The French President has sent a Message to the Senate
announcing that he has been compelled to dispense with M. Jules Simon, and to prorogue the Assembly for a month. His motive, he repeats, is a fear lest M. Jules Simon having failed to control the Chamber, the President should be compelled to yield to a party desiring great innovations, and full of ideas to which he will not yield to-day, to.morrow, or at any tine. He believes they will injure and degrade France, and intends to use against them "within legal limits" the whole power entrusted to him by the Constitution. Sixty-eight Prefects have been removed, and re- placed by the old Monarchists recently superseded ; and severe threats are uttered against the Radical Press, which has become violent,—though, as yet, no action has been taken. It is believed that the Marshal will ask the Chamber to pass the Budget, then prorogue for a month, and then, dissolve, but that the Left intend by refusing the Budget to secure an earlier dissolution. This part of the programme is, however, still doubtful. What is cer- tain is that the Administration is complaining through all its organs of the foreign Press, and hinting that after the dissolution a state of siege may be declared. While the Assembly exists, the declaration requires its assent.
