Show OUR FRENCH LETTER Correspondence of the HERALD PARIS May 10 1882 France is not less horrified than England at the massacre of the high officials at Dublin The respectable and human journals protest against the deed in the name of outraged civilization as might be expected But Rocheforts paper the Intrans igeant that claims to represent Pciruellism and the Cityonne organ of Louise Michel and similar ticket of leave people from asylums see in the crime the justice ot the people j nay morethe latter curiously avows it was prepared for what arrived So much for the Nihilist press We have still the disciples of karat that claim half a million of heads for the guillotine to save civilization The indefatigable M Xaquet has carried with a bumper majority the first reading of his bill for reestablishing re-establishing divorce and that the late Chamber rejected The measure has yet to run the gauntlet of the Senate and may perhaps do so with success Notorious adultery cruelty and desertion will be considered sufficient causes for once Romeo and Juliets to separate if they he allowed to remarry the cause of the adultery will be declared an ineligible party In the case of the divorced wife she will be prohibited from bearing her husbands name but the commission has to decide if she will be legally styled Madame or Miss The late both might solve the riddle M Caillaux is an exminister of public works when member of the de Broglie cabinet he ordered supplementary sup-plementary expenses to the amount of several millions to be expended to complete one of the wings of the Louvre without waiting either for the sanction of the budget commission commis-sion or a parliamentary vote A deputy proposed that he be compelled com-pelled since he is rich to personally person-ally make good this deficit The minister of justice declared he was quite ready to indict but no law existed to condemn M Caillaux hence ministerial responsibility is but a sham Yet the French boast that the world envies their code The postoffice and telegraph officials of-ficials had their annual banqueta family affair devoted exclusively shop and where the postmaster general M Cochery appeared as a simple guest surrounded by his employees em-ployees hobnobbing with them all He embraced one veteran who during dur-ing forty years has been attached to the ambulatory post between Paris and Marseilles and during that period has traveled over 3000000 miles equal to fortytwo times the circumference of the globe M Cochery is very popular with his subordinates he raises their salaries as the receipts of his department augment he makes promotion depend on meritrather an elastic principle and introduces an amelioration the moment such can be demonstrated One of the most crying evils in French jurisprudence is that of preventive pre-ventive arrest Ido not allude to the length of time a prisoner maybe may-be locked up before being tried and such is frequently excessive for a country claiming to be the land of the ee but to the examination of the accused with closed doors and deprived of legal aid by what is styled jugs d instruction or the I police magistrate in other countries Et is contemplated to demolish this iniquity and give the accused every facility to meet the charge ab oVO In the workingmens congresses two real grievances cropped out amidst clouds of lunatic panaceas for making artisans Rothschihls these were the right ef associated workmen cooperative societies in a word to compete for state contracts con-tracts and the necessity of preventing prevent-ing prison manufactured goods from being sold below professional prices The first injustice has been in part remedied the government favoring such applicants in the way of not pressing too vigorously for guarantees from the applicants In all works executed for the state or in the case of houses erected for private habitation not only must the contractor give security for his ability to execute his contract but to make good any bad consequences that might ensue from the imperfect execution of his work during a space of ten years The second injustice in-justice has been met by a decision of the home minister henceforth no branch of industry is to be introduced intro-duced into the prisons without first obtaining his permission and next the articles manufactured are not to be sold except at ruling trade prices to be fixed by experts As to charitable char-itable institutions working at cutting cut-ting down prices the government has nothing to do with them and still less the legislature Some banks that were founded upon and that existed by share and kite flying have burst and a few more financial explosions are anticipated antici-pated before the monetary world can be considered in good health Nothing so easy as to start a bank in Paris some commence even without any capital At Rouen a little ready money is necessary thus a lawyers clerk with 3900 francs set up as a financier in 1871 and finished last year by 3250600 of a deficit but during the interim he led the life of Dives had shooting boxes and commenced building build-ing a castle copied after that inhabited by a fellow Normand William the Conqueror The court sentenced him to eight years rumination over his days of old plus a fine of 100 francsas nothing noth-ing was found in his cash box Gros fell in love with a pretty laundress his senior in summers they kept company for some time became engaged JDulalie changed her mind which necessitated Gros to change his plans from matrimony to throwing vitriol in her face at a public ball where they danced while she was dancing with another Gros poured vitriol into her glass of wine and then threw it in her face j the acid left some scars for which he has had to pay 1000 francs and go to prison for four years There is nothing exceptional in the crime of Baraquin than his having chosen the field of Waterloo to inter his mistress after having murdered her With her jewels he raised the means to return to France and to purchase revolvers daggers and whip cord to assassinate the wealthy cattle dealers deal-ers Agriculturists and vineyard proprietors pro-prietors are nervously counting the days till the 17th be past that date will see the expiration of the reign ot the tune rousse or the May moon so full of danger for infant crops and flowering fruits Up to the present pres-ent all predicts a year of plenty but oue clean night and a sharp frost can destroy hopes The fruit trees ale covered with magnificent blossoms blos-soms each apparently trying to surpass sur-pass its neighbor in loveliness Great complaints now that the season has finished and that we have entered the months without the Rs are made of the scarcity not of that necessity but of that luxury oysters the beds on the shores of France are next to exhausted The cause is attributed to the abuse of the dredge in the channel A welcome wel-come visitor from Africa has arrived the quail whose cry though monotonous is not displeasing in a summers evening It means the country and fresh meadows for a few of the latter exist in the suburbs Indeed a real vineyard can be witneseed any day in the heart of the capitol Among all the puzzling questions that migration and Africa suggest is to explain how such a heavy shortflying bird as the quail reaches us from the interior of Africa The most exciting drama of the I moment being represented is the I Voleuse d Enfants in five acts It enables Mme Laurent to appear in her favorite character of Sarah Waters who by profession is a child stealer She is consulted by a noble lord who is childless how he can obtain a little girl to adopt Sarah promises to execute the order and hands over her own daughter Then she indulges in a thousand disguises to try and discover where her child is This leads to an exhibition of London high and low life the Seven Dials Cremorne and Rotten Row It is the protean role of Mme Laurent j that fills the house and brings it I down M Legoure is an academician certainly cer-tainly ot a useful type He does not write books but lectures on everything and everywhere Many object to this but it is practical and useful He has popularized the idea that the best way to learn to speak correctly is to cultivate the habit of reading aloud this also necessitates neces-sitates listening and so leads to thinking and remembering His latest hobby is advocating writing from dictationonly a recent innovation inno-vation in French schools be it said en passant as a powerful means to induce habits of study He admits that children and uneducated adults lave often their attention cap i tivated when spoken to about subjects sub-jects they do not fully understand because they seize the subject with their imagination before their intelligence intel-ligence During the seige of Paris M Legoure contributed to feed his blocked fellowcitizens by delivering deliver-ing a series of humorous lectures I with the catching title r Moral Alimentation Ali-mentation Madame Scarron when unable to supply her guests with a dish overcame the difficulty relating a good story Ballooning becoming as favorite a sport as horseracing and boating not a Sunday but there is one or two balloon parties A gentleman left on Sunday night the gingerbread ginger-bread at Yincennes at 11 oclock with a quantity of boxed electricity for night illumination and to execute exe-cute optical signals with the earth After he rose nothing was seen or heard of him till the following morning when he descended in the south of France his optical baggage round his feet and tke electricity on his back Thecry haro was an old Norman custom existing down to tle close of the last century The person who indulged in the exclamation did so to attract the attention of justice and to decide immediately a contested con-tested right When William the Conqueror was being buried at Can the moment the coffin was let down a peasant cried Tiaro meaning that he had claim to the ground selected for the grave and that the deceased had seized The clergy admitted the claim and gave a compensation of sixty SOUSe Carolus Durand refuses 8000 francs for his Christ in the Tomb it cost him four years work 50000 francs are demanded Witnesses can now be hired by the day in Paris Reflection by a gouty Philosopher During the first half of our life the wine mounts to our head pending the second moiety it descends to our feet |