M. Faure has succeeded in finding a Ministry. M. Ribot,
a Moderate who has been Premier and Foreign Minister, on Saturday accepted the task of forming a Cabinet, and has been at once joined by all to whom he has applied. He fills the Finance Ministry himself, the Foreign Minister is still M. Hanotaux, M. Leygues takes the Ministry of the Interior, and General Zurlinden, a new man in office, becomes Minister of War. The Cabinet as a whole is Moderate, and disinclined to an Income-tax ; but it is probable that some arrangement was made with the Radicals for their pet proposal, for a political Amnesty was at once laid before the Chamber. This Bill pardons all convicted of "crimes, outrages, and plots against internal security," except the Anarchists, all slanders against public men, all electoral offences, and all offences in connection with strikes, and it was carried by 511 votes to 7, a vote simply impossible, unless there had been some previous understanding. The Abbe Lemire very cleverly then pro- posed that, as the Chamber was in such a mood of mercy, it should restore the priests suspended for political indiscre- tions, to their stipends. The Minister of Justice grumbled, but the House was in a gentle mood, and the priests were pardoned like the slanderers, but only by 284 votes to 163. They had not been included in the bargain, Reds not thinking it possible for priests to be even moderately innocent.