The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1848-06-13
FOREIGN NEWS.
FRENCH AFFAIRS.

rTom lnp ATS coIIosPVhuoh'oitnotN' wy tN ~ Af"p"Y'
notsesas Has PARIS, May IL, lS48. \
Tho Republic issfinally constituted, thank
God! We have National Assembly in full
aciivity-a Government with responsible
Ministers; a. Constitution is being framed; ;
order and quies reign in Paris, and although
trade is stilapt, q stand, although indus
Try languishes, alillopgh caplSl) still A.
voids coming out from lis hidng-places, the
fault does not rest with the constituted AS
sembiy, nor with The constituted Govern
ment., We arSnDw having a Constitution
made: if Il do not er', il lis the tweniy-sev-
entli over which France has rejoiced for the
las, siS,y.years--nor is it by any means the
last. The great manufactory in which the th,e,
aforesaid Constitution is elaborated, we call
National Assembly, and this National AS
sembly consists of nino hundred most zeal
Gus patriots; ofvery different mental capacl-
ty, utalliuspired with the same zeal; name-
", to speak as often themselves, and to N
terrnpt as often as practicable Inc o'her
speakers. sg iaauQ3 bisg sa a.,
slAfier stormy debate, twas finally deter
mined 10 choose an Executive Committee OF
foe members, who should govern until the
formation Of the Constitutions and the estab-
lishment of definite Government. A sec.
ond time, all internal ariifces were employed
by the reactonnry party (he Legltlnallss's,
the Otlc.nis,s, Uliramontahes, and members
Of the former opposiion) TO exclude Ledru
RLlln, from the Government OF Five; but
I I,omor,ine. who comprehended how danger
ous and unpollic would he such step, de-
clared most positively that he would enieer
into no combination, from which Ledrn Rpl1
lin was excluded. The Committee was
therefore chosen as follows: Lamartlne,
Ladru Rolln, Aragoj Garnier Pages and Ma
ric. " t u1eE tgE. d ,.t .g.HLE1j
So far have we advanced: we have n Coy
ernment which knows itself and which Is
known-and the Exchange is aganrecover-
inn confidence, while the prices OF stocks is
rising every day. But in spite of our Gov
eminent and National Assembly, one hun.
dred and twenty thousand lborers go about
in Paris without work, Up to the. present
Time, situations on the so-caled National
Works have been opened for the relief OF
eighty thousand Of these zprivlieged loaier
situations, where man gets two francs day
for doing nothing. The question now ls'
how long they will continue to be paid their
two francs day,--and when there 10 no
more to give them and eighty Thousand hum
ary men arc left standing idle, what lhen?1-
oh, it is indeed difficult to govern now, and
il will soon be impossible. The National
Assembly has, it is true, apponteda Com
mittee to institute an examination concern.
ing the situation of the working classes, and
10 make propositions for their relief; but the
examination of an evil IS unfortunately no
remedy for il, and it is much easier to NIKE
proposals than to carry them out thoroughly
and practically fear, however, that The
.laborers will lose their patience before the
Committee has even finished IFS examlna-
tions, and the political questions are now SO
bound up with the social, that the slightest
feactionary movemeat Of the Assembly tand
il is now continually and irresistibly driven in
that direction) would give the erattss and
enrdges preiext for melting the laborcrs TO
violent outbreak. The Bourgeose desire
This; they wish for an emeute of this kind, in
order to strike finally decisive blow--to be
done with the "labor.canaille."
But the difficulty is not so much in quell-
ing an emeute, as in continuing and preserv-
ing republican form of Government, .
Government of Freedom, ufier victory, and
sparticularly after bloody victory. WoeHto
Paris, woe to France, if here, in her chief
city, the victory over an emeare should be
celebra,cd above .he dead bodies of the peo-
ple. Should such things be, from this das
forward military despotism were the only
oossible Government, and second Napo-
leon, but with less genius, would be the una
voidable consequence. H3
'ai We will hope, at .east, that the world has
advanced farther, that France has lelned
much within the last sixty years, and that
,hines have taken better direction than
these intriguers desire, or the followers OF
The historic school expect. Notwithstanding
all this, things look still better in France than
all the rest Of Europe; and if any country
ON The old Continent has still Future, that
countryis France. His possible that France
has been chosen as the Messiah Of the ma
lions. TO achieve with her blood the unravel-
ling of the Social question for the whole
world. At any rate, for long years to come,
she Will bear the banner Of Revolution in ad-
vance OF the oiherlands Of Europe.
-l- tay
a. PARIS, May IL, 1919:
In Yesterdays session Of the National As