The Temps is mortified that France should be unrepresented in
the family war now waging, according to the customs of the country on the death of its Sovereign, in Persia, at the same time that England, yet more remote from the scene of action, thinks it right to interfere. The Temps appears to forget the geography of Asia, the country called India, and the empire exercised there by Great Britain over a hundred millions of inhabitants.
The Quotidiennc is pleased with being able to inform its readers, that at a recent representation of a new piece, the house unanimously ap- plauded the following sentence: "Notre idole c'est un lingot d'or, et un usurier Juif est noire Empereur." The Princess AMILIE, it adds, was present. The poor girl is doubtless innocent, as can well be, of papa's pens& immutable. There are other princesses whose names begin with A; for France also rejoices in an ADELAIDE, whose nerves are tougher, and for whom the pit, or parterre, should reserve the benefit of its instructive interludes. There is a better mode, however, of conveying admonition, audit was practised by the Parisians in the case of CHARLES the Tenth, on his triumphal procession to Notre Dame after the taking of Algiers, when he might have reflected, if the " Deity had not bereaved him of understanding," that "le silence des people c'est la leson des rois."
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