New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-05-12
FRANCE AND THE WAR.

| PAPAL AFFAIRS RECEIVING LESS ATTENTION SINCE
| TIE WAR BEGAN-PERE HYAcfNrHEs LECTURES
| TIE GERMAN AMBASSADOR ~ GENERAL FAVOR
| DON PEDRO TREATED WITH CONSIDERATION
THE DUO DECAzrs's COURSE SUSTAINED.
| IFRoM A REGULAR CORRESPONDENT or THE TRmUNE.I
| PARIS, April 27.-SocIaliy speaking the situation
| here in the event of beginning IN earnest Is q
very curious one it is modifying more or less all
parties hut first Of ALL must explain what mean
By war beginning in earnest" This Is neither tho
declaration of the Car nor even the passage by
the Russians of the PnIth. 1t Is probable that we
May even pass a fortnight or So during which peo-
| PIE here will go on vaguely hoping against hope,
and fancying that at the last hour some eXtraordi
nary event may take place at COnstautinOpe. It Is
when the first bulletin of the first battle has been
read that the real action of the Eastern war here
will bo felt but what that may he is already pretty
well foreshadowed IL is in royalist and clerical
salons that you must look for the transformation.
So long as no phantom that could bc conjured up
abroad conld scare the public mind papably and
tangibly the rctrogades here in the so-called
" great world" indulged in any conceivable amount
of brag and buster, insulting the Republic.
| announcing fresh miracles, denouncing education,
progress, and modern ideas generally. and openly
calling fOr catastrophcs that should force back the
rule of Pope and KING But since Bagie" has APP
peaTed-hat H. since hostiiities are declared between
Russian and Turk, and the shadow OF the Chan
ceilor' has doomed family in the dstance-it is no
longer fashionable to back all the Papstical
yagaries. Bishops, If they persist in being unruy
win very soon be at discount. In this respect the
straws that show which way the wind blows were
to be picked up for the last ten days on all sides
during the ncassant sales that have been taking
place here for charitable purposes When some IN
fortunate approached the stall Of the particular
d" rcndcgsc' as whose prey he was marked out YOU
might Ave times out of six hear the question put as 10
what lis opinion the OpportuneucSs of the
famous letter of the Bishop Of Ncycrs and / am
bound to say that almost all occasions have
heard the Bishop rather uncercmonIousiy handled
by the men and even by women.
Nor is this ALL Father Hyacnthe hos consider
ably pr0ftcd by the complications Of the present
hour. When his conferences We're first announced
there was storm of reprobation: it was a "scan-
dial ~ a m0nstrOsity l7-such things ought not to
be allowed!-no respectable people ought to attend
the lectures OF the infamous apostae the uulrockcd
monk. Bat after it became PLAIN and Obvious that
France had and could possibly have but one single
danger 10 Overwhelmingly. ultra Clercalism-all this
rantpg diminished at once. and three nights back,
at soirGc, in the very thick Of thc most bcniglted
FaubOurg ST. German, heard with my own ears a
discussion between some persons OF the most ahso-
utcly rctroyradc type 10 the WoYlcty Of attend
ing the Pore HyacIathcs lectures! "Why, what
can possess you, mon coraa, exclaimed maliciousy
liberal lady, who delights in tormcn;ing her obscur-
artist friends and reatves " do reflect on what
! you say To 20 to hear Father Hyacinthe is 10
practice with the Evil One himself"
"Wcll, perhaps for women was the reionder;
but for men-mcn ought sometimes perhaps 10
be brought to face the worst 1t might be adysa-
bic to know what the wrctched man has to say "
" But my dear cousin retolted the misciey0us
! far oae you must pay three francs to hear 10
Pere Ilyacinthe and those three francs MIMI go TO
! uphold the Bad Cause"
! Now, think | can answer for it that the 500
odd that each Of the conferences brings Father
ilyacinthe Is in no slight degree contributed to by
! the three fancs of the individual scomerS and re-
yilers. But this has come entirely from the bitter
knowledge that the only thing that Bismarck
will uOt tolerate is the evidence IN any public shape
whatever Of rampant Papism France! War
itself and rumors Of war; likely 10 do more good
70 real freedom of thought in this country than any
| thing that has happened since 1870.
The first proof of the desperate fright inspired in
society by the shadow of Bismarck possible dis
| pleasure is to be found in the suddenly altered
position Of Prince Hphculohe the German Eulbassa-
dor. This Winter 1t grayely debated whether
or not it was to be permitted in the world that
! tho Hohculohes were to be visited aud the brill
lancy Of the Austrian Embassadre,ss receptions
was meant as a sort of counterpart 10 the thin and
mclgcr attendance youohsafcd 20 those Of her Ger
man colleague. Since the last ten days al is
changed and now every Minister has been giving 4
gala banquet to Prince and Princess Hohcnlohe.
In the ride in the Bots lie B0ulognc in the early
morning hours one person Is now the object OF uu-
equiyOcal pOlitencss and attention, and that
| person is the German EmbaS>adrcss. Il is truo
- NOT no ilV al, la
end of an alley You sec an almost colossal female
figure seated on a perfectly monumental horse,
and there comes Princess Hohcnohe" arc
the words instantly followed by quckeucd
pace of the equestrians, who vie with
each other in Fastening to pay their smiling tribute
of cordial greeting TO the wife OF the great Chan
cellors representative The Hohenlohcs are just now
almost as popular As the Emperor and Empress of
Brazil and that is saying great deal. / scarcely
ever remember "a crowned head who ia any country
has had the universal success achieved by His
Majesty, Dom Pedro, and he il one proof the more
that whatever your status in ife-whether kaiser or
comedian politician what-nOt-if you do your
very best and fulfill all the duties Of your position
you will compel the respect OF the public, whole and
entire 1t is certain that the Brazilian sovereign has
here nothing but friends IN every class and every
party. and the soir6cs given by the Empress arc
throngcd by all the n0tabilitics Of France, lot
what will be teir special political shade OF opinion
In quite another sense the same thing may be
noted II The Due Dccazcs. No public man of our
day, perhaps has drawn down upon his head such
universal animadyersion account Of pccunHy
Irregularities yet it wOald be hard 90 say what
epoch could be named in which, in French history,
any Minister has been the object Of such universal
admiration and popularity as VI. Decazes, at this
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