Fortunately, however; an expression was discovered, on the day of the inaugural ceremony, in which the sentiments of all might coincide. It was "not a Consul, or a General, or a Prince, or an Emperor, or a President, who was before them, but a Bonaparte alone. " Vive Napo leon" was the universal cry, and it is the re storation of an Imperial family which we pre sume we are now to hail. Those who recognise the theory of a cycli cal course of events will have been edified with the illustrations of the doctrine which the last week has contributed. A twelve month ago the true Imperialists formed a party among the French people but one step advanced, in numbers or insignificance, above the true Republicans. The Republicans had their day first — the Imperialists have it now. ' It argues but little to scrutinise the composi tion of that enormous majority by which a Napoleon has been again placed at the head of the French people. It may be the result, as M. Odillon Barrot alleges, of a "fusion of " ptt ties in one common sentiment," or it may indicate a less permanent or satisfactory com promise. There it is, however — an accom plished fact. The French nation has decla red its opinion under circumstances more fa ~ vorable to a deliberate expression of sentiment than have often fallen to the lot of any coun try. The result is significant in more points •of view than one. That section of the popu lation which -proclaimed itself emphatically '" the people," which arrogated to itself the j ' ibsohrte sovereignty of France, which mena-j' ced with proscription and plunder,

The Pope and his Cardinals are dispersed in flight. As the veteran Lambruschini es caped in the uniform of a dragoon, Pius eva ded in the less appropriate guise of a servant to the Bavarian Ambassador, and crossing the frontier, threw himself on the hospitality of Naples. His ulterior proceedings are not yet known. Pius appears to have withdrawn from no motives of pusillanimity — not a trait of his race — but because his presence might have implied a sanction to proceedings which he did not like and could not prevent, and might have occasioned further contest and bloodshed. 