New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-05-29
THE THIRD FRENCH REPUBLIC.

THE THIRD FRENCH REPUBLIC.
The petulance Of the Nonarchists has taken
the last obstacle ont Of the way Of the prompt
completion of the republican constitution Of
France. The Conservative members OF The
Committee of Thirty, who have been nothing
hut drag upon legislative proceedings for the
last six months, having resigned in tit OF
sudden susceptibility, the Chamber at once
supplied their places with Republicans, leaving
a half dozen seats in the Committee TO the rep
resentatives of tho monarchy. They indig-
nantly refused the proiered favor. and the
, Committee thereupOn organized and prepared
for business. The new President is NJ. de
Lavcrgne, an ouispoken though temperate Re
publican, and the Vicc-Presidents are tho
equally unexceptionable Deputies, NJ. Labon-
lave aud NJ. Icroycr The manner in which
the Committee has been constituted and organ
lied forms the best guarantee Of the sense and
Judgment with which il will carry Oh the work
before it. II will consider first the bill con-
corning public powers, next the Senate bill
and then the Electoral bill. When these mat
tiers are disposed Of, the Assembly will have
discharged its constituent functions, and the
county can at once proceed to the election OF
Senators and Deputies TO carry on the regular
and permanent government Of the Republic.
II il true that those who believe the Eepub-
Ec has fair chance OF permanence VIII be
met by the suggestion that this Is the thiid
time it has been established in France. But
neither in the Revolution Of the last century
nor in that of 1S4S were there any such
elements of endurance about the republican
governments then set on foot, a. wo see III the
pIesent Constitution which is slowly forming
at Versailles. There is nothing of the frenzy
of '93 about the party led by NJ Ihiers. That
strange series OF accidents and cata,trophas
which in one day destroyed the Orleans mon
arclly and set UP a feeble Republic, born be-
fore It's time, al the Hotel dc Vile, bears no
resemblance to the steady and orderly march
of events which has converted an Assembly of
Monarchists into one of Republicans. The
Republic of to-day is not, strictly speaking, the
same as that which sprang up from the pave
ments OF Paris on the 18th OF September, 1870.
The Empire had gone down i'll hopeless
disaster and disgrace on the field OF Sedan, and
the goyclnnent which hastily form'd itself
in its place was merely the result OF
the passionate protest Of tho Radicals OF
Paris against Boneparism and all It's
works. When. however the war was end
ing, and Dcputie5 came to be elected To tho
Assembly at bordeaux, the conservatism OF the
country, The representatives. OF vested interests,
made n great effort and carried q large major
ity of the Chamber N. Theirs WAS chosen
President, or Chief Executive, not because he
was Republican, but because ii was sup
poscd that he Was not. The LIEF, were in
snail minority. The Right made 10 pIctcnse
Of considering the Republic tnality. Mon
achical inirigues went on without conceal
mcnt. and il was rather more regular thing
in the Assembly 10 defend The King, Henry v,
than it was 10 defend the official government
Of the nation. But the force of events has eff
f-cted a wonderful chcrge in chat Chamber.
first, il became clear that public opinion
was Republican. Whenever there was a va
cancy the Republicans gained it, with few ex
coptons. VI. Theirs, being more intelligent than
The rest Of his monarclicaI colleagues. soon came
to gee that tho monarchy was impossible,
and that the Republic Was the only practical
way out OF the pro, isional The Chamber did
not agree with him, and punished his apostasy
by supplanting him. But after they had got
another President, on whose monarchicJ sym
pathic5 they counted, they found him also af-
feded by the same regard for The law Of the
land which n. Tbicrs had shown, and were
forced TO give up the hope that h. would
assist them in coup detat foI the benefit of
a Bourbon prince. After this, the influence Of
events and the popular will began 10 he felt
more and more in the Chamber. One after
another of the prominent landholders and men
of title in the Assembly gave in their adhesion
to the Republic on the ground that il was the
only possible government, and so steadily and
insensiLiy did this detection from the Conser
vativo ranks go on that the Government WIS
at last startled to find the Chamber more
liberal than itself
At every step of the way the friends Of the
Republic have been permitted to draw the
happicst augiry from the behavior of it, ad-
vOcates in France, as compared with their
opponents. No rarliaia- mary party in Europe
has in recent times exhibited more reinarka able
power Of discipline and sef-cOntrOl than the
Republican Of the French Assembly. We do
not admit the distinction so often made be-
tween the Republicans Of NJ. rhiers" and
the Republicans Of NJ. Cambeia" Deputies