M. Brunet, the French Minister of Public Instruction, made a
speech at Tulle on the 19th inst., which seems to have been revised by the Cabinet, for it was not published till the 22nd. Ile reaffirmed emphatically that the Marshal would remain till 1880, but added that he would not "place his name at the service of any dynastic pretension." If he makes war against the Radicals, it is to defend the Constitution, and because there is no other platform for a self-respecting Government. The Republic was marching, through the progress of Radi- fall. The Marshal, placed on calism, to an inevitable
high, could watch the march toward the abyss iu which all institutions would be submerged, and his conscience did not allow him to be longer passive. He raised a cry of alarm, and France will respond. To those who talk of the act of the 16th of May as a coup clidtat, the Marshal replies that it was provided
for in the Constitution. To those who talk of war, the facts reply. To those who threaten functionaries, it is answered that Ministers alone are responsible. France " has nothing to do with their legal quibbles." The idea running through this speech evidently is that if the Government is beaten, the Marshal will strike no coup WOO, but that the Assembly ought to be satisfied with the retirement of the Ministry, and not compel the Marshal to resign, or punish the Ministers who have so abused their power. M. Brunet underrates, we suspect, the impact of a popu- lar vote condemning an individual.
