New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-07-12
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Somebody in London has made little Joke,
and the English correspondent of the Assoc
sted Press has made an egregious ass Of him
self Perhaps neither of these occurrences il
50 rare as to require special remark; but the
seriousness with which the joke seems to have
been accepted by the editor Of The Herald, and
certain other obtuse persons, and the alaerity
with which these same individuals are initiating
the press correspondents example, embOlden
us to say word about it. There appeared
some two weeks ago in an English
paper, The Echoes of the Clubs, what pur-
ported to be dispatch from Prince Gort.
schskoff. the Russian Minister Of Foreign At
fairs, to Baron BrunnOw, the Cars Envoy IN
London, recommending, now that the Luxem-
burg question is disposed of, that an inter
"change of IDEAS on the subject of Irisb
grievances should take place between the Gov
ernments of Russia. France. and the United
States. The Prince is represented as gTayely
supporting this extraordinary recommendation
by a reference to tho affairs of Poland. saying
in effect that although tho Poles never had any
grievances, their grievances were peaceably
removed by the intervention OF other ma
tons. A like happy result, he thinks.
might be effected by joint interposition In
behalf of the Cretans and the Irish; but DO
has no sooner mentioned the Cretans than DO
instantly fOrgets them, and devotes all his re-
naming energies, for the space OF some i've
or six foolscap pages, to the glorifcation OK
Erin and lament over her misfortunes.
With his usual enterprise, the Agent OF
the Associated Press discovers this docu-
ment two weeks after its publication,
and has the incredible folly to tele-
graph an account Of it across the ocean
two or three days after the steamers have
brought us the whole thing. How any man OF
average intellect could believe it genuine We
are nj loss 20 understand. Prince G0rtscha.
koff is not in the habit Of making middle of
his dispatches and who but an Irishman could
have written these sentences, which we Gull
from the midst OF many equally characteIistiCf
"The spirit of instruction grows daily in the
"heart of the nation, and the sentences of death
(which are pronounced day after day by
"the-English courts are received with defiance
:" and insult by heroic people for whom death
"has no terrOrs" "The position so cruelty
"ironical. assigned to a church existing in tho
blossom of Catholic population-the oppression
"of Celtic race for the advantage ofG Saror
"oligarchy-the relations SO unjust between
LANDED proprietors and their tenants-iD fine,
"the emigration-that voluntary remuneration
"by an entire people Of the pleasures
"of 'country'--a fact unparalleled in history.
"aud which, epitomizing as it does. all these
"evils--each of these points deserve the most
serious investigation" Imagine the great
head and front of the Greek schism stepping
out as champion Of the Roman Catholics, and
| the AutOcrat of all tho Russias sneering at
oligarchies like full blooded Democrat!
The copy of this pretended dispatch, which
we print elsewhere, as curiosity, is taken
! from The Dublin irishman. We have not seen
the London paper in which it Is said to have
first appeared; but we take for granted that
it is reproduced correctly. 1t is not very likely
! that it will serve its obvious purpose Of re-
viving measure of popular faith IN Fenianisn.
A dispatch from London states that the anthem
ticity of the. dispatch is doubted-a mild way Of
putting it--and in Washington it was thought
that if it had any basis, that Crete, not Ire
land, must have been intended.