The battle began yesterday with a debate on M. de
Broglie's interpellation, which has been already signed, it is said, by 315 deputies, in which the Government is told that, "considering that the gravity of the political situation requires at the head of affairs a Cabinet whose firmness will reassure the country, the undersigned members ask leave to question the Ministry respecting the modifications which have just arisen in its midst, and the necessity of rendering a resolutely Conservative policy predominant in the government of the country." M. Thiers has given notice of his intention to speak on this interpellation to- day, and as the Assembly is obliged to adjourn after the Presi- dent's speech, we shall probably not know the result of the division till Monday night. But there can be little doubt that the Government will command a fair majority on an issue on which all the Left will be united, and many of the Right will be far from willing to unseat the President till they can find a fitting substitute, which probably means till the Greek Kalends.
