M. de Fourtou, the Minister of the Interior, has put
forth his address to his constituents. It is very much an echo of the Marshal's manifesto, but skilfully avoids using the word 'Republic,' which the Marshal, as President of the Republic, could hardly avoid. M. de Fourtou only says that he is in favour of "peace, order, the strengthening of the authority of Marshal MacMabon, the regular, peaceful, fruitful working of the exist- ing Government." The Senators of the Right have put forth a much more violent document, in which they give a pretty clear idea of what " the strengthening of the authority of Marshal MacMolon " really means. They accuse the Left of aiming at social ruin and political ruin, and of abetting a Press which "dishonours liberty by the violence of its sentiments and the cynicism of its outrages,"—and this at the very time that their own Press is crying out loudly for a coup d'dtat, and ridiculing the constitutional scruples of those who deprecate it. And no doubt, if the Right wore to succeed, they would so "strengthen the authority of Marshal MacMahon" as to do away with everything bearing the appearance of liberty, except the liberty to prose- cute Republicans. We are not told by what proportion of the Senate this violent manifesto is signed, but it has no traoe in it of senatorial calm and dignity. It smacks of gunpowder.
