The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1883-02-24
THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

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ton; Cholmel Lacour is Minister of Foreign
Affairs; Wsldecok Penseau Minister of the In
terror; Martin Fowet, Minister of Justice:
Charles Brun, Minister Of Marine; Meline,
Minister of Agriculture; Harrison, of Commerce
Cookery, of Posts and Telegraphs; Reynal, OF
Public Works; Tirard, of Finance;
General Theboudin, Minister of War;
The former Cabinet was headed by M. Duclerc
as President; NJ. FalliereS was Minister of the
Interior; NJ. Deves, Minister of Justice; M
Tirard, Minister of Finance; General Billot,
Minister OF War; Admiral Jaureguiberry,
Minister of Marine; M. Cookery, Minister OF
Posts and Telegraphs; M. DE Manly, Minister
of Agriculture; M. Pierre Legrand, Minister of
Commerce. 1t will have been seen tn at but
two members of the old Cabinet M. Cookery,
and M. Tirard have place in the new one.
They were with De Freycinet too, before Du-
clerc's Cabinet was formed; as were also
aureguberry, and De Many. Under
the Duclerc administration Billot, Jauregui-
berry, Cookery and De Many retained the
portfolios they had held under De Freycinet,
and Tirard, Duclerc's Minister of Finance,
had been De Freycnet's Minister OF Com
merce.
French Cabinets have, since the Dufaune
Ministry, been remarkably short lived. The
Ferry Cabinet administered from September
70, 1880 to November IS, 1881. Then Gam
beta went in Office and continued till Ian
uary 81, 1883. He was followed by De
Freycinet, who retired the subsequent August.
when the Duclerc cabinet was appointed,
which was dissolved to make way for the
Ferry Cabinet formed day before yesterday
The Duclerc Cabinet was weak one and,
when deprived by the death Of Leon Gambetta
of that sustaining influence without which it
evidently could not have existed, it became
vacillating, nervous, apprehensive. In the
composition of the new Cabinet an effort is
apparent to ProPitiate all the factions recently
clamo'ing against the power regnant. In the
selection of Theboudn as Minister of War the
army, great institution in France, has its
demands satisfied, and the bour-
geoise, it is said, have repre-
sentatives in Brun, Reynal and Tirard.
Thinking of all that has happened in France
lately it is gratifying to the friends of free gov
eminent TO witness the unmistakabe indica-
tons of stability in the French Republic. The
dynasties are dissolved to vapor, even over
shadowing Napoleonism, in itself a shade
But few weeks ago Europe gave an atten-
tive ear to the confdant boast of the Imperial
lists that ''they were ready" Yes, but France
is ready, too. Ready with her imperial SOW
ereign, crowned and throned, who is her
citizen. He wears his consciousness of ROYALTY
like true Prince, and the flag that waves
over him is inscribed Liberty, Equality and
Fraternity" 1t is the banner of France. His
intelligence is her sceptre and his will her
sword. She has treated the treaty of an i'm
perialistic plebiScite as breach of the peace
and answered by her gems d'arme and Jail.
Plebiscite for what? Why should not any
Jean Crapeau have plebiscite to ascertain
if he is not wanted for imperial
uses - why M. Jerome Bonaparte
After calm and dignifed debate, not char
acterized by the volatile and vehement ex-
citement common to Frenchmen, the Depu-
ties declared, by vote of 342 to 1872, that
imperialism and royalty were too contempti-
bic TO be feared. Not that the question was
that on its face, for it concerned the treatment
of the princes, but we state what it denoted.
And no wonder. What greatness was ever
fritted TO so fine a dust Under Napoleon
the Grand France was mistress of Europe;
her crowns were her baubles; under the late
Louis Napoleon she was the whipped
spaniel of a single power, her treasury
bankrupted her realm dismembered,
her military prestige destroyed, her name dis
graced. France has worked Napoleonism to
its dregs. There is nothing more to be made
of it. Sad, indeed, it is that the greatest mill
tary hero that has ever lived in the tide of time
could not have left more than name, could not
have been spared all of which he was not
part sad to follow Napoleonism from Water,
loo to Sedan, from Sedan to the nameless
disaster among the Zulus, where it vanished
as substantive thing, for all following that
event is-well, nothing is not the word. There
is not enough of 'Napoleonism to-day extant
to supply mausoleum with decent iuscrp-