REVOLUTION IN FRANCE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1041, 9 December 1882, Page 3

REVOLUTION IN FRANCE.

The Paris correspondent of the Lon don Morning Post thus discusses the political situation in Prance :—Whenever one has the opportunity of talking with sensible and enlightened men who live in the appartments, aud studies with careful attention the state of public opinion, one is naturally led to conclude that Prance is on the eve of a great revolution. The revolution to which I refer is one differing in character from all previous revolutions. It is no emancipation from imperialism or monarchy, from aristocracy or democracy, from one form or another of government. It is the emancipation of Prance, of rural Prance, of the hardworking and laborious portion of the nation from the Parisian yoke. The country cares little whether M. Perry or M. de Preycinet, M. Gambetta or M. Duclerc are at the head of a French Ministry. What it cares is to emancipate itself from the influence of a city which has become a 1 Grand Bourse.’ The feelings prevailing in the country are completely disregarded, and the resources of France seem to have no other object but that of serving Parisian politician and financiers to carry out their petty little schemes. The people of France are beginning to perceive that the isolation ot Prance is due to a great extent to the supremacy of Paris, and the work of emancipation has commencod. Ministers and politicians who spend the greater part of their life in Paris have appeared before the Consells Gencraux with their months full of bombastic phrases on the greatness and glory of the nation.