DEBATES IN THE FRENCH ASSEMBLY.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 212, 12 February 1875, Page 3

DEBATES IN THE FRENCH ASSEMBLY.

In the French Assembly there has been a warm debate on Count Jaubert’s bill for freeing superior education from State control. On the 4th December Monsignor Dupanloup supported the bill on the ground that it was based upon the principle of liberty. M. Challemel-Lacour expressed a fear that the liberty advocated by the previous speaker would result only in the benefit of the insatiable Catholic party. This statement was received with protests on the Right, but the hon. deputy continued to address the House, frequently eliciting from the Right loud expressions of dissent. He maintained that the dreaded Syllabus would become the rule of life in France, thus destroying the present basis of society. These two speeches, it is stated, produced much excitement in the Assembly, On Saturday, Monsignor Dupanloup, replying to M. Challemel-Lacour, reproached him with having placed Catholics outside the pale of the law. The Bishop asserted that the danger arose from those persons who said that the Archbishop of Paris ought to have been shot. At these words violent protestations came from the Left, and it was with difficulty the President obtained silence. M. Challemel-Lacour replied with great bitterness, and concluded by referring the personal attacks of Monsignor Dupanloup to the judgment of the honest men who sat in the Assembly, and generally to those who had any regard for the dignity of the French episcopate. M. Buffet protested against the language used by M, Challemel-Lacaur when addressing a man who was one of the glories of the French Episcopate. Quiet having been restored, other speakers addressed the House, and the Assembly decided by 553 against 133 votes that the Bill should be read a second time. The Paris correspondent of the Times remarks that this majority only means a willingness to take the Bill into consideration, and it is probable that in its progress through the House it will undergo modifications which will induce its promoters to withdraw it. The author of the Bill, Count Jaubert, deputy for the Cher, died on Saturday at Montpellier.