NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE English accuse the French of chattering; but when Parliamentary business has to be done, it is the English who chatter, and the French who act. The House of Commons would have taken five days over M. Floquet's proposal for Revision, over which the Chamber did not take five hours. At the sitting on Thursday, Baron Mackau proposed a delay of a week, during which the Premier should advise N. Carnot to recommend a dissolution to the Senate. M. Floquet curtly told the Baron that if he wished to advise the President, he bad better go and do it ; and the motion was snuffed out at once by a vote of 375 to 173. A Republican Deputy, M. de Doraville-Maillefeu, then proposed an indefinite postponement of Revision, arguing that such a work exceeded the right of the Chamber, which, in altering the Electoral Law, had cut away its own moral claim to represent the people, and had, in fact, ." opened an electoral period." Revision was for the next Chamber, for in the present one no two Deputies were agreed about it. M. Floquet, who was greatly agitated, replied that he would not accept the amendment ; but when the division was taken, it was seen that M. de Maillefen had supplied the required excuse. One hundred Republicans voted against M. Floquet, and all the Reactionaries and Boulangists, and the Government was defeated by 307 to 218,—a crushing majority of 89. N. Floquet immediately announced the resignation of his Cabinet. General Boulanger, though present, did not speak in the debate, but has published a manifesto to his followers, stating that be agreed in the rejection of M. Floquet's proposal, which he thought a farce.
