FRANCE.

Grey River Argus, Volume XV, Issue 1894, 1 September 1874, Page 2

FRANCE.

The position here is much the same as it was six months ago, save that the Left are more troublesome. The Bonapartists and the Radicals are preparing for the battle which they conscious must be fought between them. They are the only two serious belligerents. The former are frilly aware of the fact that they have been going on a great deal too fast, and the mot d'ordre has been given that they are to keep quiet for a time. They have determined to wait and see how events will turn, and the Legitimists are obliging enough to play into their hands, and render the formation of a constitutional majority impossible. M. Lucien Brun and his friends, acting under instructions from M. de Chambord, are about to call on the Assembly to proclaim the Monarchy, and will thus elicit a vote which will formally put it out of the question. But after that vote it is not to be expected that the partisans of M. de Chambord will acquiesce in it, and support the Right Centre in organising the powers of Marshal MacMahon. They will join the Ultra-Left and the Bonaparrists, and thus prevent the Assembly from organising the "Conservative Republic" under Marshal MacMahon, and leave no alternative but a dissolution, either by a vote of the Assembly, itself or by a coup de etat. It does not, as matters now stand, appear probable that a proposal for the dissolution can have a majority ; aud, therefore, the situation will be unprecedented even in the chequered history of France. The Assembly will not vote for the Monarchy, nor for the Republic, nor for the Empire ; it will not vote the measures giving a modus vivendi to the ruler whom it has appointed for seven years, and it will not sanction it 3 own dissolution. This dead lock can only have two issues. In any case, it is not thought that Marshal MacManon will resign, though he may be induced to appeal to the country to solve the problem which the Assembly is eithei unwilling or unable to deal with. The present state of uncertainty cannot endure ; and, as a member of the Right Centre expressed it the other day, any Government is better than none;