Show 5 5 OUR FRENCH LETTER Special correspondence of the HERALD PARIS March 28 1883 France has now commercial gloire on the brain and may the malady be chronic It is that which impels her to seek fresh woods and pastures new atMadagas car and on the Congo etc The same commendable motive is urging urg-ing her to undertake another flirta tion with her old lovethe treaty of commerce with England But what she has set her heart upon is a commercial treaty with the Uni ted States where her commerce is virtually excluded Since ten years the exports of the United states have increased 35 per cent while those of France during the amejfperiod have been stationary Switzerland with a population of 3000000 takes annually 220000000 of francs of goods from France vhile the United States with fifteen times the population only imports to the extent of 332000000 A Swiss takes 80 per cent while an American Ameri-can takes only 6 per cent of French manufactures or less than one farthing per head per day In the order of imports the United States ranks first in this respect with France America is destined to play an important role in the trade of the world in the future Its It-s towards her that all eyes are at present turned to give the signal for a new spring in affairs France desires to take time by the forelock by > opening up commercial relations with a realm that has received in three years 2000000 of sturdy immigrants im-migrants and that has a surface of arable soil to reclaim eight times greater than the entire area of Trance The latter since 187071 has been adding about one milliard a year to her national debt to make herself invasion proof recast her institutions and refit her administrations adminis-trations Politics not the less are but an investment in-vestment for too many in France agitations have become a career Just now there is a turn in the tide The fashion is setting in from political polit-ical syndicates The Gambettists under the plea of forming committees commit-tees to collect funds for a national statue to the deceased patriot are simply organizing themselves for the next general elections Oddly enough they are Gambettas ideas that now swavthe cabinet he wa himself overthrown for practicing them because he was suspected of being an autocrat what cannot be laid to the charge of Jules Ferry The radicals whose progress has die turbed the axes ot republicanism have their syndicate in a league for the revision of the constitution while the monarchists of nil shades sag mented by ratters from tbe republic from ncomprehenaible conservative i conserva-tive association a union cemented by the common and chimerical aim the destruction of the existing constitution con-stitution Gambettas vacancy at Belleville baa been filled up by a M Laoroix an advanced radical but not an anarchist He is of Polish extraction able cool and tenacious He is destined to run Olemenceau close for honors and is a man of the future The superior council of education I decides what books shall be used in the national 1 schools It is thus that a manual by Paul Bert the notorious no-torious atheist has been adopted adop-ted Now the Vatican baa put this and a few other manuals In the Index The French bishops order their clergy not to countenance the condemned works the clergy from tbe pulpit announce they will Confirm no child who uses the proscribed manuals and Catholic parents urge their children to bear the church The government retorts by stopping the stipends of the recalcitrant clergy This is a pretty quarrel as it stands the radicals are delighted as it may precipitate the separation separa-tion of church from elate while the nltramontanoa are in high spirits at the government being in a fix One thing is evident the republic repub-lic cannot break at present at least With the church The municipal council aims also to be a ohambre do deputes it is evtr dabbling in politics Thus a subcommittee sub-committee has voted the reestablishment reestab-lishment of the national guardwhose muskets more frequently combatted than protected the law They are the most potent auxiliaries of all revolutions rev-olutions Jules Favre demanded pardon of God and man for having left the national guard its rifles after the German invasion Resultthe Commune History would certainly repeat itself Business is not in a state of crisis so mdch as of actual suffering We have parted company with the fat I and are now aeacoiated with the lean I kine Prices are low save when you I want to buy Profits are small and not of that sudden character which I develops the speculative spirit hence why so many sigh for the socialism I of luxury of the Second Empire The 1 funds are kept in an agitated state I by the rumors of converting tbe five into three per cent an operation only I possible when stocks are well above I par a condition which does not now exist To convert at present would imply a loss to holders of onefifth of I their income M Leon Says Dictionary Dic-tionary finances two volumes is anxiously expected be will treat the monetary mess and muddle with authority I au-thority and loyalty Jules Ferry means well when he intends erecting cheap houses out of the savings banks deposits for the working classes High as rents are in Paris this plan of forcing them down is questionable The building trade is not healthy nor can it be till it returns by degrees to its condition > condi-tion of thirty yearp ago What ia 1 given to the profit of one must be at the expense of another and there can be no good socialism because there can be no good empiricism Two proverbs current in the south of France have been realized this sea on Play at Christmas the fireside at Easter and on the balcony at Nod on warm drinks at Easter Somehow or other Lent passed over as quickly as if one had a bill to take up Devotions were well attended tended to The rich had their favorite favor-ite churches snug as a drawing room at La Trinite or at the Madeleine where ladies could have a good cry listening to sensational sermons The cathedral of Notre Dame had the Rev Pere Monsabre for preacher he is a theologian a controversialist who examines all the isms and olo gies and leaves you under the conK elusion of Pascal that after ail tis better to take your chance on the side of religion On Easter Sunday aviog had to attend two funerals in the centre of working Paris I noticed no-ticed the churches filled with artisans and their families many of whom were partaking of the sacrament The only gifts exchanged at Eilit rare r-are bonbons in every design recalling he eggworld and its accessories cr toys in eggshaped cases At Beau aire formerly it was the custom of farmers to present the cure with a lamb The Polish families at Paris keep open table ou Easter Sunday presenting each guest with a red lardboiled egg to whet his appetite for the equate meal At Montmo jnoy outside Paris famous for its jherrjeajand donkeys the latter are honored during Eastertide receive ribbon favors and fewer whacks per iaps The asses are called St Christopher possibly from an old Greek word signifying Obriatoar rierHenceforth Henceforth on reading Bret Hades Heathen Chinee Engene iimona ChineseFamilyLife ought to be glanced at China is truly a Celestial Empire and ought to be the El Dorado for anarchists invinoibles blackhands nihilists et tutti guanti There are neither magistrates nor lawyers l it Beams the chief of the family or clan aided by a jury of the relatives uphold law and order On I paying two francs an acre the tenant is owner while the grass grows and water runs and that peppercorn settles in addition all taxes The population is denser than that of Bel glum or the valley of the Po in many districts there are seven inhabitants inhab-itants to the square acre Judge of their high farming an acre of rice l gives a nett profit of 400 francs There are not only hanging 1 but floating gardens The average are of a holding is one acre a proprietor with 200 acres is a rarity There are no taxes no dues no police all is i selfgovernment and by the family Every liberty exists as every restriction restric-tion is unknown The people are hardworking and rich and invite you to borrow money without security secu-rity or interest The worship ot their ancestors to be deemed worthy to rejoin re-join them is their only religion Teat T-eat drink andbe merry is their rule of existence What is a man If his chief good and market of his life Be but to sleep and feed A cashier who practised a Davenport Daven-port Brother trick on himself confessed con-fessed be tied his arms and legs gagged his mouth with cotton alter emptying the safe A gentleman made the acquaintance of a lady and her mamma at Dieppe last summer References were given and exchanged ex-changed Presents to the extent of 12000 francs were given by him to his Intended bride One day he received re-ceived a wire break off the match mother and daughter are sharpers live only on potatoes and salad He sued for his presents which the lady wished to keep as souvenirs but the law ordered her to give them up within twenty four hours The first act of a new policeman was to arrest his inspector on a charge of personation and led him by the collar to the station house The swallows have arrived in the south of France Maximo Du Camp certifies that Dumas Pere died in the arms of the church and during his stormy life he ever believed inJGod and a future state stateHostess Hostess at an evening party Gentlemen pray do not talk as Mile is sinking Perhaps added Mile It ia I who ought not to sing |