THE FRENCH PRESS AND IRELAND.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume VII, Issue 403, 31 December 1880, Page 11

THE FRENCH PRESS AND IRELAND.

A "Frenchman "writes as follows to the editor of the Nation ;— « I read recently in the daily papers o Reuter's telegram conveying the «r B twn a w?W « tb r f^yr P^gaue on Irish affcirs, a Ba B also one Zr Z « „,? 7 to the Paris Tkbat* by its tourist ™r? n ' de Mohnari - The or^ an of M - Gambetta, which E™ fc a Te . B °° mere about one class than another in this country, ff\er*ll X* £ gemal an ,l solacin * "Frances, that "Ireland £ T a br ° u * bt on hewe" most of the evil, under which she ISS«^E r un , dlßC j.P» ne(J spint, her petulance, and the fanahcism of her masses." In cavda renmwn.. The representative WnESf lo^ZZ]\ &Jld^ dd TT r '^- the En^ lish **■* P ro Perly shows iffSiSf 1 ? *?-? c v. 1d8 ,.°, f the soiI ' anc1 ' after Ascribing the Jn» n t?J v ° ,1"? cal ? nB / (those innoc ent of window), and comKw»?rri 7 Ai oCik^ ' <dapper rls with blue p ™ sand SwJ*, '-n r • # the milk - a^-water conclusion that Ireland's SriSSJI i.? in » T DOm fv proCeß9 ' material improvement, and B.U 11 BC N DCe - J or ?°°tn. agencies like these are always safe, kLIT PPi 6 can afford t« wait - may trust in them, as in the ™ I -fwi. °DO am - But anr man bo was thoroughly imE^ 1 tb J^ g»vily of the crisis through which this country is ™~ °\ m ? ht < P.f rba P 3'3 ' b ? «P«cted to look at its condition from a SSiinwffTi l™ ] - 8 ? doctr '™ a ™ or remote standpoint. Certainly it most be surprising, not to say painful, to any Frenchman who knows of the relations of amity between Prance and Ireland sdve! SSF thr^«T ganS ° f ? ren ° h ° piDion P racti « a "y shutting themS,!iW? motive or another, from the comprehension iL-nJF I and import of the Irish question. In some Enelish geograghy books this country is amiably described as one « sunk in y^T+ an f Ce '/ nd , filti1 ' and a entl^™, writing the other dSitT'^^ 0 !' adVer - 8 £ h ° to itaß "beggarlv, wretched, and tv Tt f?' f♦£? ■ v en a mierhty and res °l"te "ffort eeems on foot on s» a stw^ ast^xsws humanity would appear to all intents and purposes to have tost Ss name and fame she achieved in her former claiming of truth Jn^vdiiX" £ r iIPP The FrPDch BepnblioTim wafas w?W™7 l f t"*-*}"**™* ™ our more modern apostles of light, but that circumstance did not prevent it from doing, or at least trywhi.hw'TT hl . n s^ Catholic Ireland ; and the Republic of '4B, wife I •?£ n^ t6d ? ther for its subserviency to the Church, syn^ EStothS n" d . W . elco n med v tbe illwstrio^ Irishman who had b^n sent to them on mission by this people. History records that it was owing to the determined attitude of Lord PaSS^SI?SiSS shape was not given to that sympathy. However, as times and mS andcircumstancesarechanged.no one i C this country would tSnk hllf itiln Jr C ? ° f the hour to move one s^Tn the r behalf ; it would be already something- if they publicly recognised that sation of this late age. It May be that England and France who anpeartobeon intimate terms, are meditating and some fhTwouMnoVextT/^^fT^n^ 11 aston?sb a " d amaze, and that thpm,?^rif^ 7 l thetimefor havin S a litt] e talk between & Tf^nt if r °f *?d? d «»n»onplace topic of the condition of Irelv J y b - e also that some People— let us say the grandsons of the serfs emancipated at our Evolution, and who borfSch close resemblance to those of Ireland-have learned to be decent in de^ SeTtbercaS'f TllT 11 gOt themselves Xuhey wanted, they cannot feel now much concerned in the wants or asnirationg, or aims of other peoples. But whatever may be the motWe of that hakewarmness or indifference for a suffering nation m the part s*a?s? SB sented by its upper class, does not. In the rat^of this more ?on" Bhei B alsohaMv n aSleaßanta S leaBant and Plateful remembrance. And soi a n,r P r brol i ghtto bear a P aiEst her Political or Si2S^cS! StSe'lessfn e irT TT TtoT t0 / d l that^ a^ Others do n«t adS?e women areSr '1 h « land h ,f re the men are bra ve and the SStoi? « has SfthP n<l W v lcb 'r as M - De Lasteyrie poetically of m fortune 6 charmfi -^auty, grace, virtue, wit, eloquence^

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