, 1876-03-08
TIE SENATORIAL ELECTIONS IN
FRANCE.
(From the TYmes)

fcance of the victory which has been
won by the Conservative Republicans of
France. 1t means that the majority Of
the people are disposed to make the
best Of their present institutions that
they wish NJ. BUFFET to surreoder his
ofica with all convenient speed aud that
even their personal respect for Marshal
IMAGINATION is unable to make them yield
TO the menaces which his Minister has
uttered in his name. Such a decision
Is, we believe, the very best that the ma
ton could have pronounced. 4 koyaIlst
majority would have incurred danger by
seeking to procure a premature revision
OF the Constitutional laws. A large R1-
dical minority would have frightened
both the country and the MARSHAL.
Worst of all would have been the effect
OF q B~cnapartist minority formidable
enough to determine the result OF all
great Divisions by its discipline and
freedom from scrupIe; for such a faction
would have given dangerous encourage
ment to those military Adventures whose
easy method Of dealing with the diff
culties Of France is al appeal 10 tie
Army. As ii is, the majority OF the
Senators will be men who, believing the
Republic to be the only practicable
form OF government, will not allow the
revision clauses Of the Constitution to
be used tor destructive purposes
The moderation of The national temper
is conspicuousIy displayed by the de-
ci>ion with which Paris has rejected so
eminent a Radical as NJ, LOUIS BLANC.
His habits Of mind, bis raining, and
his excessive imiratIou for the first
Revolution, all unfit him to accept the
compromises in Which the more prac-
tical spirit Of NJ. Gambetta sees the only
paths to the establishment of a Reppb-
lie. He is the hest remaining example
of those politicians who, without the
aid of experience, found the Iiues Of
government marked out for them by GER
tain rights inalienable from humanity.
To those men a Republic was not a form
OF government which might be good or
bad according to circumstances, but The
Only torn OF government compatible with
elementary rights. They spoke not If
a Republic, but Of the Repub ic, in ex-
actIy the same spirit as the more
devoted followers Of the Comte D CHAM
BoRD speak of the Monarchy. The Re.
public was pre-ordained by The very con
stitution of human nature, and no vote
of a Parliament could take away its Di-
vine right to exist. From men OF
less culture than NJ LOUIS BLANC
the claims of such a Repub-
lie drew an astonishing amount of rhetori-
cal charlatanism, disgusting to practical
minds. aud alarming to classes who had
any thing to fear from the sovereignty of
mobs. The Republic of 1848 was doomed
to die from the moment of its birth by The
rhetorical wildness of its sponsors. But
the great majority even OF the Radical r.
publicans now see that a stop must be put
TO such talk, and even to such ways of
thought, before their forms Of government
can become more than a stormy episode
between one Revolution and another.
It is not NJ. GAMBETTA alone who has dis
covered this. although his force Of charac-
ter has made him the most powerful advo-
cate OF the truth that unless the Republic
can ind room for the essentially Conserva-
1--WE 90 we'll - Liberal elements Of the ma