New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-06-16
THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.
A CLERICAL REVOLUTION.

BY A PRIESILY INTRIGUE.
IrRoMA REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF TIE TaTbrSE'l
PARIS, June 1.-Don Carlos and his "cobftons,"
of which gave you full descriptions some weeks
ago, have had more to do with the turning point in
present French politics than might have been
thought at first The manner Of the thing has been
as follows: The Duchesse de Madrid having been for
a long time past established quietly enough IN
Paris no one paid any attention TO her presence nor
even to that of her husband when he joined her. 1T
seemed quite evident that he had come for the sole
purpose of amusing himself, and the ultra clericas
gave him ball after ball. at which his cloregraphlc
exploitssurpasscd those Of all ordinary mortals Two
remarks only were made: that all the occurs
gers" since Emile Olivier and the of 1870 must
be nothing to this Princes since he could Jaunty
dance down the recent memories of his massacres
and village burnings IN Spain the other was to
chronicle the good nature OF the Republic that tol
Grated with such gentle disdain the rather loose
practices of this vagrant and royal malefactor But
when the day for the Marshals sudden assumption
of power came very different state Of. affairs was
produced: every foreign country rejoicing IN an
UItramontane priesthood was more or less alarmed,
and the Spanish Government of Don Alfonso, know
ing more about these gentry than most others,
fairly took fright and exacted peremptorly
the expulsion of the "gallant gay" Pretender
There was no possibility of resistance Here
foreign government OH their hacks, and the position
they had put themselves into was such that the new
Ministry must obey, and that without loss of time.
So Don Carlos was "expulscd," and, vuGarly speak
ing tls fat was in the fire" and ablaze II hours
after. The Commissary of Police did signify to the
brigand chief that he must go in as rapid a manner
as he could. That the official did this very politely,
there is 10 reason to doubt these operations are
habtuay very civilly conducted, but 1t was done,
and Don Carlos eXpulsed
Thercupon retribution fell on the offenders almost
instantly. The persons charged with this sort of
communication had the Count de Chambord a.
prsed by telegraph of what had happened, and the
Count de Chamhord lost not an hour in sending
kilograms to the Right and to the Left, to his chief
adhorents here, to say this breach of faith
and must be punished. These kilograms were " de-
layed" as all suspected OF important kilograms
here since the 18th of May. Meanwhile the
Government organs were vehement in their
denials of Don Caross "eXpusionW Some said
he went to see his sick mother; Others that it
had merely been " limited to him" that his absence
might be agreeable" but all tried to deny expul
sion" as Justify as they endcavOred to deny the
famous d'Harcourt telegram about the " UltramOn-
tame" intrigues on the 18th. But one useless
as the other and as usual the truth was known
because the truth, in such cases. always is. Three
DAYS later came the letters from TIE court of
Trohsdorff which reached their destination; for if
it is easy to stop kilograms it is far more
difficult TO stop letters; it renders necessary deal
OF complication ard time. Well. the letters came,
and the fine delicate web of political maneuyering
was torn to shreds. The fact was that what il was
impossible to avoid had brought the Ministry into
an awful hornets nest of troubles. The comp
d6iGp had been made by all the Conservatives
t. e. By all the Monarchists-wth the Jesuits at
their backs! TO achieve even the bare formation
Of a Ministry at all, the Marshal haf been forced
TO declare that he would resist The CIeii-
icalsw This he denied. The public knew
the denial 70 be a faIschood but somehow
or other this was pastered over. Bat on
the expulsion Of his nephew,,Hen V. spoke out,
and the harmony Of the reactionaIies among them
selves was broken up. From that hour but not vi
them the weakness of the Government became ev:-
dent "Where are we Z" cried the Royalists.
You are betrayed came the voice from Froh'-
dorf land you shall abstain :" and at this present
moment the abstentiOn of the ROyalists spols tie
whole plot. "You can do nothing without u.s.
atiirns the official LegitimiSt organ, and we will
not cooperate either in a life presidency OF the
Marshal. or III an Imperialist surprise"
But then what's to be done? That laundering
bully Paul de Cassagnac, roars out every day that
eli that has been done has been for him and his
part y and he clamols for the Marshal being pun
Ished with the rest when the hour of retrlbuti0n
comes. lie declares that when hc is shot the Mar
sIal mist be shot too (cad the Pays of yesterday!
All this sounds tragical in the ears of humdrum
burchels, and people ak why anybody at all is to
be shot So tlat. from the hour when the Count de
Chambord ordered the Legtimists to declare against
the Orleans-BonapartIst conspiracy the position OF
q
the most unpleasant that it is possible conceive;
and how the inbroglio can be brought to concu-
SION is the question every asks now of his neigh
bors. The Marshal does not mean to be either be-
headed or shot; neither does any one contemplate
,roceedmr 10 such eXtremiteS with poor old King
or. but neither does the Marshal intend to vacate
his place; ne means 10 stay a. long he can;
for under the pIeteXt OF saving France" he finds
his existence very comfortable one indeed Stll
having made such desperately foolish beginning,
il is certainly not easy 10 what the end viii be.
II is important to set down one indisputable fact
before the eyes OF the public because the existence
oil tia. tact makes everything else clear the force
that mt in motion the whole nti-Repubhcan agpres
sion of the 10Th aud 18TH May not political
but clerical force The propelling force did come
from Rome.
What are termed "rcports" are very often true,
but where there are so many the interest lies IN
knowing which are the reflections Of the truth.
Now can youci, in the present case, for what was
the march of events, aud it is not hard to under
stand after that why the secret 50 perfectly
kept.
jules Simon OF bis nomination, was not mt ali III
received bv the clericas. He bad been noted in the
fr,t days OF the Republic for his extreme anliab-
itv 20 the bishops. and 1t had been said of him in
1872 by their Nuucio. Mgr. Chigi. that he was the
most charming Minister the Church bad yet had TO
deal with II was supposed that from his utter
want of character of backbone" he would be
pl,asant To work with. Aud SO Ia was till the di-