The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-05-19

of France. Elected to release France from
the invader, the Assembly used the supreme
popularity of NJ Theirs to achieve that work,
and then destroyed him, in the hope that
MacMahon would protect order" long enough
to permit it to summon king and consolidate
the monarchy. Marshal MacMahon has
shown no more desire to form o monarchy
than M. Theirs did. He has used the conserva-
tive elements of the Legislature to strengthen
himself in his seven years tenure of power. So
long as there was hope of using the brave
and simple soldier as stepping stone to
Bourbon or Orleans or Bonaparte the fol-
lowers of these dynasties supported him, and as
they command the Assembly, so long as they
coalesced they could sustain his government
But the coalition to overthrow Theirs and to
strangle the Republic was one thing; to sup
port MacMahon another. We have never
believed they would sustain the Marshal one
moment longer than he was necessary for their
purpose For some time we have noted those
symptoms Of restlessness which always precede
crisis in France. The Count de Chambord
has been uneasily fitting from place to
place, as if meaning to carry out the
threat of last fall and ride into Paris
on q real horse as a real King. The
Orleans Princes have shown unusual activity
in their movements The Bonapartists have
been holding fstes in honor Of all the Ma
poleons living and Dead and the leaders of the
party have been flooding France with their
manifestoes. The principal manifesto is
photograph Of the Prince looking like q fierce
warrior, and not slender young cadet, hold
ing flag in his hand saying, Everything
for the people"
| All these signs indicated storm, and the
storm has come The Due de Broglie has been
an unfortunate Minister, generally awkward
and rarely wise. He has leased all parties
and commanded the support Of none. The
Assembly has tolerated him simply because he
was neither Theirs nor Gambetta. Recently
he proposed law to create a second chamber
The republicans opposed this on principle
believing, as the French radicals do, that two
chambers are not republican. The legitimists
opposed it because they knew that
any chamber created by the Duo de
Broglie would never recall the Bour-
bons. The Bonapartists were unfriendly
for reasons Of the same nature. As conse-
quence, upon this issue the Cabinet fell The
majority which destroyed it was large one;
and, ct the same time, many of those who
sustained the Ministry had no real sympathy
with its purposes. We are told that man
date came from Frohsdorf for oil who loved
their King, to combine and make any stable
government impossible. A similar mandate
no doubt came from Chiselhurst to those
who followed the star of Napoleon. NJ
Theirs took no active part in the
strife, but he was too much Of
Frenchman to decline his revenge, and voted
with the coalition. Since the vote, the Mar
shall has been sorely taxed to find Ministry
that would command majority in the Assem-
bly, and at the same time support the Mar
shalate and no more cruel task was ever SUBJ
mitted to ruler. The Assembly will never
honestly support o Marshalate, and, with
Bonapartists, Bourbons and republicans re-
solved upon policy of war, no Ministry can
be found that will live for more than season.
The whole situation is exceedingly interest
ing. There are but two men in the Assembly
who represent ideas, NJ. Theirs and NJ. Gam
BETA 1t may be said that these men repre-
sent two forms of the same idea. They be-
lieve that the dissolution of the Assembly and
an appeal to France would result in the cleo
ton of republican Legislature. Marshal Mac
Mahon, no doubt, hopes that the result would
be the confirmation of his powers But un-
fortunately the confirmation of MacMahon's
term for seven years means nothing definite
1t is only postponement. The seven years pass
and what then? MacMahon goes out of the
Presidency and the government is still in
commissions, one spasm succeeding another
and no peace or comfort, and the battle to
be fought over. In the meantime the GER
tainty that the issue must come would make
these seven years full of intrigue and unrest,
so that the Marshal, to win the con-
hdence of France, must give his Septennate
a definite meaning. He must solve
and settle the problem, SO far as any
such problem can be solved in France. So
tar as personal ambition is concerned-and
this is consideration that cannot be dis
missed in dealing with French Marshal
there is no honor higher than the Presidency.
The Bonapartists have given him all that an
empire can bestow, for Napoleon made him
Marshal and Duke. The Count de Chambord
would no doubt make him Prince, and perhaps
Constable OF France, the first subject in
the Kingdom. This is favorite Bourbon
bribe for our readers will remember that it
was offered to Napoleon by Louis XVIII after
Marengo, if he would only restore to France
her paternal King. But MacMahon must see
that any honor of this kind, no matter how
exalted, would rest upon an uncertain tenure.
Anv restoration in France must only be for q