The discussions in the French Legislature, mentioned in another Place,
brsame on Wednesday and Thursday still more sharp, until the PreeiRent interfered to prevent one speaker from expressing the idea that the oppoeition might have a majority, and another from declaring that Paris had condemned the Empire. The hot discus- sion, and the visible growth of political life, so irritated the Em- peror, that on Friday he took the opportunity of a French Arch- bishop receiving a Cardinal's hat to say, " You may be astonished, as I am, to see at so short an interval men hardly escaped from ship- wreck again call winds and tempests to their assistance. God protects France too visibly to permit the spirit of evil to once more call forth agitation. The scope of our Constitution is widely marked out. Every _honest man can feel himself at ease within its bounds." This would seem to mean that the Emperor has decided against any further concessions—the most dangerous utterance which has yet fallen from his lips. The telegram, however, seems a little confused, and the report in extenso will be too late for our issue.
