Morning journal and courier., 1885-06-20

The Funeral Of Victor HugO-The An archists-A Tfchborne Meeting-Lord Randolph Churchill-An Expensive Donkey
 Special Correspondence of the JOURNAL AND CoUR- TER. All Rights Reserved.1
 LONDON, June 6. To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER: Victor Hugo has disencumbered his centu-
 ", to use his own expression, and the world
 cler his every day pen.
 The funeral proceedings of last Monday
 have taught great lesson to France and the
 world at large, that is that the French are an
 orderly and law-abiding people, and that
 the anarchist portion of the population is
 small and harmless. Over 150,000 people
 took part in the procession, over million
 witnessed it, yet not the slightest hitch oc- cured at any point of the route, which ex- tended over distance of four miles. The anarchists had determined on attending the funeral officially, Haunting their red flag, but at the last moment thought better of it and were conspicuous by their absence. Of course they wish it to be understood that it was out of respect for the memory of Victor Hugo that they refrained from attending for fear of staining his obsequies with blood. The fact is that they took up their positions early in the morning in the Avenue of Neu- lilly, just behind the Arc de Triomphe, but seeing their numbers so ridiculously small by the side of the immense mass of orderly peo pie who evinced signs of anything but kind ly dispositions towards them, they furled their red rag and beat prudent retreat
 Many people feared the anarchists would cause disturbance on Monday from the fact of there having been a little pass of arms between them and the police last week at the funerals of two ex-members of the Com mune. The police seized their flags and in the affray several rioters and policemen were wounded. But for the silly intervention of the gardens de Ia paix all would have passed we'll at the funerals. Red flags would have been unfurled, red immortelles displayed. red-hot speeches pronounced, and nobody would have been any the worse or the wiser. The persons who form Parisian processions and demonstrations are always the same peaceful and orderly bourgeois, intelligent workmen, quiet, polite and respectful, ac- aeompanied by their wives, mothers and chil- dreE, all friendly of face and cleanly of per son. No hurry, no pushing A blessed ab- sence of all obscene and dirty roughs, as well as sleek and well-fed cads, who make up the largest portion of any London crowd.
 The anarchists have only the importance that the police silly enough to give them. Why, they have not yet succeeded in send ing one member to the French Parliament. An! how quickly our anniversary keepers would draw in their horns if the Minister of the Interior spoke to them somewhat in this manner: "You wish to hold your demon stration, my friends. I beg your pardon, citizensl Why, by all means do; demon atrata tn hoorfo, want to carry red flags about the streets. But yellow if you like; any color of the rain bow you like best. I will put at your dispo- sition as many policemen as you may require to protect you in the free exercise of your rights" How small the revolutionary would look if he were talked to in this way! How mortified he would bel But draw your sword and he is happy. He goes about cry ing: "The people are being slaughtered!" It is the very worst course that could be adopted. The thing to cure the mania for demonstrations is not sword, but little cold water. Arm your police with syringes instead of swords, and see how many will join a standard of revolt that is raised with the cry: 1.-The people are being syringed!" An! where is the government that will first have the strength and then the good sense to leave the people alone instead of doing it's best to excite them into adopting the role of martyr? Let it be monarchy or & republic,
 
 liberty for the red flag bearers, liberty for the white flag bearers, liberty for everybody.
 The English papers are rather severe upon the decision of the corporation of London, who declined to do honor to the illustrious poet whom France accompanied to his grave last Monday. It is fact that the Lord May or refused yesterday to allow vote of con dolence to appear on the paper, and that a large majority of the Common Council sup ported him. But do not see anything in this decision that can be wondered at, for it is most probable that the Lord Mayor of London and his supporters never heard of Victor Hugo in their lives.
 It may be affirmed that the obsequies of Victor Hugo surpassed, 8 spectacle, any of the triumphal displays witnessed in an cient Rome. The present generation of Pa risians have seen a sight that no other gene ration is likely to see. But the pageant, inn posing, even grand as it was, left the general impression that it lacked the deep sadness which was so marked 8 figure in Gambetta's funeral. However, this difference is not diff cult to account for. Gambetta was cut of when very little over forty. He was then the only French statesman of undisputed superiority over his conte mporaries, the only one who appeared to be possessed of the necessary power to carry out the reforms that France so much stands in need of. In losing Gambetta, France felt that she was sustaining materi al loss, all irreparable loss. But very differ ent was the case of Victor Hugo. He had gloriously accomplished his work, and noth- ing more was expected of him. He died full of years and honors, and his death was the occasion for a spontaneous outburst of ad- miration for his character and his work. The pageant from the Arc de Triomphe to the Pantheon, where he now lies near Vol taire and opposite Jean Jacques Rousseau, was a triumph, not funeral.
 Ike Do theon to the clergy, Archbishop Sibous ask ed for his authority to purify the new church bv the removal Of the remains of Voltaire and Rousseau, the two great Enemies of Roman Catholicism. ''It is not pleasant, t" said he, ito say mass before such miscre- ants" The emperor looked at him dreamily fer 8 moment, and slightly smiling, said "No more pleasant than for them,I suppose, monseigneur.
 London toe, has been treated to demon strations. There seems to be something in the air, at Whitsuntide, that fosters these outbursts. Regularly every year, Whit-Mon- day sees Tichborne meeting in Hyde Park. This year it was presided over by the injured man himself, instead Of one of his fanatical supporters who kept up the ball for him dur ing his enforced sojourn at Dartmoor and Portland. His speech to the two or three listeners that gathered around him consisted of the usual recitation of his wrongs and the inevitable lament over h1S Iack or Dank nO' eS s'lf were an impostor," he said, 1T should be the cleverest man alive, and should sure ly have a4tsn pound note in my pocket. But haven't a penny, and this is proof of my honesty" This wonderful conclusion is, that if he is an honest man he was wrongly convicted The few loiterers who hear him areo of this opinion, and they unanimously pass a resolution that new trial should take place.
 Lord Randolph Churchill addressed a meeting at Bow last night, and indulged in humorous attacks on the policy of the gov ernment The wit of this young and promis- ing politician is the most serious thing about him. q observe" " he said, sthat the prinei- pal accusation brought against the Conserva tive party is that they have no policy. If the allegation was true, we should be no worse than our opponents. It is, as you know, possible in this world to have too much of a good thing, and our opponents undoubtedly have many policies" Then his lordship went on to e1plainl in good vein of humor how the Liberal government has tried ten policies in Ireland, eighteen in Egypt, and nine in Central Asia. If not true, the fol- lowing, which I find in M. de Mandat-Gran-
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