New-York tribune., 1869-05-29

historical fact at least threefOurths OF LOUIS Napo-
Icons Senators to-day have sworn through three OF
four preceding regimes The government of lSiS'
with more respect for the worth of solemn words,
and aiming to close half century of perures, issned
the following decree the ID of March of that year;
"Considering that every government that has eA-
listed for the past half century has required and re-
ceived oaths that have successvey been replaced Dy
Others at each political revolution
DEGREES The functionaries [ofl this Government
will not take OATH" The only exception to this rule
was in favor of the President of the Republic ID
whose mouth and on whose soul concentrated
as it were all the solemnity and religious obligation
of an oath freely uttered before and God IN the
following words: In the presence Of God ana :"
the face of the French people, represented 0y me
National Assembly, sUear to remain faithful 10 me
Democratic Republic, one and indrtslCie ana "
fulfil all the duties imposed on me by he COnSH'~
tion" As if this formula were not strong enough
the gentleman who accepted it on the 2Oth Oh Do-
cember 1s4S iron-clad it, to speak, by an adul-
tional volunteer speech of promise. And so iato aS
the 10Th of November 1850, he with equal solemh'y
gave another of his many voluntary certlicateS "
his high character for truth and veracity saying Ill
his Presidential message of that date II the Coh-
sttution of the Republicl contains defects and dan
gers you are all free to point them out to the nation
I clone bound By my oath, confne myself "ilnln
the strict limits it has traced for me-"
The doubt then, which Government folks oi To-
day questionngly cast upon the tenacty oil an oa',
taken by such candidates as Bauce and Baudlh' anu
Rocbefort. of obedience and fidelity to the man OF
the conp detat is explicable however ill-becoming
on their parts The fact is that not only by these
last-nsmed three but with a slight shade OF diner
ence by 10 in 20 candidates Of all parties this oath Is
mere phrase. It has religions sense to none OF
them. Emile Olivier himself in whose nature, how
ever. there really is large religious element would
not hold himself bound by it the day after Napoleon
and his Government were overthrown. The only
difference is that the radical democrats deyoutly
pray and mean TO labor for the quick coming OF the
day.
Some other features Of the Chatelet meeting may
be noted. Long before the hour for its opening,
large crowd had gathered about the approaches OF
the theater, and sweled by nine o'clock to unnum-
bered thousands-the papers next morning say
twenty let us be nearer truth and say ten thousand
Owing to some defect in tho arrangements, for
which some blame Olivier and his committee, Others
tho police authorities entrance TO the house was
made very difficult and its capacity was only partly
filed when the orator of the evening began his dis
course. Outside, meantime, on the broad sidewalks
and streets surrounding the theater and the open
From time to time they relieved the monotony of
the station by choral singing Of the Mdrseadse and
other patriotic hymns Meantime there was no dis
turbance. no sort Of violation of tho peace-not even
By the poce-till toward midnight. Why they did
not interfere before, and why they did interfere
then belong TO the constant mysteries OF Pans
police Suddenly, q crowd that had been peaceful
and good natured for three hours, was set upon bY
the agents of the Prefecture-who had themselves
been peaceful and good natured till the authoritative
signal was giyen-and dispersed with considerable
brutal violence. There was no killing, but enough
bruising and hard knocks to make handsome addi-
ton TO NJ. Baucel's vote next week
The brutality of the dispersion Is commonplace
The novelty is that the many thousands were suffered
70 stand together 20 long and that they were let
chant the Marseillase In larger chorus than that
prescribed poem has been sung in Paris since the Re
public But we need not 90 back TO 1873 in search OF
as strange contrasts between past and present 80
lately ago as the Summer of 1867 men were arrested
imprisonsd. tined, fined, and imprisoned again, Tor
CRYING rire GdriJGdi At ono of the public meetings
the other evening on the unanimously accepted mo-
tion OF one of its members. some thousand thIoa's
shouted out that cry again and again, and the ASSIST
ant Comnissary of Police made no obJecuoh 90
lately as last November the garrison OF Paris was
under arms all day long and an army OF police were
on foot TO suppress Baudin manifestation at the
Montnarte Cemetery, which. had 1t been let alOhe'
might possibly have numbered 300 participants. Now
nightly meetings arc held in the Faubourg st. An
tome TO favor the canddature Of the brother OF that
same Baudin-whose only possible claim to popu-
arty is that he represents his dead brother aud the
principles he died for.
Cancellation OF defiance, evolution OF revolution,
VIC are advanced in preliminary practice Of what Mr.
CARLYLE would call Shooting Niagara.