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Show THB FRENCH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY. The political divisions of the national na-tional assembly of Versailles being unkown to tho generality of our readers, read-ers, we propose to give briefly an idea of tho division lines and strength of theso distinct parties. Aftor the tremendous fait of the second empire at Sodan, the republic was proclaimed in Paris without any opposition and without bloodshed. The French electors were soon called to nominate a national assembly for the solo purpose of concluding a treaty of peace with Gormany. Such being the ca.se, all kind o! political po-litical preoccupation was absent from thamiruUnf tha electors; 750 denudes were elected to represent France, with scarcely any reference to their former political opiuious or standing. The now assembly mot at Bordeaux and M. Thiers, a deputy elected by twenty-six departments, was nominated nomin-ated by acclamation president of the French republic. Under tho wise direction of this veteran stateman, a treaty of peace was ftt once concluded with Germany, a stupendous war indemnity in-demnity ot one milliard of dollars was paid in throe years, and the French territory was evacuated by its conquerors. It is a well-known fact tint, in ' spite of his patriotic exertions to restore re-store order in tho interior and the lost influenco of France abrjad, M. Thiers was deprived by a coalition of the conservative members of the assembly as-sembly of the presidential chair, and a new and curious form of military dictature, uuder the Btylo f the s-p-1 Urinate (apolitical barbarism), wad created in behalf of Marshal Mac- I Mahoa. What was tho true cause of M. Thiers overthrow? We answer. Clearly foreseeing that a monarchical restoration was a moral and physical impossibility, this wise statesman felt anxious to proclaim the republic as the legal and definite government of France; hence his fall under the political plots of his enemies. These preliminary remarks being necessary, wo will now describe the various parties of tho present national assembly. The house is divided into two principal prin-cipal portions, the ;right and tho left. This general division originated in the national convention of 1793, and it has been more or less strictly maintained main-tained under every form of government. govern-ment. Tho right includes all the adherents of the old Bourbon dynasty of which the Count do Chambord (Henry tho Fifth) is now the only living representative. repre-sentative. On the extreme right are the seats of the fire-eaters of this party. According to their traditional tenets, France hereditarily belongs by divine right to their king, as a son is lawfully empowered to inherit the farm of his father. Being the oldest son of the church, the king is tho servant of the pope. His majesty personifies the state, and tho white flag is the royal standard of his house. These antiquated monarchists number 97, and the cause they defend is extremely extreme-ly unpopular. Between the right and the right centre are placed the Bouaparti 3 ts, a restless greup of old imperial officials, acting and voting under the influence influ-ence of M. Kouher, thoir leader. They advocate a direct appeal to the will of the nation by means of a ptebiscUum, They muster only forty-eight forty-eight voire. The Orleanists, numbering about 170 members, occupy the right centre. cen-tre. The count of Paris is their candidate can-didate aa a constitutional king of the Trench. A number of liberals mingle and vote with tho Orleanists. Prince de JoinviUo and Duke d' AumaJe, both blood nrinces of the Orleans! dynasty, belong, to the right centre. I With the a;d of the other oonserva- tive members, the Orleanista have l een the main spring to start the sep-tenna'.e sep-tenna'.e of Marshal Mac Mahon as a political trick or a check against the republicans. i Opposite the right stand the left J ide of tho house. The left, properly j called, contain the ollipring of the! old revolutionary school, or moderate I republicans. Leon Onmbetta, the Micnt eloquent orator of the house, is their leader. The loft centre is mostly com posed of liberals and Orleaniets of the old school, who have embraced republican republi-can idoJS. This division contains the most patriotic and influential statesmen, states-men, of which M. Thiers is the leader. On the extreme left are the seals of the radicals and socialists the direct posterity of the bloody Jacobins. The red flag is their symbol, and Louis Blanc their leader. The three divisions divis-ions of the left number two hundred and eighty-nine deputies. We wilt here remark in opposition to the dogma of tho adherents of Henry V, proclaiming that their hereditary her-editary king is the sole legitimate sovereign sov-ereign of Franco, that all the other members of tho house, namely the Bonapariists and the republicans of every school, profess that the sovereignty sov-ereignty betongi exclusively to France, and that tho tricolor flag constitutes its national standard. It should also be stated that according accord-ing to the result of the last partial elections, it U evident that the immense im-mense majority of the French people are favorably disposed to a republican form of government. Honce a most dangerous antagonism exists between the nation ana the small conservative majority of tho house. The monarchists monarch-ists are extromely afraid of losing for over their political power. Those throi antagonist flags are in the presence of and arrayed against each other in the French assembly. Numberless groups of hungry politicians politi-cians of every shade and school are i quarreling, wrangling, argumenting, making overy kind of evolution to, secure the mastery. But as no party ; can dispose of a sufficient majority to (bund a stable government, they only j neutralize themselves in their sterile contests. The real difficulty in the situation seems to be a determination on the part of the majority of the assembly not to submit the question of tho form of government to the votes of the people. Being elected for a specific purpose, these delegates 1 have fastened themselves udou the country and virtually declare that ; they, iustoad of the people, are France. Their fight to create an impossible im-possible government reminds uh of the present attempts of the congressional and administration majority in this country to prolong pro-long its existence indefinitely in opposition to tha will of the people. Tho result of such a state of affairs can be readily forsecu. In France, the efforts to thwart the will of the majority of the peoplo, if continued, Iution, unless by Amo trick of the dice tho young Bonaparte should tions, as was his father, by tho commercial com-mercial interests. Nor can wo predict pre-dict any more favorable result for the United States, should partisan ambition, am-bition, stimulated by sectional animosities, ani-mosities, intensified by race distinctions, distinc-tions, insist upon maintaining itself ! in powor by military force upon any i pretext whatever. The situation indeed in-deed is different, but human nature is always the samo and history con-j con-j tinually repeat itself. |