New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-02-08
FRENCH AFFAIRS.
pRospECTs OF BoNAPARTTsM.

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PROM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT oP THB TRIBUNE
PARIS, Jan. ia week ago yesterday inc
three psr cents were at $780, Next day came news mat
he Fmperors condition was alarming, ana tney rose
8 confines. On the following day when nsws came
hlt he was dead they rose another eenumes. Hes
lerday the eve Of his burial, they reached aI. Ma
Voeonc prints their readers that their late e1
Emperors death has thrown all Europe into cOnsserna
oB arrested business and beside raising the prce OF
yiolets Grape, and other mourning goods has cast
deep gloom over Paris. The shops, with one OF two
pstentatious exceptions, open, and the theaters;
whatever may be the depth OF general sadness does
not generally rise 70 the surface There particular
and striking exceptions. The grief OF the three leading
newspaper organs Of Imperialism is by 10 means Of the
sort that passeth show one Of them has permanent
display heading running across the whole Wluln VI
the first page. la Mort dc PBmpeear" and all these
exploiting death aud the grave for party PURPOSES
Liberals did in the Of Baudin rev years
aguonIy with freedom under the Republic Tar greater
than what brought down heavy punishment on the
latter under the Empire. You remember how baudln
was killed in 1851 while defending the con-
stitution Louis Napoleon had Two years De-
fore solemnly sworn 10 support. When in 1865
there was an attempt pacific demonstration over
his grave the whole garrison Of Paris was eonsgne in
the barracks and held ready 10 at moments no
tee Store Of arrests made In brutal fashion,
Three OF the city and several provincial newspapers that
proposed a subscription for his monument were seized
Pacific demonstrators and journalists were tried and (of
coursel condemned 70 fines varying from $50 TO 1909
francs and 70 Of Imprisonment varying from one
10 six months Baudin fell in defense OF the law, in
active obedience decree proposed by the venerable
Legitimis Berger. and voted by the National Assem-
bly, on the ID OF December 1851 declaring the deposition
and outawry the President Of the Republic inviting
citizens TO resist the violation OF law Of which the Pres
dent guilty Ny colleague" Berger writes III 1863
'enerceticaIly obeved the orders OF the Assembly"
Il hardly expected Of all persons who suffered
by the events OF those days and the subsequent acts OF
the man who prohed by them regard his corpse now
with the wise aud generous Victor Hugo:
Peuple! soyons clements! soyoRs forts! oubliOns!
Jamais lodeur DIES morris attire les lions
La naine dun grand peuple est une name gTahde
Qui veut cue le pardon an sepulcre desoende'
II ma pour ennemies que ceux qui sont debOut.
Helas quel pods encore pourrlOns-nOus apres tout
JetCT &c ylelllard case par Ia mlSere.
ON bort sous le fardeau de Ia terre etrangere
fsoi pussant-vOus rayez bTise-o'est un grand pas
II faut r6pargner mort. Et moi je ne cros pas
QuHl soit digne du peuple en- qul Dieu se refete
De glDdre au bras qui tue une main Gul sOu1ete.
s can II be expected Of them 70 keep their equan
unity maintain respectful silence before the dignity
OF DEATH" when the chief activity Of their old enemies
applied 70 making political capital out Of 1t. To doubt
that there mourners among the family and
friends at Chisehurst to-day, would be an insult 10
many there and 10 our common nature. The late En-
peror ike tie late King B0mba OF Naples and Francis
IT, OF Austria was an amiaole man. easily good-na-
tured friendly 70 those who did stand his way,
generous % excess-vith other peoples money. He
had strong affection his hoy naturally returned by
the bereaved little uan, and indeed for his wife
with notorious qualifications which she has pardened'
and outsiders need press. But IL is idle for
French people shut their eyes the greater faults Of
ms political life and DEATH If their grave interests did
not forbid, or their prevent, such organs
OF Imperialism just referred to are enough TO
keep them wakeful irritation. Mark these extracts
L'EmDerear est mort. wire FEmycrcttr!" Well then.
even me Emperor being dead the institutions remain
but tae Empire living and indestructOe. IL is not
men bat INSTITUTIONS tlat are enduring. The death
clere nor none The Eulpire lives NV that vounr
heir of the name and the OF the Nap0leons,
20 whom no blame responsibility in the misfOrtunes
Of tHe country can possibly attach" In England,
yondcr there sno one viii forget-a Prince free of ali
responsibility, clear Of the pact intact. whom Proyi-
dence France 10 continue the work OF the
two other EmperOrs that work OF BrumaITe and of
December which Gained The streets and restored peace
and security % the country
These are sample ends OF what is openly published in
these days by journalists who have been in constant
muuicauon with ChiseIhurst, one Of whom returning
from long visit there fortnight ago, vauntlngly pro
claimed ls confirmed authority 90 speak for its host Is
The speaking Do their utterances reveal notable
sagacty OF insight foresight Are the hopes they
pres n the new condition the Imperalist party we'll
ioundedf To the minds Of the uterers themselves let
alone and file OF the party they not rather
daring than couhdentl These questions open 70 dis
cusou and that somewhat discussed in their party
since Wednesday. must let them pass order 70
direct especial attention FOR the moment TO the fact that
they 0uslly u0isy. dehantly published under the
Republic.
IL such prov0cations DO not oxcuse-suppOsug excuse
is ueeledtley naturally help 10 explain an historical
aud political treatment OF the late eXEmperor by jour
nAIists Of Opposite proclivities' When cothn
though iucose the corpse OF deceased monarch-and
Just because OF that's exploited 40 stump and platform
Iy paraus OF what they style his everything cause, It
is uo that their and its opponents also rample it
for party But for this indecent noise at waking
the bodv this greedy haste 20 serve the funeral baked
meats for a coronation feast this informing OF de pro-
yi0d,s 20 sound Ike a cry, liberal gentleman
willingly ohservant Of the propreties that eminent
journalist John Lemoinne. might have waited while
before publishing he ala in les Dtbas Of yesterday
tie remarkably able article beginning:
one of the greatest, perhaps the most rremedabe OF
ne lis committed by me man VINO mas Just dled ana
tlat viii nave ihe most OuIanle eHecJs MOI Oniy on
France but society at large. Is 20 have corrupted and
Church Ana yet 70 was not DC Who was the most guilty
be simply piled his trade Italian Of the middle ages,
using tile Church instrument " rule. The truly
Ser nose Who ,od the Clnrch thar they might lay
hands the state, those who absOlutOn for
mos ,f ,TGo In NAV he aid: OIa,iia sSrrT pro o1ri,
y0fa Cesar only payed his DART: but those " no were
Tie representatives OF God, what dd they 90 They
suffered yet greater betruyals.
THIS exo1dium generally apt the history Of Louis
Napocou's smart bargl u, and padding Of
PAIN, with the clerical party Is followed bY other
especially aprOpOs OF a curious letter printed
two days later 10 the UltramOntane Uairers. The
writer asserts that IN hong, carefully inter
view Chiselhurst with the Emperor the latter
declared IN the formal that he adhered
heart aud SOUL without any restriction 10 the definition
Of the dogma OF Infalhbilty.' he also expressed
bitter regrets for having himself be temporarily
led asray folly Of Gaiicanism and the
Of Bossue in that regard he profoundly deplored the
measures taken under his reign against the famous
Enevcigue the syllabus be aveIred that the
...ut ~ the anrrnHzs OF ms exile was hs mnmeutarv