The Comte de Paris has written a letter, in reply
to an address presented to him by Paris workmen who wish to see the Monarchy restored. In his reply, the Comte says that the incapacity of the present rulers of the French nation is obvious, and that France requires " a power sufficiently stable to be prudent, and strong enough to rise above party." That is true ; but it is certainly not true that either Monarchy or Empire has shown either stability or strength of the kind which the Comte de Paris prescribes. He may himself, if he is restored to France, be able to supply it; but if he did, it would not be to " Monarchy " in the abstract, but to the monarch in the concrete, that the credit would be due. And we doubt very much his capacity to supply what France seems hardly to have, at present, even the wisdom to crave for.
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