NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE event of the week has been the publication of a letter from the Emperor Napoleon to the Legislative Body. It was read to the Chamber by M. Rouher on Monday, the 12th inst., and con- tained a promise that the Senate should be asked to examine five reforms,—the restoration to the Chamber of its right to appoint its own officers; a simplification of the mode of presenting amend- ments ; the submission of commercial treaties to the Chamber ; the voting of the Budget by chapters, and the compatibility of office with a seat in the Chamber. The Emperor further promised a reform of the Senate, and that all Ministers should have seats within the Legislature, but observed that "these concessions leave intact the prerogatives which the people have more explicitly con- ferred upon me." The message was very coldly received, and on the following day the Chamber was prorogued in the midst of excited protests from the Republican thirty, who have agreed to remain in Paris during the interregnum, which must last till the 4th of August, the day for which the Senate is convoked.
