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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1380, 20 July 1872, Page 2

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[*BOK 01TS OWN QOEEEBPONDBITT.] May 18, 1872. " Hasten slowly " seems to be the motto adopted by the reorganizers of France, and in this respect they cannot be too highly congratulated. No fundamental measure is proposed for adoption till it has been thoroughly threshed and sifted. Even the extreme journals are a few shades less violent, and commence to think an opponent may have reasons for his faith, and is not to be ranked as an enemy because he has the honor to differ from them. Again, there is less indulgence in rant and fustian, over liberty, equality, and fraternity, and kindred shibboleths-<-the thing does not pay j besides, the people have found out that it is better to practise such precepts than foam over them. Yes, there is something like a serious tone and practical aim commencing to leaven French character ; true, the workings are yet not very great, but the healthy reformatory principle has established itself. There are Mamelukes still existing to defend Utopian, or rather Pioenistean, ideas, but they are dying out before the advancing sobriety of the times. The Assembly continues to show that collectively it is as prudent as sage. The republicans, if not partisans of ivl Thiers, are undoubtedly of the principle he represents, and that he will not allow to perish in bis hands; they will sacrifice ambition and vanity, will act with patience and moderation, to secure the jewel of great price. The Republic, with order and security, is making rapid strides ; outside of that there are only coups d'etat and civil wars, in the Assembly the conservatives are becoming republicans, and the republicans conservatives. One hears less use of the phrases "revolutionists" and " reactionists." The country desires neither. There are deputies who held aloof now quitting the royalist for the republican benches : men of conscience and heart are so acting—Gen. Chanzy, for example, who can faithfully aud fearlessly state, " I was not a republican." His conversion illustrates the inability of the monarchists to carry out their wishes, and being a man of order aud sterling worth, he is a tower of strength to the republicans. His example must be followed, for necessity and safety dictate it. Public opinion accepts him as heir apparent to M. Thiers. The social question, that great cancer for France, is to be treated in a businesslike and exhaustive manner. A parlia mentary commission of 40 deputies is to sit in Paris, and every employer and employed will be free to offer himself for examination, stating what is wrong, and what is requisite to right fairly the relations between capital and labor. The result at any rate will be a correct diagnosis of the disease, and this is a great step towards a remedial treatment. Since 80 year?, and under all governments that resigned, no associations of more than 20 members could be formed, without the express and revocable permission of the authorities. This abandonment of the right of association to the will and pleasure of a government, inconsistent with universal suffrage, is a serions violation of the principle of the sovereignty of the people. M. Tolaiu, a working man—and being such, elected by the artisans of Paris to rep esent them in the Assembly—-has moved the repeal of this law, and will succeed, in so far that all can pssociatei possess the power to acquire, hold, and contract, in the matter of property and commercial affairs, provided the objects of such association be previously announced, and have nothing illegal in their character. This is in itself a very great concession, and the French begin to see the wisdom of accepting by instalments what they demand. The best means to combat socialism is considered in France to consist in interdicting the workmen to associate; their common work already effecting that, all the year round in factories, #c. The Government must not be afraid to allow the ouvriers to unite and discuss w shop." Trades Unions have been enibarassing, but they have conjured perils, and if they have excited or encouraged strikes, their arbitration committees have contributed to terminate them* Much of the helplessness of the French to take any step without the guidance of the State is owing to. the government withholding from the peopje this right to ass.oQkte,

The listening to M. Tolain at all, is at sign of happier days. This time last year he was hooted down because he was related to Communist constituents. He is about 45 years of age, middle height,, small and intelligent eyes, very bald, and forehead full of wrinkles, jaws sunken,, and features expressive of anxiety and care. He was a stone cutter or mason, a kind of Hugh Miller. He has a superbred beard, not so well cared as a Tritons or a prophet's. He speaks practically when in the tribune, and would be better were he more natural. He is proud of his hands covered with the proofs of horny toil. The discussion on the project of law constituting a special court to judg<* Marshal Bazaine is in many respects m important political event. For the first time has taken place, after a pitched battle, the defeat of the united Legitimises and Orleanists by the united Republicans. The government observed an equivocal attitude. It was also the first appearance of the due d'Auinale in the tribune. The object of the bill; was to declare that iu the absence of a. sufficient number of marshals and admirals to try a marshal, the Minister of War was authorised to constitute a court from those generals of division wfio had commanded before an enemy. Now nearly all such are at present deputies,, and those professing uionarchial views disliked to have anything to do with the Baziine trial, but the Republicans by a majority of 34 declared military deputies eligible to be judges, as marshals would be were they deputies. As the bill will likely make the due d'Aumale, and his brother the Prince de Joinville judges,, owing to their seniority, the due took part in the debate; spoke neither for nor against, but merely explained his *' personal position." Under a republic this, looked like audacity on the part of a. Priuce and a popularly accepted Pretender, The royalists cheered him, the republicans sat silent and amazed. The due wished to be a deputy, to be restored to his grade in the army, both were accomplished, and thus he is rendered qualified to sit in judgment on Bazaine. He must bite his lips at his situation; he who demanded all public honors possible; and abstained like an old fox from every embarassing political duty. It is M. Tniers must laugh at thus seeing the duke caught; ami it is quite natural to learn that the President's health is much improved, Marshal Bazaine having delivered himself up, the country is so pleased that he is deprived of the opportunity of his escape, even were he so inclined. The rigors of his confinement to the house are softened for the marshal by every respectful attention consistent with his rank and position. Even the Reds could hardly, in their hearts* desire to see him chained on a stone floor, with a pitcher of water by his side, and a pound of black bread. There is a little less talk about his incapacy and treason, but not the slightest alteration in the public mind as to " his evident guilt," A kind of popular catechism is iu circulation, to eulighten the masses, on the prisoner's crimes. It has been composed by one who knows every weak point in BaZuine's armour—'from his hesitation to retreat across the Moselle,, instead of relying onMetz and its limited supplies, to his bowing to the national will iu overthrowing the dynasty, and then intriguing to bring Napoleon back* or himself forward. The gossip i* rather, will the marshal be shot, or imprisoned for life* rather than is he guilty ? Perhaps it is ouly the prisoner himself who believes he is iunocence itself, The trial can hardly hardly open before the end of the month , it' 700 witnesses are to be examined, the " Claimant's" case will be eclipsed in point of duration.. (To. be. continued,,^

On Friday, Judo 21, as the men en gaged in excava'ing in the bank next the Tiruaru Herald office, to make room for the nevr hotel to be built, a fall of earth disclosed, buried between sft 6in and 6ft from the surface, what evidently were mOa remains, consisting of portions of the leg bone of the bird. The ground in which they were found, consisted of stiff clay, and there were no signs of the ground ever having been disturbed, so as to gi*c a hint of burial. Jt is unusual, we believe, to find moa bones deep down in a clay stratum; usually they are discovered in caves in limestone country, or almost on the surface of the ground. The island of Kunie, which is to be the future residence of the Communists sentenced to simple transportation, was discovered by Cook, and called by him Fine Island, in 1774. It was taken possession of by France in 1853, in consequence of the massacre of the crew of the Alcmene in 1851. The island, which lies about thirty miles S. E. of New Caledonia, the main French Polynesian possession, enjoys a most luxuriant and salubrious climate. Cannibalism may be considered as extinct, owing to the exertions of the missionaries, who have also acclimatised large flocks of live stock, so as to divert the carnivorous appetites ot the natives. The families of the transported are allowed a passage and residence. The registration of deaths in New York is very imperfect, but even so far as it goes the tale which it tells is a dismal one. During the year 1871,126 infants were found dead in the streets and livers; 851 persons met their death by accidents —an enormous number in proportion to the population (supposed to be about a million); 179 bodies were found in the North, Eas', and Harlem Rivers; and 108 persons committed suicide. The total record of deaths by violence amounted to 1,314. Jt is to be observed that most of the bodies found in the rivers were stabbed, muti lated, or otherwise injured—a feaiful ; commentary on the dark work which is almost daily going on. The Emperor of China has sunt four vonni; celestial damsels to be educated at Pa ris. When sutficiently conversant with European arts and sciences they aie expected, on their return, to be able to instruct the rest of their coun-try-women. As the population of the empire is something like 377,632,900 souls, their <ask may be considered of a herculean nature.