The majority in the French Chamber seems to have got
the bit between its teeth, and to be getting beyond the Emperor's control. It has rejected every Liberal amendment to the Press Law, and has been all the week engaged in incessant rows, the drift of which is this. M. de Kervegnen in the Chamber and M. de Cassaguac in the Pays have been accusing the Liberal papers of taking bribes from foreign powers. The papers protest, and their repre- sentative in the Chamber, M. Havin, of the Siècle, having been acquitted by a jury of honour, has tried twice to make a speech. Each time he has been howled down by the majority, which has got completely beyond the control of Baron Jerome David, the President. So high is party feeling rising in Paris, that a séance is one long altercation, and the galleries begin to be thronged with ladies. The Emperor is said to be seriously -annoyed and perplexed, and with reason. Mamelnkes to be useful should be orderly.
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