The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-02-29

bord Out West.
The Count de Chambord having, with his
fossil sympathizers, set the good old Belgian
city of Antwerp all agog for few days, has,
at last accounts, betaken himself to little
Dutch town within ten miles of Rotterdam.
What he can expect to find in this vicinity it is
difficult to prognosticate except he Is in search
of the great mechanical genius who constructed
the famous ''cork leg" for that ''rch est
merchant in Rotterdam" Fitted with pair
of these startling compounds Of ''clockwork
and steam" he could keep up his reputation as
"sorehead" deputation-receiver all round the
French frontier and perhaps beat Andy john
sons famous railroad feat of swinging ''round
the circle"
The late gathering at Antwerp, exhibiting
his miserable policy, which has dared only to
lift the heads of its opponents on foreign soil,
seems for the moment enhanced, in view of
future events by letter which the Pope is
reported to have written to the French bishops,
urging them to support this fat old son of
St. Louis for the kngship of France. Thus it
will be seen how intimate the connection be-
tween this Divine right humbug, blinking its
eyes like an owl In the nineteenth century
sunshine, and the older power that by virtue
of its link with heaven would chain the peo-
pie to their neutrality-suspicious." kings The
issues in France are becoming narrowed day
by day, until, before long, the republic will be
brought to still another death grapple with its
foes It has been said with some truth that
the French clergy are to blame for French inf
deity. In the days of the empire they served
| Napoleon in every way he pleased. Under
the foolish Citizen King they were the most
devoted of the Orleanists, and back
through the kings Of the Restoration
they were Bourbon to the backbone,
but always the foes of the republic.
1t is true that they never lost their love for
the monarchy. 1t is the form of government
| in which clerical intrigue can show to the
best Neutrality-suspicious. clerical ambition can
achieve most. The grand historic figure of
| Richeleu and even the lesser brillance Of
Mazarin haunt them in their dreams when the
guillotine of the revolution is not before them.
And so, with Napoleonism in the army, with
| Orleanism and Bourbonism among the shreds
| and remnants of the old noblesse and their
clerical friends who lead the ignorant peas
antry, with red-hot Communism under the
surface In the large cities, the moderate re-
public of Theirs has fourfold foes to battle.
| This very multiplication of it's enemies gives
it, however, its greatest present strength, and
if it but nerves itself to stand erect yet little
while the annealing hand of Time may teach
the people they can rule Themselves without
phantoms at their head, whether imperial,
monarchical or socialistic.
But we cannot forbear returning to the
comic fossils at Antwerp, with their empty
titles and 'sorehead" wrongs. Here were
Henry v. and his motley crew, whose trepida-
ton only forsakes them when they shake
French dust from their feet. They have been
Letting dare not wait upon would,
Like the poor cat i the adage.
And yet there were million, more or
less, of them at Antwerp, so the cable
| said, and the citizens were taking cudgels
to whip them, as if they were 30 many
beggars at their gates and not the hedged-in
disciples of Divine right. 1t would seem
as though they had been but the ghosts of
Louis, come back with their tattered uniforms
| to make up for the shameful want of enthusi-
asm among the French people of to-day about
| this latest edition of the Bourbon. ''The
| trouble is" said M. Villemessant, of the
Figaro, addressing this lifelong ''sorehead" in
oh oo1o
acquainted with you. Even have come
for some oil; my lamp of loyalty
being growing DIM" He got the "oil, but
| he has not been 80 successful in dispensing it,
although not for want Of effort on his part.
There was truth indeed in Villemessant; the
people had forgotten the fossil which for a
quarter of century lay buried at Frohsdorf
until the same earthquake which upset the
empire unearthed the dry bones and sent
them rafting round Europe. Henry was born
in 1920, few months before his fathers
assassination. When the Bourbon Charles x.
was overturned in the GLORIOUS days" of
July, 1880, he abdicated in favor of Henry,
but Talleyrand preferred Louis Philippe to the
boy, and induced the French people to think
80 too. Thenceforward Henry was ''sore-
head" king. He commenced this business Of
receiving ''sorehead" Populations as early as
1888 at Rome, and five years after we find
him still at the business in London, with all
the farcical pomp with which the exiled Stuarts
held mock court in France. He then retired to
Italy and married into the Modena family, to
which, apparently, he brought no luck, for II
was destined to become q ''sorehead" too.
Then he went to Frohsdorf and buried himself
until resurrected as aforesaid, still keeping a
standing bid for the French throne over his
living tomb. Last November saw him still re.
ceiving the "soreheads" at Lucerne, to whom
he was liberal in the supply Of "oil." 1t will