18 AUGUST 1877, Page 2

A most significant letter has been addressed by M. Foray,

Senator, and founder of the Left-Centre party in 1871, to the Minister of the Interior. Ile is Mayor of Eesonnes, and has been dismissed for refusing to placard certain portions of the "Bulletin des Communes," an official collection of decrees in which M. de Fourtou unsparingly assails all opponents. M. Foray tells the Minister that he has made the "Bulletin des Communes" " a pamphlet of the worst kind," and that in it ho has " placed the 3G3 on a level with the worst wretches of the Commune ;" that he has threatened France with successive dissolutions, until universal suffrage agrees with the Cabinet ; and that his own con- science does not allow him as Mayor to placard such calumnies. " France, nevertheless, will not give you the satisfaction of the slightest riot." This is bold language for France, but of course it will only intensify the zeal of M. de Fourtou, who begins to• perceive that should the Republic triumph, a day of legal reckon- ing may arrive for him. He is liable, it is said, to hundreds of actions for libel, none of which can be brought while the Council of State protects him.