The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-03-07
PARIS CORRESPONDENCE.
'pecial Correspondence of the Bulletin.

PARIS, February IA, 1875.
| lis an i'll wind that blows nobody good. This
IS illustrated by the unexpected events that have
just occurred and which bid fair to lead to the
permanent establishment Of constitutional
Republlc The Bonapartst faction must be
credited with being the principal though IN
wiling agents which brought about this I'M
| looked-for denouement One Of the circum-
stances which led. On the 4th, to the sudden
accession of eighty OreanIsts to the Left Center,
Is rather pia"t1d, as the Parisians say. Some
Gays before well-known confidential agent OF
| the ex-Empress Eugene came with his wife
from London to Paris and it appears
that each one was granted private
| interview by Marshal Mac Mahon and his better
half. Now it has leaked out that the object of
these mysterious interviews was to ask for the
Prince Imperial the hand Of Nile. Eugene dc
Nac1lahon, who by the way is the god-ch:ld of
Napoleon the Thirds widow.
Monsieur lie President and Madame la Presi
dente were told that the Prince Imperial, whether
he anle to the throne or not, was a very eligible
match for their daughter. The rental of the
youthful pretender was submitted to the Duchess
&c Magenta and pronounced by her to be quite
satisfactory. In the course of that interview she
learned that loan OF four million Of francs had
been negotiated for the spread Of Bonapartist
doctrines III France, the said amount having
been secured to the len 'ers by insurng the life of
the Empress Tor the foil amount. The Orleans
fIlnceS might not have been influenced bv the
news Of this negotiation, had not Mr. Leon Re
nauttS evidence before the Nievre election com
mittee and Marshal Canr ,berts impudent letter
confirmed IT. few days before he published
that letter, Canrobert had breakfastcd " tn Mac
Mahon, from whom he parted OH the most friendly
terms. Opinions in the Orleans camp are divided
as to whether, on this occasion, he submitted a
DRAFT OF his letter to his old brother III arms or
ssmpy used that visit to lead other people to be
lcve that Mac Mahon was in full sympathy with
HIM IN his outspoken Inperiallst views
The Count dc Paris has adopted the
former view, and has advised his
friends accordingly. This wing of the Orleanist
party is headed III the Assembly by the Duke
Audltfret-Pasqui-r and it was they who turned
the vote on the ith against the coaesced Legiti-
ml-ts and Bonaparti-ts, and carried the second
WALTON amendment by ma ority of eight. Their
platform is the Republic rather than the Empire
the Count de Paris having been brought to see
that there IS no alternative between Ca sarism and
Repdbllcanism. He is satisfied that under the
Repubhc he can live a wealthy and Influential
citizen, whereas under restored Empire he
would most probably be driven into exile
The great leader Of the extreme Republicans |
Gambetta, is also fully alive to the necessity of
blocking the game OF the Bonapartist fac |
tons, end has steadily supported the policy ad
vocated by Theirs and Detaure and embodied in |
the WALTON amendment. He is reported to have |
said since We can not have the Republic of |
the no"ffgne let Us accept the Republic Of the
raH0n. {Wallon being pronounced as if written
with ', and the word so written meaning a
r0h"3. Gambetta believes that once formally
recognized by the Assembly, the Republic will
Prove too strong for Bonapartists or Monarchsts
The Second mrlre was only able to live through
violence and corruption, though it was backed
b. the N&Po'eonlc / gend, which is nov used up
The agitation which the partial and hotlv dis.
puted elections OF the last four wears kept ~ in
France have awakened the clector to a sense Of
his Importance. The consciousness of power,
ltanb tia thinks viii lead universal suffrage to
q KNOWLEDGE Of its politica! duties. He takes as
a h"peful TACT the impotence Of the Assembly to
found anything but Il Republic. Marshal \. ac-
hanon, who Was set up by the Ddc de Drogl.e to
act aa monarchcal warmIng-Ddn is obliged
greatly IN spite Of himself, to separate from his
trends OF the 9th OF Nay and the 10th Of No
Scniber. He is neither strong nor bold enough
to impose Messrs De Broglie and de Fourton on
The Assembly after the vote of the 4th February,
in which, be it observed, both these favorites Of
his joined alter vainly striving to prevent it,
Held IN check by Dufaure ministry which would
govern and appeal to the country under
republican constitution, Gambetta anticipates
that Marshal MacMahon would dwildle into a
mere figure head "a fossil relic of the reactionarv
coalition led by Me de Brogie, Rouher and
Depeyre. He looks forward to the advent of
Dutaure and neo-Orleanist ministry, and pre-
nets that the mon sy lenders who Ok up the
Jhselhurst loan will never receive the shent
Der shent they sli oulated for in the event of
3onapartist restoration.
The great political victor of the day is Mr..
lhiers. He was dismissed by the Assembly for
'aying that the time had come to look facts in
he face, and organize Conservative Republic
md now he has had the satisfaction of seeing ,
ITS arch enemy, Mr.. de Brogie, followed by his :
nan Friday, Mr.. de Fourton, strike the flag OF ,
he personal septnnnate and vote for Mr. Wal |
ons most Republican amendment. :
La the meanwhile there has been very little of
ne usual GaYcty and dissipation during the COS !
ng period Of the carnival. But for the newly :
'nched Americans, who tocf here to spend :
heir dollar1, we might have forgotten that there
vas such thing his year. Those ring spec
Iators and bonanza Crwsu- es from youl side
i the Atlantic have, to some extent, replaced
he fallen magnates ana cOurtiers of the Empire
her wives and daughters rush into lengths of
anity, and DISSIPATION, Fl II which Fronchao- Il
len, however rich, would shrink The boule-
ard journals are daily filled with examples of |
heir Philsilne sumpuositg, and with de4crip- a
ons OF the gorgeous dinners and masquerades D
hey gave during tae flesh eating DAYS which
ave just ended. | saw scores Of them on Ash II
'ednesday morning, who on their way from 81
Aardl Gras bali to partake in church Of the
distribution Of ashes upon the he ad. \
Another great event in the Gra1td mamie was |
10 wedding of the Princess Louise OF Belgium g
ne grand-dauShtcr of Louis Philippe, and the "
zee OF poor Carlotta, the ex-Empress or "a
eXlco most of whose large fortune she will III ,
crit. All the Orleans Princes were there, of U
]urse, as we'll as strong delegations Of the all
arvadlng Coburg family, to which both the royal al
idle and bridegroom are rt lated.
In my next | will doubtless have something
ore definite to tell about the new government ?.
France, or u a30nat, as the disconittcd Imperl-
lists spitetully call it. In the meanwhile | say
lie to you and your reAers. ", !,
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