THE history of Europe records but few events so universally and so intimately involving the policy and interests of her component states, as the escape of Napoleon Buonaparte from the island of Elba, on the 26th of February, 1815-his landing in France, and his again ascending, unopposed, that throne, from which Louis XVIII, had fled with precipitation, upon learning the triumphal approach towards the capital, of his successful and formidable rival.