New-York tribune., 1874-01-01

hour before its composition was fixed last Thursday
evening remains essentially what 1t was The Duke
Deca1es is q stronger man than the Dnke de Brogle,
whose place he takes in the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs: and the latter is q far aber moro cunning
man than Beu6. whose place he takes at the far
moro important Ministry Of the Interior. retain
ing the old title OF VcePresident of the Cabi-
net Council, but with an influence per-
haps to be diminished. What the actual spirit and
purpose of the Cabinet are might be guessed twcre
there any doubt from the municipal bill already
proposed by de Brogie. That its provisions are IN
the most direct contradiction to the decentrazing
doctrine and liberal ideas, Of which de Brogle was
q foremost, jealous advocate, is detail. In the
main, il is plagiarism in some grave respects 1t If
worse than the Imperial laws for ruling and
controlling against the legally-expressed will OF
citizens the Communes of all France. Ii subjects
the appointment of Mayors and the conduct OF the
departmental police TO the strctest arbitrary con-
troll of the Central Government Ii is proposed as
temporary arrangement, awaiting further legisla-
tion which is Characteristic II is measure OF dis
trust, defiance of the Democracy
A law against the press will be the next prin-
cipal object of any law the press will be legally
to place upon the press, in all the S3 departments,
the restrictions existing in the 80 departments
which are in exceptional stage OF siege The press
is the natural enemy" of all French Governments.
Within my experience of more than twenty wears
it was never free here in Paris, except from Sept
4. 1870. to January of the following year.
The latest reports of the proceedings of the National
Assembly at Versailles reach us here in provincial
Paris by carrier pigeons. Versailles is but Is miles
away but the obstacles put in the way of telegraph
ing from there TO Paris is such that reporter on
horseback let alone in a ralcar, can bring fresher
news to the BoUleyards than if he sent them by I'M
peded telegraph. This phenomenon Is more strictly
connected than some greedy Boulevard newsmOngers
imagine with the uprising of the social stratum.
An entertaining, uncommonly interesting book
lies before me. The title of it is La Verite sur
ressai de Restauration MoDarchique" 1t is not the
whole truth but 1t is considerable help toward
arriving at the truth of that curious monarchcal
intrigue which the anonymous author of this little
book gives us. That he is authorized, do not say
by the OIeanist Princes, but do say by the best OF
those confdants Of those Princes, is evident III 1t
hits it wins for them and him. If it misses, he Is
paid, and they have but to repudiate him.
The book is written with notable cleverness
from the Orleanist point of view of
the bafed scheme of Fusion. 1t gives an inteligi-
bic. connected story of the Fusion intrigue for the
three months-not adding much to what we already
know but confirming, SO far an anonymous
writer can confirm. rumors and suspicious into
authoritative assertions There are two principal
points which this Orleanist inspired historian of the
Fusion aims to make. The Count de Chambord,
after the 5th August had nothing but personal sacr
fees to make in order to become the acclaimed
monarch of France. The Orleanist princes frankly
made their personal sacrifice to him. II his seeming
Welding had been a real yielding, nothing was more
certain than that any day between mid August and
September the Assembly might have been con-
vened and the King chosen by a saving majority.
But the Count de Chambord only half acted,
allowing semi-authorized spokesmen to speak for
him as long as their underlined speak
ing seemed profitable to his personal cause,
and repudiated all their talk at the mo
ment when his and the cause of
France, left in the managing hands of the Or
leanists, might almost surely have been secured.
The moral of this quite clever UI,oan~t version of
the history of the as yet unsuccessful rOyalist
intrigue is worth attention. II is simply this: Henry
" has voluntarily made and pronounced himself
impossible. What remains then, in the way OF
hereditary monarchcal principle and serviceable
prince but the Count de Paris 7 ". H. ii.