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New Zealand Tablet, Volume IV, Issue 186, 20 October 1876, Page 12

Contrary to general expectation, the French SeDate has rejected the Government Bill for tbe abolition of the Free Universities. After a three days' debate — in -which Monsignor Dupanloup, M. Wallon (the author of the present republican constitution), the Due de Broglie, and M. Laboulaye. (a Liberal and a Protestant), were the principal speakers in favor of free education; while M. Waddington, M. Jules Simon, M. Dufaure, and M. Chillemel Lacour (one of M. Gambetta's ablest lieutenants) took the other side — the numbers were found to be, for the Bill, 139 ; against it, 144*. This vote vastly enraged the Radicals, whose organs in the Press at once denounced it as a declaration of war between the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies. Hostilities, however, there have been none during the present week ; and by the latest; accounts it would seem that the Radicals have determined to accept their defeat with all the grace — and that is not much — which they can command.