Our Paris Letter.

Manawatu Herald, 18 January 1894, Page 3

Our Paris Letter.

(from our own correspondent )

Paris. 80th Nov., 1893

The French Parliament resumed

its sittings, and the opening ad- > dresses were pronouueed in the Se.iate by M. Challemel Lacoin, and in the Chamber of Deputies by the dean of the Chamber, M. Pierre Blanc, M Cusimir Pcrier was afterwards elected President by 295 votes against 175 votes given to M. Bfisson. This vote was regarded as the first trial of strength between Moderates and Radicals, and on the face of it a Moderate Republican victory seemed to have been achieved.

The Radicals, however, as wall as

certain Opportunist journals, conV tested this, and tried to show that the two Republican parties are equally matched, and that the majority of one hundred will melt away when closely analyzed. Those who favour a policy of Republican Concentration, infer from this vote, that parties are too equally balanced to admit of any other policy being pursued, and that a homogeneous Ministry is impossible under the circumstances. *l3ut the new < hamber having only been in session for three days and the country was already in the throes of a Ministerial crisis. The Government has not been overturned by a vote of the Chamber ; it has fallen to pieces, owing to the unreliable materials of which it was composed.

The remarkable thing about the crisis is that not one man in France, from the Chief of the State downwards, can say with certainty in which direction the majority in the new Chamber tends, no opportunity having yet been afforded of proceed" ing to a vote. The moderates arc •onfidenfc that it will rally to thtiistandard, while ihe Radicals are equally confident that the balance of power will be in their cwn hands. Hence the uneasiness of the extreme members of the Cabinet, who concluded that they would be best consulting their own inerests by resign ing. Although it seenud they were persuaded to retain their post 3 fur a f w days longer, until a vote could taken on the interpellation of the Cabinet, and th« ireud of opinion in the Chamber be ther by MoerVained, M. Peytral, being nervous about his position wiih his party, could not resist the tempta'ion to hit the cat out of the bng, and the result was the premature coll .pse «.f •a compromise combination formed with the sole aim of carrying on the business of Parliament and the country during the closing months of the last memorable session, and pending the assembling of ihe new Chamber. i* But the crisis camp about and thp interpellation was adjourned. The Figaro hopes that whatevn* may be the upshot of the crisis, Con centration Ministers have been finally k disposed of 1^ Up till yesterday there was no change in the situation, the Minis terial crisis having not come to an en.d. At the moment of writing, there is question of a homogenous Cabinet with M. Spuller as President of the Council, and M. Raynal as MlnisUr of th« Interior.

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