New-York tribune., 1874-06-02
DIFFICULTY OF FORMING A MINISTRY.

THE DUKE DE BROGIIEB RECOMMENDATION III FUN"
NEW CABINET FROM THE MINORITY-EMBAR-
EASEMENTS OF NJ. DE OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
CHARACTER OF THE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS CHAR
ACTER OF THE PEOPLE OF FRANCE.
lFRoh THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNE.l
PARIS, May 2O.-The Ministry that resigned last
Saturday Professionally continues to attend to
business. Being defeated by large majority,
it's late Chief. who prides himself on his
parliamentary principles, advised President
MacMahon to seek new Cabinet IN the
minority. The advice is less absurd than unparlia-
mentary. 1t proves thus far not easy to carry out;
but what remains of the late anti-repubican coali-
tiOn, possibly recruited by few auxiliaries from
the wing of the Left Center leaning mostly to the
Right offers q less unstable base for the operations
of trpartitc Ministry than any other combination
which could be formed in the present state OF parties
in the house and with which the Marshal would act.
But the new Cabinet can only be provisional;
anything like lively constitutional exercise
will be suicidal. The difficulty Of establishing
such amaorty as the one before which Theirs fell and
NJ de Brogle has fallen increases with each failure,
and presents itself more and more evidently insur-
mountable the question of constituting something
presses closer and closer for a solution. The only
solution and that again provisional, is dissolution.
The vote of Saturday, which, if it was surprise,
was Of legitimate termination and growth, only
adds another to the proofs of the constitutional I'M
potence of the Sovereign Assembly effectively to
put in practice its theory OF constituent right.
solution in the shape of a coup dedt struck by the
Marshal is among things conceivable indeed, but
not probable He is not dishonest, bold, unintelli-
gent unpatriotic enough, to risk" the Septennat
against anarchy in that way.
But the embarrassments which the Presidents au-
thorized Cabinetmaker. NJ. de Goulard has met with
in his constant efforts for these last three days to find
the materials for Ministry that will not stick firmly
by each other but much temporarily hold togeth-
err lie any political course which that Ministry
should undertake to follow. In fact the Ministers
will be in the same blind alley as their predecessors
with this difference that they start as 1t were hard
by the dead-wall that closes the blind alley which
statesman Theirs from distance hoped was thor
oughfare, and which political engineer NJ. de Brog
lie cuuninglv aimed to open for a royal entry.
The new Cabinet must either have or not have
programme If some new constitutional scheme is
not devised the programme must be q modification
of that of the late defeated Cabinet or mOdifica-
ton of the preceding scheme of the precedngly
defeated Cabinet. Passing by the preliminary con-
dtion that it is assented to by the President. sup
pose is presented for approval to an assembly OF
over 700 gentlemen, the elementary composition
of which will be partially apparent by the follow
Q. Orleans Royal Right; g. Royal Right Center; 4.
Republican Left Center; 5. Moderate Repub-
lean Left 6. Immoderate Republican Left.
Each of these divisions has skirmishng extrem-
ists partisan independents, timid, skeptical, and
calculating walters on providence This company
is composed mostly of unquestionably honest and
honorable men, but hardly one Frenchman of them
can regard other than mad paradox the sound
dicta of an able English historian and of an acute
English critic THE best reasoned is not always
the most reasonable conclusion ;" and Strict lOgi
clans are licensed visOnaries." How out of such
company could the Ministry expect to obtain
sanction by decent majority Of any more
or less constituent programme !-even programme
for constituting the Septennat. Impersonal. per-
sonal Monarchical in tendency Republican in tend
encyhe Septennat cannot be all that at once. With
the best good will in the world, it cannot satisfy
all the world. The Septennat exists, and the man
at the head of this formless body polito keeps his
head as Its head. Perhaps tho nearest to clearly
perceptble result of the vote of Saturday and the
consequent prolonged ministerial crisis, is confirm
ing of MacMahon's otherwise underlined, and as yet
undefinable Septennat. Whether now he and it, or
he or IT, can last TIL 1889, is another and complex
question.
Meantime and for the second time within
twelyemonth, France quietly bears, ministerial
crisis what would once have been the prologue. If
not first act of a revolutionary drama, not only
without attempt at revolution (which for the
moment cannot be executed, but without the
serious desire of any party to appeal from argument
and weary waiting to conclusions by armed violence
from the street or from the Government. For the
transaction Of ordinary legislative business relating
to home affairs aud for decency of bearing in the
bitterly trying relations OF foreign affairs
the Versailles Assembly can bear comparison
with most extant parliamentary assemblies
aud honorably represents the national dig
nifty. That effervescence Of hostility, expressed in
witty epigram and not so witty but quite human
rhetorical buster about "Rerdncbe which once so
much irrtated the North Germans. who seem to
have lost their old philosophical temperament and
geniality in the unucky ganings of their last war.
has mainly subsidized. The fountain is not dry for
that. Its waters of bitterness are fatally replen-
ished from Asace and Lorraine. which seem like to
prove expensive acquisitions for their conquerors.
The main occupation Of the French people now Is
to rebuild their business and fortunes, and if you
like put themselves as a nation to have, what poor
folks never do have helpful friends in possible case
of need. They will submit, If they cannot help it,
to advisory hints aud other disagreeable advice I'm
posed on them in diplomatic and other ways from
the Rhine. No possible discussions in the En-
glish Parliament started in the interest OF the En-
glish lnternationae by Lord John Russell of all men
possible more on less inaccurate reports IN En-
glish continental newspapers of conversations be-
tween the King of Italy and Prince Bismarck, will
move them from their proper business. 1t is not
their fault exactly that their late fellowcitizens
do not fondly take to their place as subjects OF
Emperor William. 1t is not their fault if what Gen.
Moltke and his fellow Prussan military aud civilian
| statesmen say be true.
No one really cares much to know whether or not
the Count de Chambord really IA in or about Yer
sailles. We are much more interested in knowing