The latest rumOur in Paris appears to be that on
the meeting of the Assembly on November 30, a Message will be read from the President, demanding that the Deputies should proceed with the Constitutional Laws. These laws, which are to define the Marshal's powers, to secure him a successor, and to create an Upper House, will be referred again to the Committee of Thirty, who will probably delay action as before. The object of such a ,move must be to continue the Septennate, and avoid a final
- -decision as to the form of Government ; but its success depends entirely on the action of the Left Centre, which can, if it pleases, ERMAMBO:MICE ABROA.D.1 Dv POBT, 644. either force the Assembly to proclaim the definitive Republic, or to pronounce its own dissolution. It is imagined that the fight over the Constitution will be as sterile as all previous fights have been, but that idea rests on the assumption that Assemblies in France never change, whereas experience shows that every recess more or less modifies Deputies' opinion. They hear what-their constituents say, and unless they are Legitimists are always sus- ceptible to the new influence. It will be found, we suspect, that the splendid harvest and vintage have influenced the peasantry towards Marshal MacMahon and the Republic he professedly represents.
