New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-10-05
PRESIDENT MACMAHON.

THE GOVERNMENT BAfFLkD by THE GOOD hENSE
OF THE PEoPLE-sLIGHT GAINS EXPECTED BY
THE ADMINIsTRATION-A NEW MINISTRY TO BE
FORMED AFTER THE FLECToN-THE MARSHAL
PRE>IDENT COLBY RECEIVED IN THE SOUTH.
IRON TUE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT TIE TRrBUNE.l
PARIS, Sept 1l.-Ihat the existing Government
will lose instead Of gaining by NJ Therss death, 49,
it strikes me. becoming little by little. evident to
the sO-called Conservatives. In the face OF
such great manifestation as the funeral procession
great in It's solemn, silent grandeur-all hope OF
violence disappears. 1t was, till the last hour firm
" believed that some outbreak would take place at
some point on the passage of that long train of wall
where a million mourners, whom every effort had
been exhausted to irritate followed the greatest
citizen Of France TO his grave. The decree of the
state Of siege had been prepared and lay ready for
the signature of the Marshal since Friday morning;
but in the face of the STILL calm respectful bearing
Of the vast population of Paris, of every class who
would have dared to dream of putting it into execu-
ton 7 NJ. de Fourtou, probably but the old quar-
rel with General Berthaud would have been revived,
and. unless the latter had been dismissed, no
proclamation of the state of siege could have, by
any possibility, been attempted General Berthaud
himself on the evening after the funeral meeting
one of the Ministers of Jules Simon's cabinet and
fayonte colleague OF his own, spontaneously OBJ
served: "Such scene az that of to-day condemns
all future attempts at cOups d etat! nothing but
legality is possible now"
But n new phase of the "Criss is visible since
NJ. Therss death; n vague hope OF Cancellation on
the grounds of what is termed COnstitutionalism.
has sprung up and NJ. de Broglie, and the Due De-
caZes each imagines that 10y sacrificing the otherl
he NAV form a sort of mixed Left and Right Centre
Ministry "letting bygones be bygones." There Is
the real change in the situation, and think it will
IN I a worry
of NJ. Thierss DEATH in small town in the south of
France. not far from Bordeaux, Marshal Serrano,
the "ex-Regent" of Spain, was walking with a
French gentleman talking over the probable
result of the elections when they were
Joined by NJ. Bocher the Senator, the man
of business of the Orleans Princes and
one of the principal leaders of the Right rather
even than " Right Centre" though yet aspiring TO
be esteemed Constitutionalist."
"Iperceiye Marshal said this parsonage, 4" that
yon exaggerate what is impending; the Government
will gain thirty or forty seats"
BUT reioined Marshal Scrrano, 81 don't see how
thirty or forty seats, added to your 15s, will help
you much.'
Il VII tell you," answered NJ Bocher "With
that we stand minority Of 1870 or 20O-and the Mar
shall escapes a shameful defeat"
Marshal Serrano smiled adding: Well, if that
"Olr reoiued the other, of course we must
come TO a seriously Liberal Ministry"
without any of the present Ministers" muir
INJURED the wise and exceedingly sharp Spaniard.
To this there was no answer. Now THAI same
shameful defeat" which it was dreamt of
escaping from, by the gain of thirty or forty
SEATS WILL all the same Oyertake Marshal Mac
Mahon, unless by piece of timely strategy he
wthdraws from absolute solidarity with his Min
istry, in which the " shameful defeat" Will
attain the Ministers alone, leaving the Marshal I'M
touched. One thing, at all events, is certain, and
this Is felt as a signal comfort by all thOrough-eolng
Reactonists. Whatever be the degree of humlia-
ton inflicted by the inevitable "defeat,' the real
sting is taken out of it, NJ. TIMERS being no longer
there TO witness and exult over it,
The Presidents Normandy journey has shown him
he was not popular and demonstrated that the Re-
public was so. 1t was proposed to him after his
failure IN the North to try the South and Southwest.
and he was assured that he would be received quite
differently The fact is that the Cabinet believes it
could manage" the people Of the Gironde better
than the Norman peasants and burghers and it was
supposed that between II. de Fourtou aud the Due
Decazes both born in the Bordeas regon) it wOuld
be quite easy TO get up' kind of "demonsra-
ton in favor of the Chief of the State. But never
was a completer disappointment! The people of
Bordeaux proved themselves as polite" as their
fellows in Paris Caen and the tone OF their WEI
come, such 1t was, was more unequivocal aud
louder They were cordial toward the Presi-
dent of the Republic, because that he was the
President of the Republic; and FIRE Ia H(pu-
! bfqVe! was the unceasing cry which they
shouted from morning till night in the Mar
sha's ears. That his annoyance was intense
is denied by none of his intimates-nor could he
continue to disguise this, but his resolution was al
most "a strong against his own Ministers as against
| the public" So the notion has been gradually
taking hold Of the Marshal that he has been de
ceved-" taken in :" and this is unbearable to him,
as to all men of perfect intellectual superiority.
From the day when Angouleme, and then Tours,
| fatty refused to pay one farhng to receive him,
| Marshal MacMah0n has realized his moral defeat, aud
| the week preceding VI. Therss death, he repeated
persstently that h. would resign, and that nothing
should induce HIM to remain to b, " made fool of"
! ill NJ Theirs died. it was EXTREMITY hard for the
household to get the better Of these angry re-
solves and every influence" domestic and clerical,
was put under requistiOn to keep the Marshal. al
most forcby al his post. But at NJ. IhIerss death,
the iov was violent unrestraned and it Silly
imagined that the soul of the Republic forever
quenched leaving only a dead body behind.
Another sad deception During the funeral
ceremonies, the entire Bordeaux programme
| had to be altered The political harangue which
the Marshal was to speak, and which was IN reality,
10 be the declaration of principles whereby the cleo
tora period be opened had to torn mp as the
decree for the state of siege had BEEN and reply
| TO the Mayor of Bordeaux ia firm Republican,. the
Marshal bad to read few lines in which he guaran-
feed to uphold the Constitution. have just an
eve-wtness who stood close 10 the official group,
o,a ,vbo sovs the clum expression of ill-will on