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Show 'Ihe condition fit' affairs politically i:i Frmce is anything hut pleasant to the head of. the trench nation. Paris means France, nn France means the world to true Paii-dans, and so tlcy must ter.v think that ail the world is convulsed because tho flittering city on tin; banks of the Seine is. First there is infidel France, which means most of the intellect anl literary ability of Pa: is; then there is Catholic Fi ance, and these are diamctiically opposed. Politically, there arc imperialists, who favor the Napoleonic dynasty: Onanists Onan-ists who think with reverence on the old regime, and republicans, some of whom would think no more of assassinating assas-sinating an e:n; iror or a king than a Rocky Mountain hunter would of killing a grizzly. These parties hate each other with ihe utmost intensity, and all their force-; were brought into play previous to taking the late vote on Napoleon's proposed rcfurms. 'ihe plebiseiium . was simply an expression of the will of the people on the scheme proposed to them, and the scheme simply asked them to subscribe to the dynasty of the Emperor, with a government of a responsible ministry wdio wdien outvoted out-voted should yield their positions to others whose policy would be more in harm.'Uj with ihe w 11 of the people peo-ple (Xjrocsed by their rejr.seLta-tives. rejr.seLta-tives. Iu the corps legislutif, the 'jelt," cr party oppos d 10 the government, gov-ernment, has Eotre v.olutly la Heal w-nibers, ho seiz? every opportu nit, to d ie matters to extremity, and would urge on revolu'ion. And they have produced a tp'it iu their pirty by tir u'tra onre, iho m re moderate ones repu 'iutiog tnir violence. vio-lence. This k g slalive opposii .n in Washington, or L ndon, would be cc tat re than is cu'omnry iu coagrrs-lioUal coagrrs-lioUal or pailiameLtary t xueiieect ; but in Paris, where plots and conspiracies con-spiracies are thiek and b'ocdy-meaning, und where the ex.itab'e population- are easily raised to evert and deepera'e acta, it is like the rumbling of an earthquake that m y heave and ti es aud nprjot 'he f mnd t'ot;s of society so-ciety at at:y tiaie. - ' U-e-sy Ilea tho Lea i that wears a crown," sarg the poet; and N .poleoa must rea iz the verity of tLe line. F an-e is liable at anv true to be convulsed by tho mercurial a-.ddii-co d ;nt elem -nts itbiu her, and the peaca of Europe is eve:y day endangered endan-gered by thfm. |
