It seems probable that a real split in the reactionary
parties of France is about to occur. Out of one hundred and seventy Deputies who call themselves Monarchists, onlyninety attended a meeting called to resolve upon a common policy, and even they only came to a resolution to wait a little longer, and in appointing an executive committee, left out the three former chiefs of the three reactionary groups. It is rumoured that the remainder will form a distinct party, calling themselves "Constitutional Conservatives," and prepared to support the Government whenever it is conservative. This coarse would make the Government very strong, because whenever the sixty moderate Radicals, without whom they have not a majority, prove too rebellious, the Cabinet could turn for aid to the Constitutional Conservatives. It remains, how- ever, to be seen whether these latter will bear the savage social pressure which will be brought to bear on them. It is hard for a respectable Legitimist in Paris to find all customary drawing-rooms shut, and to have to challenge .young men of fashion for circulating epigrams about him as a renegade.
