It was to be expected that no pains would be
spared to render a pageant upon which so much depended as that of Louis Napoleon's entry into Paris at least equal to any that preceded it ; and ac- cordingly it was a military show as magnificent as the abundant
genius and resources of France could make it. The display of•military uniforms was go one; the incidents of bouqueVpresent- ing were well distributed; although the public was hedged out with soldiery, the Emperor-designate showed a fearless readiness to admit strangers to approach ; he rode a - diffictilt horse with his usual mastery; and the whole went off 'Well. It is true, that the public did not attend in very dense masses—even strangers found no difficulty in traversing the most crowded streets ; true, that while the windows smiled, the people seemed to acquiesce in cold silence—giving• neither body nor soul to the demonstration ; true, that the enthusiasm was all a trained 'enthusiasm;' true, that the illuminations were poor, and that the official illumination made the mistake of - extending to the cenotaph commemorating the fall of Louis the Sixteenth and Marie Antoinette. But there are drawbacks to every event on a very great Seale. The chorus of girls stationed at one of the_churehes might shout " Vive l'Em- pereur " in- their pretty trebles with a too conscientious perti- nacity for their pay ; but none contravened the cry.. The people may not wish to have him, but the people do not reject the offer will& he makes of himself. If he is "Louis le Desire" only "par soi-meme," the populace does not refuse to grant his desire. He has got his pretext for " the Empire," from capital as well as province; he has tried the experiment in person, and has found it safe to brave Paris; and the sequel is in his own hands. His very enemies leave him opportunities for success, as he has been left to make-good the pledge of Lamoriciere in the name of Louis Philippe, by releasing Abd-el-Xader. He has found his will more potent than aught else ; and on the 16th October 1852 Paris was more tho- roughly vanquished than in Juile 1848 or on the 2d December 1851.
One word to the English in France. The glittering pageants of the Decennial Presidency have drawn over even greater numbers than those habitually, haunting "the capital of civilization," and the more gorgeous splendours of the Empire will probably draw greater crowds of "distinguished" spectators from our own isle. Loilis Napoleon's career has been a succession of surprises, with this premonitory key to them—that he professedly imitates his uncle, step bv step, only adapting the copy to the altered cir- cumstances of the day. Verdun would not hold all the English now in France.
