The French Government is almost as much perplexed with its
House of Lords as we are. The nine bureaus of the Senate have elected eighteen members to consider the Revision pro- posal, and nine are found to be against it, and nine for it if guarantees are given that the "Congress," when it sits, shall not travel out of the limits settled by M. Ferry. It appears that the Premier, at the last moment of the discussion in the Chamber, consented that the Congress should discuss the election of the Senate by universal suffrage ; and with 450 Republican Deputies in a joint Congress of 855 to discuss is to decree. The Senate is, therefore, alarmed; and it is by no means certain that it will not at last reject the proposal, though at present it asks only an honour. able undertaking from the majority. Some compromise will probably be arrived at, the cholera rather throwing revision into
the background ; but it is evidently considered that the seventy- five seats for life are doomed. They are too inconsistent with Republican logic.
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