This also is M. Gambetta's view, and he has therefore
brought forward a definite proposal for the dissolution of the Assembly, on a day to be fixed in Committee. In the preamble to the Bill, he states that the National Assembly, from the circumstances of its origin, can establish nothing, and from its composition cannot produce a lasting and effective majority ; that it increases and per- petuates uneasiness in the country, and wastes its time in vehe- ment and fruitless discussion, and therefore it ought to make way for a Constituent Assembly. On the assembling of the new repre- sentative body, M. Thiers will resign his powers into its hands. There is, of course, little chance of this proposal being accepted, but it will give the Radicals a definite object, the dissolution of the Assembly, and will show the majority in the attitude of men who dread to appeal to their constituents. It will, moreover, enable M. Gambetta to tax the Assembly with a desire for immortality.
