The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-07-23
OUR FRENCH LETTER.
(Corresponden 'e of the HERALD.)
PARIS. June %, 1882.

Inc presentation OF piece o.
plate by the Sultan TO Arab Pasha,
under the form of the Medjidieh dec.
orstiop, throws a vast deal OF light
on these Arc0des GmbO. No think
ing person. save the governments OF
France and ENGLAND, doubted that
ArHbl danced just as be was pulled
at COns;antinople. The recent act Of
the Sultan is Roland for the Oliver
OF the Europeans. The westerns
after coolly soliciting the PadichAh
to send some Bsshi-bt )uks TO Egypt
to punish co-religinni,ts for their sue
cesstul Efforts to shake Of the gls ours.
DOW eft IN his capital to decide how
the castieAtion can be administered
without making anyone unpleasant.
The Fsnpbin merits the rod, bat
where 4 the substitute TO hear the
Wbscks?
Matters are not viewed to be Cd the
mendiDg tack in Egypt; two new
calsmities are to record; the English
and French consulc have obiaine d
leave of absence; perhaps to cure the
standing plague of Egypt, almost
equal to the ancient calamity OF slsy.
Ing the neutrality-suspicious.. At
any moment the news may be flashed
that the English and French admir-
ais have retired afflicted with hay
fever. N. Blount having failed to
unite the Gordian knot, NJ. de Lees
cps has tried his hand; ne has re-
ceived endless kilograms, even from
TeWfk himself, that the Suez Canal
is as safe az the crown Jewels ia the
Tower of London, or the relics of ST..
Genevieue in the Pantheon. Opinion
is more pleased at the preparations
OF England to have floating water
tanks ready, and some thousands of
soldiers; TO allow the forty centuries
to look down upon the red coats,
along with the Abercroulbie-from
the tip top OF the Pyramids. In this
affair, England to be successful in re-
trieviHg her humiliation, and strik-
ing blow that will astonish the
nstives-the donkey boys of Cairo in
cluded, must act independently, snd
IN the full liberty OF her strength ana
interests. As blosted armAmen 6
would be the ruin OF Egypt, disband
ing the standing army is considered
to be foregone necessity; it will be
q perfect cure for the prOnu11ciGmientO
mslsdy. John Knox :boasted that
the best way to prevent rocks com
ing back, mas to pull down their
nests.
What France may do is uncertain
opinion at present is for non-il tar
ference, bat that current may veer
WaT-Wards at moments notice
TIE French will hardly abstain if the
English land troops: they are very
sore sgainst John Bull; roundly &C
cuse him of having sireEdy sod"
the M, being guilty OF treason, equal
only in magnitude 10 that Of MIR
sbesu's. Emilede Girardin will have
a successor to cry a c0ire!-tnat
spermacetio for the inward bruise.
As Tor the conference it is oonsid-
cred to be about on q par with the
novel demonstration before slex&n
dria The wise men ought to re-
member, ancient Egypt Was once
governed by a deOGOcyGcy, and he ex-
pertinent might be renewed; this
would allow of the entry of Spain 10
take q seat alongside the grand pow
ers; and Greece also, which is beoom-
ing Giving" once more, and imi
tates Fremont at the Crimea. Why
not, she being the universal legatee
of the sick man. To get rid of Tew
FIX, DO row another native custom;
send him a summons in the name of
Osiris or Apis to suicide himself, az
his place is required. The Inference
did not open With prayer; no. WAS
any instrument drawn up, as of old,
in the name of the Holy Trinity; 8
Plstonic protocol was signed, where
each power attested the purity of its
intentions and disinterestedness. The
same took place at the Berlin Con-
gress, that which enabled England
and France. the better 10 secure
Cyprus and Tunisia.
Home politics continue to paItake
more of the gay than of the severe.
NJ. Grevy is coming in for apostolic
knocks, on account OF the Olympian
placi6ity with which he looks down
Oh passing events. He is twitted on
the score of his known frugality;thus
he is represented as being terribly
at the white elephant
Spain has presented him with, in the
form of the collar of The golden
fleece; and which hseoes him In the
sum of 10000 francs fer fees-iust
three days salary, and that wouh!
figure better if Invested IN house
property-a kind OF security for
which he has q weakness, tie more
is this so, as his lady cannot wear the
gems, and the collar must be re-
turned to the place from whence it
came after bis death.
Clemencean, the idol of the people
since they swashed Gambetta, has
received the first blow CT the popu-
laces pick axe, q section OF his cleo
tors-Who style him the "Dauphin
Gambetts," find he belongs to the
b0urgeOisie or middle Glasses. the
most capital OF capital sins 10 the
eyes of socialist. They have de-
nounced him to posterity-a favorite