It is believed that Prince Jerome Napoleon will be returned
to the French Chamber for Ajaccio, where M. Rouher's election has been invalidated, without opposition. M. Rouher does not intend to resist further, a Bonapartist paper talks of the " growing influence " of Prince Jerome, and some sort of reconciliation appears to have been patched up between him and his cousin.. As we have once or twice pointed out, the Bonapartists cannot, till their Emperor is married and has children, afford to quarrel a outrance with the heir presumptive of their chosen dynasty. A few days' fever mightmake him their Emperor de jure. If the Prince takes his seat he will be rather a formidable personage, as he can make a most striking speech, and has upon one or two subjects, notably clericalism, the ear of the Democratic party. If his moral quali- ties, indeed, were equal to his intellectual, he would be one of the most powerful individualities in France, but he never secures a following.
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