He saved us from the Commune, he bought the invader off ; he may yet be required to save us from a terrible civil war, and to finally establish the Republic on a firm basis, after his opponents have illustrated their impotence to Teseat a monarch. The outbreak of political pilgrimages, the endemic of little bigotries, cause the judicious to grieve, because such will have their certain reaction ; these spasms do not advance serious religion, one inch, V^twjU be -remembered hereafter when

taxes will pinch and clerical estimates have to be voted. The Church could do much for France, and win powerful re spect, were it to eschew parties ; allied to such it must share their vicissitudes. A country journal has been served with fifteen notices for actions at law ; it gave the names of pilgrims to shrines, and worse, has the impudence to profess libe ral politics. Of course, the matter cannot be brought under that law which prohi bits journals from touching on the inci dents of private life. To go a-pilgriming in an isolated manner is one thing, but' to march in procession to spots more or less sanctified, with red crosses, and Henri V. banners, chanting canticles, &c, along the highway, is another view of private life. Be the intents of the complainants wicked or charitable, they clearly indicate a very strange phase of events now passing in France, and in presence of which cool heads counsel indifference and an expect ant attitude. The Comte de Chambord is now the companion photograph with j | the Pope's in certain orthodox print shops; in several schools both portraits are given as prizes to the pupils, and medals are being struck with the figure of the Pope on one side, and the bust of Henri V. and guardian angels on the other. The Comte de Chambord may have to wade through slaughter to a throne. Politics, as may be divined, are getting up ' to boiling point, and publicists are tearing each other to pieces ; private life is ransacked to find "raw" materials against an opponent, and duels are be coming so frequent, that a new journal, the Duellist, is announced. 