LETTERS FROM PARIS, BY 0. P. Q.

No. VI.

NoillING CAN SAVE FRANCE FROM A REVOLUTION.

"1 ue inquietude Ramie,. exist., pantie; dem:nide tel non; en somews, oil nous marehons Giratuts N:pere4, 21111 February 1,34.

" Notre resolution eat prise : domain liens yens present erne; an 'toilet de loi cur lei 1:V606.kt:011S !"—Burthr, Minister of Justiee. Speech, 21th February 1'334.

TO Tut: EDITOR OF 'TILE srsaaraatea.

Paris, thith 1,7e7,r, oar!, 183-1.

it—Ilave you ever hatched a party of ecarui, when one of the players has marked four points, and his adversary none at all ? One point more, and the game is W011; whilst lie who has not marked at all has the whole five to obtain. Ile who has not marked heetnnes desperate. lie pays little attention to whether lie has trump cards or not. ale does not propose. He does not give his ad- versary a chance, even to get a better chance himself: he says, " No ; there are four points scored out of five against me; so neck or nothing ! "and he dashes away to " win the game." At last he marks one—and even two points: his eyes glisten, his cheeks glow ; he is full of hope; and he says, " Two against four—I lurve still a chance." But his adversary now i; to deal the cards : he turns up a king—the four points become live, and the game is over. Then sometimes he begins to reproach himself, saying, " If I had played dia- monds instead of spades, and hearts instead of clubs, I might have team instead of lost." lint all this is too late; he should have thought of this Is fare : the game is over ; another combatant enters the lists; and reproaches and regrets are in vain.

When the Monarchy of Judy 1:30 sat down to play the national game of ecalte with Republican or Elective principles and institutions in France, it sat down to play with an experienced hand ; and no %sender that the Republic should already have scored four points, and the Monarchy not one. But she Doctrinaires hive come behind the shoulder of the Monarchy to help it to play —to counsel it—to whisper " rivaling venture nothing have "—" neck sir no- thing"—and "a faint heart never won a fair !atty.." So the best card is to be played, though there be four points marked on one side and nude 011 the other : the :Monarchy is not to despair : such men as GI RAU I), BA 11111E, G I zue, and VIENNET, are to SAVE FRANCE—to win the game—to get up all arrears— to mark five; and then why then the Republic is to be beaten ! So to work they get: and they mark one point when they carry their law against the haulers of popular journals in the streets and public ways ; and they hope to mark anal her point when they shall have carried a law for putting down all popular associations : and then they will rub their hands, and stamp their feet, and their eyes will glisten, and their cheeks will burn ; and they will dream of making the other three points and wincing the game. But will they do this?—No, no, no: just as they hope to mark their third point, their adver- saries will take the cards; and, to their great horror, will "TI7KN A KING P. I must not say more, or I shall be accused of TREASON ! But the game

will then be over ; and all self-reproaches and regrets will then be too late. Let, then, those who love monarchies counsel monarchs; this is not my busi- ness : each one to his trade; be it mine to watch over and take an interest in those of the people.

You will not find it very difficult to apply every letter of my int roillictian, to the memorable events of the last week. M hen you have terminated the perusal of my present comniunication, you will understand quite well that the people have marked four points and the monarchy none; and you will see that "nothing can save France from a revolution." But, in the first instance, this revolution will in all human probability be preceded by IlEssx THE FIFTH, BERRTER, CIIA••• TEA 1;11111A ND, Firma NIES, De GENOUDE, and the popular portion of the !!lo- mocha:al party in this country. An attempt will be made—and perhaps for the moment will succeed—to pOptalfiZe HENRI' the Fifth—to distract the attention of France by demands of ancient frontiers, of Belgium, of Savoy, of Piedmont, and so forth ; and even the old prejudices of France against England may be revived, and jealousy and hatred of Great Britain be once more engendered. All this is extremely probable; for, though we are marching rapidly towards a revolution, we are marching not with less rapidity to a restoration; and the momentary triumph of IITNR. sr the Fifth tt ill not excite my surprise, or occasion me a tit0- !writes imeaeinese. The result of all this is certain. That result may be re- t.,. ci—urn, through the Itikewarniness of some and the ignoranceand mistakes of nthrre, be pestgoned ; but, after all expedients shall have been tried, and all et' er eclivices test r ed to in vain, the nation will turn its "trump card "—and we shill It me a tepublie.

II. A r a; it err N AEI), a member of the Chamber of Deputies—a rich man --a remier —a Joyce of ease.--a hater of distuebances, bemuse they disturb I

—au admirer of that %eh ieh exists, nut beeauee it is good, but a iiipdy because it 4•Rists—this man of the Contuse, who exe!ainis with M. VIENNET—" Legality is killrog us." and therefore cells for illegality and laws of exception, yesterday ae. e.ehel the trauma, and demanded the remission of the Chamber to put a queet Mil to the :\ hoist:ma. Of course the warns and the pursy men said, Yee; and as th .y %y ore wrist ttttt ner..ne, permission WaS given. So to work he went ; awl, aro (u.14,4, to a previously-arranged programme, he delivered himself of the following oration :-

"'I he I lit tuber will, I hope. (Aimee me fur interrupting the tadinsry routine

din, lab:etre; but the public • I is too much alteurbed by the events which are pas•ieg emend tie, to enalde us to tliscuss with ti mutuality the laws teliieh are piewilted to tit, thr examitiatiiiii. A %, ell Gmoiled uneasiness everywhere exist.. Evers:tele-le it is asked, Where are 1% e ? to what are tie matching? In thie stare 4.f thiaes—in IIii. state of agitation -I entreat the Alittisters to de- clare to us if they have the means; of opposing a battier to the passions which are from all parts threaleititig nor destructien. If the NIinietry is not prepared

to de this, let it declare its ltelplessnees, or let it sustain the tet tilde respon- sibility whieh will attach to it, if it eh all starer things to remain in their present state."

The fart. refereed to, not by name, but by implication, in this short harangue tif Al. (fan A r is, 1 shall speak of presently : at the same time, we must that the events passiog around ws are of the gravest character—that the situa- tion of the coinitry has never been so menacing during the last twenty rears— that every out is asking, There are we? and to what are we mars:Mug? And although 1 ant wholly at variance with AI. (ilea to nail his friends, as to the remedies to be applied to this state of passions and of national disgust and agita- tion, yet the fart of the agitation and the fiet of conspirarisfe, and the fact of in- surreations and emetitee, and the fart of the progress of Trade 1 Tnions, and the fact of the commons progress of Republiranism, cannot he denied, and cannot Ste too strengly stated by AI (iIit.tcu or his coadjutot N. Pay, then, no sort of attention to the little trumpery news ttttt meeting correspondences from Parisi, in- masted its some lanalon Daily Papers, which would make you believe, if you placed tiny credit in the short-sighted letters of these short-sighted beings whucall them- selves public iestructors, when they tell you "Parris is tranquil." " Trade is prosperous.' " The mettles are over." " Public peace awl happiness are to established." I say treat with contempt and indifference these creatures and their writings; and reply--" No; nothing is settled in France: the whole head is sick and the whole heart is faint, and nothing can save her ftoin revo'ittien "

When eI. (1 tun it it had finished his pre viously-enneoeted, but not fir that

lees veracious oration, the Allxiset :t .lf•ST I I. HA RTUE, Who belonged

for years under the Restore( to Tuires: st.CItUr sOCIETIES to overthrow

the Bourbons and the Charter of PSI 4—and who not only belonged to these societies, but was one of the most zealous and intrepid leaders—this same 111. litanies Was charged by his coadjutors to ascend the tribune and make the following reply — " The eircuntstAnces and events which have fixed the attention and occupied the thoughts of the last speaker, are unquestionably most grave and strik ng.

They have ealled for and received the serious attention and deliberations of the Government. Our resolution has been token; and to .ow there will be presented to sou a project of law relative to ASSOCIATIONS!!

Yes ! it leis collie to this ! The attacks on the press are to he succeeded by attacks on the right of association ; and the ordinances of Cif a Karts the Tenth are to he reproduced in the shape of laws, to he voted by Juste Milieu and Doc- trinaire majorities. and by non hereditary Peers, to be named for life and to an unlimited extent by the advice of Ministers of the Crown ! Who, then, can doubt the truth of my text—that nothiug can save France from another rero!ution ? Let us now rapidly pass in review the events of the last eight days. They are inemerable. Already they have led to projects of a reactionary or counter- revolutionary character. Already the Royalists exultingly ask,—" And was it for this, iu order to see the very measures against which we revolted, adopter by the very Government you (snouted, that you made the Revolution of July IMO?" And already the aiaswet is given—" 'letter Ile:N[1.T the Filth—legit i- maey—Europeau alliances—commercial prosperity and aniewl happiness—thall thus submit to have all our hopes frustrated, all our sympathies', violated. and all our tears, sufferings, forbearance, struggles, and conquests, wholly and for ever thrown away."

At I.VONs—at ST. ETIENNE—at PARIS—at NaNTEs—at Ala RSKILLF.S—at Ate. as well as at other places, of minor importance—there have been sefontS,

continuous, and alarming, agit Moue and troubles during the past week. At

Lyons, the whole trade of an immense city has been suspended by the avarice and the cruelty of wealthy manufacturers: thousands of worknwn have refused

to Labour ; thousands of pounde worth of property has been removed for preser- vationfttnn the town; the se • 1 capital of France has resembled a besieged city ; and the workmen—resolved on tin longer submitting to work for a mere dry crust, wretched lodging, wretched tiling or moue at all, and wretched cloth- ing—have pu ferred to subset ibe together to support those whose masters are avaricious and cruel, rather than that they should submit to grinding wages and

prices which will not supply the labourer with even the necessaries of existence.

Is order restored at Lyona •+— No! Are the relative positions of the workmen and masters improved ?—No ! Is there any solid and permanent understandieg on wages, prices, and Sal •?—No! Soule have returned to work, some have not ; the workers of plusher and the !makers of shawls remain out of employ. " Vine la Republique ! " has been the cry ; and a cheap government, cheap taxes, and um monopolies, are demanded by the working populat. . For utter-

ing these cries and expressing these wishes, s have been arrested, and are to he imprisoned and tried—and then ...Futter-TED— just as they wile two years

ago. But have the cries ceased?—No! Arc opinions changed ?—Nol Are the mass satisfied and confiding?—Less so than ever. And fitr this as well as for wally other reasons, 1 repeat, "lad/Oily (lilt sore Fiance from a Tecolution." Look at Sr. Eat N NE!—There blood has been shed ; there the police have been oldieed to Intend themselves., and vietims have fallen. The cry of lt Vine la Repul•lique !"; has there been heard, and it has there also led to etrests and prosecutions. Look at :Six and Me itsritities !—There the Royalty of laalo has been burnt in effigy ; there the Royalists on the one hand and the Republicans on the other have had their respect ire triumphs; there the cries of " Vire Demi Ciuq " anal " Vitas la Republigne" have bath been tittered ; and troops, gulls, shot, changes of cavalry, and SO 101114, have Bern restattil to—to maintain—what:' —why, outer! do you say? what miler : Not real moral and politi- cal order. re:wild:1g from notional confidence, prostwrity, and happito•ss, but that sort of 't order " which exists at Lvotts, and which resembles the silence of the man who, assailed by aseaesins on a wide colourists ur an open heath, is emus mantled by the highwaymen who stop him to be quiet, or he shall be murdered as well as robbed. lie yields to superior mute force, and says not a word; but when he escapes with his life, he seeks the aid of society to find out and arrest the offenders.

Look at I's s iS 1.—imagine tie Royal Exchange of London, and all its ave- nues of Cornhill, lettlibury, Lombard Street, Cheapside, Threadneedle Street, Rank Lane, and all the other surrounding streets and lanes, crammed with young and old, rich and poor—met together as by instinct, in the very centre of the city—to protest against the censorship of the journals—to protest against severe measures being resorted to by the Government against the workmen of Lyons_ to protest their hatred of the present order of things in France, and the irresolu- tion to change it : and then imagine cavalry galloping over women and children: --bayunets rim into private inilividitels; by infantry mad municipal guards— bludgeons raked in the air by hundreds of secret policemen, cud levelled at the heads of the first persons standing near these assassins—cries and groans, pro- tests ;nal ono ;—imagine an tide, and you will then be able to form an idea of the state of pot tint, of Paris on Friday, Satuidav, and above all, on Sun- day last. Dew is all this? Is it twee that a few hundred Republicans, young and ardent. leave tea up these scenes, which the rest of the inhabitants deplore and rept obate ? No, this is not tine. These bevies, at Paris, at Lyons., at St. Etienne, and elms here, are but indivations of a deep evil—of a profound disease —of a dissolution of society. Arid if we leolitil abroad.—if we turned to the Belgian Chambers, and the un- fit' tuteite position of that unfortunate man, Prince Leo eneo—if we went to Luxeulliourg—sie to Vienna—or to Naples—or to Sevoy and Piedlitoot—we should perceive everywhere the eatne thing,—a tweaking up of the past and the presetit. and efforts on one side to overturn all -thrones, and on the other to an- oihilate all Ws:flies.

Poor Al. 11A Retie ! unfortunate M. Pita sit ! wietclied and iaattiated Jour- nal des Debuts do you not one and all perceive that you tire marching in the ways of the Restoration? Is aot the apology for hews of exception and extra- ordinary measures, published in the Debars this morning, merely verbatim the same as the apology offered bv the Polignac Ministry far its syetein and its po- licy? Did it tint al.° say, a The 'flu-one is iii danger ?" Did it not also call upon France " to alert Deputive" to save "the Royalty of the eldest branch from destruction ?" Did it not also maintain, with the Debuts of this morning, "that it could out allots' a power greater than the Throne itself to grow up and to extend in the midst of French society? " To he some it did : and what was the result? why, the Revolution of 1830.

I tan say no more. The hawkers will not be put down! The popular press

will not be 'nit flown ! The associations of evorkinen, or the political associa- tions of the people, will not be put down ! Law after law, project after project, Islay he proposed and adopted; but all, all will fail, before the resolution of thirty.ditte millions of people eventually to obtain a cheap, national, and popular goeertimest. In the mean tints, a Restoration may take place ; HENRY the Fifth may enter even with a sort of triumph in the streets of Paris; and another and a last attempt may be made to make legitimate .Menareby popular : but all will eventually fill ; for "nothing can save France from another revolution." 11

I bare laboured to convince the Monarchy of 18:30 of its errors—to show to

it that its pepalatity, preservation, and permanence, depended on its marching not against but in concert with the principle of popular sovereignty on which it was originally I milled. I have failed. The Doctrinaires 'mit severe in their einineels, and those rouusrls are followed. Henceforth, then, I have only to act the part of aD historian, ; and from week to week show volt, on the one hand the progress of the counter• revolution. and ou the other that of Republicanism. Let boil Ge ev —the WII•gs--the People of England--profit by our experi- ence. If you will not advance with the federal consequences of the Bill of lteroesr, you will return to Toryient—and then advance to a. Republic.

I am, Sir, your obedient servant, 0. P. Q.