The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-08-20
OUR FRENCH LETTER.
Correspondence of the HERALD.J
PARIS, August 2.

PARIS, August 2.
1t is not so much a ministerial as
national crisis that France suffer
from; no one sees clear here: hest
tation and compromise have beer
played out by de Freycinet, and The
Chamber lacks courage to adopt &
decided programme. Capable states
men are not forthcoming, so the
Parliament wants leadership and
direction. The third Republic has
produced no great men, and the
cabinets that live but the life of the
roses the space Of a morning, are
not calculated to endear the present
constitution to the country. The
secret of all the evil lies in repub-
licans occupying themselves about
personalities instead of principles
and measures, and displaying that
strange addition to a WrOnged in
dependence which rejects all disci-
pline and obedience.
There is nothing unexpected in
the downfall of NJ. de Freycinet.
Like the old man and his ass, he
tried to please everybody. This led
to a life of equiVOcatiOn, the malady
under which he succumbed. 1t was
ever necessary to put him in a
minority before any clear and
precise answer could be Wrung out
Of him. He several times escaped
overthrow, but the pitcher has this
time been broken going to
the well. Some assert the
fragments are not even worth
a piecing together; but this is tOEbe
seen. When we have not thrushes
we must be content with blackbirds.
The chamber has done we'll in its
cutting the cloth, but to stitch the
parts is the diffic Ilty.
| There are two currents of opinion
in France, one, the feeblest, and led
by Gambetta and the thinking
classes, which desires active inter-
vention, a role worthy Of the coUn-
try, and alliance with England, the
other represents peace at any price,
the tTembJeUrS, those with Bismarck
on the brain, and who maintain that
France ought to be surrounded with
a Chinese wall, and no alliance Gull
tivated-save with Italy, who in re-
| turn disdains such. 1t is this alb
staining party that has succeeded in
effacing their country in the east /;
not even the vaunted SueZ canal
will be guarded--a decision sufficient
to produce sudden death IN DeLes-
sepS, and that will postpone till the
Kalends, Provost Par adOTs great
expectations, that of seeing eighty
millions Of Frenchmen occupying
the African shores of the Mediter-
ranean.
There are plenty Of Frenchmen
who admit, though the fact be gall
and worm wood to them, that Eng
land is quite right in going ahead
resolutely in Egypt, and that after
mourning all the expense and trou-
BILE, it is but fair she ought to haI e
the lions share in the Tec0mpense.
Besides, the French prefer, since it
is a HObson'S choice, the English in
Egypt to the Turks. The diplomatic
war between Bismarck and Earl
Granville is followed with intense
interest, putting Turkey forward at
the twelfth hour to play the police
man in Egypt, was bold move on
the part Of the chancellor, but plac-
ing the Sultan in the fix to declare
his tool Arab a rebel, as primary
condition, is equally skilful move.
No one seriously believes that
England will ever allow the Turks
to land, to furnish sticks to break
their own backs. Besides, Turkey
cannot stir without money, and the
comical part of the affair is, that
she is even seeking to raise little
loan quietly in London.
No serious resistance is antici-
pated on the part of Arab and his
followers, even were each sWathed
in green flags. The wish is, to see
the English troops landed, concen-
trated, and at full work. The be-
ginning of the end has already ap-
peared. But England must follow
up the occupation of Egypt without
timidity or hesitation. She must
convince Europe she is ready to put
on more war paint and feathers ii
necessary. The taking the pro-
lection of the canal into her own
hands, in the name of TeWfk, is eX-
cellent, but it will likely kill old
De Lesseps, who is running a race
with J. Gordon Bennett, to induce
Arab to bury the Ratchet. There
is another way to settle the
canal wTangling. 1t is admitted
that the canal is insufficient
for the increasing traffic; to eX'
ecute the necessary engagements.
ETC., would require a sum equal tC
half the expense Of constructing
brand new one. Engineers here
would guarantee the making Of
second canal in six years, free from
the drawbacks of the old one, and
since four-ffths Of the ships passing
through the canal are English, Mr.
Bull could have an isthmus high.
way of his own, plus the Dizzy half
share interest III the present route
When the days were darkenine
over the second empire Napoleon
III. privately consulted Theirs, IL
the name Of France, what was bes