New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-10-31
THE FRENCH CONFLICT.
THE RECENT REPUBLICAN TRIUMPH.


UNDERs GOD AT FIEsT-rHE FRENCH MINISTRY
IRRiTArED AT ThE COMMENTS or THE BELGIAN
AND ENGLISH PRFss-FUuLE EFFORTS MADE To
RETALIArE-ROYAIIsr PALACES.
lFROM The REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF Thb TRIBUNE
LoNDoN, Oct 1.-THE English papers. or some Of
them. were for moment in state of curious Devil
derment with respect to the result of the French
elections. With all Of them, the predominant idea
on Monday morning was NJ. Gambettas prediction
that the 1868 would return 400. And since that pre-
dictiOn was not fulfilled, its on-fuflment passed
for defeat of the Republican party. This notion
was "a striking testimony to the supremacy of NJ.
Gambeta but it not very SQUAD piece of po!it
zeal criticism. BY way of showing how far it was
from being sound and how far from being
consistent with each other certain English opinions
are, take a specimen or two. /" In candor We. must
allow says writer, Tory that on the whole,
the victory inclines to tie side of the Marshal
than to that of his antagonist ~ As you certainly
viii not agree with that view, here is one to set
against it " No amount of casuistTy evade
the plain fact that the Marshal appealed in the most
distinct and ineligible terms to the constituencies
to show, by returning a Ministerial majority,
that they entertain confidence IN him, aud that
they, in equally distinct and Ineligible terms,
have substantially refused the application" That is
clumsily put but the meaning the writer had in his
mind plain, and his estimate Of the situation is
st as the other was fantastic. Both. however.
from the pen OF the writer, in the article
Of the same Journal and the journal is the leading
Tory organ Of England. But it was published two
days ago, and we have got for beyond that now, as
l will show presently. Let me first say a word on
the relations between the Government OF Marshal
MacMai,on and the European press in general.
he pers, utions of VI. de Fourtou The French MIN
lister OF the Interior have not been directed against
French newspapers only. He undertook, and il still
carrying on, campaign against tne foreign press
The Independence Belgc of the most important ~
pers the Continent. has been seized On the from
tier and in the Post Office If copy slips throu sh II
is by chance, AID VI. De Fourtou takes aayan-
tlge of It's exclusion to misquote and
misreprrsent the opinions Of the paper m
an official circuar But he oycrshot tie
mark. Copies do get in, spite of the police, and
the Republic IN papers could not be prevented from
printing letter from the Belgian editor, exposing
VI. Dc Fourtou's ftlsehood. n de Grlriia ironi-
calv announces his own slccess in getting tIo pro-
scrbcd Journal, hegging to p'ilt ont most reglei
able inst ncc If c.IeesSness in the Post Office which
delivered the day before copy of tie isdepo'dGHcc
Bc'gc
A. that Journal is printed in French, and has
considerable circulation in France. end is in the
ha ut Of pubhsaiIg new, and comments on wticn
a French pa Der cannot always venture, VI. de FoGl
tou's war against it has a. much Justification, per
haps. ~ MS war AGAINST the French press proper
But hi, attempt to exclude English Journals can he
due to 10 better motive tLdn irritation, and a de-
sire To punish them for their INTELLIGENT and frank
criticism of the Marshal and bis Cabinet. Never
indeed, has the English press discussed French
politics with such unanmiiy, such good sense and
accurate knowle.g The people oi the Elys6c nave
writhed under It the D. Broglie set being precisely
those who would be most sensitive to such cordem-
nation. The French Republican papers have quoted
al nos, daily for the past five months tine article, Or
their English contemporaries. II they could b. pre-
vented from doing that the G would be some pre-
text for stopping tue English papers bur they cannot
be prevented. French editors get all they want
all the articles and kilograms AID letters touching
French atlairs-undrr letter envelopes AID though
the Cab ct AOr exists and letters are more or less
tampered with, no eiioctu.I check Oh foreign
cores poAdcnce can be imposed by such means.
The average Freuchnan. Of course. neither does
read nor can read an English paper Ii Is the Eng
ii.h and Americans IN Pans vhO buy the London
paper, NJ de Four,Ou seems to thluA he can lniiict
serious injury on ths great journal, OF England UY
prycntiug tue sale ot a few hundred copies IN Paris.
They don't even care enough about IL u protest
against his absurd edIct. IL IS mentioned rs an item
81 news, ana that Il all. Ddt the Eng
ll,h-,peaklng foreigner in Paris Is eXasPc-
rated and vents ms wrath in no measured terms,
SO that VI. de FOurtou has SIMPLY succeeded III aa-
moving the best customers OF the Paris & adcsmen
and hotel keepers in the quarter most frequented by
ENGLISH and Americans. These tradesmeu are, as IA
rule MacMahoni- l., aud the loss fails upon theii,
for they lind their customers to- angry to stay long
and buy freely, and 80 in the end NJ. dc tourtonS
devices rctura to plague their inventor
Nor Is this his only way Of visiting his spite on ms
English critics / he rather meagrc returns III me
lime, of Monday are preceded by the following
amusing outburst from It's PARIS correspondent:
have or.nizeI Geographic corrspoud nee ~ al TIE
ACCOMPLISHMENTS, ana uust tie Cove hi,'- VIII hot
uaraIyz. bV is .-Ai, tdc arringcmeuts nave LAde
inr seen. ing Immediate incarnation. Lac or aniz n ~
III, uas cost me- the last nomsl', >flcs "i p''ho
runuuic ttiou, wnicu are c-itd"ly calculated t. 'rA
,Ir ,ue,t OF spirits, ana rrttte the must lhHeich''
Xvcr in The memory o man series # more drO-
-. mar. CIV more iiols vcx lions proceeded from
am Admin strat.on OF IA tie hyst,tlcal "a rays
Tina yns wnen "A correspondent who should have
nanueI snch "A paragraph that would have found
Paris too hot TO hold him. But NJ. de Blowliz IS
murh too considerable parsonage to ne dealt WIN
suumarily Nor have the repeated elJlts to cohcii-
i,t. his favor for the reactouaIy Clique about the
Marshal had much success. The general rome oil
The Times correspondence, which, rs you knOw, goes
nightly by private wire TO London, has been dis
| unrtlv favorable 10 the Republicans. For Instance;
rnnt absurd AMI Inslucere reasoning, accoIdhS |"
which NJ Gambeta. having aunOu ccu 1Oo' diI tHD A.,
puntcuIs h.tvug obtained only 90 WIZ iou ~ 80
n ~ by the Colonies, lost seyenS' one soas II h"l
rrth cu.i IclatlOn. That KIM OF argument ""5 80
some success aunt those 10 whom II Is aues,.n pi'
+ neon nat nwe on It, especially ~, Dl tdc same oTIc,
fn, Monlrchical parties iusii - t"l'~ ,, Il" ~ no w
lO, ,,4.s seeing that they counted o" ooo'
And the way IN which The Times itself discusses
ittfl l.. tn lao L.