In Paris, Louis -Napoleon sits at the receipt of theatrical
repre- sentations, which reduce studied adulation to 'a tableau Vivant; and odes are flung at him from the stage, impudently echoing as .eternal truths.his Bordeaux professions : a complicity of niamerie which he receives with 'the characteristically impenetrable silence. He acts, and- others are left to criticize, with no aid from his coun- tenance or tongue.
The eluoidatory comments on his proceedings come at times in the shape of distant events. The suddenly disclosed intrigues in the East throw a light of conjecture on his conduct in liberating Abd-el-Bader. Wronged by France and her former rulers, the Arab Sheik leaves Europe by favour of his new benefactor, to take up hie abode at Broussa, in the very centre of the true Turcoman region. A fanatic to his faith, he was regarded in Mauritanian. Araby with a sort of sacred veneration—a feeling exactly the re- verse of that entertained by sound Mussnlmans towards the Euro- -peardling Abd=n1-Medjid. • From BrOUS88. to Bagdad is but .a.n easy pun:fey—from the abode of the prisoner on parole to the seat of -the -Kalifs of Bagdad. The wronged Algerine may hate" France ; ',but the pronioted adventurer might forgive to the conqueror of Paris the defeat:of Algiers, avenged on the 2d December. And if ",The,Protector of the Holy Places," mediating between. Christen- .dom and Islam, were' to have for his protégé the restored Kalif ;of Bagdad, the..event would not be wilder than the dream of either Napoleon' ncir*thrin the' project of. T the 2d December would have seemed if the silent adventurer had divulged it otherwise than in its adcomplishinent.
