The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-08-15
THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.
MacMahOn's Presidency In Danger-Cabi.
net Intrigue for His Resignation.
Puritanism in the Assembly.
Will the Hero of Magenta Become the
Leader Of a Street Massacre,

We extract the following interesting news
from letter to the New York Herald, dated
from Paris on the goth of July. Should it in.
deed prove prophecy, there are, we fear,
some very serious troubles ahead for our
friends in France. While hoping that the
picture Is overdrawn and the danger magni-
fed, we deem it worthy of publicity and SO
publish it for the information OF our readers;
The question of peace embarrasses the action
OF the French Government far more than is gen.
orally supposed.
STRANGE RUMoR
has lately obtained circulation to the effect that
the Premier Buffet has been intriguing to brir q
about the resignation of President MacM anon
and the elevation of the Due d'AumaIe to the
Presidency; An indignant denial is, Of course,
given to the accusation by the organs Of the
Ministry, but it may be doubted whether the Vice
President OF the Council supported as he is by
Ike Orleanists votes, is not Indirectly playing
into the hands CT the party with which lie is
identified.
THE DUO D'AUAIALE
holds toward French conservatives who are not
BOnapartlsts very much the position winch was
held by his father toward moderate liberals under
the Restoration. He is the Institutional chief
whom they have agreed to honor, though not to
obey; in other words they wish to make uss of
his great name to serve their ends, and especially
to threaten MacMahon with successor inst AZ
Theirs was threatened with Mac Mahon. Indeed.
that he will sooner or later take the place Of the
Marshal seems highly probable.
In all likelihood the Due d'Aumale will be
elected President of the new Senate. He Will
thus FILL the most dignified situation in the Re-
public, and with very little tact-of which the
Duke has plenty-he will win golden opinions
Meanwhile the next general election will almost
certainly result in the return of Republican
majority to the Lower Chamber, and Marshal
MacM ahon will one day find himself face to face
with the alternative of accepting
NJ. GAMBETTA AS HIS PRIME MINISTER
or resigning, unless he should take third
course, Of which the precedents are Familiarity
known as 1.-THE 18th of Brumaire and "the
I'D Of December" But the hero of Magenta
would shrink from becoming the hero of street
massacre. Nor, on the other hand, would he
care to sit as a lay figure in radical Cabi-
net over which his Presidency would be purely
nominal. He would prefer to abdcate his
powers. AS, however, the Senators and Depu-
ties together, convened in National Assembly,
will elect the President under the consultation
now being enacted, the Republican majority in
the Chamber OF Deputies will be swamped by
the Conservative majority in the Senate, and a
Chief OF the State will be chosen,
he may be compelled to Surround him
self with liberal Ministers. Such Presidency
the Due dAumale might well be disposed to &C
cept till the Compile de Paris becomes the head
Of the House Of Bourbon. Then new era may
begin in the history of France.