New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-10-26
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
FRENCH TOPICS.
POLICY OF NJ. GAMBETTA--HIs POSITION TOWARD
PRESIDENT TIIIERs-sYMPATHY FOR FRENCH

POLICY OF NJ GAMBETTA--HIs POSITION TOWARD
PRESIDENT TIIIERs--sYMPATHY FOR FRENCH
ALsATIAHs-MOYEMENTS OF MR. sUhhEh'
IRON THB REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF The lhiDUNs1
PARIS, Oct. 9.-Gambetta is quietly back IN
Paris from his political promenade In Savoy. The parity
sincere moro Fictitious alarm raised TO so high ptch
ON occasion OF his somewhat windy speech at GrenoDe
ia subsldng. It will be charitable TO suppose that most
of those who Joined loudest in the cry against him ana
this speech had read t. In fact when their storm
OF hostile comment at its Widest they could have
road only an imperfect brief report Of It, 1t is rather
aord I'm s rhetoric novel in ideas dealing largely In
eeuerates both OF the sound and gittering varieties
not violent In sentiment not ALL except IN the french
sense OF tendency" revolutionary. NOT only does IL
not contain any declaration of war; against NJ Ihiers
but at dinner few days later Gambetta dranE 10 tne
health of the President Of the Republic Whatever he
NAV with opportunity, prove himself to be az states
man. the leader Of radical party has SHOWN
his superiority as politician most OF his sestyied
| conservative opponents He publicly gave this toast
at Annecy q week ago Yesterday, while pennen ana
spokesman OF the Right in amusing ignorance OF "nat
the Left leader doing we're bterest and loudest IN
writing him down and blowing him up for his open
breach" with M. Theirs. Hostile TO NJ Theirs he Is NOT
opposed 20 much Of tho Presidents policy he fs as an
English Wing leader is opposed to Tory Prime Minister
When running for the seat he now occupies IN the AS
semby he cited his electoral handb then postedon
all Paris walls, the lOngestabhshed conditions
historical titles, accepting them for himself and com
mendine them TO the French He protested then as he
did at renoble against the practice OF illegal means Tor
political party ends that even In August 1870
and up to tho eve Of the 4th septemDer,
contrary 10 tho opinions OF most OF MS
friends, no deprecated open revolutionary
overthrow OF the falling throne His polite sense then
told him. let the moribund dynasty bury itself, and pay
its own funeral charges At earlier date long before
the war; the Corps Legsatf he uttered tnat most re-
markabe speeeh-a critical analysis aud REPUTATION OF
the Imperial pretensons TO beredtary rule over people
perpetuay sovereign by right OF universal surage-and
secured however inpatient hearing for three hours from
that audience as in the preceding year, he had made
Napoeonlc Judge Imperial tribunal listen to his elo
quen argument in favor OF the Baudn maniestators
1t was triumph OF polite tact-no iot OF selfrespect
abated-which French orator except Theirs probaDy
not Theirs HIMSELF bearing the eoors and with the
| same desire as frankly dspayed) could have won IN
| those lists. Gambetta Is italian by race.
Rut intelligent foreign observers" have not Observed
or like many Frenchmen they needless or Intention
ally forgetfu GamDettas general political course ana
prefer to the fantastic judgments they construct OF
him and it, the period OF his socaed uetatorshpah
episode as exceptional to his proper life and usual con-
duet as the circumstances oft exceptional In French
history How desperate the French state othinGs had
become before he entered onkhs provincial dictatorship
how well i'll justified he was In exmDltng herolcem
edes in the desperate how well or Ill WITHIN sueh
narrow limits choice he was restricted 70 nc seeeeu
his means these passionatey controverted tques-
lions which not competent to discuss IL may Oe
safely said that they have not as yet been fairly stued
in their general bearings in detail and 1t 10 To be
eurousy noted as another and perhaps the most sgDn
cant proof OF tho mans polite sense, that Oehg On
the account socaled dictatorship the BEST loud
est longest most dercely abused man OF the perod
Gambetta has gone out Of his way to seek occ
sions TO deliberately defend his conduct IN that olce
Jules Fayre has written already three volumes, and
not yet done with the last Trochu has uttered NUMBER
less last speeches; there is hardly General OF noe VINO
has not published octave or two and the poor DeeNa
do OF Chselhurst has sent out
OF duplicating their and duplicating the responsiD
ty Of somebody everybody else in the caamties that
have befallen France.
| Gambetta treats the abuse and misrepresentation
| showered on him, that wise ancient (older than
| the first Napoleon, TO whose authorship TINS MOT
like the so-styled NapOleonIc code and many other
good things of his originating arc attrDuted ueaed
| the superhuous correspondence with which he was
overwhelmed Letters left alone long enough, answer
themselves" The sole other man. deeply engaged IN tue
responsibilities Of the and its disastrous consequent
ces TO France who prefers silently working time 10 noisy
waste wind for his apologist, is Emile Olivier Acade
can elect and approved master of the nicetes OF the
French language he has not 80 much AS taken the waste
mains TO show whatievery cultivated Frenclman Knows
that his famous cGur eger" slmeans as 1t meant
out OF his mouth, not Light heart" but clean con-
| science" Olivier is pure French by race Out semi
adaptive Italian by certain elective athnity by studl-
ous general culture and, he rather pedantcay
fond of displaying by deyouty dgent reading OF Ma
| cbiayell Paruta aud other Italian authors.
w, are now nine days of from the fatal midnight date
| mast which all French citizens Of the conquered pro-
| vlnces of Alsace and Lorraine became, by right OF
conquest subjects of the German Empire AStrasDurg
Cseni olciaD Prssan journal asserts that the options
for French nationality amount in all to but l6l6OO OF
| a.goaar ally val
Edmond About pretends of the 100000 inhabitants
Of the conquered provinces more than 100000 have
chosen and many 100000 have validated ther ehoice
10 he the French they have BEEN IL Is evident hat there
ia arithmetca exaggeraton in both these statements
The enormous apparent difference between the two is
naray essened by the consideration that the Prussan
sheet pretends speak only OF the options
recorded within Provinces and that About has In
mind all the options declared by born ana domlcneu
Asatans and Lorrainers not only throughout all re-
naming French territory, but in Liverpool New-Iork
NeyO Orleans and wherever else Frenchmen translenty
absent from that conquered district, make patriotic
haste 10 sacrifice their local interests and affections TO
the hi cher claim of nationality AbOuts cphers may
be- probably are. greatly exaggerated There are -FOUR
already constituted societies busytng themselves Win
the interests OF the refugees Several newspapers nave
ON eued tner bureaus within the week as ofnces TOT
in their aid At the end OF the second DAY
the sum OF the subscriptions paid IN at the Office OF lie
s newspaper was rising close TO $1,000 There Is not
one OF the contributors paying who has not WITHIN
the mast two years let alone accidentally special uier-
ings by the war; been frequently caleo on lOI u III no
| rehabilitation OF France. NJ. ..L NJ
Yesterday / met Mr.. Sumner, who dimes with ~
Iahonaye tomorrow by Versailles on the BOaieNatur,
AZ the head OF the Rue de la PaX. am nice about 10
celitie because this they have their meaning.
Tan ar nine DAYS Mr. Sumner reaching Paris IN the
evenIng found lodging in hotel on the corner OF rue
de Ry0l aud Rue dc Casglone Next morning ne un,
Sertook TO walk from his lodgings 20 banker Bowless
groom in the Rue de la Pax the distance OF
scant mile 1t effort that fatgued hl the
m hch he felt throughout all that day rms nuch