M. Michel Chevalier and other distinguished Imperialists have been delighting
the various provincial councils in France, with the usual panegyrics on the present regime. M. Delangle speaks with manly pathos of the Emperor's pleasure in rewarding the humble farmer for his agricultural virtues, and other orators dwell on other shining quali- ties in their too modest master. But M. Michel Chevalier, with the candour of a tried friend to England, turns to the sterner task of rebuking our great men. His spirit has been oppressed by Lord Palmerston's speech at Dover. His master is unappreciated just where his great qualities ought best to be understood. M. Cheva- lier grieves over the statesmen of so great a nation, and laments that while Englishmen are worthy to fraternize with Frenchmen we should have no rulers worthy to understand the ruler of France. It is sad ;—bitt the Emperor has fortitude, and will be able to endure.
