The French correspondent of the nines states that a book
has just been published in France by the Abbe Raboisson in which he proves, from the Book of Daniel, that the Comte de Chambord, foe of the Beast with ten heads, i.e., the German Empire, must. come to the Throne before October 21st, 1874. The proof would be as perfect as any of Dr. Cumming's demonstrations of prophecy, but for an unlucky error of the author, who has translated " a time, times, and a half time," as "a time, two times, and a half time," a statement not existing in the book he relies on. It is said these prophecies have a great effect in France, but it is improbable it should be greater than the effect the legend of Barbarossa had in Germany during the war. Can anybody tell us if there is any political prophecy in England believed by the common people? We never heard of one, and Fleming's book is unknown to the masses, and Dr. Cumming alters his stories too quickly, and is too modern altogether, to have any effect upon the popular mind, which seems to stand alone among nations in its inaptitude to receive and retain that particular form of rubbish.
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