It is quite impossible to guess how the decision on
dissolution will go. The presumption is that the Right will win, but the Bonapartists may desert them, and M. Thiers may throw his in- fluence into the opposite scale. If both those events occur, the vote will be nearly even, but it is more probable that it will be in favour of the Right, but will not comprise a majority of the entire House of 750. Any number less than this will be a victory for the Left, which will then display itself in the attitude of a moderate party, disposed to refer everything to the legal arbitration of the country, and impeded in that excellent design by a factious minority of the Chamber. A compromise may be suggested in the shape of dissolution by fractions, but the Right say they will not submit to this, and may force on a division, which, as the full Assembly is sitting and not the Bureaux, may end in their dis- comfiture. It is to be noted that the moderate Left accept disso- lution by fractions, though preferring a larger measure, and that both sections of the party repudiate illegal violence.
