New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-12-26
THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.


GgoUP IN TIE SENATE WHICH HELD ThE BAL
ANCE OF POWER
lfRoM REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF HE TFiDUNE.l
PARI@ Nov. 29.-"Ta care of the Jcuiis,"
was the cry Of far-seeHg people almost directly after
the coup Gtat Of 1871, bat il was met with absolute
disiain. "Je>uits ?" was the rcjoiud"S " W ny,
they don't exist! icy were aun.hidied ID 20, anu
even Charles X forbade tho.n the soil OF France
But tie Jesuit, now. be IL not forgotten r1ie the
governors of this country and the dictates Of the
HI, see are the echoes If Rome.
Then again. i'll 1871, after the war, Take care
Of the Royaisrs!" was the warning woia S oxen by
hi, best friends t, VI. 1ni,rs -" Take care of the
-Royali,ts; they Will betray you!' and NJ. Thierss
iuyaraDle answer was with shrug Of the shout
ders d" The KoyalisLs, they don't exist! hey were
killed by the Revolution, aud buried by the Empire
Of Napoleon ILL.," Yet igc upnsllg and banding to-
getaer of these same RoyaIstS drove NJ. liners rom
Office in May 1873. and III MAY of tAls year.
prompted the attempt az Dictatorship Of winch
France is sti hoping yainiy to see the last. When
YOU speak TO ah Orl,tniot Senator OF tn any asSoc-
ate OF tue Rigut Centre, in or ont Of the Chamber
las Language Is always the most sensible, the most
parliamentary pOoSue-6ut, until thc day Wheh tue
Ministry received It's recent rebuff from the Cham
ber they tried 80 eude all responsibility 6y repeat
ing" The thing can't last The Marshal must WELD"
The real blow winch has been stIuca comes from
the commercial distress. On ,hi5 point there begns
to De al bu. general consent, Tor the private IN
teTe>,s oi each individual are on the eve OF beng
threatened, # fhey are not 50 already Then. too,
Nj. Cochcr,s report on the supple Den,ary est-
mates during tue arbitrary closing Of the Chamber
has sent a chill TO TIE very marrow Of adventurous
RcactoIlsts, VINO think notung Of running the
country, bun reco in horror from all idea OF Being
/ h..I1 Ia FIR
breaks. pays is iast exactly the principal they
vilfu " refuse TO adopt, and, il once that
prucIplc is recogniz d. and acJcd upon
in France the risk Of political crimes 10 Ice concocttd
or committed by the ars' Ocratic Re5OuilonSi> OF
the past VIII dwiudle down to nothing and the dan
ger OF such miserable acts Is thar Of the l6tn Of
May. b. well nigh for ever set aside.
The probable solution of the present problem viii
come from the perfectly pacific, hut exceedingly
strong pressure put upon the Ey>fe 10y The bread
winners of the whole country When the otherdaY
NJ. Lcbaudy, the great sugar elmer a! la Nilcttc,
obtained access to the Marshal he brought 90 bis
knowledge facts such rs the unhappy "yaaqulshcd
Of sedan" mad not the remotest notion of. VI. lie
baudy had been eudeavonng vainly for six
weeks Co gain iii, interview with the President
but wlcn hc had achieved 1t he told him the entire
extent of the mischief. NJ. Lcb udy came away, !
having done his duty, but thoroughly convinced that
he had failed IN bringing 10 Marshal MaoNahou', !
understanding what the possible connection could be
between politics and trade. On this point the Mar
shat is of precisely the sane mind with an Austrian
Prime Minister, who, in 1868, exclaimed Ono day IN
the presence Of large number of persons. 80 thank
God that do not literally know what the mean
ing Of the word commerce IS" Three years
after that came the Pr1sslan WAY of
'GG. and all the meanings OF the vulgar
words Of modern Democracy were 50 forced |
upon the minds OF the upper ten that there never
has been since then politician in the whole Empire
who would dare to ec1o the spe ,ch made by Count |
Nor E,terhazy in SOB. And 20 II VIII be with |
France and if the present President Of the Republic
is not to forego his high honos, he must thoroughly |
learn what the import is of such homcly words as
Commerce" and Grade" But it may be safely pre-
dicted that the French Nation will scarcely allow
him the space of three years in which TO acquire
this useful knowledge
No one IN his selSes believes, al this hour. that |
the Senate could be brought 10 vote second disco
luton; bat anOngthe thirty-two or thriy-threc men
W no co up1se the Centre Drot no can be found
maintain that tho larger half Of these might not IN
three weeks hence be induced to do so. The safety
lies in the three wccks.' We are at the end Of the
year. trade IS living around us, aud the meanings OF
a National distress are rapidly beginning to swell |
into a universal cam1r. Ii ia the tgln circumstance
of the imp0ssibllity of wasting time and the posi-
blty for every private person, however exalted HE
condition TO DE as hard up pccuGilrily, as his fell
low men, that is now gradually opening the eyes Of |
the "Consntu'iolalists" in the Nurty-hrec who !
hold the balance OF power, there are not more. |
than twelve or fourteen pure
Orleaniss; the remainder only TO he accurately |
portrayed as "nondescriptA" They belong to no |
distinct party-they can occasionally serve the pur-
pose, of the LeHtlmsts egen Bonapartists. but !
they have for the last six months asserted them
selves as "MacMahoniss," wbatevcrmay be the gem
uine signhcation of that term II IA these men who
are not to be counted upon, and Of whom the Duc de
Brope declares at the Elyste that he feels infalli-
bly, sure.
These men, then. do constitute the danger OF the |
situation: but luckily those men have pockets |
like other people and rlpaclous, devoted TO
the golden calf AS the rest Of their cOuntrymen /
Here viii probably be discovered the weak point |
the Joint in the armor, and let this once be 50, and
all n. de Brogle's illnesses and intrigues will
go for nothing.
The Orleans Princes continue TO behave admIra. |
bly,. Both the Due dAumale and the Comte de !
Paris act III the most direct and energetic manner
upon their followers in the Senate they have
scarcely any adherents IN the Chamber, and man |
fully declare their perfect obedience to only one
principe-the will of the Nation. Their portion of
the Constitutional group will probably do its duty
and, if the other half recognizes the increasing
risks which threatening its own pocket il is
than possible that there being happily no time
to waste in petty discussions, a small majority may
ere long, be found on the Senatorial benches to ad-
wise the Marshal that ho must " submit" or if not
that his retirement viii be regarded with relative
equanimity of mind.