, 1874-06-06
The AVIS
7 l. E G. r A NJ S
by Eng. MALL
FRANCE.
VERSAILLES, SATURDAY NIGHT.

chat the Electoral Law should be discussed be-
fore every other measure. It was beaten on
that question by a majority of more than sixty
votes. Forty of the majority belong to the Elk
treme Right, and about twenty to the Bona
p~artists. The question being one OF confidence,
the Cabinet had no alternative but to resign
M. Buffet, the President of the Assembly, Is
likely to be charged with the composition Of
the new Cabinet. His selection of men may
range from M. de Goulard, a moderate Right
Centre man, and formerly Minister Of NJ.
THEIRS, to NJ. Dufaure, a moderate Left Centre
member and a Republican. Should NJ. Buffet
become a Minister, the Speakership will pro-
baby devolve on M. Leon Say, who is well fit
ted for the office. At present, Of course, every
thing is uncertain. There il great excitement
among the various Parliamentary groups.
PARIS, SUNDAY NIGHT.
M. Buff t, though greatly pressed by Mar
shall MaoMahon, and reminded that 1T was be who
principally forced upon the lrshal the success.
sion of NJ. Theirs a year ago, has positively re-
fused to exchange his chair in the Assembly
against a p~rotfolio, probably thiokiDg the former
the least precarious. At present Nj. de Gou)ard,
once q Thierist, is charged to form a Ministry.
NJ. de Goulard is a respectable man, devoid
of debating talent, the small chief Of Q small
Parliamentary group, and II is jucoCcciVablo
that be can make head in the present. great
crisis. His fria4d5 are mostly Orlaao,8ts, and
Yesterdays vote was especially aimed against
Orleanism, of which many think it was the coup
de grace.
The Gazette dc France, while ignoring the
mysterious reasons for tie Legitimjsts' votes,
affects to believe that they see their way TO a
Restoration, add if SO, that all is right The
fact is the Logitimi5t5 are sick Of he Due de
Broglie's equiyocation, and are especially dis
gusted with his Grand, Council Bill, the evident
object of which WAS to make the Due d'Aumale
the arbiter of the situation. Acting on Frohs-
dorff orders, they prefer to run the chance of a
dissolution rather than under the pretoxt Of
Conservatism any longer to support Orleanlst
i~ntrigues.
The Duo de Broglie's late organ, the Jour-
nal de Paris, lamenting the catastrophe, says a
more extraordinary coalition was never seen.
Ohiselhurst and Frohsdorf voted with tho
Hotel Bagration and the Rue Sourdi6re. 1t
admits that the majority Of the gath May is
dead. 1t has been killed by the Bonapartists
and the Light Horse. With much grooming
the paper f~oresees the probability Of being
forced to accept the Septennate far less Con
s|ervative and more Republican than it had
hoped for.
The Lien Public, edited by NJ. Thiers's
friends, says that on the 18th Of May, 1874,
Wltnln a week OF d year Olu, tu6 UoVeIhhlobU
of Moral Order breathed its last in the person
of the Duo de Broglie. 1t died as it had lived
-miserably. 1t existed by double enteadres
and equivocation, and expired by equivooation.
Fatally condemned to dwarf everything to its
own proportions, it reduced the great and vital
question whether France should be a Republic
or the ante-chamber of a Monarchy, to a
bubble on parliamentary practice. And for
these men France has lost a whole year. With
them has fallen irreyocably a whole system of
policy, the policy which violated municipal
liberties, m~utilated universal suffrage, and by
its scheme for a Second Chamber instituted a
permanent barrier against the national sove-
reignty, and insidious!y prepared the over
throw Of the Republic. Against all these
i~ntrigues there is now, says the Ben Public,
but one arbitrator-the country but one
force-the country; but one prinoiple-the
country.
The Dissolutionist movement, supported by
the direct and open influence of NJ. Theirs,
may now be expected to assume an unpre-
cedented momentum. The Repu5lique Fran
caise observes that the impo&sibility to oousti-
tute a majority in the Assembly comedies
with the notorious fact that there is a homoge-