The French Republic has received another important ad- hesion. Baron
Mackau, who from 1885 to 1889 was President of the United Royalist and Bonapartist organisation, on the 9th inst. made a speech at Carrouges, in which he declared that the steady increase in the Republican vote had convinced him that France dreaded any further change of Government. " Yes, although I did not vote for it, I acknowledge that the great majority of the country now desires the maintenance of the Republic organised by the Constitution of 1875." M. de Mackau added that Conservative demands would be better understood if " not confused with aspiration towards another political system from which the country seems daily more and more to estrange itself." M. de Mackau is no Legitimist like M. d'Haussonville, or Clerical like M. de Man, but a solid man, who thinks a Monarchy of any kind better suited to- France than a Republic ; and his withdrawal from the Monarchical Party indicates the despair of those who are Monarchists from intellectual conviction. It is as if Mr. T. W. Russell had renounced Unionism in Ireland. In the opinion of the Times' correspondent, however, the Royalist change comes too late, and at the next election even the con- verted candidates will be rejected.
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