New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-06-09
OLD WORLD TOPICS.
THE ST. GOTHARD TUNNEL AND .Iih
EGYPTIAN CRlSIS-THE DRAMA in PARIS

NJ Icon Saw threw down and picked up again the
Finance Portfolio Arab. the WARWICK 1t would
seem. of Egypt has done the contrary. lie began
bv appearing to yield and went on to DEFY the
Western Powers, thus obliging them either 10
recall their squadrons and leave the coast clear TO
him or find means to land military force at
Alexandria charged with the task of putting him
down. The perplexity to which be has given rise
here has been great as to weigh upon the feeble
vitality of NJ. de Frcycnet, who has been confined
70 his bed for the last two days and urable TO re-
ceive any diplomatic agent Another highly I'M
portant event has been the opening OF the 81
Gothard Tunnel The three nations directly IN
terested in that engineering work have done their
utmost to gige eclat to the inaugural fetes al
Lucerne and Milan. In the former town hey were
presided over by Swiss notables. The guests oil
honor were the German Ambassador to inc
Qurinal the President of the German Chambe
and the Italian Ministers of Public Works and oil
Foreign Affairs. At the Milan banquet the chair
man was the Duke of Aosta ex-King of Spain and
only brother of King Humbert. Not a friendly
allusion was made to France by any of the ofhcial
speakers and the unfriendly utterances which pro-
ceeded from other mouths wounded to the quick the
Frenchmen who were present as new spaper CORE
spondents They had been obliged TO solicit invita-
tons. The smallest notice was not taken by the
Committee of Management of the amiabe and
aCcOmpll shed Nj. Emmanuel ATaSO, WIN IopiuoCHSo
the French Republic at Berne. Prince Frederick
Charles and Won Moltke who had been studying
the Brenner and ST. Gothsrd passes and tunnels IN
the early part of the month. were asked to the
Iucerne fete but excused themselves. suppose
that Bismarck felt their presence at a banquet to
inaugurate an engineering work which unltes
Germany the German CantOns of Switzerland ana
italy, would have caused alarm IN Europe and been
injurious TO the De Freycinet Cabinet. with which
he Is on friendly terms Notwithstanding their
absence the Foreign Minister here and the PTesi-
dent of the Republic were literally aGhast at what
appeared TO them a throwing down OF masks
The Egyptian affair is very serious one. Eng
land and France. althoug h bound together by that
control arrangement OF Lord Salisbury, have been
mistrustful of each other. The Control ers. Sir
Auckland Colvil and NJ. de Blignieres were always
on the frendhest terms. But there was much dis
agreeable friction between the French and British
COnsuls In short, there half-disslmuated
strife among them to know who should he the
greater EarOn Ring last year got jealous OF Slr
Edward Malet's influence with the khedIve, ana
tried both by persuasion and bullying to bring his
Hlghness to keep him at distance. But instead
of doing So Tewtk wrote to Vi. Barthelemy -
Hllaire to complain of his consular servant III
consequence of the khedives letter Baron RING
was recalled. The disgraced consul was warmly
the Opportunist journals. To-day La RepHbiique
Franchise protests that it does not doubt the SIN
cerity and honesty of the Gladstone Adnlnistra-
finn Rnt If reminds the De Freycinet Government
that return of the Tories to Office is possible and
recalls to mind the Cyprus trick which was played
at Berlin by Lords BeacOnsGeld and Salisbury upon
NJ Waddington. Fearing what may happen III
England and rememerlng what happened al
| Berlin La RepabHque franchise is altogether op
posed to the transportation to Egypt IN French ana
! English war ships of a Turkish force to act as
oendarmeie If the De Freycinet Government VIII
| not send French troops there 1t should at least
! prevent the landing of Ottoman troops. who would
| give their hand to those at rripo and ana and
abet insurrection in Tunis and Algeria 1t appears
| 70 ME that NJ Gambettas organ goes to dangerous
length in speaking of Tunis French possession.
| The European Powers have been told always mat
| II neither has been nor will be annexed to
| Algeria For this reason the Italian Government
! has kept quiet But if the article OF La Repa0tque
Franchise were drafted into diplomatic note all
italy world be I'D. protesting against il, the mo-
ment It got into the newspapers. With Germany so
near the Tessin as the st. Gothard funnel brings
her this would be dangerous. Switzerland doubt
| less is n neutral State but she IS hemmed IN on
| three sides by Austria Bismarcks ally, the Ger
! man Empire and Italy. And tue cantons through
which the new railway line passes are Italian and
German They have little to expect from France
and II the primacy OF Marsees as Mediterranean
port were transferred to Genoa. they would be
benefited immensely by the change.
The literary and artistic events of the week have
been the wggingr NJ. Perrin, the manager OF the
Theatre Francais received before the Committee OF
the Budget his greed for lucre the receipt on Oh
NJ Cherbulez at the Academy by NJ. Ernest Renan
and the reappearance of Sarah Bernhardt IN " La
f,.f lt.a
directorship of the Francois by NJ. Charles Blanc
and Jules Simon when Theirs was President lie Is
q hard man and not austere. The Theatre Francois
belongs TO the State, which grants It subventlon
of go 900 francs a year on condition that stan
well drilled TO act tho plays of Molere, Racine and
other classic dramatists be kept up. For the
benefit of the studlous youth thrIe IS always GER
tain amount Of pit and gallery places tooe disposed
of by the Minister of Public instruction. Inc
otbsr gronnd seats are not to be let above certain
price and TO prevent speculation IN them they are
only to be sold at the ticket office on the evening
on which they are to be used. Ladies are hOV au-
mitted to them. NJ. Perrin has managed thiS
famous theatre on purely mercantile principles
Moere Voltaire Beaumarchais, have been showed
aside for trashy PLAYS 10y SardOu and other contem
noraneous playwrghts. To the horror OF the ht-
erary world fimsy little comedy, by the Marquis
de Massa, and a feebly written Saynefe by u.
Octave Feulllet, have been recently produced on
the boards of the Francois. The CHIEF merit OF tnc
first was not in the authorship but in the author
NJ de Massa is CAV agreeable and rather fast
man of the world. lie is a member of the now al
most extinct aristocracy created by Napoleon l.
The Prince of Wales aud he are great chums lie
was a young and brilliant officer in the pamy days
of the Second Empire, and used to write plays OF
Palais Royal style for the Palace Theatre at Com
pergne They abounded Id double entendre and
,uoulL heen held shocking at