24 JANUARY 1874, Page 2

The Bill placing the power of nominating all Mayors in

France in the hands of the Minister of the Interior passed on Monday by a majority of 40. It was at first hoped that Communes under 8,000 might be exempted, and then that choice might be restricted to members of the Council, but though the majority drooped to fourteen, M. de Broglie would have his way, and did have it, only to be obliged by Berlin to break with the Ultramontanes, and thus in a short time destroy his own Government. We question if he will know what to do with his Mayors, now he has got them ; but their nomination was an object, and at the cost of every principle he ever professed in his life, he has obtained it for the benefit of some other man.