Baron Reuter really should fine the person, whoever he is,
who draws up his Paris bulletins. His telegrams always give the first impression, and his telegram sketching M. de Broglie's plan for a Second Chamber is as full of blunders as of lines. The very first idea of the Chamber, which is not to be a nominee Chamber at all, but a Chamber with a majority of elected mem- bers, aided by the great dignitaries and some nominees from strictly defined categories of notables, is left out. This election is not to be made by an Electoral College, though M. de Broglie did use that phrase, but by a constituency scattered over all France, and if the tax-paying limit is not placed too high, more independent of the State than even the regular electors. If we were to say M. de Broglie had made a House of County and University Members—as that description is understood in Eng- land—we should be nearer the truth than M. Reuter's bulletin is.
