New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-02-26

AK AMERICAN FLUNKEY-MORE SCbNt.o 80
Fl THE CHAMBERLAIN. FERRlS AM
~ TRYss ASSAULTS on THE GONEhNnE"
IFRoM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT go;
PARIS Feb 1.-THE surface toupieS ''"' -, %,
tated for tho last three or four days na'o
tirely disappeared, but the storms tha' i"so
the superficial crust are angry as e'o 40 ioi .o
newspapers they are all afre win cha seS'
charges and determinations, ana 'ne Ooip' A'e
tit :; daily the scene of hot skirmish-for, as yet
- re- hoon no h,g,e in the Chambers more than
in the streets-yrhch all the oil that the bland OH
vier n nc 60 freely Mt command cannot calm. There
are hundred ministerial and legislative devices by
which these discussions be, and are, peIpetuay
stopped when there is no answer to be made, when
subterfuges have been enough exposed or are ex-
hausted when troublesome personalities begin, as
thew have often done Of late to take the place OF ar
gumeuts; but, after all !ths system of repression
amounts TO nothing, for the quarrel put an end to
one day. begins again. as angrily as ever, the next.
[ have called the street troubles surface troubles
and they were really nothing more l send you by
this,samc mail translation of the account written
by Gusave Flourens of the part he played IN them
and il is, no doubt n very good specimen Oh
the whole affair. Flourens is a hot-headeu
enthusiast n man Of verv little. if any Judgment
but at the same time man OF whom All VINO hno"
him speak well and kindly; he has done good many
war1n-hearted and selfsacrihcing actions Dnt NC il
no more made for leader. with his uncaleuathg
rashness than Rochefort with his too much calcu-
latng that looks sometimes almost like tmldlty.
Roth of them are brave men, but their bravery Is of
no use to them, because they do not know how TO
choose their time Flourens goes off at half-cock'
and Rocheforts native hue of resolution is too often
.ieklied DER with the pale cast of thought lie
thinks too much, and, TO misquote. such men are
often not as dangerous as they might be. On the
day of Victor Noirs funeral Flourens was SO eager
10 lead the multitude to Paris that Rochefort lad All
he could do and morefor his hyscal strength gave
way in the effort. and he tainted, as you know-to
prevent that fatal policy from being carried out
The other night, however, at Belleyille flouIehs
bad all his own way, and took it, but there was DO
response of any Importance from the people anu ~,
less has been gained than would have been if he had
bis way on the 18th of January. Then, there is no
telling what might not have been done with that
immense mass of men in motion. all animated by
one feelpp-if they could once have gained
Paris the consequences 20 the Empire might
have been serious, and none the less so
IL the day had, seemingly, been gained LOT
the Empire by bloody massacre, and the uansAt-
ing into Chassepot-French Of Marshal Canroberts'
now famous, "'IrrITanp 1t may seem strange
that anyone should speak as if anything whatever
had been gained by the agitations OF the last few
DAYS. Certainly, nothing has, If shopkecping be our
q beings end arc alI1 anu IL lHt NoHttutS VI NhVrS
famous balances that justice holds in our emblematic
figures of her. be bread and cheese, instead of right
and wrong Business dull enough in Paris for the
last year has been seriously disturbed, the Bourse
has been depressed such food of strangers Is leav-
ing town that the hotels are nearly empty and the
Chemn de fer du NoTd has been obliged to put on
additional trains in order TO accommodate the
frightened English, who still remain. though the
great majority of their countrymen went oil IN
hurry at the time of the rising, at the Victor Nor
funeral Worst sign of all, the theaters feel the
times and their receipts have been seriously lowered
since Rochefort was arrested All this, of course Is
very had bnt would il not have been a great deal
worse il there had been no disturbance if all Paris
eould not have produced so much as one Fiourens IT
the wrongs under which that people cruelty suffers
lin spite of the unparalleled generosity OF
HIS Most Sacred Majesty in allowing his people
20 call his unchanged personal government by the
changed name Of Parliamentary could not wiring
from them so mnch rs cry of 1--WE anything that
promises to upset what exiss~ This is the question
that the rich people the comfortable people, the OFF
cinls with their multiplied Offices and oyergrown
salaries the parasites that live upon the crumbs from
fical tables, the well-to-do people, the En-
elsh with one voice and, o shame. with
one voice the Americans in Paris than whom
the Empire has no more staunch, more all-forgiying
more fawnng supporters-this is question that all
these people answer with one voice of assent But
the misery of Paris, the workmen, wretchedy
maid that life cannot be supported on what days
labor earns, the distress caused by all this mag
nifcence that walls the distress from the view of
those whose only business in life IL to themselves
on the Boulevards, and praise those whose chasse-
pots and policemen keep out OF their pleasure
olaces the mob" " the canaille" as an American
holding a postion here under our Government actu-
ally calls actually dares TO call, the laborng people
of Paris these things of which the people speak
of know nothing and care nothing. Neither do they
know or care anything about the Indignation, the
long suffering OF the great body OF cultivated lntel
rent men, the best society OF France at the assump
tons the oppressive acts the denial OF justice the
denial of freedom in the expression and
communication Of ideas by which the present
G,oyernment. and under Olivier more than
nder FORBADE or Rouher, is all the time guilty
ihe first category of wrongs or evils II you choose 70
call them So the stones OF the streets TO rise
into barbados. and to mutiny; the second
makes the Corps Legislative day scene OF STRIFE
more deadly, though more politely vailed. Let the
Government do all it can, let it repress and repress
Net Marshal Canrobet TrrraD, and Bazaine lead his
troops and Pietr his there must come time when
II will be seen how unintelligent, how unstatesman-
like, how worse than useless the present system is
and even IT, as now, the air is full of rumors that it
50 intended personal government shall be restored,
the Prince Imperial being made TO take a nominal
share IN the Government, that in case of his
fathers death he may be in actual possession of the
thrOne; even If this not wholly absurd rumor sbould
fan true, would the inevitable end be avoided
There must come a CRASH sooner or later and M
wisdom that mas thus far been called to the Govern
meDt councils has shown any sign of ability 10