New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-06-30

put down by the uprising of public opinion against
them after the stupid volences of Thursday night,
rather than by the formidable parade of suppressye
force which the authorities FASTENED to bring in play
on Friday night of last week. The fact is that, If
they had not so fastened, society would have been
saved hopelessly without them. The destruction of
property at Beleville was something greater than
supposed when writing my last letter. That the yio-
lent rioters there the Bouevards were the paid
agents of any political party, Orleanist or Republ-
can, seems now less than ever probable That they
were paid agents of the police is as improbable.
Those leaders of the mob, in white blouses" with
inexpcable moneys in their pockets, who doomed so
largely in the imagination of eye-witnesses of
secOnd-sight, are mythc. The strongest ar
gument in favor of the old theory. con-
stantly recurrent in the history of all Paris
emeues, that this last farce gotten up by Gov
ernment, takes the old formula for its expression:
cu pr0dest lille fect and has little show of priorI
reason. Had the row once got so far as to justify
bloody repression, Government had surely claimed
the merit of Saving society" and based on the
claim, not only new lease of prOyidential power,
but of Withdrawing or restricting the par
tial concessions to freedom of speech and writing
comprised in the troublesome liberal laws of last
year. This other argument, put inteTogatively' is
also specious: Why did Government with 1900 po-
city to be disturbed night after night by ptiful
handful of rioters with whom at no moment any
class of decent citizensouprie bOHrgeOis-showed
the slightest sympathy IT. as official and oflcious
"organs" assert, Government had positive and re-
liable information before Monday that emeute
was plotted, then yet more Why did it not take on
Monday the grand precautions for its prevention,
that were rather needlessy paraded on Friday for
suppressioni
The explanation grown now TO be the probably
correct one, is that the authorities in receipt
of information from over-zeaOus, imaginative spies,
which to their nervous suspicion seemed trustworthy
They complemented the fragmentary indications,
obtained from mouchdrds with the political ante
cedents" of accused suspected leaders, and fear
conscience that makes towards Of us al''-did the
rest Absolute certainty, however, positive proofs,
were still wanting; and the scared Project OF
Police awaited the explosion of political plot that
did not exst-not daring to act, not daring not to
act till the anticipated grand melodrama turned out,
under Government patronage, miserably low farce.
Then, TO save the reputation of the management.
which had really got itself into an ugly knot, the
Emperor descendcd-DeIs or mdchnd-the Boulevard,
and tho spectacle was closed with grand military
procession.
The Rhedive is in Paris. The Rhedive is putting
up at the Elysee Napoleon palace. The Rhedive is
the EmperOrs guest in France In Egypt ho is an
imperfectly civilized rather intelligent, hearlessly
hard grasping cotton planter and money gatherer.
Egypt is the plantation. and the subject felahs are
the slaves of the Rhedve-whom we journalists like
to write down Rhedive instead Of Pasha or VicerOy
of Egypt because 1t proves TO the general reader
that we are up in our Oriental languages as III all
knowledges.