, 1875-08-07

troy the Republic, and hence the tenaclty
as well as the bitterness of the assault.
The election would scarcely have been
a~nnulled if the hand of u Minister had not
been seen in the background. But, in
truth, the Due DE BROGLIE had already
been sufficiently punished by the failure
of his plans. His allies, the Bonapartists,
have been cast off by his fellow Orleanists,
and the ~counsels of his rival, the Due D.
AUDlrFREr-PAsQUIER have been preferred
to his own. His attempt to turn the
electors against the Republic has been
hopelessly defeated the Republic Is be-
coming a constitutional fabric, and even
Marshal IMAGINATION finds that he must set
aside his W personal predictions in
Difference to the wishes of the nation.
The second of the two questions discus
sod by the National Assembly is more
serious. After the Ni6vre election a dOcu-
ment found in a railway carriage indicated
that a Central Committee of the Bonapar-
fists existed in Paris aud had branches in
the Provinces. NJ. RoUHER at once decIar-
ed, on his honour, that the statement was
not true bet his word was not believed,
and the result ota long investigation shows
IudG bLlGlC was DQO w A"N' S"SNH "
distrust him. Putting the matter on
the lowest ground OF mere caicula.
ton, we fluid it difficult to understand
how so acute a man OF the world
could have been so imPrudenta as to deny, In
the face of passionately hostile foes, a tact
which the researches of the Police could
not fell to bring to light. The truth Is
that there were two ImperiaIist Commit
tees, and that they rad agents IN every
part of the country. The President OF one
was M. RoUHER himself, and among the
members were Deputies and men who
had been Ministers under the Empire. In
order that it might be kept from the
clutches of the law, it was composed OF
less than twenty persons. The other
Committee was less dignihed, for it Vas
male up of Wallets, halI-porters, s%hopTen,
and petty officers out of places. Nor, In
fact, was NJ. RoUHrR very nice IN the
choice of his agents. The work OF the
Central Committee was such, indeed, that
it could not be done by other than grlmy
agents. Some were used to distribute
photographs of the PRINCE IMPERIAL
among the Police, aud in this way to
tamper with their loyalty, Others tried
to bring policemen, and even soldiers,
over to the side of the PRINCE IMPERIAL.
Nav, so elaborate were the preparations OF
the Central Committees that they had
lists Of the Imperialists to be found in
particular streets, of the military and the
official dignitaries on whom they could
rely, and, in truth, all the information
needful for the success Of a coup d'etat.
1t is not too much to say that if M. RoUHER
could have gained command of the supreme
power for half-a-dozen hours, he could IN
that time have furnished the State with q
complete set of Imperialist officials. Min
listers, a Project of Police, Projects OF De-
partments, and even Generals of Division,
all seem to have been ready to occupy the
positions they filled or coveted during
the reign of NAPOLEON III. After examin-
ing the evidence, the PRoCUREUR. GENERAL
declares that he fluids at the head OF the
Imperialists Party all the materials of q
Government, and he adds that such an
organization could at a given moment be-
come p~erilous.
The B~onapartists plead that all these
preparations were made before the Assembly
rendered the Republic the only legal form
ofGoyernment, and even before it set up the
Septennate. But, at all events, the Repub-
lie existed and it is ridiculous to contend
that any Party could be free to undermine