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The Emperor of the French seems to be just now

in one of his cold fits towards the Liberal movement which has puzzled him so much. He has given out, it seems, that the Chamber of Deputies shall not meet in October •at all,—not till November ; and he has officially confirmed the before only provisional appointment of M. Forcade de la Roquette to the Ministry of the Interior,—an appointment which seems explicitly intended to challenge the wrath of the Liberal party. The Emperor's courage evidently ebbs and flows like a periodic spring, and is just now on the flow. Does he want to make the whole Liberal party into Irreconcile- ables ? We should not be surprised if it be so, but we doubt whether he will have the nerve to defy them when he has effected his purpose.

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