The President of the French Republic transmitted to the Assembly,
on Thursday, his nomination of three persons from whom is to be chosen the Vice-President of the Republic. The names were these—M. Boulay de is Meurthe, M. Baraguay d'Hilliers, M. Vivien. The nomination of the first was received with laughter and cries of" Oh, oh!" of the second, with cries of" C'est jolil " of the last, with "marks of great satisfaction ": but on Friday it is said the prospects of the first were the best. Though a Bonapartist, the Clubs of the Institute and the Palais National had resolved to support him.
The Committee of the National Assembly on M. Rateau's proposition decided, on Wednesday, against dissolution.
On Thursday, the Bureaux examined the Ministerial proposition to pro- ceed forthwith in discussing the law respecting the trial of the prisoners implicated in the attempt on the 15th of May.
"On learning that their trial was near at hand," says the Constitutionnel, "the prisoners of the affair of May the 15th entered on the task of choosing their defenders. Several lawyers of the Mountain are already designated. MM. Le- dro-Rollin and Theodore Bee are to defend, it is said, the first Barbes, and the other Albert; K de Courtais is to have M. Michel (de Bourges). As to Respell and Blanqui, they intend speaking for themselves. It is not known if H. Louis Blanc and H. Caussidiere will appear at the trial. On leaving France, they said they certainly would."
A trifling incident illustrates the feebleness of Republican sentiments in Paris. After February, the Rue Royale became ,Rue de la Revolution: a few days ago the last name was effaced, and on Thursday the street pro- claimed itself under the more friendly and neutral title of Rue de la Con- corde.
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