Tar " Eastern Times" comments on the numerous denunciations heaped on the National Assembly thus: The Hi National Assembly has become to-day universal target against which denon ciatory missiles have been discharged from all sides, It is heartily hated by the Grand Councillors, repeatedly denounced by the officials, ridiculed and jeartooned by the Press and satirically smiled upon by foreigners, There should be no wonder, therefore, that 80 macy members should have lost heart and absented themselves. The Government has generally regarded the House with the almost contempt, and has withheld many questions which shoald have been banded to the Assembly for discussion.
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