New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-09-03

,,,,l ,,ino.-e,ru of tnoee shIch ths't P's'e'.
.,. a,em,1 the no.t immqtAsle. st Dea" a'o
,o, ,,oyr . safe custodian for the ashes o' 'u'
C,pet. ard he maj Cot b. sny moro "'s'"'
toward tie Bonspsr;es. We thiosH were "0''''
t,.,e and better policy 10 leave sac body o' 'u'
:, Coao.,ror .sd C.ptive ofthe Enta u tue pro-
,rc,,on of tho,e memories Of tue mihtaf! g"'! W
F,,pce With which the church Of she iavsuoes IS
,bronsed And Of nich the proudest VAL uPoa us
Lame.
According 70 the pos'humous esiquette o' roy i'J'
a. least in France. and. sc think, n Sp'h' 'ae
ls,es, c,mer TO the chambers where Tue "'suy
rest" dee no. take possession OF his place OF nHA
repo.e until his successor has arrived Ia'i 'na'
time be rem.n, at the door Of tue roy, vaa's dec
t;os5 70 r.cs,,s him. Thus the huge coffin OF Louis
XVIII. IS Yet Awaiting the coming OF succeeding
uep,,ch at the gate Of bis sspalcirs, befjre no
can Re boosted BY pules into his tomb As be used "
Re while hyps into his c,rraee Inc d}so'
Jul, having driven Charles y f,r away TO die ana
tie DAYS OF February having done the same tnog
for Ioui. Philippe, Louis XvIII. hss had to r.lt
nearly forty years without being properly and 'uiy
buried Perh,ps it is Bonspartcs Intention % nsso
hi, las. repr, SET tatye of the old roysl race OF
France make way for the man who kept MN tor
twenty years out Of bis throne, aud only y'i'od
it TO hin by the compuslon of the bayonets OF all
Europe H m,y only interd to suggest the idea
Of due succt sson and to ny and throw glamour
Of legitimacy before the ksen eyes Of the French
people: but it will be much more suggestive OF
the utter folly Of such notions and the vanity oil
such expectations.
Tie tyranny established by the fret Bonsparte,
and the more intense aud more cruel despossn oil
the third Of tie pane, 90 not look al b sgtt a,
state OF things suspicious for the fOtare. And YET
the, are Dropitous omeus. Nultures are birds of
gcoI susury when seen in the right quarter OF the
heavens. And this because their existence was
and is cor sequence of the destruction OF old
legitmaces And their vain attempts 10 BE- merged
in tie traditional despotisms only m.Ae the fact
the more noticeable. Napoleon was tne incir
mated idea OF great revolution. HIS throne,
though resting on cruelty and fraud and violence,
was at least built up the ruins of other Thrones
aDd existed by the ext ucton of the pref ldccs aud
TIE prestige to which they owed their origin aui
their strength He WAS tyraBt, but he WAS an
iIcgitimsts one. The theory OF ths right of the
people to choose their rdlers admitted at les,.
in form 1 be old decisions OF Legitimacy were set
stnapsht, ard bis attemptto revive them and invest
himself with them only fastened If II did not cause.
bis ruin. 1t was his attempt u establish a'ort OF
hybrid legitimacy by the Austrian match to which
be- Lim.ef attributed his downf,ll 10 conjunction
h Il IA
better in Itself than any other in Europe, but 1t
ives Gle OF bis OWN making and it for tnis that
they hated hun 50.
TIE Box spsrtes are the creatures and the hsr-
bingers Of revolution, They sprung out OF the
CT spgsd ideas sud feelings Of men, and they will
disappear before the same poSer that created
them A Bouspnte can 20 more stay the tide OF
char ging opinion than CanUte could the wa7es Of
the .ea England fought against Napoleon for
tH vent, years, and at last Gagged him far in the re-
cesses Of the Atlantic Ocean. The whole world
seemed To be tesped the breast Of tue PROSTATE
Titan. Ard yet the world qu,ked over hun with
fear. When be died, the world ore,thed freer in
its reiei. After few years, England Tellnquishes
her Told On his dead body, aud Prince of the
House Of Orleans conveys il - the banks of the
Seine DO loved so we'll A little later, and tbe
magic Of bis name raises his putAtve nephew ~
miehtier throne than his own And Ens laod, which
had never before recognized the existence Of th.t
throne sslutes the nephew o." Boraparte' a.
Napoleon III, thus recognizing bis imperial title,
aid that Of bis seq, the King of Rome. And, more
lhan this she binds the Garter ABOUT his knee, as
th.ts ba ia him nf h., Ian nm AZ
family of kings, from even the sntecbamber Of
which she had excluded the founder of the dynasty.
These are signs significant signs. They teach
the way in which revolutions come about When
So many ideas, prrjudices, opinions-some Of them
organized into Notwithstanding 10 be as fixed
spd immutabe as the laws Of Nature, are thus un-
dermned aud washed away BY tho lapse of the
stream Of Time, We may surely hope th.t other
changes rs great and more b,nefcent may 20. be-
wrought BY the same silent but irresistible force.
Time is not merely tins Ayenger but the Rectiher
of the past The kingdom OF this world, like the
Kingdom Of Heaven, is within US, and exists a. the
projection of IDEAS aud opinions When these
change the Others change with them. II forty ,ears
have sufhced To bring about the changes which haze
perpl-Iec the European monarchs With 50 many
fears, may We not have faith that less years than
these may work yet greater 10 the destiuies of
that continent aud this Ii is OF no Importance
where the dust Of tyr,nt moldefs, but may
learn how strong is the current Of opinion, aud
how entirely i. change It's course, from tue fact
that his dust has returned after such wsnderings
to demshd resting. plscs. And all the more if tho
restored Bourbon, the Desired Louis, have indeed