New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-08-09
POLITICAL CONDITIONS IN FRavcr

France under its present constitutional nrac
uce Is not exposed TO any excessive strain OF
| pOlitlcal excitement. A Presidential vacancy
is filled as soon as the Chambers meet as n M.
t'ohai Assembly, and there il not even n furry
OF agitation in the boulevards. The prepara-
tons for the general elections are made with
| extraordinary rapidity. During the last week
In July the Government announced its intention
| OF holding the elections on the DIST Of this
month. The date was unexpectedly close. as
| the term of the present Chamber would not cy
pire until the middle of October. and II had
been generally supposed that the electoral con.
| test would be deferred until the end of Sem
TENDER, when the peasantry would be in excel-
| lent humor over the results of the harvest and
| consequently would have leisure TO take an in
terest in politics and appreciate the benefits of
stable government. BY this skilful mannuyre
! or the Ferry Cabinet the active work of the
entire canvass is compressed into three weeks
an additional week being allowed wherever
secoho paiiots may be necessary. As there ia so
snort an interval there are fewer chances of new
combinations and startling surprises. The not
VIII DC skinned before it has fairly begun TO
Don over. The present Deputies will be more
ihciy 10 De renomlnated, as the constituencies
VIII not have IN opportunity for n Deliberate
10 the people will tend to diminish popular ex-
element and to secure ii return of the majority
OF the present Deputies
The most careful observers in Paris are nro-
dieting the reelection of the main body Of Re-
publican Deputies, with gain of thirty or fort,,
seats from the factions of the Right. The loseos
VIII naturally be sustained by the Bonapartists
ana the Legltimists, and the Deputies who NAV
DC returned IN their place will be moderate Re-
phpllcans. The Left Centre and the Pure eff
ought 10 PROFIT by these changes Their ov,
ranks, however, may be thinned out bv deser-
uohs 10 the more advanced sectious of tbo
party. Oambetta's programme while q mod
craze one III many respects, strikes higher kcv
.h'h mas yet been pitched outside of the Ex
|eihe Lelt. The movement of the copstitu
ehcieS may be In the same direction The ont
going Deputies i'll seeking % denomination NOV
ma IL necessary to keep pace with the advanced
Thought of the party, and those who lao behind
may be displaced. The processes of assin,iIa-
uon ana reconstruction which Gambetta bonod
10 facilitate through the application of tho
ocrutin dc Lste may go Oh uninterrpn+odI |
under the SYSTEM of district elections so ,bot
the majority In the incoming Chamber will bo |
independent OF groups and factions. Wbetber |
tnat Chamber will be essentially different from
'he present one-that is, more moderate or mora
"u'ahceo, ana IN either case more homogeneous
-is something which we do not venture to fore
casc Inc ferry Cabinet having shortened the
CANVASS ana taken the constituencies somewhat
ny surprise the force OF public opinion will not
10 oroushC 10 bear upon the constituencies an
directly as it would have been, if leisure ho1
oceh aiiowed Tor scrutinizing the records of the
outgoing Deputies and making q critical CON,
parlsOn of candidates
Whatever changes there may be in the sbad-
ing of the groups the dominant elomnut on
remain as it is. The Republic has coma to ho
regarded by all classes not merely as tbe orIS
possible form of government in France hrt =.
ncomparaDly the best the country has ever hod
lhere has been nothing in the recent corrso 90
egsiaclon or administration which can have
'ilehated the sympathies of the great BODY IF
'o'ers VINO have stood steadily by the Renublc
ior 10 the reactlonary factions, which oncn
haue such impassl0ned appeals for nonplar
uPpofI against party that was assumed Tn bo
% crazy MS 1t was irreligous, defude tbem-
Gives WIN the hollow pretence that the nation
Oh their SIDE. The Republicans have pona on
how sane they are There hoe | !
ech' IL is tiue, Venturesome change in for@t ,
IGN poncy indicative of colonial extension ana
ossloiy Oh rampant spirit of Chauvinism. but ,
mas not created any feelings of uneasiness and ,
ismay among the peasantry. 1t is even safe to !
ss!ime that one of the weakest spots in the ,
atonal character-a Frenchman's VANITY ,
as oeen touched and enlarged by increased ,
resuge III Europe. Only one voice was heard
Ihe Chamber of Deputies against the Tunis- i
III exploit, and there have been no manifesto
ons OF discomfort or criticism ON tbe mart Of ;
10 nation. There is, therefore, every reason
)r thinking that the Renuhlicanu viii L. -. :