Untitled

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXIX, Issue 17, 21 January 1895, Page 2

Thk young Duke of Orleans thinks that, ho has got an opportunity, and lie has taken up his residence at l)over in order to be in readiness to cross the Strails in case lie should bo wanted to (ill the throne of liis ancestors. It is not very long since he became head of the late ityyal House of France on the death of his father, so perhaps he may be considered fortunate in having some political excitement early in life. It is very unlikely, however, that he will gain anything beyond temporary excitement, franco is not as England was when Charles the Second was re-called, and there appears to bo little inclination to invite an almost unknown Pretender to become Kins;, or indeed to accept a monarchy of any sort. France lias become so accustomed to revolutions that ordinary political dissensions, which in England would be settled by the substitution in office of one wellknown set of politicians by another, s'ive rise to the fiercest animosities and to fears that the whole fabric of the State will be turned upside down, M. Tbiers declared himself in favour of tho Hepublio, because it divided Frenchmen loss than any other form of Government. This may be true, but it must be confessed Irom the experience of nearly twenty-five years that it divides them a good deal. Notwithstanding this there is every probability that France will stick to a Uepublio of some sort, Little is known out of his own country of the new President, M. Faure, but the same has been true ot some of the most successful Presidents of tho United States. So far us his chances of gaining a throne are concerned, there can be little dou t that the Duko of Orleans might just as well hav.o stayed at Stowe, or in London, or wherever he generally lives. However, tho journey to Dover byfrailway is not troublesome, and the hotels there are very good. Fortunately he is not, like a good many other exiled princes, unable to pay even his hotel bills