The French Chamber meets next week, and it is believed
that M. G-ritey and the Cabinet have made up their minds what to do. M. Brisson and his Cabinet will resign ; but M. Brisson will be reappointed with a new band of more Radical followers, chief among whom will be M. Lockroy, whose enormous follow- ing in Paris has raised him to influence, and M. Floquet. M. Clemenceau remains outside, declining to enter any Cabinet of whieh he is net the head. The new Government will draw up a programme which is not yet settled, but which will comprise large reductions of expenditure, and a compromise as to Tongnin, but will generally be free from revolutionary violence. It is still doubtful if the Radicals will accept this sketch, more especially as the Tonquinese compromise may prove imprac- ticable. General de Conroy is not to conquer the province, but is to hold the quadrilateral of which Hanoi is the key—thus expending money and lives without any advantage at all. This will not be popular ; but it is believed that the Republican Members, o-a their arrival in Paris, will find that the danger of the Republic is greater than they expected, and will be com- pelled to hold together. M. de liftID, the 1T1tramontane fanatic, is dividing the Monarchists by proposing to form an exclusively clerical party ; but he will probably be checked by Leo XIII., who is not fond of the enrages even on his own side.
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