The French Legitimists have been called to account in the
Chamber of Deputies, and M. BERRTER has spoken; but he made out a poor vindication. His party, he says, have a right to their opinion ; they have a right to testify respect for the representative of their regrets and their principles; but he denies that they treated the Duke of BORDEAUX as a sovereign prince. M. GUIZOT an- swers, significantly, that the designs of the Legitimists are known, and that it was necessary to stamp them at once with reprobation; Which has been done by the censure of the Chamber. It might have been expected that the ostentatious pilgrimage to Belgrave Square would be followed up by something more to say for " Henry of France," something a little more alarming and imposing, than the poor quibbling apologetics of M. BERRYER. Feebleness is still the characteristic of the party. One of those anomalous displays of deference for popular opinion coupled with armed repression of popular opinion occurred on Saturday, at the inauguration of Moiafats's statue. There must be something like a fête; the authorities must perform a part in the dramatic scene, and so the Prefect of Paris attends with an oration : but a schoolboy emeute is feared, and the monument is invested with troops as if the city were besieged or revolted. The Prefect made his harangue to the soldiers within his hearing ; and the majesty of the people was represented by a procession of citizens bearing " immortelles," that could not make way to the statue. They manage these things very oddly in France. Finances they manage better just at present ; for, without the special aid of an income-tax, their Chancellor of the Exchequer has achieved a surplus. This is the fruit of peace, as the alarming de- ficiency was the fruit of the war-cry and the Tutsas-PALmErtsToN "armed peace." The lesson will be useful to France, and to Eu- rope; for it not only teaches that military people bow expensive a toy is war, but it teaches the nations that each people profits by that quiet good-will which benefits all and affords scope for the pro- gress of mankind.
