New-York tribune., 1882-09-30
NOTES FROM ABROAD.
JOURNALISTIC. MILITARY. THEATRICAL.

The French papers are always good 10 turn 10 lot
new views of things English. 1t does not much
matter which. nor what the subject is. In three
column article on Chambord-not the Pretender
but the Palace OF that nameI find string of names
copied from the visitors book among them
Macaulay, whom one lively Frenchman forthwith
describes as the En- glish Tacitus If there be one
historian whom the brilliant Wing pampheteer
resembles less than another. 1actds Is that one.
Bnt what does that matters The French demand
that cpithet or epgram shall be neat IAe htnehs
of il is a subordinate thing.
OF which truth here is a different examples GER
tain NJ Robert Etienne, apropos OF new edition or
Mirabeau asks how it happens that people in these
days have conceived the notion of An epilepuo
Mirabeau. d. little master of himself as NJ Tam
bctta. This also is neat rs It Is perhdious' NJ.
Euenne goes to say thai Mirabeau was not via
beast. but a gentleman With other amiabliue' to
NJ Gambetta's address. Ia France anything may
be said of NJ Gambetta. inst as in England anything
NAV be said of Mr. GLADSTONE NJ Etienne is no more
abusive than Hactcood.s lGJasine; OF, for that
matter, than Lord Salisbury.
or the French papers one only, so far as Know
has special correspondent with the BRUSH iorce lh
front of rel-el-Kebir AID that is l. Temps Other
papers preteud 10 have. lie Figd'o. for Instance
which seems in nowise abashed 10y the exposure OF
IFS recent inve tions But even the public OF PARIS
does not quite relish having purely hctltons ac-
count of wholly imaginary engagement served mp
for breakfast. NJ keinach has lately tod u III
The Aiaet.enh Century, that the Partisan IL press
of appreciation not of news; which i perfectly
true But there i a difference between discuSslhE
news and fabrcating il. Why. by the way could
not Mr. Knowles find somebody TO translate N.
Reinachs article into decent Ene,h1
There are two contradictory statements abont
the behavior of the Egl ptian troops on Ha'uiu"y
One writer says they fought very WELL advanced III
good order Obeyed their officers and showed great
contempt for danger. Z" They dld not. au"S "o
attempt to avail themseive7 Of the nndunuohs Oh
the ground 10 escape the euomJ bullets as inc
English aid most cleverly
The other writer declares that the Arabs at
tackled with great superiority OF numbers, obtained
q position commanding the English camp. we're lea
bv Arab himself. and vet allowed themselves 10
be driven back wi,hOut even show ol resistance
directly the English advanced against Them III
short. in he field they are simply contemptbe'
OF these two statements, the first was written IN
Paris t1e second on the field of battle. Ine hrst
is from the Figaro, the second from The Nto"o''"'
The discrepancy is one of W Inch VI Relnach might
proftablv take notice the next time he dIscOuIse' On
the merits of the "apprecIatiye system OF Jour
nalism.
The name Of The Standard correspondent IN Egypt
whom mentioned the other day Is not Emerson ~
printed. but Cameron. HI, work continues to lie
of high order-wltness his account OF the repulse
of Arab's attack last Saturday ON ka-sasIn
condensel but very clear ana sufficient piece ol
military narrative Nothing 80 good Is to be lonhd
elsewhere though I don't think the average OF the
work now done IN Egypt for the London papers 50
low a. il has been re presented.
The post from Paris this morning brinrsanother
Illustration of Partisan journalism; also OF the
"appreciative" sort to which VI. Relnach at''n-
tiou might be politely requested lie figaro
appears with two articles IT'S fist and principal
PAGE devoted to Nile. Feyghine. each IN its biggest
editorial type and each a column and half long
The suicide of this poor girl is much of sodsend
r., tine Eigayo as the batts in LGypt LIeh did not
take place. ! can think OF no English Jourual iheIs
TO deal with such business IN Just tHls way lor.
the manner IS more surprising than the matter
Mile Feychine as everybody knew. was the
mailre5sc en- tire of the Due de M"iny' 10 tHe
Boulevard public which feeds daily on the sPlceN
raeout served up by this paper, nothing perhaps
seems more natural than that hls mistress death
should be the occasion for free sketch oI the
vouur Duke: half paneeyrc, half caricature. There
are passages in these articles which. had they ap-
peared in an American paper. would surely be citeo
III England and very likely IN Paris. as Samples oil
transatlantic bGrbarism. But let that pass ana
read Only this conc uding paragraph:
And the world j, made that all the curiosity
and sympathy of the public viii be for the Due de
Moiny. Poor Feyghinc. she knew not that her
pistol shot was to make her lover the hon oil Iarls
and that her corpse resting to-day on bed OF lace
would give him fresh lease OF youth and youthful
success
The world. you perceive. means in the mouth Of
fFn.t |rf Ia a
Victor Hugo. Or any other Frenchman.-Par.s.
Paris is once more beginning 20 occupy itself with
the affairs OF Nine. Sarah Bernhardr As the date
of her appearance at the Vaudeville draw near
the question OF paying her will have TO be an
swered.-the $4,000 damages which the conrt
awarded the Theatre Francois on account of her
secession Therefore says one ingenious writer the
money she has made in America and esev here
could not be touched by the law; " hich | appfe-
beud 10 be an absurd view OF the law. But now
that ste is 10 appear in Paris theatre, sheriff
NAV seize her earnings night by night; OF which
there is not much doubt. In these plnching cir
cumstances, Nine. Sarah intends 70 appeal to the
court for a mod icatiOn Of the terms OF the Judg-
ment against her She does not deny her haDIHty.
But she urges that she ought to be allowed to pay
by instanents. and what she proposes ls 10 pay
-. 600 n year. The Francals, she observes mas
already got $4,000, being The amount OF her snare
OF the reserved fund, the proportion OF earheh
profits yearly set aside and this in addition TO the
500 600 she was adjudged to pay out OF her own
pocket. Now this fixed as indemnify TO the
theatre 1t was to make good what the theatre
might have gained by reason of her performances
and she says plauslby hat if she should die duIHg
the four years the profit would be reduced. IL Is
likely enough that court may take tins view
possible even that NJ. Perrin, the manager o1 the |
Theatre Francais may not oppose it very strongly
NJ Perrin long ago, in truth, gave notice to Nine.
Sarah of what she might expect Il" 50 long SAID |