The New York herald., 1871-11-26

strution in Paris-The Powerful Elements
and Causes working for an Imperial
Restoratiou.
We published yesterday a despatch from
Paris to this effect-that on that day, in that
tickle, distressed and revolutionary city,
large number Of sympathizers with the ex-Em-
peror Napoleon made q demonstration in his
honor-that they traversed the streets of the
Faubourg ST. German with shouts Of "Vsce
| Napoleon" and that no attempt was made by
the police to interfere with the demonstration.
Now, this is a very significant affair, for it is
full OF meaning. 1t means that tremendous
reaction has been quietly going on in Paris
and in France since the fall of the terrible
Commune-that the French people, with ''the
sober second thought" are beginning to real
| ize the fact that the respon sibilities for the
crushing disasters of their late war with Ger
many rest as much upon themselves as upon
their exiled Emperor They are beginning
to contrast not only the horrors OF the Com
mune and the dangers of the Jacobins. but
| the perous uncertainties of their present
government pro tem., with the law and order,
the internal peace and security to life, pro-
perty and religion, and the general prosperity
and happiness Of France in all her industrial
| pursuits under the late empire; and hence
| this imperial demonstration and this revived
cry of "Vice Napoleon" in the streets of
Paris.
From state of industrial prosperity and
social happiness, in July. 1870, never before
enjoyed by France, from her central capital
to her remotest mountain villages, she has
passed through an ordeal of invasion and sub
jugaton and of internal discords that have
amazed the civilized world, to a state of pros
tration and exhaustion which comparative
statistics can only dimly express. Disguised
with the opera boute republic of Gambetta,
and stunned with the iendish atrocities of the
Commune, poor France recognizes only tenn
porary resting place in the government Of NJ.
Theirs. 1t is not what France wants. She
knows that it cannot last but as q compro-
mise between radical republicans, conservative
republicans, Bourbons and Bonapartists it
answers her immediate necessities of internal
peace. President Theirs, considering all the
difficulties of his position, has done very well.
But he has evidently been feeling his way as
to the wishes of France in reference to the
| form of the permanen government which is to
succeed him. He has tried his game with his
| favorites, the Bourbons, and he has lost it.
| We hear no more Of the Bourbons or their
intrigues or disagreements among themselves.
The reaction in their favor has died out.
France has been thinking over the matter, and
is not going back to the Bourbons.
We find next that the repressive measures
which the cautious Theirs in the outset
adopted against the Bona partists and the
Bonapartes have been abandoned, and in this |
Napoleonic demonstration in Paris, undis- |
turbed by the police, we have strong circum- !
| stantial evidence Of a new departure. The |
| historical reader will remember that, with the |
| occupation Of Paris by the allies in 1914, and
while they were negotiating the treaty which
reinstated the Bourbons, the Emperor Alex
ander l. of Russia desr ed to know who would
answer for the French Senate; and that
Talleyrand, in answering for it, secured the
treaty whereby Napoleon was shipped off to
Elba, and Louis XVIII. was recalled, and
peace was restored. Perhaps the role of
Talleyrand may be reserved to M. Theirs in
the recall of Napoleon the Third. Why mott
Talleyrand had been devoted servant of the
empire, as Theirs has been Of the kingdom
and the force of circumstances may govern
the one as it governed the other.
The reactionary elements at work in favor
of the Bonapartes, quietly or actively, are
certainly very strong. They embrace, to q
great extent, the veteran generals and soldiers
of the late imperial army, the shopkeepers Of
Paris and all the other cities aud towns of
France, her manufacturers and merchants
and her Catholic peasantry. When the ex-
Emperor speaks Of a olf0iscie-an appeal to
the French people as to the government they
desire-he appeals to his faithful Catholic
French peasantry, and he challenges his ad-
versaries to this trial Of the will of the people,
which represent French Assembly seeks TO
avoid. When body of the soldiers of the
empire wait upon the Empress Eugene at
Chiselhurst on her tSte day it is no doubt to
tell her that they await in patience her return
to France When the unfortunate Holy
Father of Rome appeals to M. Theirs for a
place Of refuge in France he contributes to
strengthen the cause of Napoleon as the
cause of the Church among the faithful
French Catholics. When Pho Mono asks of
the Emperor Of Germany his consent to
Church Council in France it 10 doubtless in
view of some assistance in the work Of the
restoration Of Napoleon. Unquestionsby
with Napoleon back again in Paris the Pope
would be apt to secure better conditions in
his settlement with Italy, in Rome or out of
Rome, than he can otherwise hope for. In
this view the Catholic Church party Of France,