NEWS OF THE WEEK.
MTHIERS has fallen, and Marshal MacMahon reigns in his s place. The catastrophe came about in this wise. The Due de Broglie's motion (virtually of want of confidence) of yesterday week was feebly supported by the mover, and somewhat feebly re- sisted by M. Dufaure, who did not like having to retract his but recently expressed opinion that the time for the definitive proclama- tion of the Republic had not yet come ; after this, M. Thiers demanded the right to speak, and the Assembly appointed nine on Saturday morning for the hearing. M. Thiers' speech was one of great power and courage. He pointed out that the Assembly had to choose between three Monarchies (the Bourbons, the Orleans family, and the Bonapartes) and two Republics (the Conserva- tive and Radical Republic), that the dictatorship of great men led France to ruin in 1815; that that of little men led France to ignominy as well as ruin in 1870; and that the Conservative Re- public is the government which, "inexorable towards moral disorder," stands between the two extremes of despotism and anarchy, and secures at once order and liberty. M. Thiers was warmly applauded, but only by the Left, for his speech was a final declaration for the Republic. The Assembly adjourned after its delivery, but only till two o'clock on the same day.
