Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1885-05-02
MAX O'RELL'S LETTER.


war Problem m-What Is a Newspaper
The Age fPrOgress-Mary Anderson
Some French Matters Partisan
Socialists.
Especial Correspondence Of the JOURNAL AND CoUR-
IER All Rights Reserved.l
LONDON, April 18, 1885.
To the EDITOR of the Journal AND COURIER
The Prince of Wales was evidently anxious to
see for himself what Irish poverty in its low
est aspect was like, for, the other morning
rather early he and Prince Albert Victor, ae-
companied by the lord lieutenant, left the cas-
tie incognito, and were driven in plain car
riage to part of the city inhabited by the
lowest stratum OF the population. 1t was
rather bold proceeding, for, of course, they
were soon recognized by the poor wretches
who crowded around, and it is very doubt
full whether the presence of the chief con
stable would have availed to protect the roy
al adventures if these ragged sons of Erin
had taken it into their hands to avengs
| ovid Orchards grievances on the spot. But,
| fortunately, the poor creatures were gratifed
| to see the Princes thus in their midst, and
the affair ended happily. the people cheering,
| and the Prince of Wales and the son shaking
| they made their way out of the crowds.
| In the afternoon of the same day the
| Prince and Princess went to the university,
| where the degree of doctor in law was con-
| ferred upon the Prince and that Of doctoress
| in music upon the Princess. The charming
Princess of Wales looked very fascinating in
! the square white satin cap and the white
| broche satin gown of q Mus. Doc. The
beauty of Her Royal Highnsss has produced
| a great effect upon the jmpressionable Celts,
male and female, it seems. One old woman
in the crowd, with her head rolled up in q
| shawl expressed her conviction that it was
"a purity show, but divil wan of zee can
| hould candle to the Princess bless her
sowl"
| Will war break out between England and
Russia2 It is impossible to say as yet. But,
if it does not; II will net bs the fault of the
press of the two countries While diploma
fists are doing their best to arrange matters
! amicably, hardly newspaper, English OF
Russian, utters a word in favor of calmness
or of impartiality in Judging the questions,
| the issue of which involves the fearful calam-
| ity of war. Their mission would appear to
be to stir mp feelings of animosity between
the two nations, and to this end they meta
phorically hurl brickbats and mud at each 9TH
| every day. One Russian paper reminds its
| readers of Napoleons prophecy that s'Eng-
| lands end would resemble that of the superb
Republic Of Venice" Another says: 'When
England sees that We do not 1ftea11 TO be in
timidated by barking and noise, she will as
tonish the world with her cowardiee." The
English papers retaliated in the same strain.
Russia is called "Holy Russia" which, com
ing from ''Sanetimonious England strikes
an impartial observer as rather funny cpl
thet.
What is d newspaper Lonis Jourdan, the
celebrated French journalist teld us that "a
newspaper was commercial enterprise, graft
ed upon an idea; passion, or some political
interest," 1 would HE to add that, judging
by good many European ones, newspaper
is noisy trumpet, often out of tune, where
on each country sounds it's own praises by
the mouth of its journalists, extolling itself
at the expense of it's neighbors, apparently
thinking, to parody the words of the noble
lord the Poet Laureate, that to blacken ones
neighbors often will make one look nice and
clean.
An English tnofalist has published in the
last number OF the Quarterly Review in
teresting paper called S'The Age of Progress, -
in which he says: 'sLike the savage, the Eng
lishman fiiakes var; like the savage, he
dances: like the savage, he iIftiHlges in end
less deliberation; like the savage, he sets an
extravagant value on rhetoric; like the saw
age, he is a man of party, with a newspaper
for totem, instead of mark on his fore
head or arm; and, like a savage, he is apt to
make OF fiie totend q god But, unlike the
fhoE nyrfA info a
machines to wage war upon his fellow erea-
lures with; unlike the savage, he fights from
behind walls and bitches whenever the pro
ceeding is possible; unlike the savage, he has
had the doctrines of Christianity sounded in
his ears for eighteen centuries.
Mr. Henry Irving and Miss Ellen Terry
have arrived home, and suppose Londoners
will see no more of your lovely country
woman, Mary Anderson. We shall all regret
her Size Is not only the most beautiful
woman we have seen 1fa the English stage,
but she is good actress, passidhatsly fond
of her art, graceful and intelligent. The
havoc her beauty has wrought in the hearts
of the young and susceptible frequenter :, OF
the Lyeeum must be tremendous May the
Lord forgive her the daif1ags she has done.
friend of mine told 1ne the other day ft1se
adopted by d young fellow of his ac-
qnaintance, who was h5Pelesly sn1it itten.
to obtain word or smile, or something from
himself in rags, and as she passed into the
theatre one evening, obtained from her fair
hands penny, Whfeh hs, treasures among
his dearest possessions. That I}6ffry IS ''le
plus beau jour de sa vie
AZ. Berbier. a talented French engineer,
has submitted to the new Postmaster Gene
raj of Paris scheme for connecting that city
and London by an enormous tube, through
which letters and parcels would be conveyed
by compressed air. 1t would take an hour to
send letters, etc, by this novel method from
the one capital to the other. This is certain
1y another bright idea, but as 1t comes, like
that of the Channel tunnel; from a French
man, it is not unlikely that John Bull may
look askance at it as a dodge OF the willy
neighbor for coming over all fours, since
he cannot come upright through the now
toed Channel tunnel.
Since the fall of M. Ferry's administration
the French journalists have published the
progress of the Tong-kin enterprise with
the bill of. costs: The entire expenses of the
expedition down to the time of the Fournier
treaty last May were little over fifty million
francs. The unfortunate Bac-Le affair, for
which the Chinese were willing to make COM
pensation, led to M. Ferry's preposterous de-
mand of an indemnity of two hundred and
fifty million francs, which the Chinese could
not pay and which gave the enterprise the
appearance of s'budgeting speculation" as
M. Loekroy observes in the Rappel. Instead
of getting $50, 600, 900 francs from the Chi
nese, the French have spent 271, ,399. .092
francs in attempting to force the claim, have
lost thousands of men, have sustained Sc
we're defeat at Iangson, and will have to sign
a treaty of peace hardly as secure as that
which M. Fournier had signed, and certainly
much less honorable
It is melancholy sight to see the French
waste their strength in foolish expeditions on
the of the grave events that are prepar-
ing in Europe. The colony that requires all
their attention is France ITSELF and in a re-
public, an imperial policy is doomed to fail
ure.
If there are none sc blind as those who
won't see, there certainly none so unhap-
py as those who won't be consoled. A bril-
liant and successful ball, held at the Paris
Hotel de Vile for the benefit of the unem-
ployed workmen of Paris, failed to meet the
appreciation of some of those who were to
help pocket the proceeds. It was not the
money they objected to, of course, but the
idea that the bourgeoisie was going to dis
port itself merrily while they, the poor
workmen, were in sad way.
1t reminds one of what well known nov
elist, and terrible bohemian, said one day.
speaking of a friend: ''The wretch! Would