The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-03
EUROPEAN WS.
T II A n c L.
The New Ministry Significance of Some Ofthe
Appointments.

The New Ministry rN-Signidcunce of some Ofthe
Appointments.
The Paris correspondent of the London Daily
Ne,cs, under date of July lS, writes as follows:-
The Ministry is gazetted: with one exception
and that quite politically unimportant, the
names are those reported yesterday The new
name is that of VI. BOurbeau, appointed Minister
of Public Instruction. There was for moment
an idea of naming NJ dc la Guerronniere to this
place; but he never had the chance to refuse it,
as reported by his own journal, La France. NJ.
Bourbeau the protegc OF NJ. dc FORBADE ia
Roquettc and NJ. Alfred LcrouX, was returned
at the last elections for the department of the
Nienne as Government candidate against NJ.
Thiers He is Il native of Poitiers where he has
passed his life and of which city he was Mayor
in 1S4i. He sat deputy for Nienne in the
Assembly of 1SiS but was not reelected
to the legislative chamber Since 1913 he
has been the leader of the Poitiers bar, and
was twice elected bdtonnier. He is fifty-eight
years old. NJ. Bourbeau is the only one of the
new ministry that signed the interpretations of
the 115, and was probably chosen for that among
other reasons But he must not he taken as re-
presenting in any way the spirit in which those
interpretations were framed. He, one of the
most obscure men among the siguers, takes
Office the liegeman of the reactionary party,
with whom he is now associated, and is claimed
MS such by the Public and Pays. 1t is quite a
mistake to describe the present ministry as
ministry of transition. 1t is as defnitve as any
ministry can be under present circumstances,
and represents pure imperialism as opposed to
the government of the country by the country,
which was called for by the interpretations. NJ.
Rouher, of whom the present ministry is merely
the "small change" boasts in his organ, the
Public, tonight that the Tiers Pdrti is crushed.
''lt died on the day when it attempted to live"
NJ. Rouhers appointment us permanent Presi-
dent of the Senate will be signed tomorrow,
and you will see, rs have already told you, that
| the tactics of the Government are to make the
| best for the next six years of the present ma
jority in the Chamber, albeit not so large as in
| the last, and then to say that the message is
| fairly carried out, and that the Government is
| parliamentary because it acts in consOrt with
''the majority" This is the be-all and end-all of
| the policy which VI. Rouher has induced the
Emperor to accept. All the politically impor-
tant offices in the Government remain in the old
| hands. NJ. de FORBADE la Roquette, who was
Minister of the Interior during the late elections
(andnO,, as mistakenly said in yesterdays Times,
| now newly appointed to that place., will con-
tinue to represent and defend fraud, in
timidation, and corruption in the con-
duct of elections; ruinous standing
armies and perpetual rumors of war are
personated by Marshal Mel and his colleague
Admiral de Genouilly, Minister of Marine; and
extravaganza and frequent loans have an able
and unscrupulous advocate in NJ. Magne. If
the Prince de Ia Tour d'Auvergne's appointment
to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs means any
thing, it is that he leans to Rome somewhat
more than the Marquis de Lavalette; he is
brother to the Archbishop of Bourges and his
suspected utramontanism may be useful in rally
ing some votes of the majority. NJ. Duvergier,
the Minister of Justice, mere lawyer, as said
yesterday is seventy-seven years old. VI.
Alfred lie Roux, flfty-four years old, is a mem
ber of the old majority who has steadily voted
against every liberal measure for the last twelve
years. The Marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat, now
madeMinister presiding over the Council Estate,
is an old and docile Imperialist. | do not sup
pose anybody will be found to pretend that this
leve, be made a Senator and Inspector q en- eral
of Public instruction.