Alexandria Gazette

French Dissolving Views,

Louis Napoleon, who in his youth took up arms against the Pope in the cause of Italian Republicanism, is now the strenuous supporter of the Pope against every Italian discontent. Louis Napoleon, who for twenty years or more was an armed conspirator against the public peace of Europe, is now the great conservator of order. Louis Napoleon, who always found shelter in England from the storms of continental adversity, and whose books are full of the praise of England, now persecutes the Count de Montalembert because he expresses a preference for English liberty over French despotism!

This same Count de Montalembert, himself one of the most unrelenting of churchmen and conservatives, has become, through circumstances, the champion of the most liberal and protestant of the European nations. Count de Montalembert, who lent the shield of his name and of his high social position to the dark deeds of the 2d of December, 1851--and it abates our sympathy in his behalf when we learn the fact--is now the victim of the hero of the deeds of December: and the Count de Montalembert is defended by Berryer, once the eloquent advocate of the Bourbons, and more lately the eloquent defender of the rebel of Boulogne; while Dufaure, the counsel of the Count's associate on a charge of abusing the liberty of the Press, was once a Minister of the Emperor, and contrived the law for restraining the liberty of the Press:--N. Y. Even. Post.