M. Jules Simon, one of the Deputies for Paris in
the Legislative Body, has just published his discourses in the Chamber, which -contain what is believed to be the programme of the French Radicals. Its items are liberty of the Press in its absolute form, `liberty of meeting, liberty of teaching, the voluntary system in -religion, universal suffrage, an elective judiciary, the collection of revenue through a single tax on property, the suppression of -octrois, the suppression of patents, the responsibility of Ministers, the freedom of municipalities, free trade, the abolition of secrecy in foreign affairs, the substitution of the armed nation for the army, and the restriction of government within the narrowest functions compatible with order. That is as nearly as possible the programme of those American Democrats whom our Tories, in their love of slavery, have accepted as allies, and has at least three patent defects. It destroys the highest function of government, that of acting as agent for the whole people in construction as well as in repression ; it places the judiciary under the will of the .people, instead of the law only ; and it releases the priesthood from the control of the laity.
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