The New York herald., 1878-08-18
PARTISAN FLASHES.
Bismarck Presses MacMahOn to LegiS-
late Against Socialism.
A CONSERVATIVE UNION.
Bonapartist Demonstration
on the 18th Of August.
THE COMING THEIRS FETE.
Gilmore, the Indomitable. Triumphant in
Brassbandland
TTREpTV I'D ATEpNITV MATERNITY
LIBERTY. FRATERNITY, MATERNITY
General Grants Progress
Through Muscovy.
HIS INTERVIEW WITH THE CAR.
[BY CABLE TO THE HERALp.)

PARIS, August II, 1873
warm gusts and rain, which do not make up
very comforting state of affairs out doors,
but still the crowds circulate, and the ways
out to the Exposition are thronged. As ON
excitement for Parisians proper the great
show no longer operates so successfully. It
is y left to the provincials the Brit
ish, the Americans and foreigners gen.
orally. These good people having money
to spend are welcome, and they furnish
mild sort of fun to the lounging boule-
vardeurs, who pass unkind comments on
the men and cast adoring glances at the
women if they happen to be pretty. The
concentrated egotism of the Partisan Jtlaneur
is one of the most amusing things in this
city of odd people to study. It is very diff
ferent from that of the stiff backed English
man, who looks all the time as if he was
resenting an insult to his curious dignity
A BoNAPARTIsT ANNIVERSARY.
On Thursday, which was the anniversary
of the birth of the first Napoleon-15th
August, 1769-and the Feast of the Assump-
ton of the Blessed Virgin in the Roman col
endar. the Bonapartists, under M. Rouher,
assembled in great numbers at the Church
of st. Augustine, where q solemn high mass
was offered up for the reposc Of the soul Of
the Great Napoleon. The Bonapartists have
become very religious in their celebrations.
BY going to church on anniversaries like
this they demonstrate" with certain
effectiveness and in manner that keeps
them within the law.
OLD yIsTERNTns.
The 18th Of August is thehgreatest Of all
their anniversaries, and under the reign of
the man who lies at Chiselhurst France
blazed, blared and Haunted from Dunkirk
to Marseilles on this day through the
strenuous efforts of the projects and by n
liberal use of the public funds. About
the time that Napoleon III. was "crown-
ing the edlfce" which was so soon to
be knocked over by kick from
Bismarck's boot, he thought that this ami
versary would be good time to issue an
amnesty. This was in 1869, and the Moni-
teur of that date proclaimed that the exiles
of the coup d<tat might return. They came
back, but they did not prop the "edifice"
when the kick came. m
A REPUBLICAN, FxrE.
In connection with this anniversary busi-
ness it may be noted that the republicans
are arranging grand solemn fste for Sep
tember 3, the anniversary of the death of
Theirs, and they Furthermore propose to
make it the great republican fete day for
future years, as set-off to the Bonapartist
18th of August. They will have solemn
high masses also.
SOCIALISM AGAIN.
Politics continue active. The socialist
question is absorbing the attention of the
government. Prince Bismarck is bringing
q strong pressure to bear upon MacAlahon
to present to the Chambers and push the
adoption of q law repressing socialism simi-
lar to the law proposed in Germany. If
MacMahon yields we shall hear some strong
language. There are uneasy rumors from
Spain of socialist troubles, in Catalonia and
Estremadura especially.
CONSERVATIVE UNION
A sign OF the political future may be
found in the formation of q conservative
committee consisting Of legitimists, Or
leanists and Bonapartists to resist the prog
ress Of radicalism. It is proposed to run
the Due d'Aumale for President in 1880 on
conservative platform.
BoNApAnrisr JUDGES.
It is just possible that the reactionaries,
helped by few extreme radicals who are
tired of being muzzled by Gambetta, may
get up socialist scare in some of the largo
cities. but the organization of the republi-
can party isstrong, and its leaders are quietly
getting the reins Of power into their hands.
One of their greatest difficulties arises from
the holding of Office by men who got there
during the Emnirc and carrying thair ola