NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE Tirard Government, with considerable adroitness, has cancelled the decree banishing the Duc d'Aumale, and the Duke, who, with all his experience of exile, likes France best, has returned to his palace at Chantilly. The idea of the Government is that, being opposed to Bouliangism, he will sever the Royalists from that party, and being a popular General, he will conciliate the reactionary section of the Army, especially the cavalry, which is full of Legitimists. The speculation is subtle, but perhaps erroneous. The Royalists look to their King, not to the Duc d'Aumale, who is sixty- seven, has no son, and cannot, therefore, even pose as head of an alternative Bourbon branch. The bourgeoisie, again, are annoyed by the Duke's return, because of his social pretensions ; while the Extremists are wild with irritation, de- clare that the Opportunists are "conspiring with Royalism," and demand, "in the name of logic," that all persons trans- ported on political charges shall be allowed to re-enter France. .General Boulanger himself says nothing; but as he already stands pledged to abolish all laws of proscription, the decree can hardly give him much annoyance.
