4 AUGUST 1894, Page 2

The French Chamber has been prorogued. On Saturday last M.

Dupuy surprised the House by reading the decree. The Socialists were much enraged, for they had intended to raise a number of embarrassing interpellations, and it was even expected that M. de Cassagnac's revelations of the plot alleged to have been hatched between General Boulanger and a Committee of Reactionaries would be made the subject of debate. All that the past Session has to show in the way of legislation is the Anti-Anarchist Bill.