New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-10-08
VOL XXXIU.. ..No.lO,I45.
THE FRENCH MONARCHISTS
PLANS OF THE FusrONIsTs.

BRoGIIE's POICY-HOw THE JoofNhi of lih
KING or ITALY rs REGARDED BY lhh Lh"iii
nIsTs.
,,,vo, ,,,r ppor,,R CORRESPONDENT THE TRIBUSE.l
p.prs Sent 94-Will the Count dc Chambord
MAKE concessions and if so, how manyi After ms
several manifestoes of the last three years, how
hes II he would and could make concessions, that
IA a reoantation sufficient in words 70 satisfy the
demand of liberal Monarchists, how can he satisfy
them Of the validity of this new form of words
That If as clear presentation of the present phase
Of the Fusion question as its mixed elements
admit If the statement were less brief, 1t
would embrace more elements and be less clear
advert 10 the question to-day not with the slightest
pro.ense Of Offering even cOneotural solution, but
simply to communicate the news. To what degree
OF whether at all the Count is shaken from his old
position Of opinions and declarations, we have no
Authentic proof whatever. There is good reason for
suRpcctin that the select dress circles of the
two monarchical wings in this respect no better
informed than the penslve public. Painful perusal
OF those journals inspired or edited by chiefs
and leaders of the Legitmist and ex-OTeanst
parties, reveals single new item OF knowledge
IN the last six weeks to enlighten the Ignorance III
which the Frohsdorff interview of Aug. left Ms as
to its Alternative effect on the political opinions of
khe Count de ChambOTd. What is moro Observable
in these journals is the diversity Of their inerpre-
tations of that interview and of those opinions,
according as the Interpreter is Legitimist OF ex-
Orleanlst They have as yet reached only an
intermediate stage between aversion and
union. 1t is a truce The first nearly solid pre-
hminary base for negotiating a final treaty of
offensive aud defensive alliance was laid at the feet
of his cousin by the Count de Paris last 9TH OF
August. Among the many conceivable motives and
purposes of this act, we may trace one back to the
conditions Of that earlier bargain by which the Lee
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Htion Of the law Of exile that weighed upon the
Orleans Princes and then for the restoration TO
those Princes Of their imperially contscated
estates.
Negotiations have been busily going on since that
date and Iatterly as approach the date for the
reopening Of the Assembly with fresh activity be-
tween the chiefs Of the two parties here and be-
tween them and the chief at FrohsdOrff What are
the acquired results is not definitely known to the
public 1t is equally apparent however that for the
last few days the Fusionists enjoying revival
Of that hope which sprang so high In
the early part of last month to fall as
low in the first weeks of September. Sufficient
reasons for the revival not so apparent. After
the first season Of rejoicing by Legitimsts over the
conversion Of the Orleans Princes, ex-0rleanst Mon
archIsts not feeling so thorough change of heart
as conversion comes TO, and with brains enough to
know that the body of the constitutional party was
not ready to fit its neck to an artificial Divine
Right head said to the Legtimist managers: I'VE
by our Prince, have made a first large cOnces
sion; now il is your turn" The sensible men
admit the roasonableness of this claim but have no
authority whatever in themselves TO allow It, Hence
there are frequent and respectfully urgent refer
nces and representations to the Claimant at FrOhs
torR The Count de Chambord will be SO years
Of age next Monday, past the age of con-
vertible opinions. The Count has cOur-
teousy received many political visitors of
late weeks Whether he told them things not
worth telling, OF solemn secrets not to be retod, we
hear little of his sayings TO them except from
imaginative listeners at imagined keyhoes. As has
already been remarked, we learn no one authentic
important enlightening word of his Utterance since
his thoroughly reactOnarv middle-aged letter to
NJ de Pradines of last July congratulating that gen
tleman ON his rcactionary views of modern French
needs and things.
But last week two gentlemen, members of the Ma
tionai Assembly, went to Frohsdorf as missionary
delegates of a considerable number of Fusonists
respectfully TO represent to the Royal Claimant the
state of the actual French Fusionst case, and ur-
gently suggestively press him to try if he could not
make up his mind and speak it in some tOerably
promising sense. These gentlemen have returned to
Paris There was brought to us Parisians
Yesterday morning by The London Times
a Paris telegram to that paper, translated with
some imperfection) into the evening editions of all
yesterdays Paris papers, purporting to be faithful
report in brief of the two interviews of these gen.
tlemen with the Count de Chambord. The fact that
this report on matter peculiarly interesting to
Frcnchmen should, starting from Paris first reach
them bv way of London translated from English,
and the fact that it is credited by the general
French reader as il surely would not have
been bad il appeared primarily twenty-four hours
earlier in a French journal; and the fact that the
correspondent of foreign newspaper has condolences
shed into his open bosom, OF which home party
editors are in ignorance curious facts character
istic OF the curious situation of French Fusionist
politics and of the lowly estate several practical
sides of journalistic influence and enterprise III
France.
Observe that the report sent from Paris to The
London Times is not officially authorized. But ex-
trinsic probabilities strengthen the internal evil
dence of its credibilty. All that you can confidently
conclude from its perusa is that the royal Claimant
is As always. an amable courteous gentleman;
that his social and rhetorical manner is concil-
iatory. But of his old and latter time
repeatedly manifested convictions and ideas
respecting constitutionasm and the Flag,
he renounces no one. Sadriier in mode tortiter
in n. Between now and the end of the week the re-
turned Commissioners will have made their intimate
report BY il their aiders and abettOrs outside the
Assembly-amOng whom Prime Minister de BrOglie
rs TO be reckoned best, first, and fawnlng CHIEF
wall shape their intriguing policy. The de Broghe
government cautiously avoiding 10 pronounce itself
for either monarchieal party steadily vigorously,
Virulently works all its force against repubcansm
Ia any shape-more intensely against the conserva-
tive, ohgarchlc republcanism Of NJ. Theirs than
against the more deeply conservative democratic
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