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LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 14.

1 He events of the last week in Paris have at least
ace good signification—they denote that however the
minds of influential politicians are agitated by
personal c disiderations of who than wield command,
and wt.o shall have power, the great body of the
satiun beneath them have at length recovered a
normal state of tratquillity, of self-powiresion, and an
absecos alike of menace an i of fear. The Hargraves,
as the professional politicians of former eviler,' and
sainietries are called, were, like pilots taken on
board, to weer the chip through • dangerous
paingo in boisterous weather. Bat the strait
being passed, and the weather having cleared op, tie
ear in and crew have determined to get rid of these
atraree pilots, who were given to magnify danger,
and who had cunningly endeavoured to steer the ship
into a quite different port from that to which it was
bout d.
The reign of the terrorist conservatives's well's that
of the socialist errant.' -ra seems drawing to a close. Li
his struggle with the former the Pareetnetrr hu found
sympathy in the middle ol teased as he h stood merely
for hie right, and has vindicated that right without
producing disorder or untoward result, he must largely
gain in reputation, iu trued, and in adhecons by his
courage and his success. Tee mere fact of his baying ,
retain-d the services of a prudent men like M. lia KOCH it,
and won the support of such a peritonea, as I.llitutT:4
DE Lures, whilst engaging is the bold adventure of
a struggle with the Assembly, shows that Loris
NAPOLEON has at length a flag under which not
merely imperialist adventurers, but sober and calcu-
lating statesmen, are ready to rally in order to com-
bat the pretensioes and inttigue of the royalists of all
colours.
We have long since given our opinion that nothing
but • republican tarn of givernment is tenable in
France, notwithstatding the aversion entertained to-
wards even the very name by the upper and influen-
tial class, a well as the fear of its being unfavourable
to tranquillity and trade entertained by the citizen
and shopke per. These, however, have come to per-
ceive that the efforts and c itspiracies fur restoring
monarchy would lead to tenfold more turbulence, col,
Anion, and iosecuritv,than maintaining the republican
/armor government, Lenity sa it ie. And hence the
decide d disapprobation given to that monarchical
party in the Cnamber which had already entrenched
itself in the military commend of l'aris, and in the
known teedenciee of • majority of the Assembly.
fiespicions are no doubt entertained of the sincerity
of LoVio NAPOLEON in his assertion that he will
maiateus the integrity of the republican government.
Bet at all events he is not the m.re prcnynent or im-
modest aggressor; and he may with every justice say
that if monarchy is to be restored, the BONAPARTE.
have sieved • right so any other family.
In casting up the comparative worth, indeed, of
imperialist mid royalist pre'enoions, there are many
senses that might induce • liberal Frenchman to pre-
fer the BONAPARTI to the Rot KtiON. None of them
now come forward as representing the monarchy of the
harriced. e, or elaimi' g this throne by the some
right a. LO.llSPnimeen,, the choice of the people.
Loris "'Paters himself, before his death, based the
claim of his family cm the ground of its being the
legitimate heir after the death of the childless Doke
of BORDRAVI. Nor is it possible to look forward to
the aceeesios of the ORLRANS brunch without foresee-
ing that it will inherit and assume all legiti-
mist claims and pretension. These go to no
lere Van the old principle of divine right,
sad put forward nothing milder as policy than a
norrernement den he'd, based on the ascendancy of
an upper and dominant clue, of a court, and of ultra-
coeservatiem. That the prop.* ate not to be con-
enlisted, bet intimidated, is just as much the dogma
etf M. OVIZOT and M. TRIERS at present, as it used to
be of M. Di PoLlonee. And in apprec,ating their
political principles, we must recognise in them that
old creed which is traditional arid prevalent in every
despotic court. With Fiance licked in such a bond
of sympathy with Russia, with Austris, and the
other military and despotic powers, there would be
little hope for Europe, and no chance, indeed, fur Que-
asier*, save in cautions isolation.
A Ititeerearier Presidency, and even • BONAPAR-
TIST Emperor, whatever their colour or tendencies, is
liberalism and enlightenment compared with ibis.
After all, it was, and must be, based on the suffrages
ettbe people, and could not long expect to survive po-
pular aversion. It might for a time chime in with
Austria, or strike a bargain with Russia for a definite
peeper*. but in the math a BON AAAAA rolgirne c mid
sot exist without these liberal sympathies for
Italian independence and derma emancipation, on
which Fiance under BOURBONS or BoutisoN states-
men would infallibly tarn its beck. The instinct of
liberal Europa desires, first, therefore, the prevalence
et a republic in France ; and, secondly, if a republic
be impossible, a Bonspartist rather than a legitimist
dynarty.
In laying this much, and in giving a strong pre-
imam to LOCI. NAVOLRON over that aver-rated and
empty idol, Ceateneareten, we are very far from
being admirers of the PRESIDENT'S past policy
or acts. We have seen him. indeed, mote than once,
manifest a desire to shake off ultra-conservative tram-
meta. He went far to repudiate the responsibility of
that isfamons opt:wee-ion of the Romans. And in these I
later months he has manifested a policy far different !
from that of the Bergey's. Their anxiety was to'
place France at the tail of Austria and Russia—his
to make the country take up an independent position.
These thine* ere not to be overlooked. And whilst
they make us loathe the guile and retrograde clique
that miss or under the generalship of MOLE and BER-
RTE., CIIABOARNIER and DUPIN, they leave room
for Nome home in the liberal tendencies of the Pau-si-
nter.

fns rulers of the University of Dublin ars said to
be at length awaking from their lone dream of irre-
rmoneible and anti•popular. poen r. From one genera-
tion to an ab►r they bare dozed ow, in the fat and ,
flattering belief that their monopoly wee providential
and immortal. In the days of an Irish parliament
they wets favoured and fed with grants of money cut
of the national taxation, as in earlier times they had
been enriched by royal smuts out of the forfeitures of
the civil win. About the time of the union projects
were on foot for the establishment of a second uni-