The occasion of the quarrel between the Republicans and the
Bonapartists was the discovery of a circular promising rewards to all half-pay officers who voted for M. de Bourgoing in the Nievre. M. Girard, deputy for that department, read this in the House, and M. Gambetta in a speech in support called the 13onapartists ces miserable., which produced a "scene." The quarrel 'extended ont-ofzdoora, the people took it up, and the railway stations, both in Paris and Versailles, have to be guarded by soldiers. The assault on M. Gambetta has, of course, embittered the Republicans, as have the evasive replies of M. Fourtou, who professes not to have information enough to decide whether the police protect Republican Deputies or not. The real causes, however, are the resolution of the Left Centre to accept a dis- solution and the vote retaining universal suffrage. With a dissolution under the present laws the struggle must lie between the Republic and the Empire, and the advocates of both are heated by the knowledge of that fact.
