Tue immediate future of France is in the hands of President Carnot, and he is so far an unknown quantity. What his characterreallyis, is somewhat problem magical; so far he has confined himself to the ceremonial duties of his post, which he has performed with satisfaction, but whether he is the man to hold the reins in a political crisis remains to be seen. "The election of General Boulanger for Paris was a very important step in the General's career, for Paris hitherto has been most hostile to him, and the capital has now confirmed the voice of the country. On the Ist of February the Chamber, as an answer to that election, sed a vote of confidence in the the 11th it adopted M. Floquet's latest mistry by a lange majority, and on
"pill against the earthquake," the substitution of serutin d'arrondissement for serutin de liste, and four days aft wards the Ministry is turned out. The rats have deserted the sinking ship with unusual precipitancy.
If President, Carnot is really a strong man and can rely on the army,—though the adhesion to General Boulanger of General Montaudan, who was elected for the Somme on the 6th of Jaunary, is a significant testimony to the incorrectness of the assertion that the army is against the "Cafe Chantant St. Amaud'—he may defer the dissolution and summon a conservative cabinet. He may shew France that so far he has bowed to the popular will as represented by the Chamber, and has accepted the ministries it wanted; that it is impossible to go farther now in the direction of radicalism, and that it is necessary to revert to the more conservative republicans, the Ferrys and the Simons; for unpopular as M. Ferry is with' a large section of politicians, he is undoubtedly one of the ablest men, if not the ablest, in the Chamber. But if M. Carnot is in any doubt about the tone of the army, or is mentally unequal to the present difficulty, there will be a dissolution, and that apparently means the triumph of Boulanger, and the resizuation of President Carnot.
After that no one knows what will happen, for no one knows what Boulanger is. France is much in the condition she was in when the First Consul took the reins. She is sick of the present parliament, of their squabbles, their unfulfilled promises, their struggles for their own advantage and their neglect of the country. All the discontented have united on General Boulanger; he represents to each man, conservative, monarchist, imperialist, what that man wants and sees it impossible to attain under the present parliamentary regime. Ifhe is really a strong man, the army and the people may rally round him. France is conservative at bottom; those who possess something are more numerous and stronger than those who have come to the city.
It continued to nothing, and they will support a man be a place of great trade to which who will give them and order, foreign merchants resorted down to who will brush away the tribe of pettit the issue of the Edict which confined fogging politicians who have brought intercourse with foreigners to Canton. the parliamentary institutions into dis-John de Marignolli, described by Colonel grace. He represents for the moment Yule as a credulous and confused so many discordant views that if he Friar, visited Zayton or Hangchow, early comes into power, he can only satisfy in the fourteenth century and described some of his present supporters, and will it as "a wondrous fine seaport and a evoke a strong opposition from the city of incredible size." but it is doubt-disappointed; "but if there is really ful whether he visited the place. About anything in him, they will not over-the same time it is said that merchants throw him. He has a magnificent but brought gold, silver, and precious a very difficult rile to play, but his stones, cartying away spices, silk, cloths failure in it is by no means a foregone of gold and silk "of which they find conclusion. great quantities for sale her Lecomte writing some two centuries later said that the Chinese say the city is four
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