Year: 1868

hppedrauce III driS, A.yOhS, h"toShAO'


and Rheims In other portions OF tn


kingdom indications of discomfort hav


been observed, and the people are mood
and ill-tempered towards the authorities


The bold stand taken by the leaders @


the opposition in the Corps LegislatiJ


and the fierce speeches made in tha
body against the policy of the Emperor


have doubtless aggravated the anti-gov


ernment feelings, says the Philadelphii


Age, and embOldened that portion of tn


masses who are not satisfied with tn


rule now extended over France. On
wing Of the Church party is also antag
onistic to the ruling powers They dt
not have faith in the promises of Napo'
leon. To them his action upon theRomar
question is merely movement Of STATE
policy, having reference altogether tt
the perpetuity of his own power, and the
founding of a Napoleonic dynasty il
France which shall last longer than thai
established by his illustrious uncle
There are other influences at work in
France calculated to disturb the peace
Of the kingdom, and hence the reported
emeuteS may be taken as the outcrop-
pings of more serious troubles in the fu-
ture


The cause of these disturbances is rec
ported to be a change in the maaper Of
filling up and organizing the "Guarde
Mobile" But this is only one cause, and
that not the most potent tits quite likely
the people do not wish to be forced into
military service, to have all France con-
verted into a vast camp in time of peace,
but then the real leaders Of the move
ment against the government of Ma
poleon are not agitated upon such mat
ters as these Their opposition has a
higher flight The Bourbons have not
forgotten their expulsion from France.
They hate Napoleon, his race, and his
rule Late events have occurred in Rome
making it necessary for the Emperor of
France to openly prOtestagainst the plots
which the BOurbons were inaugurating
in that city against the peace and trans
quillity of France What effect that re
monstrance had cannot be told No open
notice was taken Of it by the authorities
of the Roman States, and the we'll
known leaders of the Bourbon party
still hold their meetings under the very
shadow of st. Peters. 1t is doubtless
from this source that the streams of
discomfort in France are fed and filed
until at times they overflow their banks
As agencies to operate upon the
people, they select such subjects
as promise the fullest return for the
labor expended and the risk incurred.
The failure Of the Mexican expedition
was suitable theme, and it was worn
threadbare. Then came the war be-
tween Austria and Prussia, and the ac-
ton of Napoleon on the question of re-
storing Venetia to Italy. This was fol-
lowed by the difficulty with Prussia in
the Luxemburg matter, and more lately
the actual interference in the Roman
States, and the dispersion of the forces
of Garibaldi by French troops. All
these are the fuel with which the fire
of discomfort in France is fed, and it is
not wonderful that an occasional Jet of
flame will break through the crust of
civil rule and military authority and
show what fire is raging beneath.


But Napoleon is a willy leader. He
is an adept in those arts by which "man
masters men,. He knows the French
people, and feels that when the issue
can once be fairly made between the
Bourbons and himself, the battle
must end in his favor. Frenchmen will
never agree to be again ruled by race
of which it was truly said, they "forget
nothing, they learn nothing" oppressed
to the wall, Napoleon has the material at
hand from which to increase his hold
upon the masses, and loosen that of his
enemies. He can raise the cry of "On
to the Rhine, or offer the people of Spain
and Portugal protection under the flag
which once foated upon the fields of
Marengo, Lodi, Jena, and Austerlitz
Either of these issues would make
France a unit and put a stop to all Bour-
bon interference. With such cards in
his hands it is not likely that the game
viii be easily wrested from the man who
rules the millions of France. He can
not at all times command repOse and
content among the peOple-he may have
to face troubles Of an extended charac-
ter but he can so master the situation
as to make all Bourbon Vaccinations
against his authority barren of the re-
suits wished for by those who put them
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