The Comte de Chambord appears to have finally renounced the
throne of France. In answer to M. Lucien Brun, an old Legitimist, the Comte de Chambord replied that he "was not a candidate for Royalty, but a principle of Government." If France desires a Monarchy, he is willing to be Monarch ; but Ile will not legalise revolutionary currents, or alter "principles which I know to be unpopular, but which form my strength, my raison d'être." He cannot league himself with the cause of error. All that means that he will only reign as unconditioned Sovereign, and will use his power first of all. to restore the Pope, two conditions to which France will not submit. It was his knowledge of this dead-lock, we conceive, that induced the Duke de Broglie in the Permanent Committee to declare his Government conservative of institutions —the institutions of France being the Republic, universal suffrage, and justice in the Courts—and to praise so highly the conduct and character of Marshal MacMalion, who plods on his way calmly, merely observing, as it were en passant, that he will not serve even France under the 'White Flag.
