The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-11-25

tutiona and melting to rebellion. THE majority
refuse to repeal this law, they will have willingly
and wilfully opened the door to all the horrors Of
the scenes that must result from country divided
against itself. II they not convinced Of their
dangerous course by the arguments and the au-
thorities brought against them, neither would they
| be though rose from the dead
| ought TO state that the electoral law, which the
President proposes to substitute for that of the 5lst
of May is in its principal dispositions nearly iden-
tcal with that of March, ls49, under which the pre-
sent Assembly was elected. This was, In May,
1850. replaced by the present law.
| Over one million and a-half copies of the Presi-
dents message have been printed at the national
| printing offices. Many thousands have been post
ed in Paris and it is intended thus to place them
under the eye Of the inhabitants Of every city, town.
village and hamlet. Every man that can read
will see for himself that the President attacks the
law Of May with vigor and sincerity. "Who,"
asks the Steele, "can resist this immense propa-
gand? What means of monarchical coalitions can
be imagined to counteract it2" II the worst come
| to the worst, and the President and the Assembly
both draw the sword, and appeal both, to the army,
| the President will have a moral support through
out the country that the Chamber will find rrcsst-
| iblc
A proposition presented by the three questors of
the Assembly, NM. Baze, Leflo, and Panat, rela-
tive to the troops required for the protection Of the
| Chamber, has excited a great deal of remark,
and drawn forth an abundance of comment. Its
immediate result would be to render the Minister
of War powerless, and to place large army at the
disposal of NJ. Dupin, President of the Assembly.
1t is hardly probable that such proposition would
| be granted the honors OF debate. 1t is allowed
all hands to be coming to too close quarters with
the executive, and likely to precipitate an open
quarrel. General Fabvier has already presented
counter proposition in the following terms:
| "Article l. The National Assembly. strong in its
majesty renounces all armed force for its security.
"Article2. The artillery now stationed IN the
courts shall be placed ut the disposal OF the Minis
| ter of War"
II is curious TO see the isolation in which the
fallen Minister of the Interior is left He is regard
cd with complete indifference as the representative
| of waning system of Tolitics On the day when
the Chamber repented of its vote refusing urgency
to the new electoral BILL and ordered it to be inn
| mediately referred 10 committee for examination,
Leon Faucher a candidate for one of the four
vice presdencies of the Chamber He lost them
| all on three successive trals. This would seem
difficult to account for, except on the suppostion
that the Chamber, on the point of voting the repeal
of the obnoxious electoral law, cannot b. so incon-
sistent as to elevate to any Office the reporter, de-
1
Leon Faucher usually obtained majority in the
| House, but now that he has fallen from power, and
| that his policy ia abandoned. the majority is de-
serting the Minister to follow the President This
fact, simple enough in itself, would appear GER
tain augury Of the speedy restoration of universal
suffrage.
At late session of a commission appointed to ex
anime the state of the Paris prisons, one of the
members, M. Therry, made rather singular
statement. He had spent three days and three
nights in the prison Mazas, and found it really an
agreeable residence. He was ready to bear wit
ness, from personal experience, to the excellent
| regime and comfortable accommodations OF this
penitentiary institution. One of the other members
asked M. Thierry whether his judgment were not
little biased by the fact that his incarceration
voluntary, and his liberation obtainablo at any mo-
ment? 1t would seem, indeed. as if it must decid-
edly change the current of feelings in mans
mind to know that the police put him into limbo,
that the courts of justice keep him there, and that
perhaps only the guillotine or the huks can take
him out. Had the key been suddenly turned on
M. Thierry, and a sentence of imprisonment been
read to him through grated window, have no
doubt that his enthusiasm in behalf OF prison dsci
pline would have been considerably abatcd.
| The winter is commencing early and siinulta-
| neously in nearly every part of France. In the
mountainous departments, Dor dering the Alps the
Cevennes, and the Pyrenees, snow has already
| fallen in abundance, and covered the elevated
| parts. In the departments upon the Atlantic the
west winds laden with hail, rain, and snow.
Even Paris has been visited with FROST and, for the
last fortnight, the atmosphere has been charged
with unwonted humidity. Every thing seems to
indicate that we are to pay up for the last golden
winter, when every body waited for the cold and
rainy season till April, and then gave it up as
bad job
| M. de Lamartine's situation is such to inspire
serious alarm. At the commencement of the
sion he asked for leave of absence for fortnight,
account of illness. Later intelligence states that
the acute rheumatism under which he was suffer
ing has spread his whole body; that he suffers
intense pain, and that movement is impossible.
| His absence from the Chamber at this juncturc 10
peculiarly unfortunate, he, better than any other
man, could have impressed upon the majority a
sense OF their reckless and fatal course.
An election is to be held in Paris the 3Oth of
November for representative to the National As
semby in place of M. Magnan, resigned. The
National counsels the Republicans to take no part
in this election, protest against the law OF the
3lst of May, which, though it has only disenfran-
chised third of the voters in France, has, in the
capital, dispossessed half of their consti
has done wrong in not taking advantage of the
six months delay allowed by the constitution, and
postponing the election till the 26th of December,
when, supposing that in the mean time the Cham
Der restores universal suffrage, all the citizens
might take part in the vote. But had he done So
he would have been abused by the monarchsts for
applying to election of single representative
a system intended for the grand Presidential
sweepstakes of 1852. Either way, he would be
SIRE Of censure from one party or the other.
hairdresser has just been condemned by the
court of correctional police to years imprison-
m mt for novel method of obtaining money UNI
der false pretcnces He posted card at his door,
stating that his price for hair cutting had just been
reduced TO four cenis, in order conform to the
spirit of the times. This extreme cheapness natu
rally attracted customers, and the practice of the
barber was, after having cut the patients hair, to
throw upon his head quantity Of liquid prepare
ton, labelled eau Romaine," and marked two
three or four francs according the recipient np-