The want of pith in the Left Centre was conclusively
shown in the debate on M. Leon Say's interpellation about vacant seats. M. de Broglie only proposed its postponement till the prolonga- tion of powers had been settled, and M. Leon Say, after, satiri- cally observing that this Ministry had no future before it, retired discomfited, leaving the motion to be taken up by M. Challemel- Lacour, who made an excellent speech, in which he observed that the question was Ministerial, not Constitutional, and that " the Due de Broglie could be replaced without any interests being compromised "; but the House called for a division, and of course M. Challemel-Lacour was only supported by the members of the Left. The Left Centre, therefore, does not consider that a Par- ffia.ment called on to act as a Convention should either decline the function, or use it temporarily, or even insist that, before it could act, it should be made decently representative.
