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The French Conseile-G6neraux have verified our expectation as to their

views of the 7th Clause of M. Jules Ferry's Educa- tion Bill. Thirteen of these bodies hove passed resolutions in its favour ; more than twice as many, twenty-seven, have passed resolutions against it ; while one has been equally divided, and six have ignored it. As a considerable majority of these bodies are now strongholds of the Republicans, this means that the moderate Republicans themselves disapprove the Bill for which M. Waddington apologises in so carefully modulated, not to say so dubious a tone.