Show OUR FRENCH LETTER f Special correspondence of the HERALD PARIS January 24 1363 The Princes scare continues and is as virulent as the 1870 Prussian Spy malady The Republic cannot support the descendants of once reigning families even when such are ridiculous as Prince Napoleon correct like the Orleanists or fossilized fos-silized as the permanently absent but ever threatening Paul Pry visit I of the Comte de Chambord Gam betta having disappeared the extreme ex-treme republicans have no longer a Turks head on which to operate hence the craze to ostracize princes for the present and later their partisans par-tisans Having according to the opinion of the best jurists violated no article ar-ticle of the Code explains the mess and muddle in which ministers find themselves by arresting Prince Napoleon Neither the Senate nora nor-a court would convict him to liberate liber-ate him acquit him or expel him will in any case be damaging for the cabinet and in a lesser degree for the republic Since years Prince Napoleon has been killed by ridicule ridi-cule he himselt profusely affording the pretexts and the satirical jour pals in furbishing up the old arms to attack him only slay the slain The gravamen of the Napoleon incident consists in its serving serv-ing as a pretext for the expulsion ot the Orleanist princes They are viewed as a possible pos-sible danger for the republic and such is the reason why Floquet desires de-sires to prescribe all royal scions at once and Lockroy to expel them from the army and navy This summary process would be more merciful than the ministerial cure of holding the sword of Damocles over their heads by investing M Grevy with the power to order anyone any-one playing at pretender to quit France Belleville would have voted the application of the measure with both hands to Gambetta Ministers propose to limit the liberty of the press as to the display of seditiocs emblems and the pointing point-ing and placarding of attacks against the Constitution Having conceded the liberty to be attacked the Republic hitherto viewed as invulnerable must be allowed to defend its heel The white flag the red banner the Phrygian cap the carmagnole and the Henri IV march all these fetiches which were believed to be relegated to the Cluny museum will henceforth become Star chamber matters Thus our boasted liberty equality I and fraternitycomes back to the old decrees of proscription and the law of suspects one a measure of supreme su-preme injustice and the other a proposition of extreme im prudence So long as their partisans are free to indulge in propagandism the banishment of princes can only serve their cause At Chantilly and Eu the Orleanists will be less dangerous dan-gerous for Francethan at Twicken ham or even at the fusion residence of Frohsdorf The republic is on the eve to quit the road oC sagacity and liberalism to practice intolerance intoler-ance and snap the uniformity of the law by acknowledging categories of citizens The era of press prosecutions prosecu-tions is to return with its agitations and injustices And the country never was more tranquil The electors elec-tors plump still for the republic they are not terrified by the anarchists anarch-ists and their prince no more than by the monarchists and their reversionary rever-sionary pretenders By the expulsion expul-sion of princes simply because they are princes by the banishment of citizens simply because they are suspected not only will the prestige jof the republic be diminished but a blw will be struck at the honor and probity of the nation Gambetta would long ago have laid the scare by one of his proverbial proverb-ial guffaws in the absence of the voice that 13 still H Floquet seeking Elijahs mantle proposes the opening act of the reign of terror Floquet is a good third late tribune capable of rising to honors He is on the shady side of 50 somewhat of a dandy and like Robespierre whom he is said to model mod-el in foppishness and coolness and may he rest at these traits goes in tremendously for showy waistcoats His wife is very pretty and might if she pleased supersede Mesdames Adam and Arnaud in having the representative republican salon but she is only fashionable pleasing and unpolitical Clemenceaus lady an American is only politics and practices prac-tices in the shade like Egeria Having once cried Vive laPologne under the nose of the late Emperor of Russia during his visithere who retorted that in St Petersburg visitors vis-itors were welcomed more politely Floquet may be considered equal to an Abaslesprinces In politics he is more advanced than Gambetta for whom he was a small edition of I Brutus and Clemenceau is more I advanced than Floquet for the moment then the fortune of the republic re-public is between the hands of these two deputies In the imbroglio Duclercmin istry has all the chances to disappear disap-pear a result that will neither surprise sur-prise them nor the public M Grevy whom the anarchists assert to be the archconspirator and worse than all the princes rolled into one desires to have de Freycinet back the man alter his heart and who is not less mediocre than the others The cancer of the republic is the absence of united republicans the procrastination to vote legitimate reforms and a timidity to recognize the republicans a government like ony other constituted power The pilgrimage this year to the Chapelle Expiatoire built on the site where the remains of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were interred in a shroud of quicklime after execution was looked forward to with interest The 21st of January Janu-ary had been fixed according to rumor for the royalist rising 45000 trained men were ready to take the field and 1500 Pontifical Zouaves a mere mouthful for the Faubour glan republicans to seize Paris Prince Napoleons escapade spoiled the little game The pilgrimage was as modest and select as in other years not a member of the Orlean ist family was present but the Or leanist chiefs deBroglie Buffet etc were numerous Marshal MacMa hons daughter put in an appearance appear-ance but during the empire the Empress Eugenie always attended this in memoriam mass However the Due de Morny maintained the Empress was a royalist and passed her time buying up souvenirs of Marie Antoinette the last being the slipper the unfortunate unfor-tunate Queen dropped when ascending as-cending the scaffold The observed of all observers was Geneial de Charette He is the presumed leader of the suspended insurrection He looked quite happy and so did his daughter who had his arm Two detectives followed the general like his shadow If we are to have a revolution all political parties will be fighting for their own account plus the anarchists whose specialty is limited to killing everybody who has property Happy those who would be banished France at such a moment The anarchists of this city at their last Sundays wind bagism ordered the green baize covering on an improvised table to be replaced by a red railway rug A member out for a day from an asylum proposed a march then and there to deliver the dynamite Nihilist Ni-hilist Krapotkine and his comates from the Philistines at Lyons Not a single Bob Acres volunteered Excepting very unseemly carping at England continuing to prosecute her reformatory programme in Egypt unaided by France French writers devote no other attention to the Nile The French joint comptrollers comp-trollers shaking off the dust of his feet at the Khedives decree abolishing abol-ishing Othellos occupation has caused not a particle of sensation The financial world knows very well that creditors will come to no grief when England looks after their interests If England courteously propounds her views through the viceroy France continues con-tinues the same at Tunis through theBey In both eases tho Box and Cox arrangement is not bad England Eng-land however arrived at Cairo by TelelKebir while France reached Tunis by the Kroumir Pass which in point of political morality are not like routes Old John may afford to smile at Monsieur giving him lessons in colonization and the reorganization of peoples he might include in the same grin the claim of France for a share in the innings of a game out of which she backed firmly believing it would prove the ruin of her once alley Gambettas notary has received 137 applications from persons to purchase the property at Villa Noray where his illustrious client I died M Spuller Gambettas fides achates will likely become the buyer Dr Wecker the Vienna occulist settled here sets at rest the legends as to how Gambetta lost his right eye it was while looking at a turners lathe when a child that a tool flew off and entered en-tered the eyeball Year by year the latter augmented till the eyelids eye-lids could no longer meet In the the spring of 1807 Dr Wecker extracted ex-tracted the abnormal eye he preserved pre-served it in a petrifying solution and it is now in possession of the King of Bavarias brother who is an M D The Princesse Clotilde wife of Prince Napoleon has no intention of coming to Paris which she quit on the 4th of September Sep-tember 1S70 not under the protection pro-tection of a dentist like the Empress Em-press but in full livery as became the daughter of a King She was sacrificed like Marie Louise for reasons of state and thrown in as it were with Savoy and Nice to recompense re-compense France for that war of idea which freed Italy from the Alps to the Adriatic She was married at 10 and is now at 37 quite white haired living with her daughter at the Castle of Moncu lien the eagles nest of the house of Savoy She is a real sister of charity After the wedding ceremony in Paris she last her slipper entering enter-ing the carriage that was conveying con-veying her to Meudon to pass the honeymoon wnen sue arrived Cinderella found her slipper on her dressing table forwarded by express ex-press by another prince Superstitious Supersti-tious like all Italians she considered consid-ered the event an illomen and which has been justified A highly respectable young gentleman gen-tleman has been collared for obtaining ob-taining money under false pretenses he asked the magistrate to be allowed al-lowed champagne game truffea etc while in prison to be paid for out of the funds found on him He was immediately put on Spartan fare Tenant to landlord You promised prom-ised in my lease to have no hammering ham-mering industries in the house now overhead the piano hammering is incessant so I leave Notice in a bath house Closed owing to want of water caused by the inundations |