The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-03-07
No. go.
French Affairs.
Correspondence of The Courier dss Etats Unisl
4 IShn

debates the bills for instruction and for the trans
portation of the prisoners of June into Algeria.
The calm has followed the tempest-the questions
which are among the orders Of the day not
beng of nature to excite violent discussion. On
Friday last, the Chamber, by vote of 327 10 255,
took up the consideration of the bill to transfer the
capital Of the department of the Loire from Mont
brison to st. Etienne Montbrison is, without
doubt, the geometrcal centre of this department;
but st. Etienne, whose population amounts TO
nearly 100 900 souls is the industrial and political
centre Of it,.
The majority likewise determined to proceed to
a second deliberation on the proposition of General
PARAGUAY D'HnLIERs, the object of which to
suppress the gratuty 10 the polytechnic and mill
tary schools that had been decreed by the Constt-
uent Assembly. This gratuity, according to the
honorable General, only benefits the rich classes,
inasmuch as the poor unable to give their chill
dren the university education which is requisite at
the examinations for admission. Moreover, why
should the pupils ofthe Polytechnic school-a great
number of whom, either through want of employ
ment or through want of capacity, return to pri-
vate life why should these pupils enjoy privi-
lege, burdensome To the State, which is refused TO
the students Of the schools of law and medicine
Messrs. A. DE KERDREL, CHARLES DUpIN, and
LEvERRIER, supported the proposition; and Messrs.
CHARRAs and LAMoRIcIERE opposed it. Numer-
Gus amendments will be offered during this second
deliberation, and, among others, one from General
FABvIER, who proposes to furnish gratuitous in
structon to the Polytechnic school, but to do away
with the barracks and the expenses incident there
to- Each pupil of the school is to have the rank
OF mere artillery sergeant, instead of that of
lieutenant as at present. This amendment, which
is intended to bring back the Polytechnic school to
the rule which governed il from the time of the
Convention till 1904, has great chances Of being
adopted.
On Monday and Tuesday the Assembly dis
cussed and voted on the bill relative to weaving
and spinning, intended regulate the interests of
masters and workmen in these manufactures; and
then got through with the law which dissolves the
garde mobile, by adopting amendment Of Gen
eral Cavaignac, in virtue of which licensed non
commissioned officers will be permitted to enjoy
half-pay for three months longer. There were
found in the only forty nine votes to protest
against the dissolution of this young army of vol
unteers, who SO quickly became soldiers, and who
saved Paris and France in ls4s. One of the jour
nails justly says that, prescribed by the Right on
account of its republican origin, and abandoned by
the Left account of its victory against Socialism,
the garde mobile has perished between ingrahtude
and hatred
On Wednesday the Assembly voted to preserve
lhe ST. Cloud stud of horses, and devoted 100 900
francs TO the purchase of the most beautiful Ara
bian specimens of this stud belonging to Louis
Philippe. Finally, yesterday, (Thursday,) the
majority ratified defnitively the treaty of naviga-
ton and commerce between France and Belgium,
signed on the 18th of November
At the opening of the chamber, NJ. DupIs read
the bill of the Minister Of Justice, which asks the
Assembly TO pronounce the forfeiture OF the twenty
nine representatives condemned on the 18th Of No
vember last by the High Court Of Versailles The
demand of the minister referred to the com
nittees IL is only after the vote the forfeiture
that the government will permit the new elections
to proceed; which it is supposed cannot take place
before the 10th Of March. One of the papers as.
serts, however, that the votes of the army have
been received since yesterday the 3Is Of January,
In some Of the departments This is too strange for
| belief
In the discussion Of the law for the transportation
into Algeria Of the prisoners Of June General La
moriciere demanded that the President should not
have the power of pardoning the transports, without
the concurrence Of the assembly. This proposition
evidently directed against the Elysee, was gener.
ally regarded as a confirmation of the reports in
circulation with respect TO the reconciliation which
had been effected between the honorable general
and his old companion in arms, CHASaAasIER.
This reconciliation paper states has had its origin
in qdsnce Of The interests and dignity Of the ariia-
nenfary potcer; and M. THEIRS, whose suspicious
Of the Elysee we'll known is represented TO have
been the happy negotiator of this rapprochemenf
But NJ. THrERss suspicious appear to be i'll founded,
or at least premature.
The Elys6e has caused the legitimist journal, La
| ~. A.
litica rumors having declared that the coup dSfaf
had been positively debated in the council under
the presidency Of Prince LOUIS, and that one minis
ter alone opposed this act of treason. To the en.
phatic protest Of LOUIS BoNAPARrE, the following
anecdote Is added in the saloons: AT the eaking
up Of soiree lately given by the minister of com
merce to the president of the republic, the latter
was retiring at the same time as one Of our repre
sentatives. On picking up his hat, the representa-
tive perceived that he had made mistake for nj
the bottom was discovered an ", surmounted with
a crown He offered the hat to the president.
saying 10 him;
"Prince, it belongs 10 you, | suppose
"No," answered LOUIS BoNAPARrg. laugbipg
and looking at the bottom of the hat am Zoo
good republican 10 cro,on."
IL is Ia be remarked, however, that certain fox
once said, The grapes sour" But at length IL
appeared the hat was Lord NoRMASBy's, and the
crown that of England.
The journal La Prssss, which was prosecuted
previous 70 the suit against La Mode but for A
much less serious offence, has been acquitted and
another sheet La Liberfe, has been condemned, NJ
DUPiS said, for having censured the Elysee too
much IL was announced that the organ of the lat.
ter, the Napoleon, was going to stop. the ministers
finding it rather dangerous auxiliary but il has
merely weakened its wine with water, as the com.
mon saying is
Beware OF talking too much This ancient pro
verb ought never TO be lost sight of by politicians
but, unfortunately, they forget it too often. The
remark may be applied to NJ GUrzor, who, having
,miracuousy escaped the gulf into which, as a
blind and rash pilot he plunged the vessel of state
requites the clemency of fortune by PUBLISHING
discourse ON the History of the Revolution of Eng
land, full of audacious alis.sIons The son and sue
oessor Of Ccoawell Is depicted in this discourse as
follows " He irrcsoute and weak over head