The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-03-19
The Revolution in France.
The Detailed History of Events in Paris.
Special Dispatches to the New York Herald
Office,
&c. sc. sc.

Special Dispatches to the New York Herald
Office.
THE REFORM BANQUETs-THE BEGINNING OF THE
REVOLUTION.
PARIS, Feb II, ls4s.
crisis is rapidly approaching in the afsrs Of France
a1d without wisdom and great fobearsnce revolution
and blood shed much than any anticipated
All is excitement in Peris eighty thousand troops
said to have been ordered to Paris and the
represented making the most active to
meet the crisis snd If necessary employ force to
tain the position of the ministry The OF this
expected any important movement grows out of the dir
custom in the Chamber Of Deputies, and the final vote
of that body upon the subject of the banques Prior
to the assembling OF tho Chamber there had been about
seventy baIques in France, in which the political af
fairs of the country discussed the necessity Of
parliamentary and electoral reform enforced and the
corruptions of the ministry, as is aledged denounced
aud, In two instances, the company refused TO
drink the kings health In this kings speech, there
bsnqusts referred to- in terms of marked disappro
baton and in the address In reply to the speech ref
renee was made thesein still offensive manner
Nearly one hundred deputies had attended those ban.
quets and, az they contend they had right to do
and they quote NJ Guizots example, and words, upon
former occasions before he Minister, to sustain
them The ministry now contend that by an old law of
$780, the government has right to interdict the hold
ing of banquets public private except such it
may tolerate and it had prior to this discussion
vented one from taking place In Paris. The opposition
declare the language OF the address abusive Of gross
character, upon them by the majority for acts pri
vate citz.ns entirely lawful in themselves aud only
few hundred thousand can vote, In a population OF
35000000, there is no privilege left the people If the
right OF meeting and speaking Is denied them-thst
the right too important to be yielded that there Is
no Law to forbid it and that come what wilt, they will
meet and discuss the affairs Of government whether
please or dsplease the ministry. An amendment was
offered
dress but NJ Guizot declared 1t bad been made cebi-
act measure and If struck out the ministry would re-
sgn An amendment then offered In favor Of psrli-
aaeutary reform and in both OF there questions the
party Of DE ministry was divided ard although every
home 60 vote, the final msjority If ministers
seventeen, when, generally there nearly hundred
Two HUNDRED and SIX were p,Jot,'y .ne ministry
pspsiened and sasried officers of the government The
opposition regard the discussion and vote es triumph
and death blow to the ministry and think this is the
general imprss with the public Frencbmen and
foreigners. But thu rancor and excitement only
have bsen equxled by the days Of the French rsyou
ton The combat has b. mortal and nothing but
tho destruction Of the ministry or opposition, can
settle the question There is 70 longer any room Tor
nsdstion and, although the Debais the organ Of the
ministry has promised that the ministry shall Ina
medistey brin forward measures of reform of salts
factory chsracGer the opposition tcout It and say 1t l.
only concession wruug from the ministry, TO at
tempt to save their places that their reform ban
que" viii proceed snd proceed 10 an orderly man
ncr and, " the ministry, without right or law IN
tsrferes, and blood flows the responsibility be upon
their heads Under the IMPULSE Of snch feelings, Sc
venty bsrques said to have bee, arranged at as
many different points in France Ia Paris the most ex
tensive and magnificent preparations ia full opera
ton for such banquet as was never held in France
There ia no hall in the city large enough to hold the
guests More than one hundred deputie,, five or
six hundred officers Of the National Guard, be-
ing nearly the entire number six Peers, many
Mayors OF the city, aud distinguished citizens,
and officers In unparalleled numbers The day has not
yet been fixed upon; but magnificent pavilion IL being
erected In the Champs Eysces tina most beautiful part
of the cty where thousands and tens Of thousands
assemble 10 join their fellow oountrymep upoo that
trying ard for France, most important occa,iop No
human power foresee what that day will forth
The perception OF the French people, when excited IA
not very distinct between legal and natural resstanc
and sy do the mssses, who deprived OF
ths right suffrage and OF eligibility TO place with the
opposition 10 the ministry aud the frsnds of REFORM
stimulated they will be by the addresses upon that
occasion by the STING Of past recolections
ced as the ministry the chamber, and through
tn. press ~ worse than that Charles the Tenthss
the Polgnacs Of ls4s-should the ministry attempt to
make OF the speakers leaders OF the move
mont while hare about one third Of the Chamber OF