The National Assembly, for a revision of the French Con-
stitution, completed its work on Wednesday, and adjourned sine die. It declared the Princes of France ineligible for civil or military office, and the Republic inviolable, and it expunged the law by which the Senate is elected, from the Constitution, leaving it liable to be altered by ordinary Bill. Beyond this it did not go, the compact between the two Chambers being strictly kept, in spite of all the eloquence discharged against that compact. The revision was, therefore, an extremely small affair ; and so far as it is beneficial at all, it will be beneficial rather by show- ing that a Republican Government can resist the revolutionary party, even when revising the Constitution, than from any par- ticular advantage iu the changes effected. The exclusion of the French Princes from all office is essentially a timorous measure, showing how much the Republic still dreads the prestige of rank.
