The republic., 1851-09-03
Our Foreign Correspondence.
PANS. MONDAY, Aug. IS, 1856

| are without either a breath of air or a breath
of news. The newspapers feel the lull Sc
verely, and their columns are rreproachaby
devoid of life or interest. They can find
only here and there peg on which to
hang an editorial. They publish, for want
of more important matter, the odds and ends
which have accumulated during the long legisla
tive session which has just come to an end. No
body reads them Of course, but they help to fill
out the daily FORM There is, to be sure, slight
discussion going on in relation to the candidature
OF the Prince de Joinville; but there no facts
known in reference to this subject. No.
thing more than suggestions, considerations, in
timations-an infnity of ifs, but not a single
| yes bushels of butts, but not individual
no. One of the representatives having lately made
a tour through England and Scotland, it
mored that he was the bearer of an important pro-
position from the Orleans party to the Prince. He
declares this to be untrue however, in the follow
ing note;
"Several journals attribute to me mission to the
| Prince de Joinville.
| land and Scotland. have had the honor of seeing
the princes of the royal family and their august
mother.
! Ihad received no dispatches to be delivered in
| England
al was no ones organ mouthpiece my
| turn.
! "Now, if any one desires to know my opinion
upon subject so important, i will say that have
profound conviction that, if the country appeals
the patriotism of the Prince de Joinville, he will
never be found wanting.
GROCER (pU NoRD.")
| This has a certain political bearing, nasmuch as
| NJ Roger, who had hearing of the Prince, not as
the bearer OF mission, but personal friend,
| returns with the conviction that he will accept
the Presidency, if he can get it. The Democratic
| party will oppose NJ. de Joinville with the same
| persstency that they threw in the way of M. Bo-
naparte. His candidacy would be illegal, as he is
| an exile They object IN toto to these princely
! pirants TO republican power; and the return of the
whole royal family, with their regrets for the lost
throne and their desires rekindled by the elevation
of one of their number to the Presidency, does not
seem to be exactly the best step to be taken to
firm the existence of the republic, and to scatter to
the four winds the relics and remnants of majesty
and royalty. As sort of test Of his popularity, it
has been proposed to him a candidate for the
| Assembly He could not take his seat, if elected,
nor it meant he should, for, to be eligible rep
resentative man must be an elector, which the
Prince ia not. In case of necessity the objection
that he is an exile could be easily removed. There
is nothing in the constitution rendering him ineli
gible to The Presidency, and any law affecting him
could easily be repealed. Once elected President
the Chamber would, of course, abrogate the decree
Of the provisional government outlawng the late
royal family. There is yet no positive assurance
that the Prince will enter the list candidate !;
if he should the battle will be tRree-cornered one,
inasmuch as Napoleon may possibly try his chance,
unconstitutional such a proceeding would be,
and as the Republicans will certainly have their
candidate to against them both Such tri-
angular contest would throw the question into the
House What would be the result of that is inn
possible to tell, surmise, at this distant day
In England they have a society for the preven-
tion of cruelty to animals. There is nothing of the
| kind here, but the police amply supplies the place
of such society. few days ago three carriers
fined different sums for beating their horses.
A shepherd was sent TO prison for five days and
fined fifteen francs for having cruelty treated his
sheep. He had trained his dogs to bite their legs,
and one of them had the flesh of one of his hind
legs entirely torn away.
The Committee of Permanence that the Chamber
elected to represent it during its absence, and in
case of need to convose it at earlier period than
that fixed by itself, only contains one member of
the Mountain. That branch of the Assembly how
ever, chose sort of outside committee, called a
Committee of Surveillance. This body is to sit
every Friday, to discuss the political matters OF
moment, and to draw up weekly reports on the
proceedings of the government.
FRANCHISE was bathing in the Seine at Asmaes
some days ago. young boy, who fishing for
perch from a rolling, restless log of wood all at
once lost his footing and fell into the water Mile
Judith the actress in question, who, by the way is
q Jewess, saw the little fellow tumble through the
ratings that fenced in the swimming school. She
being an expert tritoness to his rescue,
seized him as be was disappearing for the second
time, and carried him safe and sound to shore.
Her strength gave out then, for she tainted from
J the exertion and agitation.
The National, and other republican papers, Of
Yesterday, announce the formation of democratic
committee, Franco Espagno Italien. The first
manifest Of this association occupies page and @
half of the newspaper. 1t is signed by French
men only, all of them representatives and belong
ing to the Mountain. Among these Lamenais
Schelcher and Michel de Bourges. translate
without comment, passage giving a succint re-
sumo of the family relation, understood by thai
branch of the Legislative Assembly;
J Liberty and equality are our rights; fraternity
is our duty From these three springs order, which
is nothing more than the union of the various ne
cessary conditions of life. These conditions arc
presented under three general forms, called re-
| ligion, family, property.
i'He who would deny the family relation, and
! family laws would deny human nature in the first
condition of it's existence; the real man, the man
complete who perpetuates himself indefinitely, j:
? not the simple individual, but the complex unity
of three inseparabe terms-the father, the mother
and the child.
"Thus, family is sacred; il is sacred in it's natu.
raj and primordia institution; it is sacred in tho
laws, which aseure its integrity, it's moral purity
J and i:s physical preservation.
" Now, in all these respects, the history of mon
archies is one continued series Of profound attacks
upon the family relation. There is no family for
the slave put out OF the pale Of humanity, lowered
TO the level of an animal; there is only fictitious
z | tLa IF har he sOil
entirely deprived Of personal rights, and depend
ant, he and HE, upon the pleasure and caprices o.
another and TO what point did not these arbitrary
caprices extend, under the feudal regime, still II
d vigor in many countries Of Europe?
. - What was the family relation for Louis XIV
e dragging, by his iron authority, their pops ant
lf daughters from his Protestant subects, breaking
! under prete1t Of religion, the moat sacred ties
making jest of the despair of the parents OF thei
ID parental affection, Of their imprescriptble right
;, with barbarous ferocty2
What is the family relation for Nicholas, tear
a ing from their fresidn whole hordes OF children
n in order TO distribute them about in his militar,
colonies, like beasts of burden. Hke mere inctru