In Paris itself, all discussion turns principally upon the events
of Italy and Spain, and upon foreign relations generally. The Court is preparing for the visit of the Emperor and Empress to Nice, the Princess Clotilda in their company. The commission- ers on the commercial treaty are about to reassemble in Paris, and to consider all the difficulties of detail raised on both sides by French and English manufacturers and merchants, the Eng- lish seeing restriction at every turn, the French believing that the barriers are broken at every corner.
Meanwhile Paris has been entertained by a new pamphlet called "La Coalition," the writer of which endeavours to show that England has been trying to rouse Europe in a combination against France, France being the defender of peoples against their oppressors. The pamphleteer sees England in every kind of trouble, difficulty or doubt ; England is at the bottom of the movement in Switzerland ; England is detected in every part of Italy ; from Lord Palmerston the Count of Montemolin had not only an interview, but money to pay General Ortega and the Carlist revolutionists, in Spain. The French Government has put forward a distinct disclaimer of the pamphlet which is indeed, far too wild even to look hire a work published on authority. Our contemporaries forget that the law of the press in Paris does not forbid the publication of works, however adverse they may be to the views of the present Government, or even the Govern- ment itself. The Coalition is certainly far less hostile to the Im- perial rule than the works of a Montalembert which were not prohibited before the fact. It may be more shrewdly suspected that the new pamphlet was designed for stockjobbing purposes, which it has undoubtedly served very advantageously ; for, if some have lost money on the Bourse by the commotion which it has excited, some have gained, and, perhaps, not a little.
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