THE PRESIDENTS MANIFESTO.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume V, Issue 240, 7 December 1877, Page 13

THE PRESIDENTS MANIFESTO.

Opinions of some of the French press, on the 19th September :—: — The Pays, Bonapartist paper, says : — " It is a noble and proud address, and we praise and approve it without reserve. If France does not understand it, it is because she is not ripe for an honest Government. She will have to complete her experience at the cost of fresh ruin and shedding of blood." The Monde says : — " It may with certainty be predicted that tie manifesto, which is for us an affirmation, and for the factions a menace, mil exasperate our adversaries. It will exasperate them the more because it is in substance unassailable, and they will find themselves reduced to discussing its form." The Defense says :— " Till 1880 the Marshal is Chief of the Power, and he will remain so tilLthe end, whatever may or can happen. He is not the man to bow to the audacious pretentions of those who have lecHjs to ruin and exhausted France, revelling in the blood of her soldiers." The Ordre (Bonapartist) says :—": — " It is manifest that a Chief of the State who expresses himself with such vigour will never submit. The bridges are henceforth destroyed, the line of retreat is cut off." The MacMahonian Bonapartist lAberti remarks exultingly, that it need no longer be doubted that the Marshal will obey neither of the injunctions to submit or resign. The Francais, the Due de Broglie's organ, says — "When the manifesto demands the election of moderate men, men of order and peace, men who are devoted to the interests and requirements of the country, would France prefer to that appeal of Marshall MacMahon the appeal of M. Gambetta and of the Revolutionaries, all of whose designs follow his cortege?"