Wishes and aims take the place of policy among French
publics men, more transparently even than with us ; and more culpably, considering the dangerous condition of France. The National As- sembly elected by universal suffrage is debating laws to put down clubs and bind newspapers ; and leading statesmen do not scruple to display feelings hostile to pnblio liberty or real freedom of insti- tutions. The most violent is M. Thiers ; who frankly boasts that the laws of September " saved the Monarchy" of Louis Philippe-- which they did not—and openly expresses hostility to Republi-
canism. To put down Socialism and Republicanism, that is the object of M. Thiers and those who act with him. Concurrently with this attack, M. de in Rochejacquelin praposes to reopen the question of choice between Republic and Monarchy, by referring it to universal suffrage ! The Assembly scouted the proposal, and Partisan-President Du in marked his emphatic disapproval by bear- ing up the paper on which it was written.
