"Ely )13rEtator," Sitarcb 13tb, 1852.
IN France, the elections of the Legislative Body have been completed; a President appointed; and the 29th of March fixed for the meeting of that Assembly and the Senate. The. President of the Corps Legislatif. M. Billault, was at one time an avowed Socialist: and beyond his acceptance of office under the professed antagonist of Socialism, no reason is known for suspecting him to have changed his Opinions. Five candidates opposed to the Government have been elected; and political gossip speaks of some eighty members who are expected to `rally round M. de Mornay and form a kind of qualified Oppo- sition. But what can any opposition avail in such a sham deliberative body ? . . .
The enforcement of the decrees of exile against political offenders continues: during the week nearly five hundred have been shipped for a penal settlement in Algeria.
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