The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-06-01
FRANCE.

hand 700 millions towards the last miiliard
while payments on account of the loanl
are coming in at the rate Of loo
millions q month";. SO that by Septem'
moro than covered. The Radical agi.
tation for q dissolution of the As.
sembly in October is accordingly increasing,
and the aaaadat insperatif accepted by NM
Ranc and Guyot, the candidates for Lyons,
obliges them to press for an immediate
dissolution. II lie rumored, however, that
that the Assembly shall dissolve itself in
May 1874. Bien Pablic, the Presidents
organ, enumerates the laws which the pre-
cent Assembly must pass before it dies
the Constitutional lava, the Municipal law,
the laws on primary education, the budget,
and military reorganization. This, thinks
it is not scamped. to iAst till next spring.
A dissolution in October, however, as will
DO seen presently. forms part OF the pro-
gramme OF M, Gambetta. The Radicals
since the Paris Election have been making
greats efforts to secure NJ. Theirs and to
destroy the Impression likely to be caused
by tho defeat of M. de Remusat. NJ Chel-
lemei- Lacour, the ex- Gam bettist perfect
and present Radical deputy for the Bouehes
dn Rhope, has assured NJ. Theirs that he
will have the support Of NJ. Gambetta and
his friends il he will endeavor definitively
to establish the Repubiic. And MN. Baro
Diet, L nans, L .s Turigny, Gagneur,
deputies are coming ont with q collective
manifesto stating that they believe them
selves to be expressing the will of their
constituents in promising every support to
N. Theirs in his efforts to- perform this
task. The immediate proclamation of the
Republic is indeed proposed by M. Beren-
ger, deputy Of the Left, bnt whatever
u. Thiers may intend to do after October,
he is not ready for such proceedings at pre-.
sent. If We may believe the account which
the Figaro gives of an interview between
him and n. Tarquet. deputy "who does
not speak much but is always in bustls,n
M. Theirs is reported to have said that the
Republicans must have absolute confidence
10 his Intentions; that he could not do all
he wished to do until after the liberation of
the territory, not because the Germans in
terfered with him but because the Assembly
him. Afterwards they would
see but in Che meantime they must help
him to overcome the opposition which he
would meet with on the reopening of the
took place as reported, the very decided
overtures from the Left to the President
are explained. II. Gazenove de Pradines.
on the part of the Conservatives, is said to
have twice represented without effect that
all that the majority desire is homogen-
eous Cabinet grouped round MN. Dufaure
and de Gonlar1. We shall see whether M.
proposal will be more favor
ably received. According to the Presse
the ex-dictator has proposed to the Mod
crate Left the following programme Dis
solution of the Assembly in October, and
to two members of-the Moder-
ate Left of the portfolios of the Interior
and of War, so as to obviate all chances of
either civil or military repression of the
extreme party. N. Emile de Girardin has
pu blished q letter, in which he advocates
, Homogeneous Republican Cabinet and
". Casimir Perier another, in which he ad- !
Vocates the termination of the prOvisoire,
and the dehuitive establishment of q Re.
public. Al theae people are, we take it,
Wasting their labor NJ. Theirs will do |
what they want, we firmly believe, if he !
remains long enough in power but he
will not do it now, or until the liberation |
If the territory is complete. We are dis
posed to think he will not do anything of
Importance until a new Assembly has been
In the meantime the recent elections.
M. Barodet's, have produced a
decided panic on the Paris Bourse. We
hear of fundhOlders throwing their stock |
lpon the market by millions at q time. and |
The general alarm Of the middle classes can |
'nly be paralieied, according to the CORES.
oondent of the Standard, "by the scene
which followed the revolution Of February.
l945.n In subsequent letter the same |
writer supplies some curious reflections on !
the preeens situation. To the agitation |
ior an immediate proclamation of the Re-
public he replies, that "to found Ropub-
lie it is necessary that the Assembly should
draw up Republican Constitution" and
that "the Radicals will no more allow the
present Assembly to draw up such Re
publican Constitution than it would allow
It to place Henri ", OF the Count de Paris,
Or the Prince Imperial ON the throne"
What they want is dissolution and a
Radical chamber, (Which will enable the
eouches socials to govern the coun-
try" Sand they make no secret that if the
Assembly does not execute itself,.' "the
people will take means to enforce it's will. -
Already the worst social strata of Paris are
showing symptoms that they mean mis-
chief, and in an article entitled 'tthe Froth
on the Surface" the Figaro narrates seve.
raj instances in. which Sisters of Charity
have been insulted in the streets and
with assassination, and OBJ
serves that since the recent eiecl,,n the
amiable manners in fashion under the Com
mune are reappearing for the first time
since the entry of the Versailles troops into