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Show HENRY V., OF FRANCE. The London Times, of May loth, in speaking of the future of France, says that "an impatience of slow progress, and a consequent resentment ot compromise, com-promise, constitute the standing diffi euliy in the progress of France. The yearnings after order and peace of a nation wearied by dissension and disaster dis-aster appear just now to support a movement in lavor of Henry ., and it is even said that the Assembly of Versailles is prepared to accept him a King. The Henry V. spoken of is Count de Chambord, the son of the Legitimate, or old Bourbon, monarchy. He is the son of the Duke of Bern, and the grandson of Charles X., who was driven from France by the revolution revolu-tion of LSoO, which placed the Duke of Orleans (Louis Phillippe) in his place upon the throne. His father was assassinated in 1S20, while in the act of handing his wife (the Duchess of BerriJ to her carriage from the opera-house. opera-house. Six months after his death she gave birth to a posthumous child, who has since been known by the tide of the Count of Chambord. His grandfather (Charles) was the j'oungcr brother, so-called so-called Count D'Artois, of the unfortunate unfortu-nate Louis XVI., who was executed upon the guillotine January 21, 179-3. It would be a singular close to a cycle of revolutions that run back almost a century, for the country to return to the House of Boubon, and to the very branch of it against which they originally origin-ally rebelled, and to maintain which result re-sult they have spent so much blood and made so many sacrifices. But after what has transpired, who will be disappointed dis-appointed at any result that may bo in store for France upon the cards of fortune ?" |