Show i OUR FRENCH LETTER PARIS November 15 The abominable and continued wet weather ought to be very favorable fav-orable to the French revenue the Minister of Finance Tirard who commenced life as a working jewel ler has been tho victim of a sell to the tune of 100000000 francs in the estimates He depended on that excess to work wonders but when looked into io was found to be only one of those fleeting shows for mans illusion given The joke is that he attributed the success to the bad weather then people keep within doors and so must consume that is to say eat drink and smoke more aa antidote possibly against the blue devils The ministry is still in office and that is in itself not a small mailer The deputies are evidently a brown study they are willing to wound but afraid to strike They commence to feel the republie cannot sustain indefinitely the game of ins and outs it has come homo to not a few that the present form of government has lost sway in the sense that public opinion commences to remain coy M Andrieux the late ambassador to Madrid has not HO much discovered as announced this truth and his declaration has created something like a sensation It was that gentleman who as prefect of police executed the decrees for the expulsion of the Jews and he has now made his mea culpa for that act No matter whom the truth may displease the truth is the republic re-public has not had luck since it commenced com-menced dabbling in religious affairs The ministry deserves credit forts for-ts pluck in declining to accept any reduction ot the estimate under the lead of religious endowments Nothing i3 to be gained fey docking of a few thousand francs here and there on the incomes of parish curates I cur-ates or bishops priests and deacons That is only a backhanded way for disfranchising the church Propose Pro-pose the disestablishment formally demanded the cabinet a challenge very correct only the minister declined clined to state wkat his opinion was Gambetta quite right to decree the separation of church and state wouldhe maintains be at the same time to decree the death of the republic re-public Notwithstanding the chamber cham-ber disallowed in one of its sittings over one million of francs forepisco pal services but the next moment it voted the curtailment One returns re-turns ever to this first love The radicals and anarchists keep the town amused politically though lookerson cannot help wishing a plague on both the houses Clemen ceau is making terrible efforts to regain his lost affection with the populacebut that love like life once lost is lost forever Not a meeting he organizes but the anarchists manage to gain admit tance and as their motto islet nothing noth-ing exist they quickly clear tho places of reunion Then the Red Virgin Louise Michel arise She is got rid of by turning off the gas a plan much superior to shying legs of tables and armchairs at her head as at Brussels There is very little dynamite now employed and even the dispatch of threatening letters has fallen to zero Politics so much devour attention that the literary and scientific reunions re-unions that were once so fashionable fashiona-ble and instructive are becoming things of the past Many deputies conspicuous by their impracticable politics make excellent lecturers Louis Blanc Paul Bert c Now such fessts of reason are put aside only polItics pays It is very questionable ques-tionable if literature ba as highly prized or patronized as formerly for-merly certainly there is less enthusiasm for even the drama Good music attracts at-tracts and the diminished receipts at the theatres where buffoonery is the piece de resistance do not unhappily un-happily imply a progress in serenity of manners but rather an indisposi tion to patronize nonsense at a high price because the cafes concerts absorb ab-sorb the audiences which formed the habitues of establishments devoted de-voted to operette and vaudeville The French display another change of character deserving to be noticed Till lately any speculation specula-tion whether home or foreign if well puffed and holding out extraordinary extra-ordinary high dividends was certain to find 901705 now nothing of the kind can even obtain a nibble The resolution appears to be to invest in no scrip or stock but to depend on the old stocking or a hole in the wall as the surest of bankers People appear to believe there is something in the air a financial or political cataclysm that will sweep away banks and projects This want of confidence is telling on industry in the sense that capital cannot be obtained either to extend sound old or install new industries In Paris the dangerous classes never were so rampant The I habitual criminal is at home in the capital There is much demoralization abroad caused by the ceaseless passion to become rich without labor to put money in the pursehonestly if possible And there is but little delicacy and less I scruple about the ways and means No very high standard exists applicable ap-plicable to men with a shady morality moral-ity because the frontier between virtue and vice has been largely obliterated ob-literated The laws are severe enough but then they cannot be fully carried out France wants a penal establishment and it is for this end Madagnscaris 50 much coveted The question too may be fairly raised if the letting loose of 50 many amnestied communists a hungering and athirsting after revenge re-venge has contributed to raise the moral tone of society w Not a light passes but some important im-portant burglary takes place in the citynndwitii a success only equaU II by its audacity One is astounded astound-ed at the completeness and scientific strategy with which some of the robberies are effected and yet there was a time and notlqng since when property and life were safe The robbery rob-bery committed at the offices of the London Chatham and Dover and the Pacific Steam Navigation Companies is the talk of the town Here on full Boulevard des Italiens about 2 oclock in the morning a band successfully entered by the chief door by means of a false key hen forced open an enormous iron safe and carried off 70000 francs the property of Mr Waters who also conducts a banking business while representing the two companies com-panies Much sympathy is felt for the victim while another question arises What is the use of the po lice In Paris the police at night patrol in couples never do they touch a door or a shutter to ascertain ascer-tain if all be well I know this as occasionally meet the bobbies at the sma hours then they are ever talking to each other and suffi ciently loud to warn evil doers Listen to their conversation and the words manger and argent will speedily indicate the subject uppermost upper-most in their minds However the force cannot be more strongly cen sured than what the journals them selves indulge in The expense of living in Paris has doubled within the last fifteen years and the cost tends to augment This is especially the case with house i rent In the heart of the city it is impossible im-possible for a laborer to rent a cock oft to emigrate to the outskirts costs him more than a Sabbath days journey to reach his work and there are no suburban lines that organize an omnibus train for the artisan This very serious state of things bas given rise to an agitation to level the useless fortifications as wag done with the ancient boulevards boule-vards and on their site erect cheap dwellings for the needy and toiling classes Onefifth of the area of Paris or 3500 acresis occupied by a line of fortifications and approaches utterly uselessas was demonstrated ted Dy the invasion 187071 Even in 1831 when the project was presented sented by Marshal Sault for surrounding rounding Paris with a moat he stated the work to be perfectly useless use-less A duel has just taken place out Side of Paris between a French and Russian nobleman conditions pis tols and to fired till either was incapable in-capable of continuing The Rus sian received a ball in the shoulder and another in the head he requested re-quested to be brought homewhich implied a sleeping car insured against fire from Paris to Moscow two surgeons nurses and his valets The royalists bad organized a caucus meeting to aid the immediate im-mediate return of Henri V The letters of invitation set forth the invited was to arrive at a certain i mansion and to ask for M Silence i one of the invitations through error was addressed to the editor of the leading dynamite journal he went mixed with the lords and ladies asked why he was invited stated who he was and promised to give a description of the whole proceeding which he did very humorously His presence was like what Satans would be at a vigilance committee of saints The suicide of Victor Cheri has produced a painful impression in theatrical circles he is a musician and as chef of orchestra led the liveliest and gayest airs of the day Yet he was unhappy even in his smiles and joy His sister was Rose Cheri the celebrated actress whose father dropped down dead on the day of her marriage She died from sucking the matter from an incision made to save her son in the agony of croup and that son when a man died from hydrophobia The wet weather kept the memory memo-ry of Louis Philippe green he maintained no citizen ought to stir out without an umbrella Formerly brides were presented with an umbrella um-brella Camille Doucet the poet presented his friends with one on which was engraved the lines HOn wet days then youll remember me |