New-York tribune., 1901-07-28

would certainly not have lost such favoraple
opportunity for putting its opinion on recolu'
The exact results cannot be known uhth ai'ei
to-morrows voting but the defeat OF the ie
actionar-v parties Nationalist Melinists and Jew
baiters has been crushing, and Will In all prooa-
biIity be still more so tomorrow. The genuine
ranuhIicans have already won fftyfye new
seats The number of republican general coun-
cillors so far elected is 1.061, whereas the num-
her of Conservatives and Conservatives VINO
have adhered to the republic. and Nationalists
is only 300 while the number of Socialists re-
mains exactly the before There are
still few traces of morbid anti-Dreytuslsnl anu
Nationalism in the departments bordering upon
the eastern frontier but the great object lesson
derived from the departmental elections IS that
the public feeling, which for over two years mas
been in such feverish, unnatural state Is at
last completely established.
Indeed. nothing could demonstrate more clearly
what q purely superficial hold either Bona
partists or Bourbons have on the country than
the calm indifference with which he statements
of Prince Victor Napoleon and the Duke of Or
leans, which occupied yesterday in flaming type
the whole front page of the Figaro" have neen
received by the public at large. Prince victor
could not find anything better to say than that
the empire was not party. and dependent upon
the plebscite of the nation. The Duke OF Ut
leans also asserted that monarchy was not
party, but effort to unite all Frenchmen on
the Terrain" of national rights. Both had TO
content themselves with glttering generalitles
and with illusions to the First Napoleon and to
Henri Quatre.
The Figaro" and the "Gaulois" have been
exploiting with great sound of trumpets the
views of both princes, and ii is evident thal
neither has ghost of chance so long as the
present temper of the nation exists. and until
pretender to the throne can find an opponent
less honest and less wise and less wide awake
than President Loubet and one less able and
less strong than the Premier, Waldeck-Rous-
seau.
In French naval circles renewed confidence in
submarine boats is caused by the achievement OF
the Morse at Havre, which repeated the exploit
of the Gustave Zede at Ajaccio, but with greater
success according to the official narrative. vice.
Admiral Fournier. inspector general OF mobile
defences who had taken Havre on his round
telegraphed to the Port Admiral of Cherbourg
asking him TO send the Morse Immediately for an
attack on the Cocyte. Arrangements were
promptly made for the departure of the Morse,
which did the journey in eleven hours, naVlgat-
ing mostly on the surface. but a precaution
80 NN-N
last eight miles. The submarine vessel reached
Havre in the night. and. entirely unperceived by
the Cocyte. managed to hurl a dummy torpedo
which hit the gunboat in the side. Then the
Morse appeared on the surface in full view Of the
Cocyte and its commander. going on board that
shin made his report to Vice-Admlral Fournier,
who was aboard the gunboat. and heartily con-
graduated him on his success
nf he interua-
tional art exhibition this year is largely COM
posed Of works Of American artists residing
abroad, and Carl Melchers, who represents the
United States section on the international jury
of awards, has received official information that
the Bavarian Government has awarded first
class medal to Walter Macewen for his painting
of a girl in a pale rose Vatican dress standing
before a mirror; first class medal to Julius
Stewart for his nymphs and Dianas sporting in
a sunlit background; second class medal to Mr..
Hartwich. an American resident in Munich, for
his large canvas with cattle, which received
second medal at this years Paris Salon; Sec
ond class medal to George Hitchcock for his
''Magnihcate." exhibited at the Paris exhibition.
and for two other canvases sent from Holland:
a second class medal to Seymour Thomas for his
portrait OF an elderly woman, which had already
won a medal at the Paris Salon; a second class
medal to Humphreys Johnston for his "Etude
Rose" clever and distinguished work and
second class medal to Van der Weyden for four
small pictures
Among other American artists who exhibited
at Munich are Edwin Lord Weeks, who has re-
ceYed the Order of Saint Michael from the
Prince Regent for his brilliant canvases of Per
sian subjects; Walter Gay, whose only exhibit
at Munich is The Weavers." which was seen
at the Paris Exposition, and which has just been
bu he
Tanner, who exhibits The Waing Place of the
Jews at Jerusalem and Lions in the Desert;
William T. Dannat, Ridgway Knight his son.
Aston Knight who exhibits large river scene
on the Thames, which obtained honorable men
ton at the last Paris Salon; Lionel Walden,
Charles Thriat Frederick A. Brdgman, Fred
erick MacMonnies who exhibits his large paint
ing of lie Raseur" or the bare robust old man
holding Zolas novel "Fecondte," which made
such prominent figure in the last Paris Salon.
c. i. B.