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Show OUR PARIS LETTER. DIS.OLCTIO.V OF THE AS.-EM11LY TAXATION TAX-ATION M. TUIEltii THIS WIaN-E CKOr THE SONS OF CRIl'iN MUSICAL VEPBAII.LFja M1cCEI-L.VNF.OU3. (Uuralftr Correm ondoDioof tho IIkiuli;.) . Paejs, October 27. Thnt groat moribund, the afiaeiubly, is at tho last extremity; all the doctors doc-tors liavo given tho patient up. Yet there is & rinsH of Badness even over the desired extinction. Ha existence recalls that wo have added another lustre to our life; and confirms that parliamentary ambition is but vanity and vexation of spirit. Not a celebrity has been produced in the French assembly during the nearly five years of its feverish existence. Tho village Hampdcns roturn to the obscurity from which they have been dragged during "a day of misfortune." Their friende and admirers believed they were destined to right the limes which wero out 'of joint, but see their role (hushed and their prestige gone. Since 1870 France lias only developed not produced Thiera, and converted Gambetta to toryism. ;It' ia' with j something akin to a fellow feeling,! that threw- four tha of the deputies will exhibit their regrets in the annual JiHoof the dead on the eve of commencement. com-mencement. The revenue could not be in a more satis fac Lory 'shUe. The yield of the indirect taxes ending the 00th of September, shows an augmentation of seven per cent., as compared with the similar nine months of last year. No revolutions need be expected when, as this result shows, peoplo are living comfortably and making money. The three pretenders united could not outdo this prosperity, which a journal jour-nal in a tit of enthusiasm almost, thanks God, baa become evident,' before the clergy commence to formally for-mally pray once a week for the safety, honor and welfare of the republic.-Tho republic.-Tho financial prosperity of France is not accidental, as will eoon be illustrated, illus-trated, when Hie new assembly commences com-mences Lo permanently arrange the taxation ol the country, by primarily abolishing several of the transitory imports. There-entry of 51. Thiers on the political scjne, adds a new clement of complication to the existing disarray of parties ami opinions. His return can only do good, as he remains, as lie has been since the war, the man of the situation. lie is notorious for upsetting ministries, but he will have no occa:iLjn lo expend much ability to overthrow tho existing cabinet, that since some lime has upset itself. . No matter which of tho two systems of electoral districts be adopted the department or the arronui?3emenl, the republicans may reasonably hope or a working majority in the new chamber, and so the country will al last have a ministry, united by community com-munity of principles, and impressing1 on the nation a programme that will' command not only eupport, but respect. The priming trade never was belter thf.n at present; expiring, as will as candidate deputies, finding newspapers inadequate lo reproduce their fustian, are falling back on pamphlets, which is a positive mercy for the constant reader of a journal. Not a citizen who is about matriculat- i ing for legislative honors, but believes! "the eyes of Europe" are upon him. I The deaths connected with the j making of wine this year are snid to he numerous. The workmen will pr 1 sirtt in falling into the vats while the' wine is undergoing fermentation, and and hence producing suffocating gas. Thowiiic is never rendered un marketable mar-ketable from such accidents. SaiUerne, it is rumored, will not be uf excellent quality this year, because the white grapes refuse lo "rot." This "nectar ot Uie gods," it appears, cannot be made except tiio grapes ho decomposed; "excessively ripe" the polite call it, which imparts delicacy to white wines; makes thorn high perhaps like game or ripe like slilton. The general average quality of wine.i will be excellent tliis season, for there will he much marrying and giving in marriage between distant vineyards. A wine productd in one department is exported to another, and takes a j new name; thus what was inferior1 becomes excellent. In the Chareutc, beet-root brandy, when mixed with fan dc vif, becomes real cognac. The demand is great, and the judges are lew, just us restaurants prepare sauce, according to the more or btss educated tastes of their clients. Provided the cni k leaps and the bottle has tlui label, costing at the aamo time sumo live francs, the contents must be champagne, cham-pagne, whereas were the truth known, potato brandy, pepper, and spirits ol turpentine to mulco tho liquid pearl and cream, arc the favorite ingredients. ingredi-ents. There nre T-10 infants' schools in Paris, ot which Ihirly-nnc are free, nl-tended nl-tended by pupils; the instruc tion aims to make the children nt; quaintcd with the branches taught in flic primary schools, but not more than one-tilth eversueceed to possess even Uiat elementary knowledge. The shoemakers were in the limes ol the guilds, the most important of all tradesmen; they aluno possessed a upcoial chapel in Nntro Dame, dedicated dedi-cated to their saints, Crt'piii and Ciep-inien, Ciep-inien, two brothers belonging lo uu aristocratic family of itome Pa?quiu also hails from tho eternal city 'who ea.nc to Gaul to tnako converts, and practiced shocmaking in order to support sup-port themselves. They suffered martyrdom mar-tyrdom at .Soissens. The tailors who placed themselves under the protection protec-tion of the Holy Trinity, transferred their allcctioti to St. Orepin, However, How-ever, neither shoemakers nor tailorn, displayed much enthusiasm in honor of the anniversary ol their saint a few days ago; a kind of dead march in the f-treel tu hear mass, ami then a fober banquet. During the reign of Henri IJ.1-, a pair of shoes only cost twelve sous; to make theni in horse skin wan not only objectionable, ImL considered' an a want of Inynlty towards tbo king,' who cxpeclid every man to bet a soldier, and hence, well-shod. Tu the KOvenle:e;ilh century there was a 'bro-therhooiof 'bro-therhooiof shoemakers, who bound themselves to hand over all thc'tr sui'-dImm sui'-dImm ciLi-riini'n Lo the noor. ' A good many persons would Vole against piano thumping and orgarj grinding on tho pririciplo that such mtifjic was not exactly the food of love. Tho mayor of Lillu Buppresmis these two instruments in all public places, as they promoto "only idleness And immorality among tho Working pnpulatinn of both sexes." People are n.Uonished at his prohibiting two insieml of all iufdruniontfl. At the felo of St, Cloud, (lancing is often "kept up till a bile hour," the music being pro diced from a muiUon, ti crie-cic, and a tam-luui. For sanitary san-itary reasniiH, piano wiflWj.f should be well watched, which can bo elleetetl without (d-Hlroying m mortals the sen-tinienl sen-tinienl of music. Tim aneienU cured di-caw s by music. Tho (-reeks had :iy;;teniH of niusie to excite anger anil ' mirage, or l-o produce reposo, J'lnto bnnid.md music Irom bis model republic; re-public; so tho mayor ol' Jallo can quoin a respectahln precedent. David calmed Haul with tho harp, and Chiron, did tho sumo for Achillea with the lyro. Thespander, by his musical i voice, ouppresFcd sedition among the Lesbians, and Sir Thomas Moro resorted re-sorted to music, as the best reply to the scoldings of his wife. The town of Versailles continues to resolutely and legally ropol the project pro-ject ot the government for opening a line to connect the new assembly hall with the railway terminus; tho gov-vornment gov-vornment claims to own tho highway intended to bo sacrificed; the municipality muni-cipality of Versailles deny the fact. Tho new and temporary terminus would arrive almost to tho very door ot tbo assembly, ' near Iho elevated portion of tho court of honor, where took place tho ceremony on the death of a king, of tho grand chamberlain approaching a window, breaking his-stall, his-stall, and pronouncing the formula, "the king is dead, long live the king," Before the erection of tho palace a windmill stood on the same height, along Bide it a dram ahop, and where Louis XIII often repaired when hunting. On tho completion of Iht palace, and when surrounded by its architects and his courtiers, Louis XIV tho day was very gusty proudly asked them, "did they remember re-member tho old windmill ?" "Yes, sire; tho mill has disappeared, but the wind remains," was their reply. The charity board derives a sum of 30,000, fr. every year from tho Hale of bones, old crusts, grease, 4c, discarded dis-carded as waste in the hospitals and hospices of the oily. The bones amount to 120 tons, Iho crusts, etc., to sixty, and tbo fat to twenty-five. Tenders aro now invited to contract for theso matters. Tho mayor of a town called Sains, was removed on account of being a republican, by the do Broglio administration; admin-istration; the successor named was an old man aged SO, unable to perform the duties, and also- unwilling, Biuce he has resigned, which resignation will not be accepted hy tho ministry, so the town councilors have no presiding pre-siding he':id. A permanent vacancy is belter than ft competent republican mayor. ' Such is not a bud specimen of how things are now managed.-! managed.-! In Paris, what between tho muphroom increase of tramways, and the propelling of private carriages by tiny locomotives, coupled with now regulations, cabby is likely to be improved im-proved away. The latest experiment with him, is a box fitted lo hia seat, wherein the public is expected to. deposit de-posit the fare. A young man recently opened an humble toy shop, near the line des Martyrs; after a time his reputation spread, that he cured all diseases better bet-ter than the registered practitioner; he accepted no money, but sometimes some-times a small gift. Not only tha poor, but Ihe middle and well-to do classes consulted him. Threatened with a prosecution for charlatanism ho cloBed bis shop, but reopened it next day, as a surgery, Ids name and titles on the door-plate, a licensed doctor. Such was Iho way he secured a practice. AUOEXTl. |