The clement of comic opera so often attendant on French polities is very conspicuous at present. The Comte de Lur-Suluces, one of the Royalist conspirators who skipped over the frontier before they could be arrested for complicity in M. Déroulede's abortive plot, has sudden! returned to house and invited the authorities to take him into custody.
the present, no effective notice hi taken of his letter, and the poor Count is obliged to remain. in his comfortable house instead of languishing picturesquely i dungeon. Hew) y the tim receiving. sympathizing friends and paper rep and going to the is visibly surprised and annoys being treated stich undeserved leniency. His object in ret compel the Senate, ax the High Court try him afresh, and thus give hi an opportunity not only to publicly denounce the Government's iniquities hut delay the adoption of the Associations Bill by the Senate. He is an ardent Roman Catholic and considers it his duty to champion the rights of the Church which are grievously threatened, in his opinion, by the Bill, Probably the Government will get out of the difficulty by opening an " instruction causing it to drag on until the Associations Bill has been passed. Whatever} happens, the situation is already absurd It is not every day that one seos A conspirator earnestly requesting his own rest on purpose to annoy the Government, and that body showing a strong inclination to leave him alone. Could these! things be in any country but France?
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