The Daily Mail publishes two interviews with Frenchmen of importance.
One, Baron Legoux, the Bonapartist manager, declared that France was weary of the Republic, that a great many Royalists had abandoned the Bourbons for the Bonapartes, and that he thought the people and the Army would soon accept Prince Victor Napoleon as the head of France. The second, Count Bastard d'Estang, chief of the younger Royalists, while agreeing that the Republic must go, thought better of the Bourbon chances, his ground for belief being that the people wish for peace, and believe that a Bonaparte on the throne would imply a policy of war. The man who made the first coup would be the winner. We agree that the Republic is in danger, it may be indeed past hope, but we doubt the success of the house of France. The officers may be as clerical as they please, but they must carry their men with them, and their men are in great part peasants trained to believe that a Restoration would mean the re-establishment of corvee and tithe. Moreover, the later tradition of the Bourbons from 1688 to 1793 is not a tradition of glory.
