The unsettled state of French politics has furnished the French
pretenders with a congenial opportunity, and the Duke of Orleans and Prince Napoleon have availed themselves of it in characteristic fashion. Prince Napoleon, who has been interviewed at length by the Figaro in London, expresses him- self with conspicuous moderation. He denies favouring any• party manmavres which would foment existing disorder, of which there was enough already in France, as had been shown by the strikes, riots, and administrative scandals. The party of the plibiseite—his own party—" did not desire merely their own triumph ; they advocated popular sovereignty and a strong national authority by whatever name it might be called?! His own remedy was the policy of the Consulate in the year 8, when Bonaparte suppressed the war of impotent factions, established the administrative institutions under which France Bad lived ever since, and framed the political, judicial, and aoCiarcontides.. "It was now high time to .make an end of
ostracism and hatred in the State. His policy was that of the great founder of his House."
