New-York tribune., 1874-08-04
VOL. XXXlV.....No ,4o2
FRENCH POLITICS.
rp,Ncp 1rNnER THE SEPTENNATE.

Am EXTENDED TO TIE CAhlicio'
IrRou THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE noNh,I
p.n,s Jplv 22.-On the 9th of this month
A., Is,dant cent a message to the Assembly exhOitihg
,ho with somew hat lmperious urgency 10 hasteh i
e1ln,ent OF their long neglected promise 10 give MS
overnmeut some sort OF uton Ihe next uay he
sent ms Minister Fourtou. to inform their Comm'eeo Oh
~ n, such constituent points as he deemed Il essen
,,o % insist upon Bear in mind that this Committee
hran its deliberations last November and that 1t was
instructed by resolution passed in the Assembly three
weeks ago 10 take the Casimr Perier propositions or
the pass Of its labors the organization ana trans
mission OF the national authority" with that jealous
respeet for the Assembly Of which Its conservative
members 90 often make parade the Conservative ma
,or,tv of the Commission rejected the Casimir-Perer
base and afer the hearing OF NJ Fourtou, decided on
constitutional scheme IN which no provision is maze
for the transmission of the public powers,' ana OF
which the constitute the personal septennate
with MacMahon for dctatoral chief for seven years.
If ne lives so and to reign so long, Inc report
embodying the rejection of the CasimirPerier PROPOSE
ton and the desire OF personal sepennate (which from
the the reporter will be known as the NentaVon
scheme) was read to evidently uusympathetic house
on the 18TH aud the goth fixed for the day OF its dis
cusson Last Monday, then. finally to be the great
field day big with noise and verbal battle. If not with
The fate Of the Republic and with such atmosphere
Thermometer above 800 Fahrenheit on Sunday Mt mid
night. But there is nothing certain but unceritude
On Monday the lately urgent government requested an
adjournment till Thursday tomorrow The pretext for
this request tue ministerial crisis but momentariy
passed through.
How, If at all, momentous may be the provisional
modification OF the Cabinet resulting from that transit
tory crisis is a strangely mixed question, ~ Their
answers TO which c0njecturng wiseacres hereaD0ut ds
play less than their usual confidence. Tne prevailing
sense Of begins to dull their lively lnsgns-
tons Awaiting the solution which 10 morrow is quite
likely noO bring we are fallen into sort OF doing
anxiety, an uneasy calm.
The story OF the crisis so far known, briefly this
Macne late Minister of Finance, after a long losing
fight, seeing his last plan for balancing the Oudgo'
rejected by great majority IN the House. insisted on
giving his resignation last week. which was accepted
He was the confessed representative Of Bonaparsn in
tie Cabinet little later, FOurou, Minister OF the In
terror insisted on resigniug For domestic politics his
Office is more important than any other IN the Cabinet
In his exercise Of he continued the repressye work OF
his predecessor De Broge who had done the drtest OF
IL under delicate preeDseS, with ruder II not more
eTectual ngor, and rather appearance OF
honesty That Is what drove him from his place
There we're several other for his leaving, the
three most visible Of which are as follows: He de-
manded that a B0uaplrtiSt should be taken INTO the
place that Magne had vacated that on occasion OF
VenavOns report the President should 10 advance ana
by message repel the CasimirP PGrer proposition; that
the Prefect OF Police who. having pushed the nVesu-
cations he was ordered 10 institute into Illegal Bona
partist intrigus to of criminal prosecution,
insisting that law should have its should be dis
missed from Office. An these demands were in Cabinet
Council resisted and fualiy rejected. The conducting
chief Of the resistance Is the Duke Decazes. The Duke
Decazes Minister OF Foreign Affairs, and OEleanst,
30 far as any is Orleauist to-day He is oreanist
by all hIs autccedents.
NJ. FourtOu is a comparatively young man ana neo
from binding "antecedents" He once Minister
under Thiers aud has always been, up to last Friday
though at first In another department Minister under
ofa nd Tiu
search of fortune his dwelling has been the frontiers
of the mOuarchca groups Since his retirement the
other day from the Ministerial bench he has pitched
his tent the borders OF the Right Center Pronounced
InpeTias he is not though he worked for Imperial
lists who liked him better than they liked d. BrOgle,
though he occasionally seemed TO impartaly per
secue them. Item, likes De BrOCHe-2ro5-
ably not honest MacMahon himself, who IN moment
OF embarrass sment asked that ambicexrOus gentleman
70 coobe him up cabinet The tsiSnhcance, If there
be any, in Four,ous departure from the Presidents
Council within less than ten days of his acting the
Presidents authorized mOuthpicoe TO the Committee OF
Thirty lies in the fact that while he Minister he
PersonalSeptennarchist upplren;ly with tue
honest Marshaps APPROVAL aud ceases to be Minister.
remaining that. Ia other words, il migat seem as
though the honesty OF the Marshal waS grown some
what tired OF that queer, Flushing, but badly false
policy the Truce OF Parties policy of Truce which
Its aDest advocate. d. Broge, in an excess of un-
PLAIN speaking confessed and by all his acts
asserted. means division OF the French
nation into two parts-;he one c1nglomerated OF all
MonaTchicsl parties each awaiting ts chance break
out triumphant tue other, coalizcd by common
bond Of fear bate against the other part Of the
nation truce Uf parties, the elementary principle OF
which II moral civil truce o parties the working
principle Of which-so the chief of the
tive, the doelle creature Of the sovereign National
Assembly taught believe-oonsisls his selecting
his Ministers from the various Monarchical minority
parties to the strict exclusion Of all branches OF the
Republican majority Of that msrepre entive convection
word about the Ministers if they keep in place
from tin the time this letter you may Doe
sby retain mildly relaxed interest for such of your
castaway seacOaSted and inland watering placed sub
Bcrbers are otherwise out Of dull reading. Matthew
BOdet who takes the place vacated by Magne offers
Likelihood, from previous tastes, studies and native
intelligence, TO be not az all unworthy successor OF
that rather capable Finance Minister. A Government
know Of might glad get the services OF either By
the way, JOurde. the manager o. the finances of the
Commune. rs at liberty. He has-as his remarkable
management proved 70 any OF the who will
give themselves the trouble OF trying what the
Commune was-quite exceptional intellectual ability
and alas quite exceptional honesty.l Bodet has
been, at times mildly 2, rsusded conditional Republi.
can. Gen. Chaoaud Laours. the new Minister OF the
Interior, is an old. honest military man, eminently
and personally Orieanstc anteoedeOts has hh erto
not acted prominently with any party. Neither
be his colleague the heart of them he Re-
publicans proper cordial acceptors of the Casnir
P6rer or aBy other anbguou assertion OF the Renub
lc But they both distinctly Bonapartiss: for
the moment The BoDapartst element is for the arst
time eliminated from the Presidential Cabinet and
therefore you conclude that the chance of a colnpl
entary in favor of the Republic after
ia agad Vard nty On fhe