The various sections of Bonapartists are almost at each other's
throats. The Petit Owporal is fiercely anti-Jeromist ; the Ordre (M. Rouher's organ) supports Prince Jerome ; and the Pays (M. Paul de Cassagnac's paper) denounces " the Mamelukes " of Prince Jerome, and has taken legal measures to compel the Ordre to insert M. Paul de Cassagnac's reply to the letter of M. Prax-Paris, which the Ordro had in- serted. Prince Jerome, meantime, has no chance of re- uniting this broken party, except by surrendering with- out terms to the Clericals,--a policy for which he is pro- bably both too self-opinionated and too proud. Thus the Republic has lost, for the time at least, its most dangerous enemy. Yet we are not sure that the loss of a dangerous enemy is always pure gain. The check exercised by a dangerous enemy is sometimes exactly the opposite of what that enemy would desire—namely, a guarantee of prudence, and a tonic to dignity and courage.
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