The French Assembly has passed the Law of Election by
arrondissement on the third reading by a vote of two to one, and has sent a proposal of M. Bardoux, fixing the elections of the Senate for January 22. and of Deputies for February 20, up to the Bureau for discussion. M. Buffet has been beaten as to, the disfranchisement of the Colonies, "India," Guadeloupe, Mar- tinique, and Reunion regaining one representative each on the third reading ; and it seems to be settled that the Press LaW shall not pass. M. Buffet, however, can rely on his powers under the state of siege, and as that is to continue, he has determined to extend them. Taking advantage of the cothinb- tion excited by M. de Cassagnac's meeting in Belleville, he has announced that henceforward any meeting likely to disturb order will be suppressed. As any meeting which Government dislikes
is necessarily a meeting likely to disturb order, he has now the power to suppress any journal or any meeting likely to uphold the claims of any candidate whom he wishes to exclude from the Assembly.
