New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-09-29
THE PROSPECT IN FRANCE.

r,or of tho PLIGHT of the French Assembly
found their confident assurance repoi.ou w
us by cable, that the Monarchy VIII pe rc-
stored before the Winter. There IL nothing
i'm the progress of events since the Sith Oh
May TO Justify this increase OF confidence.
The greatest effort ever made by the Con-
servatlves since the meeting Of the Assembly
at Bordeaux was put forth on that day, and
it has subsequently seemed as if it were rather
the result of panic than of any deliberate
resolution. The defeat OF NJ. de Remusat had
thoroughly alarmed them and the refusal OF
M. Theirs to dismiss the Liberal members
from his Cabinet had thrown the majority
into one of those critical, nervous condl-
tons where assemblies sometimes act Ike
hysterical individuals, without any reasonable
calculations of expediency or probabilities.
The time which has elapsed since then has re-
vealed no symptoms of adhesion TO the mon
archical cause, either from among the MINOR
ify in the Chamber or from the people al
large The Government shows Its dlstrust OF
the voting masses by its neglect TO order
special elections to fill the numerous. vacancies
among the deputies. One of the Government
organs makes whimsical attempt to explain
this neglect of the authorities by saying that
it makes no real difference to Department
whether it has ten or eleven members at any
one time in the house. Ii, when Marshal
MacMahon was made President, 1t was lmpos-
sibIe to finish the Republic at once, 1t Is not
evident that the matter has become more prac-
ticabe now. We are told that sixty gentlemen OF
the Right, men Of good name and character,
have had meeting of mutual encouragement
in Paris and to prove the irreproachable COM
position of this reunion the names are cited OF
MN. de la ROchefOucauld Bisaccla, Daru, anu
Decazes But it is no news that these gentle
men desire and believe i'll mOnarchlcal res
toration, while there would be considerable
novelty in the statement that they could after
the course of events over dinner table. Ihey
connt, it is said, upon majority OF twenty In
the 730 deputies of which the Chamber con-
sists. But NJ Theirs is wiser man and
better politician than any of them, and he
counted on a much larger majority than that,
on the oath of May.
The two important events which nave taken
place since the accession of MacMahon have
been the visit of the COmte dc Paris to
Frohsdorf and the liberation of the territory !;
and neither of these has been attended by
circumstances or followed by consequences
which ought to give any encouragement 10
the partisans of reaction. The Comte de
Paris, by his act of homage to his cousin de
Chambord abdicated his own position rs pre-
tender. but he did not in this way fill up the
wide gulf which had previously separated the
head of the BourbOns from the throne OF
N boo al had in his
principles his own nature, a more insuperable
obstacle to restoration than any which exter-
nal circumstances presented. He Is not man
of this century. His exile has nourshed his
innate tendency to mysticism To such degree
that no practical considerations appear to him
comparable in importance with the two or
three points of faith or fancy which cOnsti-
tute his political system. The demonstration
of allegiance recently made by the COmte de
Paris does not in the least remedy this in
durable lnc0mpatibility between the COmte de
Chambord and the nation he claims 10 rule.
1t may annihilate the Orleanist party, if it
can be said to have had an existence, but it
does not fuse it with the clerical aristOcratic
party which recognizes the dreamer of Frohs-
dorf as King of France. 1t does not convert
the Orleanists into papalini and it does not
make of Henry V. a possible candidate for a
constitutional crown. There is positively less
unity in the coalition now than before.
The Liberation of the territory, which many
thought was to benefit the Administration under
which it actually took place, has had directly
contrary effect. At Verdun and Belfort, and
at every petty hamlet where the people f6ted
tho evacuotion tho nomp which onnearpd IN the
trlumphal arches, which was wreathed in gar
lands and shouted by the rejoicing masses,
was not that of the actual but the fallen
President, not Mcmahon but Theirs. He was
everywhere hailed as the statesman whose
courage prudence and devotion had shortened
the time of the occupation, and fastened the
departure of the enemy. All the advantage of
this popular rejoicing Injured to the Republic
and its veteran champion. If vote were
taken to-day in the liberated provinces
it would be Overwhelmingly in favor
of Theirs and the Republic-the two names
which, in spite of himself, the venerable mon
archist has seen indIssolubly associated by the
popular sense and by the natural course of
events. 1t is of course impossible to predict
what will be attempted by men of such linn
tied political capacity as those who compose
the majority Of the Versailles Assembly. But
it is too early to take it for granted that they
will try to plagiarize tho crime of Louis
Napoleon, and there is nothing to show they
can accomplish it, if they try.
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DBFALCATIONS.-ONE LESS.
In enumerating several instances of late de-
RI q n