11 NOVEMBER 1871, Page 1
The uneasiness produced by this state of affairs is so
great that +rumours of constitutional change are circulated every day. Now it is the Assembly which intends to refuse the franchise to electors under twenty-five,—as has been done in Spain ; then it is M. Thiers who intends to seek a plaiscite granting him the right of appointing his successor ; and again it is a Second Chamber which is to be created. All these ideas are, no doubt, discussed among the twenty-five members of the Permanent Committee with more or less vigour ; but none of them have been adopted, M. Thiers being fully occupied with the difficulties of the material situation, the first of which is to relieve the Bank of France without recourse to another loan.
