New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-06-09
PERILS TO IMAGINATION.
OBSTACLES IN EVERY PATH.

AGAIN.
lPRoM REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE rRiBUNE.l
PARIS, May 25.-I did not think that the difficult
ties of their seif-mposed task would fall quickly
and so heavily the heads of the Marshal and bis
Minister'S Turn which way they may, there is an
obstacle in their path. They begin by denying the
right of the Ultramontanes TO interfere NEEDLE,
and Immediately the cericals shake their fists at
them and defy them not to be clerical. They then
deny their denial of Ultramontane supremacy, aud
forthwith tie terrible Chancellor appears in Ber-
lin and transacts business at the Foreign Office
which, say his organs, has nothing to do with
the Eastern war" They implore NJ. Krantz not TO
abandon the works of the Exhibition OF ~, and NJ.
Krantz replies in the public prints that out Of pa
rotsm he consents not to leave the public service
in trouble, but that he adheres positively TO all the
protestatons made by the Liberal party, which he
belongs TO, against the unwarrantabe attack that
has just been made the peace and the liberties of
the country.
This constitutes pleasant situation Of the peo-
pie apponteo-to Office, very large percentage re-
fuse TO accept merely because they know the whole
thing will shortly fall 10 the ground. All is con-
fusion because all Is weakness. An adventure
desperate the coup R60t of 81 has been
coniided to men who have neither the pluck nor the
position Of adveDturers the criminals of December
in the world to lose-neither standing, considerl-
ton, nor money. They were on the edge of prcci-
pee, with raging fire blazing behind them; theirs
was no " leap in the dark" but plunge lighted mp
by the glare of dire necessity. These people, from
the Due lie Broglie down 20 u. de MeauX. have
everything 70 lose-social station, fortune aud po-
litical authority Gn which they like to dabblei.
Every single circumstance around them torbids
their going too far while they have Tashly
rushed sipon a path whereon the only possible
chance of success lies in their readiness 10 20 70 no
matter what lengths. The capacity for blind "Co-
aheadedness' is the zine qua non for achievements
of this kind and these consprators are men who
have no Guiding feeling save feaT-fear for their
skins and purses, as l have presumed to tell your
readers all along
The most outspoken Of Royalist organs, l. Union,
speaks plainly enough yesterday, and addressing the
Marshal and his Ministers says openly: d" YOu can
ruin yourselves without us, but you cannot save
yourselves without U.s." and TO a certain degree this
is true but il may be SAID with equal truth by each
separate party, for, except the Republicans 70
party has sufficient nucleus of its own - need only
ether adjunct. With ten votes added so the
Republican phalanx even the Senate gives a ma
jority to the Liberals but leave any other portion
of the varied whole to itself and you will soon dis
cover its helpessness. The only chance of success
the new Ministry has is to secure the Oreanist
faction, which is numerous; but as yet
the Osleanists will not listen to any
of the proposals made because they fear the fatal
influence their future of the original SIM of the
MarShaPs personal Intervention. However, one can
foresee possible patch up on that side, and if
tire present Cabinet decides on throwing the Marshal
overheard and making the Due GAumale President
# the Republic, it is Just within possibility that q
temporary truce may be secured, and q SORT OF Gov
eminent be set up that may endure till 1ss0. But
in this ease the punishment would be tremendous
and all the dupers would be dupel FOR the Duc
GAumale would have only ore means of remaining
quietly at bis post and that would be 40 dis barge
at once all retrog1ades and fcaetonaIies, make
Cabinet of pure Republicans put in action all the
laws against the Jesuits join hands cordially with
Italy against the fapssy, and prove to the nation
that 1t had a real representative at last. The Dac
fAumae tone of the sharpest cuJest Of princes is
perhaps the man TO do this; but this may prevent
the present men from putting il into his power to
do II.
TAe loulest complaint rs yet made by the Con-
servatiyes is that nothing has been doEei and
that the Marshal is " an Old GOOSE Hccato,nbs of
civil function4ries are accepted with contempt.
What the real reacuOnaries want is powder and
shot the troops ordered out, and n matter Of fact
IT. Bartholomew over again. "What do these fools
mean !" was said last night IN my presence by an
ultra clerical Royalst; do they dream Of escaping
from extreme measures from ReQFessonV Iy,n-
tured TO ask. Repression Of rhaiT Repression
crqgipii0n Of the vic detestalle theories of the
Revolution ~ was The answer hurled at ny head.
ard retired abasLed, not thinking It either safe or
use y.l to observe that to "shoot down theory
would he such novel experiment in guuncTy thai I
should myself be rather curious than otherwise %
witness it.
But the amusing fact is that so logical and 10 in
cyitaJls did violence appear that could mention q
small town i'm the G.ron,le where, the 18Th, an
Official Of the Post-0iice, while handing some for
eipn newspapers to a journalist Of the spot, said
Take care Sir the Ministry is changed, and We
have the state of siege since yesterday" am able
rsona'ly to guarantee this fact, and 10 add that II
is no isolated one. 50 raUcal did it seem at first
that compression at least should bo rcsor,ei to to
surnoft so incxcusablc an attack upon. the nation
itself as that peryetratsd on rhe 1sth OF May. /
am able % confirm the fact q thc delivery Of the
famous telegram % the iIayas Agency by NJ. dIiar-
court Two OF thrCe persons ,peshaps more, event
had occa-0n 10 read thai teleeram-hai II in their
b,nds-and one person received 1t from W. dHar-
court. The controversy raised ended without any
,rsera denial on tie ilrter5 part it could not be-
otherwise. and now what was known % very few
PC known to she mass Of the public not only in
France but i'm Europe; but your readers viii. hope,
dc gre tie Justice TO recognize dat was the first to
inform tbcu since revealed the iaet on tie 18th,
twelve hours after the occurrence, whereas It only
became a public fact Though NJ. Masseault's
letter on the 2lst But to the initiated
10 political matters here this incident
has opened invaluable sources Of aceu-
rate calculatlon. b has shown snch an inter
uN.crrulousDass. such disdain for truth. such
rradiu,s- to employ crooked means that it has very
rrobailv caused a major par. Of the difficulties by