We hear at the last moment that the Marshal has
at length con- sented to accept a Ministry from the Left Centre, M. Dufaure apparently being the head, and M. Waddington, M. de Marcere, and M. Leon Say some of its members, on condition of the Budget being voted. If this be true,—which we can hardly ascertain definitely before going to press,—the Marshal must, we suppose, have made up his mind at last to "submit," No Ministry, however, even of the Left Centre, would consent to take office, without the right to dismiss the most valiant of the prefects and sub-prefects who fought for the Conservatives so unscrupulously in the country, and the Marshal has always been said to find this condition a final stumbling-block. We shall probably know in the course of to-day whether he has or has not been able to surmount this " honourable " obstacle. Without surmounting it, no reconciliation is possible. With it, the Marshal may well remain unmolested in office for the remainder of his Septennate.
