Show t ii AU n FBANCE The Assults on Gambatta A Gay Season in the French Capital Capi-tal Correspondence of the HERALD PABIS January 26 Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell be thy intents wicked or charitable say the coalesced coal-esced opponents of Gambetta we will have none of thee They are selling the akin of the bear before killing bruin Toe furiousness of the organ zed hate against Gambetta is defeating de-feating its end The present out look of Europe is too sombre for even absolute ab-solute politician like the JFremh not to reflect the amusement of pulling pull-ing down and setting up cabinets must be limited Gambetta has made some blunders and the best statesmen commit such ibis appointments appoint-ments have not been always happy he has run counter a little to public opinion he bas not made Fiance the first flower of the earth and the first gem of the sea in the space of wo months he has been obstiuftte like Polignao Fmjat Ollivier and Theirs he had not humored men of immense self importance and bas not been conciliating in his manner towards adversariesae has made a falae move in staking his ministry on the Scrutin de lisle a matter about which the country cared very little but the newly elected deputies a great deal since it signified a new general election elec-tion at an early date But even all these counts of indictment do net merit the fbpd of foul abuse aud misinterpretation heaped upon Gam betta atiilless the total forgetfulness ol all the aervioei and pitched bat ties he fougbt for the republic since 1868 In limiting beforehand the rights of the Congress Gambelta was unfortunately un-fortunately both right nnd wrong In principle the Oongrea bat is the two chambers united in common can do anything save change a man into a woman But if its work in the present instance was not circumscribed circum-scribed in advance the senators would decline voting the calling of that bojy together Once in seance the Congress would revise the Senate out of existence abolish President Grevy form themselves into a convention con-vention remain permanently Bitting never to be dissolved save by a eighteen eigh-teen Brumairo or a 2d December It was unnecessarily introducing the untimely question of the Scrutin de Hate and making a cabinet matter of its acceptance that complicated the imbroglio Of course a transaction will be arranged for French politi cans like cats fall on their feet and despite all tbe blundering of their legislators tbe French are one of the richest nations in the world But I think they would be unhappy it they were deprived of picking their favorite bone that of making and unmaking constitutions We have now our twenty third since 1789 and the present has lasted ten yearsa pretty respectable longevity The financial crisis not a Krach that has taken place will do good it will clear the stock exchanges of a crowd not ol speculators but of adventures ad-ventures and gambler it will put a break on the passions of many honest people who in their haste to become rich have quitted the slower but surer paths of commerce and industry indus-try it will make capital available for the latter Tbe fortune of France has not suffered in the recent crisis no sterling security bus fallen below its real value the fall lops oft only fictitious prices The Suez canal and the Paris Omnibus shares which have suffered so severely will not cause a ship or a passenger Ites to pass through the canal or to mount in a bus Opinion here has sunny round to the necessity of the maintanenoe of a cordial alliance with England Necessity thus comments and makes friends Much talk is naturally tatting tatt-ing place about tbe treaty of commerce com-merce but something like proof is demanded as to what concessions France haa made to the English woollen interest The proposal to increase the salary of the 555 deputies and 300 senators from 9000 franca to 12000 per annum ia received by the public with marked coldness Aa toe law J eziats in order not to wound any feelings every legislator id i bouad to accept bis salary although he may De millionaire million-aire Other countries have representatives repre-sentatives only too happy to give their tiervicsa free Politics and financial tstn i ne do not interfere with the pleasure of society life is very gay HI present in Pane the five oolosk luucatu and the sauternes these precursors to lull dress balls are very general while there are saloons where people meet only to chat there are otnera where theatricals and music are thfg order of the evening Mme Harris is the cantatrice moat in favour for private parties as Mile Kmuss rarely accepts ac-cepts each engagements now Much gossip is going on about the wonder tul portrait that Banuat is painting of Mrs J W Mackay where that lady gives sittings in a lace dress tbat has cost 100000 francs The aumern ry in honor of the memory ol Marie Antoina eWAM very Uigely t attended this year chiefly at a orotest against the cau tea plated prohibition to allow the onapel on the Bjulevard Haussman erected over the spot where the remains re-mains of the unfortunate queen and her husband were interred in quicklime quick-lime alter their execution It is singular to notice how many of the f k J kmfaf TI I j 11IJ ladle VTfo rlo ladies I ma e up to recall e poor queen Indeed a kind of cutte exists for Marie Antoinette who was too most queenly of queensladies sees to perpepuate in their visage their carriage their haughty gracefulness and their manner some euovenira ol thai sovereign Tbe Eoapreaa Euge nie since she was a girl had such an end for aim and when EbB ascended tne throne she collected all the relics obtainable of Marie Antoinette the Tri non was her favorite pilgrimage ehe refurtiahed that villa borne to recall the fresh gaiety and exqiisite eleRances of her mtjesty Zolaa new romance PotSow tile is appearing in the Gauloiy toe story is based on adultery among tbe middle classed for it appears the de ulonue has different manners of being via latedbe intenls to draw no conclusion i conclu-sion evidently leaving tbe reader to deduce such himself as in tbe cap of the Assommoir and like that wk too it will painted with brutal tIc r ity Moliere described otukoid but bands as grotesque later 8fJCipty viewed them as dishonored to dav they are regarded simpiy as deceived In the brilliant and corrupt sooietv ot tbe eighteenth century a faithful couple ware regarded as a laughingstock l laughing-stock Joli appears to lay down that in the upper classes adultery is i cynically winked atand in the lower does not seem to count it is only in the middle daises that the matter becomes tragical On tbe otber hand it is but in the middle classes where the astonishing spectacle is to be wUnestsd of the wiles paramour being the huebaudu bosom friend Is tbe husband aware of Ihs liaison is he blind is be stupid The paramour para-mour gives bis arm to the wife in public while the husband carries her shawl he eats at their table they are sworn friends the wile alone remains re-mains aspinx between tbe two Ail this situation forms the clou the pivot of hundreds of plays Bat what passes in the hearts of such three personages is what Z JIll intends in-tends to lay bare 1 One of the longest and most wearisome weari-some streets in Pans is the rue de Oharonne miles It wag formerly j form-erly in the country In 1758 Lou a de Bourbon Comte de Clermynt fought a battle tbere and was beaten by order of the court ne followed the plans of the boudoir general Morta gue Meeting the latter alter being beaten be said Wny general I could have made a plan as good as yours myself alone Vaucanson the celebrated mecanioian later occupied Montagues mansion and constructed there his famous automatic auto-matic flute player the duck that eat and digested the obese player etc When Marnaontele tragedy of Cleopatra Cleo-patra wad represented Vaucanson manufactured an asp which in climbing and wriggling on the stage hissed After the play a spectator was asked what he thought of the representation I am of the opinion of tbe 59puwbiob hissed Many ladies in high society who were addicted to gambling on cuange as utbre are to chloral or wipe have been ruined by the monetary crisis they drove in their carriages to toe Baurue and occupied a shabby room as an office for a few hours to give and receive orders Their idea of the world was to open the oyster with the sword When Laws bouth Sea buhble burst tbe inhabitants 01 a village outside Paris threw an unfortunate un-fortunate lady into he Marnebeliev 10g the was his wife The fete to honor the centenary of Auber promises like similar funeral ceremonies to be very gay He was 90 when he died out of disgust at the commune for he could have lived bad he eo liked Almost to the hour of his death be worked with the energy of twenty years alleging work to be the best preservative of life He also laid down that no man however ages but retains in a corner of his heart an affection for that music Don Qiovani for example which most pleased him at he close of his teens Adele Page bat been humbly buried an old woman aged 60 she was the Musette in the vie de Boheme a play dear to all students She was in her day the prettiest actrica on the stage what eyes what pearly teeth what a laughing face what witHer I wit-Her husband is a moving fiddler in Prague The Theatre Francois wantaaotrioa of talent Since tbe retirement of Mme Favart and the bolting of the grand Sarah tuffs first of playhouses play-houses il i on the decline This hae been illustrated in the revival ol the Demi Monde here the prmcipal rde held by Mile Tnpler was a failure fail-ure she lacks expression and natural interest in hr part The most pitiable creature in France ia elJ to be a young lady belonging to the middle classes without with-out a tortune and consequently doomed to become an old maid |