We are told, on fair authority, that a fierce struggle
is going on in the French Cabinet, now called on the Boulevards the "Two- headed Nightingale," from the pair of twins now exhibiting themselves there. The Due de Broglie, always a little stupid out of a drawing-room, thinks the recent elections prove the necessity for extreme measures and a reconciliation with the Right ; while the Duc Decazes, a man of the world, leans towards overtures to the Left Centre and abstinence from outraging Liberal ideas. The Marshal-President, it is stated, adheres to the more Liberal aide, but as yet the determined resistance of the Conservatives has left the victory to the Due de Broglie, at whose instigation, apparently, the Committee on Municipalities have reported in favour of extending the proposed powers of interference, by enabling the Government to select Mayors outside the di-Council, lest the latter should be all Radical. It is curious to remark how early Marshal MacMahon, who never would abandon the Conservative party, has been compelled, as M. Thiers also was compelled, to lean towards the Left,—that is, towards the only party which in any degree represents France. It would be a comic revenge for the coup d'itat if he ultimately appealed to the Left Centre, and worried to death with the equality of parties, threw his sword into the scale of a dissolution.
