Show PAWS POINTS As Detailed By Our Regnlar = Correspondent Corres-pondent A Dress That Was Not Designed or Worth 1 Bacninh and SontayM Arteman The Jury System Delbech the Executioner The Due do Mornej Etcs Special Correspondence of the HERALD PARIS March 19ib 18S1 At Bacninh aa at Sontay the French let the enemy escape so the latter naturally live to fight another day and are now being run to earth It remains with China to hccept accomplished I I complished facts or to put in practice prac-tice some of her bugaboo menaces which people at one time believed Ion I-on the faith of morning and evening press interviews with the Marquis Tseng her capable of executing The Celestial Empire has now DD her frontiers Buasia England and France who will in course of time improve China from the map of Asia If the French soldiers had little fighting fight-ing and none at all when compared with Teband Tamai and its environs the soldiers will merit the professional profes-sional recompaLsea promised on account ac-count of their sufferings kind of permanent lodgings in mOlaSSe with up to the waist in water The men were free to sit down and to smoke if they could procure a light The Frenob government intend to demand an indemnity from China for aiding the Black Flags it is proposed to sieze Canton till the taels be paid A slice of the Empire north of Tonkin might be accepted as payment with the priviega to protect a few outlying out-lying provinces against Kroumirs of the future A journal whose special correspondence correspon-dence from Tonkin is written from Annam and not concocted in Paris from the London and American press gives the result of an excursion through the new addition to Frances Future IndoCbinese Empire Annam is not an El Dorado here and there patches of territory exist of the land of Goshen type The chief exports are rice the materials for betel chewing chew-ing rice brandy a little silk and fat young pigs The latter are packed in wicker baskets and fed in advance soBS so-BS to keep quiet for two or three days till put on board Chinese junke often these baskets contain girls stolen from their parents and drugged with opium bn route for sale in Chinese brothels In 1874 France made Annam a present of two gunboats these are now in taa bay of Tourane painted ships upon a painted ocean rotting away Toe authorities stripped he vessels of all their metallic mountings mount-ings and inside the cannons birds have made their nest that beats those wallows which nursery historians histo-rians allege built their nests in old mens beards The men in this part ot Annam have no wbieers and wear their hair like the women onienonetyla and kept up with a back comb AU the children have for clothing a Lain twine tied round the wast The grandmother of the present queen ot Tahiti had for regal costume nothing more than a shell necklace and the Prince de Joni ville brought one of such court dresses 98 u present to the sovereigns old clo museum at the Lotrrre For the Frecch the victories of General Graham arc next to nothing and far outclipsed by Bacoinhwhere the enemy neither killed nor made prisoner was allowed as usual to escape It ia lamentable irresolution irreso-lution and contradiction that England Eng-land displays in Egypt It her aim be to not wound French susceptibilities it is loves labor lost Toe sooner friend John recognizes the fact that he has no friends in France the I stoner he will confine attention to his own ceptibilitie8 The cardinal car-dinal mistake of English foreign policy hag been the excessive ue of soft soap and flattery toward the French Result something am to contempt France epurnd English advice out she is not dear nor cynical cyn-ical when England consults only her own interests and defends there vigor ously The moral of the Sutz Canal vote ought to be read marked learned and inwardly digested by perfide Albion Al-bion English foreign policy licks backbone wants clearness deciaio and speaking up instead of obscurity trimming and soft sander And euch ought ever te 1 the credo with whatever party guides the destinies of either Old or Young England M Artemann the juror who wrote to the journals has he was against the convicton of the young anarchist anar-chist Morpby 13 to ha indicted for betraying the secrets of toe jury room although he has cried mea culpa It 57B9 on y the revolution of 1789 that endowed France with that eminently English institution by which the juror is bound by no oiher power save that of his conscience That was not a jury which Moses composed and ordered to judge with ten men sitting sit-ting at the gates of the cities still less was the Athenian dicaeter a jury The French after a time rejected the grand jury and adopted instead a petty court to decide if grounds existed ex-isted for a prosecution and where the prisoner is directly examined by an unsympathetic judge his replies as well as the history of his past life being used against him As a rule the French judges start with the presumption sumption that every accused is culpable culp-able and strain every effort to make him confeaa his crime Hence the I importance of a jury to step between a prisoner fortifying and calming I him and a prejudiced judge In France no man can be a juror It unless 30years of age and in posses I sion of his civil and political rights and mental y and physically capacitated capaci-tated Usuiee those condemned for outrages to morality and religion bankrupts vagabond notaries civil servants Iftbsrers illiterate persons are exempted from serving as jarcrsj a juror having served at one assizes is exempted from the others for a year The assizes sit every three months and en an average for fifteen daye One juror is chosen for every 500 inhabitants eta f circuit from thelist thus made out thirtysix names with lour supplemental are selected fore for-e ch asszs and are published beforehand before-hand in the official gazette The judge draws the first twelve names out of an urn with supplemental cames but he public prosecutor and the prisoners counsel can challenge alternately each twelve names the sixteen remaining in the urnbecome then de facto the jury Neither jury nor counsel is allo ed to directly queston a prisoner or a witness such must be asked through the judge The latter opens the case by the examinationnot now BO browbeaten as formerlyof the prisoner where his lifehistory passes under the scalpel Speeches for the prosecution and defense completed com-pleted the jurors retire to therir room Eich juror writes yes or no on a slip of panor and drops it into an urn the foreman fore-man draws each vote cut the majority ma-jority of vote seven to five carries the verdict if there be five votes for and five against with two blankttie verdict is no The verdict is i then signed by all the jurors and the foreman I fore-man hands it to the court declaring on his conscience nonor and before God that is the true finding The voting papers are burned before leaving ing the room If the number of votes be stated that annuls the verdict The foreman is the first name drawn from the urn a juror who absents himself without valid cause can be fined from 500 to 1500 franca The extraordinary May weather with which we are favored not only forces trees into budding buds into leaf and birds to seriously flirt but hatches lunatics On Sunday last no less than five were picked op in Paris the doctors attributing the outbreak out-break to the sudden bursts of hot sunshine It affected the communists also as unable to observe the day we celebrate perhaps in the old style did s o within doors at one meeting two orators short of arguments argu-ments and Billingsgate took month fuls of flesh out of each others arms baying stripped the better to express their sentiments That and lunatic discoDsea are al1l5 y 1 a hroom mon There was a society of Irishmen Irish-men who met on Su Patricks day to drown the shamrock with all honors Marshal Macmahpn and other semi aiberniaas put in an appearance Owing to differences reapeoicg the civilizing powers of dyaamlte so nn merous were the invitations just returned re-turned that the society has been dissolved dis-solved Another has been formed oft of-t wildest sprigs from the Emerald1 Isle and the states It has not inappropriately in-appropriately Ha headquarters in Belleville The tribunal of An oaleme has uled that the crying of false news with the view to induce the purchase ot journals is a swindle and subject to the same penalties aa pickpoofeet iag Two boys have been sentenced under that interpretation The executioner Delbesh has petitioned pe-titioned the budget committee on the peculiar position be and his assistants as-sistants occupy Owing to the humanitarian hu-manitarian dews ol M Grevy the petitioners have now qo work to do md their modest salaries wereit was to be understood augmented by special gratifications for each culprit guillotined Their salary was simply a retaining fee > either augment then that fee or increase l3 number of decapitations for oven headsmen must live In 1792 Sanson also petitioned pe-titioned for an increase of pay for himself and his staff Ha said the new machine rhe gaillotine bad tripled the DQtnbf of executions the I necessaries of life bad run up in 1 price that conduct executions respectably he must have aids on whom be could relj and those in his employ have struck and will not resume re-sume work till guaranteed double income in-come Sanson declared he bad fourteen individuals daily to nourish of whom eight were on board wages be bad three horses to feed three carters to maintain and other accessories to keep up hid position com me ilfaut His assistants his old domestics had devoted their lives j to the service of decapitation and so possess rights and claims on humanity human-ity His personal fortune was exhausted ex-hausted he was getting into debtwas on the eve of beiug ruined which he did not merit after fortytwo years faithful services as chief headsman to his country The prayer of the petitioner was granted The young Duo de Morny is making mak-ing a noise in the fast world and so fallowing in the steps ot his father The duke has been dreadfully shown up in a novel a la mode Sarah Bar num He is in a brown study how to treat the author to call him oqt or citehim before the tribunal Ole of the most remarkable features of his fathers adventurous career was that he never fought a duel the nearest approach to euo1 was his misunderstanding i misunder-standing with Sir Robert Peel at the coronation of Alexander II who alluded al-luded to the duo as a picture speculator specula-tor The Due de Morney died in Oc tober 1865 aged 51 ho was the natural nat-ural eon of tue Comte de Fiauhaut and queen Hortanae and eo the uterine brother of Nap ileou III The day after his birth he was brought from Paris to Versailles where an aged nobleman prjmised to adopt him and leave him his name and title The Queen gave the childs paternal grandmother Madame de Sonzi t 200 000 franca to rear the infant in-fant the next day Madame lost all the money in gambling but she not the lees reared the child among the debris of the Empire De Morny was a well made rarber than a hansome man his jmnA wss supplied his manners most elegant nature calm I audacioushaughty and dissolute He I took part in the revolution of 1830 was an officer in Algeria but he soon returned to civil political and diplomatic diplo-matic life he had fits ol idleness and work he was a gambler but not ambitious am-bitious a comrade rather than a friend He had a contempt for men and his aim was to obtain wea th and spend it All hia life he desired to be on the siie of the handle of the broom He paid his debts by the ccup detat and promoted She Mexican war to profit by the Jecker bonds When ambassador to Russia he married mar-ried the princess Troubetakoi now the Spanish Duoheese de Sertc In i 1862 he was made a duke His coat of arms was an hortensia ftower allusion to his mother with bars He carried a bottle of arsenical 1 Jropa in his packet to maintain bis vigor and fresh looks but died from sudden bleeding by the ears Extravagant as he was and dissolute he left an immense fortune to his children Lepellelier the editor who was wounded in a duel assures his readers read-ers the bullet is lodged in his thigh but docs not affect his bead My dear son had I not married I your extravagant mother you would i be a rich man today |