New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-29

| THE STORY OF THE CRIsIs-YALUE or THE LATB
CoNcEssIoNs-THE BLUNDER OF PRoRoGA-
TION-TIIE EMPERORs DILEMMA.
IRON OUR owE CORRESPONDENT
Cancellation defiance, evolution or revolution. We
advanced IN preliminary practice OF what Mr. Car
| lyle would call shooting Niagara"
| Paris Correspondence N. Y. Tribune, MayIA
PARIS, July 16.-Tbe current runs sviftcr this week
! than at any time since the movement was damned
in lS51-with wonderful and confusing, fastvhirlins
ed3ies-al mainly tending, however TO tire fan OF
| personal government, if not of the throne
little less than n month ago Napoleon published
his Mackau letter addressed TO Mr. persisuy IN par
ticular and the country in general briefly advising
them that Mr.. Rouhcr would not be disns ed. and
that no concessions of persons or principles goud be
made TO electoral or other outside political pressure
In his decree for convokng tho Corp. Leg ,latlf aud
in his speech uttered by the mouth uf Mr. Rouhsr at
the opening Of Che session, the 18th Of June, no
reiterated these advces, revealing IL as his fixed
| purpose that whatever reforms be meditated
| in petfO would not be proposed TIL the rcgu.
| lar session Of next Autumn or Winter Last
Monday he not only yielded. but. unique novelty.
confessed that he yielded TO outside pressure You
have printed before this that extraordinary message
which he hurried 10 the Chambers last Monday for
the sake Of preventing the interpolation Of the Third
| Party II was composed IN something Of a hurry,
caught at as an expedent administered 10 the Legs-
lative Body a dervatiyo Tor its alarming pcccant
humors. Beginning with show Of respect las novel
as, hitherto dcseryedly unmeredl 10 that Body It's
moderate members aud the general public, at their
first hearing and reading under the suppression Of
this novelty-receiyed 10, not enthusiastically indeed
but fayorably "a handsome advance OF the Emperor
10 meet the nation halfwaym its new course toward
liberty. more careful perusa Of the text-cspcci.
ally Of the closing paragraphsin connection with tho
overwhelming marginal meadow variegated with all
sorts Of incidents and accidents thickets of intrigue
and fahomless qnagnires Of conjecture has changed
| the disposition Of commentators
The extreme Rights and Let's, were OF course, I'll
suited with IL at the outset These said u gave Moth
ing in fact those that it gave up 70 revolution by
implication. Presently. the Center-Lcft minded
folks in and ont OF the house began 20 discover GER
tain nationality in the arguments Of either Right or
Left extremists, and felt less sure than at iint that
the message was the triumph of the choked of inter
pollaton The elementary demand Of the ntcpellants
was ministerial responsibility. Just that is not among
the six points conceded by the message. And there
regus over all these six concessions despite the per
feet French cleamess of the phrase, yagueness
amounting 70 dense fogsiness. II they are large Ia
! promise they are glittering generatics IL they
are definitely particular, they are applicable
only to secondary details. The 9Th is partial excep
ton il does distinctly propose 10 accept the compat-
Utility in one person Of the functions Of deputy aud
minister Here is, undoubtedly. the entering wedge.
would be the fully entered wedge Of ministerial re-
sponsibility splitting asunder the unity Of personal
] government aud making the legislative n good hall
of government lying parallel 20 the cxecutye-h u
was, or could be. well driven home.
ministers can hcnceforh be taken in the Chambcrss
benceforth they will sit there without special dee5
CATION; and little further on the Emperor agreee
TO deliberate affairs of State in Council II With
such means the Chamber do not exercise as real and
effective influence our former under Louis fhi-
ppe assemblies 1t will be its fault; and II the con-
duct of affairs escape st its control il must In fu-
ture blame not the institutions tof the Empireh bat
! its own weakness What makes this view remarka-
bic Is that It Is pat forward by Provost Paradox IN
les DtJais What wcakcns VI. Paradols argument
H. that the Chamber is q got-up Chambcr-got up
by the administration and filed for It's majority
with official candidates.
What were strong reasons for suspccting NJ
the time Of the elections, has now become evident TO
any honest observer, namely, that tine mlonY IN
the Corps Legislatf do not represent the want ana
wish of the intelligent French pcople-not even the
majority Of the treoly voting French masses.
| beginning with an unwonted show Of respect TO
the Chamber of the Peoples Deputies the Emperor
slides easily back toward the close Of his Mondays
message. into his habitual contempt for that body.
and haslnevershow himself more positively personal
| than m ia closing paragraphs. This contemptuous
disregard hitherto perfectly Justified hy The sa'ish
want of solfrcspect in that body Is 50 habual aud
unconscious that ON Tuesday he proroguod by decree
the sessions II that House. which he had conyoked
by decree but two weeks before FOR the
special purpose Of verifying the powers of its
| members when the election OF IS of is members
were still awaiting yerihcation. 30 profound aud
unconscious was the old habitual contempt for tho
sene Body that the decree of prorogation was pub
Ushed 10 all the world In the journal ONdd some
hours before IL was communicated 10 TIE House 10
il sad evcn--f not truly. most charactCristically-
| that the decree issued about midnight. thing
| unsuspccted in the evening 10y Minister Rouhcr aud
read with surprise the next morning Ia the official
journal by that fuctionary tch hs name attached ioH
should need TRIBUNE columns instead Of note
| paper pages 20 detail here. even succinctly, tho
reported story Of the Empcror's backings and I'LL
iugs and the iutrigues Of President schneider aud
Others. all ending in this unlucky decree of proroea-
ton OF that a. of numberless other eplsodicd
e,dies In the whirlng stream of this weeks current
history there is neither time inor spaoe-let alone
knowlcdge-to speak here.
The decree Of prorogation-ordering the CORPS
Lepisatf into tie back ground aud silence, Just az
the moment when it's rights aud prcrogntiNes are IN
oresti,p its mower revealing itself It's consequent
solf rssnect and emit De corps quick to deye'
itsclf-vas very IN received by oil parties IN the
rr,rse and without For once-though Tor quite
ri,r,ro,, rensons-Lcit and Right are as one
a., ,b,;r di,,outsut Le PHhic Rouhers per-
so,,l o,..ap and I6 rays, more impcnaiist
,L,u the Imper0r organ OF the most
,,trograde RIGHTS Az almost more dscontented than
,h. M,lcrote. aud the LNtreme Left. Before the
formal reading oil it in the House 20 insulted and
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