New-York tribune., 1875-11-02
PRICE FOUR CENTS.
FRENCH POLITICS.


rEPUBIICAN GAINS.
rRoN The REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF TIE Tribunal
PARIS, oct 13-Therc was an election held lass
Sunday i'm the fifth arrondissement To 'iIl vacancy
in the Paris Municipal Council. This ~ far away
from bugaboo Beleville and revolutionary Faubourg
ST. Antoine II Is the quarter Of the sorbonne not
wicked workngmen's quarter Of Paris. The whole
number Of registered electors is 6,23s, many OF
whom are still absent at this season. the whole
number of votes cast was 3233, OF which 2,4To
were for Engehard, who presented himself on
thoroughly radical platform, in which was a very
broad and notable ant-clerica plank. Lonis Blanc,
who pronounced the great speech on the eve OF the
election set forward is anti-ccricsl meaning with
great atprominence and his usual eloquenee. Although
the contest was for city Office the notorious char
actcr and emphasized programme Of the successful
candidate" irreconcable and antclcricai the
nearly unanimous support he received trc'n all Re-
prbcans, together with other features OF the
election, lend it important general significance. IL
goes 10 show that the rupture between the a.
called "irreconcilables Of the LDnis Blame school
and ts great body of Republicans is not likely 10
prevent them from practically acting together I'LL
after the general elections in fact reaction3ry
Minister Buffet doing rather more to heal the rnp
ture than the late speeches in the Sonth OF conciia
tory Jules Simon or the moderate tone OF shrcwd
spirit of largely prudent policy 10 make concessions
10 confirmed radicals as 10 timorOns or exaehBg
converts.
In the maneuveIing and skirmishing going On prc
lmnary to the opening Of the Winter campaign, and
of the last session of the Versailles Assembly next
month"; il is already easy TO that the divisions
among royalists are more rreconcilabe than the dis
sen,ions among the Republican groups. The bitter
ness between Orleansts and Legltmis,s IL grown to
excess. Fooled by their own incapacfy IN their as
pra,ions to govern France. they are now consoIlng
themselves for their common and several disasters by
each charging both on tie other. The fntuIe part
ton of Lcgitimists, the Count Of Cbambord 10
leave FrohsdCrf for heaven tomorrow, is already
pretty well foreshedowod in the recent speeches and
writings of some Of the most eminent of them. The
most sensible, bOdcst, and most angry OF them
would divide about equally between the Republic
and Imperialism; of the remainder the more timd
would he inclined, under protest 10 let themselves
be supported by the Fourth N8poleor. few of the
blue blood and fantastic temperament wonld hold,
from religious sentiment and the poiHt of hsnor to
tie ghost of Henry v and his white banner IN tie
sky Not one in ten would recognize the Count of
Paris as his legitimate head. The proportion would
be less even than Of Napoeonists who would IN ease
of the Chi,elhurst lads DEATH hail Prince Jerome
Napoleon "
The Republic is resitluary egatec Of all the French
morbund monarchical estates. Meantime its prop
er,y and prosperity in the country is steadily ii-
creasing by natural growth Of common sense and
happy national experience - this growth being
curougiy forwarded By the pruning processes OF
Minister Buffet and his rcacionary fellow w-cultiva-
tors.
II is almost astonishing that this sort of directing
class gentlemen cannot discover, what il is almost
curious Republicans do not see, that they are pro-
noting the work desired by Theirs, with the
advantage OF not imposing the latter any claim
for future wages or gratitude. Moderate itepubli-
cans and liberal university men in the Ministry
quarter voted last Sunday for NJ EDgelbard, not so
much for love Of his uraradicalism IN politics and
religion as by way OF protest against VI. Bullets
more and more pronouncedly ant-Repubbcan spirit
i'm the administration of his Ministry of the Interior
and against the clerical spirit and tendency in prac
tice of the so-caled Free University law.
Minister Buffet is q Te-cdition, emendcd somewhat
of verbal subtleties and trckeries Of his predeces-
sor, NJ dc Broglic. A something frankcr-spoken and
paincr-minded man, he is in fair reactionary
way Of disputing that late Academcal Minister'S
hitherto unauestoned title Of being tho inconl-
mensurably most Unpopular man in France Both
of them pride themselves rs conservatives, and par
liamcntary dOctrinaires. Both e2emphfy their par
liamcntary doctrines by strenuously attempting to
govern against the majority Of the parliamentary
Assembly, and resisting in all ways an appeal to tho
country. De Brogle intrigued and maneuyeTed his
sometime laudated friend Theirs out Of power and
himself in, on the ground that Thiers was lending
lis influence toilet France become legally Republic.
I'm less than two years from this triumph of his oger
~ Theirs and the aspirations OF Republicans, Thiers
and Gambetla, thanks 80 his royalis efforts, shook
hands and the Republic was constitGtcd-on paper
and ne the Academcal Duke has lately verbally ae-
cepted it and verbally semi-apoogized in hs subtle
STYLE for having objected to il, and in a vailed
demagogc speech appealed to the sIiliages of the
vulgar TO elect him q member of ifs Senate. To be
brief mean to say that Monarchical de Broge did
better for the reputation of old Republican Tbicrs,
and for bringing the logazing of the republican
form of government, than any one Republican. Ia
ike manner did Alexander H. Stephens Of Georgia,
in the critical moment of our late civil war; do more
for the Union and anti Slavery common cause, than
the old abOiionists could do at the time He Iustl-
fled Wendell Phillips. Bntet IN fact, II continuing,
in his backhanded way. the god work of his prete-
cessor and therefore, an outside observer is sorely
tempted to mink, is the best Minister for the Re-
public thar could be- desired.
Two weeks ago amid the clear sky of ibc tranquil
parliamentary vacation period, we were suddenly
menaced with the storm Of ministerial crisis. The
occasion was that Minister Buffet of the French Re-
public had had published in the journal U6;ciei, of
which he is eX-ocio The responsible editor not only
discourse Of his own. ;he republican sentiments III
whichuniversally offended all sincere constitution
alsts. but Likewise the dlsconrses OF ihe Dahe de
Broge and other orators OF his type; and yet for
bade the publication in that official organ of govern
ment Of an honest republican speech spoken by
Leon saw q member of the Cabinet, constantly
paraded as Homogeneous, OF which he, Buffet, Ia
chief thanks to wordy. eGnivOcal compromise.
imposed by the authoritative pressure of President
Macllahon. who is getting TO be polite and sbrewd
in politics Says speech appeared in the official jour
nal and the crisis temporarily tidc,l over. Ii
Mil come on again with Che meeting of the Assem-
b,v next month nj least, il il the ardent wish of
many not To say most sincere Republicans, to bring
the ones don of Bullets continued premiership TO
no 1riN him fran h.