New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-06-05
THE LATE FRENCH CRISIS.
THE LAST ACTS OF PRESIDENT THIERsS AID
MINISTRATION.

NOT BIZ ACCEPTED BY l4hfA bh tAAJuls
[FnoM THE SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT or THE rRmUsEl
| PARIS, May 2l.-The Assembly has opened session
sure to be scenic and eventful. The President meets
it with a new edition, somewhat enlarged and con-
siderably improved, of his old Cabinet and his
scheme of a Constitution. We have entered on
era of crises The public mind is anxious. excited
impatient The constant element of the situation
is indefniteness The political atmosphere is Storm
laden the political horizon fog. The one clear
thing is confusion said the Assembly was opened;
saving it's respect might say uncOrked, for the
passions of parties seem, like bottled beer. to have
gathered strength and frothiness in the long
ton. Jules Simon was the last survivor Of the
properly republican portion Of the original Bordeaux
Pact Cabinet, and the object OF yirulent hostility
from the Monarchists. Goulard, their fellow in
sentiment and almost partisan, was equally obnoxi-
GUS to Republicans For these, three new men have
been substituted, the department Of Instruction,
new department of Public Worship having been
formed The incumbents here are WaddingtOn
(best known as a learned Archaeological but by poti
cal antecedents a liberal of the Academic school,
and Beranger probably ADLER parlamentaran,
formerly mild Imperialist. They are both now
firm but conservative republican.
However. the significance Of the last Ministerial
arrangement so far as it signifies, is indicated by
the substitution in the especially important Depart
ment of the Interior for the Monarchst GOulard of
Casinir- P6rier. The name he bears, his lifelong
party anities and his rather intimate personal re-
lations with the Orleans Princes gave peculiar
emphasis to his public remuneration of the lifelong
hope for the restoration Of their regnng house. and
his adhesion 10 the Republic as the only form of
government practicable for New France. 1t was
the event Of that day, attended with voluminous
comments in these parts which we're compressed,
the other year, in this correspondence Since then
he has become President and type leader Of that
ton of the Left Center whose hearts are to the Right
but who bow their heads, slightly and stify enough
but as sincerely to the force of modern things. They
are none the less in earnest perhaps, that they are
moderate none the less honest that they not en-
thusiastic. Comparing them with the halfdozen
other groups into which the Assembly is distracted
an American or English anatOmlst of that morbid
body would be apt to term them the sound common
sense group. Whether the outside Anglo-Amercans
observing sense of the humors Of French politics
and parties itself sound and acutely penetrating
is a question which Gallo history is in the habit Of
putting with curious indifference to national and
chronological sentiments, and often enough answers
by events with yet more mpertInent disregard of
our superior Judgments
But what needs attention for the moment Is, that
all the three entering Ministers are Republican,
positive but not exclusive, ana eminently conserva-
tive. Furthermore the Cabinet, if not yet homo
Qcneous is less heterogeneous than any one NJ. Theirs
has hitherto composed 1t shows his reading of the
lesson taught by the recent ELECTIONS and has inter
petration of its twO-fold warning. The nation Is
alarninRy impatient Of the Provisional of a Gov
eminent that fas to confess that it hardly is one
the people will have it republican. Aud so, return
ing to his base and the ground held in his famous
message of Nov. 70. 1872, President Theirs
sent into the Assembly its meet
ing day last Monday, that scheme OF !
organic laws Of which, after months of prodigiously
active ard ingenious waste of words, a. you VIII
recoleet the majority Of the Commission of Thirty
confded the construction to him and his ministerial
council The present spirit which actuates the Mon
archists in the Assembly, whose chosen representa-
tives that majority instantly revealed itself a.
the ingrained spirit of selfwiu and sefconeert, OF
intrigue of puerile passionate sectarian impoicy
They forbade by vote, in their noisy, frothy way
the simple reading OF the bill of organic laws and its
preamble Il was pretty idle means Of badgering
and bOthering the GOvernment-that Is, NJ Theirs
The temptation to relieve their own irritation by
trying TO irrate him. the schooboy delight Of grave
doctrinaires in demonstrating not 70 be re-
sisted
On the part of the majority this first day, an in
terpelaton was presented asking the Ministry why
the Ministry had been modified. and always IN
scared condemnatOry view Of the recent modlhea-
ton. asserting the necessity for the Government Of
instituting a thoroughly rigorous conservative
policy. The implied grievance was that the sub
stitution of CasimirP erer for Goulard is breach
of contract on Thiers's part and criminal If not
idiotic entering on a downward march that tends
straight TO democracy and the Commune, with con-
sequent final consumption Of all hopefully reserved
thrones.
III wrote paragraph or two above on the ante
cedents and personal quality of Casimir-Perer and
the specially conservative group, whose sentiments
he and his two new ministerial fellows represent,
il was TO meet in advance and illustrate the ind-
RICHNESS and falseness of the spirit in which the
Monarchists misconduct their opposition to Theirs,
and even his unquestionably republican, but less
than questionable democratic Republic.
The Presidents scheme of organic laws will have
reached you quite before your receipt OF this letter
No need then TO attempt an epitOme OF IL and us
remarkably long and ably argued preamble. just
as it comes from the council of Theirs and his Min
isters il cannot pass as whole, by never slight
numerical majority of votes through the present
Assembly Let me particularly note, IN passing
that if IL eould or any however modified version of
IL could. with much straining be adopted by the
House the moral authority of the actual Assembly,
whose members every one knows and feels were
elected with utter absence the part OF their cleo
tors of 80 much as thought referring TO their con
stituent quality has been 80 low and ever steadily
lower sunk by its own fault, that nothing good or
bad in the shape Of a Constitution could be recog
nzed or accented as an authoritative fnality. TO
the mass of the French people the Assembly If not
Constituent Assembly and 10 at least Tour OUT Vi
seven of it's typical groups If by posslDhlty Oun
stItutiOn is voted IL will not have Deeh Cohsli'
The Theirs scheme which if adopted. would be