Prince Napoleon —he is not Prince Imperial, even by courtesy,
as he rejects the title, which would involve his assuming that of Emperor in a few days—comes of age on the 16th. March. A statement has been published which, whether emanating from M. Rouher or himself, is probably official, that he deprecates any demonstration on that day ; that he will not, like his father, drag the" boulet " of a 2nd December about with him ; that he consequently repudiates the idea of a coup d'etat, and that he awaits the call of France to rescue her from anarchy. Meanwhile, he will continue the studies which are to make him competent for a throne. That is a decidedly clever state- ment for Englishmen, whoever made it up, but the point is whether the same language is held either among the French
country, and of equal antiquity which has done next to nothing for I peasantry or the French Army. The present Ministry in France its rise. It is now at the top, and ought to begin to descend, till are helping him all they can, by stopping the circulation of his photographs, and of cards stamped with bees and violets. They have not yet prohibited bees from flying or violets from growing,. but that is only because the details of those measures are difficult to arrange. In principle M. de Broglie would be delighted to, accept them.
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