NEWS OF THE WEEK.
PARIS has been agitated by a bizarre incident. On Monday, Prince Jerome Napoleon, moved, it is believed, by a fear lest the Comte de Chambord should anticipate him, placarded -the city with' a manifesto. In it he announces that "France languislieg," the " Executive Power is impotent," the Chamber "without guidance, and without decision." After the twelve years' experience of a Parliamentary Republic, France is with- out a Government. "The Army, the basis of our greatness, is given over to the arrogance of incompetent men." The Civil Servants are " the slaves of the paltriest election interests." " The finances are squandered." " Religion, attacked by a per- secuting Atheism, is not protected." The " social questions vital for our Democracy are neglected." Foreign policy "is at the service of private speculators in Tunis," and " craven and inept in Egypt." The cause of all this is the Constitution which entrusts France to 800 Deputies and Senators, which has never been voted by the people, and under which the head of the State -is not nominated by a pl6biscite. " Heir of Napoleon I. and of Napoleon III., I am the only living man whose name has mustered 7,000,000 suffrages." They "have tried to stir up my -sons against me ;" but they reject these efforts, and "abdication is desertion." Frenchmen, "remember the words of Napoleon,
All that is done without the people is illegal.' " The manifesto has aroused no enthusiasm anywhere. The Prince is distrusted and despised, and while the Republicans ridicule him, the Bonapartists, who still seat fifty Members in the Chamber, -almost universally follow his son, Victor. M. de Cassagnac oven taunts Prince Jerome with personal cowardice.
