8 MARCH 1879, Page 2

The Committee on the impeachment of the De Broglie Government

have decided by a large majority to insist on pressing the impeachment, while the Government has decided to oppose the impeachment of the Reactionary Government. M. Waddington is here clearly in the right. And if he stands firmly to his guns, he may win back the respect of the country, which he has this week done his best to lose. The policy of raking up all the old sores is a silly and dangerous policy, and, moreover, the policy of a party at once uncertain of its own strength, and certain of its own vindictiveness. France, as we believe, desires nothing less than a prolonged reign of party hatred. If amnesty to the Com- munists is wise on the one side, oblivion for the errors and crimes of M. de Fourtou is equally wise on the other.