The New York herald., 1874-07-01


zen then In this prospect all Is
DARKNESS AND ENTANGLEAENr.
Parties are at dead lock, not OF the sep
arate factions being sufficiently strong TO con-
statute q majority by itself, and yet the Marshal
has no power to dissolve the Assembly. AS for the
Ministers, they are respectable nonentlties WELD
fng no personal influence. The other day tnev
were defeated on the important question OF the
Municipal Suffrage bill They wished to raise the
Rge OF electoral Franchise from n TO %, bur the
Clause was rejected by eleven r. the similar
clause la the Parliamentary suffrage Dill be re-
sected zoo. the attempt TO mutiate universal
suffrage will have iaied, and the Con-
Bervatives will stand face TO face with the
certainty OF seeing the country return an
overwhelming republican majority as soon
Ss 1t s appealed to. Nor can this appeal be de-
saYed for ever The conservatives have themselves
limited the duration oil this Assembly to the time
when the constitutional laws shall have been
voted and these laws are in course OF debate now.
Jt is not improbable that as the sitttnGs OF the
Councils General commence in July. the Marshal
will suggest q prorogauoD at the end OF this
mG.lth, and the ssembly would then take three
months holiday This would postpone the grand
settling day TIL October; but see chance Of Its
being deferred beyond that time; and even this
seems long a period to walt that l ques-
ton whether tue Left and Left Centre
will not make desperate effort OBJ
tain settlement at once. The motion
which the Left Centre have lodged to-day
is an effort in this direction, and the air is so full
Of empower. par les are so distracted divided
Bnd wayward that never know IN the morning
whether an explosion win not have occurred be-
fore nigntIan. All we can safely prognostcate for
the moment is that the next hostile vote OF the
Assembly will bring General de Cssey's Cabinet
tumbltng down like tue Duke de Broglies; and in
such contingency it is highly probable that Mar
snal MacMahon would resign in dudgeon. He is
SAID TO be angry and tired already.
THE POLITICAL EXPLOSION IMMINENT
To all seeming then, it may be concluded That
events IN France are fast hurrying towards
diss0iunon OF the Versailles Parliament or
coup GGtGt Marshal MacManons pres
fige Is weakened and his Ministers are not re-
spected Tie IL a brave and honest man himself
but he wants resolution and decision OF character
and ne is badly ADVISED. We may expect lun In
The storm for ten day or so-that is TO say until
ahe Electoral bill comes up :or debate. The most
important event thai has recently happened is the
defeat or the conservatives on the clause for dis
franchisinR electors under TWENTY-FIVE. TINS oe.
Cured IN the debate upon the Municipal bill: and
now. II the vote be renewed on the Parliamentary
Franchise bin, the last hopes oi tue conservatives
VIII be gone, and 1t is impossible 10 see
how De Clssey's Cabinet can remain N ONCE
dhe suspension Of the principal B0napartlst and
radical newspapers by the Home Minister De
fourton, as stated below, viii guarantee few
days quiet, for these three journals were
driving the pubic to evaporation and the
femper Of the lower class republicans has
been recently very wicked and omnous. NJ.
Ernest Picard, republican Home Minister In the
Thiers Cabinet moved vote of censure against
the present Home Minister yesterday, on the
ground that he han allowed a republican Deputy
10 be srrested by the police in the cam betta-
Bonapartist braws AZ the s.. Lazare station, but
the question was not considered important
enough Tor a Parliamentary reDuke, and govern
ment had q majority Of biiy.one In short the
French are in the position OF people who are
netting eacu other win nreballs in gunpowder
magazine. The explosion must occur sooner or
ater II IL ouly question Of time.
GAMBETTA AND THE BoNAPARTIsTs.
The excitement on the subject OF the Insult
which Gambetta hurled az the Bonapartists con
,uuea so Intense that government has suspended
three OF the most virulent imperiahst newspa-
pers-namely, the Fovs, edited by NJ. Pau de Cas-
sagnac. aud the most able Of the papers whlch