, 1875-03-14


Within the past few days, the rumors OF
MAcMAuoS's wish to bring back the Bona
pAn1E dynasty ut once, and Of the probability
of second coup detat by fourth N4ro1zoS,
have gained sufficient strength at Paris to be
telegraphed to this country. They may be
half truths, but can be nothing more. Mac
HAHoS's disgust with the delay of the Assem-
blv to form definite Government has made
people remember that he owes his rise to the
favor Of NAPOLEON III. If the Emperor of
the French had not nade him Marshal, the
French Assembly would never have made
him President Gen. MONK and Marshal
SEaRAxo furnish him precedents for restoring
an e1iled Prince. The Marshal President,
however, is too proud Of his place to
sanction the return Of NAPOLEON l4.
except under legal forms. It, at the
end of his own seven years lease Of
power, the son of his old Emperor could be
chosen to succeed his father, it cannot be
doubted that the Marshal would prefer him to
Prince Of the Orleans blood, to a GAM
BETA, to HENRI Cinq, to anybody else who
might clutch at the vacant chair. # the peo-
p1e Of France vote, in 1880, for their chief
magistrate, their votes will be probably cast
and certainly counted IS the powers that be
will. Intimidation and ballot-box stufhng
were elevated to fine art under the Empire.
The story Of the vote on the cession Of Nice
Savoy to France, as Prof. ADAMS tells it, reads
like the record Of an election in Louisiana in
1872, OF New York City, under Tammany
Hall, in 1868. # NApo1Eox ~. is one Of the
candidates for the executive power, the sup
port of MAoMAHos may be the one thing
needed to turn the scale.
It is by no means improbable TINT the boy
who waits at Chiselhurst for Franco to call
him will hear the coll ere long. He has
graduated at the great Woolwich School,
efter public examination, with hi Oh honors.
The staid Spectator ssys that his standing
proves conclnsively that he ''has in him the
making Of an able man" This seems like
putting too much faith in one examination:
The fact that Torkshireman pussed better
examination in French than the Prince did
will not be considered as proof that the
latter does not know his native tongue. Still,
the examination put feather in the cap Of
the Imperial candidate, and his party
are wild with joy over his snc-
cess. He will now, doubtless, 60
through the stereotyped formula for e1iled
French Princes. He will write neat, cpl
grammatic letter, offering his services ~ a
soldier to France The offer will be declined.
His party press viii blazon the fact Thou
sands of people, natural-born dupes, Will say
or think: "He loves his country and is de-
MED tho chance to serve her; it is unjust "
When he makes his real appeal to the people,
he will have much IN his favor. The disas-
tera Of the late war have been akillful]y
thrown upon subordinate Generals. BAzANE
is ono scapegoat. WmPFH has been
made another by the Bonapartist bully,
Paul DE- CAssAoNAo, who has per-
suaded q jury, before whom W1MP-
FEN sued him for libel, that his charges
that the surrender Of Sedan was due to
W1apFw arc true. Then, great deal Of
bad feeling was buried in the grave Of the
dead Emperor. His son inherits ell Of the
good and only part Of the bad. He has the
glamour Of O. great name behind him. He will
come as the representative Of universal suf-
frage, and that fact Will have enormous
weight The Assembly has shown itself
willing to Limit the franchise, and the classes
affected thereby are looking backward-and
forward-to the days Of the NAPo1EoH rule,
when the franchise was and will ba free.
The peasantry always sustained the Empire.
They may do 50 again.