New-York tribune., 1874-07-31

Is oy lar tnc most largely circulated OF all french
newspapers. The common characters of that not
clean sheet You know some wit, some clever report
ing remarkable for smartness than accuracy of
statement, abundance of gossipy scandal, with but
two or three columns reserved for serious poll
tics and hgh-toned morality. The political column
has lately been written by a Mr.. Boucheron. a re-
tired cavalry officer, who, changing his sword for
the pen, took the hlgh-soundng nom de plume of
Saint Genest an eminently non-vulgar name that
smells of the Crusades and the fine flavor of ancient
noblesse. The managing editor of the Figaro the
notorious Nilemessant Indifferent writer himself,
has very remarkable talents utterly unincumbered
by clean napkins, for making salable newspaper,
for catching the prevalent low tone of public senti
ment, whatever it may be- and playngin accord with
It, SO he engaged in the time contributors to his
paper Rochefort, Vermesch, Paschal Grousset, when
their pattern of literary goods the mode boast
fully parading their brilliant qualities as his merits.
Later he hired other furnshery TO dye them all
black. As a sort of barometer of Paris high vulgar
bourgeois opinion, the Figaro has It's serious
Importance in this respect it is like, with
respectable differences all in favor of its great
English cotemporary, The London Times, whose
pardon l beg for the comparison. Now,
VI. Villemessant and the Figaro, his and its pO-
litical principles, far as they have any, are at
leisure hours Legtimist He has been favored
with personal interviews by Henri v, of which he
has given prolengthy printed accounts telling how
Henry said of and to him " that good VIemessantw
and how thereupon he mumbled Henrys royal hand
and was dissoute in tears. When last year the
fusion dupery seemed to promise success, his paper
was ardenty fusonO- -rOyast. To shorten long
story, the royast tone of the paper sank with the
sinking chances of a royal restoratOn ii was grown
strongly MacMahonian before the recent military
review, and occasion of that aud of the
address 10 the army, Saint Genest pretty
plainly wrote the Marshal above the As
sembly and advised coup d6tdt. While this kind
of writing was getting printed in the MacMahonian
Figaro and freely sold in the Boulevard kiosks. the
Union was suspended for publishing the last mani
festo of the Roy. One or two attempts, meantime,
at QuerulOus Interpolation by irritated Republican
and Legtimis; deputies shifted away in quite
topiofy manner by the intcrpeated Minister of the
Interior. But in an article last Saturday, bold ex-
cavalry man. Saint Genest, rejoicing in long impu-
nity charged down on the Assembly, treating
that impotent company with excessive contempt.
How swiftly any words remotely approaching to
such disrespect of the Assembly bring harm to their
authors when printed in a however moderate
Republican juurna is illustrated in the exemplary
ease OF the Petite GbOade which is punished for an
nouncing as a questionable, not an assured fact,
that the Ministry was defeated on Wednesday by
about $50 voices That Ministers were defeated that
day their resignation proves; that they were de
feated by 366 voices the official record proves.
Note now the suddenly occasional why and how
above all the hurried, scared occasional manner how
Ministers of an assumedly great nation, them
selves members of the maltreated Assembly of whose
dignity" at leisure hours they are pettishly
Jealous swiftly discovered and punished FigdrO'S
hitherto encouraged outlines. The subjoined ac-
count of the process is taken from the truthful
Jouradl des D6bdts.
NJ de FOurou Unterior who attending the sitting
of the Committee of Initiative the first 10 be in
formed the irritation caused in various parliamentary
groups by NJ saintGenest's article in the Ftgdro TO
extent, indeed, that at o'clock nothing else
was talked about. The Ministers were at once fore
warned that several dcmanis OF Interpolation were
about 10 be addressed 10 the Government concerning its
toeratIon accorded to the Fg1ros articles. Various
orders OF the day handed about, which had
been drawn up by the Extreme Right ami the terms
" which, very severe for the Government,
were submitted for the examination of chief
uerSOnagcs of the three groups OF the Lett'
on the other hand a certain number OF Dep
ulies belonging 10 the Right Center loudly complained
of the article question: and encouraged the members
Of the Cabinet to prevent by some measure, the inter
pellatiJn announced. Council Of Ministers was at
once bed in one of the Committeerooms OF the Assem-
bv and the suspension of the Journal decided o. Inc
Ministers a erward went to the Presidency whero an
other council was held presided by Marshal de
Macahon Tue stOppaee of the Figure was finally con
6rmed and the Governor Of Paris was Immediately in
formed OF that resolution ana requested 10 pun IL in'o
execution without delay.
Bonapartists don't like the first two volumes Of
the Count vi Paris's history Of our civil war, for
pair Of reasons Although II is not work OF excel
ling b1ilhance OF prOfundty it puts him as siyllSt
and philosophical historian, as high rank to
sav the worst of it, as the rather heavy collaborating
author of the Ve de- CGar and then it presents the
broad truthful view of our which their favor
ite Cesar No H. could not see, and so they make
rather heavy fun of the Counts literary style by way
| of revenge and cheap consolation. LY4S -Gsapbor-
ssts like IL as H. with better show OF reason Such
omen liberalism, such ready acceptance-even with
laudati,m here and thereof republican institutions,
though as far off as in America. somewhat painfully
irritates these antique gentlemen and ther ola Sus
picions of the younger branch Here this pestllent
book and the manifesto of our Roy get published
almost simultaneously, only this book Is published
by the Jew Michel Levy, and Is not suppressed,
while our Kings gracious address TO his people
| has temporarily smashed the respectable gazette
in which il first got to print Really now Is
! this young Orleanist person. with his repnbli-
cansh history Of republican for freedom, to be
still REGARDED as member i'll good standing of " The
House of France" which. our Roy assured us last
week, lis sincerely Loyalty, recOnciled" W, H. H.
THE REPUBLIC OF SPAIN.
THE cARI1srs CLAIM GREAT VICTORY OVER THE
RrpuuIcAys NEAR THE FRENCH FRONTIER -