It is believed that the Floquet Ministry will speedily fall.
Not to mention a serious quarrel between the Budget Com- mittee and the Finance Ministry, M. Floquet has decided to ask the Chambers for an immediate revision of the Constitution, coupled with a vote strictly limiting the range of the discus- sion in Congress. All the opposing parties will be enraged at this, each wishing to bring on its own projects, while his sup- porters think any revision at all most inopportune. The entire Ministry is believed to be disheartened by the triple election of General Boulanger, whose electoral committee is again at work. M. Floquet is the boldest man in the Cabinet, and he' is yielding on Revision, in fear lest the Boulangists should be before him. The Foreign Minister, M. Goblet, is the next boldest, and he has publicly expressed, in a speech at Abbeville, his deep inquietude, and his apprehension of grave internal dangers coming upon France. He even spoke of civil war as conceivable, though it is impossible unless the Army splits into two parties. His tone has made a curiously deep impres- sion upon Parisians, probably because they are accustomed to hear their Ministers prophesy only smooth things. So regular is this practice, that when a Minister admits despondency, he is assumed to know that all is lost.
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