New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-04-26
FRENCH POLITICS.
PROSPECTS OF THE REPUBLIC


stirring time in politics. but there are abundant
signs OF movement, SOME Of which worthy Of
remark. To Prime Minister Bullets declaration Of
lew weeks ago that naturally caused 80 much dis
content among the groups of the Left has follOweda
public speech Of Minister WALTON in which the Re-
publican note Ia moro distinctly accented and Min
lister Dufaure has issued circular in which the
Constitution he helped to make il treated with EN-
phatic respect There are two editions OF this last.
the difference between which il curiously indicative
OF the cooperative system on which the homogeneous
Cabinet conducts it's affairs. The first Of tho edi
tions is translation published in The London Times
a day before the appearance Of the original in the
Journal Oflicl 1t was again translated and then
printed with impmity by the Paris papers, which
would have been suspended hal they been guilty Of
the enterprise OF the London journal This is n bv
no means solitary instance of the preference Of
tho foreign to the native press given bv French
Minister'S Preference IL must be; fT no one
who knows anything Of the Organization and dis
cpline Of the ministerial departments here, sup
pose that the Duke de Broglie or VI. Dufaure conld
not effectively forbid the Issue of early copies of I'M
portant documents If lie would. still less that he
could not convey as early u copy to the DEFEATS as
TO The Times.
But that is not the curious point now in question.
The circular addressed to the prosecuting attorneys
of the Republic especially bore on the condi-
ton of the press i'll France. In The TnesS edition OF
it there is sonea hat important passage respecting
the suspensions, suppressons, aud prohibitions OF
street SALE hitherto inflicted on journals by mere
administrative order, closing with this
request to the officials, 10 whom the
Minister Of Justice addresses his circular: " desire
that you inform me Of them without expressing your
opinion Of their proprety." In the official edition,
Published in the Journal Ocel this passage is omit
II - :,
first for perusal by the Attorney Generals and
their suborinates in each department, and then for
tho general publics reading is certain. But all that
administrativey concerns the press depends ia the
first instance, not from the Minister Of Justice but
from the Department of the Interior, which is
Bullets department. That between the fair
drawn copy ready for print TOR os it
may rather have been, the first proof sheet,
now coming under the eye of the Minister
of the Interior, Ia whose department also belongs
the responsible editing of the official Journal and the
clean proof, there WAS a wrestling between n. Dli-
faure and II. Buffet ending in the throwing out OF
this paragraph, is evident enough There is 10 open
quarrel yet. The incident is of many indica-
tiOns Of simmerng discOrl in the homogeneous min
istry. NJ. Buffet il the ADLER politician. aud doubt
less TO him honest cMahon gives the larger part OF
bis cars. NJ Dufaure is the ADLER dalcctcian and
does not to die long rs he sees any one else
alive. Though detesting advanced Republicans per
haps even more heartily than ". Buffet, he is 4 Re-
publican of very straight sect, indeed, but still Re
publican For the present and in any difference with
his rival colleagues he s sure OF the support OF all
advanced Republicans, OF the larger part OF any ma
joity this ministry rest on, AZ against NJ Bnhet
The King at Frohsdorf has issued decree letting
his legcs know that they may properly take part In
the coming elections for Senators in the coming Sen
ste II does not clearly appear whether this per1ps-
sion suffers them to take part as electors or ehgibles
in that election Of that portion of the future Senate
which is to be chosen by the present Assembly.
The text Of the Count do Chambords last
letter is not vet vOuchsafed to the vulgar public.
Tn any case il is ascertained that Legitimists are
authorized by their King in parbas to take part at
least in the election Of departmental Senators. But
this is surely an acceptance OF the Senate as fact
accomplished; and it means, il royal words mean
anything, recognition by binding implications of
that Constitution SO lately and ardeutly resisted
and always abboprcd by Ieeitinists To admit the
lawful existence Of the Senate il ut least to accept
not TO say assent to, the survival NJ the Republic
beyond the life of the present Assembly. This IL
patent breaking OF the continuity Of rule by divine
right.
La Pres~ in the old days, when Girardin was its
chief proprietor and editor, was one OF the abest
and most influential Of Paris daily papers. 1t has
been after many changes for the worse, for the last
few wears and for the most part semi-Inonarchcal
more or less ambig organ Of the Dukede Brogle
The owner OF La Presse land this is the Observable
uoint is n gentleman who has grown very wealthy
"a large building contractor. He is not at all man
of letters, he is man Of politics only as wealthy
mountaineering bourgeois. The fact Of his being
neither a ready penman an ambitious party poll
tican. does not go TO disprOye the sagaciiy or
soundness of his judgment, nor his patriotism.
On the contrary perhaps This week La Presse hasa
change of editors, and makes distinct an
nouucement OF its future condition ~ an organ and
advocate of republicanism, under the controlling ed-
tor;al conduct of the wealthy, shrewd, bourgeois,
master builders con.
This ia the season for the meeting Of the depart
mental councils general Although considerably
modified and for the better, by that legislation of
three wears ago which the royalists OF the Chamber
have since SO much regretted, the text and spirit of
the laws regulating their functions do stu
unouestionably debar those councils from en-
terinc into the domain Of active politics.
The expression Of plstOnio wishes respecting great
political measures is very much limited; and SO
much as the talking political questions lsave as
the talk ran In the right directOn was suppressed
90 far as possiblc, in the de Broglie years. Last
wear. for instance, some departmental council after
due discussion, would pass this resolution: Re-
solved that this council would like to see the govern
inent of the Republic encourage repubiicanism
Ittey few days later could be read in the official
journal that by order OF the Government,
the wishes of these councillors being Illegal they
haap yyrsh he'd