New-York tribune., 1869-06-24

eashire cotton trade have united in request to the
Duke of Argyll to obtain Government assistance in
the production of cotton in the British colonies
They set forth the great depression in the trade at
present and show that relief can only be had by the
Government lending her aid to enable India to
develop the growing of cotton so TO compete with
the United States
THE PROPOSED ENDOWMENT
The Irish Church bill viii soon come before the
House of Lords again on motion to 60 into Commit
tee No line Of action in dealing with the provisions
Of the bill has yet been marked out but the general
feeling of the Peers is in favor of making amend
ments based on the principle of concurrent endow-
ment
THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.
The bondholders of the old Atlantic Telegraph
Company have held meeting, at which they ap-
pointed Committee to guard their interests and
procure a settlement of their claims.
BERMUDA FLOATING DOCK.
The expedition with the great floating dock tor
Bermuda sailed to-day for the West Indies.
| CONTINENTAL OPINION OF AMERICAN AND EN-
GLIsH RELATIONS BLIND HENRI
ROCHEFORT's DEFEAT-LoUIs BLANC's LET
rFRoM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT
LONDON, June 1.-THE English have taken
some pains to spread the notion that between US and
them Continental opinion is on their side. think
the reverse is true in the of such journals as
neither official nor ultramontane. England is by
means liked on the COntinent-perhaps not much
more by monarchists than by Republicans, while the
latter regard America with passionate admiration
They would not be likely to desert her when she had
night on her SIDE The notion that there is any con-
Siderable partisanship for England among the Ger
man press is writes a friend to me- "a gross exag
geration, and as regards number of leading jour
nails such as the Frankfrter Zeituag of Frankfort
On-the-Main and the Neue FFeie Prose- of Vienna,
palpably untrue statement" Both these are papers
Of the widest circulation The former is the organ
Of the Republican Democracy of Germany; the lat
ter the chief Liberal paper of Austria. liz a recent
number Karl Blind, whose name is well known in
America, writes:
81 fully believe that England would do well to
make of her own free viii such a declaration of her
regret as Mr.. Sumner has indicated. 1t would be in
complete harmony with the speeches which Mr..
Bright, now Cabinet Minister, addressed to great
popular assemblies at the time when the recognition
Of the Shareholders Rebellion belligerent power
was conceded by England"
And the Neue Freie Press says:
To-day John Bright occupies a distinguished position
as Cabinet Minister Forster has seat In the Gov
ernment The Ministry, such s reckoned TO be the
expression Of that Reform party which, hostile to the
favorable to the Union cause. Though Gladstone no
doubt represented at that time opposite view In ref
TO American affairs be has since declared his re-
pentaace. Why, them should this Government, which
rests essentially principles. hesitate TO declare
openly aud frankly that the conduct Of the former Min
istry-for which this is not responsible erroneous,
II, by doing grave misfortune can be preventedp
Elsewhere Mr. Blind writes My ardent wish
certainly is that a conflict between England and
America should be avoided while of the justice of
the American claim have no doubt"
Being thus on the other side of the channel for a
a. o4ok
the defeat of Henri Rochefort for the Seventh Paris
District There is not one of the elections not even
that of Bancel over the renegade Olivier, whose
value as protest against the Empire is great as
Rochefort's would have been. 1t is the fashion in
London to affect kind of horror at the asperty of
his opposition to the Emperor. Men and journals
that ought to know better talk of Rochefort
writer of lampOOns and call the LdHerRe scurrilous.
Well to my mind, there is a scurrility of acts as well
Of words Rochefort is man who refused the GER
tainty of a great fortune rather than write half
truths His journal had reached a circulation of
10000 copies weekly. He offered fabulous
sums if he would allow advertisements to be
inserted, and keep his criticism Of the En-
pre within official bounds He rejected
everything. The men who sit a judicial bench
and take their orders from the Tuieries sentenced
him TO fine and two years imprisonment for language
which was decOTum ltse1, compared 10 bhdJ WHICH
his English critics daily use against their political
enemies. That is what call scurrility in act AS
you know RochefOrt went TO Brussels relighted the
fire of his LaRtne and has kept it flaming all along
the frontier of France-not TO speak of what went
inside 1t still circulates am told, $1,000 copies If
you have any doubt what French Republicans think
Of Rochefort you need only bear in mind that he was
supported by Gambetta and Bancel against Jules
Favre and that he is the close personal friend of
Victor Hugo Let me translate, also out of the last
LGnterRe letter from that pure and admirable Re-
publican, LOUIS Blanc. In answer to question
from Francos-Victor Hugo, NJ. Blanc writes:
Ny DEAR FRIEND: You ask my opinion about the con
IeS 10 the seventh Paris District This 10 my answer
nad 70 vote should strive first OF all 20 forget the III
suffered at the hands OF Jules Favre think only
not Tree who Is the slave OF a resentment.
But single consideration would put end ~ all hesi
tauOh between the two candidates OF the opposition.
should vote for Henri RochefOrt because Of his energetic
and loyal advocacy OF the ideas OF social reform which
h Jules Favre does not share although upon their real
zaon depend IN my judgment the future OF the nation
aLu the RECOMMENDATION VI liberty with justice Cordially
yours, LOUIS BLANC
With this loyalty TO ideas. preserved through 20
years Of exile by true Frenchman contrast the de-
grading attery Of the Emperor by the late American
Minister. 1t is not in my province, ordinarily, TO
discuss affairs in France. but it belongs think 90
every American in Europe to protest against the Ian
guage Of Gen. Dix / hope you have printed his
speech in full-no comment could so rebuke its au-
thor. am ashamed to say it got into the English
papers, and the substance of il went all over the
Continent Surely there cannot be many Americans
who would mt reundiafe IL with Indignation