31 MAY 1873, Page 1

At two o'clock hi. Casimir-Prier, the Minister of the Interior,

spoke, and then the Monarchical Right, acting together with the Bonapartists, who conditioned that the Due d'Aumale should not be selected as the new President, and a body of some sixteen extra-Conservative Republicans headed by M. Target, defeated tke order of the day pure and simple, which was accepted by the Government, by a majority of 14 (362 votes to 348), and then by a majority of 16 (360 to 344) carried an order of the day proposed by M. Ernoul, regretting that the recent ministerial changes had not afforded the satisfaction to the Conservative party which it had a right to expect. After this, a third sitting -was ordered for eight in the evening,—the Right being flushed with victory, and eager to finish the campaign in the same day. In the evening it was announced that the Ministry had ten- dered their resignation to M. Thiers, who had accepted it, and tendered his own resignation to the Assembly. This the Assembly accepted by a majority of 29 (368 votes against 339), after which Marshal MacMahon was elected President by 390 votes, the Left not voting. The Marshal had accepted his new office by midnight on Saturday. It was a Saturday of sensation.