It would seem that the Archbishop of Aix certainly did
not attack the French Government from the pulpit of Château Renard, either by calling them swine who had overeaten them- selves and were about to die of the gorging, or in any other terms. Several laymen have signed a declaration that he only occupied the pulpit for half an hour, never alluded to the Government, and preached very calmly. The Archbishop has, however, in his replies to the official notifications of the Govern- ment fired off a few rather angry shots. Thus, he has likened M. Jules Ferry, the author of the new Education Bill, to Julian the Apostate, and the Government generally, for not having in- formed him of the sentence against him till considerably after the rest of the world knew of it by placard, to a Government of Chinese or Japanese mandarins, the only other sort of Govern- ment, to his mind, that would have been guilty of such in- difference to equity. Clearly Monseigneur Foreade is quite capable of having likened the Government, in one of these privileged controversial epistles, to the herd of swine into which the legion of exorcised devils passed, though we may hope that he would not have done so from the pulpit, for fear of the inflaming effect of religious appeals. On the other hand, the Pope's Ablegate in introducing the new French Cardinals to M. Gr4vy, had the saroir-fafre to compliment the Republic on the character of its first officer.
