New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-01-27
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE.
THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

I'M,
GoyERNMENr FINANCIAL sCHEMEs-TliE EN-
PEROR OF BRAZIL. -
tFRoM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THk rRiBUNEl
PARIS. Jan. 10.-There were elections In IA
departments Sunday for the naming OF II deputies
TO an vacancies in the Versailles Assembly The sue
cossn,, candidates may be loosely cassed as follows:
Renubcans Of all shades, 49, Monarchsts, 8. or these
last two are BOnapartistsone OF them an eXlmperal
Project and one ClercoLcgitmst. Here in Paris IT is
noteworthy that both candidates for the seat vacant
I'm the deputation OF the Department of the Seine were
Repnblicans-victor Hugo, Radical supported by the
"Irreconciables Of all sorts and vauran, old but
moderate rational Republican. The Monarchsts could
NOT obtain candidate They did manage TO upon
Marshal NacMahon, hut that brave soldier declined to
run against the Government is his duty to For
II is observable that these people who style themselves
the party Of order par erceece are all aiming to de-
stroy the actual order OF Government, and when
ever they leave that conservative purpose out
OF view fall to quarreng among themselves. Last year
the city journals, Of the various mOnarchcal
sects, associated in the selection and support OF coal
itiOn ticket at tho July elections. Why the core-
spondent Of The london Times should represent this
Tmon of the press being equally opposed to Imperial
ism and Republicansm nexplicabe as that he
should also represent Dufaure the actual Minister OF
Justice. to be radical with Communalist tendencies
The fact is that all the Imperaist papers, from L0rdre
and lie Constitutional down to lie Gaulois. were mem
bers Of the Press Union, and that the directors OF the
legtmist and clerical organs aiding the nomination OF
DuvernOis, exMnser of the Empire was certain TO be
made. and after him the nomination Of Baron Hauss-
mann had LARGO chance of being carried, ana WOULD
have been II the representative of lie Journal deS Debds
had not procured in advance the passage of resolution
which made unanimous vote necessary 10 the nOmna-
ton The result an open quarrel, and the Press
Union of the party OF order broke up in disorder
1t is worth noting that the D6bdS sustained the Re
publican yautran during the canvass, and rcoices in
his the triumph OF common sense and rational
imuractiCal YadiCasn of the supporters
OF Victor Hugo But it is TO be observed that the latter
pOled $1,000 few Of which may have been
cast by Imperiass for miSchiefs sake. Vautrain had
GOO, part Of which undoubtedly given by
moderate conservative citizens whose preferences for
Constitutional Monarchy do not blind them to the i'm
porance Of sustaining such Government they have,
at least for the pres Mt Most Of the MOnarchis journals
recommended some Of the Imperiast strongly urging,
abstentOn, that they might count, they now do
with false air of triumph, all the negative indifferent,
and IDLY Discontinued positively OF their parties. In
fact less than half the inscribed citizens voted This is
the tho in the July elections 1t is,
however the "ancent vice." and most dangerous one
In people whose political institutions for their
fatal base such IL is, universal suffrage. The only
hope for its eradication is in the progress OF
o political education, which can only be hast
ened by progress in general popular instruc-
ton. The prospect in that direction ia Of the
brightest The committee just appointed to report on
Jules Smon's Education bill III large majority op-
posed its best provisions. It's abest member and
Chairman Bishop DupanOup. 1t is possible that from
Difference TO ousidSppinon which was steadily grow
ing before the war; Ind received by that powerful
impulse in form Of compulsory primary instruction he
may report favorably the principle, but with such
qualifications of the penal clauses Of the bill as TO make
il a dead law letteT-egal obligation without
sanction. Although the bill is not pointedly hostile to
the Church. but, the contrary framed with most
careful regard 10 its rights, and perhaps, with too in
dugent admission Of its claims, the Church party does
and logically must resist the passage OF the bill into law
The consequence Of obligatory instruction is the duty OF
the State TO furnish the people with the means Of fulfill
ing the bgation that is with cheap, and where need
be, schools In all with lay teaching, aic
least, in large degree, sure to grow larger But this
Is encrOachment on ecclesiastical teaching.
Bishop Dupanoup does not absolutely object TO primary
instruction Of the lower classes but all the clergy do
land from their point of view rightly object its being
impaired excep: under their direction. Pi it is not
merely the intelligent leaders Of the clerical party who
will offer resistance TO the bill. 1t is a firmly fixed how
- ever loosely reasoned Conviction in the minds OF
Numerous class of GSt otherwise stupid gentlemen that
kemehnW Or other, the masses grow uneasy and I'M
~ gOvernabe just In proportion they educated; that
popular education is revolutionary that poor folks
much more content with the "lot has pleased Provi
dence poor Providence has to answer for so much hui
man imprOvidenceD TO assign them" when they look
stupdy down than when they look up 1t does not hurt
even the vanity Of these conservatives to be told that
France is lower in the educational scale than other
tons The terrible lesson set them by the reading and
writing German armies, last Winter, does not seem
worth their learning But further notes on this topic
are well deferred till am brought back to II by the
coming debate in the Assembly.
~ the debates on various schemes OF taxation which
have occupied Of the sessions Of the Assembly
of late any general report that could be crowded into
letter would he summary to be Ineligible Inc
proposed Income tax, for the imposition OF which the
most effective arguments known to Communists were
Inv WOlOugk and Others ana reDutteu
Theirs and others, is kept for further discussion
Whether from calculation, accident. or something OF
both the discussion Of forms Of taxation to which TIMERS
ia .opposed has preceded that on Customs duties 10
which Theirs and his Minister Of Finance look as the
readest and richest whence the S4OOOO which
must be raised can be drawn. The venerable President
told the Assembly in of his cevereSt Characteristic
speeches the other day: "Ho taxes are pleasant OF
those now proposed you persuaded Of their I'M
peasanness that you have rejected them but taxes you
must raise on some plan. There Is which, to my
mind will answer the purpose 1t is error to suppose
that hold its adoption from wifn, personal doern
ure obsnacy; that 1t is not open to OF the obec
tons which IL Is assuredy obnoxious TO, trust shah
be able prove you when the time comes for the rest
you are sovereign arbers and will reject If not con-
yinced-only that ease, devise what can be done"
One other escape out a the into which THEIRS and
his Finance Minister Mve rather encouraged the AS
semby into remains t0e considered by the Freeaders
and the Political Economists that Is the heroic remedy
OF augmentng by the 50 much requisite per cent large
classes ofimpOsts already legally established.
We have still the Emperor Of Brazil among u.s. at least
he was not gone three days ago. He is senslbe-ook
ing mddle-aged gentleman, and is full grzzebearded.
He is more indebted his sound physique and respect
able features to the COburg than to the Bourbon stock
Being Coburger he is practical, all that race are,
and takes this opportunity Of foreign travel to ration
ally amuse himself and improve his mind. He attends