| Show wrye TXIE THE qa IX baris tim THE capital of france has had its little trouble and the adherents of the turbulent demagogue have indu indulged I 1 g in the traditional barricades shouting true vive la and creating A a dis disturbance turban ce generally from all ail the information received by telegraph the late trouble in paris does not seem to have been with anything but an unruly in mob ob animated by a few leaders anxious to bring about a collision between the people and the government they have lave not succeeded according to their desires A few lives have been lost and several hundred prisoners taken but it does not appear that the imperial government was in any dread of the mob 0 or r its power as the police were principally employed to quell the disturbance although troops were massed in and around paris in sufficient numbers to have quelled even a formidable insurrection the parisians Pari are aro a power in france when they have arisen in their strength irth in the past they have made monarchs flee ilee nee and have changed the form of the tha government of the nation but this time there has been a very limited res rea to the appeal to arms A few thousands probably of the vast population of paris composed the mob that assailed the empire and sought to carry 0 dut out ut the designs of rochefort koeh Koch efort and those associated with him this rabid demagogue may be a brave man t physically and desirous of political martyrdom hut hub he is not a very wide one napoleon has manifested a disposition to adopt a much more liberal policy than he has hitherto pursued and this because of the agitation on the subject and the expressed wish of a large portion of the people the consul turm turn which occupied BO so much attention sometime ago may not have been so liberal as a many might have wished it to be but the peaceable policy which obtained that concession from imperial absolutism would undoubtedly gain more I 1 if it were systematically and persistently followed rochefort boeh Boch efort though desires notoriety even if it has to be obtained with the blood of his fellow citizens he cannot have any hopes of a successful insurrection in the face of the fact that a large number of his fellow deputies of the left or opposition who are presumed to reflect the sentiments of their are opposed to his violence and are seeking by peaceable and constitutional means to secure more liberty for the masses by still further concessions from the emperor napoleon is not the man to 0 give up without a terrible struggle a the power he has bas BO so long and so successfully wielded and no ordinary demonstration of popular power could drive him from the throne were P panis paris a ris t to 0 beco become me so thoroughly aroused against the imperial I 1 government that the citizens would arm themselves en basse masse n e for a revolution and could they thes get got the troops to fraternize with them then the napoleon dynasty might be in danger of being speedily deprived of power but no such feelings or designs exist judging by the course which the parisians Pari generally have taken in the recent disturbance tur bance I 1 and alid for any man or party of men to try and atin stir up 1 a few wild hott hotheaded rien nien men to acts of open hostility t J against such tuch a foree forea of f tops hops PS as th chwa eya era is in and around paris i is to inear ineer ih ghe direst direct responsibility of all the blood that m might ight be shed and lives that be lot lost in consequence conge conie quence of the act liere there I ia Is in the french character aa ax element which appears to demand change and this combined with thi their thein eln bir natural vanity and of peb pei personal danger leads to the frequent occurrence of such scenes as took place in paris last week w eek the result of such impotent attempts is only trouble for those engaged in them and where they are made against a despotic power or one chary of extending a large share of liberty to the people the tightening of the bonds from which they sought to be entirely freed it ia Is probable napoleon will now manifest greater reluctance to increased constitutional liberty or he may rny by clemency towards ther the T offenders seek beek to ingratiate himself still more with a nation that ia Is ever over ready to applaud theatrical effects whether in politics private life or on the stage |
