The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-01-24
VENTS IN FRANCE.
Resignation of a Portion of the Cabinet-Ex
Empress Eugenie in Paris.


Resignation of a Portion of the Cabinet-Ex-
Empress Eugenie in Paris.
PAEIs, Jan. 23.-There was a kind OF panic
on the Bourse yesterday. The events fol-
lowing Prince Napoleon's manifesto, the rest
lessnessain the Deputies, the uncertainty OF
the fate of government bills, and the news
paper denunciations have disturbed the pub
lie mind and created disquietude among
the property class. Holders of rentes and
other securities have throYn them on the
market for fear that revolutionary measures
may depreciate them. President Grevy
seems to have been affected by the recent
scare. A guard has been stationed at the
garden entrance to the Elysee, with muskets
loaded with ball cartridges.
A substitution has been opened in behalf
OF the families of the condemned anarch-
lists.
The result OF the elections in the bureaux
of the Chamber of Deputies for members of
the committees on bills dealing with the pre-
tenders to the throne is four in favor of the
governments bills with q certain restriction,
six in favor of Floquet's bill, and one in
favor of Ballue's. Eighty votes were given
for members favoring the governments
bills, and 12o for those favoring the bills of
Floquet.
It'll said the ex-Empress Eugene declares
the object of her visit is to mark her sym
Dathy with Prince Napoleon and her APP
proval Of his manifesto as a real expression
of Napoleonie principles. This, II is OBJ
served, is rather doubtful, owing to the
well-known GOODNESS between the ~ex-Empress
and the Prince.
The * Empress is staying at the Hotel du
Rhine, in the very apartments occupied by
Napoleon before his election as President.
To an interviewer she said: II have come to
France, using my right to testify to Napoleon,
the prisoner, my sympathy and my forgetful-
ness of all past discord. ! also come to
comfort the Princess Mathilde. What
l am doing is only a family affair.
I will make no political manifestation in the
presence of a government of which l know
nothing" The rooms at the hotel are taken
for a week by the Countess Pierrefond, and
many leading Bonapartists flock to the Hotel
du Rhine. 1t is stated that both Eugene and
the Princess Mathilde have received polite
hints that they would do well TO betake
themselves out of the country. Another
authority says the ex-Empress wishes
it distinctly understood that her pres
cnce in France at the present %juncture
must not be interpreted as having any po-
litical significance. DE Cassagnac, writing in
the Pays says: 1.-The Empress, with chival-
rous generosity, has forgotten Prince Je-
rome's past, his revolts. intrigues and am
billions. and merely considered that her place
was where the name Napoleon was being
prosecuted. This step by the admirable,
noble woman is perfectly natural and logi-
cal"
The magistracy bill was taken up in the
Chamber of Deputies to-day. After Clemen-
ceau had spoken in defence of a system OF
election, the sitting of the Chamber was ad-
journed to wait the return of NJ. Deves, min
lister of justice from a cabinet meeting at the
Eysee.
The B~onapartists deputies deny that any
of them will resign in order to create a va
carcy to be contested by Prince Jerome.
The idea of having Prince Jerome tried by
the Senate appears to have been abandoned.
Prince Jerome wanted to see a whole troop
of friends under the pretext that they were
his counsel. The Judge d'instruc-
ton has allowed Jolibois, a Bona
partist deputy, TO act IS his counsel; also,
allowing three advocates, but he has init
mated thist to be the last.
The police made a search in the Office of
the p etit Corporal for the manuscript of an
article which appeared in that paper urging
the I'm periaiists TO DE active and pressing in
proclaimipg Prince Victor Emperor OF
1fraace.
1t is certain that a ministerial crisis is i'm
minent.
1t is hardly possible to overrate the dan
cerOus character the Ministerial Crisis has
assumed. Three cabinet councils were held
on Tuesday.
sIGNATIoN or 4 PORTION OF THE MINISTRY.
When the news came that the special
committee showed a majority against
4hs government the Ministers of
WAR and Marine resigned. President
tGreyy urged them not to resign. He said:
You are a soldier, and you are a sailor;
] am quite sure you would
never desert your posts under fire, but, If
you retire now and leave me without a cabi-
net, that would be desertion."
Ata third cabinet council, at 8 O'Clock
last evening, matters were left prac-
sically unsettled. The cabinet will
reach n decision this morning. Late on
Thursday evening. il was aseertained that all
tie ministers, except Duclerc, Billot and Jour
1equibery, had resigned. In case the present
sabinet is definitely overturned, a Freycinei-
Iloouet ministry is spoken of.
The Duclere eabinet is virtually defurct.
Hhe political panic is undated. and fund
holders are throwing their stocks in the mar
ket. The want of a guiding star is universally
5olt. and the possibilities of a mill
4sry pronuneiament is freely talked
OF. Throughout the bourgeois
class there is q ~reaction against the
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