The New York Herald Newspaper, November 15, 1877, Page 6

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Wat Street Yesterpay.—The stock mar- ket was stronger and prices as a rule were higher, Gold was quoted all day at 1025. Government bonds were quiet, States firm and railroads stronger. Money on call was casy at 54623 per cent, closing at the last figure. Axolner Earruguaxe Suock—this time in Canada. Ir 18 Gratiryinc to know that the Direct Cable bas been en picke dup. Tue REPUBLICAN SENATORS and ¢ the President are beginning to understand one another. ‘Tne Emma Mine Case reappeared in the courts yesterday, when a new trial was applied for. In Our Law Reronrts will be found a wife's pathetic narrative in support of her suit for di- voree, Tue Vanpersitt WiLL Case promises to be one of the longest Surrogate trials on record in this city. A Goop Derat or Lieut is being thrown on the dark ways of the silk smugglers by the pro- ceedings before Judge Benedict. A Dray axp Dunn Brocan was cured by sending for a policeman. The dose cost the pa- tient sixty days in the workhouse. There 18 Surricient Foop wasted every day in this city to feed five thousand people; yet a man died yesterday of starvation. Tne Sevenru ReGiment armory fund con- tinues to grow. The value of our National Guard is beginning to be appreciated. Tue Suicipe of a ago bank president is recorded. The affairs of the institution lad, however, nothing to do with the motive. | Jupaine From Our Reports there is a good deal of filling in the cigarmakers’ strike, and the leaders deny that their backbone is broken. can act promptly when they see fit. By such action yesterday an abducted child was restored to its parents. ‘Tne Prorrac VoraGe of the steamer City of Brussels had a sad ending yesterday in the harbor, a schooner being run down and two men drowned. The accident calls for careful in- quiry Tue Gorrne Cup gave a very pleasant re ception to William Cullen Bryant last evening. The silver-haired poct deservedly finds honor among the Germans as well as his own country- men, Ar CrkEpMooR yesterday Mr. Thomas Lamb, Jr., one of the reserves of the American rifle team for 1877, made the astounding acore of thirty bull’s-eyes, at the nine hundred yard range. This makes bim the champion riflefan of the world, and his score will probably never be equalled; it not be excelled, Tur Queens T had wa dificult run yesterday through brush and brake, und Reynard escaped with his brush intact. But the sport does not wholly consist of killing the fox for his brush and pads, and the huntsmen mubt have greatly enj i their dash after the hounds, for the excit nt and exhilarating exercise attending the chase. It i wtifying | to know that these fox hunts ave rapidly gain- ing iu populatity among the residents of Long Island. The Weahu he area of high pressure still slowly mov Is followed by a general fall of the barometer from the direction of the northwest. The isobar of thirty inches is now aligned from Texius to the mouth of the St. Lawrence River and westward of it the pressure gradually de- creases to u depression central in the Upper Mississippi Valley. Over Dakota another distinct depression is moving, but both are inclosed within 4 common — isobar of 29.00 inehes. Rains have attended the first disturbance since yesterday morning, and have extended over the Mississippi, Lower Olio Valley and Southwestern States, The pressure is rising iu the Indian Te and is relatively high north of the upper Inke region, but over the south ern lakes and northward = purallel to the St. Lawrence it has fallen, A very general rise of temperature has occurred, The weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be warmer and cloudy or partly cloudy, probably followed by light rains, i off the Middle Atlantic coust | NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1877.-TRIPLE SHEET. 1 Poli. Western Influence in Nati ties. It is to be hoped that atime may at last come when this great Republic may be re- lieved from the curse of sectional or geo- graphical politics, Unfortunately, during the nearly ninety years since the adoption of the constitution we have never been quite exempt from sectional differences in our politics, This tendency did not start with the formation of the government. It antedates the constitution and was active during the war of the Revolution. It was then a divergency of views between New England and the Middle States or between New England and the Southern States. After the adoption of the constitution it took the form of jealousy between the North and the South, although at a very early period there were developed symptoms of antagonism between the East and the West. Washington in his Farewell Address thought it his duty to warn his countrymen against the danger of geographical parties. “In ¢ontemplating the causea which may disturb our Union,” said he, ‘it occurs as matter of serious concern that any ground should have been furnished for characterizing parties by geographical dis- criminations--Northern and Southern, At- lantic and Western.” He said. of such sectional distinctions :—‘‘They tend to ren- der alien to each other those who ought to be bound together by fraternal affection.” During the greater part of the present cen- tury there have been no active jealousies between the East and the West. The over- shadowing question of slavery drew the line between the North and the South, and the ever increasing acrimony between these at sections at last reached such a pitch tMft'there was no solution of the con- troversy except bya resort to arms. But since the civil war there has been a strong tendency to establish a new sectional line in our politics. ‘The Alleghanies are taking the place of the old Mason and Dixon’s line, and the new “irrepressible conflict” is be- tween the States of the Atlantic seaboard and those in the Mississippi Valley. ‘lhe West is becoming as arrogant, unreasonable and fanatical as the South was during the twenty years which preceded the civil war. We are again being drawn into a vortex of geographical politics, The recent proceed- in Congress show that the old sectional ion between the North and the South has been superseded by a new sectional division between the East and the West, and the conflict is hardly less bitter and irreconcilable than were the old spent con- troversies between the North and the South, The unreasonable domination of the West is no more to be submitted to than was the unreasonable domination of the South. The West has been a prolific hotbed of rank heresies ever since the close of the war. The greenback heresy was.the first in order of time. Its influence in practical politics was similar to that of slavery at an earlier period. During the slavery contro- yersy the democratic party attempted to trade on that agitation, and it paid the heavy penalty always incurred by a party which takes the wrong side. In the prog- ress of the controversy not only the demo- cratic party of the South, but the whole South, arrayed itself on the side of injustice, just as the West is becoming practically unanimous for repudiation, although in the beginning the democratic party pioneered and championed thut bad cause. There is a close parallel between the two agitations. The Northern democrats were always as much opposed to slavery at heart as the Eastern democrats are at heart opposed to the financial heresies of the West. But demagogues and party leaders are always too willing to cater to wrong-headed fanatics, and some Eastern democrats’ have shown too ready a proclivity to treat the Western re- pudiationists with the same indulgence which was practised by their pro-slavery predecessors toward the South. Such tam- pering with justice and right is always an egregious blunder. Its inevitable conse- quence, if persisted in, will be ruin to the democratic party in the East, as it was ruined in theNorth by its pro-slavery atti- tude. he West is already nearly as unanimous for repudiation as the South ever was for slavery, and the East- ern democrats will commit another astounding mistake if they try to keep up the same relation with the repudiationists which they continued to maintain with the pro-slavery fanatics after it had become evi- dent that the whole South was so joined to itsidol as to force the North into opposition. The Eastern democrats are incapable of profiting by experience ‘if they give any such encouragement to the West as they formorly gave to the South. ‘Lhe West has long shown itself destitute of honor or gratitude, and almost of con- science or common sense. ‘The war for the Union was more for the interest of the West than of any other section. The West is an inland community, raising a vast surplus of products which are of no value without a foreign market. The success of the rebel- lion would have shut them off from any Southern outlet except through for- | eign territory, and Southern indepen- dence once achieved there would have been danger of another split between the West and the East, which would have | hemmed in the Western States on all sides and have hedged up all their routes to foreign markets. Had the Union been broken up the South and the East still have had free access to the markets of the world, but the West would have been isolated. It could not have sent a bushel of wheat to would any foreign market without the per- mission of governments over which it had no control and which could have destroyed its prosperity by their tariffs, ‘The successful war for the Union pre- served for the West its free access to all foreign markets, which is the vital interest of that section of the interior portion of the country. The war was carried on by the advances of Eastern capitalists, but no sooner was it over than the West, which had the largest stake in its success, turned against its benefactors und insisted on pay- ing their bonds in depreciated greenbacks. The same reckless disregard of moral and pecuniary obligations has marked the whole course of Western politics since the war, The so-called granger movement is a con- spicuous illustration, Twenty or thirty years ago the grand necessity of the West was the construction of railroads. Its farmers were transporting their grain to places of shipment in wagons from dis- tances of fifty, a hundred and a hundred and fifty miles, and the development and prosperity of the country depended on cheaper carriage. Eastern capitalists were besieged and implored to furnish the money for building Western railroads, and then, when the people of the West had got the railroads, which quadrupled the value of their farms, they started a movement for destroying the value of all railroad prop- erty. ‘Chis was of a picce with their efforts to cheat the bondholders who had farnished the means of carrying on a war whose suc- cess was more important to the West than to any other section, The greenback repudiation pretest and the granger project having come to naught, and being utterly dead the same irrepressi- ble dishonesty comes up in another form. It is now proposed to swindle private credi- tors and cheat the national bondhplders by coining ninety-two dollars’ worth of silver bullion into a hundred silver dollars and making such debased money a tender for the discharge of all obligations. Some readers may perhaps think it unfair to charge this iniquity upon the West when there are many Western citizens who detest it. But such a plea can no more be ad- mitted than it would have been in the case of the South, which contained a large body of sincere Union men at the outbreak of the civil war. We must judge the West by the men it sends to represent it in Con- gress. ‘ho South was never at any time more fully represented in Washington by a fanatical and lunatic pro-slavery set than is the West at present by a fanatical and luna- tic set of silver-money repudiationists. If the public men of other parts of the country will act against them with such resolute vigor and dccision as to show them that they have no hope of allies out of their own sec- tion this old “heresy in o new mask may easily be put dow? Germany and Belgium. France is so absorbed in her domestic troubles—so deep in the quarrél for su- premacy of parties and intrigues—that she seems to have forgotten her external rela- tions and to have ceased to be a European State. She has had no policy on recent general topics of European interest but that of silence and abstention, and now it would seem that she scarcely has any policy on subjects that have an important bearing on her own future capacity for self-defence. Evidently if the reports of the German negotiations with Belgium are true the Ber- lin government has made good use of tho paralyzed condition of France as, to her relations with her neighbors, for if Ger- many shall secure with France’s immediate neighbor such relations as she is said to desire the possibility of self-assertion on the part of France in any contingency what- ever will be well nigh hopeless. With the adoption by Belgium of the German military system her army will have relations to the imperial command perhaps not greatly dis- similar to the armies of the formerly free German States, and France will have Ger- many on her frontier from the Jura to the German Ocean, and Germany’s ally\from Savoy to the Mediterranean. ‘This will be a guarantee of peace as long as the mainte- nance of peace is in the programme of Ger- man politics, Commodore Vanderbilt’s Maladies. An incidental disclosure of the Vander- bilt will case is the story told by Dr. Linsly of the old Commodore's physical injuries and ailments. Few men, it seems, were ever more terribly beset by the ills that flesh is heir to in the form of chronic diseases ; dnd it is one more evidence of the resolution with which this man fought the battle of life that he had not only to en- counter the opposition and resistance of those enemies whom the world saw him en- counter, but also these little known, persist- entand relentless foes that were with him day and night and silently sapped the cita- del at last. Dr. Linsly’s acquaintance with Mr. Vanderbilt extended through forty- seven years, and he was his family physi- cian forthe greater part of thattime. He testifies that the Commodore was a suf- ferer from heart disease, from hernia, from hemorrhoids, from chronic cystitis, from dyspepsia and from dropsy conse- qttent upon the heart disease; that on one occasion he was very gravely injured in arailroud accident, having the ends of sev- eral fractured ribs driven like daggers into his lungs, and that the results of this hurt lasted so long that it caused him ao se- vere pleuro-pneumonia three years later, and that he suffered from repeated attacks of fever and agne. That is the physical record of one of the giants of his time. With at least five maladies from the danger or distress of which he was never free, and with intercurrent troubles that would have carried down many a man physically vigor- ous, the old Commodore fought on and not only accumulated one of the greatest for- tunes ever made in this country, but also achieved successes that were wonder- ful apart from their financial results, Let no invalid despair with such a history be- fore him. Pongo, Pongo is no more! He has gone to his account—-if he has any ; is g@ue up ; is gone over to the majority; is gathered to his fathers ; has kicked the bucket; has turned up his toes ; has slipped his grip. In fact, Pongo is (ead; as dead as Julius Cesar, or Hannibal, or Napoleon Bonaparte—or any other man or ape. Pongo died in Berlin, a statement which partially accounts for his fate. Berlin was too much for him. It has taken many ages to produce on animal that can live in Berlin ; and the waste of life of which relentless natural selection has been guilty in producing a creature with the lungs, stomach and brain that are necessary to support life at the Prussian cpital is scarcely comprehensible to ordinary intelli-. gence. Myriads of millions would not fill up the sum of the failures that pre- ceded the successful production of the specics that thrives in that district, But if unnumbered years and numberless failures were necessary to secure such mod- ifications as were necessary that man might’ live on the Spree, how was it tobe ex- pected that a frosh specimen, just from the cradle of humanity, with all his original imperfections in him, should thrive in that land of foundry-like digestions and grofes- sorjal intellects, It was the intellect that did it: Pongo’s little life was wasted in the attempt to understand what life is—an at- tempt that comes naturally to people com- pelled to live in Berlin. They should have carried poor Pongo to Paris. ‘There sym- pathy, sunshine, a sense of merriment in the air and the contagion of laughter would have given him a revived respect for the kind-ot existence led by human creatures, and he would not have died in his apish ob- stinacy and left a world of scientitic men bursting in ignorance as to whether he was capable of civilization. Civil and Ecclesiastical Law. Six years ago Rev. Michael P. Stack, the parish priest or missionary of the Church of the Annunciation at Williamsport, Pa., was removed by the Right Rey. Willigm O'Hara, Bishop of the diocese of Scranton, and transferred to the Catholic Church at Athens, in the same State. No cause was given for the removal, but Father Stack attributed it to the fact that he had written a newspaper article denying the authority of the Pope in political matters at the time the Fenian organizations of Ireland and America were placed under the ban. He refused to obey the orders of the Bishop, claiming that under the canon law of the Catholic Church he could not, as a parish priest, be removed except for cause or without trial, and car- ried the case into the Court of Common Pleas of Lycoming county, where it has been in litigation. ever since. Yesterday Judge Gamble, acting as Chancellor in the Court, gave judgment against the power ex- ercised by the Bishop, first, as being unwar- ranted by the canon law, and next as being contrary to the law of the land and prejudi- cial to the rights of citizenship. The Court declares the removal of Father Stack and the prohibition forbidding him to exercise any priestly authority in Williamsport un- lawful, but refuses to make a decree of res- toration on the ground that it might be injudicious to disturb the present state of things in the congregation. The right of removal exercised by the Bishop‘is in accordance with the decrees df the Plenary Council of Baltimore, assem- bled in 1829, which gives the bishops such power, and which expressly declares that in using the names parochial right, parish, and parish priest, ‘‘we by no means mean to grant to the rector of any church the right of immovability, as it is called, or to take away or in any manner diminish that power which the Bishop has from the ac- knowledged discipline in these provinces of depriving any priest of his office or charge, or of transferring him to -another.” This is the rule of the Church here, because, as a matter of fact, the canon law of the Catholic Church is not in force in America, which is o mis- sion, with the exception of the French Catholics of New Orleans, among whom the canon law has been in force ever since Lou- isiana was ceded to the United States. The opinion of Judge Gamble that the removal of Father Stack by the Bishop without trial, is “unwarranted by the canon law” cannot be accepted as sound, because the canon law is not in operation here and the discipline of the Church is guided by the Plenary Council of Baltimore, which di- rectly confers such power on the bishops. But this may be a good reason why the judgment of the Court that the removal and prohibition of Father Stack is ‘contrary to the law of the land and prejudicial to the rights of citizenship” is all the more sound. If the canon law prevailed no such re- moval could have been made without stated cause and fairtrial. In the absence of this just safeguard against tyranny and injus- tice why should nota citizen find protec- tion in the civil law of the land? The case is a remarkable and interesting one, and the point made most clear in its prog- ress and its result is the wisdom and, in- deed, the necessity of taking America out of the category of missions and bringing her Catholic people under the operation of the canon law of the Church. The Missionary Committee on Africa. The General Missionary Committee of the Methodist Episcopal Church met in this city yesterday to make their annual appro- priations for home and foreign mission work. They were more hopeful than they were one year ago, because the dgbt of their treasury had been reduced nearly ninety- three thousand dollars in the meantime, They therefore, with greater confidence, could make their appropriations a little larger this year than last. But the most notable feature in their discussions was the prominence given to African mis- sions. It was with difficulty that seven thousand dollars were given to that work contingently last year, but yesterday there was enthusiasm enough manifested to double that amount if the committee could be sure of the money, The more conservative, however, kept the enthusiastic ones within bounds, but $2,500 were voted cheerfully to penetrate to the in- terior ot that continent from Liberia, and two white ministers and any number of col- ored men have offered themselves os mis- sionnries. Bishop Haven, Dr. Fowler, Dr. Curry and other members of the committee were in favor of a larger sum, and deciared that the prospect was more hopeful there now than in any other mission of the Church, Hence a resolution was pre- sented asking Congress to co-operate with Great Britain in building ao highway fos the nations from Mon- rovia to the interior of Africa, and to ap- propriate $50,000 for that purpose ; also asking Congress to establish a line of steam- ers between the United States and the West Coast of Africa, Some of the committee did not like the steam line to be hampered with the highway, and for the present both were laid over. But it is very clear that Stanley’s work in Africa is going to bear im- mediate and abundant fruit. ‘The Rev. J. W. Horne, who spent ten years as a mis- sionary in Africa, expressed his opinion yesterday that it was the greatest discovery of the world for three hundred years Scarlet Fever in the Schools, Comparatively little of what is done by the Board of Health of this city is of any value to the public, and it is probably well enough known that we waste no admiration upon that body ; but it does a scrap of ser- vice here and there, and its proceedings aimed to prevent the propagation of scarlet fever through the public schools must be numbered with these, This, however, seems to be a case of good intentions rather than efficient performance ; but the Board of Education must share with the Board of Health the responsibility for this failure. Scarlet fever cases are reported to the Board of Health, with their location, and these locations are then ceftified to the Board of Education, As a simple c&n- sideration of the distribution of the school districts will show this information would enable the .school -authorities to know in what schools pupils from that neighbor- hood were likely to be found, and an easy inquiry in any given school would de- termine whether there were children there from an infected house, while the tempo- vary exclusion of such children from the school would save many lives and prevent the spread of the disease. It results from the observations of Dr, Dwyer, who appears to be one of the few capable men connected with the Board of Health, that this pro- gramme is not carried out by the Board of Education, and that in consequence all the precautions actually taken produce no pub- lic benefit, There seems to be room here for the Board of Education to rise and ex- plain, Cong Yesterday. The session in the Senate and House yes- terday was almost entirely consumed in speechmaking. Senator Maxey spoke at length on the Mexican question and eight or nine gentlemen ventilated their theories on the Anti-Resumption bill in the House. The speeches of some of the soft money ad- vocates “were so exceedingly ridiculous and absurd that the chamber was kept in almost a continuous roar of laugh- ter. Two: more days of debate re- main under the resolution, so that a vote will not be taken until to-morrow. Mr. ‘Wood reported from the Ways and Means Committee a resolution to adjourn on the 22d inst., but did not press immedi- ate action. Miniter A Hard Case. The counsel for Robert L. Case, the in- dicted president,of tho Security Life Insur- ance Company, made an earnest plea to the jury yesterday for the defence. Besides urging with ingenuity and force.those tech- nical points to which the accused trusted for escape from the penalty of his crime the learned counsel strove to touch the feelings of the jury by painting in pathetic language the disastrous effect a conviction would have on his client’s aged wife and four daughters. The crime of which Mr. Case was yesterday found guilty is one of unequalled cruelty. A man labors and toils all his life, and pinches himself and his family in order to* pay the premium of a lifeinsurance, so that those who are dearer to him than his life may not be left penniless and helpless when he passes to his grave. He dies, and the money he has found it so hard to pay is stolen bya dis- honest life insurance official, and, spite of all his care, ,his dear ones+are destitute, Not gne, but a thousand aged widows; not four, but. a thousand groups of weeping daughters are stricken to the earth in sorrow, in hunger, perhaps in starvation, through the guilt of one such criminal as this. Every right-minded man will sympathize with the family of the convicted perjurer, although they may be left in wealth and luxury while he is paying the just penalty of his crime. But every right-minded man will sympathize also with the thousands of victims of these infamous life insurance frauds, and will demand the stern punishment of the criminal authors of such widespread misery, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Mra Joseph Jefforson is visiting her sister in Chicago. Mr. Caleb Cushing, of Massachusetts, is at the Astor House, Mr, Henry Watterson, of Kentucky, is at the Everett House, Mr. Reuben E, Fenton, of Jamestown, N. Y., teat the Fifth Avenue Hotel. The Dartmouth College cluss of 1881 have voted to adopt the Oxtord cap and gown, Five convicts escaped from the hospital of the Mis- rouri Penitentiary yestesday morning, ‘The subscriptions for the unemployed and destitute people of Sin Francisco aggregate about $25,000, John Smith, charged with the murder of his wife at Wales, Ont, wus acquitted ut the Assizes yesterday. A despatch from Augusta says that Senator Biaine is rapidly convalesctng and will soon be upon the street agcin, Barton Myers, of Norfolk, Va., has been appointed British Consul at that place, to succeed his unclo, Colonel Myer Myers, recently decoasod, Hon, 8. B, Church, Chief Judye Court of Appeais, will award the post graduate prize at the annual meet. ing of the State Bar Association at Albany next Tuesday. P. J, Mehan, an attorney of Mauch Chank, Pa, was heid to bail yesterday by United States Commissioner Smith to answer the charge of extorting an exorbi- tant fee for obtaining a pension for a wounded sol dier, 4 New York Hxratp P. I,.man—“No, i you're wrong. ‘Personal,’ according to the . Web. ster, signifies belonging to men or women, or porsons, not to things.’ Of course you can run in pudding rec- tpes if you like, but on Noah’count would Webster have permittod it Oh, yes, wo are always willing to give you information; don’t be afraid to write,’— De troit Free Press, *‘Don’t vebard on him. Remember that a P.1.B.-ma: ‘Personal Intelligence’ naturally includes pudaing! *hiladelphia Bulletin, ‘The Syracuse Courier says:—‘‘Senator Conkling rose toa question of privilege in the Senate yesterday in relation to the vow famous ‘interview’ in tho Heratp of Friday last, ‘The Senator was very guarded lo what hesaid aod must have leit the impression eith his hearers that the report of the interview was not far out of the way afterall The Hxmatp statement, hoe said, contatned some remarks which he made in casual conversation at times and other remarks which he never made at any time. That isa very safe thing to He is careful not to disclaim the ‘gist’ of the statement, Ofcourse, there aro verbal inaccuradies, ‘vat what of that? Alter Mr, Conkling’s personal ex- planation there is no longer room for doubt that the statoment of tho Herato is substantially a correct trauscript of the Sonator’s caustic remarks, Whether the publication is the work of an eavosdroppor or of a tréacherous ‘friend’ does not concern the public, al- though it does concern tho reputation of the Hrratp, Itis tho revelation of Conkling’s inner sell, which, evon if involuntary, 18 but « supplement to the chap- ter the Senator himself unfolded at Rochester, Mr. Conkling 14 known among his fricnds as an accom. plished boxer. Ho has now pat bjs gloves on and is sailing io, Somebody ta bound to get bit aud burt, Ia it Hayes?” TELEGRAPHIC NEWS From All Parts of ths. World. —-—___ DEBATE IN THE FRENCH CHAMBER. Fourtou’s Defence of the Ministerial Policy and Jules Ferry’s Reply. EXCITING SCENES AND sTHOng WORDS. The Government Warned that the Peace of the Country is at Stake, GRANT TO VISIT THE CHAMBERS. [Dx CABLE TO THE HERALD.] Lonvon, Nov. 15, 1877. General Grant will visit the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate to-day. THR DKEBATR IN TOR FRENCH CHAMBER. In the French Chamber of Dopaties yesterday do- bate was resumed on M. Albert Grévy’s motion for tho appointment of a committeo to inquire into eleo- tion abusos. ‘M. FOURTOU’S DEFENCE, M. de Fourtuu, Minister of the Interior, was the He said he would forget what was oflen- He would not consider first speaker, sivo in M. Grévy’s resolution, its words, but the measures which it seemoa to pref- ace, He detended the principle of government inter- vention in elections by historic precedent, He calledto mind the despatches of sf. Gambetta ordering the pre- fects to Interfere in eloctions, aud said:—“If ever intervention of the government wag necessary It was undor the government of Marshal MacMahon. It was necessary to have ofictal candidates and to avoid false official candidates. Besides, when the press and as- semblies are free; when an opposition, systematically organized, attacks aod offends the government, should the government sustain ull assaults without being able to repulse any of them? It was too much forgotten that the constitution was the result of a compromise, One portion of the conservative party admits the principlo of a republic, but resorves to itsel! the clause of its revision, MACMAMON'S POBITION. “The guardianship of the constitution was confided tothe Marshal, He bad called to power men who gave themselves out as conservative republicans, but who, yielding to the pressure of the majority of the Chamber, misunderstooa conservative interests. The Marshal has tho right to’ recall the terms of the cone Stitution and make an appeal to canuidatos of all parties.” <i THE GOVERNMENT'S MAN OF STRAW. M. Fourtou procecded to justity the government's electoral action by pointing to the activity of the Soctalist propaganda. M, Gambetta insinuated that the Socialist maniforto fasued during the elections was doncocted by the police. ‘ TNE CASK OF BONNET-DUVERDIER, M. Fourtou also cited the language for which M. Duverdier was imprisoned. He incidontally remurked that the demand for his release was inconceivable. In twenty departments the mob had cheered for the Commune and Reign of Terror, To ward off this danger President MacMahon bad summoned the do- voted members of the Right. The Ministry could count upon them as they could upon it THE POWER OF THE CHAMBER DRSIRD, The government was desirous that light shoald be thrown apon its proceedings the elections, but would not have the one sided inquiry desired by the Left, which would be a usurpation of the judictal functions and @ violatton of the constitation. He de- clared the government had made it a point of honor to havo recourse to no exceptional measure, wheroas the opposition bad misrepresented the Cabinet’s policy, threatened officials, dismissed workmen and abused tho liberty of the press and the right of public meeting, TALK OF COMPROMISE. The opposition had obtained 4,300,000 votes and the government 3,600,000. This almost equal division showed it would be better to seek somo common link to bind the parties together than that one party should Strive tooppress the oiher. The government did not menace peace or the constitution, Ho said in conclu- sjon:—France wishes for a government of order, peace and stability undor the protection of the Mar- shal, whom the whole country asks to stay without compromise or submission at the post where he is and will remain.” M. Fourtou was warmly applauded and congratulated by mempors of the Right. “ A VIOLENT SCENE. M. Julos Ferry replied, He troated with scorn M, Fourtou's assertions as to tho pressure exercised by the republicans on the olectors, Tho suecess of the clericalists would lead to au alliance between Germany and Italy against France, for which tho way was al- roady paved. ‘This assertion caused a violent scone, The Duke Decazes declared it untrue. M. Paris told M. Forry to go and speak im the Roichstag. INVERYRARENCE WITH TUR ELECTORS. M. Forry, resuming, recapitulated instances of the government's illegal action, and accused tuem of hav. tng caused Presidont MacMahon to use factious lan- guage, On remonstrance of President Grévy against the uso of this language, M. Forry substituted the epithet “anconstitational” for ‘4actioug THE GOVERNMENT WARNAD. He proceeded, deciaring that another dissolution would be a coup d’édt of hypocrisy anda hazardous experiment to which France would not sabmit, and concluded with the following words:—“You must take care! Democracy has some biood in its veins, Pua lie poaco and the country itself aro at stake."”’ AN RXCITING BCKYE, When the speaker took his seat there was pro longed cheering from the benchos of the Leit The latter part of the specch was delivered amid a scene of great excitemont, interruptions coming from the Hight and applause trom tho Left. The romainder of the sitting was spent in porsonal altercations, daring ‘which violent languago was exchanged, THE WAVKKING SENATORS. The constitutionalist Senators, on whose action the government’s ability to obtain a second dissolution will depond, have declined to enter into any negotia~ tons with the Left concerning the election of Life. vidal I las