New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-08-27
THE FRENCH BOURBONS.
THE ATTEMPT AIT A FUSION.

LEAsIsTs.
lrRoM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT or THE rRrBUSEi
PARIS, Aug 1.-The grandson OF Charles X, coDse-
Grated King of France by Divine Right. has accorded
interview TO tho grandson of Louis Philippe, King
of the French by revolutionary luck and vote Of a
rump Parliament in name Of the glorious princi-
pies of 89n and been recognized head of the royal
house. What else the Count de Paris said TO and
heard from the Count de Chambord at Frohsdorf.
what beside this formal act Of family recognition
were the other, more and less occult, immediate and
Interior purposes of his visit and what is likely 10
come of his going. at present fertile themes Of
ford conjecture Among the numerous printed in
terpretations of the meaning of the interview that
one Dublished in the Journal de Paris yesterday
Though itself much in need Of interpretation is
worth notice for this ably edited paper. with its ono
sous adjunct lie Soleil il the quasi official organ OF
the Orleans branch of the now united N Bourbon
family The sum of the statement is as follows:
1.-The Count of Paris, speaking for the other Orleans
Princes declared that he and they looked on tho
Count dc Chambord the true representative OF ths
monarchical idea; that consequently between MN
and them there will be competition. 1t was under
stood and settled that there are not two Houses IN
France; that there is but one, and the Count OF
Chambord is the head of it. that, consequently If the
monarchy to be reesablshed he is the person to be
applied to- Whether il should or should not DO re-
established, and under what conditions, are ques-
tons on which the Orleans Princes evidently have
their personal opinion but Of which they are not
charged with the solution. IT, then, these and
connected questions have not been preached at tho
interview, it does not follow that the recent action
of the Count dc Paris has only family and no po-
litica bearing On the contrary, it has very iui-
portant one since it brings to Daught that proPo-
sition of the Republicans which asserts that, whom
ever France should desire to restore royalty. II
would find itself placed between two royal houses
and between two preteDders'"
That IS. in yet briefer sum- the Count de Paris
went all the way to FrohsdOrf to say to his cousin
what he said three months or 80 ago to the legti-
mist Duke de la ROchefoucauld-Bisaccia, what he
wrote two years ago in answer to DR.. Bourgugnon's
letter. that he is not pretender and recognizes tho
indisputabe patent heradc fact that his childlesn
cousin last surviving member Of the elder branch OF
the family is its head he being next legitimate heir.
head, and, meantime. Dauphin The polite vague
ness of the quasi official article of the Journal dc
Paris is striking The BOurguignOn letter written.
if rightly hold the date, in 1871, has, along with
beautiful literary clearness, the same essential IN
conclusiveness; playing upon words, the writer do
clines to "abdicate,n because abdcatiOn would i'm
| ply that he pretendant.
The recent act of the Orleanist candidate for the
| French throne, though something of surprise To
| the vulgar was of course long meditated. and was
| performed with the approval of dAumae and the
other unces, after consultation among the leading
politicians of the Right Center and Moderate Right
The procedure in which the Count de Paris took
the lead seems to be of the nature of those " COM
| plimentary votes" sometimes prelimIuary cast al
our Presidential conventions in favor OF
! hopelessly unavailable candidate. II it was
not meant to mystify poor Henry ", then il
| should mean one of two things. Either that
amiable UltramOntane gentleman ID to haul down
his white flag cancel bis letters to Bishop Dupan-
| loup and NJ. Cazeneau de Pradines and he, King by
Gods grace, accept crown aud Constitution as
gift and controlling law from the very scant MAJOR
! ity of an utterly unauthorized National bly,.
| or the Count de Paris is to become sanity and
! Ultramontane sing the cantcle of the SGcre CGu
! and bow at the shrine of Marie Macoque.
| IL q considerable number Of Legitlmists IN the
| Assembly, seeing the unayailablity of Henry V.
could find an to their loyal sentiment for de-
serting him in the loyal procedure Of his cousin,
who, renouncing rival pretensloDs cannot for the
! life of him. prevent himself from beng second best
candidate in the sovereign assembly caucus for the
| royal throne why then this combination
| might be hoped for. All the Right Center.
| the less exalted members of the Right, and
so much of the Loft Center as is made up OF
| Monarchists at heart, lately intellectually only
| perverted to Republicanisn, together with some
| other timd persons, the Due do BrOglie aiding
| strenuousy ght compose slight majority IN the
legally sovereign and constituent Assembly to vote
out the Republic and vote in constitutional King
Louis 1t is a fine game, curous to watch to be won.
if won at ALL by tricks, terrible dispute about the
stakes to follow.
Meantime the Government, restricted by its shack
iaH ifntinn T. IL
cy is applying all its means in vacation Of the AS
| sembly, with ever-growing boldness, to eliminate
all Republicans, however moderate, from admins
rative Offices and TO hamper, repress, suppress free
Republican speech and print. Seven Republican
newspapers, in the last fortnight, have been sup
pressed, suspended. forbidden to be
sold in the street. NJ. Rampont, for
the last three years most capable admins
traitor at the head of the Post Office Department has
Just been removed from his Office, not from any
proved or even pretended charge of Incompetence.
but because he is moderate conservative Republi-
can and dates his appointment from the 18th Of Sep
tember 1870. These are sample ends of what Is
going on and pushed on against the Republic OF
France by the Conservative Government of the
legal Republic of France, honest MacMahon. with
his GLORIOUS sand" answering for material order
while Madame de STALLS grandson promotes in this
kind his moral order"
The Frohsdorf movement rather amuses the Le-
gitimlsts gratiies the Ultramontane clercals with
ont securing their adhesion TO Orleanlsm irritates
the Bonapartists more than they like to say. aud
provokes sneering indifference from the Repubh-
cans or from some of them, signs OF gratihcation-
These last say that if we have Pretendant tho
less we have one old argument the more. Henry v.
we never feared Now that the more for
midabe candidate for the throne has, or
gives color TO the charge of having. stepped