Show OUR FRENCH LETTER Special correspondence of the HKHALD PARIS December 6 After fifty years of colonization of Algeria the French at the present moment number only 150000 At this rate ot progress a Jew centunies must elapse before the Congo Ton kin to say nothing of Madagascar or Turn is i can possess emigrants from France to craft upon the natives all the bless age so highly proclaimed of Western civilization Fra > ce cannot colonize because she wants the mainspring main-spring of that enterprise the emigrants emi-grants the thrown 08 part of a redundant re-dundant population Everybody in the mother country is more or less well oil has something every career is opeu to them why thee J they say ought we to create certain hardships and fly to ilia we ktow co ol France can occupy distaut territory as BO many military outposts ports t cf call for merchantmen and tbe navy but as regions to be olonized never Another drawback to colonial development is the absence ol all in tereat displayed in her existing colonies colo-nies the officials sent there sue not 4 supported by the home government as ropretentativas they are merely firstclass clerks depending ou the AdmiraHly for lavora Now the real governors of the colonies are the local deputies returned to the chamber cham-ber they make the rain and tbe sunshine sun-shine However the same observation observa-tion applies to homeofficials there is not a minister but who will avow that tbe most harassing portion of his duties consists in wrangling with deputies tolioiticg patronage for constituents con-stituents And the deputies do not confine their intercession to tbe minister min-ister directly they besiege the heads ol the departments perhaps on tbe ground that these functionaries do not ch nge witn the Oibiuet and so are the real masters A new feature springing up tu French society consists in the prates sion nf female politicians a good deal of tbe sentimental and emotional l productions on the questions ot tbe day ae by women Much ol the lamentable divisions among the republicans re-publicans and which if pemiated in will invo ve the rain ol the republic I are due to tbe influence of coteries led by women Schools of scandal I can never become schools for point ciane tie the fear of this evil extending ex-tending that prejudices so many excellent ex-cellent persona again the new ladies colleges It is ever a pity when lovely woman stoopa to things she dont understand The story ia i going the rounds lLat a public in an had recently a quarrel with his wife when the Itier closed tue discussion with the remark What have you to complain of 1 thank heaven you have not a wife addicted to politics or who writes for the newspaper 1 The Madagascar question will not be advanced a stage till the French have bombarded lamatare and so astonished the natives That expected ex-pected event united to what was ac complisbed at Sfax ought to be equivalent to a bombardment of Alexandria England ought to seize the occasion to make a splendid U dual control arrangement not with the French bit with her ebony I Majesty Tbe island i a French navy captain has informed me and who commanded in that region for several sev-eral year and in addition has written writ-ten a book about the country is naturally nat-urally extremely rich and ii opened up has a splendid future Two centuries cen-turies ago he observed France was the first European country to plant a flag onthe islandand eo it is virtuallf a possession of oure As to Egypt all Is darkness and intrigue England it is remarked seems mere employed settling down rather than preparing to pack up Sp much the better lor the Egyptians and all concerned The Arabi solution solu-tion though sneered at is felt not the leas to be the ablest untying of the knot for English interests Arabi it ia i admitted on all sides was but the poppet of Conetantinopleand he has a kind pi allround sympathy 3 with the inhabitants of Egypt but it is to the very unanblime Porte that all eyes are directed the operative system of government there employed em-ployed may likely end in a tragedy If BiB mark would only settle the t eternal Eastern question for us be fore he joins the cherubim anti lSera phim even the French mightbbnor his memory by an annual in memoriam memo-riam mass The oaths bill will likely be sent back by the Senate to Chamber ol DeputUB The main object of theo the-o t1J ia to dissociate it from religion to secularize it in a word in which is i called oarmony with the French revolution Materialists repudiate as a personal l aQront being compellEd com-pelled to take God for witness in any thing there are the vulgar and the ambitious who decline the religious form of oaths in order to pose to make capital out of their attitude and when threatened to be fined for refusing they consent to take anv form cf oath and to hold two hands up instead of one as required by law I The Baptists are exemptel from swearing as from active military service they being relegated to do duty in the hospitals and commissariat commissa-riat The movement is the part of the general crusade to separate the religious from the civil power Borne partial elections that have taken place indicate no falling off of suffrage sympathy for the Republic even in its more advanced form bat this does not the lees improve a situa tion which uneasy and a future not at all serene Tbe possibility of Grevya death or flagrant natural incapacity in-capacity serves as a key to diecua where we would be in that case Ke ally all seems to be barren from Dan to Baersneba It is a tree bill that the Third Rapubiio has produced no great men but n multitude of mBdiooriiiP3 actuated witn the inter ears ot uumhcr oua A good many institutions have been unsettled or sent lopejlurvy but little baa been righted ur re built The First Repab Ho produced men so did the Restoration Resto-ration and Napoleon the First created cre-ated illustrious generals Soldiers under Alexander and kings utter hid death The wanted rain is uamiajj Bometriiuiz like u genera gloom tnu Seine having overflowed ifs banks threatens now to plow ov r instead of under tbo bridges Some newspaper office having ground Boor itrtttnutaa ntar tbe river nave now via feet uf water in their engine room TAB team car service in the tu urbs hue ceased passengers are conveyed in fiatbottomed hoots along ft portion of the lines Some industrious wives are baling the river out of the rouses h r-ouses aa Mr Pt1rtin ton formerly did the sea with a mop Business continues to be depressed the vrbicb is very serious as at this period pe-riod briskness is proverbully till order of the day M Flam marion is an astronomer I whose writings are very pnpuUr tbe > poaitivoly seduced an Italian nobleman noble-man woo requested tie astronomer to come to Florence and be tbe guest of a constant reader il not of an original subscriber Warned by the fate of Bernays as to giving a reu uezvous to unknown persons M Flammanin having been autirlied set out ior Italy and became the welcome wel-come guest of his admirer The latter lat-ter begged the astronomer to accept the present of an eetate in the vicinity vicin-ity ot Fang After the fcrmahty ol a refusal he accepted returned elated at the idea of being u lauded proprietor propri-etor Ou proceeding to take possession posses-sion the Keepers informed the astronomer as-tronomer that he was toe sixtieth person to whcm the same donation had been made M Flammanou at once found consolation in preparing g biz glassed t j observe tbe passage ot Venus over the sun Another astronomer as-tronomer has brought out a journal l specially dam ed to that scientific event only one number will bo is sued the second will he published on the ntxt passage oi Venus which will take place in the year 2001 Toe subscription list is closed P03iti ism ia the most popular science sci-ence t > France and has its devotees eiewbere The celebrated M Care h Car-e published a work dissecting u from toe point of not its founder Goute but its chief disciple Littre n13e does not consider the pet science capable either of producing as claimed a new conscience or a regenerated humanity it is strangled iu i its own negations and not a wh t better than our day dreams aud rational ra-tional hallucination While touching touch-ing on subjects philosophical Dr James ID his new volume Young Mother gives tensible counsel about not waking the baby etc lie informs U + J the first cry oi the baby on being born is not a philo eophical protest against the coming mieer es of life Jt bnt an efljrt on tbe part ot tbe little stranger to touts this t-his little supply ol oxygen Bidel is the proprietor of a well 1 known tnenagirie On the 80b of October last be was exhtbitinc at Rouen a performing elephant had been chained on a aide passage and the public warned to give it a wide berth The woman who Bold cakes in the c rcus one Koectc took the prohibited route as a shore cat the elephant male a violent effort to reach a passing basket of dainties broke his chain stumbled and in i falling his teeth speared the woman beyond all surgery Her soninlaw took an action for 10090 franc but was cast with costs Evidence was given that tbe elephant was centle ness itself To make 10000 treat out of a dead motherinlaw is a stroke of geniut Paris male superhuman efforts to support a lecture hall on the Boulevard Boule-vard des Oapucines where anyone could ventilate analogy or unism br ventilating tbe Belie Bet too lec turing system failing to draw the room will be made into a singing 8almonB pt the one few paying spec = lotions in Paris A good drink and a good laugh after a day ti toil ga Ch are the corpse remote in vogue his rumored that Victor Hugo has he n1Firy much lIeottd by be failure of biarevfeed i dram LT tij 8Atnnfee Owing Ganobettaa icoidtat oue finger will hveto beampattved > ud a second will be leodared uself aA Up to the present ther are 34 different differ-ent and professed to be equally true accounts of tbe mysterious ball tJ Why Jacques your hat bok tery heavj Perhaps as I have not brushed it since two years H |