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HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO FRANCE.

(From the Journal des Debats of yesterday.)

Queen Victoria has returned to England. She has
departed, carrying with her the remembrance of our cor-
dial and eager welcome. The Queen has spent eight
whole days amongst us, visiting our monuments, asso-
ciating herself with our pleasures, with our fetes, with
our reviews, and during these eight days the innumer-
able population of Paris has seized with ardour every
opportunity of seeing her, of saluting her, of addressing
to her the testimony of its satisfaction, and the homage
of its good wishes. Yes, the Queen of England ought
to congratulate herself on her journey to France,
and on her sojourn at Paris. And we also congra-
tulate ourselves on it, because we perceive in it a
precious pledge of the alliance of the two great
Western Powers, and a guarantee for the perpetuity of
the future peace of Europe. The alliance of France
and England is not new ; it has lasted without interrup-
tion for more than forty years, and it has resisted more
than one shock ealcu.ated to break it up, if it had been
less solid. This alliance was the basis of the policy of
King Louis Philippe, by whom it was cultivated with
the greatest care, without sacrificing to it the interests
or the dignity of France ; this is a justice which is no
longer refused him. It reposed on the intimacy of the
two sovereigns, two Royal families, and that which is
less fragile, upon the identity of interests and upon the
similarity of political institutions. France and Eng-
land are the head of the civilisation of the world ;
the two peoples concur equally, although with quali-
ties diverse, m the encouragement of human intelli-
gence in the path of progress; they are of agree-
ment to accomplish together that mission of peace
which they have received from Providence, and
from which they do not allow themselves to be led astray
by the complaints and the irritations of certain envious
and egotistical rivalries. When two nations intermingle
and become identified in a perpetual exchange of ideas
and things, how can they be otherwise than allies ? And
has there ever been seen a greater inter fusion of in-
terests than that which has subsisted for more than 25
years between France and England ? Great changes, it
is true, have been introduced in the political institutions
of France, which has not yet regained what she has lost
through the excesses of the revolutionary spirit ; but the
institutions under which France lives to-day have been
proposed as essentially susceptible of being perfected,
and it is in this sense that France has accepted them.
This is known in London as well as at Paris. The
alliance of France and England has doubtless not
been always so intimate and so strict as it is at this
moment ; that alliance has had, like all the things of
this world, its good and its evil days. More than once
it has been attempted to disunite the two nations on the
most frivolous and the most ridiculous pretexts. We do
❑ot wish to return to the past, and recall circumstances
now forgotten, or the recollection of which survives only
in a small number of memories ; but scarcely two years
ago were we not witnesses of the strangest spectacle ?
Have we not seen England, a prey to illusions somewhat
puerile perhaps, in a state of alarm about our ambitious
designs, and arming herself to resist a chimerical inva-
sion from France ? What suspicions and defiauces !
What violences and injuries ! Confidence is now
happily re-established ; the alliance which for a mo-
ment one might have conceived to be menaced, has
recovered from that shock, and those even who
repelled it with the greatest wrath and indignation
proclaim it for evermore unshakeable and necessary
for the prosperity, the glory, the hanour of the coun-
try. This alliance has not only undergone the tests of
peace ; for a year it has been exposed to the test of war,
and this test has fortunately succeeded. The armies and
the fleets of France and England pursue the same obA
ject ; they are engaged in the same cause ; they desire
to conquer and bring back a common enemy to peace ;
the same sentiments animate and direct them ; nothing
separates and everything unites them. Under the walls
of Sebastopol and in the Baltic the French are no
longer the rivals of the English ; they are their emula-
tors. The soldiers and seamen of the two countries,
called to partake the same dangers, are in need of sus-
taining themselves by a reciprocal assistance. In such
circumstances the alliance has necessarily been strength-
ened and refreshed. It will be the better prepared,
therefore, to traverse the new period of peace which
shall succeed to war. Peace is now the first want
of nations. Peace is the only regular and the only
necessary state. War, we sincerely hope so, will
henceforth be a passing and sad accident only, which
shall become more and more rare in the world ; it is
therefore necessary to think of peace even amidst the
agitation of war. It is above all in view of peace that
we have rejoiced, and that we rejoice in the visit of the
Queen of England. This event which peace had long
since prepared, and which might not, perhaps, have been
so soon accomplished in war, is a striking and solemn
consecration of the alliance of the two countries, and
this alliance, sooner or later, will assure the peace of the
world. We have not proposed to regard the visit of
the Queen of England under other than its political
aspect. This is the only aspect which concerns the
public. There is in it a happy event for France which
we have all felt deeply, and which transports our grateful
thoughts to our army in the East, and to the part which
it has in the testimony which the Queen of England
came to render to the country. We are thus persuaded
that besides the natural eagerness which the presence of
Queen Victoria should excite, France has been desirous
of showing her that she feels the political value of her
Royal visit."