New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-02-13
FRANCE.
EarIsias, Mad. Co. ". Y.
Observation-Disclosures Matters.


foresee what may be its immediate result. But
the mutual determinations Of the three rival lac
tions have put the public in possession of mass
of curious particulars concerning the INNINGS and
eoupterminiDgs by means OF which each party has
been endeavoring to overturn the Republic for the
benefit Of its chief; and the people are quietly
drawing their own conclusions from these discov-
cries. which will certainly not have been thrown
away.
The Assembly replied TO the dismission of Chan
GARNER by the formation of Committee of Par
Iamentary Safety, charged to deliberate on the
attitude to be taken by that body in view of the
hostility of the Executive power The minutes
of the Permanent Committee, constituted by the
Assembly to keep watch over the public interests
during its Propagation, have been published, with
all their piquant revelations on the subject of the
Presidents Summer journeying, the reviews held
by him on these occasions and the unconstitu-
tional acclamatons provoked by bis friends the
promotion of certain officers who cried Vlre
PEmpereuri and the disgrace of others who had
opposed these demonstrations the shelter with
which the Government has covered the assaults
of the Diz Decemsbr1stes, &c-subjects which have
already occupied the public mind, but vaguely
and rather as rumors than as facts, but which are
now become part Of the authentic history OF the
day. Nothing can be more amusing than the
imbroglio which thus results from the present
conflict for it is evident that each party, while
calling on its opponents to remain faithful to the
Constitution, has been equally busy with its anti
republican affairs and all three lmperialists,
Legitimists and Oreanists, have been doing their
best to gain over Changarnier, whose adhesion to
either party was to have insured its triumph-the
gallant General, meantime, coquetting with all in
turn, and iatterng himself with the idea of his
being really the master of the situation"
Up to the present moment the war movements
of the two rival powers have been carried on very
much on the plan of those little figures one some
times sees in the oldfashioned barometers, one Of
which always retires when the other comes for.
ward. There has been, on both sides, a constant
succession of advancings and retreatings, but
strange to say the party which runs away is inva'
riably the one which has gained the last victory
The Democratic party looks on, while the ene'
mics of the Republic like the famous cats OF Kill
kenny, are thus advancing the cause of Progress,
by devouring one another and is now become
by the rupture Of the hypocrtica entente c0rdiale
maintained through the last two years by the
mutual concessions which their common terror of
Socialism has enabled each party to wiring from
the other, the ultimate arbitrator Of the quarrel
The Assembly is fast losing ground in public esti-
nation; and the debates which were opened yes
terday on the Report Of the Commission of Safety,
and on the blame which it proposes to infict on
the Cabinet, all of which will probably issue in q
disgraceful retreat of the majority from the dan.
gerous position which they have taken with
rashness at which many OF them are already ter.
rifed, are not likely to reinstate them in public
respect. But though the majority have certainly
lost ground, the President, on his side has gained
nothing the whole profit of the struggle, which
ever Of the two rivals may succeed in covering
up the opprobrium they have brought on one an
other win be reaped by the Republican party,
whose triumph is thus insured by the mutual de.
struction Of its opponents.
One very important effect Of all this miserable
partystrife is the new order of thought thereby
suggested TO the popular mind and the inquiries
which are thus suggested with regard to the ne
cessity and utility OF Presidents and Legislative
bodies. The cry of "No President" will evi.
IDENTIFY succeed, ere long, to that Of No King,
whose very echo is now fast dying away in
France; and the watch-word of "No law makers
will probably not be long in making itself heard
The idea Of Government as an authority higher
than, aud controller Of the national WILL is
coming up for investigation, and it needs no pro.
phetic eye to discern that this old idea of Gov.
eminent is already ceding to the thought of an
organization OF responsible agents charged
simply with the execution Of the national will
and that the BODY of rulers who have hitherto ex.
eroised the control Of public affairs under various
forms, is moro or less independently of the
will Of the nation TO be succeeded by a body of
serv ants, acting, not in virtue of the fiction Of
Delegated Authority, which gives to nation a
master in every representative it sends 10 the
Legislative Chamber, but simply as servants of
the average expression OF the popular will The
details of such a mode Of Administration are vet
to be developed but the Idea is born, and grow.
ing. slowly but surely.
There is in fact in the very air a spirit of In.
subordinatiOn, of Disobedience, OF Noaconformity,
which ro1ses the bitterest and sternest opposition
OF those who would uphold, selfishly the ancient
reign OF Force and Privilege aud which alarms
even those who, often With excellent intentions,
regret the looSening of the old bonds, because as
Yet, they see no other guaranteed to supply their
place. Go through the villages of France, and
study the phenomens developed among the chill.
dren, and you will find abundant evidence of the
Iest thst new infuenceis abroad. In households
MneIe toe PerSnts preserve the stereotyped char.
scteristlcs OF the Past. the children are v;siblv
moulded by another and = diIsrant sn;r;, r.,
instance thirty years ago. every chiid ,1;,bot
hesitation or enquiry on REACHING he ftwaIrs
or thirteen years. went through the cs.a,so,,, -
taking his fTst. Communion now 81 - "
complains that the catechism cssses .he Curs
ard that the greater part Of the children sS.e
Iy refuse TO follow IN the footsteps Of thai rass
cessors. There are villages where for ye.Fs NC.
one of ell the vilage-lads has consented 10 max
bis frst Communion and what is curious. this 10
the case in villages where Schools, books, and
lectures are still wanting, and where the old PEG.
Die ere so grounded in immobility as 70 look with
doubt and distrast on al adventurous son who
should replace o decayed tree by one Of another