New-York tribune., 1886-11-14
NOTES FROM PARIS.
FRIENDSHIP WITH RUSSIAN. GREVY-N
MEMDRIAM.

Tho Gar has deigned-he being unable to do
otherwse-to raise the social nterdict under which
he attempted TO place France. Last February MS
temper was infiamed because the de Freycinet
Cabinet released Prince Krapotkinc. Ihe HI thuS
occasioned was intensified by the recall on wna' IL
in diplomatic phraseology known as an uhiltni'eo
congo Of General Appert. whose wife-a Dah 81 iay
had pulled some very important wires ''nu e"o
Czarina among the number on behalf of the dor
leans The Car. to protect the Apperts, went
TO the strong course of ordering MS hho"'''-
dor here-Baron MOhrenheim--to go to Games ~
visit can aunt" who there in del'cafe heaith
ana before leaving to tell the Foreign Minister that
ne had no idea when he would return TO Pafis ihis
was almost tantamount to a cessation OF diplomalc
relations But as events hurried on IN Eastern Eu-
rope it was felt at ST. Petersburg that Alexanuer
I'LL had got into the wrong box and that IL oe-
hooved him to get out of 1t again as 'as'
~ he could. The Grand Duke vladimir.
who had greatly helped to muddle matters
when he was here IN March, by his too openly pa
roded Orleanist eanings was sent to try and patch
nm a neace with the Freuch Government lie had,
Iastsprinp the arrogance to say to NJ. de Freycnet
that he (M de Freycinet) had given offence 10 the
Gar in Welding to NJ Clemenceau in the liberia
ton of Prince Krapotkine and the Virtual
disgrace of General Appert. In the course
of some conversation with the Foreign Minister
the Grand Duke ESQ obtuse is he) hattered hinsei,
that he had overcome the tension whlch eAs.ou
hetween the two Governments. Whether he did
or not the bill TO expel the Orleans Princes threw
more fat into the fire. inasmuch as vladimir anu
the rest of his house had identified themselves
with the RoyalIst Pretender The Grand Duke
was so undiplomatic as to give out and, indeed
roundlv hint to NJ. Grevy that if they the
would boycott the Republic by forbddng all
his relations courtiers or rich subjects to come to
France IN search of health. pleasure or artistic
Injuries But directly the bill was passed 1t was
executed so that there was no other course open 10
Alexander than to execute his menace. The Grand
Duke and the Grand Duchess were recalled ana
Russians having brilliant social status, VINO were
here, made a very reluctant bolt from France
For some time past there has been, dare say,
good deal of secret service money spent in the
offices of the Paris journals to demonstrate that no
quarrel Of durable sort could take place be-
tween France and Russia sent you some OF the
lucubratlons on this subject as straws thab
show ed how the wind was blowing. The Czars
huff was represented likely soon to be disDelled
His anger was wont to rise suddenly and to abate
as fast. While Russia was bepraised. England
was abused. Yesterday we learned that Alexander
sulked no longer and that his brother Alexis and
his uncle. Michael. had arrived. the one in Paris
and the other at Havre The former had been
through the dockyards and marine arsenais
of France, accompanied by naval en-
gineers and officers Alexis is an ad-
miral and thrty-four years old Michaei
has been for years Governor OF the Caucasian
Provinces of Russia and is particularly well up in
Central Asian strategy and familiar with the
| passes of the Armenian Mountains. slmultane-
| ously with their Imperial Highnesses' advent we
| are told that Baron Mohrenheim's congo ls at an
end and that the Car will accord a gracious recep
tionto NJ Laboulaye, who has just been promoted
| TO the head of the French Embassy at st. Peters
| burg.
NJ Laboulaye is the first civilian to
whom the latter post has been given
| for n long number of years. mill
tary man has been invariably sent Except on
special embasses to represent France at the court
| of the Car. In my time there have been Generals
| Fleury, Leflo, Chanzy and Appert NJ Labouaye,
| the new Ambassador Is a of the late Senator
| Laboulaye the author of Paris en- Amerlque and
is fifty years old. He has fooishly tagged the no.
hillary particle de- TO which he has no right to his
name. In appearance he Is tall, wears full beard
and affects those cold stiff manners which are
wrongly supposed to be an outcome of aristocratic
| blood.
|
mental in helping the Car ont of his false position.
| He calculated that whatever betides Russia in the
coming scramble for Turkey 1t is for his advantage
| TO be on good terms with her. If she succeeds she
will be mistress of the whole Balkan peninsula. and
therefore Of his little State. She is rich enough to
buy HIM out of Greece, bnt perhaps might later
prefer to shoot him out if he does not. while he
can. establish claim to Alexanders kind regards.
Should Russia go to the wall Greece might put IN
a CLAIM to the coast line of Turkey up
| TO the Black Sea. King George would
personally much prefer living as an ex-mon-
arch on a handsome pension, from no mat
ter what Government. to remaining where he Is.
He finds the Greeks restless and pushing on in O
democratic direction. Brother though he is of the
Empress of Russia and the Princess of Wales, he
has not much prestige He is a poor weed. with a
scrofulous, cameleopard neck, and he is never
happy when out of Denmark or Germany
NJ Laboulaye will not go to St. Petersburg until
! Baron Mohrenhelm has come back to Paris. AS the
Gar began It," it IS for his imperial majesty to
come down first from the Ugh horse. Count Kot-
zebue who has acted as charge daffairs in the
absence of Mohrenhelm, has been since the King OF
Greece left Paris. in daily communication with the
matte relations on the old footing. 1t was
tho Car himself l heard this even
ing who proposed that neither q
| Petersburg. The military man would be looked al
askance by Germany and a Radical would be per
| sonaliy disagreeable to his Imperial Majesty. NJ
Billot the Minister at Lisbon was then thought Of
but he did not like to face st. Petersburg winter
| NJ. Laboulaye. who had been First Secretary o.
| Embassy there was next proposed, and the tele
graphic wire from Gatchina replied: mo choice
could better please his Imperial Majesty"
The unusually long holiday which the President
took in the autumn has quite set him up again
To-day at the exhibition Of the Central Unioi
| of Decorative Arts In the Champs Elysees hi
eighty years sat so lightly on him that no strange
could have thought AS he walked round the gal
lery that he was within ten years of bi
| age He showed an intelligent interest II
what he saw, paid pretty and varied compliment
to the exhibition and showed no sign of fatigue
toward the end. NJ. Grevy went there for th
opening ceremony. The president Of the Managing
Committee read to him long address to which he
listened with well-bred and apparently interested
attention, and returned an lmpromtu answer
| nI Of naf md a dicfi ION