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Show A PHENCI1 EMIUKK. The French people will never be : happy without an empire. They are I used to it, and they can't get along ' comfortably without it. In a republic j they are like a herd of mad bulls ; confined within a glass-house. With j , them the empire is tranquility, if not j : happiness, while a republic is perpetual j , disquietude aud agitation. They need ' ; and must have a form of government ! 1 that will keep them out of politics, a ! j field in which they aro capable of ! shining only as the architects of ruin, j It is believed that Louis Napoleon has abandoned all hope of again becoming j their chief ruler, but it is said j that lie confidently believes that his son will ultimately ascend the imperial , throne. Touching this subject a late London letter says: "There was one thing which the Emperor had reason lo dread, and that was an early appeal to universal suffrage. He claims to have derived his sovereignty from tne nation; and again aud again he has admitted that tho samo power which I made can also unmake his title. So I long, therefore, as tho election of a j permanent government ia delayed, so j long will ihe Bonapartists have time : to iiilngue for a restoration. The Emperor's Em-peror's friends are active, but they ex-, ex-, lubit more discretion than they did 1 when they took to pamphleteering and to issuing manifestoes which invited sharp criticism, especially as the events to which they referred were painfully lic.di in the public recollection. In l heir easo the German maxim 'silence 'si-lence js golden' holds strictly true." Cunrit-r Journal. ' ! |