The _Figaro , has produced, another of its very doubtfully
authentic colloquies, the hero of the occasion being, in this
instance, Prince Jerome Napoleon. Like M. Jules Simon, Prince Napoleon is stated to disapprove- of Article 7 in M. Jules Ferry's Education Bill, and to -be entirely moderate in his ecclesiastical policy, though . he stioks to it, that he is, as he always hos been, anti-Clerical,—that is, for keeping the power of the State over the clergy well in force. The Prince is stated to expect that the moderate Republicans will be so hampered in this policy by the Extremists, that they will dissolve the Cham- bers,- and, that then the country will return an Extremist Parliament,—a Parliament disposed to persecute in the interests of unbelief.' This will disgust France, who will then find.
no resource but in return- to the Empire,—with Prince Jerome Napoleon as her guarantee against a propagandiet, Atheism, An- oddguarantee I But probably too much-confid- ence must not be placed in these inspired conversationa ,of the Figaro. The Gauloie denies even the smallest 'foundation in fact far the-colloquy,
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