NEWS OF THE WEEK.
METE Report of the Committee of the French Senate on the 1_ Expulsion Bill was read by the Reporter, M. Allon, on Thurs- day, and somewhat frigidly received,—probably because it had not the terseness and piquancy of most of these reports. Nevertheless, it contains a very impressive constitutional argu- ment against the Bill, which it recommends the Senate not to modify, but simply to reject. It insists on the insignificance of -the placard in which all this panic originated, and the im- potence of Prince Napoleon to disturb public tranquillity ; on the perfectly satisfactory declarations of the Minister of the Interior as to the non-existence of dangerous plots ; on the folly of giving the impression of a weakness which does not exist, by taking most dangerous precautions against imaginary dangers; on the steadfastness with which the Republic had passed through far more dangerous crises without taking refuge in a policy of proscription ; on the uselessness of driving Pretenders to plot abroad, where their plots would be not less, and might even be more dangerous, than plots at home; on the radical injustice of punishing particular persons for their birth, and the -utter failure of republican equality which it involves ; on the prospect of an extension of the proscriptive principle, if once accepted, to all those classes which are regarded with jealousy by violent agitators ; and on the certainty that a policy of de- nunciation having been once inaugurated, the Senate would -soon itself become the object of attack. The report frankly appeals to the Chamber itself to respect Law, Equality, and Justice, and in the interest of all three principles, to acquiesce in the rejection of a Bill fatal to all of them. The debate will .commence to-day.
