Paris, 17th January.
The Chambers met on the 13th without incident. The same Presidents and Committees were definitively re-elected except in the Senate, where BL. Demole was appointed Vice-President in succession to Magnin, voluntarily retired.—Deputy Floquet' on taking the presidential chair made a speech, which was loudly applauded, in which he reviewed the work accomplished by the Chamber and that still remaining to be done, recalling the Republican aspirations of the country, as displayed in the result of the elections of the 4th January, and concluding by quoting the words of Gambetta to the effect that it was necessary to surround the Republic with institutions more and more liberal and democratic in order to unite all patriots and all Frenchmen,—Tongking papers.
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