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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · September 3, 1867

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. XXX, No. 12

Napoleon's Prospects.

—The N. Y. Independent closes an article on the great speech of M. Thiers, in the French Assembly, as follows:

We have not pretended to give more than the slightest notion of this terrible speech, which was strictly parliamentary, contained no disrespectful word to the Emperor, and commanded perfect attention in a body devoted, as a body, to the Imperial will. The little light which Bonaparte has permitted to reach the French public, through the legislative debates, was sufficient to make this handwriting on the wall of his palace visible to all the world. The opposition in the Corps Législatif, though infinitesimally small, outweighs infinitely in point of ability the supple majority. These words may be seen soon to be prophetic of the sudden ruin of the monarch who won his throne by perjury, treachery, and murder. Having been won, it was maintained by the general opinion, in and out of France, of his longheadedness and cunning. This opinion has received many successive shocks. His plans have all turned against him—in Italy, in Germany, in America. He yielded to the implied menaces of the United States, and has just given way before the bullying of Prussia. A war with Prussia and a defeat in the field, would topple over his throne and send him to death or exile. It seems as if justice, though tardy, is at last likely to overtake him.

The Mexican Question.

—The fatal issue of the Mexican intervention continues to expose the French Government to powerful attacks from the leading men and organs of the Liberal Opposition. The speech of Thiers on the history of the intervention has been followed by a terrible exposition by Berryer of the financiering of the French Government in the bonds of the Mexican Empire. The language of most of the semi-official papers is exceedingly desponding. They generally own, with La France, that “the deplorable end of the Mexican Empire is for France an immense misfortune and an irreparable check,” but they insist that at the beginning of the intervention there was reason to hope for a better result. The Liberal papers find it, of course, easy to reply to such apologies; but the Press law prevents them from following up their victory.

The Eastern Question.

—It is stated that an agreement was arrived at between the two Emperors as to the policy to be pursued by Austria and France in the Eastern question.

Reported Appearance of the Rinderpest.

—A disease, with symptoms similar to, and which is believed to be, the great cattle scourge so lately prevailing in Europe, has made its appearance in Bucks County, Pa. So far it has only affected the cows of two neighbors in Solesbury Township, three of each having been seized with the disease, and one of each having died. Of the others one or more it is thought will recover. The disease is supposed to have been communicated from a drove of cattle brought from near Philadelphia. If so, this would indicate its existence elsewhere in the State.

We have heard of unusual numbers of deaths of cows in the western part of this county; but do not learn that it is imputed to rinderpest or other extraordinary distemper.—Rochester Express.

Cholera in Illinois.

—The cholera has made its appearance in the northwest portion of Gallatin county, in its most malignant form. Out of some thirty cases, twenty have proved fatal. Those who have died from the disease did not live over six to eight hours after contracting it. The people are fleeing from it. It is hoped that the disease will be confined to that locality, as but few persons remain, and there have been no new cases since Friday last.