The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-02-15

into a wicked and republican world. The Com.
resse de Paris last baby Will be styled Prince
Charles OF OrleaDs and by the time he has at
tanned to years o. discretion the Third Empire
Will PROBABLY be drawing TO its close, and the
fusion Will perhaps have been ACCOMPLISHED by
the operation not OF reason but OF the laws OF nat
ural history on the Comte de Chambord.
BETS on An rMPERlALIsT RESTORATION
within the year ana even within the next three
months are iree!y offered, and IT is pretty certain
that Prince Louis Napoleon's accession TO the
throne IS only question OF time. as In like man.
ner Is his ultimate expulsion from 1t and the inai
establishment OF republic, tle only form OF gov.
eminent which can satisfy tue intelligence Of
modern times.
TIE SENATE ELL.
The bin for the creation OF o Senate been
read second time by 5l2 votes 10 ISIS, the minority
being made up OF the extreme Right and the ex
IRENE Lett. NJ. de Ia Roche oucauld- Bsaccia "a
not very wise; but one would nave thought that
even he might have had the sense to guess that
he was not exacty lurtherlng the cause OF ORDER
by joining the red radical NJ. Barodet, in vex!ns
Ministers.
THE TUG OF WAR
viii only begin when the bill gets into committee.
N. Duiaure and his friends, who, In TINS matter,
may be considered to represent the whole OF the
Left ana section Of the moderate Right, are de-
termned to oppose with all their might any clause
naming the members OF the new senate, or which
shall confer on the President the power OF dissov.
ing the Assembly with the assent Of the Senate.
MAcMAHoN's PERSONALITY.
Meanwhile MacMahOn adheres, or Affects 10 ad.
here TO his resolution. which is IN case he should
be unable to command majority in the Chamber,
to form Cabinet out OF permanent officials and
Old soldiers who have no seats IN the Assembly
anG VIII not attempt TO obtain Them Neither
VIII Ehey present themselves at Versailles to
answer interpretations; In other words. II the
army support him the Marshal Will execute
PEACEFUL COUP DETAT
by establishing personal government. which will
take no notice whatever Of the action or the
Legislature. But as have before pointed out
the Assembly might refuse TO vote the supplies,
and a crisis would supervene winch would proba-
bly, terminate IN pronuncianetento, not for Mac
Mahon, Dat Tor NAPOLEON Nv. On the other hand,
should the Marshal obtain, In spite OF the Opposi.
ton OF NJ Dulaure and his following, the right OF
dissolution, nc will be able to exercise
1t but once. and the new Chamber win
be either republican or Bonapartist-ln no
case Will 1t be MacMahonst-sO that 1t is hard to
see how this power will benefit the President. He
still hopes, however, to form Cabinet out OF the
moderate Right and the Centres which shall com.
mand q majority OF about eleven. Unfortunately
nobody else shares this hope, and it Is obvious
that half dozen successive defeats at the polls,
which will inevitably be sustained Ivy the govern.
ment in as many months, would change the ma
jority into minority of one. good
SPECIMEN OF INTERPRETATION
an Its value was furnished by the debate In the
Assembly yesterday. The Municipal Council Of
Marseilles has been recently suspended by a gov.
ernmental decree, Oh the pretext that it had ex-
ceeded its powers-n reality because 1t was
republican and gave conservative Mayor
troucle. The question had a<scn whether this
gentleman should be permitted to spend
the greater portion OF loan OF So, 200 COG
according to his own fancy. The Council
thought NOT, thus clearly proving themselves
guilty Of seGtion and OF melting their fello.citt.
zens to hatred and contempt OF authority. Ami
hIlatea by a proclamation. they appealed to tho
Deputies Of the city IN the Assembly to bring the
case before the notice OF the House. Here was
fine opportunity for
ANOTHER STORMY SCENE
and 1t was not lost. The Municipal Council OF Mar.
sellles and its wrongs were soon forgotten. NJ.
Brisson protested against insults to universal
suffrage ~ whereupon the speaker called him 10
order.
NJ Rouvie (of the Lefty declared that che only
wanted to do what was just"-words which were
received with shouts OF laughter by the Right, the
point OF the joke, it may be necessary to indi
republican pretending to speak with good faith.
N. Lockroy, as his contribution to the DEBATE.
said that the journals had lately published letter
from the Minister OF the Interior to
THE COUNTESS DE GAsPARIN.
In that missive the Minister stated that he could
not allow certain work written by that lady's
deceased husband. and inspiring as 1t did, ele.
vated IDEAS to come in contact with the books
authorized by the Committee OF Hawking tau
colportage). That theory the Minister had applied
to municipal councils; tor whenever ne found
good one he suppressed 1t, that it might not be IL
contact with the administration. This allusior
also requires explanation its wit apparently con
sistlng in lkening the Ministry to obscene pub
lications.
The late Comic DE Gasparin was Protestant
and had written book on the confessional. Now
Protestant treatlses on the confessional are sell
dom replete with that spirit of "sweet reason.
ableness" which Matthew Arnold considers the
mark oil true philosophy. When, therefore. the
Counts widow applied to the Minister OF the In.
terror for permission to have this pamphlet sold
at the railway stations and hawked about al. over
France,
TIE MINISTER GRoANED
in spirit, for General de ChaDaud-Latour is Prot.
estant himself and a Frenchman into the bar
gam, N which double capacity 1t was painful to
him to refuse simple request to lady and a CO.
religlonist Yet 10 grant her petition was quite
out Of the question, Tor such q concession would
have been followed by exactly ninety protests
from the ninety bishops OF France and remon-
stance from the Marshal President on the mpru-
dence of arousing the hostility OF the clergy. The
old General (he was seventy-one last Monday ex-
trcate himself out OF the difficulty with cOnsid-
cradle address. He wrote to Nine. de Gasparin
that the fact was
HER HUSBANDS BOOK WAS TOO GOOD.
too lofty in sentiment, to be hawked about like q
~catchpenny tract or to lie on the shelves OF rail-
way bookstalls in company with novels OF doubt
1u proprtety. He really could not think OF suner.
ing SUCH an indignty being offered to SO fine
imposition. Its proper place was in the grave
lib raries OF students.
VICTOR HUGO
has Just lost his brother.in.law, M. Paul Foucher