wealth, they are disposed TO DO what
ever may be necessary to preserve their position,
.aln6 their sight Is proportionately sharpened.
Tfere wouM be no reason why the man who
mainly helped TO commit the crimes OF the coup
d7etct without whom Louis Napel never Wouid
Aave yentured,to commit itl migss not Decome
the inaugurator OF sill freedom In france,
al he 10 aiming at is not losing the advantages
ne possesses and once prove TO him tnat tine
eoantry Wifi have its old liberties, or throw
or those who refuse them, and General Fleury
would indubitably, were he minister. DO every
thing that his own interests demanded. But the
Empress' ideas OF government tend In thorough
" di1erent directions In the first place 1t is in
her mind, o humiliation for sovereign to be die
tatel to ky the people, and she looks upon what
s. called 1dfmnessn as o cardinal virtue ION the
eve OF i4s N. Guizot, too, said that resistance
was the only form OF progressnl and, ADDED 70
this. the first duty Sass sse Empress holds TO be
incambent on France Is that Of forcing the yoke
81 the Papacy more and more upon the popula-
ti6p Now, IN all these attemuts sre meets wltn
ma resistance Of the so-caled ertottrdoe, who
are by no means Papistical. She has Deen ior tle
isst fWo years trying TO get rid OF Generai
hut, after the many aestns snss nase % orS
Fletfry are about the only remaining ones, ana
the GTcnd Ec1per endured.
Before leaving for her Eastern journey, now
ever, the Empress achieved the virtual exlIe oi
her adversary. The General petitioned LOT Floy-
encc; but the Empress insisted on u. de Aalareps
remaining there. To his perfect annoyance, then,
Fleury Is dispatched to Russia and the Empress
has succeeded.