M. niers has been provoked into a blunder which his
enemies are diligently exaggerating. Prince Napoleon has repeatedly passed through France, and on Friday week was residing with M. Maurice Richard, accompanied by the Princess Clotilde, when an order was received directing him to quit France. He protested, and demanded that force should be employed, which was of course done in the conventional way, gendarmes tapping him on the shoulder, and he went away to Geneva. The arrest was of course a mistake, as Republicans, of all men, should feel "the strength that lies in silent scorn;" but it scarcely lies in the mouth of a Napoleon to object to expulsion from France. The First Napo- leon would have shot the Prince, as he shot the Due d'Enghien, and the Third would have sent him to Cayenne, as he sent 13,000 persons guilty only of hostility to the regime. There is as yet no
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