September 29th is the feast of St. Michael, and the
grand Legitimist day in France. The party accordingly held ban- quets in fourteen places in Paris, and a grand celebration at the Chttteau de Chambord, at which M. do Baragnon was. the chief speaker. His main idea was that Henri Cinq would reconcile authority and liberty, and prohibit " outrages " upon the faith of Catholics. No member of the. Orleans family was present at any of the banquets, and no considerable Bonapartist gave in his adhesion, as was rather expected, the Clericals leaving no hope in Prince Jerome Napo- leon. The Republican Government, with almost inexplicable good-sense, abstained from interfering with the banquets, and will not prosecute the speakers, though Henri Cinq was openly toasted as " King." Consequently the banquets were of uo importance, and the toasts merely toasts, indicating iu those who drank them certain historical and antiquarian
penchants of a very respectable and entirely private character. When the Republic can tolerate in this way also a Bonapartist breakfast, a Communist fraternal supper, and a Clerical garden.. party, the Republic may be considered well assured. That time has not arrived yet, but there are signs that the skins of Republican Ministers are acquiring a healthy leatheriness.
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