Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-23
GUARANTEE OF PEACE
Furnished by the Visit of the French
Fleet to Portsmouth.
GERMAN AND RUSSIAN OPINION
-Muscovites Think England Will Not Join
the Triple Alliance.
DIFFERENT VIEW TAKEN BY GERMANY
rBY CABLE TO THB DIsPATcH.1

LONDON, Aug. %. -(Copyright.] ] -
Madame Frances little visit for afternoon
tea at her friend, Mrs. England's, has re-
suited pleasantly enough. She has been
shown all her neighbors' new clothes and
furniture and has had her own best raiment
worn for the occasion, inspected and out
wardly approved. The utmost politeness in
fact has been maintained throughout the
various European households.
Dame Russia has only nice things to say
about Madame Frances visit to Mrs Eng
land, although she knows that there will be
comparisons made and conclusions drawn,
and believes that Mrs England, however
polite she may be, talks about her
behind her back and considers
that her housekeeping is not the
best Even Frau Germany, who knows that
Madame France hates her and openly
ISLANDERS her, takes calm and polite view
of the interchange of courtesies between the
two neighboring households and even ex-
presses her opinion that it is pleasing to OBJ
serve the States well together in unity.
THE TALK OVER BACK FENCES.
At least these are the views disseminated
by the statesmen and ministers of the sew
eral countries mentioned, who may be
likened to servants retailing ever the back
fences the opinions they know their masters
and mistresses to have formed.
Great satisfaction is expressed in Paris at
the gracious manner in which the Queen
received Admiral Gervais. La Li6erte re-
marks that the reception of the French fleet
and by the Queen herself surpasses in
point of cordiality and kindness all
the promises of the programme. Soir
calls on the French Government to be as
adroit as England, and, seeming that both
countries have need Of each other, to take
advantage of England's advances by arrang-
ing the Newfoundland, Madagascar and es-
pecially the Egyptian difficulties. This
would detach England from the Triple
Alliance.
THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE.
"She afirms that she is already de-
tached," says Soir, "and we wish nothing
better than to believe it. But we should
then be much more certain" Soir thinks
"Italy would then abandon the alliance so
that Germany and Austria would be left
alone. 1t suggests that Germany, to over
throw the Cronstadt agreement, might
throw over Austria, leaving her to be
attacked by Russia and Italy while she her
self attacked France"
The visit is attentively watched by the
German press
1t is generally admitted that the visit has
no political object, but is merely an evil
dence of the desire of England to live at
peace with all the world. In an article on
the visit, in the Vossiscfe Zet,nsg, the writer
observes with regard to the visit of the
French officers to the arsenal of Portsmouth,
England has more to gain than to lose by
this inspection.
A GUARANTEE OF PEACE
Portsmouth, says this journal, ''is the
most important arsenal in the world. 1t is
impregnable from the sea side, and it con-
tains everything necessary for the construc-
tion and armament of ships of war. In the
dockyard at this moment lies a mighty IRON
clad royal sovereign ship gilmore than Ia, 900
tons, and the forerunner of series of
similar vessels. In this powerful means of
defense, which In spite of all her efforts
France cannot equal, lies perhaps guar
antee for peace, for the greater the respect
felt for England's fleet, the more will
France hesitate to measure herself with it
in deadly earnest.
The writer further expresses the opinion
that the visit will have no political conse-
quence.
The visit of the French squadron to
Portsmouth continues to evoke nothing but
an expression of satisfaction from the prin-
cipal Russian papers. 1t is argued that the
unusual honors accorded to the French
visitors afford clear proof of Great Brita1n's
intention to seriously associate herself
with France and Russia in their
common object, the maintenance of Euro
pean peace, instead of as was recently
feared joining the Triple Alliance, which in
Russian view menaces that peace. The
papers add that from this point of view
the visit to Portsmouth would appear to
strengthen instead of weaken the results of
the visit to Cronstadt