Morning journal and courier., 1885-05-30
MAX O'RELL'S LETTER.

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 LONDON, May 16, 1885. I To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 People are already spsculating upon the | probable result of the forthcoming elections | Since the enfranchisement of the household | CT, every general election has placed the op- l position in power; with the enfranchisement ! of the new couches sociales, to use Gambet- ! ta's celebrated phrase, the same result may
 be looked for. The necessarily guarded speech of those in office does not catch the ear of the I ignorant multitude so readily as the irrespon- sible talk of the opposition, whose mouth pieces are spoken of as: ''Smart fellow, that! If we could only have him in office, things would be done in proper manner. I'll vote ! fer him next time" Lord Salisbury, the leader of Her Majesty's opposition, has great l ly increased the chances of his party by call ing Russia yesterday, "Swindler and bank rupt, !" and Lord Randolph Churchill, the en- 1 fant terrible of the troop, by asking the editor of the Times, this morning stoaallew him l to expose through his columns fsthe official I mendacity' of the foreign minister, has added g new clement of success. The fail ure of the foreign policy of the Gladstone cabinet will not so much cause it's fall as the new beer-tax of the Chancellor of the Ex- eheauer. The meeting held at Trafalgar square yesterday shows clearly which way the wind is blowing. @Down with the Liberals who tax the poor mans beer and spere the rich mans winel" will be the elec- ton cry at the end of the year. But even if the government should contrary to all prece dent, succeed in retaining majority over the Conservatives, that majority will be great ly reduced, and as the Home Rulers are ex- pected to be returned to the number of 80, instead of 40, their present strength Mr Parnen and his followers will have it all their own way, and be able to stop any meas ure they please. Indeed, should the Con servatives obtain the ma jority, the Parnell- ties will sit on the Liberal side,. with equally the same result John Bull does not pre- tend to be alarmed at the prospect. Person ally, I do not see how he can get over the difficulty, unless, as I said elsewhere, he grants Ireland her independence, or conquers her vi ct armis: two pills rather bitter to choose between.
 Aux grands maux les grands remedies, or in extremis dementia. I always thought the English great believers in these maxims.~ One is used, for instance, to hearing plenty of
 them preach that every man, woman and child should be total abstainers, because 8
 few sots do not know when to stop drinking; gered when the Archbishop of Canterbury proposed his remedy for the horrid traffic that goes on in the London streets. This popularit ty hunting prelate actually wants Parliament to pass bill to the effect that
 every man and woman seen after dark talk
 II -J-fI L II
 discretion of the policeman on duty. The
 streets are dangerous enough already in all
 conscience but if this monstrously absurd
 measure should pass, no unprotected male
 will dare venture out, I should think, for it
 stands to reason that the gentry" who live
 by making false charges and exterting hush
 money will be buster than ever. However
 there is common sense in the House of Com
 mons and I think they may be trusted to
 throw out such a preposterous bill, if the
 Lords were silly enough to pass it. Fancy
 man returning home from the city, meeting
 his wife on her way to see sick friend, for
 instance. He imprudent1y ha1ts and ques-
 tions her as to her errand and down swoops
 policeman upon them, charges them with
 immortality, and takes them off to spend the
 night in the nearest 1ock-upi What pity 1t is that the high clergy do not devote all
 their spare energies to n1inding the shop.
 A Jew who is Conservative, says Truth,
 IS a very uQSfaLoIul person., IOf udu 1E uOI been for the Liberals, he would not have any political rights. But what about the Hebrew volunteer who calls himself Colonel Cowan, now the Tory candidate for the Tower Hamlets? First a Liberal, in 1883 he became 8 Liberal Conservative; in January last he appeared before the Radicals of West Ham as a labor candidate. tThese are my principles, gentlemen; but if you don't like them am quite ready to change them.'
 The French papers talk great deal about the Weldon V. Gounod case last week. Ten thousand pounds sterling damages seems a high figure to charge man for having eleven years ago, given up lodging ill London, in neglected family, for this is about what the offense of M Gounod really amounts to. As to supposing that he ever paid M. Albert Wolff, the writer of the offending newspaper article, to asperse the character of the fair hostess of Tavistock house, the notion is a little too absurd. M Gounod is not afraid of seeing the verdict made executory in France, bat the affair will have the effect of depriving the English music lovers of the pleasure of ever seeing the great French maestro again conducting his compositions in this country.
 The English, instead of directing all their efforts to fortifying the nofthern frontier of India as precautionary measure, are said to contemplate making treaty with the Amser  lowed, at any time, to send their troops through his country. Ought not the English to be careful, and remember the old Parisian proverb, s'Fear the Afghans most when they profess to be your friendss'
 The ceremony of unveiling the statue of ssLiberty enlightening the world" which the Americans have presented to Paris, was the occasion for a very warm-hearted speech from Mir Morton, the retiring American minister. After speaking of the original statue, a gift from France to America, which is to leave Rouen in day or two on board the Isere, and be set up in New York harbor, to consecrate the souvenir of the friendship that exists between the two sister republics, Mir. Morton expressed very feelingly his re- say that he cannot regret the French more than the French will regret him.
 M Emile Olivier, who will long be remem- bered as the liberal prime minister of Napo leon H., who declared war with Germany in 1870 ''with light heart" is trying to come to the surface again by featuring, after if teen years of careful retirement. But M. Ol- livier, I fear little knows his countrymen if he thinks to ever again enter the political arena. In England man of his undoubted abilities would be bound to be prime minister again, as member of the English cabinet, Sir ! Charles Dilke, remarked to me last night In France he is bound not to be. There an unwise action, even if it's consequences should be ruinous for the country, is sooner l or later forgotten, but an unfortunate sen tence blnrted out in moment of exulta | ton, sticks to a man, becomes, as it were, l part and parcel of him, his motto written on | ais forehead in indelible characters, which he l carries with him to the grave. M. Olivier is | known as the s'ight-hearted" man, and will | be 50 known as long as he lives. M. Jules | Fsvre's name was execrated by thousands, | not so much because he signed the hard con- | 1itions of peace that Prince Bismarck ex. acted as because he had said beforehand | that what he would never submit to was "to | yield an inch of French territory stone | of any French fortress' Nothing kills, in | France, except ridicule, and, in the eyes of l most Frenchmen, M. Olivier is ridiculous.
 A Frenchwoman, while walking in the | streets of Paris the other day, found herself | suddenly seized in the arms of man, and | vigorously kissed. Highly indignant at the | she promptly gave the offender n charge, but by the time they reached the |