The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1873-09-20
Intrigues in France.


The following comes in dispatches from Wash
ington City
Private letters from exceedingly well-inlOrmed
sources in France state that Marshal MacMahon
has been won over to the Bonapartist side by the
offer of n marriage between his daughter and the
Prince Imperial. This is regarded as insuring
delay on the part of the President. so far rs the
statu quo is concerned, as the adherents of the
Prince Imperial do not want to press changes
until their chief has been declared of age. That
is to be done when he reaches his eighteenth
birthday, which will be in the first half of 1874.
Marshal MacNIahon has always been regarded in
France as more of Il Legitimist than Bonapartist
but, first of all, Il soldier, serving whatever Gov
eminent was the existing one. All the Repub-
lican officers in the French army have. since Mac
Mahon's accession, been systematically sent out
of France. Chauzy, their best military man, Is
in Algeria, in honorable exile. Mime. MacAIahon
is able and ambitious. as well as completely un-
der Jesuit influence. The writer whose letter is
referred to declares the Jesuits to be in power as
scarcely ever before, prepared to combat even
G-L1-OutTaHCe TO restore the clerical influence.
They are prepared even, he says, to ask that
voters shall be required to give proofs of their
religious sentiments, as a disqualification for
suffrage. There is very little reason to doubt
but a majority of the Assembly could be found
willing, if their courage should be stimulated by
Carlist success, to vote such Il condition. At
present, in Parliamentary matters, the OrleanistS
and Napoleonists are balancing each other. but
MacMahon's detection to the Prince Imperial
gives his adherents new strength. The present
clerical reaction is not believed to be deep rooted,
but there is sufficient in the excitement over
deaths and defeat to create the present pilgrim
age, the attendance of which are arOusing the
hopes of the clergy. But if the reaction is push
ed, the result will soon be seen IN Il terrible up
rising against the clergy, whose hold grows less
with every year. The Republican leaders are
doing all they can 10 prevent outbreaks the
clergy and adherents are doing all that is posi-
BILE to force them. The Carlist instruction is
largely supported from Rome, so the giant turns
under Ktna and an eruption seems possible ere
long.
Recent European advices show that st. Peters
burg journals are earnest in their denial that the
Russian Government ever promised England to
evacuate conquered Khiva, and contend that the
Russian generals, in determining the political
future of the Khanate, ought to be guided only
by the necessities and interests Of their country.
They declare, further, that Russia only requires
that the mouth of the AmOor shall be made
navigable, and that a tolerably civilized govern
ment, we'll disposed to Russia shall be established
in Khiva, suggesting that it might promote the
interests of civilization if the Russians were per-
manently to occupy some of the strOnghOlds Of
the Khanate.
All of this looks like corroboration of the
statements yentured early during the campaign
that Russia intended the Khiva TO be 4 mere
stepping stone to further conquest in Asia. Il
might confirm the supposition that the Car was
casting Il c%OyetOus eye upon British India, but
for the fact that st. Petersburg and London are
now on exceedingly good terms, and the union of
the two royal houses, shortly TO be consummated,
indicates rather a disposition To strengthen than
TO disrupt the prevailing amity.