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Show FRANCE A REPUBLIC. l''raii-; lu.i s nominally r-p 1 l KDV. iiiuii ui, y.-l ii i.i liuli- Ik-u.t ilian :i .lii'i;iii.r-lii.. li.-n Tliii-r i- -p-lit- llijval.-iH ht ri'iiiJH, tint A-r.Mnl.ly u.lnftt In vif'wi. 'I'll wis. -.1 tutux -Ir'-U'l lii- ri -iyn;ii in, f'nr th.-y L(kw (itu UiUlL-iiuK nl' w h i.-Ji ilicir ii Wrl IjM.Iv i Cnm)uM'.; tin. I I li:it il ThiifM 'Te I.) Ill nw 'lit lli.- ruviiiivc pnw.rr I In-. Inii"-" :trt-- rlutt :i m i..- l' id mot if iiiilii-iini ami nun.- M l-ln-d would fii-iti-, tir. ii r.'Mili "I the ii i iik-v;li- liir power urn., in.- ainhii im- nun and nfit. ihlii,!,' j-ii'iie-.. Nnji.il.-i.il i-i rc-1-Mll.J. - H di-..it.li in aiot Iil-t niliiiiiii, (.i li.n.t -iihI (liiil i Ii.' 'I'll iirr.-' ijiiVCMinifiit wj "nuly a iii.iLt inll," and the la-.-r-i l,tr liim out toun xtent. 1 KraiKv i- ii.it pr.;itifl l'.r line ivj.iiIj-li.-ati lilx l iy hi Jay. A - n ! i-i I lie Million lln? siUim i'ler.iulll :itld llln-lly HUiiruni''ed )iy tin- (,ni(il uti.iii ol' I lie I dir.'.! Si uii-, und i liu ( '.himimiiii-h w.nilil liu in mu is uiu in :i week. Tl; flutui iil;iij(.'.l liheriy -wry ! enlarged lilj.'iiy, hut it would tuall .inrt-'i'l.l, fur it w.nilil r;i-i k m zt tuily f i in; execution lit' tin up own fn-cutiar iuw ami llmofios, uml i lur h iiiatiifi'.il. il ii.:ll' in die iihmi lr i ital ' IrulOh'li! lit' those iippo-ied to tliej ('oininiiiii.iH where lliey had power, and III tlio moil extmne vandalism. There h lillle doul.l thai Lh.j ini)erialit.s are aetively wi-ilm for lite restoration ol' ihe Nfijiukotiio ilyimiy, although liitlo ia ml'h about it. Tho iUOrtlion lor Krunco iswheiher aho will have u monarchy, or the Kiupiri uKuiu, lor the present form of govern-. luujit heaiii all the evidence of being Miiort-lived. It nturtd out with the avowed intention of re.siurin to l-'rurtfe her lo-U military preti(jt. i-It i-It demands a .vljiiidiiif armyj1 of over half a million of men, and pi o- pu.-fri a uiiliiary system hy whi.-li t lie : 1 nation will, in a li'W years, have tin 1 etleeiivo miliiary toive of over :i million!1 and a half, fn tlni.i piepo.sing il may! he entering to the desires of u portion : ' nf the nation, but it im pui'.-miiig the j very couro for which Napoleon was at j 1 times ho .severely ttriti.izod. A re pub ; ' He with half a million of u slandini; army having the right tovtile, is nut a republic out in name and i.- at the merey of the first ambition-' miliiary 1 leader that can secure the adliereueo' of the army. Thin standing army will j keep the people laboring under a I burden of taxation, which will produce dissaii.sliieiiou, sure to be increased by i the repiescntaiiou.s uf uu.seni)ulousj partisans; and such a republic would ; tall under its own weight in a few i years, if nothing should occur sooucrj to give tho reiuM of governuiem to the I itonapurtcd, liourbons or OrtcuuisK ' . The agents of the imperial party can point to the prosperity of Kram-e under! the Second Km pi re, to the fact that hut for that prosperity the nation could not so soon have met the heavy indemnity in-demnity demanded by Ueriuany; and, they will work, also, upon the religious i leelings of the provinces where the i people still ardently adhere to i he head of tho Jtoman Catholic church, inciting! them to enthusiasm in liivor of Nnpo-i Icon during whose term of power tho l'ope Win held in the seat uf his temporal sovereignly. YV ith Mich ' arguments, with a republic which does; not meet the expectations of democratic ; republicans, with heavy taxation and: crippled indu.-try. the imperialists may i well hope for success; a hopi; that ia ! undoubtedly shared by leading diplo-j matp in Kurope or resml courtesies ' would not le continued towards the fallen dynasty. |