The Hawaiian gazette., 1885-02-04
The Gazette's Paris Litter.
PARIS, December 81, 1881.
BISMARCK.

PARIS, December 81, 1881.
BIsMARCR.
Bismarck somehow manages to keep upper
most in the French mind. He is the hope OF
a few, the fear of several, and an object of de-
testation for the many. NJ. Ferry seems to
have staked his political fortune on the loyal
intentions Of tho ''honest broker" while the
Chancellor on bis side, calculates upon using
the French premier, something like the maid
of all work The French commence TO see,
that in backing up the sovereign rights of the
people on the Congo, Bismarck has pandered
to their weakness aud appetite for territory;
knowing full well that it saddles them with
important duties which signify mon and mill
lions; which will he source Of weakness it
France be engaged in any serious war; while
in the piping times Of peace, England, Amer
ica even the quiet German himself-if such
exists nowadays, will as usual cut out
the French in cheap trading. AS for the new
realms being respected as Tom fiddler S
ground in case of a general war, no one serl-
ously believes that the Bismarck house of
cards would be long left standing, even If
backed by the German feet, which has yet to
show what stuff it is made of. Now it is pre-
cisey in saddling their country with new la
bilities, without even the ghost of certain
profits. that the French perceive they have
been, as usual, sold. Benedict wished he had
Belgium; NJ. Ferry, the diggiugs and nuggets
on the Congo. The nation would make q New
Years gift of all the recent proteCtorates and
colonies of France, in exchange for that "lone
STAR -Alsace-Lorraiuc.
| ENGLAND's ATTITUDE.
What puzzles the French more and more
every day is the marked silence of Engl ISL
statesmen, their veritable iasouSia,ce, in pres
ence of the Undertakings" Of Messrs. Bis
marck and Ferry. They know she has hel
eve on them both, and is not in Sleepy Hol-
low while ministerial France and Germany
are in the honeymoon of their alliance. The
attitude of England, the absence of all un-
easiness on her part, is presumed to indicate
a profound insight into the play of Germany
the suspicion that the Prince is only making
cats-paw Of France, or, that England has hel
plans too, to checkmate any action of a serious
nature on the part of the two lovers. Then
England made up her mind that Bismack wal
really in earnest to trip her up, to commences
the ACKNOWLEDGMENT project. She has only t,
whisper a word TO the French Generals, tina
she was not indisposed to lending hand t
bringing back Alsace to the fold, and all trea
ties, offensive and defensive, with German.
would vanish. Russia might seek then to i'm
prove the occasion, rounding all her wester
frontiers, and as for German colonies and tn
German fleet, NJ. Bismarck might make hi
mind easy on that score. There are more tina
Englishmen who would not put up with til
new role of Fatherland, that of organizing an
tagonism between States, in order to permi
her to enrich herself from their ruins, or t
repose in a strength based on the struggles {
others. These views are correct and we
weighed in the thinking classes, and from til
programme of the politicians that must
due course succeed 10 the rrins of power.