The Gazette de France has had the courage to protest
against the new law insisting on the non-abridgment of the Parliamentary reports. " In what country," it asks, "with the exception of France, does a legislation exist, which prohibits the press from analysing the speeches of the depu- ties of the country, to quote them separately from the whole report of the sitting at which they have been delivered, to express an opinion on the good things or the errors they contain ? Surely such a legislation exists neither in England, our ally, nor in Spain, nor at Naples, nor at Turin, nor in the Ionian Islands, nor in the United States, nor in Prussia, nor in Austria. We have seen how energetically the Ost Deutsche Post pronounced its opinion on the speeches delivered in the Austrian Reichs- rath. But then it is true we are Frenchmen, not Austrian, and we are in the enjoyment of laws passed not by the Austrian Chambers, but by the French Senate."
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