The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-01-07
OUR FRENCH LETTER.
Especial correspondence of the HERALD.)
PARIS. Decemher L.

PARIS. December 13.
The Egyptian question may be
considered as closed. France has
concluded she can do noting against
the inertia, the time. game of Eng
land. The latter is admitted to
have played her cards admirably,
through Lord Dufferin. Arab has
been saved; from an enemy he has
become the warm admirer Of Eng
land; he lives, and so conciliates
the rough and ready nationalist or
natives; he lives, and SO is a Damo-
cle's sword over Tewik; he lives,
and so is a ready witness to corrob-
crate the letters he received from
and about the sublime porte, to get
rid of the Khedive and trip up the
infdels. England has steadily kept
to the practical end, that there was
no longer any room for France as
an eG eqlLO power in Egypt, and
since the latter declined 10 join in,
or rather carry out, her engage
ments, to support the rebel Arab,
and upheld the authority of the
KhediYe, she has forfeited any
rights she possessed to divide with
England the future Of Egypt. 1t is
bitter pill to swallow, but the
moral will not be lost if we'll
studied by the French, viz, that to
have foreign policy, they must be
prepared to back it up like other
great powers. Having Numbered
they ought not to exhibit their cha
grin, nor display vexation of spirit
against England, because the latter
looked exclusively to her own in
terests. The fact is, after the
Egyptian embrOglio, the French be-
lleVed in all the terrible nursery
tales of Arabs ornaments; of the
national party being French to the
marrow; of the tribes of the desert
rising as one man to crush the Eng
lsh. The French believed the mo-
ment would come when England
would have to implore the succOr of
France to save her honor and dig.
nifty in Egypt, and that then of
course, France would be master of
| the situation. Arab would be heI
puppet, De Lesseps her prophet, and
England would be broiled, ii not
out, at leas1 into insIgniicance. The
| press led the country astray and the
legislature followed like the mon.
tons of P&nurge. But Gambetta
! and one or two more clear-headed
politicians were not deceived and
merely now say to their country
"had you so willed it you could also
have been where the English are.
| E5i3ljta la MIUSjcd. France can re-
cleYe sop, but no share In the pur
! pie. Louis Blanc was a model theo
retical republican; his utopias IN
settled many minds; beyond this, il
would be difficult to indicate the eX
act total OF his political work. He
had a finger in pressing forward
many reforms; but history cannot
relate any specially due to his mi
| tiative. In IS4S he was too far in
advance of his epoch, and since be
| hind the age. His progress was very
| much like that of the ancient
| Egyptians, that of sitting still
| Since fifty years he resembled thu
| Bourbons-he learned nothing, h
| forgot nothing. He was the firm
upholder Of the law, and an enem!
| of disorder. He was erroniously
condemned of insurgency in May
| 184S; he protested against the corr
mune, and hence why the commun
! lists vituperated his memory, ant
| denounced his public funeral. Les
celebrated men than Louis Blanc
| received the latter honor, though
they only entered the republican
vineyard at the eleventh hour. TIL
part of the deceased's characte
that is above question, is his strug
gle against misery in early life; tn
uniform dignity of his character
his self-denial. and his being tn
gentleman in every walk of life. i
literature, his "History of the ReYC
| luton" will rank as his best pro
| ductiOn, (and his collected neWSpa
per letters in England, during 2
years of exile, have powerfully con
tributed to make periide Albion Sc
riously known to his countrymer
His speaking, whether debater, o
lecturer, was the pretty fourry styl
but the want of practical conclu
sions, of bone and sinew in his ut
terances, forced him to be pr0sai
aud of course doctri11Gire.
Parliament adjourned for day t
allow the legislators to attend Loui
Blanc's obsequies. The monarchiSt
availed themselves Of the opportU
nifty to follow the funeral OF n
Lochaud, the eminent crimina
lawyer. He was unequalled i
winning verdicts for prisoners, or 8
least diminishing the gravity {
their offenses. Having pleaded fC
all ranks and conditions of men, h
was popular with every class. H
r was a noted Bonapartist, and yet b
: defended Rochefort, though th
latter in one of his Lanternes a
tackled the distinguished barriste
so violently when a candidate fC
election, that along with a defeat {
: the poll, he lost the promised p,
sition of minister of justice. Loci
aud was a stronger partizan {
Napoleon LII. personally, than a
admirer of the Empire. He state
on one occasion, he demanded a
interview, though a perfect straI
ger, with his majesty, to pray hi
to exercise his clemency on beha
of a prisoner. After a brief explal
alton of the request, the EmperC
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