The Sun.
London, England, 1869-12-07 00:00:00

PARIS CORRESPONDENCE.

MONDAY.

The Right Centre and the Left Centre have each put forth
a manifesto, the full text of which is given in the journals
to-day. The Right, which, of course, numbers Emile
011ivier among its signatories, declares its attachment to
parliamentary Government, which implies a free press and
free elections, a responsible Ministry, and a compact majority
with definite principles. It then proceeds to summarise
the most needed reforms, such as the abrogation of the
law of public safety, the adoption of a system of decen-
tralisation, electoral and municipal reform, the
modification of Article 75, the trial of press
offences by jury, the alteration of the stamp duty
into a postal charge, the suppression of the prefectorial
right to select the journals which shall have official news,
gratuitous education of the superior grade, and parlia-
mentary inquiries into treaties of commerce. The
last item, you will perceive, is a bonne bouche for the
Protectionists, and will no doubt help to confirm some
wavering supporters. One hundred and fourteen names
aro attached to this document, among which are many who
have played a prominent part in the crisis. Thirty-seven
members of the Left Centre have as yet signed the rival
manifesto, but others are expected to join it. The most
remarkable feature in this programme of the Left is its
similarity to the programme of the Right. In fact, the
framers of the mix-1s; declare that they are, for the roost
part, nearly identical. The Left, however, remarks that
the programme cannot be caried out without constitutional
changes, more especially those which refer to the electoral
districts, and the nomination of the mayors, and they demand
that the Government shall use its initiative to effect the
admission of the popular representatives to a share in
these necessary modifications of the Constitution. A
special law adm;t:;ing the communes to a sufficient parti-
cipation in the choice of the magistrates is
the other reservation which the Marquis d'Andelarre
and his followers think it necessary to make with regard
to the programme of the Right Centre. They conclude
with the expression of their conviction that unanimity
of action between all the sections of the Liberal-Conser-
vative party is most desirable. You will readily see that
there is good reason for the general satisfaction expressed
at the prospect of forming a strong and united
Liberal party. There was good cause to fear from the dis-
organisation of political parties that the Reformers
would lose the vantage ground they had gained by
the events of the year, in petty differences and jealousies
between their leaders. The Government, we may be very
sure, would not be slow to take advantage of this, and
whether it granted a new lease of life to personal
power, or produced a revolutionary reaction, it
would certainly not conduce to the establishment
of constitutional government. The chief organs of the
press are rejoicing. Even the Patric hopes that there is
an end to the division between the two Centres. The
Temps looks hopefully to the result of the new experiment,
a representative regime with universal suffrage under the
empire. The Journal des Dibats observes that the ques-
tions which unite the two groups of the Centre are more
numerous than those which divide them, and that the
extreme Right and extreme Left are reduced to isolated
and powerless minorities.
The Figaro has received a letter from Baron Jerome
David, Vice-President of the Corps Legislatif, contradicting
the statement that he had refused to sign the programme
of the Right Centre. He was not, he states, invited to the
meeting at M. Josseau's, and only heard of the manifesto
indirectly. He and his friends wish to avoid the schisms
which have already compromised the majority, and the
divisions which may occur will be in spite of their efforts.
M. Emile Girardin, who had kept silent on the subject
of M. Emile 011ivier's scheme to reconstitute the majo-
rity in the Corps Legislatif, has just written an article
very much in favour of the honourable deputy's proposal.
At a private nhinion which took place the other day at
the Salle Moli(:.re, M. Crbmieux declared that a project of
electoral law would shortly be prepared by the Left. In
the first place, it will suppress all official candidatures,
and it also enacts severe penalties against all official agents
who meddle inthe elections.

OA the fifteenth of this month a new daily paper will
apiekt: It is to be called the Cloche, and will be conducted
by M. Louis Ulbach. It is to be the real representative of
the opinions of the Left. M. Ulbach has met with a
great deal of support both in the literary and political
world.

Joseph Mazzini is travelling in Germany, and seeking to
realise his grand idea of the fusion of the Latin races—
It Tian, French, and Iberian—under a Republican Govern-
ment.

The Liberte states that Count Codfroi de la Tour
d'Auvergne has arrived in Rome, and been most,graciously
received by the Pope. The Pontiff desired him, in
writing to his father, to convey to him his benedic-
tion. The good relations that exist between the Court
of Rome, and the family of Tour d'Auvergne are well
known. The French Minister for Foreign Affairs received
his title of Prince from the Holy See.
A cache has just been established in the Avenue
d'Eylau, under the patronage of the Prince Imperial. Tho
model of the institution was in the Exhibition of 1867,
and the young prince wrote his name in the book placed
there for strangers who were interested in the affair. The
inauguration of this creche raises the number of these
useful asylums in Paris to seventeen.
The Archbishop of Rouen has contradicted the report
that he had carried with him to Rome libretto of all the
operas in order that the Council might examine them in a
theological point of view.