The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-06-22
MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN NEWS.
ITO May 3fst.1
FRANCE.

The Constitutional Revolution in France.
Last Saturday was momentous day in
the history of France. M. Theirs has been
gathered to his political fathers; and Mar.
shall Mcmahon reigps in his stead. 1t was
not only that one Chief Of the State was
substituted for another with ease and ra-
pidity, in spite of all the real prestige
which attached to the fallen President, and
tie artificial terpors with which his dismiss
al was invested in anticipation, but that an
which was allowing France to drift rapidly
back into anarchy. Every credit is due to
the majority for the frmness and energy
with which they acted at last when the res
ignation of NJ. Theirs left the field clear
fer action.
Speeches Of the Due de Broglie and N.
Ds!faure.-On Friday the battle was open
ed by the Due de Broglie with q speech in
support of the Interpolation which we
published last week. He made several
points with reference to the connection be-
tween Radical victory and the victory Of
the Socialists, observing that the return to
Paris of an Assembly with Radical ma
jority and the mission to reform society,
would be the legal revenge of the Com
mune," aud concluded by saying that any
riousiy, but that to Fail after baving pre-
pared the triumph of your adversary, to
surrender the citadel you have been
charged to defend, and to add to the mis-
fortune of being q victim the ridicufe of
being dupe-this is a humiliation which
is fatal to reputation and to life" The
Duo de Broglie's speeches are always de-
prived of o good deal of their effectiveness
by the heaviness of the speakers manner
and his imperfect e;ocution, but Nj. Du-
faure, who answered him, and who GER
tainly labors under no such disadvantages,
was not very successful in his reply. He
enumerated the services of Government,
and the occasions in which it had disa-
Left cheered persistently even during the
panegyric of NJ. de Remusat, whose can
didature they had defeated, the majority
was untouched. M. Dufaure disavowed NJ.
jules Simon, it is true, as NJ. de Goulard
had done but he acknowledged boldly
that the recent elections had completely
converted him to belief in the necessity
OF dehnitive form of Government, and
announced that the Government was re-
solved, if the Assembly refused to pass
constitutional laws in this sense, to declare
that it could no longer answer for the
maintenance of public order. NJ. Du
faure's peroration terminated amidst cries
for division, which were interrupted by
NJ. Buffet reading message from the Pres
| ident to the effect that he meant to speak
the law permitting him to do 50 on in
terpeilations which concerned general pol
icy, and the Ministers having declared that
this Interpolation was of that character
right" the message concluded, (Which
II the law did not give it, reason alone of
! itself would secure for him." Tbereupon Nj.
Raoul Duval moved that the President
should be heard at once-the Assembly has
the power to permit this if 1t chooses-but o
member of the Left pointed out that it
must be at the request of the President.
NJ. Theirs rose in his place and said some
! thing, bnt was met by cries of You can
not speak now" and he sent b. Dufaure
into the tribune to state that he desired to
speak the pext day.
Speeeh Of N. Thiers.-Aecorainaly, at
half-past nine on Saturday morning NJ.
Thiers was in the tribune, pale, and wait
ing for the silence which would enable his
voice, somewhat weakened by emotion, to
be heard. He spoke with an unusual
amount Of action which betrayed his I'M
wonted excitement, and seemed no longer
capable of that amount of diplomatic self
control which has won him SO many victo-
rles. The Left cheered him constantly, but
after slight interruption by Al. Lorgeril
had been repressed by NJ. Buffet with the
remark that an attempt of anyone else to
speak during the sitting devoted to the
President, was not only irregular, but ac.
cording to the recent law illegal, the Right
preserved an ominous silece. They evil
IDENTIFY had made up their minds as to the
value of NJ. Theirs declarations and ex-
plantations, and the impassive disapproval
with which his eloquence was received
seemed to have goaded M. Theirs into be-
ing vicious instead of conciliatory. He be-
gan by saying that he alone, ana not his
Ministers, was responsible" the princi-
pal culprit, if culprit there was "-apd
begged the Assembly to j." understand
well that it was to him, as well as to his
Cabinet, that its verdict would apply. He
told the majority that they were not o ma
jority in the country, and affirmed that the
division about NM. de Larcy and Martel
proved that, even in the Assembly, par
ties were very evenly balanced. That
among the higher orders there was great
fear of the Republic, but that amongst the
masses it had great majority of adhe-
rents. That the apparent trimming of the
Government had been necessitated by this
balance of parties, for that there were
three Dynasties and two Republics, and he
could not have conducted the Government
if he had consented to put himself at the
head of any Que party. He enumerated his
services rendered to France since the war,
and especially dwelt on his having insisted
that the army should first enter Paris, and
having, with all his horror of bloodsbed,
thus crushed, for - long time he trusted,
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