New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-04-19
THE DOWNFALL OF FERRY.
THE JAMESON DISASTER BOURSE RIGGING
| M. DE FREYCINEr.

Paris has had an exciting week, owing to the
sudden and ignomnious fall of NJ. Jules Ferry, the
unfruitful attempts of NJ. de Freycinet to compose
Cabinet the uncOnceaed efforts of che ex-Min-
listers to return triumph to power with the aid OF
the Opportunists, the Bourse rig executed by the
Paris the day of the monthly settle
ment and the anxiety as to the fate of the little
French army in TOnquin, whose leaders are branded
as traitors and towards by NJ. Ferry's majority.
While the Chinese were negotiating through Sir
Robert Hart and his friend. Mr. Campbell, for peace,
they actively drilled and threw overwhelming forces
across the northern frontier of Tonquin, drove
the French out of Langson. and obliged them to
beat hasty retreat to Chu, fortified point in
the swampy delta. and not far from
Hanoi. Negrier was wounded, Colonel
Hcrbnger, who took his place, had to
dlsnount his cannons and destroy the NUM-
tons which tho state OF the roads,
or rather mountain tracks and the want of horses
and mules rendered it impossible to get away rap
idly. The Black Flag chief, at the head. Also Of
great force, descended from Yum Nan. General
Briere de plsle in telegram announcing his crit
ica situation at Hanoi, and that of the corps up
country, said in depressed tone: Nevertheless,
still hope TO save the delta" This dispatch arrived
on Saturday night after the brushing Clemenceau
had given the Ministers IN the Chamber on the
afternoon of the day for their systematic falls
Ifcation of kilograms. As they all agreed that the
truth would probably come out in a few days they
decided to give the message from Hanoi in an I'M
adulterated form on Sunday. But they first took
measures, knowing what an effect 1t would produce
the public stocks, to speculate on fall at the
bourse. There arc three outside brokers nearly
ruined by this financial manGuvre, which was ac-
complishcd by obscure agents of the Ministers each
of whom, ii is believed. buttered his crumbs richly
1t was decided that Ferry should put on bold
face in the Chamber at Mondays sitting and de-
mand there 20O.O00,000 francs TO prosecute the
campaign with vigor. In the meanwhile, the Gam
bottlsts who OWNED in him vauting ambition and
wish to emancipate/ himself from subsection TO
their behests agreed if things went i'll when he
was IN the tribune to desert him. They expected
to go out with him and come in without him.
Paris was on Sunday evening and on Monday
morning in a state of bubbllng eheryescence.
Fathers and mothers who have sons In lTOnquin
Oh the latter date went to the front of the Cham
Der of Deputies to insult the Premier and If posi-
bic fling HIM into the Seine. NJ. Rochefort was the
stormy petrol of the tempest. and after giving to
his readers an article headed "Down with the
Assassin" by which he meant to say Lynch
Ferry" went to the Palais Bourbon to witness
the bursting of the hurricane. He
was enthusiastically acclaimed as he made
his entrance and his exit, as were also ClemenceaU,
who executed tho Cabinet; Paul de Cassagnac,
who has habtually. in and out Of the Chamber,
"slauged it with Billiugsgate, aud Marshal Mac
Mahon Tie poor old Marshal was told that there
would be a breeze, aud through friend obtained
n place in tho diplomatic box. where he
fell asleep and was disappointed, when he awoke.
TO find that the Cabinet had been knocked over
ppa onil nf m h
lie favorites was similar to the wax-works show at
Madame Tussaud's. where Plutarch, Neptune and
Nicodemus were on view together. What was ap-
plauded in MacMahon was his integrity. Though
the tool of knaves at Versailles and the Eysee. he
was disluterested and clean handed there In
stead Of making fortune in Office, he was Obliged
ON resipnng the Presidency of the Republic to sell
the half of his mansion in the Rue de Bollechasse-
a terrible prvation for an old gentleman who likes,
when country cousin arrives In Paris, to spare
him the expense of going to an hotel Rochefort
WAS applauded because be has habitually fayed
Ferry and shown up tho Bourse interests which are
hidden behind the French flag In Tonquin. Gle
menceau is universally respected. HIS eloquence
commands admiration, and the passion he dis
played on Saturday has found responsive
echo among all honest Republicans, Bonapartists
and Royalists. His speech on that occasion was
one OF INC HnOSt tciiuB cScT III
the Chamber, and as il was brief it circulated
rapidly. On Monday he disdained to ask explana-
tons about tho state Of things the
telegram from Hanoi indicated. The Ministers
we're simply criminals and it was beneath the dig
nifty of tho Chamber to transact business through
Them When NJ. Clemenceau was in his place he
seemed a prey to violent excitement But IN the
tribune up and down which he walked, he kept
down ntemperanco of feelng-or ut least did not
suffer his emotion to hurry HIM into an incorporate
form of oratory or gesticulation. The sombre black
ewes were fearfully intense His face was drawn
with excitement TO such an extent that his
visage looked like skull lighted up
behind by flaming torches. M. hrisson.
of schoo-usher, did not venture to pull m up
when he treated the Ministers as II they were in
dock to answer a crushing charge Of felony n, Their
big majority was silent and shamefaced When
side issue was raised by Ferry, little more than
third of the House was with him.
Next day large number of the minority came
forward TO state that their votes had been wrongly
given Five of the Ministers abstaincd.
This would have been all right if they had not
against Parliamentary etiquette er voted ioI o saeS-
vision. On finding he vas beaten, ne IT
mler resigned and then he and his colleagues,
with their portfolios under their arms, left the
Chamber and proceeded through the Garden to the
Foreign Office by o private way. Shortly after,
Ferry, with secretary and In broughan drawn
Crew. The coachman drove fast and gave
ali The rein no could. Had 1t not been
for this, his master. would certainly, have
been dragged out OF the vehicle and lung
over the parapet INTO the river No less a person
than M. Alfred Assolant. the novelist and journal
list, had gone with q university professor to the
bridge by which the Premier crossed to waylay and
throw him into the Seine. The professor has lost
son In Tonquin, aud NJ. Assolant was near losing
one. When they were on the lookout tho carriage
dashed by. Both being elderly. they were unable
to catchit
On Tuesday night tremendous Bourse haul was
made by tho announcement in the PARIS, an OPP
had been successfully negotiated with China. and
Freyclnet lad nothing 10 do but sign IT, That
journal informed It's readers that the Foreign
Board at Peldn had accepted the condl-
tiana nrnnased by tho ex-Premler. who