The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-09-18
THE FUTURE OF FRANCE.
4 CORRESPONDENT INEERVIEWs TIE
BISHOP OF ORLEANS.
DupanIoup's OpInion of Thiers-The
Presidents Obstinacy and Despoitsm
and what May Spring from Them-
Gambetta his Probable Successor ana
then Follows the Commune.

Gambetta his Successor, and
then Follows the Commune.
correspondence Of the New York Herald
PARIS, August 22.
A tall, noble-looking old mar; a broad, high,
smoo,h torehead; long white hair; dark, re-
Elective blue eyes; a rosy, healthy complexion;
a head Michael Angelo would have delighted
In; a figure slightly STOPPING when In repose,
but erect and straight as an arrow when anil
mated; with this all the signs and character
isttcs of q hale and hearty old age-snch ia
Monseigneur Dupanloup, bishop of Orleans,
member of the National Assembly and the
best of frances living orators. Think Mon
seigneur Dupanloup is one of tho few great
men of France In whom one is not
disappointed upon seeing him for the first
| time. We Americans, who are accustomed
In our statesmen to see such heads as those Of
| Washington, Jefferson, Webster, Clay and
| Douglas, experience generally o feeling OF
disappointment upon being brought lace 10
face with the men. who sway and have swayed
the destinies of France. And I speak not only
or the present. but OF the past: From Louis
XIV down to n. Theirs himself. includinga all
| the s~o-called giants OF The French revolution
| Marat, Robespierre and the rest of them-to
such mosquitoes as the Virulent Rocheforf,
The weeping jules FuVre, the whining Jules
| Simon of the 4lh of September, there may be
| observed In all of them o certain common
| place, ordinary look, o certain absence oil per
| sonal Impressiveness, of those marks which
| serve to distinguish O man from the crowd,
and which would cause him 10 be singled Out
among thousands.
Mo%NSIEGNEuR DUPANLOUP
ia, however, an exceptional Frenchman In
his respect; for his air and bearing are full OF
dignity and his general appearance That OF q
| king In the intellectual worli. He is living
In q very pretty villa near Versailles, and
| thIther I went 10 see him. 1t Is a neat little
country house or cottage, delightfully."- situated
10 the middle of a large park, wltha smooth
" shorn lawn before the door, through which
| winds a carriage way. It was ABOUT Six
| O'Clock In the evening when drove up to the
| iron gate In front of the place, and almost the
| hrsr object which attracted my attention was
Monselgneur himself, walking slowly up and
down an avenue, which was rendered
| delightfully."- cool and shady by the thick
oyerhanging branches OF the trees in which
the place Ia empowered. making, with his fine,
large head, which was barred to the cool air Of
the evening, his long white hair, and BIS calm,
thoughtful lace, q picture that would have de-
lighted an artist. ! sent In my card and was
Immediately invited to walk In. He received
me without returning to the house, and con.
F.; tInued his promenade during the conversation
which followed, stopping and standing still oc-
\ casionelly when becoming animated or par
| tlcularly Interested 10 anything l was telling
| him. The conversation naturally turned upon
the present condition OF France, and IN reply
to my question: as to his Impressions regarding
the situation, he said:
n SITUATION IN FRANCE.
"Ah, the situation is bad enough. The
country Is 10 u very perllous posinon, from
which il can Ue extricaled only with extreme
difficulty, and, to tell The truth, my hopes OF q
pencpab,e solution of the questions Which now
agitale France are very feeble. the situation
may be summed up In a few words. N. THEIRS,
refusing TO govern according TO the WIZ oil Inc
majority OF The Assembly. puts that body under
lhs alternative OF submitting bllndly 10 his
will or plugging the country Into confusion
and disorder by accepting his oit-profered
resignation. It is the old s.ory-we Drift Into
G5solullsm In ono case; into anarchy IN the
other" -tl- :
THEIRS AND THE LEGISLATURE.
Correspondent. To whom may this misnn-
Outstanding between III. Theirs and the AS
aembly be principally attributed?
Monseigneur Dupanloup. To NJ. Theirs, un-
| doubtedly. He might govern with the ma,
| Iorlty, II ne would do 30, but he will not. And
in order to carry, ont his peculiar Ideas he
| seeks the support oil The Lett, o support he can
| obtain by showing the least Inclination 10 slls-
| tain the Republic. The majority are willing
to accept and maintain the pdrtie de Bordeaux
In ils integrity but they ind It, difheult TO
| follow NJ. Tnieis through al. OF h!s absurd and
| impossible ideas with regard 10. finance, pro-,
| leclion and the reorganization OF the army.
II they refuse to submit bltndly to everything
| he demands, and his demands are monstrous,
| he threatens TO go entirely over to the Lett,
| and anarchy will be the result. If they SUBJ
| nit, they had better have the Empire at once.
NAPOLEON III WAS LESS ARBITRARY,
and had. at least, very advanced Views with
| regard 10 commerce and free trade.
Correspondent. Is NJ. Theirs, then, 80 des-
r Monseieueur Dupanloup. Why. the Empire
was nolhing to :im. He wishes to do every
| thing: his ideas must be accepted on every
subject, his will obeyed as law. We have only
eychasged one master Tor another, and we
certainly have not protted by the exchange.
II Ia the personal power, the absolutlsm OF me
| Empire, In a less enlightened form.
WHY HE IS NOT DEPosED.
Correspondent. But IL appears to me that
The Right have a majority IN The Assembly.
why do they cot depose N. THEIRS and put
some one In his place VINO Woula govern ac-
| cordiHg to their wishes ?
Monseigneur Dupanloup. No; the compost
| ton of the Assembly is such That there Is no
majority without the Left Centre, and his
division of the Assembly, consisting OF about
one hundred and fifty members, have The
most unlimited confidence In III. Thlers. and,
while being really monarchical In sentiment,
are willing, nevertheless, 10 accept Inc Kepuo-
lie. It he should decide IN favor OF 1t. They
are perfectly honest, well-meanins people,
but have no very fixed ideas or principles,
and are, therefore, very wavering,. uncertain
and not TO be relied upon. 1t is this faction
of the assembly that makes NJ. Thlers's posi-
lion possible.
THE LEFT CENTRE.
Correspondent. But If the Left Centre are
really monarchical. can they not be induced
to rally to whatever leader the Right may
choose?
Monseigneur Dupanloup. The truth Ia that
lust now There Is no man on whom the Right
can unite. Since the Count de Chambord's
absurd refusal to accept the leadership and be
| reconclled to his cousins who have likewise
shown themselves to be impracticable by re-
f,Isiug 10 make sufficient advances towards
effecling a reconciliation, the Right really
have NO Candidate. They, Chambord and the
Younger branch Of the family have both rem
dered themselves for the momen inpos-
siblp.
Correspondent. The position is certainly a
complicuted One. I do not, for my part, see
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