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NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS , WaMonal Association of United Trades : —Mr . Win ter ^ Sfcteris unavoidably omitted , and wiU appear in our next i ^ ber A pressure of matte r has rendered it n eces sary •^ os ^' one , also / " T he Federal Union of the Trades . "
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THE OPPOSITION IN FRANCE . Since the midnight cczip d ' etat of December , 1851 , Louis Napoleon has sought to consolidate his power by three different methods : —by resting upon foreign alliances , by engaging the services of the weak and the corrupt , and by silencing the true friends of order and legality . His mout successful enterprises have been abroad . He lias dragged England in and out of a war , in which France assumed the leading part . Ho has been admitted into the family of princes , into the councils of
European diplomacy . At home tho great leaders of the Legitimate , Constitutional , and Liberal parties remain at a distance from his throne , unconciliated and resolute , regarding him as an apparition , the enemy of the State , and a public criminal . From thu first ho has stood in the void of isolation , an adventurer among adventurers , endeavouring to bribe tho good-will of some classes , and to terrify the spirit of otlters . Where is the old noblesse , which ho tried to enlist in tho haute
domesticzte of the Tuilenes r—the Duo de Mobtemabt , who was asked to be Graad Marshal , and laughed in the Emperor ' s feee ? —the Due de Quiche , who was nominated Master of the Hounds ?—the Due de Mcwcilt , -who was to be High Chamberlain ? REGSAiraT de Saint Jeajt u * Ak » ei < t ; Bb » - thiee , the impostor of "Wagram ; Marst , the fictitious prince of BasBano ; Menjaud , who uttered the profane benediction of Nancy-, are among the servants of the palace . Trig Imperial Majesty is obliged to content himself with a domestioite of that description- — - the newest ornament of the Tuileries being the hereditary plush and shoulder-knots of Cambaciees . What became of Louis
Napoleon ' s solicitation of Cabnot , Cavaigna . cs , GOITDCHATTX , DESGOTTSsiE , BETHMONT , Havrer , who were invited to be legislators , with the prospect of being ministers ? They have steadily refused to receive honour or office from the dynasty of December . That dynastycould endow itself prodigally from the confiscated treasuries of the nation . It could vote , for its own benefit , a stupendous civil list ; ifc could ordain the suppression of every public right ; but it could not force honest politicians to be its ministers or its friends .
Failing to seduce the ancient nobility or the Republicans , Louis Napoleon turned to the Orleanists , towards whom he had acted exactly as he acted towards the Trench people . He injured them that they might seem to depend upon , him for assistance . It would not seem a very hopeless task to convert M . Ditpin from , his old opinions ; but even he rejected the early proposals of the new sort of despot with aversion and disgust . Not even Bebthier , Lanite 3 , or Cattiaxn--couet , descendants of Napoleon ' s nobility , would wear his gorgeous liveries , so that he was compelled to pay imperial wages to the agents oi December . As long aa the miserable St . Aenatjd survived his crime he
received three hundred thousand francs a year , and more than two millions of francs are now distributed annually among the comrades of Cajoacebes , that stupendous lacquey , who has a salary of one hundred thousand francs as master of the ceremonies , and thirty thousand as a senator . The parallel of this lody-guard of usurpation could not be created in England , from the aristocracy , or the army , or any other class . Towards the
Church Louis Napoxeon pursued a similar course of action . He bought the corrupt and drove the honest from their places . By this means , by expelling all conscientious functionaries , by keeping the keys of the ballotbox , by transforming Paris and the great towns into camps ; by transporting , driving into exile , compelling to emigrate , or placing under surveillance nearly a hundred thousand of the most honourable citizens in
Franco ; by arresting the action of every constitutional law ; by creating a mock legislature aud a Bussian police ; by stifling the press , and by winning over the correspondents of the foreign press , —he succeeded , and was Emperor of France . But it was ominously said—His next card is an English alliance ; and afterwards a war . He lias played tliat card . What next ? He has tried a political amnesty , offered upon the most init has failed
sulting conditions , and . He now resumes tho Orlcanist scheme , and offers six hundred thousand francs a year to the princesses of tho expatriated family . That family replies by treating him aa a successful impostor . His charity is refused . The Orloanist princesses deny his right to take or to give ; and he undergoes tho shame of making a false move , and of being remuided that ho stands in tho position of a public robber . The Count de Montaiemdeux' 8 exposition
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THE RETURN OF THE GUARDS . Tee Romans returning from victory passed through laurelled arches , and enjoyed full triumph . Our Guards , returning , are welcomed by the people ; but how partial is the triumph , how partial the victory ! The work has been but half done . If it was worth while to rescue Turkey from the encroachments and oppressions of Russia , is not Italy worth rescuing ? are the oppressions of Austria less intolerable ? has she encroached less into the
very heart of the land , into the domestic administration ?~ The Sultan was menaced on his throne ; is not the Duchess of Paema a proof that the Italian princes set their thrones only as the agents of Austria , threatened with displacement if they mutiny ? Is not Yiciob Emmanuex as faithful an ally to us as Abd-tjii-Medjid ? Would not Italy , freed from exclusions , hostile tariffs , military restraints , and pauperizing government , be as profitable a field for English commerce and
capital ? Yet the Army is coming home to be " reduced to a peace establishment ; " the very reduction being a proclamation and a license to Austria and her accomplices . The soldiers as they marched back into their own town showed all the marks of war , its dangers and hardships . Among those war-worn ranks how was the nation represented ? But partially . The working classes were there , in the ranks ; the titled and moneyed classes were among the officers . Of those officers not one had been with the men
from first to lasty—not one ! As a body the middle classes are excluded , because through the ranks they have no chance of rising to their own social grade , and the ranks themselves , therefore , are a degraded position ; and into the rank of officers they cannot attain . The force did not represent the
nation : among the ranks , many a man was known to the crowd standing on the pavement ; among the officers , many a one received bows and smiles from drawing-room windows . ; but few were there indeed who would ret kirn to homes which had a shop in front , few indeed were * known to the great mkldle-clnse multitude . This- is one of the
reasons that make tho Army to tho middle class an abstract proposition ; which to them make , war known onl y by its coet ; and which make them uuwurlike . Yet , as Sir Wiiium : o » Kabs says , " Woe . to tho nation that neglects the military art . " And if there was one lesson which tho entry of the Guards could enforce , ifc was the powerless and degraded state of that naitiou which is deprived of military arts . As a nation , the English are bo deprived- They furnish the men for tho Army—the men , who
have no military ait , but are only the . machine ; the men , who have no influence in the Army , but are only the slaves . The officers represent not the nation , but classes . If an individual , like Nott , or WiLiiiAMS , rises to distinction , he is at- once added to the commanding class . Yet the Army is the great lever of political power . We forget its political use , because we only use it on rare occasions ; but the use is always effectual , although often latent . If our " preponderance" declines in the East , we redress the
balance with the great red lever . If the " populace" demands to exercise any control at home , it is crushed down with the great red lever . The very path taken by the returning Gruards showed how little they belong to " the nation" itself : the Parliament , and the Ministers responsible to Parliament , wished them to return by a route which should let the whole people witness the
entry ; Richabd Airet , one of the flunkey adherents of the exclusive class , resolved that the troops should not go by that path ; and the department of a caste—the Horse Guards —conquered the department responsible to Parliament — the War Department . This shows how little the great red lever , which determines the balance of power , and settles the possession of power , belongs to the nation .
Yet it is a great instrument . The English have in themselves all the qualities necessary for preserving the military art and obtaining military power . Those war-worn men are of the stock ; that firm red wall is English flesh and blood . Throw an Englishman into the Army , and he becomes a soldier , and his arm wins a part of the victory . The English blood is quite capable of manning , commanding , or wielding that Army . Only iust now , the Englishman has a . dream , that
armB are an exclusively professional matter ; so he leaves them to the Horse Guards—who defy Parliament , and whose born friends dictate our foreign policy ; making slaves on the Continent , until England herself is threatened with being swamped by the extension of slavery . We talk of slavery encroachment in America , —but that is only black slavery : we are the allies of the Brooks of Austria ,
and are about to back him in his assault on the Chaeies Sumnek , of Italy . The Guards have shown us how Englishmen can do the work ; we have recalled them from the work half done , because we have but a vague idea of the trouble that the European Slavery party is about to give us : but the Guards are ready to go back and finish ; and next time , they shall march from London Bridge to Hyde Park , and Lave a triumph all the way .
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There is nothing so revolutionary , because there is nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when all the world is by the very law of its creationm eternal progress . —De . Abhoxd . « M
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We caimot undertake to return rejected communications . No notice can be taken of anonymous communications . Whatever is intended for insertion must be authenticated by the name and address of tho writer ; not necessarily for publication , but as a guarantee of his good faith . During- the Session of Parliament it is often impossible to find room , for correspondence , even the briefest .
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Juily 12 , 185 & 3 THE LEAPEB , 669
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Leader (1850-1860), July 12, 1856, page 659, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2149/page/11/
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