22 AUGUST 1874, Page 1

Marshal MacMalion is making a kind of semi-regal " Piogress"

through Brittany. 'At Le Manz, St. Argo, and St. Brieue he has been received with civility as a great soldier, but no one appears willing to " hurrah " for the President, and the reception, on the whole, is decidedly chilly. At St. Maio, the Mayor unluckily said that France Wanted a definite Government; whereupon the Marshal informed him, with some sharpness, that his Govern- ment was definite, that he had been entrusted with power for seven years, and that he should keep it for the full time. Con- sequently, the Mayor of St. Brien; when his turn to present an address came, said, "For us, you represent order and peace. You said at the Malakhoff, 'I am here, and will remain here.' You are there ; remain there." The Mayor thought himself, no doubt, very epigrammatic ; but as the Marshal does not exactly want to say he has stormed the Presidential chair, and will keep there by force of arms, he replied with some stiffness that he hoped always to maintain order. The object of the "progress," which must be a horrible bore to the Marshal, is not very evident, and an explanation offered by the Paris Correspondent of the Times rather taxes our credulity. We can hardly believe that the Bretons, who at all events believe their Cures, mistake Marshal MacMahon for Napoleon Ill, whose death they discredit as an invention to deceive. Too many of them were in Paris during the siege.