Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-07-25
ENsLIsH-FRENCH RELATIONS.
French Public Feeling Becoming
Extremely Bitter Situation
Decidedly Grave.
Downfall of the Present English
Government Predicted All
Europe in Dread of the
Approach OF Cholera.

NEW YORK, July 22.-The fellow
ing are extracts from the Suns cable
letter:
LONDON, July 2l.-Public feeling
in France among all classes has be
come extremely bitter toward Eng
land, and the relation between the
two countries is becoming decidedly
unpleasant and uncomfortable. The
causes of it have been culminative,
including England's general hostility
to each step taken by France in her
foreign policy, the English attitude in
relation to French pretentions in AT.
RIGA, Madagascar and Tonquin, the
Pakenham incident at Tamatave, and
the DeLessep's imbroglio.
The two countries separated widely
when the Egyptian war opened, and
circumstances have since multiplied
to widen the breach. The canal difi>
Guilty, the latest difference that has
arisen, grows more and more compli.
Gated, and as an element of political
difficulty in England promises to be
the immediate occasion Of the down
fall Of the present government.
1t is said, apparently with some
authority, that Mr.. Gladstone will
exhaust every means TO induce NJ. De
Iesseps to make satisfactory conces-
sions, and that, failing to do so, as he
certainly will fail, he will submit the
sgreem.nt to the House and go to the
country.
A capitulatien which would shift
every political burden of the day to
the shoulders of the Tories, and
practically saddle upon them the duty
of making the annexation of Egypt
formal us well as actual, would be as
good an exit as MIR. Gladstone could
hope for at present. He is a very
weasy statesman, and with the House
Of Commons manageable and dis.
tracted, domestic legislation affords
no hope OF rehabilitation to his gov.
eminent, and no national misfortune
threatens the country from abroad to
call forth his energies and reinstate
him in the fullness of his power.
Europe is again in spasm of ap
prehension at the approach of the
choleaa. 1t has spread to Cairo, and
is raging there with vlrulence that
may we'll excite alarm, the deaths
being hundreds daily, according to
trusty observer, who, doubling the
truth Of the government returns, has
investigated for himself. New reports
come to hand Of the unspeakable hor-
rOrs endured by the unfortunate com
munities which the Khediye in obe-
dience to orders Of the English govern
ment has isolated.
Heretofore these Musselman cities
have met the plague with their usual
fstalism, and have recovered. At the
worst, the people have gone into the
desert until the pestilence has passed
over. Now, British sanitary whim,
having its origin in officialism, and not
in medical science, confines them to
their walls, but sends them neither
food nor medicine.
The rich, to man escape by bribery;
the poor take their chances, or rush on
the bayonsts of their guards to find a
preferable death or be driven back
into the pest house.
Damietta and Mansourah are charnal
houses Of putrefaction, full of unbur-
jed dead and starving thousands, mon
uments to the new civilization of
Egypt's new Pharaohs. The Indian
mails are no longer landed at Brindisi
but are taken direct to England; there
is consequently a great cutlery in
France againt the probable transfer to
French territory by way OF England Of
infected goods from the East.
Great uneasiness has been caused by
recent revelations in Paris with regard
to the forgerjes of pictures by az artist
named TrouilIebeFt and by the fact
that Corot of his manufacture de-
ceived even so good a judge as Dumas,
fills. Trouillebert signed his imita
tious and the dealers effaced his name
and substituted that Of Corot. This
number of victims in Paris is said
here to be only equal to that of the
victims in Ameriea,a statement which
will not alarm many NewYOrk collec>
tors.
The Duke Of Marlborough, in hi:
will, left everything over which hC
had control to Lord RandolphChur
i'll, to the great delight of the DOwagel
Duchess, who has always spoken o
him in society with great pride al
my Randy" The new Duke will no
venture into the House of Lords TO
some time, as he is sure of a very chill
reception when he does.