New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-03-30

PRESS LAws-THE sLANDEE AGAINST Liberal
EEwsPAPERs-THE FAMINE IN AL"LhIA-
NJ. VACHEROT
From Our Owl '"'"''l0'"' PARIS. March Is, 1868.
On the evening of December ], No. MI uiepPo
went TO bed alaw-abdng member of the Legislative
Assembly of the French Republic. Consequently nc
was reused in the Of the night ana capped up
IN prison by orders of Prince-President now Einpe
ror Napoleon and a few days later sent outoi
France Some years afterward he was giaciousiS pai
doned for these offenses and let reside III his own
country. Returning from trip TO Belgium the other
week at the frontier station one number Oh the E'o
q Rel0ium newspaper, was found IN his possession
The EfoiIe is among the foreign newspapers whose
circulation is forbidden in France and 50 MI ueppo
was tried found guilty of counsel and condemned 10
q fine of 100 francs ana imprisonment for one monIh
The hill against the press has at last been voted by
amaorty of 240 to !. The negative vote was gwen
by Grandly Solitary Berger. The liberal opposition
voted the bill for the sake of its liberal article
the first the rest for the sake Of the rest which are
all restrictive of the first. Among the amendments
10 the original bill is that Furnishes with line oil
roo francs "any publication IN periodical relative
20 fact OF private life" 1t Is bat Just 10 the Legs
istnre 10 saw that this amendment was accepted ny
an unusually small majority, la5 10 iG5 ,...,u
lie Pays Journal de PEmPle published last ID,
6ay the letters furnished to II by heINegueh, ana
Witch il had been for ten days before asserting con
tanned proofs of a completely between portion oI
the French press ana lOlclk W. u ~ i.i'aI
Nv the latter in money and orders of hnlghthoou
- De whose chief editor is GraneT de CaSSagac,
xrcaaian member of the Legislature, IKE Mt hcr-
1ao,Ien repTesented this portion OF Tue iI'h. 'eHn
.consist az the Rerue deS UeHr Monde ana SIX Oh inc III
denendent newspapers of Paris, although the TWO
md the ODinoa rationale, whose chez cdltos arc
Hayin and GuerOnlt, Opposition mGilDeIs 81 tio
legislature. have given III previous ltl ~ IL
,ory of the old calumny revived against lncM III t!c
sshSmher nv Keryeguen and cOmpaeently iisJ6neu 10
Inv the majority-of the decision OF me Ji'S VI
Honor. declaring the charge unlounded, anu cor
JamnInO the matter aud manner OF herNeSueh az
tennt 10 sustain il, which the majority lciuseu W
hear read or hear talked about by lawn anu 1ueI
Snnnosing the letters in lie Pays OF SATURDAY Wtie
',yps and authentic they would prove absolutely
nothing against the accused portion OF the iIcDcn
ress But the proof internal ana external IL posi-
i've and damning that they are maze up Ol eAIaCts
as stupidity as malcl0usly galpicu W ny -
tpSrnalIv malicious and stupid falsihcatons OF the
cOpyst or OF his employers DeputSs I th e ~
Iassa0nac and Kerveguen For example ihey speah
III Ia Iibeye and the Arenir National under 9ae Oh
July 1860 that is five years before etnei Vi .ny1
;ouynals existed; of the Steele III stupdy gafocu
nn"ssa0e where the original evidently was written
SjiIe (Slcyl; of RatazI as ltalian munster III io"
- 1s65 when he was not Minister nom octoper'
SsS, "a September lS66and this. too. IN what pur-
,,orts IN be letters from Ratazzl himself herVeg9eh
~ caytifving that all the copies cOnfOrmed TO
sbs cinals wrote letter To GraneT declaring that
some ~ them were not; in spite oil when deputy
Granier insists on publishing them all as il 'hey
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BY his brazen note Of preparation. constantly ana
long blown, deputy Granier DO Cassagnac nad
aroused great expectations IN the scandaI-loVllS
public, and managed 10 sell on Saturday some lnou
sands than the usual 3OOO edItiOh OF his paPei
which, for the nonce be raised to the price Oh lour
instead OfthEee sous Bot the hTst eApsus'o'' o'ir