M. Thiers has prohibited a meeting of all municipal delegates
at Bordeaux with threats of arrest. The meeting, which was to have been in the Commune, would, he feared, proclaim itself an Assembly, receive the adhesion of the cities, and perhaps elect Gambetta Dictator. Questioned in the Chamber on the subject of his orders, he complained of the annoyances to which he was subjected within the Assembly, declared that his resignation was necessary, hinted that in a week there would be no danger, and demanded a vote of confidence. On the motion of M. Beth- mont, an order of the day in that sense was passed, by a vote of 495 to 10, even the Left voting with the chief of the Executive- power. It is asserted that M. Thiers' authority in the Chamber is waning, but there is no apparent evidence of the change, and it is quite certain that no one else is gaining any. No man has. risen within the Assembly even to a third-rate place.
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