M. Jules Ferry has made a speech at Epinal, in
which lie has suggested an election cry that would have delighted Mr. Taper and Mr. Tadpole, had those gentlemen been French election- eerere ;—it is, " Ni rgvision, la division !"—" Neither revision of the Constitution, nor division of the party." That is all very well, but, coming from M. Jules Ferry, it is a little feeble. Those who cry for revision of the Constitution, at least up to the point of asking for Scrutin de Liste, do so in great measure because they desire to attenuate the stubborn resistance offered to such violent and•foolieh measures as M. Jules Ferry's own law of religious persecution. It is not for the man who has himself caused so much "division of the party" to cry out against a revision of the Constitution which would do something, it is supposed, to crush the .Moderates. Having carried out the ex- tremist policy on religious questions, M. Ferry now desires to pose as a sober moderate, who throws his weight into the scale against the active party. M. Jules Ferry will hardly make a brilliant success, in this attempt to reap the credit both of ostentatious persecution and of ostentatious moderation.
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