The " crisis" in France has begun again. It was
supposed by the moderates that M. Thiers and the Right had hit on some modus vivendi ; the President selecting his personal followers for the vacant Ministries, and the Right agreeing to consider them Conservatives, which they certainly are not—M. Leon Say, Minister of Finance, M. Goulard, Minister of the Interior, and M. Fourton„ Minister of Works, being all of the Left Centre, and personal supporters of M. Thiers. On Tuesday, however, the Left fired two shells into the official camp by issuing two manifestoes, one by Louis Blanc, and one by Gambetta, demanding a dissolution, manifestoes, it is said, submit- ted to the President before publication. The Right, en- raged at this and the choice of the new Ministers, on Wednesday instigated M. de Sainte Croix to demand that " on Saturday next "—this day—there should be a debate on Dissolu- tion. Nominally the debate will be on the propriety of censuring those who petitioned last Session for dissolution, but really it will be on dissolution itself. M. Gambetta, perceiving, as we have ex- plained elsewhere, the blunder into which his enemies had fallen, instantly supported the proposal, which after a scream from M. do Baragnon against those criminal Radicals, who always do what one does not expect, was carried by an unanimous vote. There will therefore be a grand debate to-day, and divisions probably on two or three motions, one of them rejecting dissolution, one affirming that the Assembly will sit till the Germans quit France, and one suggesting dissolution by fractions.
