Year: 1873

at first evidently determined to make final
and thorough effort to prepare for the de1nl-
tive establishment of the monarchy. But all
at once, when they were near the end OF their
deliberations, they appeared to have imDlbed
the conviction that the tone of public opinion
was too hostile to justify them in breaking
with the Executive land pursuing a frankly
reactionary policy. The consequence was
report In which the only especially significant
clause was the one insisting upon the con-
stituent powers of the Assembly, and when
this came into debate, its dangerous signifi-
cance faded away and it was plainly seen that
the government of the Republic had nothing
to fear from it, and the Monarchy nothing to
hope. The constituent power is given up TO
the Assembly, and after all the long wrangle,
the majority see no means of making use OF
it. The Journal des Debdts wittily compares
it to the ancestral saber of Opera-bOuffe, which
every one inhents every one brandishes and
chershes, and no one uses.


In the hot discussion of the Sd of March,
the text of which is now before us, it is curl
GUS to observe the wider resources and supe-
rior freedom of .the Moderate Republicans
compared with the petulant and embarrassed
utterances of the Right. NJ. Bertauld, who





sustained the report, took occasion in doing
it to intimate clearly to the Government that
It's intentions for the future could no longer
be prudently concealed. The true intent OF
the Pact of Bordeaux was to accomplish a
truce OF parties while the enemy renamed III
the country, and added to this was the sec
ondary and tacit understanding that the Re
public should have the credit Of whatever sue
cess it might attain during theprovsional period
VI. Baragnon, who followed him, showed how
deeply the mOnarchcal section were vexed at
the turn of affairs, by a vehement attack upon
the Republic 1t was equally astonishing and
unsatisfactory to them to find that the victory
they had gained in Committee had not in the
least advanced their cause, and that the Mod
crate Republicans had calmly and confidently
accepted the new situation, just as the Gov
ernment had done, and proposed to make the
best of it. The debate, according to subse-
oncnt dispatches, continued in the same
course. NJ. Theirs again announced his adj
hesion to the Pact of Bordeaux, and the re-
port of the Committee was adopted with
very large majority


1t is impossible not to perceive how every
thing is working together for the Republic.
The death OF the Emperor has already dis
solved the organization of the BOnapartist
party. Paul Cassagnac and Dugu6 de la Fau-
connere are already engaged in fierce
polemic. and the Prince Jerome Napoleon has
left the conspiracy. The COmte de Paris and
his cousin of ChambOrd seem hOpeessly
cstranged. But better even than the dissen-
SONS of it's enemies is the practical success OF
the provisional Republic. The recent exhibit
of NJ. Leon Say is the strongest possible argu-
ment against new revolution. He presents
the most satisfactory budget which has been
seen in France for years. There is now no
longer any doubt that the final milliard OF the
indemnity will be ready before it is required,
and the present Government will add to the
laurels it has gained in preserving order and
healing the wounds of war; the more striking
achievement OF prompt and honorable liberia
ton of the territory from foreign occupation.