The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-06-28

spirits very deeply, for French Deputies have little
respect for the Speaker OF their House and no
sense at all OF his powers, which are rarely exer-
cised. The Bonapartis.s, however, took the case
against M. GamDetta into their own hands, and
ever since he applied that unfortunate epithet TO
them collectively they have been assaulting and
threatening him. as though each Bonapartist had
got the cap on his own head and found that 1t
fitted him nicely. Every day the Sale des pas
Perdus Or the Care St. Lazare is filed by excited
mobs OF lmperialists, and Gambeta starts
for his parliamentary duties surrounded and
protected by an enthusiastic following OF
students and workmen. day or two ago mid
dle-aged gentleman, probably in search OF gov
eminent appointment, when the Empire Is re-
stored, stepped out or the crowd, and going up to
the fiery Tribune, asked MIN, with menacng as
pect, Are you Gambetta?" eyes, replied the
nrst OF the republican orators OF France. well"
pursued the midde-aged gentleman, who had ap-
parenty waited TOR the government appointment
Till he had turned sour, 'you called the Bonapart
lists .wretches;'I am o wretch and will cur
your head; take that" Three times NJ. Gambetta
has been obliged to go abruptly to battle in this
manner, and twice his head was protected from
being punched by devoted friends. The third time,
namely, on the 11th OF June, however captain
OF Zouaves gave him black eye. This officer was
almost rent piecemeal by tne mob He lost his
hat; he was kicked round and round the waiting
room and down the stone stairs into the lower
hall, until at last twenty policemen rescued him
and carried him OF to the station. He is in con-
fnement now aud Will be tried for assauiting y
Deputy.
Party spirit Is terribly high in Paris, and gun
powder is in the atmosphere. Day after day there
are duels between imperialists and republicans;
but IL is to be observed that this mode of conduct
ing political argument is not new one, and it is a
pity that people so ingenious as the French have
not discovered an original mode OF treating with
those who disagree with them. In England, George
Canning Robert Peel, Daniel O'Connell, the Dukes
OF Wellington Buckingham anu Bedford, with in
Vulnerable Parliament men OF less distinction
were obliged to fight tor their opinions, ana the
practice OF cudgelling political opponent is per-
haps not altogether unknown in the United States
1t is only Jour years ago that gentleman who
ventured to think differently to banker baron
was waylaid in the street by that nobleman, who
had caused himself to be accompanied by prize
hghter, and they both fell together upon the gen.
tleman who had reasoned against their interests
and bonnetted him. II was thought about fifty
years ago that these impudent tricks might be
stopped by ridicule, and when two dukes fought in
Kensington Gardens about nothing which ought to
disturb the minds OF sensible men, some jokers put
up placard stating that rubbish might be shot
there" Nevertheless, the practice has come again
into lull swing all over Europe Field Marshal
Manteuffe and General Goeben wanted to go to
loggerheads in Berlin the other day, and not long
ago public character was publicly logged by
other public character In the streets OF Rome 1t
is quite Impossible to put down folly.
Meantime the French conservatives are growing
frightened at the results of their own imprudence
and wrongheadedness, and they have just allowed
the republicans to win
AN IMPORTANT LIBERAL VICTORY
by majority OF eleven. The Assembly threw out
the clause in the government bill which takes away
the franchise from all those who have not reached
the age OF twenty-five that the period OF life at
which a French citizen becomes entitled to cleo
toral privileges remains the same as beiore-that
is to say, he may vote as soon ne is twenty-one
years old. This is sharp check for the conserva-
tives and the impossbiity of carrying on the gov
eminent is becoming so evident that dissolution
cannot be long postponed.