Two of the French Ultras broke out on Monday into
a general at- tack on the Constitution which they have assisted in carrying. M. Louis Blanc made a very eloquent speech,—received in rather alarmed snence by his own party,—against the various limitations 'en the sovereignty of the future Legislature. "All attempts," he said, " against the sovereignty of the Legislature are attempts against the independence of the nation." The Assembly had voted a "non-hereditary monarchy 'in a country where for a century no ruler had bequeathed his throne to his son." With the Constitution proposed, the Republic would be a mere name, and would become the pretext for monarchical attempts, just like the Constitution of 1804, which bore the words, " Napoleon, by the grace of the French Republic, Emperor of the French." The policy of reticence and compromise was a mistake. " Where was the use of recruit- ing partisans of a Republic, if the Republic did not exist ? " He did not wish for a Republic which resembled the legendary monster of antiquity, half-woman and half-fish.
