M. Raoul Duva], who, it is rumoured, is likely to
supersede M. Rouher in the lead of the Bonapartist party in France, made a flaming speech last Monday to a large private meeting at Evreux, in which he violently attacked the Orleans Princes for imposing a Republican Constitution on the electors of France "in virtue of a mandate which gave them a pretext but two years ago to work with ardour, as you know, for the restora- tion of the Bourbons." Ile quoted against the Due de Broglie the words he had used during the struggle for a monarchy, that "the ill caused by a revolutionary riginze was never stopped by the proclamation of any Republican Constitution," and altogether made a speech very damaging to the Orleanists, and supposed to be useful for the Imperialists, but the moral of which was, in our estimation, thoroughly Republican. What he desired for France was "a Government strong enough to be able to welcome all Frenchmen, and sure enough with regard to France to be able to keep down all ill-will and tame all resistance." Few Governments of any kind in France could be.strong enough to "welcome" their political foes ; but certainly M. Gambetta as Minister would have much less to fear from the influence of M. Raoul Duval, than M. Raoul Duval as Minister would have to fear from the influence of M. Gambetta.
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