was preceded by a long and able speech, in which
M. PERRIER ex- plained at length the sentiments of the Cabinet, and defended the middle course between elective and hereditary peerage, which they had adopted. The projet de loi, which goes to replace the 23d clause of the amended charter—a clause which, it may be recol- lected, was specially reserved for future modification and amend- ment—runs thus :
" The nomination of the members of the Chamber of Peers belongs tG the King. " Their number is unlimited.
" The dignity of a Peer is to be conferred for life. " It is not transmissible by hereditary descent. " All dispositions to the contrary are and shall be abrogated. "The present article may be modified hereafter.
" Nevertheless, no proposition for that purpose shall be submitted for examination to one Legislature, unless the preceding Legislature shall have deferred it for that purpose." The commission for the revision of the projet has been ap- pointed. It consists of the following members,—M. VIENNETI
M. DEVAUX, M. DE BERANGER, M. DAUNOU, M. GUIZOT, M. KERATRY, M. GAUNERON, LE BARON DE SCHONEN. The whole of these are decidedly friendly to the Ministerial plans ; which will, it is supposed, be carried, at least so far as the Depu- ties are concerned, with very little opposition. The Chamber of Peers may not be so easily managed ; some of them have declared that they will fight the bill to the utmost. We suspect, however, their opposition will be of small avail. Had the power of nomi- nating Peers been wisely and prudently exercised by Louis and CHARLES, as M. PERRIER well remarked, this law might never have been called for. The public voice is no raised, and the op- position of the Peers will hardly put it down,
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