New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-02-07
FRENCH MINISTER'S.
PERSONAL TRAITS AND RECORDS.
lYRoM THE REGULAR CoRRESPOSDESr OF rnE TRIBUNE
p.Lrc January 10

lFRoM THE REGULAR CoRRESPOSDESr OF THE rhIBrNi~J
PARIS, January 10.
There arc some interesting members OF the
new Cabiret NJ. de Freycinet, who has
| represented an Indian constituency IN the
Senate IS nicknamed in the press "the
white mouse" lie has thin white hair
SHORT white beard and mustacbe, light blue eyes
of washed-out shade, colo.less face with sunken
| cheeks. and thin small voice and small figure.
| lie is very mousey-looking. caricaturist has
| represented Jules Ferry as big whlskeied cat
watching the white mouse Freycinet, who IS
nbbling into n Dutch cheese which represents the
Elysee. ~ de Freycinet Is a dexterous politician
! ana debater He struck out on a path OF his own In
| his recent speeches in the Chamber and Senate on
| the Tonuuin credits and by the timely production
| of the alleged treaty with the Hovas obtained
majority of ono for NJ. BrissOn, which was thought
| TO be a majority of four until it discovered
| that a Governmental Deputy named Lacote had
dropped three tickets too many into the urn. VI. de
| Freycinet shows a delicate Wit when lie wants to
| please in conversation. He has a talent for being
all things TO those with whom he wants to get on
| we'll but IL cold as ice to any whom he has no
interest or desire TO get around. There is no moe
! rigorous logican. If his premises were always
| good his speeches and administrative programmes
| would he the triumph of reason. But his passage
through tho Ministry of Public Works greatly con-
trbuted to the debt of two mllliards the interest
| of which HE new Cabinet must find some means OF
| having However. his plea for bis extravaganza
was the pressure of Gambetta and his friends.
| Tho latter wanted a vast scheme OF Jobbery and
when it became too outrageous NJ de Freyclnet
left the Ministry OF Public Works The says) to them
| and got himself shifted when Waddngton fell 10
| the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Another external
| popularity of the new Prime Minister is his
| daphanous appearance. l should rather call nm
| the ghost of a white mouse than white mouse In
| the flesh. lie was knocked out of office by NJ
| Clemenceau for wanting in 1852 to send war-shps
to 81. operate with the English at Ismailia after
| they had decided upon military expedition to
| Egypt. He has invented a means ot Scutthng with
| dignity in the Tonquin and Madagascar waters OF
at Keeping tho French claims open. IL is by
| establishing q protectorate that will leave home
rule rover of the fullest kind to the natives but
place the transaction of their foreign affairs undor
the supervision of French Residents. One of NJ. de
Freycnet's new titles is Minister for the Pro-
| tectorates established by France. believe that
| Cl,menceau would not have agreed to France
| protecting either Maagasies or Hovas were it not
Cor the course followed in Burmah by the Salisbury
Cabinet.
The Finance Ministry remains under NJ Sadi
Carnot son of Senator Carnot and grandson OF the
member of the Convention who under the First
Republie organized victory" NJ. Sadl Carnot is a
small. dark. elegantly built man, who though a
| grandfather looks almost young lIc has grave,
long face and q long auuiline nose, and great
tale.t for silence But he is n man of probity aud
has n wife who is one of the best-read of French
| women and an excellent linguist. She never gives
| herself airs or looks stuck up negative virtues
| which should be greatly esteemed III Republic
| conducted by vain bourgeois. Her father was
| Dupont White, the political economist and member
of the Institute. She is the mother OF four daghers
and lad of about sixteen who has the frank. civil
| manners of well reared English youth OF his age.
| When NJ. Sadi Carnot was Minister OF Pubic
Works she used to give on Sundays gay afternoon
| dances. at which the feminine dancers were all
buds NJ sadi Carnot is to be pitied. cannot
think how he will be able to bridge over the deficit
| without becoming after NJ. Jules Ferry, the most
| unpopular man in France.
| NJ. Goblet the Minister of Public instruction.
Cults and Fine Arts, held this situation under ii.
| Brisson anil was the nearest thing to Radical IN
| his Cabinet lie hates the Orleans Princes, whose
| candidates in the Department OF the Somme beat
his friend Comte Donvlle Maillefeu and nearly
heat himself. lie has been almost persuaded by
the Comte to become disciple of Father iyacinth,
and no uses the Concordat in way to make the
clerpy afraid of veXing the civil power NJ Oooiet
ia ever 80 much smaller in stature than Louls
BlauC, But lie Is syHllhctIiCduy ou'N' '"'i''' mo
head high and does not look dwarhsh. lie IS very
auent and self-conhdent and goes into society WIN
n fne-looking and elegantly dressed VIE. NJ.
| CohIet oyerllows with vitality and does not know
what fear is He detests Nj. jules Ferry ana the
onnortunists-a reason why he got on better win
NJ die Freycinet and NJ. Greyy when be was IN the
last Cabinet than with NJ. Brlsson , - -
| Admiral Aube is the author oil those ESSAYS on
tornedo warfare which caused some SUR IN
and which were so favorably reviewed ny NJ.
Gabriel Charmes in la Rerae fotiique et Lntrdue
and in Les Debdts lie thinks the most 4iectx,e
anu ~ would he one carried on by small swift
aims the crews of which understood well now W
NIKE use of explosives. His theory has been con-
densei by him iuto this axiom: lie torpliIeur
tnG le cuITasse" He took rs theorlst the deepest
interest in the dynamite outrages IN L0huoh. No'
fiat he had any sympathy with the dyhamllers;;
Hut be wanted to see how far the explosives Would
90 in bringing about change IN the pohticai
55ctaiions between England and Ireland. lie ana
rnnrhet were of one mind about the necessity OF
maxim, tOrped0es in the Chinese seas the prlnclpa
,yeano1 of Intelligent destruction" Admiral
kube served for nearly four years as midshlpmstn
and second Lieutenant In tue Chinese seas. ne
was intrustcd with several dangerous MISSIONS W
Cnmlct H. One was to defend the peninsula VI
Caraulun at the head of which Cheroourg stanus,,
against The Prussans and tine other TO CO operate
with (;ambetta in attacking Werders army co tPo
. | between Dion and the NOsges. lie nEiue t p
nco"a;ntnnce of NJ de Freycinet at Tours when the
| liter was Gambettas right hand man there. TUG
sJmiraI covered himself with honor sever yea
400 when he was Governor OF Mnrtlhlquo. , anI 4
yeow fever plague ragged there re va, Mas d snc
! Nv n when the pestilence was suDsulIs i I 80 q
csasiuIIy nursed by his vile, VINO regaus mn 49, Ne