New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-08-29
TOPICS IN PARIS.
PoLrrIcs-GAMBETTA.

TON AT TouRs-How HE WAS REcLIvED-ThE |
POINTS WINCH MADE.
Irro.s rtc pFsrfAE CORRESPONDENT or THE TRf8UNh.'
Pans. Aug. SIT has long been the fashion IN
The ofaces of Liberal newspapers TO treat lightly inc
,neotincs Of heads of empires on the Cohtl- |
nant Tlose who saw in the Nis't Oh 'ne
King of Prussia TO Lous Napoleon at Compeghe IN
1851 a symptom OF approaching European storms
were treated rs aaImist3. Time after tlme mas the
liberal Press since that meeting took place over
1ooked tho fact that IN the great military States of
1ija Corfincn. ell administrative power is concen
trated in few hands and that it is only for public
opinion to Iatfy in q Ilatonic manner or to blanc
The accomplished actions Of their Governments.
Every great political charge thai has taken place
in the Old World within tho last thirty years has
leen preceded by meeting Of sovereigns The
object King now Emperor, William had in view in
going tc Compeigne along with Bismarck was to
take measures for establishing the national unity
of Germany on n C8sarean basis. The Schleswlg-
Holsten invasion came few months after n
meeting of William and Franz Joseph at the Baths
OF Gastein. These potentates met again when tho
military explosion which eliminated ut SadOwa
was about to take place. William and his nephew
Alexander of Russia had previously been seeing
each other in the presence of their respective
Chancellors. 4 death-bow was very near being
inflicted on this country and its yOung Republic
Immediately after the interview at Berlin in $50
OF the three Emperors. NJ Barthcemy st. lliaire
at eastern which will directly menace France. AT
that waterng-place the Emperors of Austria and
Germany are in teie a tete communication. The
worthy Minister for Foreign Affairs has boon good
enough to explain 10 mo his opinion on this event
He thinks that the Turkish question is about to
enter into q new phase Russia is undergoing
crisis of transformation which will end in demo-
cratic Casarisln as the movement of 1918 ended IN
France Tho Gar will probably grant popular
Constitution and admit in it the principle OF uni
yersal suffrage. Count SkObeleh when recently
here intimated rs much in his conversations with
French statesmen. He dwelt upon the disturbing
influence of the middle classes in Russia. From
these classes the army of Nihiiism is chiefly re-
cruted. If the Car leans upon the plehs for sup
port they may expect to find in HIM shelter tor the
democratic theories which he viii recognize in the
Constitution. The principle of Imperial authority
will be at the service of the entire people. When
internal calm is restored Russia will take measures
to extend her southern sen line to the Bosphorus.
This aim of the new Emperor ana his favorte adj
visers is the cause Of the Gasten meeting.
NJ Barthelemy st. Eaire does not like to admit
the influence which his North African policy has
had in forcing the Eastern question into fresh and
dangerous phase; in my .Olinon-to use apoca-
1yptic lanCuage-a seal has been opened ana
that by the Tunis expedition. Having COMO there
France must go further. She must seize upon
TripoN which is the centre of the smuggling trade
between Europe and the barbarOus tribes of North
Africa who in this way supplied with arms and
war munitions If she puts down this contraband
trade which she only do by holding stratcgical
points in Trpoi, England assumes the protectoTate
of Egypt, and then Russia steps further down
south toward Constantnople. Austria, whose ma
tional unity is not We, complete and Greece. who
is in the same case will cry to the Muscovite to
halt. That he Will not do unless Germany unites
in the call TO him to advance no further. NJ
Barthelemy st. Hilare's opinion is that France has
nothing to dread from this complication OF Eastern
affairs He is satisfied that Bismarck will say to
Austria: Give Trieste Go you to Salonica
Let ConstantinOple become free town under the
protection of Austria and if you agree to this
viii help you u keep Russia to the north of the
Danube If she wants southern capital let her
Gar emigrate to Odessa 10 Sobastopol where
there is IA open sea all the year round" The one
black spot in NJ. St. Hlaire's apprehension is
Alsace-Lorranc. france needs both provinces to
be chez ellie, to be at home. to be. Free Masons
would put it, close tiled. Germany, on the other
hand, alleges that they Indispensable to her
national unity. i may be pardoncd therefore if.
disagreeing with the worthy Foreign Minister l
regard the interview between the two Enperors as
sign of the times which shOuld render France
uneasy NJ ST. Hilaire trusts that Alsace and
Lorraine may be ransomed yet at great price
doubtless, but for much less than would cost.
Perhaps she may, Germany being wearied of her
military harness. Her Government also finds that
the system which she has rendered obligatory in
Europe, of arning whole nations. is fast breaking
down old social and political bulwarys aud facili-
tating the accession to power of form of socialist
democracy. All precursors are wrathful and
menacing because they come with true idea, the
conviction of its truth and at time when only a
few minds are prepared to receive it. German
officers complain that it is next to impossible ia
keep mp a martial spirit i'll heir national army
Short periods Of service break down that spirit, and
also those barriers which distinctly separated the
civil population from the Kings Emperors troops
before the system of Stein and Hardenberg was
adopted throughout Germany. This system has
been imposed upon France by the situation which
arose ont of the Prussian INVASION In adopting il
the Chambers have destroyed the last strong hold OF
bourgeois of aristocratic reaction
NJ Barthelcmy st. Hilai7e, who often opens 30 me
vstas on European diplomacy has assured me that
Bismarcks active and ponderons brain is exercised
by the problem of general European disarmament
and the conversion of all military force into na
tional corps of gendarmerie for the preservation Of
internal peace the divers States of the OLD
World. Gambetta also wonld like to take up thu
plan of Henri ~, turning Europe into Fedora
ton The idea is an old one. The Greeks had the
Amphytrionc Council and the medieval Pope
attempted to fuse the semi barbarous nations which
sprung up the ruins of the Roman Empire int
a peaceful Chrlstendom. The world is now bette
prepared for a scheme for turning swords int
plouglshares than it was before Steam and
telegraphy tend to draw peoples close together
There is q high ideal of justice in the Governmen
tai theories which the victorious ones in En-
rope, and which making themselves apparent
In diplomatic practice. England has taken
glorious initiative in not pursuing to the bitter en(
her war with the Beers and in yielding Corfu K