Year: 1859

the differences between individual slavery and -
dividual liberty in the French territory. We read
! the amnesty as meaning much more than this and


nope that 1t Will call home many eXiles whose dscon-


Solate faces are familiar in our Streets Perhaps If


Is TOO much to promise ourselves that this pr6cla


na'loh OF mercy will go forth to the borders of the


Oreat sahara and the swamps Of Cayenne. In the


centre OF that rich plain of Lambessa strewed with


iioulu3?tIns monuments of Roman greatness, there


IS prison, not very closely guarded for the can
! i've could escape only to the forest behind whore


the wild beasts would devour him or To tha bot
plains, where he could be readily retaken In that
well built and well conducted prison live and Iahor
some hundreds of Frenchmen confined for off.ncos
against political order.


AT Cayenne, where all hope of escape is still more
desperate, much more numerous body of noliticaI
Offenders are suffering a much more dreadful
doom. Does this amnesty extend to tban, . t. -
In Short to be read confined to political offend
ers now upon the soil of France or does II annlv 70
French proscripts all over the world? In the for
mer case it is great boon; but in the latter If ie


great magnanimity. At any rate, we NAV hone
that it Lambessa is not to pass from prison to a
commodious barrack, and if Cayenne is NOT IN
cease to be name of terror, yet in the pursuit of
the new policy now inaugurated, extensive reyis-
ions will be made of the lists of those who were de-
ported under the Espnasse laws, and that the time
may shortly come when there will be no French
men under condemnation, and no Frenchmen un-
DER disability for mere political acts. We believe
that this policy would be as wise as il would
be generous, and tnat it would have its reward
larity. P'P"


We have been among the sharpest critics of the
Emperor's career, and we shall be so again if the
occasion arise. We have never trusted and we
would never trust English interests to his ferbear
ance, Tor England should always be strong enough
TO maintain her own position, and should never
mold 1t by suflerance. But we must fairly avov
that Napoleon Ill has in his domestic rule recent
~ shown desire to return into that rigbt patb
from which passion or resentment or fear for his
dynasty, or bad advice, had caused him to diverGe
immediately after the Orsni tragedy There is a
wisdom about this last act which ought not to mass
without appreciation. The greatest proof the En-
Peror can give to Europe that his power is consoi-
dated and els throne secure, would be to wine away
the past, and all records of every danger he
has surmounted If he has hope for his dynasty.
this Is the only policy by which he can cause that
nope, to fructiiy. strong minded man may gov
ern by fear, but only interest and popularity can
continue the sceptre in his line. We believe the
time has come when it has been made abundautlv
plaln that the party of order in France is also the
party OF strength, and when the best security
against the designs of the enemies of order is TO al
low them to PROFOUND their nonsense with innr
nity. The Emperor has not yet advanced so far as
thlS, but this amnesty is great step, and we shall
have an unexpected reason to congratulate France
upon her Italian victories if they should have so
Tar strengthened her Emperor as to enable him to
demonstrate the extent of his power bv the lenitv
of his rule.