New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-04-17
GAMBETTA'S OPINIONS.
INTERVIEW WITH THE EX-DICTATOB

INTERVIEW WITH The EA-DlCIAlOR.
NJ. GAMBErTA GIVES HIS VIEWS on THE EASTERN
QUESTION, THE GERMAN CHARACTER, AND Eng
LANDS TRoUBLEs-oUEEN vICToRIA's VISIT.
IRON THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT or THE TRIBUSE.I
PARIS March 2s.-I have had an interesting con-
versation with NJ. Gambetta on current affairs.
The Speaker of the Chamber thinks the Eastern
question only opened. In his opinion the Berlin
Congress only served to keep open the sores 1t pro-
fessed TO heal. Where there was o wound before 10
met there is now bad ulcer. VI. Gambetta appre-
bends military carnage and massacre In the Bal
kans and Southern Bulgaria. and he does not
dare think where the storm wave originated
by Russians Turks and Bugarians will end. Peace
he deems essential to the prosperity OF the French
Republic, and as long he directs the Chamber OK
Deputies she will never draw the sword from tho
scabbard but to defend herself. In this order Of
ideas he judges it happy for France that Bis
marck has his hands full Of German thorns, and
is losing the confidence of the Court, the Parlia-
ment and the Nation. asked if the internal diff
cuties which perplex and irrtate the Chancellor
might not drive him 10 war; War Is a fayorte
divertiye of monarchcal governments from the
ills that weigh upon their peoples. lt is In
human nature to prefer being swept away By q
cannon-ball to being Knocked down by
rolling-pin. Gambetta thought the axiom OF
Bailey Junior applicable to Cells and Gaus, but not
to Germans, who are pacific as they are disputa-
tous. They entered the war Of 1870 with en-
thusiasm because Louis Napoleon irrlta'ed the Ma
tonal fibre; but they were Disguised with Il, and
very glad after a short and prominently victorious
campaign to doff their uniforms. again observed
that Prussia was not German. 1t peopled by
races who would elect always for the cannon-balI
IN preference to the rolling-pin. The Prus-
slams were an amalgam Of Wend slays,
French Protestants, aud Borussl.
very hard metal was formed by the
fusion. and It was better adapted for swords and
Krupp guns than for ploughshares. Gambetta as
serted At the same time he pointed out that IL
unsupported by the avalanche of Saxon, Bayarlan'
Wurtemberger and Hanoyerian troops which were
precipitated on France the warke state OF Bran
denburg must have issued with broken head from
the fight. For England Gdmbetta saw greater
troubles ahead than those with which she Is strng-
Cling and which he thought 1t unfair 10 cast ao
Beaconsneld,s door. Some Of her present ills were
due TO universal causes Others to the oyer-deVeioP
ment of manufacturing cities, which de-
GRADED popnlation and placed National wealth on
an unsteady basis. Agricultural Italy must ever, In
the long run, have the advantage over traficking
Carthage. In one way Free Trade was the source
of evil 70 England that Protection would be to tho
Tinted States and the British Colonies. IL Drought
too much blood into grimy cities, where the snhoho
of the mill shuts out the light of Heaven from tue
onerative Without Heavens light, continued
IN his emphatic manner Gambetta, the WORK
man is brute. To find glimpse OF the ldea to-
ward which every human being lnsuhcu'ey
aspires he squanders his wages in gin. oh' Ses'
without sunlight and the blue sky, there
il no invention, no skill, no soclaDily "
he found among the laborng poor. Inc tiuy'
thrifty artistic Fleming becomes at Mons and Lliie
GREAT extent killed the Moors in Spain He should DC
sorrv that they killed England, for he has good rea'
sons for loving her. In the United States the La
h nartv IA another outcome of big cities ana over
stimulated manufactures. "All L want, SAID Una
cyl Dictator public instruction to do IN rance Is
IN enable the peasant to appreciate the teciles Oh
an agricultural life, and TO lend him the aid oil
science in cultyating his field"
Gambetta spoke with kindness Of Greyy' put Ia
mented his contracted ideas of European anairs'
Fpglaud's foreign perplexItes, he said were trace
able 70 the blind policy of Gladstone and his Man
chester colleagues. They kept back ltaiy ana AUS
tria from helping France
The Queen of England stays tonight at the Brit
isb Embassy, in the apartments o. the hrSt hoor'
or chamber Is that usually occupied by Lord Lyons.
# wa. fitted up By the Prince Borghese for hls
nretty wife Pauline Bonaparte, as Her Majesty now
Grds il The furniture is magnificent, but the
stuffs covering it are out of repair. charming
view of the Embassy garden, which is planted W'tn
ancient trees and covered with soft green turi' Is
commanded from the rooms N which Tier MAJESTY
ia installed. Beyond the trees the gayest part oil
the Champs Elys6es can be seen. Inc queen. 10
the early years OF her reign, was blgoted IN ne
opinion that ct takes three generations 30 idAs
n oentleman" She enumerated ms aAlviu "i'et nc.
inst interview with Sir Robert Peel who was, not
at ease in the Royal presence, II must go nat1
,r;tb bar IN recelye President GreVy as an clualf
and do suppose she would have been aGs sSs
" 'I been moved by a political necessity. She
Is very anxious to have t6 Ssw GdT Sa
Va Uiort and accented by the French Chambers.
Her Majesty hays tb no bo6 dSa't tmp T q
n GrFyy's manners. She has great insight as to
Character, and when prejudice Is GyireGif Is ap'
to re0ret deeply that she ever entertained IT,,
Madame Cr6yy having no official rank VIII n9t
call on Her Majesty She Madame G!eyH = IN I Ths
pnaen contrary to what the French journals state,
Vii pay no return visit. Fatigue ana deep mourn