THE FRENCH CRISIS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 77, 8 December 1887, Page 2

THE FRENCH CRISIS.

The result of the election for the French Presidency has come as a surprise, though may be a very agreeable one in the circumstances. The election of M. Carnot, so little known to the outside world, is due no doubt more to the antipathy to his opponents than to any special merit which he himself possesses. If M. Freycinet were elected it would be found difficult to stifle the old party feelings, and in the honor to the individual M. Freycinet’s party would lose the active services of their present leader It may be that the latter party are only serving their own ends—■ that indeed is too prominent a feature with all French politicians, from Napoleon downwards—but there is one great advantage, for which there is reason to be satisfied. The prevailing state of affairs had given good grounds for the fear that another revolution was imminent, and there is every reason to hope that the respite will enable wiser conn, seis to influence the people. M. Carnot enters upon the scene at a critical period, and he will need to exercise the greatest care if he would avoid the unfortunate termination that has befallen the official careers of his predecessors There is still a difficult political position to solve, and the recent proceedings in the Chamber of Deputies, by which the Rouvier Ministry was defeated, have yet to be settled before the business of the country can be got into shape.