, 1894-10-13
lDailu TsIsaraph. Neps. llMl

1893 &S
1t is announced that the hear. Of the COmte
de Paris will probably be placed in an urn
and brought to France. The preparations
for the funeral now engross considerable at
%tention, and many Royalists have left or are
leaving for England. The Committee of the
'Jeunesse Royaliste" has despatched a tSle-
gram of coincidence t. the Due d'Orleans, and
Is sending a deputation of twenty members.
''The King Of France cannot be walked off
to the police station This was the answer
given more than once by the Comte de Cham
bord to hot partisans. who urged him to be
up and doing. The Due dOrleans got himself
arrested. and spent some time at the Conci6r-
gsrie and at Clairvaux. but that was during
his fathers lifetime. Now that he is the
head Of the family the repetition of such All
adventure would be a very different matter,
at least in the eyes of many of his supporters.
In the multitude Of counsellorS there is
safety" said the wise man; but it must he
confessed that the advice that is now being
volunteered to the young Prince is so con
aicting as to perplex the ~clrarest brain.
There is considerable speculation as to the
course which the Due d'Orleans NAV adopt.
nor is it confined to reactionary politicians.
"a not a few Republicans are also put
ting in a word on the subject. Perhaps this
is only natural under the circumstances the
mere SO as it il ne secret that seine of the
Younger and more inexperienced members of
the RoyaliSt party are in favour of an ener-
getic demeanour NJ. Paul de Casgagnac.
though he refrains from Offering advice eth.
or to the Due d'Orleans or to Prince Victor
Napoleon. remarks to day that the pretender
who will not wait vainly for France to 90 to
him, but will come to her, will stand the best,
chance of ascending the throne. If in form
er days Paris was worth a mass, France is
now we'll worth a prison. and prison will be
the path to the crown. On the other hand. NJ,
Francis Maynard, with his wonted sound
sense, after observing that hereditary
monarchy and plebiscitary Monarchy are now
represented by two young men, who are be-
lieved to be more eager for action than were
their fathers before them, and that Preten-
dsrs are usually criticised BY their paItisans
for remaining quiet, points out that every
Restoration or Revolution has been eff
fected with the completely of the majority Of
the people. He contends that if Napoleon
H., for instance. had only had the affairs of
Strassburg and Boulogne in his record he
would never have become Emperor. He had
power in his hands, and even then he ran a
great risk. The Comte de Chambord knew
all this we'll. NJ. Francis Maynard, in con-
clusiOn will not maintain that an anti Repub-
lican agitation may not occur some day but
he adds, and truly, that nothing leads one to
foresee such an eventually at the present
date. To turn to a more practical question,
some inquiry has been made as to whether
the death of the Comte de Paris may not have
the effect of modifying the position of his
family with regard to the exile law. No change
will, however, ensue. The heads of the ex-
reigniLg families and their direct heirs, in
the order of primcgeniture" we're banished
The Comte de Paris is no more, but the rule
still holds good with regard to the Duo dor
leans. The Duc d'Orleans has a younger
brother, but he is not his direct, but his
collateral heir so the youthful Prince Louis
Ferdinand Due lie Montpensier is not affec5-
ed. AS a matter of fact the law was passed
in Difference to Radical cutlery. When NJ. de
Frcycinet presented the bill to Parliament in
1886 he %candidly declared that he was not
afraid of the Pretenders. But he was afraid
of the Radicals, so this vexatious and useless