New-York tribune., 1871-11-06
FOREIGN MISCELLANY.
IMPERIALISM IN FRANCE.

IMPERIAL OURNALISM-PR0SPBCTIVE RE- |
Suits OF A PLEBISCITUM.
,yRoN THR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNkl |
PARIS. Oct 1.-THE election for the Coun-
.u,eperal Of the Departments took plaoo on Sunday
the sth We have not complete returns yet From such
a We have each party s picking out its successes anu
claiming them for victories. An impartial survey VI
them hardly shows any general drift. No party III
France apparently is yet strong enough to take 0on
trolling position or o lead that promises to bring tDe
nation out Of the actual confused situation In the larger
townS as general rule the rial or selfstyIed reu "u
erste or Thcrscoorod Republican candidates nave Oeen
chosen LeGmists have less, Orleaniss more reason
40 be conout with their Departmental Councillors than
nth their Assembly men, The Duke dAumale was |
chosen in his district by an overwhelming majority.
Imperialism endemic in Corsica, where that eminent
captain Prince Napoleon breaks out into pupuo nIe
again In the quality of General Councillor, has spo
radio successes in other Departments The notorious
Cassagnacs father and son, and few other proIesseo
BonApartists here and there, are among the elect
FeW a. are these Napoeonic chosen compared with the
whole number Of Department Councilmep the ratio Is
NOTABLY greater in the Versailles Assembly; whether
at all or to what degree alarmingly greater, COM
pex suestOn. Let some Of the elements for CAL
culang the answer: The electoral and the new
NapoeOnic propaganda went actively together The
propagandism does not rest-On the contrary subera
ncously abovebOard IL works ever more busy and
boldly To the front noisy leaders In uniform, with
Imperial flag displayed; behind quiet chiefs in very
civil dress Under these cunning agents and dupes
In all sorts Of diseuses-and allies, outwtted meaning
60 outwlt recruited from tho ranks of other parties,
Republican Reds among them. The throe or four Jour-
mails that lately revealed their mpest sympathies only
opractced readers between the nues display them
with efontery, under thin vail for provocaton
rather than decenoy. Others out openly not quite
frankly advocates Of the cause they maintain to be
not lost Quite the cleverest Of thesewith s clever
title, is LOrdTe; to-day, at its eleventh number,
Quoted by Clement DuvernO the cleveres and for the
occasion AGest, Of Napoleone editors 1t has aver
age daily sale (anh gfD Of 1000 coPeS 1t cotsthe
evening purchaser regular subsertber-but t&o
nunole his nephew pays), while most other respect
able papers cost three 1t respectabethere Is Of
its to opponents and ex
oeedngly to the general public and reader readable
Duvernos was formerly a nberal-never, TO do him |
Justice, factiOus-OppositOn journalist. paper, OF
which he editor and, thnk part owner IN Algeria
suppressed for articles of his bis articles
ing the impOicy Of the Mexican were among the
best that appeared in the liberal Paris press He
equally severe and capable IN his criticisms the
duct q that and got condemned to se Pelage for
his pans-Where he occupied his enforced leisure in
competing the MS. Of a work on that war. His COM
etenoe write 1t had been added to by journey In
MEXICO while Bazaine was campaigning there. He came
out Of prison at the end Of his term Soon after he
accepted the Emperors promises Of reform then stage
by stage, Imperialist Journalist and lastly
minister Of the falling Empire. think he may never
have been proeSsedly dootrnaire Republican certainly
not in the years immediately preceding his coDver
sion to the Empire, pretendedy converted 70 i'm
possible Liberalism Only thish he came out of Ste.
Pelage poor. His work on Mexico never the Light.
He s rich After the th Of September he patriOcally
seeded to Switzerland and himself up peaceful
meditation the sad state Of his country Throughout the
war.
In his paper Duvernois does not hesitate to say that
OF forms OF government, his preference for the H
peria NspOleonic form the best France. But hs
personal preferences, all speculative political theories
and ought TO be subordinate to the nations WILL
pressed by universal suffrage To the decisiOn OF the
majority informed by that strictly legal process, what
may be, he bows and binds himself to obedience
IN advance Nor does he ssk that the people shall be
COnvOked TO pronounce or no on the question Of i'm
periAl restoration. Let the pebscitum be devised
citizen shall make known by bulletin to all the
rest his preference for Republic royal Monarchy
pers Monarchy. On the base Of majority desire thus laid
down. the Constituent Assembly thereafter to be elected
should construct the best Constitution BEAR the
disintegatng shnaresque confusion Of party con-
tractors being eliminated Ingenious, not worse.
Tho Piebiscitum, not always not generally even by
that somewhat nrecruited name, Is what all the open,
dsguised and unconscious mperasts are now more or
less yocferousy calling for Subsidiary aecompaniments
5or this orchestral oVperte to the Imperial restoration
are oatcss from careless, Indifferent, seldeemed con-
seryatiVe bourgeois (the most truly revolutionary,
though land becsusel least actively political class In
Francel from Oeanist and Legmist addressed to the
octnal Government which all Of them arc undermining
.. tn out the Projects Iand other locally influential
dn,Dstratiye officers appointed by Gambetta, when he
WA Dictator at Tours and Bordeaux or under his In
onenoa before he left Paris doubtless good
deal of exaeeetation the hopeful well nigh swagger
fpR tone certain Imperas parsans In their late days.
and great deal Of exaggeraOn inthe real OF pretended
alarm 1t excteS But where there is 30 much SMOKE be
sure there IL FIRE. Not mOdesty nor yet veracty,
has ever been distinguishing trait Of Napoleon First or
Lat or Of his acoOmpces BodneSs at play and syness
has he the inyeerate gamblers reekessness grown OF
fatas and patient calculated faith in his martngale
I,thouRh the French have fresh in memory the Is
Years of the Empires although the fall OF It, In mre
and blood at Sedan, dates from hardly more than year
ago rthe soldiers barracks and the peasants cabins are
1rofusely supplied now by missionaries OF the hapo-
Ieonc superstition with tracts highly cOored in rhetoric
and ngment representing the Man Of Sedan" saiat
d MARTYR Of that ik although and although, to the
oDd of a long chapter Of considerations, patent and
oant In Won the resurrection Of the last Of Napoeons
seema mast the of historical mrace-the provision
of suoh calamity which his partisans feed their
,rcsent hope Is not quite mady apocslypte ~ you
may deem |
and how be succeeded Not with the frivolous French
whom In all manner Of ptiful weaknesses electors
10 Rrcbanan and A. johnson, taxpayers Of New-YOrk,
stc ara not as (let us humbly thank our American
Cod,-but with Lord PalmerstOn, and Mr. Abbott, and
Can Dix and the INTELLIGENT respectable classes and
,ber oA,al and prgemnent social representatives the
civilized Christian world through. Say that IL all past
OF the ps st. easy to forget deny as forenes
our assent approval aduson, not 70 say added ador
ton Of the maserarber Of Europe and master OF the
reves delightful Paris There Is other snow OF 1oun-
dation for the hopeet hope deceful-of the Nspo-
lnopie resurrectonsts Tie mobile frivolous French
main less changed these intriguers count than We
II they they but get TO plebisctum they count
much on the Of single argument with the voting
ignorant peasany: 1.-TWO ago we had the empire,