M. Emile 011ivier has contrived to consolidate his party. He
has issued his programme, which includes peace abroad, the abro- gation of the law of public safety, municipal self-government, reform as to the electoral circumscriptions, some modification in the immunity at present enjoyed by officials, trial by jury for press offences, and improvements in education, but is silent about ministerial responsibility. The Right and Left Centres (the Whigs and Whiggish Radicals) have accepted this, and IL 011ivier has therefore 160 votes out of 292, quite a sufficient majority. Up to Friday evening, however, he had not been appointed Minister ; and it is said the Emperor thinks him too Parliamentary, while the Empress opposes him furiously as fatal to the dynasty. It is probable that the Court will give way, brit it must be remembered that M. 011ivier is not the most unbending of mankind.
