New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-12-22
THE FRENCH CRISIS.

There is 7 craphic touch in the dispatches
describing the extraordinary scenes enacted on
Tuesday in the French Parliament. ut the
moment Of adjournment all factions secliou %
he overwhelmed with defeat. The AUTHORIZE
ton of legal proceedings against ten eN-Min-
listers. Senators and Deputies had been demand
cd by the Government and nobody Neh'ared
to oppoSe IT, All we've afraid OF beng placed
in the att tudc of Shcltcring friends. All groups
were anxious. crc>,fallcH and appalled,. he
Chamber looked more like dead than living
organism. Not single group seemed 10 D" Il
victor" 81 demoralizing and eXhauSinS haa
been the session passed in examinations ana
determinations that there seemed 10 be com
plctc collapse Of public life IN France.
Seldom has there been in Paris such scene
of cnvenomcd passion and frcnzcd excitement
rs this tumultuouS session, fraught with de-
,tru,ticn to eminent regulations and with peril
10 existing Institutions. The new Ministry
confronted with Rcacticnlry conspiracy ana
Radical resentment, had been compelled Tor
scf-nle>crl alton 10 prosecute legislators AGAIN O
whom there was documentary evidence aprar-
emily discriminating. From this blow all lac
tons rocolcd yet 50 powerful was the thrust
that no one dared to parry II. Accused lead
els. while they proclaimed their innocence
confessed their immortality. Nothing more
astonishing was ever heard than NJ. RouyIerS
explanations regarding a secret service ilnd
contributed by personal friends for the neceN-
sites of responsible Government and en-
ployed myStcrioUSly for political purposes IN
filing the benches of the Legislature. Then
with one consent the Deputies fell amuck one
with another. There was Il tempest Of charges
and counicrchArgcs. The Eoyali>tS ch,crod
NJ Dcloulodcs angry taunt'. and y. Cicrnon-
ccau. white with rage. fumed with dcnuncia-
ton of his accuScrs and briSilcd with chal-
lcngcs TO dud>. Uncxamplcd tumult prevailed.
The air wa, electric with suspicion and hatred.
Memories Of the downfall of Theirs Wc'c Pc
yiyed. The boul,ya So.s.p- were taking
al mdni ghi about the possibilities OF barc"do'
and wondering what would happen on the
morrow
But baricadc> aud revolution are least likely
10 happen in Paris when they are cNrc.tcd.
Active as the agents Of the RolaIist, have been
and irrcconcilabla as the fcud, on the Ecpub-
lean side now seem there j. ~ leader on the
,c~nc who is capable Of heading u revolution.
Eoulangcr rs he wa, in the flush OF his popu-
larty might organize revolt il hc W,in alive
to-day: but there j. no leader who can carry
the army with him against the Republic y
for the ORLEANS marplol,, they are family oi
schoolmastcrS and pcdant-. without c3uras Tor
organizing 4 revolution, and with barely more
capacity for successful intrigue than i, required
for purchasing evidence in relation - the
Panama scandal. There j. reason 10 hone and
believe that the present storm. violent rs 1t i,
will speedily pass. clearing tho atmospheric ol
Paris and that the existing order will stand
for it is as true to-day rs when Thler first
proclaimed the final overthrow OF monarchy
siblc in France.