Salt Lake Herald | 1891-12-06 | Page 12 | English-French Discord

EnglishFrench Discord The New York Times correspondent says Only a week or two ago comment was made in these dispatches upon the extraordinary extra-ordinary luck which has persistently followed fol-lowed l Lord Dufferins career They say now that he is to go to Paris and succeed Lord Lytton whose dramatic death has more profoundly stirred Paris than any since the demise of Gambetta eight years ago I the report is true the successful Irisman for once will find work cut out for him whioh will tax his facile qualities to the utmost There is really a very ugly state of affairs existing between England and Franco and ha been for three or four years Every body knows this would have been much worse still had Lytton not enjoyed quite phenomenal popularity in Paris He was not like an Englishman in any single respect and was cordially disliked by ninetyuine Englishman in every one hundred who ever had seen or heard of him But in France they admired him and liked him more than any other living Briton They even read his poems There can be no doubt that he exerted a powerful influence in his own queer way to keep down the quarrelsome instincts of the two peoples Wo shall see how his successor manages to continue his work No other two nations in the world have so many unseottlod questions Of right and L clashing claims as those which disturb I the relations of England and France As if there were not enough already a new one IB furnished fur-nished today by the tidings that the Porte has ceded to France the peninsula of Shiek said in the Red sea which completely commands the British island of Perim and annihilates Englands supremacy in that vitally important quarter Much more will be heard about this and about other phases of Turkeys surrender to RussoFrench in fluences