14th July.
Asain to-day Frenchmen meet to commemorate the wild justice of the mob that in 1789 ivangarated the reign of liberty on the Continent of Europe by tearing down the great prison that had for centuries been the outward and visible sign of the power of tyranny and oppression. There is much to be condemned in the way in which autocracy received its death-blow in France bat violent diseases can only be combated by violent remedies, and we forgive the means in the excellence of the end, It wagon the ruins of the Bastille that the seed was sown which has blossomed into the present Republic, and in that light the Republic has done well to keep holiday year after year on the 14th of July. Ihe festivities of to-dey in Shanghai are being repeated all over (he world: wherever Frenchmen are, though in their inmost hearts come might prefer a King or an Emperor, I are keeping fete to-day, and drink~ ug the health of the Republic, that has given France internal peace for nearly sixteen years, It is true that Europe does not tremble at M. Giévy's frown, as it once did at a word from the third Napoleon; bat chat is no real loss to France, In art and culture she is again firet among the nations of the earth, and in science among the first, Nor can any surpass her in humanity; it is to a Frenchmen, MIN, Pasteur, that we owe a discovery, won wot by accident but by long and patient investigation, which promises to annihilate one of the most drouded of diseases.
The Fete of the Republic was marked last year by the happy cessation of the war with China, The great interview between Prince Ch'an and the French Adairal at Chefoo the other day, the reviews of Chinese troops by French officers ut tientsin, and the cordiality with which the French representatives have everywhere been received by the high officials of the Empire, prove that the re-establishment of friendly relations is not merely nominal, The war may now be considered to have passed into history, and the wollknown administrative powers for which the French are famous are producing the happiest results in their new Indo-Chinese colony. Que little war, that with Madagascar, was still going on Ulus time lust year, and that also is lmppily at an end; and to-day the Republic is Pence ovorymbere, There are many who think recent expulsion from France of the Comte de Paris, as a pretender to the throne, to be a blot on the Republic's shield to-day. For years he has lived unharmed in France, never by word or deed doing anything to burt the Republic, a quiet man of groat wealth and literary tristes, not at all the stuff out of which adven.
(urare are made: an eminently respect able, but in tio house a great man, His jue now is that he has been marry~ ing hia daughters to heir-npparevt, and thus strengthening the relations of his house with the thrones of Europe, and that his last reception in Paris was attended with almost royal aplendour. If he had continued to have only the support of the traditional Orleanists, he would probably be still living quietly in Franco; it la the accession to the rauks of his followers of the majority of the Bonapartists under the fiery Paul de Cassaguac, that has forced the apprehensions of the government into action, The Bonapartists have no candidate for the throne ready them= selves: they hope Lbat if (hey can get the Comte de Paris to work for the over~ throw of the Republic, they may by and by throw him over in turn and put Prince Victor Napoleon on the imperial throne, We may trace the influence of Bonapartist ideas in the manifesto issued by the Comte de Paris after his expulsion; and it la fair to coucladg
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