Year: 1869

Senator Summers Speech-HOw Regarded
| in France-The Belgian Questi0n--An Amcri-
can Club Organized.


PARIS May q. 1859.


The revival of the Alabama question by Mr.. sum-
ner's powerful speech in executive session OF the
United States Senate has furnished abundant topics
for the French press. Very full synopses OF the great
effort OF the chairman OF the Committee on Foreign
Relations have been published here and the COM
menaries have been exceedingly favorable. The
speech and vote OF the Senate on the Alabama Con-
venton are regarded as exceedingly significant,
IN showing the true feeling existing between
the United States and England ana many
OF the writers inclined to In the situation
state OF affairs threatening than even Senator
Chandler can bring himself to believe really exists
There are not wanting French journalists and pub
licists who would like to foment din Guilty be-
tween the United States and her old enemy, Great
Britain They see in such a conflict opportunities
for French scheming that do not now exist. while
the English navy can be used in European waters
They convinced that sooner or later the old dis
sensons between the great republic and the mother
country must be settled by the sword. Anything
they do to bring about this adjustment will be
done with relish. They are somewhat mistaken
by the loud talk OF some OF the Sena-
tors, and are inclined to think the c0nrtct
imminent. The cooler heads believe that the object
OF the United States government B simply to keep
the question open until the favorable opportunity
arrives TO repeat the system adopted by England
during our war, OF sweeping from the sea our COM
merce and destroying our carrying trade in order
that she might reap the advantage. They think that
whenever England is engaged In a great war
our government will permit TO issue from our
ports a cloud Of pIivateers that will cripple and
destroy or capture English commerce and remove
forever her most powerful support. In this belief
Englishmen are reluctantly compelled to JOIN, ana
hence the fear and terror in English commercial
circles since the Johnson Stanley Clarendon treaty
has been ANONYMOUSLY kicked out OF the Senate


Tne ace a1e nds STRIKING analogy
Reverdy Johnson in England and the utter fuity OF
his efforts TO close question that u not yet ripe for
solution, and the manner In which N. Frere OrDan.
the BE glan Ambassador has been received by the
French government and the result OF his mission.
After six weeks Of feasting and wlning NJ. Orban
has only been able to agree with NJ de Ia vaette in
pOstponing the Belgian question: thus leaving open
one OF the most fruitful and dangerous sources OF
trouble between the French empire and the little
kingdom Of Belgium that any OF Nap0leOn's parti-
sans could desire. The Belgian question is danger
army is kept upon war footing and the Belgian or
any other trivial question ID causing heart burning


For q long time the want Of q central place of
meeting for the Americans in Paris has been felt by
all the residents. There has never been pleasant
and agreeable rendezvous for our cOuntrymen in
Paris They have been compelled to meet and spend
their time in the court OF the Grand Hotel one OF the
most pubic and dsagreeabe places In Paris, or they
have been obliged to lOiter about ThOrps, where the
inclination to imbibe American drinks could not we'll
be resisted and where peoples good resolutions were





ers' of1ces-an Of them we'll enough in their way,
but none OF them presenting all the ease and CON-
forts afforded by well organized club. We are In
good way Of changing all this. An American
club called the washington Club has oeen organized,
and through the good Offices Of General Dix, who Ia
always active and Jealous in everything that may
promote the well being Of his countrymen, per-
mission has been obtained nom the Minister OF the
Interior 10 found the corporation. Under ordi-
nary circumstances 1t requires at least six months
time and no small amount OF annoyance ana trouble
TO obtain this authorization from the government,
which does not exactly like ORGANIZATIONS OF
social character and much less those OF political
nature In France. Thanks, however, to the cordial
and powerful assistance Of General Dix, not ten
days elapsed between the application for an authOr
ZatiOn for the founding OF club and the response
OF the authorities granting the request The whole
thing was promptly put through outside the red tape
route, and finished up, so far as the French
government Is concerned, N. de FORBADE, Minister
Of the Interior, expressing his wish to forward the
plan IN any way in his power The founders OF the
club, numbering twenty-five gentlemen. win meet
this evening to formally organize and elect the ON
GERS for the coming year. Tomorrow lease Will be
signed for six years for splendid new building in
process OF completion the corner OF the Rue de Ia
Paix and the Boulevard de Capuctn, In face Of the
new Opera House, at the rent OF twenty-five thou
sand francs Q year. The house will be furnished at
an expense Of forty to ffty thousand francs. and
will be ready for occupancy by the middle OF next
September, when the Stars and Stripes will ny out
In the very centre of Paris The location Is unequaled
in every point OF view and the club will certainly be
one Of the most attractive points In Paris to the
Americans.