New-York tribune., 1879-11-28
POLITICAL FERMENTS.

MARSHAL cANRoBERl's ELFCTION-ITs POLITICAL
SIGNIFICANCE AND POSSIBLE RHSULTs-M. LEON
SAY AND THE FINANCIAL SCANDALS.
lFRoM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT oP THE rRIBuNR.J
PARIS, Nov. 1.-THE election OF Marshal Cau-
robert does not change anything in the Senate but
il will tend to strengthen Bonapartst ferments.
Marshal Canrobert is in active service, and occupies
high military posts essentially reNoeabe IN Their
nature. He is a bumptiOus, boastful little man;
very daring and the personal friend of divers heirs
10 ancient crowns who have congratulated him on
his election and who encourage him To persevere IN
what in his letter 10 friend at the head OF the
committee which carried his election in the Char
ente he called " the good fight" The Marshal Is
pleasant staggering soldier. and excellent company
at a small dinner party. He has dash and pluck in
the field the high spirits, keenness and fluent tongue
of a Gascon, and about much conscience OF re-
spect for law or legality buzzing buebottle fly,
which eats. defeS and corTupts the cold meat III the
larder has for the rights of property Indeed there
is much of the bluebottle In the nature OF CanrOb-
ert. His baptismal name Is Certain. In
the army he was nicknamed Uncertain Canrobert,
because there was no reliance TO be placed III his
military schemes. At SebastOpOl, where lie sue
ceeded TO ST. Arnaud. he allowed the siege to drag
on and was the indirect cause of the fearful NOR
tahty In the trenches. Things were going on there
from bad to worse when Pelllser rough brute,
but man of head and energetic will, was sent cut
there To supcrsede him and put an end To a shlly-
hally mode of warfare fatal in its consequent
ces than the carnage of the battlefield. Neverthe-
less Canrobert the Black Man who used 10 warn
newspaper editors what they were not TO write
about with his tall talk obtained for himself at
the end of his CrimNan fasco the reputation OF one
of the most valorous captains Of his time. The
Queen of England had him at her left-hand the day
she first dned at ST. Cloud, and the sketch she
made of him IN her journal shows that by his gas
conade he succeeded in throwing dust IN Her
Majesty's eyes. A marriage with Scotch
lady drew him closer 10 the Royal famny
of Great Britain, with whom lie ana MS
wife are on terms of intimate friendship. When
the Prince and Princess of Wales and the Care
witch and Czarevna were last here, Canrobert was
invited 10 parta<e OF snug little dinners with them
in a cabinet pdrticulier in the Cafe Anglas. In the
the Italian campaign he acted with such precipita-
,ian and ignorance of the ground on which he had
10 maneavre that he himself admits he would
have been surrounded and taken prisoner if the
Austrians had had reliable Spies OF II they had not
overestimatcd his ability. They gave him credit
for knowing bis business, which he did not know
when he was intrusted with the command oi a large
body of troops and so he got out OF what appeared
to him. when he was entanged in II, an inextricable
scrape At Gravelotte he was courageous, but an
incompetent leader: and after all, he himself, at
the BaZlinC Court MdTtluI, NHtlt hc dpHt"ch 80
a witness; created the legend of his splendid
bravery.
CANROBER1's DANGEROUS POPULARITY
Canr0bert Is dangerous because of his hopeinl-
ness his unblushing brag and his pleasant manners
which secure to him popularity in the army. What
obtained for him a Marshars baton was the part he
took in the massacre of the Boulevard MOntmartre.
Iis he who devised the expedient of preparing the
soldiery for their saDguinary mission 10y getting
them drunk and his cry IN front of the Maison
Ssllandearze was RrrdR my boys. AT them"
Hence his other nickname Of "RrIanObert' The
"rrran" initiated at once tie purring of a cat and
the beating Of a drum and 1t was characteristic OF
the little tubshaped soldier whom English roy
atty is pleased to honor with its friendship.
II arranged by the Bonapartst Committee
for the Senatorial election in the Charente-the
Brandywine district par crcelieHce of France and
the most lmperialist Department-that no address
was 10 be issued by the candidate whO however,
wrote letter 20 a friend meant for publication,
which did just as WELL In this epistle the Marshal
came forward as political man, and announced.
as already stated. his intention 10 fight the good
fight in the Senate. lie would not have sought 10
enter that Chamber If there had been "A respect
able minority. Bnt IL is wretchedly small that
nen OF energy are wanting. and the Marshal nat-