NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE Carmaux affair has advanced many steps this week. M. Loubet on Tuesday signed the award, described else- where, reinstating Calvignac, but refusing to reinstate rioters ; and it was accepted with growlings by the Company as a judi- cial decision. The men, however, though they had pleaded for arbitration, refused to abide by the award, and the strike was ordered to continue. A friend of M. Clemenceau, therefore, on Thursday, demanded an amnesty for the rioters ; but M. Loubet refused to grant it, though he was willing, whenever the strike should end, to give personal releases from prison, without reinstatement in the mine. The Chamber rejected the amnesty by 324 to 198, and M. Dummy then proposed that the troops sent to Carmaux to maintain order should be with- drawn. M. Loubet met this proposal with a direct and almost defiant negative, declaring that he was responsible for order, and it was negatived by the immense majority of 399 to pc), —a most significant incident. The moment the Red Spectre is visible, the majority in France is Conservative to the bone.
