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LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 30.

To the nauseous mystification which the semi-
official prints of the French Ei vw,a continue to
inflict upon the patience of Europe for the pur-
pose of justifying an act of public robbery, one
can only reply by M. us POriCIABUNAC'N ample
appeal to his doctors---" Qua grand raisawse-
" meta feet it peer manger lot moruae 1"
Crime itself, in all its naked savagery, is not so
noxious and offensive as an elaborate attempt to
make crime look like innocence. Sin is not half so
odious when it is barefaced ea when it is cloaked
in the garb of sanctity. To gag a man's mouth
and pick his pocket, and then to asseverate
that you did it with his full assent, is
even more absurd than criminal. When a
great French actor, with his marvellous dramatic
instinct, turned a dismal drama of burglary into a
bitter social caricature, he not only rescued a bad
piece from impending condemnation, but made the
hero of L'A ?sheep des Adrets a favourite climatal
type of the meditative and romantic annexationist.
The playwright had conceived the character of
Macon., in the spirit of an Imperial penman of
the Pays or the Constitefionwel ; the actor, with
• fine sense of poetical justice and a true insight
into the public taste, restored him to the
domain of the correctional police, but redeemed
him from contempt by lending to audacity and
impudence • touch of the sublime.

There is a part in the great European drama
which England has never yet been prevailed upon
to accept, and that is Bertram!, the weak accom-
plice and catspaw of the able and astute Robert;
but there can he no harm in suggesting to the
ready-writers of the official purlieus over
• the water the moral, not of a villanous
piece, but of a great actor's interpretation of
the hero. If that revived Napoleonic drama, which
has already had a nine years' run, is to maintain
ita suocesa, we are only doing a service to the
leading actor—who, like all eminent tragedians,
has his " mannerism "—if we advise him to drop
the high moral tone and at least to amuse the
public with a specimen of downright unblushing
impudence. With rare natural qualities for imper-
sonations of this order, he will be sure of having
the laughers on his side, and the laughers are a large
public in France. But a succession of the most
startling tableaux is apt to drag when they are filled
in with interminable tirades in praise of first prin-
ciples, done to order. The most moral of audiences
soon tires of listening to the " damnable iteration"
of the sententious homage to virtue ; and would
rather, in Spartan fashion, that the young people
were entertained with the spectacle of vice in all
its nudity. Nothing that the French Empire has yet
perpetrated (and that is saying much) has created
half so much distrust and dissatisfaction among its
neighbours as the State papers and semi-official
articles which have first foreshadowed, then denied,
then mitigakd, then explained away, and finally,
when the hour of apology and exculpation was
past, defended, exalted, and glorified what im-
punity only hail absolved. A policy of adventure,
aggreseion, and bad faith may create indignation
and alarm, and compel honest nations to constitute
a Vigilance Coiniiiittee for mutual defence,
but the moral seise of all mankind is
outraged by the calculated hypocrisies of hireling
pens engaged to represent fraud as honesty
maligned, and force /adjoin as popular unanimity.
We confess a weakness for Dick Tarpin, but
•hen we drag Tat-toffs from under the table we
despise the filthy sneak almost ton much to kick
him. A little frank rascality would give back to
the Second Empire something of the prestige
which it once acquired from the generous confi-
dence of England ; but we are too plain and
practical a people to accept an amended version
of the eighth commandment, in the form of a
sermon on public law.

•
The French floveniment is informing us, through
the unrenstingagency of Mr. IIIIVTER, that the BOth
regiment was recened with universal and enthtriar
tic acclamation' wiwis it marched into Chambeey,
and we shall hare the gratification no doubt with&
the neat few days of hearing, through the 11111111111
oracle, that some other corps of red-legged apostles
of fraternity have been welcomed with equal en-
thusiasm at Nice. Now, we pot it respectfully to
the French Government-1■ not the theoey d
" aeclamadaw " somewhat threadbare 1 A member
of the Legislative body once defined that digni-
fied assembly as L. Corps ardamnnt, but the
populations of Chambery and Nice have hardly
yet attained that perfection of discipline in
the art of expressing national sovereignty
which the Legislative Corps would have invented if
they ha 1 not found it ready made in the instincts