New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-02
FRANCE.
A COUNCIL.

A Council Of Ministers viii be held tomorrow, at
which it is expected decision in regard to the con-
vocation of the Chambers viii be arrived at.
THE MURDER MYSTERY.
The report that the body of the father of the MUIR
aered family has been found proves false.
THE FIRE AT BORDEAUX.
The banks Guipuzcoano and Formosa, which were
loading at Bordeaux for New-Orleans were damaged
by the late fire at that port
A PROPOSITION TO VOTE ON THE IMPERIAL Sue
CEssIoN-RARE FREEDOM OF THE Press
THE CONVOCATION-oFFICIAL IMMUNITY
ARTICLE sEVENTY-FIYE.
PARIS Sept. 16.-The most singular PROPOSE
demonstrating where it was brought forward
that has come out in this discussion concern
ing Regency and AbdicatiOn and Succession, is
the one appearing in the Public last representa-
tive of the old "oficiOus journals" news
paper devoted to the Empire and subject to inspira-
ton from NJ Rouher. Its proposition is that the
people should be called on to pronounce by yes and
no vote on the succession of the little Prince with
title of Napoleon w., to the throne of his father
That such application of the Plebscitum is the
pesitvest negative of the Providentia and DYnastc
theories is patent. IL is q heroic remedy, however
and would doubtless, administered by the present
Minister of the Interior and his Projects work tenn
porarily well and probably arrest the dissolution OF
Imperialism for another half generation.
manly speaking" [as though any human could speak
otherwisel it would appear that the best thing the
Emperor could do for his Dynasty is not to die. In
the particular and humanely speaking lin the inter
est Of 100000 French rather of one FrenchmaD one
pretty French boy and handsome Spanish LADY,,
the best thing he can do for France is not to get WELL
He has been i'll now month, not Ill but he regns
not strength of constitution to govern. There has
been no month since Dec q 1851, when nagged, ham,
pered over-governed France has had such good
timen Even of our brethren. the newspaper men,
the days go by peacefully like the days of Thaaba
They make mock of NJ. Haussmann and other pre-
fects they wag their impertinent pens before the
face of the late Omnipotent Rouher they
treat OF the Emperor and his maladies with intimate
dsrespect for his august suferings and their possible
consequences nay, the sacro-sanct Constitution
what is left dsceTnibly of its ruins under the con-
fused and confusing of Sendtas consaItG-one of
which strictly nterdicted its diScussion they discuss
with impunity.
Every number of its own Journal 0fciel is issued
In potent defiance of the letter and spirit of the
laws On the daily press Government has
thought it worth the while to justify the exception
by so much as a simple decree. Before the last
Eenaus ConsuItum abrogating article A of the late
Constitution had become part of the new Consttu-
tion-before il was discussed in the Senate-before 1T
began to be drawn up in the form Of BILL the actual
Ministry was composed in direct contradiction OF
that article which reads: Ministers cannot be MEM
bers of the Corps Legislatf" 1t is now authorita-
lively given cut that the Legislative Body will not
be convoked before mid-November An unamended
article of the Constitution provides that the new
Legislature shall be oonroked within six months after
the dissolution of the old one. This fixes the limit
ior the meeting of the new Chamber at Oct. %. 1t
mere bubble TO pretend that the convocatoD last
summer was fulfllment of the Constitutional com
nand. The House did not so much as organize, and
The elections of fifty of its returned members are
ail unverifed-many of which, if justice is let have
is course will be proven falsfed by the strenuous
and lawless intervention of the Administration.
This brings us to a brief consideration of
Ne famous Article IS Of the Constitution of
he q Frimaire Year 8" lof the Republique).
fhe history of it can be mainly told in
few words Like other things that have been
let grow up bad it was born of good wise intention.
1t runs as follows The agents of Government,
other than the Ministers, cannot be prosecuted for
acts conceTnIng their functions unless by virtue OF
decision OF the Council of State" The object of it
at the time was to prevent recurrence of such con-
hcts Of powers, arrestIng the machinery of Govern
ment and injurious TO the public veal, as the old
euarrels between Court and Parliament had fur
nished instances of then recent aud painfully re-
membered. The First Napoleon caught at, with his
uiHlJ RIceUy grasp, ana uSeu eUnclcuhy, the
venent excuse this gave him for the iegat exercise
through his agents oflawless power. On OCCASION of
his first transient attack of liberalism Ia certain
party being sick, the said party monk would bel,
he formally promised. in Article 50 of the Acfe
Additional 1914 that Article 75should be modified for
she better The KestauTation came Article Is was
not formally abDog&ted but eminent juris consults
assumed that it was virtually, and by. implication,
nbf0gated, seeing that the Imperial Constitution,
Into which it was Incorporated. was swept away
with all its belongings, by the blessed Restanraton
Louis Philippe and. alas. the short-lived, short
sighted Republic Of 1873 found ii occasionally con-
venient to profit bynot talk of-and let it stand on
the books. The actual regime has revived it, cher
ashed IT. aRd pushed its active force TO the utmost.
1nefe IS MOI time space BOW, and in The TEBUNEs
columns 70 state in general. prove by cumnated
s'o'ances the frlness of abomiDatiOn of the work
'k Vi TINS Article 10 very brief presentation
lew unquestiODable facts will sufficiently Illus
ea~ "hat, ior the moment, is my main proposition.
VIZ tlat Louis NapoIeon's Government, selfstyled
a'u hlS1Iauded as conservative, does itself exist
mus iaf by revolutionary processes, aud is, par
excellence, an eminent teacher of revolution TO its
unwilling subjects Article q places all admnstra
ave agents, from the highest project to the lowest
policeman. above the law YOn are offended IN your
person by the insults Of project the heavy fist Of
Jealous policeman who has mistaken your DnO.