The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-11-19

selves thclc, OF, II tn'l pitl't IT, VI "IP''"'
ing deputies who belong to the Legislature
to defend them by proxy. Tho position OF
the now Ministry. If il Is formed, will be
humiliating and anomalous in the annals OF
parliamentary procedure. They will attend |
all the sittinRs of the Assembly and senate,
and tan, pau in theis ha'oe IN so far rs
thcirvarious departments are concerned, but !
will have no power OF voting. They will moi
Their have that influence and authority which |
English Ministers have as representing |
popular constituencies and loading party !
with the po.iii set struggle If which they
are identified az u-tiNccuu atlantis, with the
right to back their policy with their votes,
nor will they have the Independence which
li, .t.4s4i,lI .t.. % .I, s.. they will
hc mere Presidential mouthpicces. put
up to express the views of Mcssrs BROoLiE,
FoURrOU. and company, In the hope that
their fecbcncss and obscurity may avert
the hostility which the aggressive attitude
of their predecessors had excited. That
they can hope to bc supported In any meas
urc by the Chamber as at present consti-
tutcd Is out OF the question, and the pro-
yisional character which is attributed to
them suggests the idea that their only func-
tiuns will be to try and induce the Cham
Der to pass the budget and other measures
necessary to keep the Government going.
The cfrs.t of an act which IL evidently n
sign of weakness ON the part Of the Presi-
dent will certainly be to encourage the Re
publican party. who are acquiring strength
and prestige every day throughout the
country, and whose moderate attitude and
skilful manu'uvring so far have won them
confidence and admiration. Their recent
tactics by which, instead Of pressing the
| motion for an inquiry into specific cases
| If undue influence in the election Of Gov
eminent candidates. they have substituted
n general inquiry into the mode in which the
| recent elections were conducted, have pre-
| vented the threatened retirement on massc
| Of the 203 Conservative members. They
| could not in dccency withdraw on the ground
that they were opposed to a general inquiry
~ this nature. while they might have
charged the reports which were hostile to
their candidates in specific cases to political
injustice on the part Of the majority, and
have found a plausible excuse for refusing
10 act in "A Chamber where minority candi-
dates were improperly unscatcd for party
purposes.
50 far in their political calculations the
themselves shortsighted in the extreme. In
the first place, they altogether misiudged
the strength of the Republican sentiment
of the country, and the extent to which
Government pressure might prove effective
and found themselves after the elections in
II worse dilemma than they were before. In
the second place, they falsely estimated the
attitude which the Senate would take in the
event of the elections proving unfavorable.
There can be- no doubt that, counting upon
the addition of the four new life Senators,
just put in to fill up vacancies, and which
gave the Conservatives an assured majority
in the upper Chamber, they regarded n
second dissolution rs Il certainty, and they
always intended to fan back upon this
power Of dissolution in the case Of the
country returning Republican majority
But 1t now turns ont that Monsieur BoCIIEH
and his Orlcanist following hold the bal
ancc Of power in the Senate. This party
buried in obscurity ever since the
early days of Monsieur 1HIERs's adj
minstration. have thus unexpectedly
and So far a. the Marshal il concerned. very
inopportuncly. risen to the surface. Dread
ing Imperialism far more than republicans
ism, and 10y no ulean7 un friendly terms
with the Lcgitimists the Oronnists hay,
now for the first time n chance of PLAYING a
game for themselves Monsieur BocIWR /.
, the mitigate friend and confidential adviser
OF the Duke D'AUMALE. whose maxim j,
that everything comes in time To- him VIII,
knows how to wait The Duke D'AUMALI
has long been Of opinion that he would make
a better President than either Monsieur
THEIRS or Marshal IMAGINATION. and thcr,
-. cun be- no doubt that he would be far les,
!, arbitrary than the one, and far more intel
, ligent than the other But neither he MOI
his party Is popular; the Republican,
would distrust him rs "A Monarchist and thu
Monarchists would regard him as IA traitor /
ne became a candidate for the Presidency
Nevertheless. it sometimes happens that
man who is trying To stand on two stools
I, | instead Of falling between them, succeeds il
IL accom- li~hinS the feat. The comprumi-'
candidate IL not infrequently the man wh'
has never been supposed to have IA chance
q from the outset.
France has to face choice Of evils Sh
Is placed between the perils Of imperialism
n and an escape from them by civil wal
Y Sooner or later tins il the dilemma int
/. which -h" viii find herself forced, unless sh
Il can avoid 1t 10y II compromise and Tia
De- OrlcanIst compromise may prove the leas
Is inlolerahlc. Already nn extraordinary raj
procurement has taken place between me
q vino. seven years ago were widely separate
Is by their political sympathics Such men IA
# LOUIS BLANC and Monsieur RENAULT ar
e now drawn into a common policy, in ordc
e. 10 meet "A common danger. The number ,
a the cNtrcmr radicals has been diminl-hc
- by the last elections, and the Ropuhlica
party II more humOg" than it has eve
been before he hnc which divides tn
Right and Left Centres is becoming ol
a aeurrd in PROMOTION ~ the men who mc'
o., on either side of II arr dominated by n sens
, Of tine impending dangers AMI become coI
H. viurcd that they have a common interest
D., ,orAiu-s toaNcrt them, and That they mu'
., unite for tho purpose
~, That tine Senate Will refuse second dis
= solution we are firmly convinced, for eve
, the moderate conservative must adm
- That after thr voice of the country hu