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TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 1856

THE birth of a male heir to the Throne of France

completes the measure of the Emperor NAPOLEON'S
happiness, ambition, and success. To France
such events are not novelties, and therefore the
nation is better able to appreciate such a piece of
fortune, than an individual who desires to see the
career of the sire perpetuated in the life of his
scion. The French have ever been moved by
like feelings, and impelled onwards by equally
natural speculations. How overheated desires
have been rewarded in one case, and the mains
have turned up on the political dice with regard to
the latter, history does not disguise or leave
untold. NAPOLEON 11. can draw the same amount
of instruction and directing precepts from the
annals of Monarchial France, the Apostles did
from HIM who had gone before them, and
observing through their lives the solemn injunc-
tions imposed upon them by HIM who they had
vowed to serve. To men of ordinary attainments
and humble ambition, the birth of a being
who is to fill a position in this world,
wherein, to command respect and to insure

success, many godly attributes are required, is an
affair of extraordinary solemnity. Stripped of all
romance it can only prove an incalculable blessing
or an irreparable curse to mankind, and time
alone can unfold the mystery which enshrouds the
infant Emperor in his cradle• That NAPOLEON
EUGENE LOUIS JEAN JOSEPH may be to France
as good a son as Louis NAPOLEON has been a
father, is our most fervent wish. But the scion
of the. Imperial Throne, comes amongst us riding
on the waves of war, and surrounded by an
impenetrable mist of intrigue, which prevents
"ciVilisation froth counting its triumphs and seeing

into to-morrow.
We despise superstition, but still such was
really the position of Europe's affairs at the
moment that Imperial Prince was born, and we
1-nln thinking it more or less ominous.
Drld been at peace, had France been
,sperous and free, and had rulers no
ns, no longings, no desires but
such as are purely French when the Son
of France drew his first breath, we must
confess, that it would be somewhat more
difficult to have discovered any rooks or shoals
which would be likely to prove the antwei of the as-
tounding splendour which has marked his nativity.
For France there is no prolonged peace, no true
greatness and growth of prosperity, except in the
enactment of wise and reasonable laws, admin-
istered with the nicest justice, and the most
perfect moderation. We have no faith in phases
which show themselves as dreams, and pass away
as the mind of a nation reassumes its suspended
action and sacred mission. There is immense
danger in having rulers born a century before the
world is ready to receive them, as Europe witnessed
in the life of NAPOLEON I. ; but there are still more
imminent calamities impending, when we have

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