The New York herald., 1873-10-07
HOW. FRENCH cOups ARE DELIVERED.
The Average Frenchman Impatient Of
- Provisional Government.
MONARCHY OR REPUBLIC?
What the Bourbon Prinoe May
p ha Think and Do. a|8
THE WHITE FLAG AND THE TRIC0LOR

THE WHITE FLAG AND THE TRICOLOR
wtf1Fslg r 7aaa'0 PARIS, Sept 2s, 1878.
A belief has spread that The fusion between the
Bourbonists and Urlcanists has come to nothing,
owing to the obstinacy Of the Count Of Cbambord
In maintaining principles at variance with what
liberals call the spirit OF the times. As matter OF
fact what has recently been written on this subject
Is pure conjecture, and reminds Of the number
less speculations which preceded the accession OF
Emile Oliyier's Cabinet on the I'd OF January,
1870 Napoleon III. had resolved on calling M. o.
iver topower as early as September, 1860; but the
new Premier himself begged that his determine
tion might not be made public during the recess,
80 that his Cabinet might not be discredited and
weakened by the attacks of its enemies before the
session opened. 1t is not improbable that q simi-
lar arrangement may be
SEALING THE LIPS OF THE FUsIoNIsTs
The French are people who must be governed
BY surprises and O moments reflection win show
that 1t would have been highly lmpolitic to pro-
claim the royalst plans as settled two months be-
fore the time for taking action on them. BY allow
Ing the public to suppose that no agreement has
been arrived at the fusionists are preventing the
republicans and Bonapartists from coaescing, as
they otherwise would, ana preparing a joint
scheme Of resistance. Such scheme, advocated
by Theirs, Gambetta and Rouher, in the name OF
the Tricolor, would have agitated the whole
country, caused an immediate split in the Cabinet
by obligtng the Bonapartst Ministers-Magne and
Desselleigny-to withdraw. and frightened the
moderates Oh I've Right and Left Centre into taking
she popular side, and, consequeHsV. putting the
royalists Of the Assembly in q minority. Ii past
aoings in French parlaments offer any light by
which to forecast the future what would happen
In the event OF the alists being agreed would be
shis-The plans for q restoration would be
KEPT SECRET TILL THE AcrrAL MOMENT OF THE DE:
-.4r.-s BATE .~-.ss..-,-~..
pn the constitutional laws. The revival OF the
monarchy would then be proposed by the most
effective speaker OF the rght-probably the Duke
a'Audif1retP Pasquler-wno would deliver a sensa-
son speech, recalling the bunders and scandals of
The EMPIRE and the horrors of the Commune. The
Duke de Broglie would briefly approve the motion
u the name OF government; the Duke d'Aumale
would be put up to say lew words exhorting the
constltutionasts to follow him and M. BUFFET. the
monarchist president would get the debate quickly
closed by snap vote (as he well can do) SO as to
aebar Theirs or Gambetta from speaking. After
shis q second snap vote would be held there and
shen on a motion so worded that the alternative
would seem to lie between monarchy and anarchy.
Most likely the House would be assured that the
the government, the resignation OF Mcmahon and
The arrival OF Thiers-Gambetta administration.
AS the Bonapartsts cannot accept such an alterna-
live they would not vote at all; on the other hand
she waverers OF the centre, who dread nothing so
much as crisis would rally as usual round the
"party Of order,n and France would be
rEcLARED A KINGDOM AGAIN
BY majority Of something like sixty or seventy.
This is how things have been done before and how
Ihey might be managed again, provided the royal
Hts are united and resolute in playing what they
must feel TO be their last stake. 1t may, indeed,
Ne that they are divided, and that, according to
general rumor the objects OF the fusionists viii be
defeated by the Count Of Chambord's scruples,
Sut must be recollected that the reports to this
sect are based on nothing substantial and people
who prophesy the royalist game as lost, simply
because Henry v. has not shown his cards, argue
IN forgetfulness of the conditions by which alone
political plots succeed. The Count OF Chambord
san at this moment have the throne for the asking
N that there is no doubt. Marshal Mcmahon will
Aot stand In his way for he has no ambition
10 retain office, and is pledged to obey the COM
Wands Of the Assembly whatever they may be-
the Bonapartists do not hope to see their Empire
restored till the Prince Imperial Is OF age for Re-
geucy, with the Empress and Prince Napoleon at
It's head, would find few supporters, and would do
their cause more harm than good. AS for M.
Thiers, he is popular in the country, but having
now allied himself to Gambetta he has lost the
conservative vote in the Assembly and alienated
o large number OF the commercial classes, who
would be content enough to see him President, but
hold the strongest prejudice against the exdicta-
tor OF Tours and the latter's followers. 1t may
therefore be said that Henri VS. only dangerous
opponent is himself. II he persists in not being
restored
EXCEPT WITH THE WHITE FLAG,
and public recognition OF his divine right his
prospects certainly precarious but 1t must not
be forgotten that they are so, not because OF the
unreasonableness OF such pretensions, but because
there Is no man in the royalist party popular
enough and able enough to recommend them to
the public in q palatabe form. II Berger were
still alive there would have been no hitch on the
question OF white nag and divine right, because his
eloquent voice would have reused the Assembly
and hall the country to enthusiasm for the gran.
deur Of old, historic France. Having what the
French call le courage de ses opinions, he would
have talked Of the nag OF Fontenoy in q way that
would have gone to the peoples heart He would
have proved that the tricolor is but the BAN
ner OF the city OF Paris with the Bour-
bon white superadded, and crowds would
have been convinced, who now protest
against the white nag simply because
the Royalists themselves seem in most cases hall
ashamed ortheir emblem and ignorant OF its sig
niacance. 1t has been suggested that the dinl-
Guilty might be turned by France retaining both
Gags, as in England, where the royal standard
represents the reigning dynasty, and the Union
Jack the nag OF the nation; and further, II has
been submitted that the divine right matter might
oe disposed Of by the Assembly Offering the crown
purely and simply to the Bourbon Prince, and
promulgati--s the new constitution, as it were a
charter which the King graciously conceded to his
people. The Pope, they say. has written to an.
fhig adingImcnf.