Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-11-08

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Letter from Edward King to the Boston
Journal.
PARIS, October 14.-Prince Bis
marck severely wounded the French
by his remarks, in his late speech.
upon the summary manner in which
they dealt with the Commune. ct
is to be hoped, says one journal, very
dryly, that such license in parlia.
mentary discussion, when the affairs
of a friendly nation are spoken of. is
not to become the rule. Bismarck is
harassed from all sides just now. He
is lion at bay. "Hol" cries one
deputy to him, feeling safe under the
cloak of his iuyiolability as repre-
sentative Of the people, hol the
chancellor knows more about any
other portion of Europe than he does
about Germany" Another openly
denOunces him as a traitor; q third
says that If, in consequence of the pas
sage of the new law against the Social
lists, any one ought to be called to sit
upon the bench of the accused. it
should be the chancellor. Extreme
violence of language appears to have
been the rule, rather than the excep-
ton, in the late debates. There
is no denying the fact that Bis
marck is i'll at ease. He roars
every time that dart rankles in his
flesh. The German journals publish
the most picturesque accounts Of the
manner in which he conducted himself
when he was vigorously attacked the
other day. He bounded; he wrote
rapidly, stopping now and then to
glare at the speaker, as a lawyer does
when his rival is. examining witness;
he ironed his face all out with his
hands, peculiar gesture which | ha aye
seen him make dozens of times: he
stamped inpatiently. Then he courted
violence by the bitterness of his own
language. But the law for which he
fights has already cast it's immense
shadow over the Socialist party. and
enveloped it in the blackness of dark
ness. Everywhere the Soeialistic So
cieties are disbanding, are suppressing
their own newspapers, and putting
their funds where the government
cannot touch them. But the deputies
to utter threats Of the most
alarming character, and at the same
time comes from Russia the announce
ment that the Nihilists there have
burned down a large commercial
town, causing loss of eight
millions of francs. The fire was
set in four parts of the town at once
and the miserable inoendiaries remain
undiscovered, Bismarck's favorite re-
mark during the debates on his net
laws has been that it is better to re-
press the dangerous symptoms now
than to be compelled by and by to
crush out a revolution, as the French
did. Perhaps if things take still
more excited turn a strong military
imperiality might take it into its head
to dissolve the Parliament, and then
-? Everything indicates, as a noted
German said here lately, that Ger
many is very sick" But Bismarck
finds time, in spite of bowling depu-
ties and burning 6re,brands at home,
to control his foreign policy with his
usual ar-sightednoss, He has lust
given proof of this by hurting back
upon the heads Of the miserable Turks
their accusation that the Austrians
have been guilty of terrible atrocities
in Bosnia. He feels a certain anger
with the Turks because they are in
large degree responsible for the failure
of the Berlin Treaty. Failure it Il.
Almost none of its provisions have
been paid tho slightest attention to
thus far Even the Russians laugh
at h.