New-York tribune., 1905-01-08
TOPICS IN Paris.
Peace More Remote than Euer-
The SyUeton Case.
Especial to Ths New-rorh Tribune BY French caO.so

Copyright: 1905: By The Tribune AssocIatIon)
Paris. Jan T. Friendly French diploma
lists and friendly French journalists have
succeededNin eliciting from personages in the
confidence of the Gar and from the Russian
government frank opinions whether the fall
of~Port Arthur brings peace nearer than be-
fore. and disclosing that the conviction of
the Gar and his ministers is that peace IS
to-day more remote than ever. The Rus
sian Admiralty and three Russian grand dukes
go so far TO say that Russia Will never make
peace so long Port Arthur remains in Japan
ese hands The Gar himself is now more de-
termined than ever TO fight out the war until
finished by absolute exhaustion. The Czar is
persuaded by the advisers in whom he puts most
faith that TO make peace at the present juncture
would be the d. ath knel to Russian autocracy
and equivalent to his abdication No country
is more anxious than France to bring about
peace between her ally and Japan. All the
sources OF FreAch tact and diplomacy have since
the fall OF Fort Arthur been exhausted to ascer-
tain whether the slightest loophole existed by
which tho olive branch could be inserted in the
cast iron determination of the Car and of the
Russian government and in vain. although trust
worthy reports from Moscow and the interior
of Russia indicate that the war is more unpop-
uIar than ever and that the masses Of the peo-
PIE really want peace.
Meanwhile the letter of Prince Trebetzko,
President OF the Moscow Zemstvo. to Prince
AIirsky Minister of the Interior, is published
prominently by all the French newspapers
The entire Liberal Socialist press in Paris and
the provinces indorses as just the demands of
the Russian people for peace and for a consti-
tuition, Frenohmen apparently assuming that the
Russian people more educated and enlight-
ened than is really the case. A prominent So
cialist here declares the sympathy Of France is
for the impending Russian revolution, in which
;he Car is compared 10 Louis XVI, NJ. De Witte
TO Turgot. and Prince Trebetzkol 10 Lafayette
No doubt the trend of sympathy of republican
France for the personal autocracy Of the Gar is
visibly waning. Ministerial newspapers like the
"Matin" and the Gil Bias frankly counsel
their great ally to accord TO his people peace
and a constitution
The Russian financial situation causes in the
most influential banking circles here not the
slightest uneasness, notwithstanding the ten
thousand piIlion francs already invested by
Frenchmen in Russian securities. The reason
alleged by q prominent banker for this continued
steadiness of Russian quotations is that all these
securities are centred in Paris, where the great
financial and industrial establishments which
foated them able TO support prices and pre-
vent any serious fall in values. NJ. Motono' the
japanese Minister at Paris, who on the occasion
feet at Cherbourg and Brest notified the French
government that Japan counted upon the French
strict observance of neutrality, has been courte-
ousIy Informed that France would conform TO
all terms of the neutrality convention estab-
lished IN 1898 during the Spanish-American war.
Circulars embodying the terms Of that conven-
ton are in the hands OF all the French naval
authorities at Madagascar and in Far Eastern
waters and will govern the French and Russian
naval relations in regard 10 coaling, supplies ana
repairs.
The Syveton mystery. which for the last three
weeks has been a sort Of daily cinematograph or
every imaginable social and moral sore decadent
flesh is heir to- at last is waning in Interest for
no one has yet been able TO prove that the be-
witchinz widow or her hysterical but capti-
waiting daughter had a hand in NJ. Syveton's
death Meanwhile NJ. Syvetons melodramatic
ending has already had three imitators. sem
tinental woman at Rouen committed suicide on
Tuesday by putting her mouth over an open gas
Jet and inhaling gas until dead On Wednes-
Day q young misunderstood poet committed
suicide by exactly the same means. At Armen-
there's yesterday a penniess butcher boy, VINO
had been crossed in love at Marseilles, asphyXi-
ated himself by inhaling gas exactly as NJ.
Svveton is alleged to have done. feature OF
the case is that fifteen harmless dogs have al
of the tragedy.
AS an instance Of the axiom that nothing sue
ceeds like success II is noted that the students
IN the public schools of Paris, who since the
Fusso-Japanese War began have found favor
tie game In Stimulating ussian-Japanese sham
fights around a pasteboard Port Arthur. ma the
sport ended for lack of boys TO iupersonate Rus
SLAMS. Juvenile sympathy which at the outset
was with the Muscovite. is now with Nippon
Ferdinand Brunetiere Of the French Academy.
who IN spite OF his eloquence and learning, has
become personally distasteful to the Minister of
Public instruction. and especially TO Premier
Combes because of his increasing devotion to
the Pope and TO the Catholic Church has been
somewhat unjustly jocl1eyed out of his profess
sional functions at the Sorbonne and the College
Of France thereby finding himself in strait
ened circumstances without a salary. has ac-
cepted the offer Of the French Conference So
on modern encyclopedias for encyclopaedia read
ers and how TO use them
Among the passengers sailing for New-York Is
lean Patriot, the painter whose portraits Of
Mr,e Ioubet and OF the man In white are so
h,qblv appreciated by the Partisan art critics.
N PATRIOT has just completed a gray-toned
nortrait of CASTOR Deschamps. and carries with
him 10 the United States. where he is called 10
s.,acute nortrafts in New-York. Washington and
r7oston a dozen characteristic canvases which
are soon 10 be exhibited = D.
AssessoR,s RECORDS DESTROYED.
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