As far as we can judge from the various rumours
current in Paris, and the line taken by M. Thiers' own paper, the Bien Public, it is to be feared that M. Thiers is likely to act just as we anticipated, .and lean more on the two Centres than before. The Bien Public gives out that the Assembly has quite enough to do to employ it till next March at least; and the rumour is that the Government and M. Thiers propose not to dissolve till May, 1874.—a proposal of which the Assembly is quite certain to approve highly. In the meantime the Left are endeavouring to do all they can to persuade M. Thiers that they love him, in spite of the elections of ..kpri127. They write him letters of the utmost loyalty, and promise him all kinds of support, on condition that he will do their will. On Sunday, Lyons will fill the vacancies in that department, and amongst the elected will be M. Banc, ex-Member of the Paris Government of April, 1871. This is the return made by Lyons for the compliment paid her by Paris in electing M. Barodet. M. Ranc's account of the courtesies now lavished by his party on M. Thiers is very simple. " Nous allons," he says, " couvrir M. Thiers de fleurs, corn me ii convicnt a une victinie." Whether M. Thiers is to be the victim or not, we do not know: we fear the Republic itself might be the victim of too prolonged a reign of reaction at Versailles.
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