New-York tribune., 1875-12-11

Winter and the Constitution, with its two houses,
come into working operation by next March. Except
consideration of two or three measures not cal
cuated TO raise long debate there is nothing prop
erly left for this unrepresentative and "runplfyng
There are now 26vacant seats on its benchesl unpar-
liamentary Parliament to do but to pass the Flee
toral law at its third reading a law on the press
which implies a legal raising of the state OF siege
and to elect the 70 members of the new Senate
whom it long ago legalzed its own privilege to
choose
After what has already happened. the Electoral
BILL as it now reads is likely to he passed INTO law
at the third reading within few days. The law on
the press, drawn up by Minister Dufaure, Is oil
course against that natural enemy as all French
press laws have been. This is rather more con-
temptuous Of and hostile to free printing tlian most
of its predecessors. The text of it-whch withdIaws
nearly every political ocnse committed by journal
lists from jury trial and is itself 40 cautiously de'seu
that hardly any paragraph written by an lndepeii-
dent thinker be utterly safe from being caishI
up i'll its legal meshes-the text OF II, say II sinai
if any Improvement. III liberal sense on the last
press law of the late Empire. Perhaps the
strangest thing is that so learned intelligent
and experienced a man a5 Mlulstcr Du-
faure should at this late day put his reputa-
tOn for common sense and political sagaclty
on the issue OF its passage. lie Is 0ld enough
land partly when he was IN the liberal
oppostion to have assisted in the spectacle and pro
cesses of the downfall of four regimes, each one
stumbling headlong over the press law barrier, whch
il had set ~, as it's special protective dyke against
the running Hood of freely published free thought
But the dlstinctiyeiy remarkable qnallty OF thlS
among and above all preceding French laws against
the press Is that It's approval Dy the e4isatoIs vi
the land s the sole condition Oh which the Gepuo-
lican Government of France, IN the year 1919, can
consent to raise the state OF siege imposed on nan Oh
the departments-vcry much more than hair the
population France by the late Imperial Govern
ment, on occasion OF the late war waseu oy tne
French Empire against Germany. But marx now,
these being the conditions, occasions, preeAts pre-
lenses and opportunities III Tie case, IL IL pt1Nldeu III
this noOrlouslE provisional law SO very nara on ana
against tine press that from this boon OF raising the
state of siege generously to be granted on c?ntiOh
of It's passage from bill to law, are exempted the ue
partluens of cSenc, Boucies du Rnone, ana lhone
Now IN tine capitals of these three depaI tlnehis-
of which are lrT,Geemably republicai-Paiis Lyons
and Marseies, are published much more man loul-
filtis of all the more than narrowly local ht"Spd
pers published in France. The press III these Depart
inelts-till after the elccti0ns--ls by tins pro-
visonal law To be subjected stu, NOT 10 Tue III
IquitOus and capt0Gs provisions OF me Jaw, WINCH
bad aS il l., is statute law but To the plieiy aiD
trary control and good pleasure OF mlnlstrrlal az
ministration expressed in the unappeaiaOie man
dates of military colGnandantS!
TENDENCIES OF PRESS LEGISLATION.
The lamentably mIschieyous tendency, If not as
sured result of all which is and Will he not 10 SUD
due the Democracy, but to keep mp and encourage
into fact the idea that the assertion of an honest Re
government; to keep up and encourage the Eyonte
De Broglian idea that French national UNITY must
divide itself into two internecnc classe5us and the
others it is revolutonism den haat fostering, pro-
yoking. iustifying Ievolutionism den bas And all
because the resistant body of the supreme self
auointed directing classes of the Inferior order can't
with all their culture and reading of history and
hard personal experience, learn what liners,
Casimir P6rer, and some others OF Their wise hlnu
have earncd-that Democracy has arrived, Ike IL
or not-and 80 learned 10 try and make the best Oi
it with IT, rather than the most OF 1t III 1utle asta-
ton against II.
Comld ANYTHING more laughably and better than
ihis Duiaur, anl-press law give the measure OF the
modern ntclg, nee of the rlpeness of sense of these
eminent and eminenty intellectual old geesc VINO
still will forever, aud III full face OF ITS taoWihE'
gracious new proportions, mIsapprehcnd ahd hilsCil
the ugly Democratic duckI
DIR. Evans, late Imperial ami always hrSt OF Aicr-
lean dentists in France, also proprietor OF the lpe-
ralist organ, The Ime,1oda Hegistcri published here
announces III la,t Saturday nunibrr oi thilt wei
edited sheet that lie gives JO,ooU francs lor MS
first subs, ripIlOu toward the erection 0t lnphu
ment on the banks of the seine commemorative OF
or lively recognition OF the an France onfe l.ht
To us The good naturcd, generous lorgrtlul dehtls
says III this glit paragraph: IN IrMchl-
brdnce, therefore Of cherished alliance
of the unbr0Nen friendly frlatlons. oi
century etc. My dear Doctor, is our clvll war 50
lar oil as 10 he of the century without at
tracing notice 10 the gap Did your iayort" latest
ruler OF France piftcdldtiy tAtIt hiho'I 40
he uubTukpn alliance when he vas laVorng the
construction of Confederate corsairs III hs Imperial
ports uf NAMES and Bordeaux, aud when he made
tnrae deliberate efforts to induce England to JOIN hlh
IN rcJguiZius the Tcc. .li0uS CONFEDERATION as an IN
depc.dtnt state, and 50 GIVING emphasis anu hici-
needed chance OF success 10 ms desperate McNcili
advcnturef Personal gratitude for iayorS recelN ed
Is rs couendahle a. national gratitude l"f service
done Iu d,ccncy', name let us pay this To france
ethiEgmoge solid tliau wOrGs. Meantime ana IN
truth', higher maine, do not let III mere comp-
". IL. III.
UOVENS UORK FOR UOMEN.