NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE French Government had what it esteems a victory on Thursday, but the meaning of its triumph is not clear. The Opportunist party in the Chamber wished, it would seem, to register the fact that, in placarding M. Cavaignac's speech, they did not intend to surrender power to a junction of the Centres. They meant to keep on the old lines of hostility to the Right and the Church, and tenderness for Socialists, with a readiness to be guided in the last resort by pressure from M. 014menceau. This was the real meaning of the debate, though M. Ribot denied the" pressure from M. Cl6menceau ;" and the -whole party rallied to it, and carried by 315 to 86 a resolution by M. Leygnes which affirms that the Chamber, "confiding in the G-overnment to uphold democratic laws and affirm a policy truly Republican, passes to the Order of the Day." The debate wandered over many topics, but its result was to show that the Government will not break with the Left, whatever the provocation.
