New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-06-04
EUROPEAN AFFAIRS.
REPRESSION IN FRANCE.

lrnoM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF TUE ThlhrStI
LONDON. May 23.-A report comes from Paris that
English and other foreign papers are to be sunJecte
TO French censorship. IL Is probably untrue ihough
the present French Ministry Is capable OF any ioy
That the Due de Broglie and his colleagues are sur
prised and iritaod by the almost UNIFORM
condemnation Of their corp deA by tne lor-
eign press is we'll enough known. "ilaV
they have actrolly done is to censure the
Havas Agency 70. supplying the french papers
with critical extracts from outside papers IneS arc
believed further, 10 have warned some OF inc ans
newspapers against reproducing foreign articles on
the crisis. Even so moderate paper rs 10 ie"''
has apparently been pulled up 1t does not
say So What it says is that The tone OF All lor'isn
papers is so uniformly against the act of the M"r'h"
that it is not necessary to printing extracts An
odd reason truly. The real reason Is to be SOUGHT
between the lines and ia, if report may be trusted"
that given above. Semofiicial commun'qHes were ~
no means uncommon in former Gays OF Ill I'''oi
DAYS either and NJ Fourtou. an lmpenails'' -
saturated with imperial traditions Dnt To KEEP
English papers out of france is very diheIeh'
matter The late Emperor tired II at the hlBu % ilS
power, and found it would not answer sum loao
would il answer now: which is, indeed 40 proof
that this Ministry might not try it. The Lohuoh
daily papers circulate largely in Paris. They may
he boncbt-most of them-at dozen kiosques on
the boulevard by or s o'clock every evening, ana
the English colony wOuld not readily submit 10
tbeir exclusion The object of the Ministry IN eX-
Gliding them. however would not be so much To
deprive English and Americans OF tnelr daiiy houI-
ishment as TO prevent the french papers nom
ouoting tho English papers. And that Of course Is
a phvsical impossibiity. In one way or another the
important articles would cross the frontier.
That remarkable unanimity of opinion on Whch
commented last week continues never kne" the
Frropean press so completely OF one mind on any
political question The clerical papers excepted,
tbcy are an AGAINST MacSlahon's new Ministry, and
their INDICTMENTS on it grow daily more severe. The
uuc do Eroclie is man TO feel this more than most
Frcnchmcn would feel it. For mere unpopularlty,
whether ~ home or abroad, he probably does not
care BIT he has been trained in a school which does
not undcryaluc the sober judgment Of Europe. lie
knows how much it must count against INN III inc
long rum though he of course thinks 1t wrong lie
is a pupil Of Guzot and Gu2ot to his dying day be-
lieycd that his counses, which brought the last
French monarchy to ruin, were wise connsels
One result of the crisis is that are not to see
NJ. Gambotta in England. His visit, which was
fixed for jane, must again be postponed. lie would
have been the guest of sir Charles Dixie, between
whom and himself there i, rather intimate friend
ship
If NV chance NJ Gambctta or anybody else should
come to London thi, week lie would find no one in
if: uucSs indeed he should like TO call on poor Mr..
Ward Hunt First Lord of the Admiralty, who IS
KEEP! here by the govt. The rush 20 get ont of town
for the holidays taxed the carrying capacities Of the
railways; ana still more OF the wrctched iltle boats
that take you across the channel. They are not
soon | fear 90 be less wrotched. The other day |
asked one OF tue great railway managers when be
meant 10 give US better steamers between Dover
and Calais. Impossible, he said until Calais harbor
is enlarged. When asked why they did not adopt
the Castalia pattern the twin-hued vessel when,
If not an entire success is at least better than the
othois ho answered that lac hoped the tunnel would
be made some day-then should 90 through from
London to Paris III seven hours without change.
That is all We lave to hope for from the railway
mind.
Ihear that MIdhat Pasha Is in town; should that
fact Dee of interest to anybody. lie is ast too lac 70
study .hc working Of that English Parliament after
which he is supposed to have tried to model his nom
deserve, assembling on the banks OF the BosphoGls.
Parliament gets a fortnight vacation, and thinks
IL i.as wei canned its holiday by It's five days OF
faithful debate OF Mr.. Gladstoncs Resolutions The
only man vino never takes holiday is Mir Glad
stone himself who certainly is entitled to one il
anybody is. Ills visit To Birmingham, fixed for TIE
31st is visit OF business and perhaps only the FIRST
name is so great power. Wherever he goes lie Will
speak He will be the guest in Birmingham of Mr.
Chamberlain the youngest of the members Of that
cty-the Radical whose recent alliance with MIR.
Gladstone the moderate Liberals look upon with SO
much dread. II may be sold that Mr. Gladstone has
taken upon himself the duty % keeping England on
guard aqmns the mad projects OF her Prime Minister
lie sends note to the press to-day from Iawarden,
inco,ug letter from Miss Irby, the kind-hcarted
and energetic English lady who doyotes herself to
the relief of the Christian victims OF the Turk in the
oppressed provinces. According to her. it Is Bosnia
winch is now suffering most. Wherever the APP
proach Of !he Russian arms is near the prudent Turk
su.pends his prosecutions. In remote Bosnia, he in
dulges his taste for cruelty without lear and without
stint.
Mr. Chamberlain. may add, is believed 70 have
gained 80 considerable an influence in birmingham
that il is doubtful whether he might not control
even MIR. Bright's old followers such question
as the present. This meeting which Mr.. Gladstone
Is TO address is certainly meant to show the world
that Mr. Brghts opposition to Mr.. Gladstones Res0-
buttons mad not the sympathy OF his constituents.
still less do the agricultural classes accept Mr.
Bright's leadership Turkish matters They are
grateful to him for the loyal help LIE gives them
about the franchise. If anything could win for
him their hearty support, it would be ms appear
an-~ at the important meeting of last week held
TO advocate the claim of the agricultural labOrcrs TO
the votc-what is called the county franchise ques-
ton. Nh Arch described it on Tuesday the
greatest ference Of the aborng classes ever held
in the greatest city of the civilized world. But Mr.
Arch and not Mn Bright is the man whom those
classes are most ready to follow, as they
showed there, and acan this week IN the Somerset
shire meetng-an opcn-air assemblage of not less
than 900 people part of them are laborers on