| Show IN 1000 the ten years old republic of franco is almost the only state ot europe that can justly look back with satisfaction on the pat year which brought distress disorder and disturbance to her neighbors across the channel and across the rhino the republican govern bent las advanced quietly and without sens ous perturbations its relations to ho foreign powers have imar ved remarkably efler the conviction bad gained firm ground abroad that the conservative republic was a guarantee of peace this conviction was not shaken by th ir put ol 01 freycinet in fiall anu i of jules ferry not even by the belt icove spirit of Gam bettas notorious speech at cherbourg Cher bourg at the oddi ing of tho chambers the government declared its intentions with firm resolution to go forward on the laih of gradual reforms and necessary improvements and it has hitherto faithfully adhered to thia pro gramme the rep ablio has acquired strength to be abla to grant agnest ty to all deported who had not been convicted of murderer arson even when the more conservative serva tive senate rejected the anti jesuit paragraph of ferlys ferrys ed icier dional bill the government could have recourse to old long existing laws in order to resist successfully the open encroachments encroach ments and intrigues of an ambitious clergy on the of march the well known were issued which required all religious congregations to ask for state authorization and to ulim their statutes to the approbation of tho government after the term sot for this had expired the decrees were executed with energy on the beginning of july first it was the turn of tho jesuits choir establish were closed and their inmates exiled the storm arising among the cleric th from these apparently arsh but inevitable measure and the fits of the vatican caused freycinet to hesitate hei tate and to enter into with iab pope without however hiving any other result but bai own down fall the people upon the execution of tho march decrees however much the i t the extreme catholics ami ad versa rits of the republic declaimed against them and when freycinet hesitated with their execution hn WAS compelled to yield his exalted position to alie more determined julea fany interesting in connection with the maich decrees is tho sebum which I occurred in the art over the athir aTi ir prince jerome nd nominally tho head of the party placed himself in an open acl ter on alie side of the government i and acknowledged the og lity and of alie meas I while the clerical adi vacated the opposite view thoi rupture caused by tb n has proved tho death blow of the im peri alista in france who since the death of the prince imperial through a zulus assegai only by a life of galvanic induction all the elections for vacant sets in the chamber of deputies well as for alo council general have resulted in overwhelming majorities major itier for tho cincere RepubliC ina and tho chamberas Ch ambera on nov 31 it w evident hat the fir unea af tha secured more phe nonien still than the political of armce has been tho l with which the year aladj brauc placing her in iho rank of european nations |
