New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-10-13

support the candidates of highest personal
character, without regard to party.
PRELIMINARY SBIRAISHIRG IN FRANCE
The week which il to prove so important TO
France opens with an important victory for
the Republic. In the elections held yesterday
to FIJI vacancies in the Assembly nom four
Departments, the Republicans appear to have
carried all four with satisfactory maiorties.
This result will be received with feelings of
profond relief by the Left and with CORE
spending depression by the Right. A powerful
effort was made by the Government to defeat
II. Turigny in the department OF the NIeyre, and
in the Haute Garonne NJ de R6musat, who was
beaeni in Paris because he was the official candi-
date, was supported by the same interest that
defeated him in the capital, and savageiy op-
posed by the conservatives who Jhen supported
him. Ii is possible that the lull which mas been
apparent for the.last few days in the notes OF
preparation was due to the desire OF both par
ties to see the issue of these electoral contests
The Monarchists have probably gone too far
to recede, in their attempt to bring PACK the
Bourbon dynasty to France. Everything indl-
Gates n desperate resolution on their part to
push the matter now to maj issue. no
Comte de Chambord is reported at Salz-
burg on his way either to Brussels OF 10
Switzerland-thOugh in view OF the antl-cler1-
cal riots which attended his former frlltiess
Journey to Belgium, it would show singular
indiscretion for him to choose that country
now as his base of operations. The meeting
between him and the delegates of the
Right has already taken place, and some
modus ripen1i between this absolute prince
and the constitutional Assembly VIII OF course
sooner or later be adopted. There are rev
points on which they agree, but these are very
important ones. They want KING ana ne
wants q kingdom, and matters OF less moment
such as flag and charter, must ultimately gave
way. If they can reGstablish tho monarchy,
there will be no trouble about filing the
throne. The progeny of the B6arnais are SUI
fcently numerous to obviate all anxiety on
that score. But it is not probable That NJ dc
Chambord will indulge his medieval con-
science so far as to allow his young cousins OF
Orleans, who are not embarrassed by such I'M
pedments, TO step before him into the throne
he has been waiting for all his life.
Meantime the Government, while not ap-
bearing to share actively in the schemes OF
the dynastic party, and while in fact the Due
de Broglie seems to favor the pr0lOngation OF
the powers of MacMahon, still pursue the
avowed friends of the Republic with perth
nacity which must be as exasperating as 1t is
ineffective. They have prohibited the circula-
ton of the letter of NJ. Theirs to the Mayor
of Nancy in which he said the Left would
support the Republic, the tricolOr and the
principles Of '99, an ineXplicable freak OF nag
ging tyranny. 1t must be admitted, however,
that these exhibitions of petulance are not
aimed at the Republicans alone. The police
have also seized and cOnfscated several thou
sand portraits of the young Napoleon with
that dexterOus little speech of NJ. Rouher, de-
livered at Chiselhurst, about the flag. In fact
there has been so much disagrecable talk
about the banner of late, that there has come
to be something positively improper in the
sound of the word, in conservative ears.
While thus busily engaged i'll combating
mere trifles tho Monarchists cannot prevent
much more serious assaults from appearing
against the dynasty. One Journalist proves
that the COmte de ChambOrd has not one drop
of French blood to five hundred foreign in his
veins for admitting that Henry of Navarro
was his ancestor, and was French, both of these
points being open to discussion, he and all his
descendants have married foreigners. This
argument is trivial enough, but another is
more formidable. The Legitimate Pretender
is called an illegtimate son of the Due de
Berry. His father married in England Mrs.
Brown, with whom he lived ten years, and
who bore him two daughters, now the Mar
quise de Charette and the Princesse de Fau-
cigny. This marriage displeased Louis XVIII,
who annulled it, and married his nephew in
1916 to the Princess Caroline Of Naples, the
mother of the Comte de Chambord. Neither
the Catholic Church nor the Legtimist party
admits the possibility of divorce, and the situa-
ton thus becomes an awkward one for such
true believers as those who owe allegiance to
Henry V.
The attempted fusion between the Imperial
lists and the Republicans had its beginning
and end in the correspondence between NJ.
Portals and Prince Napoleon. The two latter
writers settled everything satisfactorily, but
the next day they were promptly repudiated
by their respective parties. The Bonapartists
will, of course find it to their interest to
support the provisional organization against
the establishment of the monarchy but there
could be no fusion between them and the Re-
publcans which would not be equally ridicu-
lous for both. The issue of the Monarchy
against the Republic is becoming more clearly
defined, and very few days will decide
whether the dynastic party can carry their
scheme through the Assembly. If they sue
ceed a stormy period of parliamentary turbu-
lence and civic instructions will open for
France. If they fail, the experiment of the
Republic may at length be tried under reason
ably fair conditions. -.-s