| Show OUR FRENCH LETTER Special correspondence of the HERaLD PARIS March 1 1883 The second empire despoiled the Orleanist princes of their property and the third republic has deprived them of military employ Both acts claim to have been done in the name of justice and in the interests of the nation In point of arbitrariness arbitrari-ness they have each a remarkable family likeness The law of 1S84 was framed by Louis Pbillippes ministers to remove antipathetic political officers from the army Now that law has received its first application to his grandsons Despite De-spite the proverbial clearness of the French language tbe code when microscopically examined is vague The same law can be liberal or illiberal il-liberal following the bias of the judge or the political party in power The Due de Broglie under Macma hon ran a coach and six through every section of the code the repub Icans have just given it a twist an operation their adversaries will keep green in the memory if they return to power And everything comes to those who wait The elimination of the Orleanist princes from the army is a blunder Except the journals public opinion devotes little attention to the matter mat-ter Not an indignation meeting has been held not a letter sent to the Times The princes have retired like officers and gentlemen The Due de Chartres intends trav elling in India The Due dAumale laughs philosophically at the event among his pictures and books at Chantilly The Due dAlencon is going to Austria Much of the hubbub hub-bub is due to the latters wifesister of the Empress of Austria She resided re-sided with her husband at Yin cennes outside Paris where he was with his regiment as captain of artillery ar-tillery His duchess in her social relations derided her acquaintances into sheep and goats ostensibly placing the republicans among the latter on her left Him ilia lacrima M ChallemelLacour new foreign for-eign ministe recently complained of the little sympathy the republic received at monarchial couits The treatment the princes have experienced experi-enced will hardly lessen the cold shoulder element Prince Napoleon and his bill sticking that originated the turmoil of the last five weeks has been so totally ignored and I snubbed that he has decided to definitely defi-nitely retire to Brussels The Compte de Chambord convinced he must wait a little loiger for his honor to come has invested in landed property in Austria last week to rear horses and sheep and found beet sugar factories Sweets to the sweet faewell The Ferry ministry has hardly en enjoyed half its honeymoon and already al-ready the eavesdroppers report the I usual signs of the happy family M Ferry aims to be prime minister de facto but his colleagues insist on I each being prime minister in his own department Then there are rocks ahead such as the demand r for revising the constitution in other words abolishing the senate and the liberation of Prince Kro potkine and his coanarchisls they being less harmless than Prince 3 Napoleon The sciene of geography also stands in need of the tirst highness high-ness The Second Empire boastei to I have laid politics and promoted material ma-terial prosperity The present republic re-public is all politics and the cham bets ot commerce and deputations to M Grevy complain that business is anything but brisk Money is cheap hut not in demand the banks have cash but no demands for discounts Dismal growls come trom French correspondents in Egypt The English do persist in reorganizing the country in opposition oppo-sition to French wishes and the fellaheen it seems commence to despair de-spair of seeing the French arrive to drive the English away Nay more the French language which in Egypt as elsewhere and in diplomacy diplom-acy is usually spoken is in a fairway fair-way of being superseded by the AngloSaxon tongue And all due to France declining to aid England as invited to uphold the Khedive At Tonkin the Chinese appear to be massing to resist the French advance ad-vance Matters are more hopeful at West Africa The interests of civilization have more to gain in that quarter from France than from Portugal It is then with feelings of unalloyed pleasure that France has made another treaty with an aboriginal king to supply his realms with railroads telegraphs post offices electric lighting telephones etc His majesty dwells in the depths of Senegal and signs his mark AmadyTol Perhaps a distant dis-tant relative of TeddyTollol The annivertary the 1848 revolution revo-lution passed off tranquilly Modest bouquets and moderate oratory Some of the deputies improved the occasion to remind electors of the sorrows of represenatives Every deputy receives on an average two letters a day from constituents imploring im-ploring him to stay the hand of justice against infringers of the excise ex-cise laws to secure the exoneration exonera-tion of their sons from active duty and posts of danger in the army to consult special doctors on detailed de-tailed infirmities and in a word to execute commissions in general M Locking avowed that there were electoral districts in France where the sovereign voters c uld be purchased pur-chased at lOf per head all round The Scrutin de Lisle will remedy all hisA A geographical and colonial club has been just founded The pro eramme is very llattering for Bug Iand and hence merits to be noticed as the French are not in good humor with her exally The tight little island was fC conquered in 1060 by a Norman baron See how Albion has made her way today she die tates laws to continents At Waterloo Water-loo the eagles pale before herat her-at the gates of Constan tinople she stops Czars j atNavar ino she demolishes Islamism on the delta of the Nile she lands her cavalry in the face of Europe and why Because she is a colonial power The tendency is becoming more and more general in Pans for co operative feeqing establishments It is now proposed to organize bakeries on a monster scale like the great dry goods magazines of which the Louvre is the type Within the last fifty years bakers wages have risen SO per dent and 40 per cent since twentyfive years The men earn 7f a day receive a twopound loaf and four sous of wine The Duval restaurants are in a fair way to undertake the board ng of all Paris The directors of the Duval idea are buying up every rival broth tavern and reorganizing it on their own principles Last year the total receipts of the Duval establishments were S730000f expenses ex-penses S230000f The police arrested a young man for theft while in their charge he managed to slip a cord round his neck and nearly strangled himself A gentleman of property had in addition to hi lawful family two illegitimate sons one of the latter notified his papa that if he would not give him a quarter of a million of money when he would next call he would shoot him The police who were in ambush arrested shmael as he arrived with a pair of loaded revolvers Your money or your life up to the present was un known in family circles In the Maine another papa hearing a noise in his library entered and was surprised sur-prised to see a robber emptying the drawers his son arrived with a rifle called on the thief to surrender instead the latter at tempted to burn the father and sons faces with a torch A shot laid the robber and exjailbird dead Two highly respectable ladies hav ing taken their seats in a box in the opera were surprised by a visit from the police charged to arrest them A gentleman while dining in a res taurant had his coat stolen in the pocket was his purse and a ticket for two seats at the opera he requested re-quested the police to arrest whoever presented his ticket The ladies received re-ceived the latter from a friend who had purchased it at A redtced price from a banker at the theatre The immense tramcars which accommodate ac-commodate fifty passengers generally gener-ally had the driver perched on seat exposed to all weather like a man at the masthead The new car places him on a level with the horses nearly and in a kind of sen trybox arrangement Sarah Bernhardt is writing a drama where the chief part will be for herself It promises to be a com bination of the DEnnery and Tol school she has been visiting the mad houses and epileptic hospital t o < study how Lefits are best done Al l she had to do was to fake a lea out of her rival croizette During the three days of the 184 revolution the insurgents fell shot of corpses to parade the streets and to crack up the stones to rise and mutiny The spectacle was to b dd de seen of a corpse rising beck and I clans against being compelled t o imitate death and to be pushed on a bier towards the soldiers opening uiu uuu nuiui linateaUrenenG was caught as he was dressed in the role of a general waiting to go on the stage The mob seized him put him on horseback and at their head he thus led the mob to the Hotel de Ville Nay more Lam artine confirmed tbe popular choice An experimental balloon when being filled broke from its moorings at Villette while the amazed scientists scien-tists were arranging their instruments instru-ments for the ascent Toper in a station cell Let me out till I find a policeman Deputy to editor I am a minister since this morning And stili in oflice I added the editor surprised Young grandson presenting his cigar case to his grandfather IINo i my lad I dont smoke Quite right at your age it is objectionable objection-able |
