The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-11-26

they wSre determined not to present caudidsts fer
Assembly AZ Of ~ had voted In favor Of General
Csvaignsc: appears, however that 20 members had
Letters from the department Of the saoue and Loire
announce that the majority Of the population Of that
other hand the northern departme nts which we're said
to be similarly disposed reported to be In f.
vor OF Prince Louis Napoleon.
1t appears that the republicans Of Orleans, feeling
inden that the Journal du Loiret, the republican
organ Of that city sho uld have advocated the caud
dsture Of Prince Louis Napoleon for the Presidency Of
the Republic have Withdrawn their support from that
paper and have established the Independent d. Loire
on true republican principles.
The Constitutional announces that Gen Cavaignac
bad offered the mediation Of the French republic for
the cement Of the difference which had arisen
between Switzerland and the Holy See, on the occs'
The Three per cents closed on the Paris
Bourss, yesterday, at AFT 500 the Five per
Railroad Sh.re 7f Zoe Ropsn ssf a.yrs iTo
Great Northern 34if Csc Avignon, i55f; visrsou,
S2of Bale; 55f 500 Bordeaux, sSst 100; Paris and
Strasburg 32If SOC Tours and Nantes, 3l0f
The accounts from avre continue to report brisk
business in cotton, with an improving tendency In
prices From Marseiles also iii mentioned that the
markets were more active, and that there alto
gethsr increased animation in trade.
The Hero, Of Caen, announces that so far ss Its in
amongst the electors of Calyados to put forward NJ
Guizot as their candidate.
THE FRENCH CONSTITUTION.
From the London Times Nov.7l
| The French constitution is completed. On Satur-
day the Assembly voted the I5th article Of the
new Code and the ensemble Of the entire fabric was
then subjected to the conclusive test OF ballot amidst
finale Of shouts atoms and rejocings. Seven
hundred and thirty nine members against thirty,
cerded in behalf Of their constituents their cordial
acceptance OF the conditions int nded to regulate
hereafter the political rights the social duties the
personal privileges of 60000 900 Frenchmen. To
lecture how the constitution may work. beyond the
power Of man but to presume that the experiment
t M Dc ONE no more snsn ~
tn ton Of the 4th Of November, ls4S IL precisely the
reckoning the extemporized codes Of
provisional committees which has been taken trial
since the inaugural year 1889 SIXTY 60 true three
goatkew" the rule for the charmed bullets Of Der
Freischufs. The allowance for French constitutions
is far less liberal. Twenty lone misses have been
already scored up in succession, and most inge-
NOUS readers may now calculate the chances that the
There six "constitutions"-thst is to say, six
several accepted forms Of civil government-under
poor Louis XVI, and eight more in that anarohical
interval which preceded the establishment Of the Con-
suate. The Consulate itself was so fundame ntally
that It may fairly be represented supplying two pe
cimens to the catalogue There then that prodi-
termed the Empire which again was materially mcdI.
ned in 1913 from its original form In 1904 the in
Is to s o sSe n
was again restored and confirmed after the events Of
Waterloo. This makes score, and no person, we
Their upon and attractive basis, which, after
longer and we will admit more promising trial than
events Of last February which have rpened into
the consummation now announced.
1t would be easy enough to depict the character of
the new work by reference to its published maxims,
since making some abatement fer that mystdcaton
Of Language which perpetual appeal to first prnci-
pies has Induced tho decisions of the Assembly the
great questions Of government and legislation
corded in phrases sinsuary laoonic and sentsntous.
quire the position privileges liabilities individual
in any given case under the new oonsttu-
sactory reply In the rst place the operation 81 the
new code In all the most important contingencies of
everyday life will be yet extensively modified, or
Their, will be altogether determined by the "organc
laws, which still remain to be discussed and in the
tecond place. many Of its provisions are concerned
with such impractical and transcendenta theories Of
abstract polity, that their recognition scarcely in.
wolves any serious results than would follow upon
Reason. We are hardly warranted By experience in
concluding that, under the code just now published,
Ss.n Ssss law III
months, when 1t has been commonly represented that
What is there it may be asked to correspond to our
King Lords, and Commons? There Is abolition Of
all royalty and nobility, and concentration OF the
already condemned arstocratioal and despotical
those men who brought its power to pass. In the
what, We shall be able to tell better next month; but
the latest and moot conspicuous incident Of his office
attaining him, under certain conditions Of high
treason against the people The sole governing body
the rIs land + It By cleo which
Ihss one Of the very few points In which the actual
privileges Of Frenchmen are palpably advanced, and
the estimation in which 1t is held may be judged from
the fact that seems to have lost all charms what
ever with its charm Of novelty and that except under
circumstances of unusual exciteme Mt little more than
one half Of the privileged electors to avail
themselves Of the right which they overturned 60
to Win The President is to be elected every
four years that Is to say the very worst element Of
mischief in the American Constitution is to be Dor
rowed without the advantages 1t carries of strong
Executive III france Is to be governed after this
Will be governed by House Of Commons chosen by
the promiscuou and unreaectng votes Of an entire
population, which q strong majority of desperadoes
is in the presence Of this prepostsrous condition
finances and Of the popular temper as would disorssn
lie the best constituted Of Europe that
We conceive all minor and particular regulations will
be OF little avail We have doubt that the details
Of communal and municipal administration will be
ranged with that tact facility and olevernes which
the French people are so remarkable All the smaller
wheels Of the machinery will probably be admirably
orderedi It Is only the manspring which expect to
considerable advantages in its discussions It is true
that all experience teaches look upon the task
undertook as one altogether impractIcable to human
not made by the hands Of one assembly or one
generation. Yet the French Chamber had proceed
novelties suggested upon ola and and
tried stock and II they had really confined themselves
to securing those constitutional reforms the desire Of
which was made the pretext for the revolution they
would have found admirable facilities for their UNDER
taking In that fortunate constitution Of the Assembly
sistent and sensible decisions But they have been
driven by the farccal contradiction bet ween their
situation and their sentiments to ga which
their professions necestte though their hearts dis
approved They allowed those with whom thay have
no community Of desires or hopes to proclaim rcpub-
c and they have been compelled therefore, to parade
tnemeeves IN republican trappDgs before the eyes of
Europe Sue notifications and safeguards as repen.
suggested and opportunity permitted they have
carefully spplied, and we have recorded in these
columns successive examples Of their undeniable
| eervstism. But this fundamental consistency Of
thought and action must be utterly destructive any
useful work. and the now Republican Constitution Is
no more likely to answer the views OF the party who
have made It what 1t IT, than Of the party who nearly
overturned the republic in the endeavor to make Il
| what 1t lie not.
| Italy.
bulletin, Issued by the provisional govern me mt of
Venice ON the 9th ut states that the Croats had
been defeated by the Italians, the former having 200
men killed or wounded, and 500 taken prisoners.