New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-09-16

The immediate grievances OF France consist
IN a street brawl in Antananarivo In which
French soldier "assaed, and In inc resi-
dence OF the Queen at Ambohimanga 'hf.s
miles from her capital. Those are the 'specinc
acts for which NJ. lie Myre de Nilers IS 10 de-
mand reparatlon, for which French fleet Is al
ready in motion TO lombard the CHIEF places OH
the coast and a military expedition PLANNING
The fleet will work it's will. but the attempt 10
send a land force into the interior may prove
serious business. The country is extremely DIM
cult for military operations, and the ciiiha'e
deadly to Europeans.
The question is likely TO be complicated III
England by religious influences. Such civiiiza-
ton as there Is IN Madagascar Is largely the
work OF English missionaries. To see this over
thrown and the native Government crushed VIII
stir q deep feeling among those religious bodies
whose agents the missionaries are. Inc VA
,ioral conscience cries out against the outrage
.xc,aims one powerful NOn-conformist orsa"'
which declares in plain terms that any Ehshsh-
men who 60 to help the Hovas VIII go Win INC
blessing of the Nation. There are the seeus Vi
very pretty quarrel between France and Eng
land.
France. meantime has had sort of warning
that her hands in Europe are not qui'e 81 iiee
no she supposed. The voice Is the Noi'e
or Russian. and of no less person.
age than NJ. de Witte. Minister OF flhance'
M. de Witte it is true. In what ne
said to the German journalist guarded hinnse'i
against being supposed to speak IN the name VI
his master, the Car He Is, nevertheless KNOW"
IN he one of me Cars most trusted auV'seis'
and is not thought likely to say anything even
IN his private capacity dispensing 10 'ne e'e"'
potentate whom he serves II cannot oe "i'"o'
\ clear knowledge of the Cars purposes ''a' MS
minister declares It would be fatal mistake 70
suppose Russia would disturb the peace vi Iu
rome for the sake of France. He affirmed win
precision that "if France begins war or Is 'ne
cause OF war breaking out Russia will not s'ahd
81, her.,. and NJ de Witte went so far as 10 ols-
naraee the Cronstadt and Toulon festiVities'
Thev were "mere popular demonstrations
Ills statement presents many other points OF
.ntarest AS whole Il Is clearly meant not
only as a warning to France, but as an appear
IN Germany He holds out his hand TO Gernian!'
II is to be remembered nevertheless 'ha' INC
hand belongs TO the Finance Minister anu 'ii"'
Germany is probably expected 10 put sum. 'ie
into IT, In other words. NJ. de Witte THINKS Der
lin a better market than Paris 1or RUSSIA. DC
curities He wants the existing boycott ." NUS
sia removed. and looks to German bankers 10
Aoat the nexr Russian loan
The death of the Comte de Pans mas causeu
Perhaps !, deeper feeling in England than III
France In neither country Is 1t the Peope y.
the country who lament him. Why shouid 'he!
He was nothing to the people, anu tHe peop'e
were not much to him. But there Is III DUN
xnt,ntrfes a privileged class 10 whom the fre'ei'u-
er TO the French throne was sympa'he''c anu
interesting parsonage. He had lived much al
England and naturally among the classes who''
No
he regarded as nearest to himself ne was
liked personally. He spent liberaIly he auop'eu
many English tastes and customs he kept up
an English country house on great scale ne
entertained He shot in Scotland. III ne uSeu
the soil of England as a basis for intrisues
against the Government of France II was moi
done, or not often done. in such way as 10
compromise the Government OF England VI ~
render himself liable TO prosecution
The English Court preserved a correct atttude
In all its relations with the Comte de Paris. ana
does go at his death. 1t goes into mourning not
,or the heir of the Bourbons, but for the queen
knswoman both by marriage and BLOOD Inc
most vehement of French Repuohcahs cou'u
hardly object to that. II the RepupNc eAiieu
him. 1t was not merely because he was the heao
Of the family which claimed personal ana
family right to reign over France. but because
he flung down challenge to the Republic. mat
was eight years ago. and from that time the
cause of monarchy has steadily declined ana 'he
cause of the French people has steadily gained
1t was a turning point in french history
Exi,ed or not the Comte de Paris might have en-
.ered upon that career Of conspiracy to which
he devoted the rest Of his life. The more ne
n,otted the more France chung to the Republic
1t might not be easy TO say which was the cause
and which was the effect. Certain 1t Is that no
descendant of a great line OF kings ever stopped
,ower to recover power than did the Count when
ne entered into a confederacy with General Bou-
LANCER The man and the means were alike con-
temptible Honorable as was the Comte de
Paris in the relations and affairs OF private me-
he thought all things permissible against ne
public which kept him out OF his own lie open
~ said SO when It came out that he and his
friends had all along been backing General Bou-
,anpsr and that between him and that wretched
charlatan OF politics there had been an ignoole
bargain.
But the Count had ceased 70 be formidable
He was not OF the stuff OF which conquerors are
made. The Iuler vices were no more MS thah
the ruder virtues. His party dwindled. HIS
friends fell off, His name meant little more 10
the French people or even to the french royal
lists. than that Of his dead father The physical
rasurrection of the one was about likely as
the political resurrection OF the othe'' ""
monarchcal journalists who live upon expiring
fpredi,ections make q splitter over his disappear
ance and over the appearance OF his son In MS
stead. France goes on her way indinerent
=. =. What the young Due dOrleans Will DO neither
he nor his friends know. He has some OF the
energy and dash in which his father was def
Gent and ten years ago. had his day come then
no might have had chance. To-day he has
nome His manifesto and his French meeting
IN Iondon are Of little Importance. The Repub-
lie Is sodlys established -solidly as against mon
archy. Its. dangers arise from below not from
above. or from what was once above Not mon
archy but anarchy-that IL the peril; no very
.,.assirsr. nern either The Chance. II there be a