The movements of certain royal and quasi-royal persons have been
the subject of some gossiping controversy. It was said that the Count de Chambord and the Prince de Joinville had met at Vienna, in order to negotiate an alliance between the two French branches of the House of Bourbon : but the report is authorita- tively contradicted, with an air so emp,.....e as to imply that the persons who were tho oobjonc of the report still felt sufficiently before Me public to mind what DI said of them. Again it was said, that M. Thiers has arrived in England to negotiate a mar- riage between the Dutchess of Orleans and President Bonaparte. If there is any truth in these rumours, we must infer that the royal class of Europe is incapable of profiting by epxerience- cannot learn to know its own place ; but is pursuing its old rou- tine of alliances between crowned families without much regard to peoples, instead of busying itself to reestablish a position by understanding the state of affairs, by promoting order, and by serving their nations.
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