NEWS OF THE WEEK
TT is believed the Scrutin de Lists will pass the Senate. The Senators do not like it, but they fear to make M. Gambetta an 'enemy, and they are basing their resistance on a clause in the Bill which gives the Chamber fifty more Deputies, and will, so far, alter the proportions of the Houses when they sit together for Constitutional revisions. This form of resistance is not very real, as the clause could be omitted; and the electors, espe- cially in the great towns, are beginning to approve the Bill, which has, moreover, been enthusiastically adopted by the Extremists. M. Gambetta is visiting Cahors, his birth-place, where he is received like an emperor, and where the town offered him an address, in which these words occur :—" Your ambition has been talked of, and you have been charged with wanting to usurp a dictatorship, but your ambition has no other object than the greatness and prosperity of France. Your dictator- ship is that of genius, reason, and eloquence, which you have a right to wield, and from which your enemies, no more than your friends, can es3ape." M. Gambetta acknowledged himself
touched by this greeting." Clearly, France intends him to govern, as ten years ago we predicted would be the case. The young men of 1870 are governing iu 1881, and they know only one figure,—the one-eyed man who did not despair of France.
