The Thirty are still bewildered by their fight with M.
Thiers. It seems certain that his right of debate will be brought before the Assembly, and that the Right Centre, accoriing to its organ, Le Francais, will support an amendment proposed by M. Dela- °our and accepted by M.. Thiers. This provides that "the President of the Republic shalt be heard in Interpellations, which have for their object acts affecting the general policy of the Government, whether foreign or domestic, when they have been discussed by the Ministers in Council, and countersigned by the Vice-President of the Council." These Ministers are M. Thiers' Ministers, and this privilege is in addition to M. Thiers' right of speaking on Laws and Resolutions. The whole discussion there- fore, if this is accepted, ends in imposing a few formalities on M. Thiers, to which in urgent cases he will pay no manner of atten- tion. If he is allowed to speak at all, the Assembly must let him speak when he likes, or seem to the country wilfully to dis- regard the highest source of political information. The Right cannot plead in the face of the constituencies their inner feeling that he speaks a great deal too well.
