Show OUR FRENCH V LETTER Correspondence SALT LAKE HERALD PARIS May 241882 In French politics at least there is no such thing as fair play a blow below the belt is just The voting of the national accounts for the stormy period of 187071 is a case in point Since eleven years they have been kept open and the republicans repub-licans just as well as the monarchists monarch-ists displayed little eagerness to strike a balance as the occasion was too excellent for mutual mud throwing But all things must come to an end ten the case of Jarndyce vs Jarndyce The Chamber had before be-fore it a few days ago the report of the committee recommending that L the winding up act pe applied to the accounts in question and that they do now pass It is believed that De Cassagmic and the reds who more than insinuated Gambetta had grown fat on unauthorized pickings to the extent of some 40 OOOOUO francs at least and who were in their place would have had the counge to repeat their charges I at the tribune aud in presence of Gambetta They did no such thing so G3rn etta had a walkover to the satisfaction of every lover X > f fair play and which result has redounded re-dounded not a little to the revival of his prestige as well as to his honor and honesty And it took him eleven years to live the calumny down The profit and loss account shows the ugly balance now officially stated that the invasion in-vasion cost from twelve to thirteen milliards the loss of two provinces and the disappearance of 300000 men That was one of the big wars which make ambition virtue No certainty no feeling of comfort com-fort exists respecting the Egyptian question The knot of the situation Arabi turns on the removal of paslia Will he disappear to be no more seen The psychological moment mo-ment will be that when Arabi and his party show fight No one here 4 believes an understanding exists tu land either Tars or marines from the allied fleet and France is repugnant repug-nant to the calling in of the Turkish police under any form But if blood be spilt Turkey will certainly interfere inter-fere and the other powers will put in an appearance to keep the ring Bismarck will not be sorry for that kettle of fish The Russians here generally endowed with half a dozen languages to conceal their thoughts appear to be sincere in their aversion aver-sion not as to reopening the eastern question but as to doing so just new Russia is all topsy turvy has no head centre and is growing daily more pinched in her finances A war even a little one in Egypt would divide the French nation as Bismarck could then remodel the map of Europe to make Germany Ger-many the undisputable master of the continent and so rivet Alsace Al-sace and Loraine The government has been put in a minority respecting one of the projects the budget such a misfortune mis-fortune will not affect a cabinet that claims to exist only for the ratification of the wishes of the chamber The reform of the judicial judi-cial bench will not be reformed no more than the concordat will be abolished The country desires no violent changes no jackinthebox legislation The judges will never be submitted to election by universal uni-versal suffrage this system of voting vot-ing to which the republic is united for better for worse is not in the odor of sanctity with liberals in their heart of hearts Having alienated the Catholics by the attempt to separate in the twinkling of an eye church from state the peepoday republicans seem inclined to take their revenge on the Calvinists such can only be the meaning of the proposal to suppress sup-press all chairs of theology which has had for consequence t6 alienate Protestants who think that to have clergymen opportunities must exist to prepare them for their mission If France does not afford these facilities facili-ties Geneva will do so It is the general belief that the republic is committing a grave blunder in riding rid-ing a little rou h shod over the religious re-ligious scruples of even minorities It may be logical to so proceed with the application of the immortal principles but the world is not governed by logic nor the doxy of any single party It ever pays ones health to go to see the Derby run for at Chantilly an early mornings morn-ings walk V through the delicious I de-licious forest all in spring bloom I will prove more fortifying than I quarts of quinine wine or dozens of boxes large or small of life pills I Order your dejeuner in advance and turn down your chair against the table to secure the rights of possession posses-sion if your appetite does not equal that of a Parisian after the siege make your will at once Indeed some people are taking that precaution precau-tion already since m Flammarion has sketched the possibility of our old world disappearing in the flames of the reigning comet If we escape es-cape that catastrophe now we will be free from all danger till AD 20000000 By then perhaps the Emperor of Russia shall be crowned and the Irish difficulty resolved re-solved From a sporting point of view the run for the blue ribbon was robbed of many of its charms by the two favorites losing and the two successful scoring a dead heat Joy was half diminished and sorrow a l moiety lessened The windup consisted con-sisted after arrival in Paris to drive I down the rue Lafayette at neck break speed and up the Champs Elysees as if a company of Zulus were endeavoring to make a pincushion pin-cushion of your body for their peculiar pecu-liar broad arrows The Workmens Congress passes as much unperceived as that of the I Society whose principles are Peace In fact since the antagonistiC conceded not the were workmen that does not existbut rightas the privilege to meet for the dispatch of business the latter has invariably patch turned politics not variably upon upSi shop The wild theories announced an-nounced upon for the regeneration of mankind quickly deprived the reunions re-unions of that practical sympathy and Kindly attention titi hick serious people were inclined to bestow on the proceedings The object was too grave to be treated as a screaming farce eccentricity was as much out funeral of place as mirth at a though Schopenhauer lays down that marriage alone not death is the proper occasion for putting on sackcloth and ashes The speakers at the congress session just closed displayed intermittent sanity as it vii t i used olonrv voted as a weapon tu uc uacu MIUU with revolution the ballot box to destroy capitalists A visit was then paid not in battalions but in single files to the common graves of the heroes of the commune over whom not a stone is raised nor a line carved In the rage which exists for erecting erect-ing statues to forgotten worthies unfeigned pleasure is felt at that on the stocks for Alexandre Dumas pere and that it is hoped will be inaugurated on the 13th of July parallel with the ceremony of the new Hotel de Ville The humorous old sinner himself would be the first to laugh at the coincidence The celebrated Dr Demarquay publicly stated on an occasion that Dumas pere was one of the most powerful auxiliaries to the profession Every invalid was certain to have a volume of the novelist under their pillow To those on whom real life weighed Dumas opened largely the regions of the ideal He conducted them enchanted en-chanted across the most fanciful adventures ad-ventures that ever an imagination produced But note well and meriting mer-iting not to be forgotten in this age of cynicism and indifference never vas a line penned which taught contempt con-tempt of Providence Tn a law suit which is taking place respecting the succession of the Duc de Marshal Berthier property some historical documents docu-ments were handed in among them is one from Frederick William King of Prussia dated June 1812 wherein he expresses his pleasure furnishing furnish-ing an auxiliary corps to Napoleon I to invade Russia and feels certain his braves will prove worthy of the honor of being commanded by Berthier What a change between the then and the now Moneyed gentlemen have their yachts drags journals and private theatricals M Holier has his private pri-vate circus where the troupe of performers < per-formers belong to the upper ten and whose acrobatic agility and clownish tricks might justly cause professionals a pang of jealousy After the performance the guests are served with supper where the artistes appear in character Some feats have been originated and so excellent that the caterer for one of the public arenas desires to purchase pur-chase the right to reproduce them The Jews are uot tohave dealings I with the Samaritans it seems M de Maby is minister of agriculture agricul-ture and Creole represents a colony He has been making a tour through the vineyard districts which have most suffered from the phylloxera The Duchess de Fitziames has displayed dis-played a Joan of Arc energy in repelling re-pelling the new invader morning noon and night she studies the habits of the bug and how to extirpate ex-tirpate it For her campaigns and patriotism proprietors and agricultural agricult-ural societies have voted her medals Well she invited the minister who officially called on her to stop for breakfast for which act of courtesy towards a talented republican and fellowcountryman the creme of society lifts up its hands in horror What next and next M ArseneHoussaye has reprinted his spiritual demand for the admission admis-sion of women to the academy by creating for the most intellectual re presentath e of the fair sextoday perhaps Rosa Bonheur or Madame Edmond Adama special fauteuil No 4U It is said there are already too many old women immortals Many excellent male celebrities had to remain out in the cold some for political reasons like Michelet Dumas was preostracised on account of his pecuniary difficulties Imagine a bailiff coming to seize the roman cier amidst the illuminati to conduct con-duct him to a debtors prison M de Lesseps has been just presented pre-sented with a tenth olive branch and at 78 years of age too The isthmus of Panama canal is a certainty cer-tainty henceforth Brief and expressive ex-pressive epitaph Sic jacet a perfect per-fect defunct |