New-York tribune., 1891-05-24
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London, May 23.-European diplomatists have
watched with interest the pursuit of the ltata by
the Charleston, considering the legal questions In
voved in the American action of no little inricacy.
They hold that the neutrality laws have been
openly violated by the Chilian insurgents with
the active help of certain American citizens and
firms and that the American Government has
done something to prevent this traffic; bat whether
il mas done all il could or has used due diligence
in preventing the violation of its own laws and
the public law, is thought doubtful. America is
reminded that she set up high standard In thc
Alabama case. AS one writer says, The United
States have contracted distinct and peculiar obiga
tions in regard to neutrality" Chill may, accord
ing to one view, call on the United States TO ac-
cept the obligations which she compelled England
10 acknowledge in the Treaty of Washington. II
we were lax in enforcing the law on land, our
pursuit of the Itata at may not relieve us from
liability says the same critic But it is admitted
ON all hands that the questions at issue are too
difficult to allow of dogmatizing
Newfoundland politics. like the Banks of that
name, are in a fog. Teegrams from st. Johns
report the Legislature ready upon the explanation
of Mr. Morine, 10 pass the bill enforcing the
modus vivendi and the treaties with France for
one year. Whether this will satisfy Lord Sails
bury is not known. He has said that he must
have a permanent act. He can hardly have meant
that this colonial bill must be permanent, for it
is understood that Lord knutsford approves il in
its present shape. But Mr.. Goschcn said last
night in the House of Commons that it might be
necessary to proceed with the Newfoundland bill
which has passed the House of Lords. There is
at any rate such thing as cable, and both par
ties here agree in the hope that before Thursday
matters will have been so arranged that the Eng
lish bill may be dropped.
President Carnots tour through the south Of
France proves not less successful than his last :;
nor, in one important respect, less significant.
Once more the Roman Catholic Church rallies to
the President of that Republic which she used
to denounce as her prosecutor Cardinal Desprcz
at Toulouse indeed, used language both of loyalty
and entreaty, assuring the President of the pa
triotism of the clergy and beseeching his influence
In behalf of Catholicism. The Presidents reply
Is not reported
Conservatives, not less than Catholics, seize the
occasion of NJ. Carnots visit to declare their con-
tent with his Government because it is a stable
Government There in the Department of
the Haute Garonne, of which Toulouse is the chief
city I42 Conservative Mayors out of 525 in all
in the Presidents honor.
Limoges was, in political point of view, more
striking than Toulouse. This city of enamels
was at one moment Boulangist but received with
enthusiasm the President who trampled Boulang-
ism into the dust, and cheered him when he
denounced it as system of selfish violence.
Limoges is NJ. Carnot's birthplace, and it saluted
him with cries Of Long live Carnot" No, "
said the President; "your accamation should be,
Long live the Republic! Never long live any
man; for man may be dangerous; the Republic
never"
The political crisis h Portugal has ended for the
moment with the accession of the Ministry under
Senior ChrysOstomO. 1t is nominally Liberal
Ministry; in fact, hardly more than Cabinet of
affairs which it hopes to carry ON for the present.
Money matters are slowly mending.
The expulsion of Queen Natalie from Servia has
made noise. but is not great political event.
She had made herself impossible in Belgrade, where
she had gathered a considerable party who ad-
mired the woman, if they did not approve of the
Queen. The Ministry persuaded Parliament to
pass vote requesting them to induce" the Queen
to leave the country. Their inducements took the
form of police and cavalry, and they bundered
at every step. Their forces were at first too
weak. then strong enough to use what seems need
less violence against the Queens party. The num-
Der of killed is considerable, of the wounded still
greater, and shrieks of execration reach these
Ministerial from their fellow-subiects in
Belgrade and from most European capitals But
they have for the present got rid OF this lire
brand, the Queen, who seems TO have no party
outside of the capital of Servia. They suppressed
all the Opposition journals for two days, and
olx- iIalx 10 ha ed
Glasgow which boasts itself the second city in
the Kingdom, has bestowed the freedom of the city
on Lord Salisbury who in return has made his
fellow burgesses two of his best speeches. There
moments in English public life when the acri-
mony and rancor of politics dropped. and both
parties unite in doing honor to real eminence.
Lord Salisbury is by common consent one of the
ablest Foreign Ministers England has had in mod
ern times. Glasgow rather oddly proclaimed its
recognition Of his eminence as statesman and a
man Of letters. He has not had much TO do with
letters since he was Lord Robert Cecil, and wrote
in The Saturday Review" then periodical which
had both ability and character and in " The Quar-
terly Review" which still has both. IL, however,
the excellent baillies and burgesses of Glasgow
meant that he orator. their eulogy was
speedily justified. 1t is one Of Lord Salisbury s
distinctions that he can get clear away from the
beaten and hackneyed paths of mere politics.
lie spoke as Foreign Minister and his address
might be commended to budding secretaries Of lega-
ton and TO the Foreign Office a complete manual
OF diplomacy. He defined the great and dominant
mission Of the Foreign Office, over which he pre-
sides, as that of preserving peace and extingulsh-
Ing the danger of war. He spoke Of war with
almost as much detestation as if he were mem
Der Of the Peace Society declaring his belief thai
everybody who had any share in shaping the
qestnies Of Europe is deeply and intensely anxious
TO avoid the curse Of war This seems to include
the German Emperor. lie said again-for he has
said 1t before, and in the mouth of this arstocrat
IL Is very signihcant-that the real danger OF war
arises not from the selfish scheming of the policy
pursued by rulers, but from the deep passions OF
great peoples. lie sketchcd in most interest
ing way the rotations OF the decaying Mohammedan