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    THE PARIS ELECTION. The coming election ...

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    THE STATE OF FRANCE. At the assizes of t...

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    RETURN OF THE POPE. The Pope lias actual...

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    The Mo V Ements In The Church. Among The...

    moderation to any movement that was made , knots of provincial clergy might undertake separate and perhaps ill-advised action . It may also have been felt that many careless persons might assume , & omthe aDsence of any opposite statement or movement , that there existed a general acquiescence m the justice of what those who are agitating for a change in the constitahoii of the Church and its courts have advanced , andso . commit themselves to this party . Undoubtedly there might be some cause to apprehend these consequences ; butwe " determination has been

    repeat , we heliev ^ thewisest adopted . It will very soon be felt by all parties . that the decision of the Council must be accepted , whether for beUer or for worse . Probably nothing will have so much tended to give firmness to the Government , to the Primate or to the Bishops , than that calmness m the « eS body of ? he ChurchUich is above all others the «* n to cautious and reflecting minds of a consciousness of strength . It would have been unwise and uncharitable , by a counter-agitation , to have renewed the struggles of this unfortunate controversy . We advise by all means the provincial , moderate , or evangelical uartv to follow the course adopted in the metropolis .

    They have no ground to fear that , if there be cause to agitate , there will not be many in London quite ready to recommend and to guide the movement . "

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    The Paris Election. The Coming Election ...

    THE PARIS ELECTION . The coming election is the engrossing subject in French politics ; and of that the most important feature is M . Girardin ' s reply to the Socialist Committee , who declared that he would have been their candidate if he had not set universal suffrage above the Republic . M . Girardin declares that he places universal suffrage above the Republic , but absolute liberty above the suffrage . If by the Republic the Committee understands the regime of absolute liberty there is no difference between , them . M . Girardin withdraws simply to prevent a split in the Socialist T > artv . He says , as regards the candidature of M .

    Dupont de l'Eure , his name would not signity me Republic , as he forfeited his right to represent that when he voted , after the insurrection of June , that General Cavaignac had deserved well of his country . Since this the Socialist delegates have by a large majority chosen M . Eugene Sue as their candidate . The Legitimist papers pretend to give reports of the speeches at the meetings of electors to choose the delegates who were to decide upon the Socialist ¦ candidate . These reports are made by the agents of the police , so that there can be no doubt as regards their authenticity . The Times and other English papers reproduce them in full . According to them the speeches are always of the most violent character . A few specimens are worth giving .

    "In 1830 , " says a candidate , according to the reports , * ' I formed one of the hunting party against the gendarmes ; subsequently I enrolled myself amongst the St . Simonians ; I then became an Icarian Communist ; in 1848 I was again at a hunting party—the quarry was the Municipal Guards ! ( Thunders of applause . ) It was I , yes , it was I , who planted the Red flag on the H 6 tel de Ville . ( Bravos , and great applause ) . Name me . lam a knowing old democratic fox —unjin renard ddmocrate . Never fear , in the conclave I shall be able to distinguish between white ears and red ears . " ( Triple round of

    applause . ) " Another person , a sculptor , made a profession of the nroet ultra-Socialism . But it was discovered that he had recedved many benefits from the Government ; had lately asked to be employed in public works , and a studio at the Institute was actually allotted to him : and , worse than all , he was a proprietor . His claims were consequently rejected with contempt . " " Another was enthusiastically elected when he declared that the majority of the Assembly was only fictitious , for the simple reason that it is obtained by legal means . Another said that all existing things must fall dnto the gulf of Socialism . He was asked what he meant by the ' gulf ? He said he meant the Mountain . "

    These veracious reports were reproduced by M . 33 aroche in the Assembly , on Saturday , in reply to M . liaune , who demanded of the Minister some explanations regarding the shutting up of several places of meeting , and the prevention of the meetings of -electors by the police . M . Baroche complained that the Socialists opposed the principles of the Constitution by determining upon a candidate through n ¦ double election . ( A voice from the Left remarked that . Legitimists did the same . ) First , said M . Baroche , they appointed 200 delegates , and then these delegates chose a candidate who was henceforth accepted by the whole party . Besides this they discussed questions not connected with the elections . M . Baroche

    then proceeded to read the reports of the police attending those meetings . After mentioning the cases above cited , he spoke of the Abbe Chatcl , who at one of these meetings " had said that Christianity was a profound error , that the iirst thing necessary was to give satisfaction to the physical organs , " and whose words were greeted witli rapturous applause . ' At the meeting of Montmartrc two individuals wore red cravats . ( Voice on the Left : " Perhaps also red hair !) A speaker on being asked if he believed in a God , answered that the only visible God whom he recognised ¦ was the sun . The chairman of the meeting corrected him , saying that he ought to consider the sun as the clerk of a mightier power . ( Laughter . ) Another said , * After the 10 th of March the royalists raised their war cry against the people : we have our martyrs , they are , in

    exile and prison . ' ( Interruption on the Left : * So they President : " Such approbation is complicity . *' Left : " Judges , judges . " . « . « -aB » President : •« Only eight or ten voices cried out yes , when martyrs were talked of . " Left : " No , a hundred . " . Violent agitation , the Left crying out " Judges , ^ M ^ Baroche : " You cry out for judges ; have not the men in exile been judged ?" M Chauffour : " The transported have not been judged . " After further interruptions from the Left , and from the President , who commented very violently upon the violence of the Left .

    , _ M Baroche continued : " In another meeting a speaker said the soil of France belonged to the people ; in 1780 the nobles had serfs ; now the rich had their slaves . " The Minister wound up by saying that the Uovernment had thought it right to close meetings of this sort , and had now explained to the Assembly the motives for thus acting . M . Jules Favre replied : — " In the Minister ' s explanation were some points sufficiently serious , and others which he could not so characterize . And , first , as to the satisfaction expressed by of Marchothers

    the Minister at the elections of the 10 th , might think with him that it came rather late , and was possibly somewhat forced . But , if it was so , was that a reason for now preventing the free exercise of the right of meeting . The Minister had stated that public order was disturbed . There was here a question both of right and of prudence ; for the right , —ihe law of the 19 th of June , 1849 , did not interdict electoral meetings , but only the clubs . The Minister was acting in advance , upon the strength of the new law not yet discussed by the Assembly . It was an invoking of arbitrary power——M . Dufaure : " The arbitrariness is in the law . "

    The President : " The law is bad where it is not arbitrary . " , . . M . Favre could not but express his surprise at hearing men of eminence , who had gained their reputation in the defence of liberty , indirectly defending arbitrary power . The President : " The speaker , no doubt , confounded the arbitrariness which would rise against the law , which no one there would defend . But there was nothing arbitrary in hindering every one from setting himself , according to his fancy and particular opinion , above the law . " . ... the honour

    M . Favre " accepted the explanation of - able and learned President ; but it seemed to him that it was understood in every law that its exercise was limited by the Constitution ; and the Constitution guaranteed the right of public meeting . They might endeavour to stretch the law by calling the meetings clubs , but they did not become clubs because of a few violent words or ridiculous speeches . And on what proofs did the Minister base even his assertions of these violences ? On the reports of the police . Were they exact ? They had been told of able and consciencious policemen , very strong too in stenography . He confessed himself ignorant of the existence of this course of shorthand for the use of the police . ( General laughter . ) But , even supposing their extreme abilityhe would not accept their reports

    with-, out examination . " M . Favre proceeded to dispute the facts . " With regard to the statement about the sculptor , he had been reproached , not with being a proprietor , but because , being a proprietor , he had accepted a workshop from the Government . So on the false interpretation of a policeman , the right of meeting had been suspended . Another fact . At one of the meetings a man had worn a red neckcloth . 13 ut even there ( pointing to the Right ) he saw a whole waistcoat of the same terrible colour—( General laughter ; all eyes being turned upon M . Cunin-Gridainc who wore a scarlet waistcoat ) . If the agent of the Minister had been in the House it would certainly have gone into his report . Another orator adored the Sun . These matters were so puerile that he verily believed one must be a member of the cabinet to be frightened at them . But if

    there had been really any appeal to the worse passions , then the simple prohibition of public meetings was not enough . There ought to be prosecutions . He would remind them of a fact . In one of the insurrections which had but too often stained their country , one of the first of the insurgents who fired upon the soldiers was wounded . What did they find concealed upon him ? His policeman ' s belt . " M . Cheoaray : " It is a false statement . "

    M . Favre : * ' The proof is in the Moniteur . It took place at Lyons , in 1834 . He cited this fact , which he had seen , to advise the Minister that in his administration he might encounter agents as evilly disposed . He had said the other day that they were under the government of the police . Had he lied then ? Were not these meetings prohibited solely on the report of a police subaltern ? That was not sufficient to put down public meetings . Something more was required , too , than these complaints of the Minister of the Interior . "

    M . Barociik defended himself . " Those who attacked him , attacked society—( Bursts of laughter ) . He was reproached with having been vice-president of a club in 1848 . Was that such a great crime ? " A Voice : " Not with having been a vice-president ! " Another Voice : " But with having turned . " The Assembly passed to the order of the day .

    The State Of France. At The Assizes Of T...

    THE STATE OF FRANCE . At the assizes of the Seine , on the 12 th instant , M . Buvignier ( member of the Constituent Assembly ) has been condemned to twelve months' imprisonment and /) 00 francs fine for having , in July , 18-18 , taken part in founding ixn association called La Solichiritc Republicaine , whose object was the maintenance and defence of the Republic by all legal means .

    For the same offence M . Hizay has been sentenc ed to six months' imprisonment and 100 francs fine ; M . Delescluze , M . Fillette , M . Aubert Roche , H . Dalican , M . Crevat , and M . Lemaire , in default ! each to two years' imprisonment and 500 francs fine . All the condemned are deprived of their civil rights for five years . The charge against them was the establishment of the society without sufficient legal authority , and its political character . In defence it was proved by the evidence of the heads of the Ministry of the Interior , and by the Prefect of Police , that proper notice of the foundation of the society had been given and the necessary documents deposited at the prefecture ; also that the depositors

    had been informed at the prefecture that , under the conditions then existing , such deposit was equivale nt to a formal authorization . It was also proved that the establishment of the association had been placarded in the streets of Paris , and published in t he journals . The Republican aim of the association was offence enough ; and the jury found the accused guilty . The jury lists are prepared by the Prefect . It was this same court which , on the 29 th . of March last , condemned to imprisonments , varying from six days to one month , the Legitimists convicted of belonging to an armed secret society , whose confessed object was to procure the overthrow of the Republic and the return of Henry V .

    The President of the Republic continues to receive indications of his growing unpopularity . In crossing the Champs Elysees , on the 12 th instant , on his way to Versailles , to review the troops , one of the horses of his carriage fell . He was immediately surrounded by a crowd , who saluted him with shouts of " Vive la Republique Democratique ! " On the 13 th , on his way to the Palais National , to examine the plans of the markets , the same cry was universal on the whole line of his passage .

    Some disorders are said to have taken place at St . Felix-d'Amont , the mayor being pointed out as the instigator . The Journal des Pyrenees-Orientates states that last week that functionary came out on horseback , and placed himself at the head of about a dozen individuals , who began to sing demagogical songs and uttered cries , such , as " Vive la Republique Democratique et Sociale ! " " Some day we shall eat the Whites like frogs ! " & c . The mayor , it is said , afterwards addressed the crowd , using such , extraordinary language that the Journal dares not repeat it .

    A " revolt" of the garrison at Angers has been spoken of by the journals . The Ordre , however , describes a much less important affair , though significant enough : — "A battalion of the 47 tli ( it was the 11 th . Light Infantry ) entered Angers by a faubourg , which , is chiefly inhabited by Democrats , who , surrounding the soldiers , conducted them to the mairie to procure their billets . After this the Democrats invited the soldiers to drink with them , and in the evening both soldiers and Socialists promenaded the streets and along the Boulevard , shouting « Vive la Republique Democratique ! ' General de Castellane has , it is said , ordered the battalion to be broken , and the soldiers distributed amongst other regiments . " *

    It was at Angers that , in August last , Louis Napoleon Bonaparte , while making his tour to Nantes , was ieted in the most brilliant manner . There were bouquets , illuminations , fireworks , in his honour ; the neighbouring country poured in its population , and wherever he appeared , he was hailed with cries of " Vive Napoleon ! " The Moniteur is ominously silent on the subject . Dismissals of schoolmasters suspected of Socialism still continue . At Toulon the director of the arsenal has turned off fourteen workmen for singing patriotic songs in a house some distance from the town , where they were spending the Sunday .

    In the department of the Lower Pyrenees the police have prohibited the circulation and distribution of all the newspapers . At Cahors they would not allow a patriotic song in a cafe . Tlic Assembly has refused the usual grant for the political sufferers of 1830 and 1848 . The general of the first division ( Paris ) , in an order of the day , denounces a lithograph representing the soldiers fraternizing with the people , as an insult to the army , recalling the " unhappy reminiscences of the saturnalia of February . "

    Return Of The Pope. The Pope Lias Actual...

    RETURN OF THE POPE . The Pope lias actually returned . The Moniteur publishes the following telegraphic despatch : — " Romk , April 13 . " The Pope entered Rome last evening at four o ' clock He was received with the most enthusiastic acclamations . The whole city " —( interrupted . ) At Tcrracina his Holiness received the keys of the town , under a triumphal arch , amidst the roar of

    artillery , but without the acclamations of the people . ' In the evening , one Neapolitan and one Roman band of music enlivened the town , which was brilliantly illuminated . " Accounts have not yet arrived of the rejoicings at Rome . No doubt , however , they are ^ reat , since the Cardinal-Vicar has distributed 2 . 5 , 000 dollars among the poor . No danger is apprehende 1 , as the utmost precautions have been taken , even sportsmen being carefully looked after .

• Citation
  • Leader (1850-1860), April 20, 1850, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_20041850/page/6/