M. de Tocqueville, the son of the political philosopher, and
Deputy for La Manche, has written a singular letter to the papers. Beaumont,. the chief town of his Canton, has sent him an address to be forwarded to M. Thiers in support of his atti- tude, and the Count cannot conceal his astonishment. "When," he says, "the inhabitants of country districts begin to interest themselves in political affairs the reign of democracy is really at hand." "If the advent of Christ was to be announced by special signs, it should be the same with reepect to the Republic," and
this expression of opinion appears to him one of those signs- Bos locutus est. This precisely bears out M. Gambetta!s opinion that the peasantry of France have accepted the Republic, and is. a significant sign of the future course of the elections.
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