The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-02-01

[Corsspoadsnce Qf the Covrisy dss Etats- Unis.l
PARIS, January 4, 1850.
The Spartans exhibited drunken men to their
children, in order that their children might be
Disguised with drunkenness. Should our states
men wish to disgust us with parliamentary gov
ernment they could do nothing better than ex
hibit TO us our parliament It has been playing for
week deplorabe part. 1t does not discuss, It
disputes. II destroys on one day what 1t has done
the day before. II makes not laws, but riddles
Here is the engmatcal nomenclature OF them;
Riddle lon Thursday, after having adopted
article by article the bill in relation to the garde
mobile the Assembly rejected it in its totalty by
an immense majority. You know that.
Riddle 2.-On Friday the discussion commenced
on the Rio de la Plata question-that is to say, ON
the question whether we should send expedition
against the Argentine republic, situated three
thousand leagues from here, or resume In
friendly manner negotiations which have hsted ten
years without having advanced one step. Admi-
raj LAME, Captain CALAIS, and M. DE LARocHE-
JAoUELEIN have supported the Affirmative, and
Messieurs LAGRANGE, JULES DE LAsrEYRIE,
and LAHIrrE the negative. The reporter OF the
committee, M DARU, answered the minister with
a belicose speech, which produced quite an i'm
precision on the Assembly, and seemed to have
excited ii to extreme measures. But the next day
another minister, M. RouHER, cloquently demon
strated the dangers of an expedition whose conse-
quences could not be forescen, and which threat
ened to make Of Montevideo new Algeria for
Francc-that is to say, new gulf for our blood
and our treasure, with the addition Of an immcn-
sity of distance. M. RouHER asked to be autho-
rized to renew negotiations, while promising that
the protection Of the government should not make
a fault in our countrymen.
To the ereneral aatoni shuent nAuu daclarcd
that the committee were more DESTROYS Of war
than the cabinet. "This is backing out" ex-
claimed the Mountain, and, in truth, it was so. A
conference had taken place between the ministers
and the committee and the latter had been made to
comprehend the dangers of the course upon which
they had started. This recantation threw doubt
and confusion into the Assembly, which, after
striking out numerous contradictory amendments,
finished by adopting, by vote Of 3l5 to 3l2, the
amendment Of M. RANCE, which put ten millions
at the disposition of the government, to back, If
needfM, by arms the negotiations between the
French and the Argentine republics. This amend
ment, which does not determine anything, had,
according to rule, to be sent back to the commit
tee, who will present new report upon which will
be opened new discussion. This debate was to
be resumed to-day, if the ballotings which the As
sembly had to go through in order to renew its
VI.
it was said, was to take the floor on the side of
war-that Is to say, against the policy of the cab
met, with which he no more agrees on this oues
ton than on that of the East. M. TmERs is par
tisan Of the English alliance against the Russian
alliance; and the preferred by the
and the majority of the conservative party. who SEQ
with mistrust the secret help which Lord PALMER
sToN has entfor two years to almost all the revou
tonists of Europe. This opposition of views is the
principal cause of the GOODNESS which reigns be-
| tween the PRESIDENT and M. THEIRS. But, by
| strange enough exception to their ordinary rule
of conduct, it is M. THEIRS this time who dsturbs
the English policy by favoring an expedition TO La
Plata, and tits the PRESIDENT who pays Difference
to it by refusing to adventure into such bold en-
| terprise.
| Third riddle Of our Assembly called legisiatiue
This riddle has been offered to us by the bill which
is to give to the projects the power of Diminishing
the primary teachers who Socialists. The ques-
ton was, whether the urgency should be declared
member of the Right was the first to throw a
brand OF discord among the majority, by asking
why they would not wait for the discussion of the
general bill on instruction, which would take place
very soon' This question seemed an enigma TO the
Left, the answer to which M. Mole frankly re-
veaed by admitting that the partsans of the liberty
of instruction misrusted the secret intentions of the
cabnct-hat they feared that the partial law being
once passed, the general law might be indefinitely
postponed, if not altogether buried. In vain the
ministers and the reporter ofthe committee offered
to remove all mistrus, to consent to an amendment
giving to the law in relation to instructors pro-
visional and limited existence; there was an equal
division OF the yote-3l2 to 3l2. This result one
which so seldom happens, having excited laughs
from the Mountain, M. DupIs justly remarked
there was nothing to laugh at in seeing single
Assembly thus divided and he declared the demand
Of urgency rejected. This was a serious check
for the cabinet. Therefore, at the commencement
OF next days sitting, the PRESIDENT announced
that there was an error in counting the tickets and
that, after recounting them with the most minute
care Il was found that the urgency, instead of be-
ing rejected, had been adopted by jority of one
voc and this is why was ascertained that in this
second count, so minute, there had been two or
three slips Of memory, and that blank ticket was
discovered at the bottom Of the These discov-
cries we're to maintain the first vote, according to
M. de LAsrKynE and the Mountaineers, who
groancd and beloved without shame, If not with
out reason. But the majority preferred to annul
the vote; and the matter having again been voted
ON, the urgency was adopted this time by vote of
329 to 300. As you sec, ii escaped finely, and the
primary instructors will not have the few weeks of
agony which the National accorded TO them yestcr-
day in order to prepare for death.
That journal has entirely entered into the So.
enlist church, out Of which, it says there Is no sal
walton. This conversion, in consequence of which
there are no longer any Republicans properly so
called, but only Socialists in opposition to those
who are not Socialists--this conversion, saw has
only added another shade TO the queer mosaic of
which this strange party Of social regcncrators
rs composed. The most discordant languages are
spoken In this new Tower Of Babel, and the most
fcrocious hatred reigns among these brothers of
CADET, LOUIS BLANC, PRouDHos, and PIERRE LIZ
noux. Nothing Is more amusing than the discus
sion which has been going on for few months past
between these last three apostles The most intel
lectual the most biting Of them, PsoupHos, having
treated LOUIS BLANC and his adopts Of the Luxem-
oourg as wild bears that he would hunt out of their
prisiies, one Of these young wild boars, thus pur-
sued 1.-THE citizen MALAnMxr,) has turned against