The Express. — 1859-02-12 (London, England)

IMPRESS FROM PARIS.  (PlOll OVA OWN  Pa.RII3, FRIDAY Everixo.  M. Emile de Girardin's pamphlet hu been allowed to appear, but it is reported that he was compelled to strike out some passages from the original manuscript, in which his opinion of the incompatibility of war and liberty was too bluntly stated. His title page, however, exhibits a motto culled from the words of the Emperor himself, the citation of which clearly indicates M. de Girardin's belief that if Napoleon ILL goes to war it will be because he despairs of permanently keeping down liberty in Franc, without resorting to that extremity. Here is the apt quotation :  There he. never yet been OM umeg free peoples say government etroog enough to repress liberty at home for say length of time without giving to Its subjects glory abroad. I have no time to give a fall analysis of the pamphlet, which I think is destined to make a considerable sensation. M. E. de Oirardin's position in France is peculiar. For many years he bas laid aside his pen, on the express ground that as he could not write freely he preferred not writing at aIL A year ago he wrote under a borrowed signatare a few articles in the Coursier de Paris, with the heading, " The Empire and Liberty." The theme wee disagreeable to the authorities, the manner of treating it still more so, and the journal was soon given to understand that the series must be discontinued. Since that time M. de Oirardin, who has long been closely connected with Prince Napoleon, bee accepted office under him as a member of the consultative council of Algeria : and, therefore, must be considered to have rallied to the empire through the prince, and perhaps on condition that he may enjoy a certain latitude to develop that liberal side of Napoleoniem of which the prince has come to be considered the representative. So far as I can judge of the tenor of his pamphlet, from a hurried first reading, it seems to me to be written under a sort of tacit understanding that he should be allowed to express his own opinions very plainly against the particular practical war which is now imminent, on condition that he should ventilate the idea of a grand universal war, which he perhaps thinks would be still more congenial to the mind of the Emperor if there were any chance of the country supporting him in it. He thinks that to make war for the miserable purpose of turning Austria out of Italy would be an unworthy " waste of powder," which had better be kept to be used against—pleasant prospect !—Proasia and England. He combats with great ability, paragraph by paragraph, the various pretexts put forth by the official pamphlet, " Napoleon 111. et l'ltalie," to justify an armed intervention in the Peninsula. He shows, in terms which must severely try the temper of the imperial prompter of that production, that the deplorable state of things now existing in Rome is not justly attributable to Austria, bat to himself, on account of his having bombarded Rome in 1849. He ridicules the idea of making the Pops President of an Italian Confederation, and quotes Napoleon I. to show the impossibility of reconciling the Pope's spiritual Infallibility with temporal responsibility. The emancipation of Lombardy from the thraldom of Austria, which he admits to be most desirable, he thinks might be attained by time, peace, and the pressure of opinion, and ha positively joins issue with the pamphlet on one of its main positions—that Austria can never be expected to yield without fighting, because she would be committing suicide. Bat in the second part of the pamphlet he says that if, contrary to his opinion, France feels the "absolute necessity " of making war, he would like to see a general war carried on by the aid of a Russian alliance against England and Germany for the purpose of avenging Waterloo and founding two grand empires—the Empire of the West for France, and the Empire of the East for Russia. This scheme he shows by copious extracts from .writings of Napoleon I. and Napoleon 111. would be a true oarryiag out of the " Idea Napoleoniennes." He concludes:  If the objest be to Interfere In the afLire of the Roessner to piece the Lombards ender the Piedon Mew petrel:nest, la spies of the temembeence of the eseembly of Lugano to INS, end to have sn Italian coefedarstion presided over by the Pope. we shall say, Pate I If It be wished to take revamp for Waterloo, to restore the left bank of the Rhine to Fran, to maths, in fact, the programme of St. Helena and of Ham, and to fend the great Etuopran amodation, we than my, War! Either war with its conquests or peace with the proves'.  The Bourse opened with some firmness upon the strength of Lord Malmesbury's announcement that the conference might be expected to meet. The Rental was for a moment quoted 6c. higher, but the more confident feeling was of short duration, and the closing quotations, 68fr. and 67fr. 96c., show • fall of 26e. and 30c. Mobilier fell 13fr. 76c. Railways were from 6fr. to 10fr. lower. The alarming alternative propounded in 61. de Girardin's pamphlet was not without influence on the market.