Meanwhile, the facts in France are that the elections are
fixed for October 14, that the Cabinet remains outwardly united, that the Bishops are delivering charges imploring the faith- ful to vote for the Conservative factions, and that the Republican candidates are almost silent. So are the Minis- ters, with the exception of the Due Deeazes, who has offered himself for a district of Nice, in an address in which he says that the Nizzards expect a pacific and stable riginie from a government at the head of which is a man who helped to liberate Italy. He accepts their invitation to represent them, and asks them by electing him to "affirm their desire to remain faithful to the Constitution." Voting for Marshal MacMahon is an odd way of protecting the Constitution, which nobody has attacked but himself, but there is no coup (Mat lurking under the Due Decazes's address. It should not be forgotten in con- sidering the situation that a coup d'e'tat would shake all Europe as well as France, and alter every political combination.
