(From an American paper.)
Paris, 29th October.
Waldeck-Rousseau yesterday delivered at Toulouse the anxiously awaited speech outlining the policy and programme of the Government in anticipation of the reassembling of Parliament, The occasion was the laying of the corner stone of the new barracks there, Replying to the assurances of the Generals, M. Waldeck-Rousseau said: "The army awakens too many hopes not to be cherished by the country. We are tve jealous of the future of the army not to strive to have France not merely follow the progress of other nations, but to outsp them. We are sure the army will respond to these efforts by devoting itself entirely to its noble task, and will leave no place in its ranks for divisions which only weaken it."
The laying of the corner stones took place in the afternoon. The Premier reserved his principal effort for the banquet which followed the ceremony. Devoting the principal part of hia speech to answering criticisms, the Premier said he had not replied before because the Cubinet had received the widest and clearest mandate because it was time to act and not time to talk, and because he and his colleagues looked fo the Chamber of Depu ies alone for approbation or censure of their conduct. Proceeding to sketch the gloomy situation that existed when the Cabinet took office, "vith agitation increasing and nationali engaging in daily battles with the police," he said that to face this condition of things a sincere concentration of Republicans was brought alvut, yet not by conceding to each member of the Cabinets something which separated him from the others, but
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