The Legitimists are very sad, and the Bonapaxtists very irritated
at their defeat. They have endeavoured throughout the debates to defeat both the Senate Bill and the Bill on Powers by incessant amendments, most of them intended to attract the Left. The Orleanists and the Left had, however, arranged the Constitu- tion outside, and they adhered to M. Wallon's clauses with a silent tenacity rarely witnessed in a Legislative Body, and explicable only by the fact that they knew something of Bona- partist tactics which the world does not know. This something may prove to be the extent to which Imperialism has won over military officers. M. Savary on Thursday brought before the Assembly evidence that the Bonapartist Committee, absolutely controlled by M. Rouher from 1871, first in the name of the Emperor, and then in that of the Prince Imperial, had organised an occult Government, secured 80 newspapers, with 500,000 sub- scribers, obtained great support in the Army, controlled many elections, and even effected an alliance with the Socialists by promising a general tax on property. They appear to be aware that Marshal MacMahon is not with them, but direct that his name should be used with the peasantry as if he were. The extent to which the propagandism has succeeded in the Army is not stated, but M. Leon Renault, Prefect of Police, says the organisation covers nearly the whole of France.
