FRANCE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume IX, Issue 543, 16 January 1858, Page 3

FRANCE.

(Prom the ' Times' Correspondent.) Pabis, Oct. 9. : The bad weather has, as was expected, accelerated the raising- "of the Camp at Chalons. The grpad review (revue d'honnmr) was passed yesterday, iv the presence of the Empress, Prince Napoleon, &njd..six Marshals.^ -The Empress returned toj Paris last night, the Emperor,returns toi-mo)'row .evening j the first detachments; \sX§o leave for Paris to-morrow j on:-Mon-: r; cL4y General Regnault -de;,St;? Jeaa d'&n>o%ely;will ledvej and" the- c'ainp''Wili 'be dejclared pfficially,.raised,,y ,In ,to r d^y?sv ' Moniteu'r' 'the -publishes his valedictoryorderof i he:3ay/a*cptfSise tod' neja^4wOTd£d; ; doCiU^ij^/cracligLdio^^ith: a ir^rence-^tcT " the; inimortal;phalanxes.: .which-sank. only;! by the excess of their g-lbry-andof'their'trmmph's;',''^ ;r J;' :!' 1^ •; ,I?pr" sqmje; da!f§ past\tjier^haye i^eii; i repprts' of! • apprehended .disturbance iin i ( some pai'ts of Italy, - 'and. -inV. Piedmont,' 'pai'ticularlj', it has been said that -the •authorities were on the qvivicu. Lastspoke of ssynip^oms of a^ijtatioh, of arreste made at Bologna, of unusual .precautions taken at towns upon the 'coast;, and ofi movements :at;Carrara iftiicl - Vicenza, but in this news there'is a, jirobability of, exaggeration, Oeneral Goyon, who commands, the troops,at;-Rome, mdl who has lately made, a tow* in the.: king-.

d6m of Naples, haS written to Paris that.' in; those two countries perfect tranquillity •reigned, and that : there,were no;symptoms of its. probable disturbance. , - : ! $ The order of the day of Napoleoa 111. I wpV doubtless, by the well-merited praise itpntains, add to the : great- gratification with which the Guard witnesses the termination of the campaign'of 1857, and anticipates- "the transfer from the dreary ■ plains of. Champagne to its-snug quarters in Paris. ; The Camp of Chalons is to; be considered; a permanent institution and a special chapter in the war budget will be allotted to-it, as to the military schools. Ifc is said that its raising, for this year, will be announced by an Imperial decree. ; Although letters .from" Marseilles said that the Emperor was no longer expected there this, year, a report is current here that not only will he proceed thither in about a fortnight from this time, but that he will embark there for Algeria. The latter part of this report may .possibly, have for its sole'origin a conversation that the Emperor held with Marshal Randon at the .camp, in which he expressed his wish and-intention-to visit- the French African Colony; -The excursion need not occupy much time; a fast steamer performs the distance in ,30 hours; and the season now is doubtless temperate and agreeable in Algeria. Nevertheless, I think it very.doubtful that the Emperor will go this year. Speculations are already rife as to the' probable changes which will take place in the policy "of Prussia, should, as there is but top much reason to .apprehend, the illness of his Majesty King Frederick William terminate fatally. The heir presumptive is, as you are aware, the Kings-brot-her, and the father-in-law in perspective of the Princess Royal. His sympathies for liberal institutions, and his partiality for England, are a matter of too much notoriety to be more than alluded to at present; In-fact, his Royal Highness may be considered as the representative of English ideas on the Continent, in the same way as the King was at once an embodiment and an example of the preponderance of. Russia, which, nothing-, but his love-of peace, and perhaps at the same time his well-known indecision of temp_er a prevented There is no doubt but that the accession of the Crown Prince to .the throne will effectually complete the work commenced by the Crimean war— the reduction of. the influence which, despite its reverses, Russia still possessed in Northern Germany; while it will restore to England a preponderance -which the un--1 fortunate conclusion of the Russian war had considerably diminished. Death is busy now among -the" royal houses.of Germany. Intelligence has.1 been received of the death of Princess IMary, the eldest daughter of the King of Sa,xony, who expired' on the Bth from a violent attack of what is called " spasms/ but which is here said to be cholera. The princess was comparatively young; she was born on the 22nd January, 1827, and -wasunmarried. ..........

;At the close of, the performance of the " Chevaliers dv .Brouillard," at the Batignolles Theatre, last night, when it is announced to JackiSheppardVthe hero of the piece, that'he is pardoned on condition ofhis proceeding to_ India, he expresses" his delight, saying that he will go and -fight -for England, uttering-at the same time,a cry of Vive l'Augleterre!" This cry .was... talcen up and repeated-.-with- the.greatest enthusiasm by a crowded liouse.- One English gentleman who was present in one of the boxes stood tip and returned; thanks for his country. iThe day of humiliation was too good ah opportunity'for^ 'ill-natured remarks to be missed by oxir enemies in the French prjess, and it'has; even been-too : Tn\ieh for the forbearance of some^who recently affected to'be 'our friends. " Only mountains Tiever ?vmeet," ?ayV '^French prd-! verb, and tp-day thj? rf D^bafs 'aiiitj^^1 , chime in, in. deligh.ttur,iiiu|bn;i' i-Qf the two the 'Spectateur-'sis.tue.t leasts - unfriendiy.. The;: following .is-can ; exti-act I ■from->its.article: v. ' i .sv.u! -■ii;;:^':'

;\f; has-good" *e&sori tid>>huinblei [herself,arid- should- thesAlthiglit^'"ye-fes-' itaplish Her former p;o\y;erj v Wfe x t^ust that j this Imm.ijiafton will.bear' its', fyuifi^'i&d' that;.the meditations.of tibis day. cA\ prayer. wfll not, beJpsfc. ;i A^^ranrf aiid.soieinaop-: portunity has been oferednto!.fche> statesmen who hare ■■governed'that country for yqars past: to Reflect on their. ppUc^V -We deed' only %pe«t what the best' iriejid3; of EnglaiidTin tlie'French press liaVie affirm-' :ed.—that their quarrelsome, unjust, and ;aggressive palioy-has^onLe ; ey.e.rrthino" but fdr.Eiiglandlthe sympathies of the

continent, And when this rule, which seemed Jo grasp at everything, was seen to be1 menaced at the-point where it appealed . to'be the^best established, the general sentiment "was not that which ought to have prfevailed at the spectacle of the horrible duel raging in India between civilization and barbarism. It must nevertheless, be admitted that a grand and noble sight is offered by this nation—so haughty, so full of its power—humbling itself at the voice of its Sovereign before the hand- which chastises it, and imploring God to bestow on it the strength to conquer. - These are signs by which we recognize a strong and free-people, and a nation galled upon to accomplish litgh destinies." The l Debats' writes as follows,:— " The idea 3 which we have expressed for. some days past on Indian affairs prevail at this moment not only, in France, but-even ' ; in: England. In reading the-article of : , | The Times' on the day of humiliation it. ; is impossible-taJbrget the article published by the .same journal some months;ago",lift? which it proclaimed the. English nation-. ! '• the "first MussulmarCnation'in the w0r1d.'.....„*, WJiat a sad.and cruel -turnjn political des-,., v. tidies !. ./The- /first -Mussulman nation' is.V,*> now th'reate'rieci with the loss of the title ' which inspired"it with pride; the nation . wm'ch boasted of reigning over 150,000,000 ■'- subjects, is at present the most humiliated ami aiflicted of all nations. -God forbid ■.■'.■ "that we should rejoice or triumph over-this terrible trial, this sudden humiliation iniiicted by Providence on our allies and neighbours: liut we are forced to acknowledge that this mea cidpn, so solemlny j proclaimed by ' The Times*,' is the echo of the public sentiment.of France and Europe." i The /Revue dcs Deux Mondes/In its 1 last number, nas an article on "The' Events" in India," interesting as a whole,' and containing some passages worthy of particular notice. The following appreciation of the conduct of the English in their Eastern possessions, and of the benefits their - government has conferred upon the country, may be considered with, profit by' those .Prpucli journalist* who daily insist - . that the origin of the revolt^ is to be, sought" in the oppressive and cruel nature of British rule. The * Hevne' gays :— " The English have been in reality the liberators of the Indians; they have abolished in India the reign of brigands, and substituted for "it justice and law j they there perform the part of grand justiciaries. For a long series Gf centuries the history of India was but a series of* massacres and exterminations.' It was the English Conquest that closed this era of blood : with-' out wishing to represent the English r Qo.vernment as the model of all -virtues, it Dlty be said to have been the mo«t humane the gt*,tiest and justest the Indians have ever know*. The English have fertilized- ; India ; they u ave established order there. *"" Their greatest em« nas een to nave toQ ' soon believed that thej i, ac | crea ted a na- - tion. T They had given-v, nat ives " liberties they were not able to Su 3T , ovt; g^ the triumph, of barbarism have ensw.^» .. The writer of the article declares tlia^ ■? * England lost India, it would be a mucli - - greater misfortune for the Indians than '"' for the English, and a calamity' for the" human race. He protests against-the cry raised against Missionaries and Bible Societies, and upholds proselytism by pei'suasion, while -admitting* that an attempt to impose Christianity on the Indians is not to bethought of. The question cannot be argued in this place ; r but; since , various French periodicals besides the, <> * Revue' have blamed England, some of them in bitter and violent terms, for not . having attended to the conversion of her Indian subjects, I may be allowed to remark that in Algeria the strictest ordeia are given not to meddle in an t v way with the "religion of the Arabs. "Why do not some, of the journals that so severely c'en- , sure our supineness> and shqw such anxiety f fo^ the salvation of the Asiatic' Hindoo, lift tip their voices in behalf of that of the African Mussulman?' The * Revue' pro** deeds to proclaim that the dominant sentiiment excited-out-of England by-the"lndian insurrection is that o£7 ill-disguised satisfaction :—, , . ■> • " Popular opinion pays a necessary- deb . to humanity and "to the commonest >pr<- s priety by reproving the excesses of the «- surgents; but that official filied, Jt does not .disguise its coritenf. f >t the English nation^e well t ßssuie"d tlitfc it ia siot loved in the world ; it is too -*eKsh for its misfbrtunas to be looked npod by otfier nations as family misforttma^ s»d l* has been too fortunate not to liavelpro--voiced immense envy. Distinctions rto

be made among" those who rejoice at present events. ; The Catholic party in France and on the-whole continent see the chastisement'of heresy in the blow that strikes England, and applaud, as lessons of Providence, the calamities that fall on the *.lemies of the Church. Whatever may be thought of this sentiment, one may at least pronounce it not a mean one,- but there is another, much more widely spread, and' for which the same cannot be said. It is that of the numerous friends of servitude and platitude throughout Europe, who, jealous of having seen England preserved from the revolutions which had so rudely shaken -themselves, and of seeing' her "resist a pressure of liberty a hundred times stronger than that which had exploded them, to-day triumph at beholding •her wounded in the heel, and exclaim, 'At last, then, it is her turn!' The English have the instinctive consciousness of the sentiments they inspire, and they opndide in themselves alone."