NEWS OF THE WEEK.
TEIE curse is on the Bourbons still. The Comte de Chambord, after accepting the fusion with the Orleanists, thought fit, of his own mere motion, and in defiance of advisors like the Bishop of Orleans, to issue a proclamation to all Frenchmen, in which he announced that he was once more among them, that he was going away again directly, that the " monarchical right is the patrimony of the nation," and that if France called to him he would come to her " tout ender, with my devotion, my principles, and my flag." About this flag he would not give way, for to sacrifice it would be to sacrifice his honour. He wants to establish neither privileges, nor intolerance, nor feudal rights; but he would not suffer the flag of Joan of Arc, of Francis I., and of Henry IV. to be torn from - his hands. It was by that flag that his ancestors had conquered Alsace and Lorraine, and " it is that flag which will conquer the new barbarism with which the world is threatened." He received it as a sacred deposit from Charles X. ; " it had waved over his cradle, and it should overshadow his grave." All that can be said about all that is, that the Comte de Chambord is a most honourable and obstinate—Bourbon.
