The attempts to form a new Ministry, with anything like
a majority in the Chamber, on the principles which, as it appears, the Marshal President alone sanctions, have, nevertheless, been many. M. de Goulard has tried, and the D uc Decazes has tried, and the Due D'Audiffret-Pssquier has tried, and one or two members from the Left Centre, especially M. Waddington and M. Bodet, have been negotiated with, but up to last night at least, there had been no success. if anything is to be done without the co-operation of the Left Centre, the Legitimist Right must be conciliated by a promise not to proceed with the constitutional organisation of the Septennat,- tut there the Moderate Right are obdurate. M. de Broglie's party insist that the organisation of the Septennat shall proceed, and that, t000ftppears to be the wish and intention of Marshal MacMahon. On the whole, the puzzle seems to be very like the old childish one as to how you were to take the fox, the goose, and the cabbages over the river, not all in one journey, without ever leaving either the fox with the goose or the goose with the cabbages, —except that the wit of children could devise a solution for that puzzle, while the wit of Frenchmen seems quite unequal to this. Dissolution is the only true key of the situation. But then that is dissolution not only for the Assembly, but for the monarchical aspirations of the Right.
