The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-08-08

a cdr frust Forget tite ast any 'iiSs u
tT,rs sorfo,,s etc The room began To fill about
isle gsst go;clock. ana at halfpast 5, Mr.. Smith
0sr5;s, 3accnmpanied by Alessrs. Dennis Shine
49, i5Iln shea Ialor, Denny Lane, and several
ofl,er gentlemen, made their appearance. his ar
rival was the signal for the most enthusiastic ap-
pIause, All present, who al about TINS tilne nun
be.ed lout FIVE hundred, rising from their seats,
elesif ng for several minutes.
me speech az the evening was delivered by lhr.
( OiBrien. As this was his first public appear
snce suce bis late trial, in the Court OF Queens
Bench. ON unusual degree OF interest was attached
to the affair
THE FRENCH REPUBLIc.
PARIs. July l3.-The National. which used to
Il. considered the De6ats of the republic, makes
Jseided tbolgh eonrteods, opposition to the Go
,,arrnaent with respect to the restrictive laws
AGAINST he press and tie clubs This is the more
remarkable. as this journal stands almost alone in
fbis aet If opposition The National finds that
Judgment of 2t0C9f security money IS too much,
altboggh it does not amount fourth part OF the
sum reauired under the monarchy. The clubs
oleyht not 10 be nterfered WITH unless they meet
armed and thus this moderate republican organ,
bV singularly ill-timed opposition. hopes to win
hack the rood graces of the more advanced party,
which had began TO hate it, Several journals al
ujed to the disagreeable rumOrs that were current
Yesterday but generally for the purpose of express
n disbelief il is not true that there had been at
Martin as had been asserted
Yesterday NJ de Iamartine attended the Com
nlittee Of Foreign Affairs, and made a speech on
HE foreign polio which it became the republic to
follow NJ. de I.amartine still adheres to the prin
ciples laid down in his celebrated manifesto, and
repeated in the Assembly subsequently to the man
Hesitation Of the 18th May, when the question of
Polish interference was raised. He summed up
his reasoning by expressing his principles to mean
sympathy with all nati0ns-abdication of all ambi-
lion, Of conquest, patronage by France of all ma
which desire glorious revival, and an
alliance Of IDEAS rather than Of arms.
Why Mr. de Lamartine should have deemed it
necessary at this moment to come forward and re-
peal these sentiments is not stated. 1t may be that
he desires to meet the accusations that are break
ing through the inquiry now proceeding in Belg-
uIn relative 10 the violation of the Belgian terri
tory by men who had been armed in France, sup
Piled in France led by French Polytechnic pupils,
and guided by French commissioners. To the in
yasion Of Belgium M de Lamartine may have
been stranger, but there is strong reason for be-
eving that his colleagues favored and supported it
The movements Of the Russian troops in Molda-
via and Wallachia have excited the most earnest
attention in Paris; the expected decisive engage
nent between the Piedmontese and the Austrans
keeps the public mind awake, and the new com
plieation in Spain adds to the trouble; for should
The republic be able TO maintain ITSELF it is con-
EuSfbu iiisb likely tll1L Sit iOlDlu
ton Of monarchies on her Alpine and PYrenean
frontiers, and encourage republican propagandism
in Spain and Italy, and even along the Rhine.
The war party would therefore desire for the mo-
ment to see Charles Albert beaten and the Count
de MontemoIin succeed. For every reason Nj. de
Isamartines warnings need TO be repeated, al
though thew have lost much Of their authority.
Several members of the provisional government
and Of the executive commission have been inter-
rogated by the commissioners, appointed by the
National Assembly to inquire into the causes which
led to the late insIirreetiOn NJ Arago is stated to
have been examined twice. On his first exami-
nation le declared that a magistrate, whom he
would moi name. was among the guilty, both OF the
affair ia May and that OF June. On his second ex-
animation he i said to have EXPLICITLY charged
M Portals, jules Fabre, and Landrn, of having Sc
cietlV excited the movement OF the clubs on these
occasions M. Arago distinctly disavowed any Or
deis having been given by the executive commits
sion having tendency TO relax the means OF re-
pressing the 6nlute He also declared that the COM
mission was altogether Ignorant that the 22d of
June the day before the emute, two regiments had
been marched out of Paris, one to Scissors and the
other to Amiens.
The National Assembly, Debates on The Consti-
fusOn.-The National Assembly continues, in It's
bureaux the examination of the project of the Con-
stitltOn The great question OF =" two Chamber"
has been the object of important deliberations.
Inc Dfincpe was duInlLI6Q Ill seN6Tdl, particularly
in the l4th where il was carried by 20 against 10.
TIE prevailing belief is that the forthcoming Con-
sfitnijon will comprehend two Chambers and
President and the plan of the American COnstitu-
ion Among the defenders of the system of two
Chambers are mentioned Theirs, Victor Hugo, Is
ambert Jules de Iasere, Raimbault, Demesanges,
Pigeon, Oscar Lafayette, Abraham Dubois and
Etienne, who supported their arguments by refer
rnato tie United States, which commenced by
forming a single Chamber, and very quickly adj
fnitted the necessity for a second Chamber.
A single Assembly in France, it was said, would
iinish by becoming either tyrannical or savish,
occurred during the first revolution. The partisans
Of a single Chamber, among whom are Marrast,
Crenieux, Babaud- Lariviere, Havin, Donation
Marquis Regnaud, Gaudin, Barthe, G. Sarrott,
Flsury, Cont, Grew, and Brunei, replied that the
example of the United States did not apply to
France inasmuch as those States form Federal
Republic They maintained that the French Re-
public being a unity, the two Chambers would
be constantly in opposition to each other and might
lfIer usurper an opportunity Of expressing one by
The other.
The National Assembly will, it is believed, I'M
iertake to frame all the laws Of the Constitution,
IL a.. kensoa d,Jeen months
ls,,,a- II : -. ",
IN the l3tha,ureGu, Bayoux and Tracy expressed
rearst that the words public order, the old motto
Of France. should have been omitted and not even
once mentioned in the project Of the Constitution
The bureau unanimously resolved TO modify the
preamble Of the Constitution, which would stand
as follows: "The Republic recognizing for It's
dogma. Liberty, Equality, and fraternity; and TOR
its basis, family, property, and public order.
The discussion on the proposed Constitution was
agafn taken up on the 10th, in the bureaux OF the
A1en,bly Thefrst bureau, by a majority OF Y
a. a decided for only one Chamber. The seventh
and ninth bureaux also declared for one Chomber.
The fourteenth voted, by majority of % TO 10, for
two. The eleventh bureau having decided that the
President shall only be in power three years, NJ de
las Gases presented an amendment to enable him
10 he reelected for three other years; but NJ A.
lhouret warmly opposed it as likely 10 endanger
the Republic On a division, the votes for and
AGAINST II were equal, sot that there was no decision
Robert O,oen and NJ Thtes.-We perceive from
lie PoDalaiTe Of Tuesday. NJ. Cadets paper, that
MI owen. who is now in Paris, has replied to a
remark made by NJ Theirs in the Assembly, to the
plIrport that he eTbiers, knew no means OF ensur-
inc work forthe working classes, that II any one
did nossess such secret, it was his duty to make II
known. We give free translation of MIR. owen
letter: ,,.
accept the offer that It is possible TO assure
constant and useful employment TO all the Workneh nor OF
nee merely but OF Europe mot only Tor some ages D4t
fe- he duration Of the world assert farther that people
thue employed will be Infinitely easier 10 govern uah ey
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