It is obvious that the French Government rather rely on
their bad education law for bringing them a certain amount of demo-
cratic popularity during the recess, and probably it may succeed in doing so. At least, they take every opportunity to emphasise their position on this point. At one of the latest meetings of the Senate before the recess, the meeting of yesterday week, M. Chesnelong having denounced a Bill on Departmental Training Colleges for Schoolmistresses, as tending to supersede nun- -teachers in eleinentary schools, M. Jules Ferry very naturally asserted that there was no more reason why there should not be training colleges for schoolmistresses, than for schoolmasters; and turning suddenly to the Right, said,—" You conceal dark designs." Of course the Right, instead of laughing at him, at once flamed up into wrath, and most of them withdrew, when M. Jules Ferry explained that all he meantt was to resent the imputation of "dark designs "—designs to create godless train- ing colleges and schools—to himself. If so, why did he impute that to others which he resented their imputing to him P
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