New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-31
TOPICS IN PARIS.
STATE AFFAIRS OF INTEREST.

| hofAiisIs PRIVATELY ADMITTING THE HOPE
! LHosNEss OF THEIR CACsE-GENERAL sKoBE.
LEFFs MISUNDERSTANDING of THE PRO-
| fused CONFERENCE BETWEEN THE GERMAN
! AND AUSTRIAN EMIERoRs-woEs AND GRIEv-
ANcEs OF THE DUCHESS OF EDINBURGH-THE
| HISTORY or GAMBETTA's SEAL RING
ifkoM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRrBrS,,
| FARIs, July 15.-The fete of Yesterday was bril-
MANI as bunting, pyrotechncs and grand review
cooiu make 1t. 1t was essentially a Republican
one, ana the polychrome aspect of the Capital was
| entrely due to individual local and municipal
enorts. The City of Paris did great deal the
Government folded its arms and looked on approy-
ihgy. state action was only visible at the military
| spectacle in the Bots de Boulogne The shows Of
the day were so spread about that there was little
announcement crowding anywhere. aSociety !"
| ignored yesterdays celebration, except in the
| quarter of the town where rich foreigners are
numerous. The Boulevards Haussmann and
MalesherDes, which par with New-York ks
riIh-aVe IN regard TO style" and the fashionable
pretenslons of the inhabitants gave no sign of re-
Joicng There was hardly window In the aris-
tocratle mansions of the Fauboug ST. German that
was MOI shut up. But those who closed them were
not lnsensible to the futilty OF their oounterman
festation.
spent the evening of the 18th at the house of an
English lady bearing of the most ancient titles
IN the peerage. She has hired the Hotel Pozzo de
poiSo' "neGc SIe SPENDS n month or live weeks
every year. The rent is fabulously high This
mansion is not inferior in size, grandeur of aspect or
internal luxury to Stafford House, the London
abode of the Duke of Sutherland. Its noble tenant
was surrounded, the other evening, by the De
James, DE Choiseuils, De Larochefoucauds De
JanconIt is and many intimate friends of the Comte
and Comtesse de Paris. AS she is in very deep
mourning, there was no dancing and very little
music. Conversation was animated and the prin-
an w HIGH tl,af &C Al
Many of the titled personages around me openly held
the opinion that the Republic is the only possible
Government in France. 1t would be idle they con-
tended witch small minority of the guests to at
tempt to set mp any other, the mass of the nation
being averse to monarchy. This was admitted bv
Dukes, Comics and Marquises who i'll public hoist
the white flag and wear Chambordist emblems ON
the festival of st. Henri.
A MEETING or RIVALS.
Grevy and Gambetta met At the review Yesterday
for the first time since the rejection by the Senate
OF the Bardoux bill. They at first little con
strained The President of the Chamber when he,
had taken his seat beside the President of the Re-
public, removed his hat from his head and kept a
heid-glass to his eye For than three quarters
of an hour he appeared intent upon his survey of
the troops. But the rim of the glass on which the
sun beat tercey became so hot that he let il sud-
denly drop. Grevy made some pleasant and
friendly observation, which broke the ice After
the review they went to smoke behind the State
tribune, and to imbibe cooling drinks
IMPERIAL DIPLOMACY
General Skobeleff has given tho slip to all the
journalists who were intent upon interviewing him
lie came here stealthily and went away secretly
four days ago. The object of his visit 10 Paris was
TO scare the French Government The Emperor Will
lam has made an appointment shortly to meet the
Emperor Francis Joseph. Diplomacy, French, Eng
lish Italian, and it may he, Russian would be glad
to know with what distinct object the meeting has
been agreed upon. Whenever these two sovereigns
have met TO exchange ideas. troubles arose in the
parts of Europe in which either or both of them
were interested in seeing grave disturbances Cen
eral skobeeii, who saw here the leading political
men now in office. told them he believed that Ger
many saw in the North African troubles which the
Tunisan expedition has brought upon France an
opportunity to strike blow, and wanted before
she struck it TO make of Austrian cooperation
His object in propoundng this belief was 10 bring
about an entente cordiaie between the Republic
headed by Grevy and Russian autocracy and To
obtain the assent of the French Government to an
eXtraditon treaty which Prince OIloff has not
been able TO negotiate. What Skobelef aimed
at was to get the Gar completely into
his hands by rendering France too hot for Russian
Socialists and Nhlsts But he found that NJ
Bartbcemy ST. Hiaire did not lend a willing ear TO
his representations. The Foreign Minister does not
suspect Prince bismarck of harborng sinister
headed ana farsighed statesm an and therefore in
capable of wantonly trying TO destroy OF cripple a
nation which is one of the greatest factors of Euro
pcan civilization.
General Skobeefl when here kept stndiously ont
of the way of interviewers His address was only
known 10 Prince Orion. VINO hired IA lodging for
HIM. When he made calls he explained that his
sojouru here would be too short for him to receive
visitors, and that his movements were uncertain
| wanted to see him about an English friend who
Went some months ago to Merv and has not been
heard of since he got into the Russian part of
Central Asia But neither at the Elysee the Min
istry of Foreign Affairs the Prefecture of Police
could | ascertain the Generals whereabouts The
German Ambassador am told. had also a fruitless
hunt after HIM. and only knew by 2 telegram from
Cologne when he had left Paris. When here Sko-
bech dined with the Grand Duke Nicholas and
with the Duchess OF Edinburgh.
A GRIEVANCE FORGOTTEN IN TRAGEDY
Apropos of the Duchess of Edinburgh, her friends
here think she has grown ten years older since the
assassination of the Car Alexander ii. During her
recent visit to Paris she lived very retired man
in the Rue d'Albe, which is at the Challot side
of the Champs Eysees. Formerly she greatly took
to heart her position at the English court The
Princess Christian, the Marchioness of Lorne and
Princess Beatrice took precedence of her. This she
considered q grievance of sufficient magnitude to
embitter her life. 1t was vainly explained to her
that in England are supposed never TO
descend below the rank to which they are born in
marrying, and that her own status was according
TO the terms of her wedding contract to be regu-
lated according to the etiquette of the Court of St
james. Her terrible misfortune-for she VS.
deeply attached to the late Gar and he her-has
opened her TO the futile nature of the or evance
which got on her nerves and rendered England
uncomfortable TO her. The Duchess feels as il she
had provoked chastisement, and almost seems TO
court humiliation. None of her children were
with her when she was ut the Hotel d'Albe. She
ran over here for n change and to intimate
friends of the late CZarina who reside in Paris.
One of her own close friends of whom she saw a
good deal is the daughter of M. Musyrus the Otto
man Ambassador to the Court of ST James This