Year: 1874




the late Empire. W. H. II.


FALL OF THE MINISTRY. -ar
THE MOTIVES BY WHICH THE LEGrrIMIsrs WERE


INFLUENCED IN HELPING TO OVERTHROW IL


THEIR PRESENT FEELINGS OVER THEIR WORK


INCREASED PROSPECTS OF DISSOLUTION.
FROM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRTBUSE.I


PARIS, May 1s.-The fall of N. dc Broglie, with its
causes and consequences, is the absorbing theme.
1t has come sooner, and with more of rush, so to
say than he, or some who immediately contributed
to it, or the public generally were anticipating
like the death of Of your tough chronic in
vallds. When, two days ago, he made Cabinet
test question Of what seemed only question OF
precedence he had fair show of reason for expecting
to carry 1t by majority of from eight to twenty,
and would have been glad, If not contented with
even less, in these days Of small things 1t went
against him, in full House, by clean majority of
g. which little more discipline in the Opposition
would have raised to 50. The formal question was,
on fixing the order of the day, whether the
General Electoral law or the Municipal law
should first come on for discussion. The
Government insisted that the former should have
precedence. Though the principle of neither law
was brought into debate, the question involved
variety and complication Of others. The bill Of the
General Electoral law that has been prepared is you
will recolect, calculated to disfranchise almost one
third Of all French citizens AS excessive viola
tion of universal suffrage it is in itself offensive to the
last degree to true Republicans and to Imperialiss.
Imperiasts and all but the more moderate Republi-
hostile to it the general ground that it is
a constitutional law, which, therefore, this Assem-
bly, not being properly constituent has no right to
discuss.


Thorough Legtimists, who are the last to question
the constituent right of the present Assembly,
pressingly object to its instant exercise in this in
stance for several reasons If this law passed
the one of all the constitutional laws that has the
least bad chance of passing-t is feared that it
would be something in the nature of last will and
testament not to say self-signed death warrant,
after which, wearying the impatient public and
itself by or less prolonged idle struggles the
Assembly must fall into dissolution. But In this
Assembly, and in this alone is their last best chance
las in it is the first plausible show of one since 1890
of bringing back their true Roy lThe pure old
Bourbon is spelled with w. and is much more right
royal than any constitutional Ro with modern,
Orleanist to it'll They refused, then. precedence to
the electoral over the municipal law, not from any
ardent affection for the latter, but with the idea
that, having it first in order, what with debate on
it and other incidental matters and accidents, the
organization of the Septennat, and, much worse, its
organization with q Republican tendency,
could be delayed for months to come.
In this way the chapter of accidents and the doors
of unconsttuted France would be kept indefinitely
open to hope and the Joyous entry of her true king
from Frohsdorf In addition, but in intimate rela-
ton TO these reasons, was the One touched with
passion of personal hostility to the late chief of the
Cabinet They felt that with his eyasive, subtle
,,1o no had
ing their king with his Orleanist Jacks and sur
reptitiously winning by knavish tricks over their
honors. And so SO Legitimists joined with 10
Bonapartists to drive ont the Duke de Broglie by
greater majority than brought him into power 1t
hardly seems to have entered into their calculations
that his colleagues must follow NJ. de Broglie
in his fall that little as they had cause to
like him, they were in no case to secure successor
whom they could like more, Ministry III which
they should have larger representation. Ihey are
like mschevous children now, startled at the ruin
of their own making and prettly anxious TO assure
Papa MacMahon aud the mother country that they
did not mean any disrespcct to him, and did not
mean to break up the Cabinet. They would Ike to
have il restored and back again as 1T was, only WITH
a new top-pece in place of the broken Duke, who,
by the way. should be credited by the late merit
of falling. not with large dignity nor from an ele-





gentlemanly grace of decenson, and of covering his
painful sense of the fall at bottom with show OF
decent cheerfulness.


The day before his going down he exposed to the
Assembly. prefacing it with remarkably ingenious
explanatory lecture his device for the creation and
functional organization of Second Upper Cham
Der, by him called Grand Council 1t is rs curious
as Chinese puzzle, to which its peculiarly artihcial
and impractcabe features lend it other features OF
resemblance. 1t is relegated now to the outer
Limbo room of the French patent-government office,
and must not be spoken of in detail. Ii IS apt to
say of it in the general that, II this extra
ordinary piece of Government machinery could
be once set in running order, III womb
pretty effectively run over and run out the
national will and wish as expressed by universal
suffrage, and run in, at the will OF its temporary
Presidential engineer, the stadtholdershp or the
Dnkc d'Aumale Of the Orleans line with the paiace
car of the Count de Paris Louis Philippe H. in its
train This scheme of Grand Council, reminding
Parsians of bygone romauces of Venetian history,
and scenic effects of comic and buresque operas and
the Council Of Ten, and its ministerial sponsors
Italian origin, is already fallen helpless under a
storm of light ridicule. But it helped perhaps, as
much by its patent impracticability as by its In
tended violent aggression on not to say authorta-
tive suppression Of the sovereignty OF the nation. to
the overthrow Of its proposer and his fellow Minis
ters.
70 to this present date OF writing Monday
noon) honest President MscMahon has been as
fruitlessy as diligently seeking the means and
the men, by which and by whom he may transently
fill their vacated places. What success he has met
with to-day, and how long if met with. 1t can resist
the fatal current of events that must force the
combination to give way to ITS transient
are questions of which the remotest rural
subscribers TO TIE TRIBUNE are quite as competent
10 risk conclusions as your Paris correspondent
The large meaning of the, in sort, accidental
and incidental, vote of want of confidence of the
,c.h af Mar IN fhat whatey yer the aestiOnable con-