OUR PARIS LETTER.
(7BOIE OUB OWN COBBB8PONDBKT.)
Pasis, October 7.
The Ferry Cabinet i> doomed to death, but fated not to die—till the meeting of Parliament. So lay the journals, and publio opinion gives itself no concern about the matter. Ministers made a = terrible blander in refusing permission to Rochefott and his friends,. Pent and Blanqui, to spin yarns in the Civicus a few days ago. The refusal was based on . an old Second Empire law, which only added insult to the rejected demand. The sole reason' given for the refusal.was* "The Government does not wish it." Louis XIV. or Napoleon 111. could not have been more autocratic, and if the ft Republic has no other models, of. liberty*' and free discussion to follow, why, as the song has it in Mme. Angol, it was not wor:h while changing the Government. Opinion is pretty unanimous that this kind of thing will not do. AHRochefort required was the public meeting to protest against the Albanian Inter* national Regatta; people who, sympathising with the object of the meating, and regretting the duty had not been taken up by others, not the less desired to give expression to the dissatisfaction of the , French fleet being sent, to co-operate in the execution of a menace.that might have drawn France into a general war. Besides, public opinion irritated against the mm possumtut of Turkey, is not aji all in favor of handing over the Albanians or any other people, like so mi>ny neadof cattle, to the uncouth Montenegrin*, Such work, it is alleged, is fitting for monarchies, but not for a republic. If Rochefort and Co. could break up that eight wonder of the world—the perfect harmony of the European powers on the Eastern question, tbeyarenptto.be despised. If their rant and fui&on could ■hake the republic, the latter can have up foundation on a rock. * :• ,'.,"■ The Reformed Church, el France has * been restored to its original position of -a free fight, which existed from 1852 to 1874. In the latter year, old Guiaoat, by combination of his proverbial intrigue ana a packed synod, carried a decision, that noCalvinist was entitUd to vote in the local presbyteries, government of the ohuroh, election of minister, school master &c., who did not. believe, not in,thirty, nine, but in two articles—the inspiration of the bible, and the doctrine of redemption, It was a blow at the Unitarian pavfcy, and the Independents who claimed as Protestants, the right to interpret the scriptures as they pleased, a?d repudiated all synodical infallibilities. The Republic have just rescinded the Guizat Test Act of 1874, so that the Ca?vinists^ Unitarians, <fee, will exist,, es two hostile camps, throughout France, either ruling the rcosttlu they may command the local majority,. The Republic being atheist in the cense of professing, no official religion will let them fight like Kilkenny cafca, or, till the separation of church, and state be actually,. aeconu4ished~,. oonafunan- . tion both Israelites and Pro'sstants lave frequently devoutly/ wished fp '.But they have never yet given, the example of voluntarily refusing the endowment,.they accept their quota of the 51,000,0Q0fr. of the donation with the sane pious alacrity to the Catholic clergy. Unlike the latter • they are not the, opponents of the Rspublie. : , • ;..*■-,- There are 60CO children under 16 yeaxi of age, morally abandoned, »oParis. They-« are either illegitimate,, or, orphans, or under no oontroji froai tfaeir parents; they beg when they eatnpH'eai, and thieve when they cannot beg. Not. • few of this floating population of city arabs have been arrestea several times as vagiVufii, and/each new attest plunges them deeper into vice and .indifference. Juvenile reformatories are failures—tfll they be reformed, and it is only in extreme cases that the judges exercise their power to send an infant there. The' Municipal Council.is occupied with the difleolt problem; it wishes to save the 6000 sheep from being lost; it is opp>9ed to, imprisonment, and seeks to attach children to society by the ties of work and moral elevation. It is proposed to farm the young vagrants, under certain conditions/ to aricaans in the country districts, who, for a certain annaalsmßa, would represent both parental and legal authority, and in addition tiaoh the wards trades. N Happily the number of occupations in the county admits of the amngement being easily carried out. A judge then will have the light to tend a neglected child to be brought tip in a sober family, subject of course to the surveillance of the authorities; if the > child proved rebellious to this system of eforjoby family aad labour, tUe'Jiajjie, „ having still the power b niake 1 nil sentence definite, could send the robot* rigible to the reformatory, which is tsntamount to committal b prison^ „ '.■
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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3711, 16 November 1880, Page 2
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784OUR PARIS LETTER. Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3711, 16 November 1880, Page 2
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