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day were 3,400 ba

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THE WAR QUESTION.

PARIS, Saturday

When the Sovereign of France, with all the air
of sincerity, declared at the celebrated Bordeaux
banquet, " L'Enzpire c'est la,Paix," he enunciated
the almost self-evident truth—that the condition
of its existence was peace, and not war. The
satisfaction with which this stripping the new
Empire of the terror it naturally inspired was
received, proved that his words found an echo in
every breast; that they were in fact nothing more
than the expression of what everybody felt. If
any hesitation was visible, it was only caused by
misgivings as to the sincerity of the speaker. Yet
many of his personal enemies were disarmed by
this declaration, for they had feared that the re-es-
tablishment of the Napoleon dynasty would open an
era of adventures as wild, as hurtful, and as fruit-
less as those of which Cervantes' knight of the
sorrowful figure was ever the hero. Let the most
ardent partisan of war compare the joy of the
country at the assurance of a pacific policy, then,
with the dismay that has run through the whole
French population at the very thought of a fantastic
crusade in Italy. A war in such a case would
soon be an European war, and even then govern-
ments the most determined in their neutrality could
not escape the many complications generated by a
straggle with Austria, with Italy for a battle-
ground. As the author of the pamphlet " Aurons-
noes la Guerre?" said, the notion of re-editing the
First Empire is absurd in the extreme. There is
no coalition against France ; no one dreams of
attacking destroying her, of her independence, or
of upsetting the system which she has accepted.
We hear of no arrogant proclamations of the
Brunswick fashion; no " Pitt and Coburg" designs
against the liberties which France now enjoys ; no
menace of invasion ; no injury to be satisfied ; no
insult to be avenged. The French people are per-
fectly aware of this, and hence their desire to be
allowed to remain at peace with the world. They
know well what war brings with it. They know
that France has not yet recovered from the
effects of the wars of the First Empire. The
emigration long going on in certain departments is
in great part caused by the dislike to the military
service, and there is hardly a sub-prefect that could
not bear testimony to the fact. What will it be
when levies of men are called for after each cam-
paign from an exhausted rural population, which, as
it is, hardly suffices for the cultivation of the soil.
The French people do not wish for war, whatever
be their antipathy against Austria, or their sym-
pathy for "suffering nationalities." I doubt whether
even their desire to transplant into other soils the
beneficial institutions they themselves are in pos-
session of, would be strong enough to overcome
their repugnance to war. They were tired of the
RuSsian campaign long before it ended, and the
eagerness to agree to terms of peace, even with the
temptation of still more military glory, not to speak
of material advantages, shows that France cotild
not afford to go on much longer.

In the meantime we are in-formed that prepara-
tions are actively continued. A gentleman, who
has just arrived from Toulon, states that the place
is full of troops. What is taking place at Grenoble
I have already noticed. From' a French port in the
north of France one general is said to be forwarding
at the rate of 200 horses a day to the army. Naval
preparations, on a large scale, are going on, and
quantities o f camp equipage sent both to Toulon
and Marseilles. Our First Lord of the Admiralty
can say whetheT what French gentleman here