New-York tribune., 1877-07-21
THE FRENCH CONFLICT.
GLIupsFs BEHIND THE SCENES.


PRINCE IMP-R'AL GIVING ADVICE 49, DUFAURE
ACTING AGAIN wITH TnE RrPUBLICASs- IMP r.
TANT DECLARATION OF NJ. THEIRS.
fYRoM A REGULAR CORRESPONDENT rRTBrvRl
PARIS. June 29.-A little circumstance haa occu.-
red with regard TO the Senate that appears to me to
have almost universally pa ', uHoo-erve.,, and tnat
is of absolute vital Importance Ii has been noticed
bv OF the newspapers that the Senate has been
prorogucd" and that it could no longer 'st' after
the Chamber was dissolved hut the word pro
rogued" is a mistake and the Senate is simply Gd-
iourncd aud ITS session." not closed, it Ice
so legally. Now what this means practically and
how it was brought about may probably interest
the foreign pubhc. At o'clock on Monday iast with
extraordinary puncuality, NJ. Gr6vy read the decree
Of dissolution, and at half-past the Chamber of
Deputies was no more. At about the latter hour
the Due dAulfret Pasquier, President of the
Senate preparing TO declare final sitting open.
and, AT that sitting to prorogue the Senate, whena
small knot of members of the Left went mp 10 him
and warned him that he could do such thing
that the Senate having ceased 20 sit or t0 be able to
sit he as it's President could not legally prOrogue
it. -.
Because" was the rejoinder 'since the moment
when the other Chamber was dissolved; the Senate
is and remains ipso facto adjourned, and you have no
cate Familiarity to a certain number of Senators the
fact that adjournment exists
NJ. dAudiffret was obliged to submit to the letter
Of the law and make his Communication quietly,
which he did, but the word "prorogued" is, strictly
speaking an improper one. But it may be said this
s mere dispute words, and the fact is that the
Senate is lifeless body. No such thing, however.
has taken place The Senate is, repeat, ipso fdcf0
adjourned but the Senate subsists with complete
and perfect organization as il dId when it began its
session last Winter II Is simply in state Of sus-
pended life. the inhabitants in the fairy tale
OF the Sleeping Beauty ." where each man trans
fixed in the attitude that was his when the magic
slumber seized him. If any too dangerous crime
sought be perpetrated against France by the
Bonapartists, under the leadership Of Fourtou
or if any misfortune threatened France from with
out, the Senate can be called into active life in
twenty-four hours, and conformity in such case
with a Council-General, a National representation
would he alive and ready to act IN an incredibly
short time. Neither LET any fancy that on such
an emergency the majority of the Senate would be
the same that voted the dissolution. In such sit
uation as alude to most certainly not forty Sena-
tors would be found anywhere save on the side of
the Nation, and who knows this 40 thoroughly as
the weak. vacillating Due fAudiffret himself.
The proof Of what repeat would be given at once
by any eyewitness of the discussion of Friday last
ANYTHING more forlorn than the bearing of the Right
Center il is impossible 10 conceive. But will state
the actual facts. During the whole time NJ. Brunet
was making his coarse and madly violent speech,
YOU might hear all round you the murmurs OF DIS
gust and anger proceeding from every member oi
The socaIled Orleanist or Constitutional groups and
one leading individual among them, man who has
held Office an Admiral and prOfessed Monarchlst,
went so far as to exclaim loudly: Il never heard
ANYTHING 50 monstrOusl what brute the man Is"
II quote textualy) friend behind him. touching
his shoulder said: "Yet that will teach you moth
ing You uiV rote al the same ~ "What can DO :"
was the weak rcjoinder. II have promised the Mar
shall You don't know how he has implored 1t
of Us He is an old comrade-I could not refuse;
besides have given my wordp The accent was one
of despair but lady sitting close by ian English
lady intimate with both personsl said distinctly:
well belong. happily, TO "A country where no man
would venture 10 make to private friend promise
that should be 70 the manifest detriment OF his
countrv.r The answer was the ordinary one in such
cases: n mournful shrug of the shoulders and a
.ge roe- rous 2" uttered in tones Of helplessness,
such as only French Conservative can use
oqae roule. rous'" being the received excuse IN
France for whatever act of dishonesty or base
ness an "honest" man may commit. But III
one shane or other the voters OF the dssoll-
tion were more or less all Of them put 10
moral torture before they perpetraed their mlser-
abie deed. NJ Raoul Duval received a letter from
the Young Prince Imperial forbidding him from
taking any part in the dissolution intrigues, ana
saving that the only possible hope OF the party lay
in its staunch defense Of universal suffrage. ana
my friends can take no part IN movement winch
in reality insults the manifestation OF the popular
wilr-that was the argument OF the young frihce.
IL
NJ Raoul Duva being himself somewhat lncilneh
towards this opinion, took the letter to NJ behc'
another member of the party of so-called popular
appeaTr-a man Of more than average intelligence
NJ Behic was at first inclined TO obey the dictates
nj the missive but the next day he had completely
changed his mode Of thinking, and told NJ Raoul
Duval that the Prince Imperial was a ereenhorn'
who knew nothing of what he was talking about.
VI. Raoul Duval abstaned, deeming himself bound
TO DO so.
II a curious fact that all the heads Of the coal
esced parties have thus adlured their followers no'
~ do wha they have done. and that the subordl-
mates have with the exception of the Legitmlsisl
disobeved The Oreanists voted in diametrica oppo-
stion 70 the arlenly-urged behess of their Princes
who. every one. except the uitra-cierical DEC
de Nemoursl helped lay the trap into when
they were falling; and the BonapartiSts re-
sisted the will of him whom they call
"Napoleon "" Meanwhile the Republicans
of every shade from Waddington, Casunir Peiier
and Others. down TO LOUIS Blanc hold toceth-
or like one man. The only deserter has been the
Ducd Audifiret. and we see by what disarpOninents
le has been rewarded In his own family lCasimlr
P6rier the father. his brother-in-lawl ana
among his former best friends he has found his
sevcres censors and since the day of the dissolution
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