Glasgow Courier. — 1859-02-15 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

EVENING EXPRESS.  GIRARDIN'S PAMPHLET "LA GUERRE." M. Emilie de Girardin's pamphlet has been allowed to appear, but it is reported that he was compelled to strike out some paasages from the -original manuscript ia which him opinion of the incompatibility of war awl liberty was too bluntly stated. Him title page, however, exhibitn a motto culled from the word,' of the Emperor himself, the citation of which clearly indicate,, M. de Oirardiren belief that if Napoleon 111. vex to war it will be because he despair. of permanently keeping down liberty in France without resorting to that extremity. Here in the apt quotation:There han never yet been seen anamg free people any government ,ro;:- enough to repress liberty at home Tor any length of tine Ivitbout Ewing to its sublects 0,7 simnel." The Paieliblet flostiomt to make a considerable sennation. M. E. de Girardin'a position in Prance is peculiar. For many yearn he has laid oxide his pen, on the express ground that ea he could not write freely he pre' ferred not writing at all. A year ago he wrote under is I borrowed signature a few articles in the Ceurrier de Paris, with the heading, "The Empire and Liberty." The theme was diuigreealile to the authorities, the manner of treating it still more no, and the journal was IlfiOn given to understand that the series must be discontinued. 1 Since that time M. de °marlin, who has long been closely connected with Prince Napoleon, has accepted office under him an a member of the consultative council of Algeria; and, therefore, must he connidered to have rallied to the empire through the Prince and perhaps on condition that he may enjoy • certain' latitude to develop that liberal side of Napoleon. ism of which the Prince has come to be considered the representative. The pamphlet seems to be written under Race of tacit understanding that he should be allowed to express bin own opinions very plainly against the per. tinder practical war which ia now imminent, on condition that he shottld ventilate the idea of a grand universal war which he perhaps thinks would be still more con. genial to the mind of the Emperor if there wen any chance of the country supporting, him in it. He Quirks that to make war for the miserable purpose Of turning Austria out of Italy would be -in unworthy " waste of powder," which had better be kept to be twed against pleasant prospect !--Prussia and England. Ile 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 shown, 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, but to himself, on account of his having bombarded Rome in 1849. He ridicules the idea of making the Pope President of aphelian Confederation, and quotes Napoleon I. to show the impooaibility 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 times peace, and the pressure of opinion, and he positively joins issue with the pamphlet on one of its main positions—that Austria can never be expeci.ed to yield without fighting, because she would be committing suicide. But in the second part of the pamphlet he says shat if, contrary to his opinion France feels the "absolute necessity" of making war, lie 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 ILL would be a true carrying out of the " Idees Napolean• iennes." He concludes:— . .  If the object be to interfere in the affairs of the Romans to place the Lombards under the Piedmontese government, in spite of the remembrance of the assembly of Lugano in 11448, and to have an Italian confederation presided over by the Pope, we shall say, peace! If it be wished to take revenge for Waterloo, to restore the left bank of the Rhine to France, to realise, in fact, the programme of St. Helena and of Ham, and to found the great European associatiok, we then say, war. Either war with its conquests or peace with its progrress.— Daily News' Corresponderst.