It is too soon yet to predict the consequences of
this sudden collapse of the Royalist party—for the Legitimists very properly will not give the Comte -de Paris a chance—but the latest tele- gram in the Evening Standard of Friday announces that the formation of a Left-Centre Cabinet is considered inevitable, and that it will propose the definitive establishment of a Conservative Republic. This is probable, and as M. Thiers would have the support of all Republicans, of the Left Centre, of all the waverers, and probably of half the Orleanists, angered by the folly of their Princes, he might have a majority large enough to estab- lish the Republic. But he his no business to do it. He is bound to persuade the Assembly to a disiolution in favour of a Constituent Assembly, which will then decide on the form of the Republic, which we hope, but do not expect, will be one in-which the .!_ssembly is Sovereign, its Speaker the man who represents ...atm on all public occasions,- and its Executive a Ministry re- movable at will, but only after resoluticina passed in tWO 'succes- sive weeks. We *ant to be rid at °nee of Pretenders, of Presi- dents always trying to be Pretenders, and of thoise surges of
emotion which in any French Assembly may destroy anything in a night.
