NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Ay TRIERS announces through Reuter that he has no intention Ai. whatever of proposing the formation of a Second Chamber. YrIe thinks such an institution might be valuable, but believes that the Assembly will be fully occupied with Bills on the reorganisation of the Army, on primary instruction, and on finance. We question whether the story ever had any foundation beyond the desire of the prejudiced English correspondents to discredit the Republic. The Assembly is only too Conservative already, and whenever M. Thiers has desired to check its ardour, he has been able to do so without appealing to a body which would either be himself over again, or a nullity, or a nuisance perpetually provoking the people -to revolt. If our House of Lords were French—that is, inca- pable of perceiving the difference between legal and actual power —it would not laet six months. Single Chambers, say the corre- spondents, are never permanent. Certainly not, for the plain reason that nothing is permanent ; but the longest-lived govern- ing body the world has seen yet, the Roman Senate, was a single Chamber.
