The general idea in France seems now to be that
the country will remain uneasily quiet until next autumn, when the great Exhibition will be over. It is, however, doubtful whether the present Government will remain, as the Anti-Dreyfusards am furious at the defeat of the Army, and the " Rallies " irritated by the exposure of the Orleanist plot. A leader of the latter even writeslo General de Galliffet asking what he does in a Cabinet With Socialists, and suggesting that he should strike a coup d' etat. It is said, too, that there will be fierce discus- tions over the Budget, which will amount for the first time to 2160,000,060 steriing,—that is, to an average of £20 per house. If the Government falls—and M. lifeline, the Protectionist leader, intends it should fall—a reactionary Administra- tion will take its place. We incline to think it will hold on, though there will be fierce quarrels over the
Orleanist trial, which is in abeyance for the moment to allow of investigations ; and that the reactionaries
will be conciliated by a Bill of Indemnity exempting all concerned in the Dreyfus case from prosecutions at law. General de Galliffet is said to have selected a modecate- and able General, comparatively young, as Chief of the Staff in succession to General Brault, deceased. The new man is General Delanne, who for some time has been Deputy-Chief, but has remained unsmirehed by'recent scandal&
