Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-08-14
FRANCOIS FUTURE.
A costly opera House = OrIeanist
PiOts-After Mcmahon, WhsI?
FL -corTespondence NeW York Herald.


PiOts-After Mcmahon, Whst?
Paris correspondence New York Herald
The session is rapidly drawing to a close
and the estimates are being hurried through
the Assembly. On the 9th a supplement
tary grant Of 100000 toward the compile
tioh of The new opera was carried by 347
votes TO lat, The opposition to the item
arose Partly from eeOnihical considerations,
the original estimate for the opera having
been but s., 100000, while the actual cost
has already exceeded SS;400,OOQ. But the
VieOnte de lorgefil, Who may De described
as a kind Of Puritan Catholic, condemned
the grant as immoral. He argued that
France was enervated by amusements, and
evidently cherished tie belief that iiuch
g!ldlhg and carved work were signs OF
national decadence. IL is needless TO add
that NJ. de Lorgeril's dislike Of theatres is
eminently orthOdOx, French children being
stlll taught in their catechisms that play
going is a form Of sin.
A STRANGE RUMoR
has lately obtained circulation, to the ef-
feet that the Premier Buffet has been In
triguins to bring about the resignation of
President MacMahon and the elevation Of
the Due d. Aumale to the Presidency. An
indignant denial is, of course, given to the
accusation BY the organs Of the Ministry,
but it NAV be doubted whether the Vice
President Of tho Coin6il, supported as. ne
IS bf Orleanist votes, is not indirectly play
ing into the hands Of the party with which
he is identified.
THE DUO D'AUMALE
holds towards French conservatives who
are not BOnapartists very much the
position which was held by his father to-
ward moderate liberals under the RestOrs-
ton. He is the constitutional chief whom
they have agreed to honor, though not to
obey; in other words theg wish TO inske
use OF his great name to serve their ends,
and especially TO threaten MacMahOn with
a successor, Just as Theirs was threatened
with MacMahOn. Indeed, that he will
sooner or later take the place of the Mar
shall seems highly probable. In all likeli-
hood the Due D'AUmale will be elected
President of the new Senate. g Re will thus
fill the most dignifled situation in the Re-
public, and with avery little taet-Ofw which
the Duke has plenly-he will win golden
opinions. Meanwhile the next general
election will almost certainly result in the
return of a republican majority TO the
Lower Chamber, and Marshal MacMahOn
viii one day find himself face to face with
the alternative of accepting
NJ. GANIBETTA AS HIS PRIME MINISTER,
or resigning, unless he should take third
course, of which the precedents are famil-
iarly known as 'the 18th of Brumaire" and
''the second Of December" But the hero
Of Magenta would shrink from becoming
the hero Of a street massacre. Nor, on the
other hand, would he care to SIT as lay
figure in Radical Cabinet over which bis
Presidency would be purely nominal. He
would prefer to abdicate his powers. As,
however, the Senators and Deputies to-
gether, convened IN a National Assembly,
will elect the President under the constitu-
tiOn now being enacted, the Republican
majority in the Chamber of Deputies will
be sEamped by the Conservative majority
in the Senate, and a Conservative Chief of
the State will be chosen, although be may
be compelled to surround himself with Lib
eral Ministers. Such Presidency the Due
d'Aumale might we'll be disposed 10 accept
TIN the COmte de Paris becomes the head
Of the House of Bourbon. Then a new
era may begin in the history Of France.