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not be as evenly divided as people think
between Bonapartists AID Republicans, and
this will be the case whatever the plan of scrw-
tn adopted, or even if a compromise between
the two plans be made. Moreover, it is sufi-
Gent to suppose that the present Ministry will
manage the elections to be assured that they
will not be- clearly divided between two politi-
cal parties. It is, on the contrary, more than
probable that neither Republicans nor Bona
partists will have an absolute majority, and it
is calculating very moderately to imagine that
100 or 100 Legitimists will not escape from the
electoral massacre. In order that, %irrespec-
tive of this floating group, the Bonapartists or
the Radicals may have a majority-that is to
say, more than $50 votes-one OF these two
Parties must have not more than 100 members
in the Chamber. A man who has occupied
himself for a long time with these kinds OF
statistics told me to-day that the new Cham
Der would contain at most lou Bonapartlsts'
including those members who would simply
consent to pass as such, and 22O Republicans
of all shades. In his opinion, the mass OF
floating Monarchist Deputies, whether Liber-
al or not, would be 100. Even reducing this
number and increasing the other two, the con-
clusion arrived at is that this floating Party
will dispose of the majority according as 1t
veers to Right or Left, and that it will to a
large degree be supported by the Government,
being the Party which will pronounce most
energetically in its favour. Were such real
ly the composition of the future Chamber the
country would be far from emerging from the
state of uncertainty which has long distracted
il, and the new like the present Chamber would
witness the enervating spectacle Of Coalition
maiorities, unstable as the wave and dellghtlng
to overthrow on the morrow what they agreed
to the day before,
NJ. Mezi9res, Professor Of Foreign Litera-
&ure, concluded his course Of lectures on Dick
ems at the Sorbonne Yesterday afternoon.
A comparison between Dickens and Balzac,
he said, offered much likeness, but much di-
versity. Both were admirable observers, but
Balzac, who often shut himself out from the
world and lived only with the creations of bis
brain, enjoyed the pleasure merely of an ar
list or psychologist, dissipating Illusions but
pointing to no conclusions, whereas Dickens
was o moralist. lie did mob deliberately set
himself to devslope O thesis, but he planted a
fruitful seed in his readers minds. He aimed
at a useful and beneficent result, and his works
had corrected many abuses. One rose from the
perusal Of Balzac with q liking for mental ana
tony, but with no generous emotion, whereas
Dickens stimulated noble sentiments, devotion
to duty, and a passion for what was good. The
intensity with which he did this was alike hon.
Durable to himself and his country. 1t was the
great praise of English ~noVelists that one closed
their books the better for having read them,
with more elevated resolutions, with a better
knowledge of mankind, but a knowledge which
was not discouragiDg, but stimulated to the
practice of what was good.
THE PEACE OF EUROPE.
VIENNA, May 81.
There are again fresh reports about an in-
terview of the three Emperors at Ems. No
thing is known here in the best-informed quar-
tsrs about such an intention. There is no
ground for proposing such a meeting from this
side, while no intimation, much less an invita-
ton, has come hitherto from the other side.
M. Nowikof, the Russian Ambassador here,
has just returned from Ems, where he has
been paying bis respects to the Gar, but, as
far as can be ascertained, he has not brought
such an invitation either.
The news of the KrtWtz- Zeatung, which is
confirmed from other sides, that the official
Press Bureau in Berlin is about to be closed
has given considerable satisfaction here. AS
a numbe of papers were credited with receiv-
ing occasionally those semi-oficial communi-
cations, and as it could only be a matter of
surmise how far one or another Statement had
really this semi-oficial character, every one
OF these had it in it's power to produce a SEN
sation. Even if shortly after a paper Of great
er authority came forward to refute the state
ment, the effect had been produced. However
convenient such an arrangement may have