There is a momentary lull in French politics. The Assembly
have not, as was expected, refused the Government power to appoin't Mayors, but have granted it, by 579 to 33, for two years, —the Right Centre, who mutinied the other day on the question of the right of the large taxpayers to sit in the Councils, refusing to decline a proposal which Government declared to be essential to order. Since then every kind of rumour has been afloat, but the general line of affairs is expected to go in this way. The Committee of Thirty will report in favour of M. Lambert de Sainte-Croix's proposition,—that is, the formal establishment of the Septennate. The whole Right, with the consent of Frohsdorf, will vote against this, thus rendering defeat certain by a large
majority. M. Casimir Perier's proposal—the Conservative Republic—will then be brought forward, and the emigrants from the Right Centre who carried it before, having grown timid, that will also be defeated, though by a smaller majority. The Monarchy will then be put to a direct vote, but the Orleanists having broken loose, this will be finally disposed of, and at last the Dissolution will be proposed. This will be defeated, but will be reopened and carried, on a message from Marshal MacMahon that the Assembly, having failed to constitute anything, must return to the people. This, we repeat, is the route of affairs which seems most probable ; but nothing is certain in France, except that tithe will not be re-established.
