Year: 1872

NJ. Thlers claims to accept his seat with ready
grace and good will in that very chair In which the
majority wanted to force him to sit. SO far from
ever having had any objection to sitting there he
pretends that it is the very place OF all places
he was most anxious to take. His readiness in
giving way. when he found there was nothing else
to be done, approaches the comic; but the subject
IL SO serious that people do not laugh at it.


At the present moment the Partisan world rests
after fifteen days OF CRISIS and, looking around,
finds that it has passed through revolutions
veritabe Parliamentary revolution the first OF the
sort, by the way, 1t has gone through In many q.
day. And it is, perhaps, little indication Of im1
prOvement that the nation can stand the throes Of
revolution for fifteen days, and permit the contest
to remain strictly Parliamentary. 1t might have
been worse in a few days more, and 1t is not Alto
gether clear that 1t may not yet go into the Streets


As the substantial result OF the resolution we find
the position OF the government with respect to the
parties in the Assembly decidedly changed; but we
see no guarantee that the change will be per-
manent or that the future will be tranquil than
was the past. Only, the President having changed
his position the direction from which the danger
comes Is different; but the danger can scarcely be


less. He has gone nearer to the Right; but Of
course to do this he had to separate himself little
from the Lett; and while the progress made
toward the Right hardly satisfies that now
excited and pugnacious party, the separation
from the Left will raise furious outcry,
which will be splendid capital for the
agitators, who now propose regular CAM
paign before the people for the dissolution Of
Assembly. Into what new approaches toward the
Left the fury Of this camor before the country may
frighten M. Theirs it would be difficult to say but it
Is clear that he has lost prestige In his recent
encounter that every shade OF opposition will come
up with fresh spirit, and Thers can scarcely IN the
face OF general assault hold his present position.


Moreover, the Right will not rest. Its grand pur.
pose to compel Theirs to separate himself from
the Left; but the organs Of the Right regard the
actual achievementin in that direction as altogether
unsatisfactory, and hence will mainly use the
ground gained as position from which to strike
for more. But II the Right definitely separates
the President from all support Of the Left, what
then9 1t will throw him over. II he can once be
forced to lean the Right, and on that alone,
then the support will suddenly betaken away,
that he may fail. -


STRENGTH OF IMPERIALISM.


M Abbatucci recently said, "Ws afe thirty-Gve,
imperialists, heart and SOUL" People did not gen.
orally suppose that the imperial muster in the
Assembly was so strong as to give that many
downright adherents; but M. Abbatucci, no doubt,
can be trusted to keep the tally. Now 1t should be
observed that the maoritles, one way and another,





have been in the neghborhood of this in,-
perial quantity. And in o body somewhat
evenly balanced how great is the power OF party
OF thirty five that is In good discipline and whose
leader knows exactly what he wants. There is
also in this Assembly party Of tide-waters-
politicians whose only purpose is TO vote with tho
winners; and If this party, numbering hundred,
watches closely the tactics OF the thirty-nve, and
sees that they always turn the vote one way or
the other, then the thirty will soon have in.
the body the moral force OF . much larger party.


This is what has come to pass with respect to the
imperalists in the Chamber. It s their coalition,
with the monarchlsts that skilfully manGuvred
placed the government in It's very precarious posi-
tion; and OF course the putting Theirs little
nearer the Right was not the ultimate purport OF.
the imperial game, and 80 we may count upon see.
ing more or the tactics that produced this crisis.


In order to see very clearly the imperial hand in,
the events it Is only necessary to consider who,
would have been in position to reap the benefits
OF public convulsion il things had been forced TO-
an open collision. In what situation would the
Right-the ostenslble makers OF the criss-have.
found themselves They would have been hope.
lessly in the wrong before the country as the In
stigators to anarchy; they would have had no man
to put in Theirs place; they would have fallen to-
pieces In their inability to agree on sovereign in
whose name they might appeal to the army. And.
the Left, making its appeal to the country, would
have found itself in the presence OF an army organ
lied under the walls OF Paris TO put down the peo--
pie; and the Emperor would have shown his hand
and taken the stakes.