New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-06-11
THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT.

oY THE NEW PRESIDENT,
tYpoM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT THE TRfBUNE.l
PARIS, May 98.-Albert Duke de Broglie has at
tanned the hight of his honorable ambition-l might
say hight for Alps rise beyond. The ideal hight
with this doctrinaire son of doctrinaire father,
grandson of Madame de Stael. greatgrandson OF
Necker and a guillotined prncey ancestor, is to be
Prime Minister (by a sort of old grandfatherly
divine and social drecting-class right of hered-
itary monarch. Thus far he has come to be pre-
carous Premier of regime, the actual official name
of which he is averse to utter the character OF
which he viii not define nor have defined. The
condition Of his own permanence IN power ana OF
the fruition of his prospective hopes of better
state Of things is that it be kept provisional IN
definitely.
The Dukes great grievances uttered in his long
and long prepared Oratorcal attack. last Friday, on
the administration of President THEIRS were that IL
was alarming nom Conservative In acts, anarchl-
cal in tendency, not parliamentary in procedure, not
homogeneous IN Ministry. After two years Of pre-
served public peace tho noble Duke and his strange
allies have succeeded in efecting a parliament
tary revolution by merely parliamentary means,
still without disturbance of the public peace.
So mueh for the noD-ConservatYe admins
tration of the late President IL there is
one thing more than another that the Duke
protests against it is that English theory and
practice which secure to the Chief of State or his
Ministerial representative right of appeal from
scant accidental majority Of the Legislature to the
nation at large. So much for the new Premiers
parliamentary theories. He is proud to be tenn
porarily at the head of Ministerial Council, con-
glomerated Of Oreanists Legitimists, and Bona
partists, who can work together for preliminary
purposes only so long as they can agree openly to
say and do nothing for the attainment of their
ulterior purposes So much for the homogeneity of
the Cabinet presided over by the noble dOctrinaire
Duke.
In the ardOr of his valorous zeal against radical
ISM NJ de Broglie last Friday forgot the numerous
Nv recorded nvarable results of spch indiscretions,
and personally insulted NJ. Theirs The juvenile M.
Albert de Brogle age So inspired let us hope, with
fathery and gTandmotherly sentiments of superior
ty rather than by thoughtful device, felt 1T wise
cOndescendingy to warn the needless septuagena-
ran Theirs not only that he was uncOnsciously
sliding down to the Commune. but was the protege
of the Radicals, cOmmunards, IN the war.
Referring to that one careless passage In
the otherwise cautiously trimmed discourse of the
usually courteous academical duke, NJ. Theirs thus
broke ont at the close of his own; You will permit
me 10 deem that too severe. A man who has served
his country all his life who, at the most trying mo-
ment had sacrificed his popularity for the sake of
truth; who had rendered services which do not
pretend TO have rendered, he perhaps might treat
with such pity men like those who sit in these
benches pointing to his Minister'S But
thank the orator for his sentiments
of compassion. Let him suffer me to
return the compliment-permt me to say that too
pity him. OF majority he will have no more than
we but he too will be prOt6g6 and will tell him
Of whom, of protector that former Duke de
Broge would have repulsed with horror-he will
De the prot6g6 Of the Empire" So much for the dis
cresion of the son of his father and grandson of
Madame de Stael But essentially he is discreet all
the same. Awaiting proof Of higher creative quail
ties in the possible statesman, discretion is the as
yet best proved quality of the politician.
But the difference in this personal sparring be-
tween the old athlete who had come to that the
doubtful fight was turning to his defeat, and
the advised, accidental side fling of the coalition
champion is the difference between a rhetorical
metaphor and statement of probable fact. The
only party if any, that should congratulate itself
stnumph in the parliamentary revolution that was
oOnsummated last Saturday night is the Bonapartst
party. This is not merely or mainly because the
parliamentary processes, if it were so vigorously
conducted and prosperously carried out TO the end
by the President Of the Assembly, NJ. Buffet an
old inperialist, though liberal one, nor yet be-
cause, to the sad third disappointment of poor Gen.
ChangGnier Whose modesty never is best with
Presidential honor, NapOleon's Marshal, MacMahon,
became President, selected from many candidates.
The BOnoartists have far more reason for rejoicing
because y. Mague becomes Minister of Finances
IN the new combination. The coalition. which
fFou will bear in mind showed the test vote but
t6 clean majTity owed, won't say it's success but
Thiers's defea the adhesion of the Bonapartists
Their number u the House is bakers dozen more
or less. To score their adhesion definite bargains
needed to be male and signed and ulAdOea given hv
Orleanists and -egitmists The presence of NJ.
hagne in the new Ministry is the sign not the sub
stance Of the NaloleOnic gains, and of the extent
and power IN deghe of the protection under the
atutelage OF which th,doctrinare Duke de Broghe is
suffered TO be and hove and have his ministerial
being.
Immediately on his appointment and acceptance,
Marshal MacMahOn wrote little letter 10 the AS
-Sembly characteristic ratler honorably character
Atc OF HIM. Having IN another and yet bTiefer
proclamation asserted hls responsible promise for
thu preservation Of material srder (which was no
moo endangered by the governmental evolution in
FraAee that day than ii vas in Massachusetts, at the
tas Aacal eeciOns, he locks little in this political
Ciue-tOuJ. 70 more intimate political questions So
ne additionally promies to reestablish moral
order IN the country well as main
tenaDe' OF pubic peace and of the
Prinelal~ on which society rePoses. "Eor these
answer b you" writes TIN worthy man, on the
word a IN honest man aDc soldier" This setting
down a tie higher moral IN level with the mil
itary q1alty is doubly Characteristic of the very
honorable, Utterly loyal brave soldier secondclass
captain Sa' politician Of no class No intelligent
frenchmsn ,yer accused Marshal MaeMahon of be-
ang dishonst man, or Of being so much rs a first
class miinar general. Until LAST Friday night his
competency ST politics, let alsne statesmanship