Parliament reassembled this week after the summer holidays. Things political are very quiet, and our legislators themselves do not show much interest in the resumption of business. Perhaps this lack of animation is only to be expected in the last session of a Parliament. Tt may also be due to the strong position of the Govern-moutand the want of any wavering of which the Opposition can make use. The Radicals and Socialists have really nothing better to do than to lie in wait for some incident of debate that may serve their purpose. Everything tends to show that M. Méline will be free to continue his bimetallist representations to Lord Salisbury until the-elections next spring, and possibly afterwards. France has now—O! wonder of wonders '—had the same ministry for a year and a-half.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.