Year: 1876

uvity 10 M. Theirs, and considering the manner in
which he is abused by the semLofcal prints u is GER
tain that the President Of the Republic at
what afraid OF him. NJ. Thcrs indeed is said TO boast
that he has


EAcMAHoS AT HIS MERCY


and can either turn him out Of power allow him 20
exist su1erance II is whispered that the
eminent man OF the Place ST. Georges Is the most i'm
patient member OF the opposition because he cannot
AFFORD to wait on Providence his age in the same
manner as NJ GamDetta and the younger politicians
who surround him.


! am not disposed, however, to attach much impor.
tance to these rumors for NJ. Theirs himself assured
that he had desire to return to power and that,
once forced upon him, he should only accept it
on compulsion and with extreme reutance. There is
doubt the perfect sincerity OF this
tion the part OF statesman who has far out
stripped all his contemporaries in the race for fame
and honors In England Earl Russell, though scarcely
older than NJ Theirs has long since retired from ac-
tive life, and the late Lord Lansdowne passed many
years in repose before his useful ended Such
pariarehs become the philosophers and counseors OF
their party, and in that capacity their wisdom
perience is invauable for they guide their followers
only the more surely TO when they have them
selves neither private interests nor personal ambition
to


NJ THEIRS Is cHILDLEss AND vRRY RIcH,
IT is impossible to understand that he should have any
object in seeking for Office and should II be urged that
old men often love authority unreasonaby 1t may be
answered with perfect truth that NJ Thiers is unques-
tonably powerful and influential as chief of
the opposition than he could ever be as Chief State
No great measure could now be carried by MacMahon
his Ministers without the sanction, either expressed
or implied. ofM. Theirs, whereas I'M Thiers in
place he would have to do many things both against
his Will and against his convictions





has already naugurAted his new Senatorshp by stand.
ing forward as counsel for humanity against political
vengeance and has addressed solemn protest to the
President OF the Republic against further punshmens
being directed against the Communists Moreover he
demands that convict ship ordered to sail for New
Caledonia with political prisoners on the 1st Of March
next may be delayed till the meeting Of Parliament
because he is convinced that Of the first acts ofthe
Legislature will be to grant


AMNESTY.


Indeed persons who lay far behind NJ Victor Hugo
in their ideas OF political philanthropy and who hold
that certain amount Of wholesome severity is neces
sary toward the vanquished party in civil war, If
merely to secure the safety Of their conquerors will
nevertheless disposed think that after 1--WE ars
OF bitter and persistent revenge it is high time that
there should be end of active proceedings tending
the execution Punishment into penal servitude Of
the rank and file of revolution whose leaders have
escaped.


RouHER,


after moderately successful campaign In the prov
inces returned to Paris and has decided that
he need not 60 to Corsica, the nsurgent members Of
the Bonaparte family having been already sufficiently
discounted without regular hostities The imperialst
leader far wise court scandal and has doubt
urged upon his headed subordinaes that the
less public attention called the family quarrels
OF Prangin and Chselhurst the better. Probably
even N. Rouher might have been trusted to make up
the squabble with Prince Napoleon II the Empress did
not persist in printing many bitter things about the
Prince her newspapers and also, perhaps Prince
Napoleon could nnd something to 90 which would sat-
isfy his restless and ambitious nature well as lead
ing a separate band of Bonapartiss toward Cave OF
Adulum whittier creature at present wishes
TO follow them


One of the greatest hits which the Empress and her
have made for long time is their having per-
suaded Baron Haussmann come forward as a candi-
date for election in the First crcumscrpon OF Paris
His presence in the new Parliament would DO
of great advantage TO his party Indeed the
services rendered by Baron Haussmann to Paris are
brilliant and conspicuous that the most angry re-
publican is unable to deny the ustre which they
ferred the late reign because they could hardly have
been performed under any other form OF govern
ment absolutism, considering the exceptional
powers with which N. Haussmann was invested and
the of money placed at his disposal TO
adorn and purify Paris II must also be admitted by
every who familiar with Paris OF thirty
years ago that the end has fully justified the means
which employed, however they
condemned under the Empire, and there
fore, the voice OF H. Haussmann would carry
great weight in the Versailles Assembly. Moreover,
there is this TO be noted that NJ Haussmann is very
well of folks even declare that he Is extremely
wealthy, and that he will have very powerful follow
ing only Of contractors and expoctan
for public works, out OF which great fortunes may
always be made but he will enjoy also the energetic
support Of the house owners and landlords who own
property the numerous districts which he had
marked out for Improvement both in Paris and in other
large cities, and which condemned to ugness
and commercial ruin in consequence OF the abrupt
abandonment OF his plans when just the point OF
completion. It is estimated that the dodgers in the
Rue Louis e Grand alone lost moro than 81 600 600 by
the sudden term, nation OF the works which end
this street. and which make it OF the eyesorcs Of
Paris instead OF chief part OF its beauty.