New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-25
FRENCH AFFAIRS.
rprrc Talk AND SOCIAL GOSSIP.

THE DEGREES AGAINST THE JEsUirS-fEAho ma
TIE AMNESTY MEASURE WOULD BIZ DEfEAiHp
WHY NJ JULES SIMON THOUGHT HIMSELF SAFE
THE PROTECTED MARRIAGE OF PRINCE ROLAND
BoNAPARTE
,rpoy THE REGrtAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUSE.l
PARIS July 0.-The execution OF the DEGREES n's
revealed the fast and general hold which the Jesuts
were acquiring the bench, the bar, the army me
legal branch of the civil service. and in what used
70 he the sceptica arstocracy and Voltarean bour-
seojse of this country. Officers who are habituay
reserved in expressing publicly their poiitcai pref
erences did not hang back from attending the fafe-
well service at the Rue de Sevres. III they had gone
in plain clothes nobody could reasonably nave ODD
iected 10 their appearing among the friends OF the
Jesuits there. Every Frenchman has right 10 say
his prayers how and when he likes. But military
men overstep the line when they 20 to threaten "a
we'll as to pray in the house of an order which they
know the Government they serve is abont 10 smut
ND. To attend the farewell service at the Rue de
Seyres in uniform was to " show theH teeth W Vno
State which they are bound to serve
Their attitude at the Rue de Sevres will not ntim-
date those members of the Government who are
frankly anti-cerical. NJ. de Freycinet was for
turning back after he had put his hand
to the plough. He is in bad health. An al
fectiop of the liver from which he suffers in
duces pessimistic views Of every difficulty which
the Cabinet has to surmount He is rendered low
spirited and depressed by trihing obstacles. BEL
gium a monarchical and Catholic state, breaks OH
dipIomatIc relations with the Holy See. The French
| Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs wasl I'M
manned by the threat made verbally by the Nuncio,
that if the DEGREES were further executed he would
pray at once the Pope to recall him. When this
menace was communicated to Gambetta
| his spirit rose, and he thought the
| Nuncios attitude a reason why the Government
should persevere in forcing the religious congrega
lions to submit themselves to the civil Authority
| A loophole has been afforded them to escape from
| dissolution, and they will not, in obedience to a
mot Fordye from Rome avail themselves Of it. Cen
eral Fare the War Minister is with NJ. Gambetta.
| SO are Cazot the Minister of Justice and Constans
| who directs tho Home Office. The GeneraFs
opinion is that IL the Jesmts are al
| lowed to prepare cadets for st. Cyr and the Poly
technic, the " Black Pope" VIII soon command in
| chief the French Army. Cazot has discovered
that the tribunals and Darquets boards of prose-
cutting officers are under Jesuit leadership Judges,
| procurators substitutes reared in Jesuit schools
areafated to the order which nurtured them, and
| bound to obey implicitly its General. 1t Is to be
| assumed that Father Beckx has ordered the
| Judges and procurators TO make war upon
| the DEGREES at no matter what sacrifice to
| themselves The former declare themselves
competent to hear the suits brought by the
Jesuts against the Projects who ordered
the doors of their houses to be forced and those OF
their chapels to be sealed up. Every day we hear
of procurators and substitutes sending in their res
ipnations rather than defend in the law courts
the executors Of the DEGREES. This course Is not
| taken in pursuance of the reasoning of the we'll
bred dog for NJ CazOt is not intOlerant or aperse-
cutOr and would not have dismissed any law officer
for preferring monarchica to republican form OF
| governments the preference was not trumpeted
| on the house-tops. Nor is 1T in accordance
with the habits and traditions of law officers
in this country to abandon post if can by sur
face trimming be kept Reactonists OF all profess
sons are very adroit in bowling with the wolves,
and in putting themselves " on the side of the
broom-handle " in order to direct the broom.
THE AMNESTY
This has been an anxious day In Paris. and our
anxiety is not yet over It's cause has been the at
ttude of NM Jules Simon. Dufaure. Laboulaye,
| and their friends in the Senate. Will the amnesty.
| do you think be voted every one asks everybody
| else Nobody ventures to predict how the vote
| will CO. The Cabinet and Gambetta have
been straning their influence to assure
a bare majority in favor of the measure They have
| extracted promise from five who were at first
| against the amnesty TO abstain, and hoped to win
| five votes NJ Brocas sudden death will, it is APP
|
| which may prove a turning point in the evolution
| of the Republic. The enthusiasm of the population
| is tremendous But what is there mobile as the
| Partisan crowds From the excess Of Joy there
| might be a sudden reaction toward violence were
the Senate to lout the humantary sentiment which
is now prevalent, and to exasperate the nerves OF
the public. The Senate has no hold on mems minds.
II passes for fifth wheel at best in the coach, and
| a citadel of reaction. The people do not understand
that it is a weight the end of pulley; that it
prevents revolutionary legislation, and that 1T may
turn out precious safeguard of republican institu-
TONS If the Joy of the National fete were damped
by the refusal to vote the amnesty, most danger
ous situation might arise between discontented Jes
| uits on one side and disappointed plebs on the
other. The moral atmosphere is just now intensely
exciting Soldiers ready to fraternize with
the blouses, and to regard their officers as
Jesuits, and therefore enemies Of the Republic.
NJ Jules Simon. as the story goes, was asked yes
terday whether he was not afraid that il the amnesty
bill rejected. the mob would sack MS dwelling
and tear him to pieces hs hitsgeG answer was
to get at me. They would never have the patience
to climb so high. There IS not on record an EXAM
pie of the people OF Paris tearing reactionst from
fifth story. If they sack and destroy, 1t VIII be
private houses, which are only two stories high"
THE PEOPLE EAGER FOR THE FETE.
Signs of public festvty are visible in every quar-
ter of the towns. The business quarters, where
| rich traders live are already decked IN many places
with flags. PATRIOTISM is all the ra. >. l see tri-
colored rosetes on the of horses aud ricoored
scars on the madeup dresses of children and ladies
which are exhibited in shop windows. There are
even tricolored corsets on show. One almost feels
sorry to know that there honest and patriotic
} Catholics who siding with the religious orders
must look with bitterness of heart upon all the
, | CAV bunting which is to signify patriotic joy
| and republican victory. These Catholics l do
not associate with the fast-and-oose society which
reconciles the world the flesh and the devil with
religion 1t matters little what this section feels.
Its collective existence is mad, selfish, unworthy.
Notwithstanding its noisy protestatons OF fidelity
| ia thron and