New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-16

ola var,le snrt villa be revived in France Whlch
it may be will repeat ne history 81 croWned heads
She rs in no mood ct present, to address such an
appeal to the disconnected classes IN ugrlnanN an
else here But these are high pressure times. Mnlt
q deal of history has there not been CROWDED into
the last eleven years. BY the ilme the centenS VI
the Revolution comes round, those Woo i've ~ s
IL NAV witness the stuDeDdOus changes "hlCu
Victor Hugo has in his character Oh Cdles PlI
dcted. The excess of evil may thus bring lodtn
winch 6e9 f the od World has been gToanng may be-
come means Of renovation. BE this as IL may. We We
are Fastening on toward gigantic changes VIII
peace Is not preserved in his time. But NOBODY ap'
pears to believe in well-lnformed circles
tina the catastrophe can DC long ue au TO- Tu.
- II Europe gains year or eighteen mouths on the
war dsmOD.D sad to me Tins morhing the IepIeeem-
tatlve OF secondary wer, Sc snail nave reason
To cCngral niate ourselves" fuDns oplilUH T IT,
back. up am happy to say, the efforts OF ~ DIT
theie,ny 81. Hllalre to extinRuish gIndunlly ne
Turkish Empire and so stave on he battle LOT tn0
Sntans inheritance until the balance Oh huiop.Si,
power ~ more true or The Germln Empire uhuei
The leadership of a peace-lovIng Emperor
THE PRESS AND The LAW.
Ganbetta. four or five years ago. said TO mo OF
Thiers II" er prime la bOurgeOsie. IL la resume Il II Ia
tfrmine" uIe expresses the bourgeOiSe, he Is us
epltome and it will end with him. Certainly the
political events which have crowded upon US since
New Y, ar's Day justify his estimation OF that Illus
trious incarnation of the MIDDLE Class which has
predominant one III French politics. Every vestige
Of he bourgeois power has suddenly passed away
Democracy is the universally admitted soyere'g GU
Gambet;a proclaims the advent of his AoNret'eo
Coackts Socialts and is taking measures to shape
his politics according to this fact Ills present
henchman, the Jew Naquet, yesterday stooh up
against the commission named to report ohthe press
law, and the Government. because the bill they
proposed was hampered with too many stringent
articles to allow the new sovereign, Popular Opin-
ion. 10 express itself freely. This bill Gambetta
approved of last session, He thought 1t an I'M
provement on the old press laws, aud as liberal
as the country wanted it to be- But the muncipal
elections show hip that the Provinces are more
anxious for freedom TO write TO speak 10 meet anu
TO associate to bc placed on the strong basis OF IaW
than even the towns. They dread ana nave dreaded
snca MaoNahon's 10Th Of May adventure, the
mower of he Government to be despOtio, as burnt
enid breads the Gro. Deputies fear they would not
be reelected if they did not take INTO account III tne
Chamber this feeling. Legi ators who were
tor stIeng heninR The hands or autholitN
in the deliberately prepared press OH IN seventy
articles this year nave discovered that IT Is worse
than the Imperial cd,cts. DEGREES and laws, ana
would either tall into dl>usc or emaScuate Jourhai-
ism. They voted yesterday with Cltmencead anu
Louis Blanc i'll releasing foreign newspapers from
the tuteaee of tue Ministry OF the Interior, when
can only arrest their sale and circulation II they
contain indecent articles. Not to appear altogether
beaten, the Commission and the GOVeihuleht
demanded that this proviso should be
named As matter of fact there are
nowhere else such hardened sinners French jour
ualISs III the matter of ndecency. which Is esCheWe
by German English. American, Italian and Spanish
editors passing of rrspectaDilty. but mol OE
French. Theodore dc Bduville often lnyOkeS Eros
Wien sitting down to pen an article for the Ot Dtds
and nobody thinks the worse OF him for II. Sarcey
the famous theatrical critic spices his lectures WIN
ndccency, and often his articles IL me AmelerMh
Ceniurv 1t is not possible that the French press wil
be more severely dealt with IN the nill that
the foreign. Nj. FOquet demands the snDJec'loA "l
the press 10 the common law. ms WOULD DE IA vast
stride forward; ut the RepuHQae FrdHcdise seems
| TO think the common law could not properly. VIII
| out stranng be applied to press Offences Ihe
| Flouuet proposal appears. however, to nave
| met With favor III the house ana out OF Coors, a
common law maxim Is that every lndlNuual
| should be responsible for his own actions
alone. II, therefore. the press came within the
DOMAIN OF common law tue manager OF
"A Journal or the proprietor, would not he jointly
auswcrablc for indIscumInate articles Continued
by an edIfOr or suh-edItor. CauilO money Is
adopted. 1t was an Institution winch Hattd from
1870 and was devised b. LOUIS Napoleon. When
II oeciIue law, tue Able Llncnnals raised tile cry
of Woe to the DOOR, Tue Commission proposed
something worse than this. namely, tue deposit
IN the hands of the Minister OF Inc
Interior of the shares and debrntures OF all
shareholders IN journalistic property. IL TINS article
had passed, dividends and interest would nave Drcu
paid by INN. The Government would have known
what journal was veal ny. and the ones. by reason
of then poverty most susceptible OF beng bTlDed'
or of being ruined by prOseculon Before TINS se1-
sion IA over the French press Will be- anticipate,
free one As freedom cOnduc'S to dignity and dIg-
mty 10 deccmcy we may fairly hope that gross lih-
purity Will soon disappear from Paris journalism.