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Show Colonel Forsey, in one of h:B recent letters fro.n Paris, says the secret of the reserved wealth of the French their elasticity after disaster are their habits of economy, their excellence as cooks, their temperance and their family attachments. Tuey are impulsive and violent, but their revolutions are liko thumk'r-storms. useful to clear the atmosphere oi bad element?, and (jenarally followed by moderation under whatever rcjime. They are the paradox of nations. They live among themselves and upon strangers at ihe same time, and there is no other caBe in which a pcopie gets bo much money from other people and give so little money in return. They, however, give music, plays, manner, books and costumes freely to others, but they remain the same. They are alwayB individual. They imitate nobody except to make somebody some-body ridiculous. A Frenchman is never naturalized to another country. If Mr. Forney had written Cbine.ee for French, Lis remarks would have aptly applied to tho hated Celestial;' and yet we praise the srne characteristics in the enligUtened race that we detest and censure in the heathen. |