authority over public opinion-the demagogues are not quite satisfied with their prospects, and begin to suspect that fraud and frenzy will be found, in the long run, no match for common honesty and common sense. France, so long our salutary lesson, and so lately our delusive guide, is resuming her monitory aspect; and the despotic revolution of June, 1832, has already weakened the dangerous precedent of the democratic revolution of July, 1830. The sceptre of the citizen king is become the sword of an autocrat. By employing more than ten times the force which defended the legitimate throne, and by a slaughter twice greater than that of the Three Great Days, Louis Philippe still painfully and perilously balances himself on the tight rope, from which Charles X., with less nerve and more humanity, was willing to fall. The license of the press, which the legitimate monarch endeavoured to restrain by ordonnances, the republican king has silenced by cannon and scaffolds. Paris-the glorious example of revolutionary moderation and good order-is in a state of siege: the prisons are fuller from one day of liberty, than they had been for fifteen years of what was called oppression and the tribunals-the legal guardians of persons and property vanished, at the word of command from Marshal Soult, before the liberal and constitutional authority of courts martial!* The example of July had but too much effect upon us-let us hope that the lesson of June may not be thrown away. Desperate as our condition may seem, there are these and many other consolatory considerations; and it is the duty of every honest man-of all who have hearts to feel, heads to understand, and hands to execute the duties of brave and highminded Britons-to do all that may belong to each man in his individual station to endeavour to arrest the progress of the enemy, and by courage and, if necessary, self-devotion, to retrieve the day, or at least to secure such a position as may enable them to resume the contest with better hope to-morrow. The Romans after a great calamity did not waste their energies in complaints nor bury them in gloomy torpor; and they surrounded with public honours the man who, whatever were his errors, had the redeeming quality of not despairing, even in the last emergency, of the fortunes of his country. That heroic spirit saved the state in many emergencies, which a faint-hearted people would have considered as desperate. Rome recovered herself after We learn, as this sheet is passing through the press, that the Tribunals have obtained an advantage over Marshal Soult, and that his paper siege (imitated from Buonaparte's paper blockades) is raised: but this does not alter our view; it is but a complication of the difficulties of the Citizen King, and the prelude to a fresh struggle. Italy had been overrun by Hannibal-after the Gothic invaders had profaned the curule chairs of her Senate and burned the Capitol-after plebeian seditions and even a servile war had devastated the very heart of the empire and extinguished all but the undying courage of patriot hope. Our posterity will honour those brave and illustrious men who have hitherto so nobly fought an unequal battle; but it will still more, and more deservedly, honour the bolder and still more illustrious men, who, after our Constitution has passed through the Caudine forks of the Reform Bill, shall be still found not to have despaired of the salvation of England. Let us recollect, as an incentive to hope, though it has been disregarded as a lesson of prudence, that we have once before had a revolution-a reformed parliament a suppression of close boroughs-a subjugation of the House of Lords-and a substitution of cheap republican forms for the costly trappings of the monarchy. We have had all that; and we shall have it again; and again, we trust, with the same result. Those theories of government, which captivate and delude for the moment, cannot stand the test of time. They neither possess the reverence which an tiquity gives, nor gratify the hope which their novelty inspired: all parties the adherents of the old system and the aspirants of the new-are equally dissatisfied : turbulence, tumults, anarchies ensue: and all mankind, even those who were foremost in the first commotions, are, by and bye, glad to revert, for the security of persons and stability of property, to the sober experience of better days. The Regicide Reform of 1649 ended in a royal triumph, and Charles II. rode, crowned with the garlands of popular joy, over the very spot on which had stood, ten years before, his father's scaffold. As certainly, shall we, or our children, see the Revolution of 1832, with all its consequences, however fatal or extensive they may be, terminate its execrated career in another more joyful and triumphant Restoration. Let us watch then with courageous hope and pious confidence for that day; and let us husband our strength and nourish our spirit, to enable us to take advantage of such means as Heaven may employ to bring about, in due season, that happy consummation! VOL. XLVII. NO. XCIV. 2 R INDEX. INDEX TO THE FORTY-SEVENTH VOLUME OF THE QUARTERLY REVIEW. ESOP, first specimen of the composition Alford, John, the Trowbridge poet-laureate, America, birds of, from drawings made in Americans, Domestic Manners of, by Mrs. at a rica, 63—and of education, 65-system Audubon, John James, his 'Birds of America,' engraved from drawings made Bacon, Lord, quoted 23, 29. Bank of England, historical sketch of, with Barnfield, James, his encomiastic verses Bentham, Jeremy, his address to his fellow- Birds of America, engraved from drawings James Audubon, 332. Britton, the musical small-coal man, 102. can Ornithology, or the Natural History Cato the Censor, his prescription for a 'Cavendish, or the Patrician at Sea,' an 134. Charles the First, Commentaries on the Chaucer, his description of a fox-hunt, - Corn Law Rhymes,' characterized, 92. Cranmer, Archbishop, his life by the Rev. Crocker, Charles, the Chichester shoe- Currency, state of the, its influence on the present discontents, 407. Currency, Letter to Lord Althorp, on the Death-punishment, Jeremy Bentham to D'Halloy, M. Omalius, his geological spe- Diderot, Memoirés, Correspondence, et D'Israeli, I., his Commentaries on the Life Distress, present, statement of the causes Eliot, Hampden, and Pym, or a Reply of England, prospects of, 559 English Fox-hunting, 216-see Melton English populace, disgraceful characteris Euhemerus, his theogony described, 22. Fauna Boreali-Americana, or the Zoology Flaxman, Mr., his Shield of Achilles, 32. Fox Hunting, 216. See Melton Mow. 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