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LONDON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11.

Tnr. Times, which has expressed just indignation
at the a stablishment in Paris of that despotic mili-
tary r#gima which it applauds in other countries,
seeks now to turn the subversion and arbitrary
tyranny of Loris NAPOLEON to the advantage of the
Amity of Onexasts. The original fault, it reasons,
lay in dethroning Lorts-Pftitteer, for the republic
his merely produced its natural result—a mi:itary
despotism. The 77.111Cti accordingly sheds its ana-
tlamas on thew who overthrew the monarchy of the
But who overthrew that monarchy? Was it the
constitutional opposition, who merely declared that
130,1 sat or POOPS) voters formed tai narrow an eke-
total body for a nation of 31 millions? Or was it
the re p Utaie.lllll who,—until M. Oviret's obstinacy
and folly got up a street row,—had so dwindled and
d!sipieured, as to he almost uncertain of existents?
I'm the catastrophe of the last week in February,
ls:s, there is hut one aural set of persons
to liimne, and the coo-ists of Lir ts-Putures.,—
vil.o behaved like an 61:1 woman ; of his sons,—who
showed scarcely the spirit of yming ladies; and of
their prime minister,—who had determinedly shut
his CA'S to the feelings of the couotry he governed.
ltepu.ble ail mpublita:.isin have u great many bins
to answer for; hut amongst those sins cannot be
ecnitittil the destruction of the throne of Lou IS-
• I.IIME, whose power it was most unexpectedly
surutror.ed to assume and inherit.
Teta monarehi..a and one republic have perished
in Fiaieu within the memory of the present gene-
ntien, and the (' %Main and the crew who ma the
Armor-lay brat of eIIARLE, X. aground, and then
that of bit'14.14111.11.1•14 were precisely the same
pessple -the lteLltYrri. IlSoittms, and Titlgns,—who
scuttled the Iftpublic. The fact is, that neither form
of government is so perfect or no self-sulsisteot as
to lie nth- to endure without wisdom, or consistency.
or principle, or good faith, on the part of these who
*dual!, ter it.
Tle writer in the Miles, however, is not more firm
or consequent iii his opinions than the statesmen
of France. In one sentence he attributes the
dedreetion of the numintly to the ellorts of the
republicans. In ;mother he attributes the dissolution
of the Mine monarchy to the organic defect of the
country's being without an aristocracy. But a more
pm-triol objection than these to the restoration of
tin nniehy in Fr.ume con'd not be given. Fur if
inllll/114 icy cannot exist there till an aristocracy be re-
stored, then nionarehy itself would be imps:sable. It
was the tame doctrine that was preadult into the ears
of thee bier Borneares. These councilloiN told Loris
XVIII. and CIiAnI.EA X. that the deption of their
sweatily we impossible until they resume jolted the
old uristocracy and the old church. And they set
shout this task of rcsuseitstion,—Loris XVIII. with
hesitation and twine's, (3tant.tse X. with activity
and issal. But the eonsequenee was, that three
imperstructurcs on the weak foundation of
the inunurehy of that day trashed it into
r. If, indeed, it be admitt«lus an axiom that
IlnunarAy cannot subsist without aristocracy, then
snossereby 1 d.ierried in Europe; for in thirty-fourths
of thst cantinent the aristocracy has been destroyed,
and where it dots sun ive it has been set aside Irma all
indite !ire user public affairs. If monarchy cannot
exist without nn aristocracy, it is impossible in France.
in Italy, awl in the hotter and root enlightened half
of Germany.
Tle most ilnogerons and subversive doctrines of
our day are those which are eternally anathema-
tising and excluding one form of goveniment or sim-
ile, r. 'Elie French republic was been destroyed by
men *ha first took the oath to it, and then laboureil

to di stroy it for mere party motive*. Both forms of
government are very workable, and very capable of
the ut1111,4 swans... II Ind laiutri-l'ltinert. been but
a coostitati,atal menarch, willing to learn, and toga-
C 11141% to yield a kst share of the &manila
d his saki's tit, lilt, and such a system
might have endured for centuries, and France have
been prosperous under it. But he was a &unities,
—acid that rendered it impassible. We arc equally
confident that the republic would have worked well ,
had it been honestly directed and administered. I lad
either tvv.thite.ce or Lasi RTIN 17, —the men who had
earned and deserved the presidency.--heen elected to
it. France would not have seen the three years I
ei.ip s eour.ies, and would not Lave been prcipi-
tan into its present abyss.
France. however, WWI doomed, it would appear, to
make its think monarchic essay. It had already set
up a Hoe pox thread of divine rights and a
Ihieunox throne of constitutional compact. Both
dynasties disgraced themselves in popular opinion,
and were de::nitled by the popular senterce. There
remained another dynast, with monarchic preted-
pions. Its representative has just installed himself
by the aid of un army of drunken dragoons,
atul by a day of hard cannonading di-
rected against the houses and residents of the
Itiatti Boulevard. The mode of victory. the species
of illaUgli.:111011. coupled wills the programme of
the future ge‘eninant of the country by a council
of state and a tribunate, promise still fess than even
the that* winyp.. Lou., xvm., 'Who was a
librrnl compared with Louis NvroLanN. It will
require, however, some months, perhaps years
of reign completely to depopularise the Bu-
fey e %nu. name. Its prow nt representative
seems certainly inclined to accomplish this in as short
o time as possible. But the pr• xtiye of the old Em-
perm's mane vas deeply routed, and to eradicate it
from the hearts, or to make it execrated in the mouths,
of Frenchmen. may require a certain space of time
and assiduity of ettbrt. The red republicans could
desire no more accelerated progress than that which
is making.
Meantime let us do the BoN.trAnTES the justice to
signalise a renimitable instance of fairness and coal-
men sense Mi the pat of the surviving brother of
Nets LON. The ex- ingi main E, contempt:it ing.with
one t*.sit in the grave, the bold act of his nephew, is
evidently alarmed at the proposed resuscitation of
that imperial system of government of which he
(.11:itowi) had seen and known the unpopularity and
the humbug. The ex-king, therefore, recommends
Innis Nveto.Enst to summon a constituent assemb'y,
and to entrust to it, rather than take upon himself,
the formation and sanction of a constitution. Ilad
this been done at first, and before the massacre of the
boulevards, we should have been now writing on the
merits and fortunes of lams NAIVLEON in a very
different vein.

Tne great "at home" of England to all the world
in Ix3l, has not ended with the closing of the Indus-
trial Exhibition. While the Crystal Palace, with all
it* rich and inagnifitent contents, was open. we were
hospitably receiving all and everybody.. Since that
time we hare been entertaining particular friends
--first lios•irrit from the east, and uow Mr. WALKER
from the west. _ _ .

The progresses of these distinguished foreigners
will form an epoch in the history of our manufactur-
ing d'striets. Their reception will disabuse the
world of certain mistaken notions respecting JOHN
lieu's assumed egoism. It will prove that he is not
aocntirch• wrapt up in himself and his own affairs as
to have no thoughts or sympathies to spare for foreign
nations. The frank and hearty welcome given to these
distinguished visitors, and the eagerness with
which their eloquent words have been caught up.
evinces, on the part of the English public, know-
ledge of. and sympathy with, what is going on beyond
the shores of their own island,—and en honest and
earnest desire to increase both.
This is nut all. The fact of two men, marked be
bneh strong distinctive differences of character, anew
whose intellectual powers have been developed under
circumstances so materially different, bespeaks a wide
range of thought and sympathy he the British
puldic. A kind of rinnauue interest attaches to the
personal character and position of Kossuril. Ile
belongs to a land in which the opinions and feelings
of the nineteenth century are engaged in their first
serious struggle against old despotism and feudolity.
IL had in a manner to form that public opinion