New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-11-17
FOREIGN MISCELLANY.

WHY liz pY,nIIC--pEsiRE FOR PEACE ON THE
CONTINENT.
,-.ox r,.K REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE rRrBuNE.I
IoNpoN. Nov. 1.-Now that the intrigue for
nourbon Restoration in Trance has failed an
ACKNOWLEDGMENT is due 10 portion of the English
nrs for its steady opposition to that most dscredit
aboenterprise II is something new to End Eng
hand ranging itself on the side Of Republic against
MONARCHY. OF English opinion in general do not
,h,nk that can be aCirlued, and because il cannot
The credit due 10 the press is the greater What has
vrrprisod everybody and delighted some. Is the at-
tude of The Times. From the day when the
sebeme to put the Count de Chambord on
Abe throne came 10 light, down to the day
when IL collapsed The Times has opposed 1t. There
was iust one day-the frst-when 1t hesitated ana
seemed inclined to give the Royallsts some sort OF
sunport or TO remain neutral. But the next morn
inc il took a decided stand in opposition. 1t was
NOT content with mere discomfort Ii waged unre-
hitting war on the conspiracy. Morning after
morning II Numbered against the Restoration. Not
single day was suffered TO pass without leading
article on French politics. There was no violence.
The articles were as moderate in tone as they
were able and gained in force by their moderation
of statement gained in England and perhaps even
in France where moderation is not the rule IN Jour-
naism as it is here. There can be no doubt thatthe
influence of these articles in France was very con-
siderable Rightly or wrongly, The Tunes is still
believed to speak for England and the vigor with
which it resisted the pretensions of the Royais fac
ton convinced French politi clans that English pub
lie opinion was against Bourbon usurpaton.
Whether the English Government took any steps
70 let its views be known, or whether 1t had any
views cannot say. Foreign politics have never
been its strong point The probabilities are that
"A stood absolutely neutral If Mr. Gladstone OF Lord
Granville had any sympathies they would take pains
20 conceal them rather than express them. Their
ambassador at Paris Lord Lyons, certainly is not
the man to assume an initiative when his chiefs
were for keeping quiet, nor have heard any ru-
mors that the well known hotel in the Faubourg st.
Honor6 was suspected of being a Bourbon head
quarters. The prudence, or timidity, or indifer-
ence, or whatever you choose TO call IT. which
reigned in DOwningst., left The Times master of the
situation It's voice was never more important,
never clearer and never Ireoice to say more firmly
on the right side It's adrotness has been not less
pemarkable. Anything like dctation would have
been resented by people so susceptible rs the
French. Even the Republicans would have re-
PEELED an ally who came in the guise OF
mentor. The Times careful to base
Its opposition on a single pIinciple-the right of
France TO decide on her own form of government
and it denounced the Fusionsts because they srove
to deny her that right 1t declared yesterday, that
4" if indeed, France had appeared really to desire
return to her old allegiance and if there had been
any prospect of her finding, under its nag, peace,
prosperity and happiness. should have welcomed
the restoration of the Count dc ChamboTd without
reserve. We only wished France TO please herself,
but we wished to be sure that she was really pleas
ing herself, and that fraction of the nation was
not speaking in her name"
Those words not altogether pleasing to Re-
publican ear, whether French or American, but In
them lies the secret OF the effectiveness OF the sup
port which The Times gave the Republic. No Repub-
ican journal could have welded much influence.
There is hardly such thing a Republican journal
in England. The Times never pretended to prefer a
republican form of government, theoretically. In
supporting it, OF in opposing monarchy OF any sort
against the known alternative of a republic it went
far in advance of the public opinion which it usually
submits to-which it seeks to express far more often
than TO lead Republican or not, we owe
IL thanks for this clear-sgbted and cour-
ageous act. II has fought our battle.
Its policy believe TO be due to a conviction OF the
folly of attempting again to impose on France gov
eminent to which the people We're iueconcilably
hostile, and the certainty of a speedy and bloody
revolution What Tie Times wants is peace In
Europe stability of old institutions and the existing
order Of society, if possible, but peace above all and
that settled tranquility whichis, on the whole, most
favorable TO English trade. 1t has, at present little
apprehension of the spread of Republican or what is
worse. Socialistie and C0mmunistic principles to
England. The Paris Commune Of 1871 pat all those
movements back for half century. Neither this
nor the next generation of Englishmen will
knowingly take step on the path
Eghted by the flames Of the Tuleries,
or leading to the abyss in which Spain s weltering.
Nor has IL ever been the characteristic Of the En-
ush to suffer great distress because their neighbours
house might be burning. They are sure the flames
wont cross the Channel believe most thoughtful
Liberals in England would prefer the conservative
Republic TO clerical monarchy. They are Prot
sstaDts above all things and the dread Of Papal in
Anenee is almost as strong as when they excluded
Catholics from the succession. What they really
would have preferred was. no doubt, a consttu-
tional Orleans monarchy; but as the constitutional
Orleans monarchy chose 70 commit suicide, the next
best thing is the Republic of NJ. Theirs. The belief
in Theirs Immortality Is very nearly universal.
Il. ". s.
CHURCH AND STATE IN SWITZERLAND.
ELECTION FOR PASTORS BY TIE ROMAN CATHOLICS
or GENEVA ABsTTSTIoN or THE ULTRAMoN-
TANEs--ORIGIN OF THE LAW FOR TBE oEGASI-
ZATION OF CATHOLIC WORSHIP,
tyROm An OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT TIg TRBUNE.l
GENEVA, Oct 12-To-d day is a memorable day
An the extraordinary ecclesiastical history Of this little
Republic being the day for the election OF pastors by
the Roman Catholic voters Of the city under the new
Flaw for the organization OF Catholic worship" The
polls were opened, for Catholic voters only az a. ne
and closed ~ y. Tu., ana we are now waiting for
che returns. There is no doubt on any side
As 20 tile result. The UitramOntanes have been
adiufed IA the most solemn manner ny their
leaders, both spiritual and political, to abstain
from voting under pain Of accommodation Under
the Swiss usage which requires the OF candidates
70 be recorded in advance only ticket for the three