New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-10-31

soon ,,as thew have opportunity OF eN-
pressing their sentiments the Count de IhanlT
bord cannot under the most favorable cfcu"'I
stances long count them for his SUBJECTS III tha'
gentleman whose ntentionst is 10 be feared, really
and honorable only would abdicate, as some oil u.s.
after that preliminary complimentary vote" eastat
his feet by the Count de Paris, were expecting,
then the Royasts' chance with constitutions
monarchy is good. At least it would have Deeh
good for the Count de ChambOrd delays, whle tlme
presses. So.lately the last days OF last week. VIC
were left in doubt not only as to whether ne was
ia doubt between his old word aud honor on one
side and new ambition on the other
The best authorized of the Count de Chambord's
conspiring friends have been in consultation with
him at Salzburg, so rumor runs and have extracted
from him his last word. which, so rJilnor runs Will
be published to his French ieges now in day or
two. Another running of this rumor is, that this
last word is but rhetorical variation the earlier
ones of tho pretender-verbally cOnciliatory,
vaguely liberal but refusing to break his words as
gentleman suppress his convictions as churchman,
OF pocket his flag as king Anything may happen IN
twenty-four hours; and within the next day or two
there r1ay be more or less Fictitious rise in the now
very low fallen quotations of Fusion stock-Wmch
fortnight ago, you recoect, was so promising. But
the evident probabilities all look the other way;
and as was just minated parties and their leaders
are looking and calculating for new combinations.
The Fusion is sorey weakened in prospect. The
Bonapartists, who are at dsaccord among them
seves-they would not be French if they were not
are still for the main under the lead OF houher.
They are few in number in the Assembly, as they
were last May, when their coalition with the Royal
lists by whom rheyihave been discarded since, was
necessary to the defeat Of Theirs They have two
enormous advantages for the future; their party
motto of universal suffrage in distracted country
and the fact that they are in hopeless minority In
the Assembly. Hereafter they be held response
BILE for none of it's dongs before the people. Repub-
licans in the Assembly united only as against
the Fusion. No possible form of government la
beled permanent. voted by the present Assembly,
could. if it could once be voted have any moral
authority over the French people, who elected its
members at time and under circumstances that
VIGOROUSLY excluded thought or purpose Of clothing
them with constituent power
curious result of the popular elections last sun
day, in four different and quite widely separated
French departments, the most authoritative best
authorized newspaper organs of the defeated hoy
alist and Government parties, may be mentioned
here The essential features and sum OF their COM
ments on this disastrous result OF an appeal 10 the
people respecting their own government, Is that
universal suffrage is actually false and vitiated
means for o government TO arrive at the
real sentiments of the nation. If the hints the
more and less frankly expressed fears and preten-
sons of the Orleanist and Legitmist press writers
mean what some Of them dare to say, and what the
more cunning or less bold of them ingeniously
insnuate and tentatively say, the next common
ground ON which the Royalst conservatives are to
marshal themselves, is one Of combined hostility to
universal suffrage
Despite the deep pervading anxiety regarding the
pressing impending crisis, the feverish activity OF
planning and plotting among parties to effect or
prevent this that result the BaEane trial forces
its large claim to attention the minds OF men. 1t
has indeed manifold direct aud secondary bearings
| on the political situation Of the day. 1t reaches
over large phases of what if the dictionary permits,
| NAV be STYLED impassioned French history-hardly
more clear as yet IN the recent past
than in the couded immediate future. 1t promises,
in its course, TO evolve new views of that strange
disastrous war and its msleaders, which Frenebmen
of all parties IN so far they can be French aud
manly and not partisans will best not insist on dis
playing TO foreign world. ] have to note on the
political side that the pure Bonapartists have
thrown over Bazane, and do not hold their party
and the Emperor responsible for this quite question
able Mexican Marshas as yet nexplicable polIticO-
military unsuccessfully ambitious bungles.