M. l'hiers must surely have caught moral qualities from Louis
Philippe. On Thursday week last he made a speech upon Italy fall of the cynical selfishness which overthrew the House of Orleans. He denounced Italian unity and supported the temporal power. An united Italy he believed was dangerous to France, the policy -of preventing political neighbours from becoming great being "not an old policy, but an eternal one." He doubted whether unity was good even for the Peninsula itself, which thence obtained the con- scription and the national debt. As to the Papacy, to remove it from Rome was to consinence the re'gime of national churches which was fatal to liberty, or of free churches which would compel the police every Sunday to take notes of the cure's sermon M. Tillers should accept office under the Emperor. He has just the worship of force, the contempt for freedom, the dislike of possible rivals which make up the character of a stout Bonapartist. We fear, however, that on the matter of unity he spoke the feeling of many Frenchmen.
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