The "Regime de Compression," as M. de Franclieu has de-
nominated the Due de Broglie's Cabinet, has received its first severe check. The Bill for investing Government with the power of nominating Mayors was on Thursday postponed by a vote of 268 to 226, the extreme Right voting with the Left, who were present in a body, the only man absent being it Gambetta, who is at Nismes. It was at first believed that only 494 raenibers being -present, the vote would be reversed next day ; but as explained elsewhere, M. de Broglie could' not by the most frantic telegraphing bring his men out of Paris, and on Friday the Cabinet resigned. By the latest accounts, the Marshal-Presi- dent was endeavouring to induce them to recall their resignations, and ask.the Assembly to kljourn till Monday ; but it is possible that he may fail, and that if he does not, the Ministry may suffer another defeat from abstentions. The truth seems to be that the Legitimists ate sulky with the Mars halate, and especially witli the Due de Broglie, who ought, they think, to have been more ardent for the Comte de Chambord, and that a few of the Left Centre cannot stand the Organic Laws, which are nearly ready, and which, it is oozing out, are unexpectedly repressive. The Marshal stands pledged never to desert his Conservative Cabinet, and has a personal liking for the Due de Brogue; but power steadies all men, and be has once or twice sided with the Dun Decazes, who is believed to advise less repression and nil alliance with the Left, Centre. . He certainly stopped the penal Press law. Nothing is likely to be certainly known till Monday, but the power of the Due de Broglie has clearly been Overrated. Presidents do not wish to be stop-gaps.
