New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-05-31

nection with the seizure of Tunis has been the
resentment which foreign criticism has excited
in France The running fire of hostile com
mcnt from the English press has been met by
fusillade of abuse and reproaches from the
Paris NEWSPAPERS So conservative journal as
the Franchise tells the ccnsOrs across the Chan
mel that their display of temper is really too i'm
pertinent. "To hear England cry Shocking !!
AShockingr like an old maid, one might sup
pose that her hands had never clutchcd any
thing YETI A moro radical journal cannot
understand why a nation that has flched
Cyprus. dispossesscd all the Indian princes in
succession. and taken violent possession of the
lands of Protestant colonists in the Imnsvaal
should be indignant because France has secured
tranquility in Northern Africa. Ii represents
England as frctting and groaninc like an old
woman who has lost a fayOritc cat, and warns
the French against counting upon the cooPcra-
ton of "a long tOOlhcd neighbour, who has
taken from them India. Canada and all their
colonies. and never sent ~ 4 single man, single
ships boat" to their assistance Another
journal considers that the attitude OF England
and Italy renders FUnco-Gcrmln alliance
fatally necessary within brief time. and
writer in the DcbHt contends with considerable
force that rs the collapse OF the Ottoman Power
approaches France must retain all tie adVan-
tagcs of position in Egypt and syria which have
been won 10y ~ccntuTIcs OF consistent ANA m
tclliccnt policy"
This outburst Of fury and menace has not had
n quicting cnrct in England. Onc mcmbcr of
the Commons has considered il Do, dr'y to pro
test against a hirh-handcd policy whereby from
80. 600 to 10000 men bad L,cn sent INFO "a
friendly country to occupy one ol DE most i'm
portant ports ON the Mediterranean and to force
an unfortunate sovereign Ia i'm ':'ail AZ the
point of the hayaEct. lie hd, called upon the
Government to Join Italy III making most
determined protest against The seizure OF IauiS.
and has even rcpr0achcd tie French people for
falling ANONYMOUSLY into % trap winch i'isn1ich
had baitcd for them ~ broad daylight. he
"rcmcr has replied. however. ~ TOM of cour-
tcSv and moderation which has h.d The double
effect Of Ica~>uriug the French press and OF
convincing English critics that their OWN posi-
ton was untcnablc. ] he diplomatic CORR
spondcncc subsequently Land before Parliament
has shown that France hls done IN ISL what
an English Foreign Minister gave her pcIlnis-
sion 10 do in ISIS. There has been unnccrs-
gary duplicty. The real purpose of the cNpe-
dilion WA concealed and uulruthful replies
were made 90 the Powers, when honesty would
have been the better policy. The fair fame oi
the young Republic ha, been cloud'd with d.
stimulation and deceit. liut the conr~c which
has been taken was marked ont by Lord Slli--
bury. and England cannot complain il his ad'Ic'
has been followed after IN interval Of three
years. Not only hl, hi counsel been needed.
but ms diplomatic methods have been initiated.
for the French Foreign Minister ha- not been
one whit more diSInet nuou- than the author at
the secret Memorandum which fen under thr
prying eyes Of Marvin, copy st and journalist.
After the war in the Crinca European dip
lomacy wa for mIny years little more than
dangerous game of blind man 5, bun III which
the Powers hunted in pairr-now France and
italy, or Austria and Prussia, and again Prussia
and Russia, OF Prussia and ltaly and England
has remained outside the circle AN indifferent
spectator. AZ the Congress of Berlin the game
was changed. The Ottoman Empire Was re-
gardcd ~ 4 loosclv made grlhhay, into which
cycryoncs arm could bc thft,t al pleasure.
Russia. whose hand bad already gone Ia the
bottom and nearly upset the bag. Wa, allowed
10 keep all that she had stilcd. ,aVc only
fringe of Southern BULGARIA.. Austria, b,lug
cntrcatcd to try her luck, WAS easily induced
to take Bosnia. Great Britain had alr.ad,
drawn prize III the dark, and now Haunted 1t
in the face Of Russia. 4, the game went on
Lord Salisbury seems to have entered 80
heartily into the sport that be was unwilling 80
have anybody 20 away empty handrd. In this
/ spirit he fairly inporluncd VI. Waddiuglon to
add Tunis TO Algeria. Indeed if current
rumors in London are to be believed, hc went
still further and limited at the Occupation of
Tripoli as a convenient countcrpoisc for Italy.
These proposals and intrigucs do not Justify the
course of the French in ! dnis BIT now that
the secret history is we'll understood British
moralists cannot with good taste talk mucn
about European obligations and the sanctily Of
public law.