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hend from that quarter, and the present ministry will be as successful 

 there, as those of Perier, Soult, Gerard, Broglie, and Thiers, have 

 hitherto been. 



But with regard to the chamber of deputies we shall be com- 

 pelled to be rather prolix, in order to impart to our readers what we 

 think to be a just estimate of that assembly, which is composed of 

 459 members, chosen for five years by the comparatively small 

 number of 184,754 electors, out of a population of above 33,000,000 

 of souls. We must also add here, that more than a half of these 

 electors are either directly or indirectly under the control of the 

 existing government. However, in order to rule over the deputies, 

 Louis Philippe is obliged to make use of all his cunning duplicity and 

 intrigues, of all his means of corruption, bribery, and intimida- 

 tion, and, nevertheless, it is with great difficulty that he has till now 

 succeeded in obtaining a majority in favour of his mysterious and 

 bastard policy. That assembly may be divided into four sections, 

 which are separated from each other on general administrative and 

 political questions, but on particular matters they often lend their 

 support to their opponents, in order to forward their own projects 

 and purposes by their unpopularity. 



The Orleanist section is composed of the Doctrinaires and of all 

 Placemen under the immediate influence of the crown, because their 

 welfare depends entirely on the stability and existence of the present 

 dynasty. Guizot, Royer-Collard, Giraud de 1'Ain, Remusat, Sebas- 

 tiani, Jacqueminot, Salvandy, and all the ministers of the day are 

 at their head. This party is supported from without by the " Moni- 

 teur," the " Journal des Debats," the " Estaffette," the " Impartial," 

 the " Presse," the " Chronique de Paris," by a budget of nearly a 

 milliard of francs and by Jive hundred thousand bayonets. 



The Liberal section, or, as it is commonly styled, the party of the 

 movement, is formed, 1st, by the greatest part of those who were the 

 chief promoters of the three glorious days of July, and who were the 

 most active instruments of the inthronization of the present French 

 Mahrnoud ; 2nd, by all the admirers of the constitution of the United 

 States of North America; and lastly, by the representatives of the 

 most liberal departments of France, where the corruption and the 

 intrigues of the patriot king have not yet winned the support of the 

 majority of the electors. The most distinguished members of this 

 section are Laffitte, Odilon-Barrot, Mauguin, Salverte, Audry de 

 Puyraveau, Cormenin, George Lafayette, De Tracy, Clausel, Bignon, 

 Gamier-Pages, and their politics are advocated by the " National," 

 " Courier Francois," the " Tribune Politique," the " Bon Sens," and 

 byV.l the instructed and intelligent portion of the French nation. 



Next comes the section of the Tiers-party, which represents a 

 political mass of would-be ministers and of place-hunters, floating 

 between the doctrine, the movement, and the Carlists, belonging to 

 none of them, but, according to their own interest, lending to any 

 of them their support. The personal friend of Louis Philippe, his 

 homme de loi during the last twenty years, the present president of 

 the chamber of deputies, M. Dupin, may be considered the leader of 

 this floating section, and Etienne and Jay its spokesmen and organs. 

 The Tiers-party is supported from without by the " Constitutionnel," 



