The New York herald., 1871-03-11
The Reorganization Of the French Gov
crnmcns-SianiResnt NIovcmcnts--actisity
Of the B0sapRrtists Rnd the ''Rees'-
The Prospect.

soon dissolve the present provisional National
Assembly and appeal to the people to deter
mine in new general election the form OF the
government they desire; secondly, that Gen
erals Ducrot, Chanzy and Faidherbe are
among those who are working for the restora-
tion Of the empire, and that The Bonapartists
are holding numerous meetings in the pro-
| vinces; thirdly, that the navy is undergoing
great reductions-that the dockyarls of
L'Orient and Rochefort are, or are to be,
rented out to private companies, and that the
foreign squadrons are to be recalled; and,
lastly, that the Paris insurgents (the reds"
of the Jacobin type) of Montmartre have
erected immense barrcades in the rue st.
Pierre where conflict was yesterday ex-
pected. These are matters of the profoundest
import, and, taken all together, they make
the present condition of affairs in France
extremely interesting, and the outlook from an
appeal to the people exceedingly perplexing.
1t is not without the hope that law and order
may be completely triumphant, but this hope
is coupled with the fear that chaos may come
| again.
We presume that NJ. Theirs ia satisfied that
this provisional Assembly, elected for the spe-
cifc object Of giving responsible ratification
to a treaty of peace, has, as the Ex-Emperor
Napoleon puts it, fulfilled its legal authority
that it has no authority to reconstruct the na-
tional government, nothing of this sort having
been mentioned in the call for the election from
the late provisional Government of the National
Defence. We suppose, then, that NJ. Thiers,
by authority of the present Assembly, will
issue call for the election of new Assembly,
empowered from the people to reinstate the
Orleanists, the empire or the republic, as the
majority of the Assembly may elect. We pre-
sumo that perfect liberty will be given to all
parties to bring forward their candidates re-
| spectively. and to advocate their claims and
work for their election freely among the peo-
pie; and that the existing government, if
necessary, will use the army in maintain
ing the equal rights of all parties in the
election.
What, then, viii be the issue Of this proposed
direct appeal to the people? Judging from
the unanimous vote of the existing Assembly,
WncICuy tuC SONtlAmCut VA AOulo NdpolcOu
excepting the gentleman from the ever-faith-
full Napoleonic island of Corsica) was unani-
mously declared responsible for the disasters of
this war to France-judging from the voice Of
this Assembly, we say, there would appear to be
no hop, for the Bonapar.es But under
widely different conditions from this last will
be the next general election in France. The
late election was by permission Of the German
Emperor, and in the presence Of German
army in occupation Of France to the number
of seven hundred thousand men and in the
absence Of four hundred and some odd thou
sands Of French imperial soldiers, held as
prisoners Of war in Germany, All this will
now be changed. Excepting the points OF
occupation specified in the treaty Of peace
there will on the occasion Of this new election
| be no German soldiers in France, whilc all
told, nearly half million Of her imperial
soldiers, restored to her soil, will be added to
her voting population.
By the treaty Of peace France is shorn Of
her beautiful Rhine territories and cities and
her strong Rhine frontier forresses. But the
Bonapartists will plead that the empire is not
responsible for this; that the responsibility
belongs to the revolutonists Of Paris, who, in
| driving away the imperial regency and in
setting up their irresponsible republic, pre-
vented treaty of peace which would have
saved Metz and Strasbourg, still held by the
French soldiers; aud that it was Gambetta
and company who prolonged the war to the
ruin of France. In regard to the will Of
the people the Bonapartists will next
claim that in the last plebiscite taken under
the empire Napoleon was given seven millions
of votes to some two millions cast against him,
and that these two millions were mostly from
the restless revolutionary elements of Paris,
Bordeaux, Lyons, Marseilles, Lille and other
cities. The masses of the peasantry, as Law
and order men aud as good Catholics, it viii
be shown, were for the empire, which took
care of them and protected the Pope. Will
the disappearance Of the Germans and the re-
turn home of the soldiers Of the empire, may
not much Of this popularity Of the government
of Louis Napoleon be thus regained by the
Bonpartists2 They are holding many meet
ings in the provinces, and in this fact alone We
see that they are still strong in France, though
hardly represented in this provisional Assem-
bly,. ~-.-. :.
There may yet be an opening for the Bona
parties; but when it is considered that NJ
Theirs is the provisional dictator Of France
and that whatever he has been, or is, or may
be, he is not Bonapartist; that he is intro.
ducing system of retrenchments, including 0
tremendous cutting down of the imperia
navy, wholly incompatible with and in rebuke
of Napoleonic ideas and restoration of the
empire; that he is, in short, preparing the
French people for cheap system Of govern
ment, so that from these savings in govern
| nant exnansas thew NAV be greatly assisted II