New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-16
TOPICS IN PARIS.
nrc,r, .r1oN AND DIPL oMACY.


- spo,rs WILL BE PARTTTIONED-THE AfIl-
r,,rr or PRANCE-THE FRENCH PRESS LIKELY
ro nv puRIFIED BY FREEDOM FROM LFGAL RE-
sTRAINT. ,
Paris. JAN 26.-The premature publication OF W.
Bartheiemy ST. Hilare's dispatches shows tnat no'
n civil service is rotten it is better to give hRu iu
tOns to rich than to poor men. lWkisn A",
DOS in Paris have been accustomed to spend as II
they had an FL Dorado at their pacKs' 1ney k",o
the finest dinners, drove in the most handsomely
annointed eouipages and gambled reckleSsiy at the
Car.,e, Tn which they belonged. III the
nress rendered services to Ottoman hnance
II was most richly rewarded. since .no
Treaty of Berlin hard times have come upon Tue
Turkish Embassy. Hospitality Ii no longer pr@c-
tised there The old chef and his myrinldohs nave
been dismissed and there Is nov single man cooA
with a kitchen maid to assist him. LII the coch-
bouse there is grand gala coach, but the staDie
without horses. and when the Ambassador goes out
In nav a visit he rides in dirty hacKhey co'oi'
Neither he nor his secretaries nor attaches are Al
.ho rocor recspt of their salaries If the wits OF
Pachas and Elfendls were not pretty sharp 'hoS
vopld often be reduced to sore straits great
canaeitv for what is called raising the
wind has been developed by the imDOvershment Oh
the Sultans exchequer. which has been the direct
consequence of the late Russo-IurkIsh war. Dy
means of those circulars and notes oil NJ Dartheiehy
st. Hllaire the diplomatic servants OF the sultan
have ma 10 as much money as ought 10 cover wen
their budgetary deficits. Whenever NJ ST. hllar0
forwarded TO an agent of the French hepuohc
dsnatc ON the Greco Turkish question he. IN con-
formity with diplomatic etiquette gave copy
marked "confdental,7 to the Turkish Am-
hassador and to the Greek Minister. There
cond he no worse breach of trust than to
give mn blicity to paper so communicated without
an authorization from tho Minister for Foreign
Affairs who indted it. Difficult 1t Is not TO OeheVe
that the Turkish Embassy III Paris had done tDis'
with double purpose OF causing fall Ill rehteS Oh
which its leading members had speculated, anu de-
featng the efforts of M. Brailas to commit france
20 the Greek side, by means OF secret Influences
brought to bear on Gambetta. The copies OF the
confidential dispatches were sent TO 1"e MorH"e
Post 10 "eover tracks" Ii they mai hrst
come out in a French journal the DetraVai
of confidence might have been at once traced to the
Ottoman Embassy, and tine resource OF teiiihg p"u-
sible and deceiving lies cut of from the diplomats
there Bour-e TRANSACTIONS have been discovered Nv
tbe French police subsequent to their cOmmunica-
+ion of he Christmas Eve circular of NJ. ST. Hlalre,
The diyulgation Of which has Occasoned nOtaole
fall in rentes and Other stocks. Had not this faii
occurred the transactions. which were on very
great scale would have been attended WIN rulhousS
severe loss The fact Of their having heen
affords strong presumption that the otonau
Embassy quickly saw in the circular an occasion
to "bear" the BOurse. and took advantage OF the
opportunity by sending that document 10 Inc
Morpiu, Post TO be published. Sir Agernon Borth-
wick Is the directing mind in that Journal OF shoDs
and LIMOGES He passes at the Ministry for Foreign
Affairs here for being in some mysterious manner
related 70 Lord Palmerston, who, 50 to
speak, dry-nursed him and pushed him.
When Palmerston entered into the entente
oordiale with Louis Napoleon. The Morning P0st be-
came the organ of Cambridge House and the
Tuileries 1t was toward the close of the third
Empire elbowed out of that palace by Felix White
hurst the fast correspondent of The Telegraph here.
Borthwick has been on terms of close intimacy
with the family of Musurus Boy for very many
wears and went in strong for Jngoism. in promot-
lug which he won a baronetcy from the Beac0nsneld
Government. The circular was not transmitted 10
him through the medium of newspaper
correspondent. He, am told, must have got 1t d.
rect from the Ottoman Embassy which is also
blamed for the subsequent premature publication
Of two other notes written by NJ. Barhclemy ST.
Hilaire A copy of the last of these documents was
sent to the British Ambassador. But 1t has not &C.
Cured to any one to impute mOney-making breach
of confidence to that honest and honorable repre-
sentat We of Queen Victoria in Paris.
DIPLOMATIC MAP-NAKING.
The effect of the premature publication of the dip
iomatic circular aud notes has been to strengthen
the hands of the Foreign Minister He is convinced
that ii the final breakup of Turkey happens TINS year
the interests of Western Europe would be gravely
COMPROMISED because Eastern Europe is in no state
TO act a, counterposc the Central States and
ON Italy. The great remodelling OF the map OF
Europe which must ensue upon the expulsion OF the
Osmanli from ConstantinOpte, would, it this event
were prccip.tated, either follow upon great war,
or lead Immediately to one. NJ. Barthelemy St.
Hilaire aims at the realization OF the Z" bag
and baggage" policy by slow and sue
cessive steps. He desires to see the
King OF Greece at the head of strong and compact
little State, but would dissuade him from attempt
ing to fulfil his Byzantine dream. King George and
Oueen Olga are tired of Athens. which they find
proyjuciaI announcement and isolated. The hope of
making their way to COnstantinOple as the House OF
SAVOY rot Oh from Turin to Rome, alone renders
Athens endurable to the ROYAL pair. To command
the road TO Constanunople they must possess
Janipa and Metsovo, which do not command the
road to Athens. Now Austria wants also to advance
TO the Gulf of SalOnca with the Interior object OF
establishing herself at Constantinope. and unfor-
tunatey for Greece Bismarck pushes Francis Joseph
in that direction. He is impelled to displace Aus
tra In order to step into her shoes at Trieste. Ger
many wants to have port on one of the Southern
seas of Europe. the Importance of which the Suez
Canal has enormously magnifed. With the Hanse
towns aud their great Ravens in the north, and
with Trieste in the SOUTH Germany would
become a commercial power of the highest
order. But Austria will not abandon to her the
Liverpool of the Adriatic unless German assistance
makes sure to her the City of Constantine and
salonica France and Russia, were the latter En-
pire recovered from the exhaustng effects OF the
late war; could prevent a revision Of the map OF
Europe for the exclusive benefit OF the central
Powers and Italy, which will lie drawn to their side
BY portion of the Trentine, which she claims.