M. Thiers and the Thirty have, it is believed, come
to an agreement at last,—that is to say, the Thirty have surrendered at discretion, and the President is quite pleased with them. They are as harmonious as a whale and his herrings when they are all swallowed. Rising to the dignity of his situation, M. Thiers on Monday told them that he might submit to be excluded from the Tribune if he belonged to one of those illustrious families who had done so much for France ; but being what he was, an petit bourgeois, who had become what he was by study and exertion, com- pliance with their demands would be a degradation. The '1'hirty were stunned, and it is stated that their report will advise that the President should join in the debates and interpellations on great subjects, or whenever he asks ; that he should be vested with a veto operative for two months on any resolution passed by the Assembly ; that there should be a Second Chamber ; and that the Electoral Law should be revised. In short, they will propose after two months' reflection everything they do not like and M. Thiers does, —a way of producing unity which has at least this merit, that it always succeeds.
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