The French Despotism is busy at the task of procuring
the "popular election" of a convenient Legislative Body. The task promises to be all the easier from the tactics of the Republican party. The Government has published its list of candidates, and is unblushingly taking the most direct means in all the depart- ments for forcing that list alone on the people. In Paris, the Re- publicans managed to hold meetings, and to agree on an opposi- tion-list; which would have been unexceptionable under the legal regime that has passed away, but which seems simply foolish under the regime of fraud and force. Along with Cavaignae and others unproscribed, are put forward Lamoriciere and, several others banished by the Despotism as citizens dangerous to its ex- istence. If it were proper to put forward any serious list at all, ' uld seem equally proper to propose one of men who could . n chosen, and not one of men whose names are a vain 4o the Tyranny.
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