There has been another crisis in France. On Friday week,
M. Laguerre, General Boulanger's agent in the Chamber, pro- posed that the House should consider the question of Revision on the following day, and was supported both by the Radicals and the Reactionaries. The Ministry, though taken by sur- prise, warmly opposed the proposition, either as dangerous in itself, or inopportune at so disturbed a moment ; and at last M. Tirard, who had been absent, declared that the Govern- ment would treat an affirmative decision as a vote of want of confidence. The Chamber, however, was not dismayed, and voted urgency for Revision by 268 to 234. The Ministry thereupon resigned, and the President, after a conference with M. Le Royer, who dissuaded him from forming a Ministry of Resistance, sent for M. Floquet. M. Floquet found colleagues pretty quickly, placing M. Goblet at the Foreign Office, M. de Freycinet at the War Office, M. Peytral at the Ministry of Finance, M. Lockroy at the Ministry of Worship, and MM. Ricard and Loubet at those of Justice and Public Works. These two, however, resigned on reading the pro- gramme ; but their place was rapidly filled by two other quiet mediocrities, and on Tuesday the new- Cabinet was ready to meet the Chamber. The interval had been unusually short.
