New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-02-11

MENT IN THE CASE.
Paris Feb. 1O.-In the Chamber of Deputies
to-day VI. Pradin moved the repeal of the law
banshing pretendcrs to the French throne from
the country. The law, he declared, was an en-
ccptional measure. 1t wounded the patriotic SEN
tment of the people and prevented the descend
ants of an illustrious and warlike race from
serving their country. He demanded urgency for
his motion.
NJ Thevenct, Minister of Justice. opposed the
motion, holding that it would be unjust to abro-
gate the law, particularly now that certain ALI
anccs had been formed
NM. de Lamarsclla and Mitchell spoke in sup
port of NJ. Pradines motion, but it rejected
by a vote of 32S TO III.
The Legitimist party has been greatly bothered
over the little dilemma presented by the
scrape into which the Duke of Orleans has pre-
cipitated himself, and is unhappy at the ridicu-
lous spectacle of prince who has provoked a
foolish agitation at a moment when there no
good reason for any agitation whatever, and
nothing to he gained by making Yet,
while they feel thus, they are restrained from Civ
ing vent TO any such sentiment by the thought
that it would be leSe majestic for them 10 admit
that the heir of all the Bourbons is not the wiseSt
Of men, In this frame of mind they have been
sadly in want of somebody 10 blame for the
Princes adventure, and are now inclined TO come
out strongly, they have found at least two per-
sons upon whom they can lay the fault. These
persons are the Duchess dues and the Duke of
Luynes The Duke of Luynes is the comrade Of
d'Orleans, and the Duchess dues is the mother
in-law of the Duke of Luynes. 1t is admitted
that foolish ambition TO figure organizer
of events inspired the Duchess and that working
upon the younger pretender through
de Luynes, she set him on TO this
folly. The moral that the Republicans
draw from this is to point to the troublesome
times when more famous Bourbon Princes were
puppets attached to strings pulled by some in
trigung and ambitious woman, and TO reflect
that the Bourbons of to-day are the same as those
of other days
ton in the Deputies was foolish step. because
it has made the Imprisonment Of the young Duke
a party question. If the case had been left 10
the general good nature of the people, there
would hardly have been harsh thought about
il. Opinion had already shaped itself so readily
that even if plot had been shown 10 exist It
would have been laughed at like the plot OF a
comic opera, and the Government felt itself alb
solved of responsibility for anything more than
formal conviction, 10 be followed by pardon.
But the motion and Tote in the Deputies have
changed all that II presents the Duke as the
thin edge of a movement for the repeal OF law
that the nation desires To see maintained. Con
ssouentlv the Government will not, il is believed,
pardon the Duke Immediately after sentence. lie
must undergo at least part Of the Imprisonment
assigned by the law, and may perhaps be amnes-
tied with other offenders on July a.
The Countess of Paris. mother of the lmprls-
oned Duke, has arrived in this city. II IS an
nounced that the Count of Paris has abandoned
his proposed tour of America, and will return to
England. ,
It is reported that the Government has decided
that the Duke of Orleans shall be sentenced on
Wednesday to two years, ,ImprIsonlment: G wlGTe
upon President CarnOt will Immediately pardon
him. and lie will be escorted TO the frontier and
shown out Of the country
The Due d'Aumale has obtained permission to
visit his nephew in prison.