An extraordinary subsidence of commotion in France has at- tended
the real business of the election of delegates for the National Assembly, which is to meet in Paris on Thursday next ; and, so far as the result can as yet be surmised, it is more hopeful than any one expected. The Ministry of the Interior and its subordinates did not waive theirarbitrary and corrupt meddlings : strange latitudes were allowed to the partisans of the Govern- ment, strange restrictions enforced upon the opponents. But these practices have, in part at least, been defeated by the singular apathy of "the people," concurrently with renewed activity in the middle classes. In some places, the arbitrary demeanour of the official subordinates went too far, and provoked reaction. The moderate orders seem to have obteitted' an advantage in the elec- tion : the uneducated have not monopolised the representation ,• aud there does appear ts possibility that the new Constitueni Assembly will he endowed with bath the faculty and the will to reestehlish some governess:it in France.
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