The Senatus-Consultum embodying the new reforms passed the Senate on
Monday by 134 votes against 3,—all the amendments, however, tending in the direction of greater liberty and a more unrestricted power for the Legislative Assembly having been rejected by large majorities. M. Bonjean's amendment, for instance, which would have required the vote of both the Chambers—the Corps Ligislatif and the Senate—for the passage of laws and amendments in the Constitution, was rejected by a majority of 113 to 9. Prince Napoleon's speech, the true significance of which we have dis- cussed elsewhere, seems to have excited little feeling but blank dismay in the Senate,—the Minister of the Interior, M. Forcade de la Roquette, who replied to him, declaring that he would never be the responsible Minister for proposing such a policy as the Prince had set forth. M. Forcade de la Roquette expressed, how- ever, his " firm belief that the Napoleons are destined to establish Constitutional monarchy" in France ; still "liberty is not founded with temerity, with that impetuosity which pretends to suppress all obstacles,"—which is very like saying that liberty is not founded by coups d'etat, a view in which Frenchmen appear very generally to concur.
