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Show ' OUR PARIS LETTER. iKefular Co rejpoDuenca of the IiiLtuj.) Pari?, March 17, 1S75. In returning to the policy laid down by M. Xiiiera in his celebrated mes-sago mes-sago of November, 1S72, that a wise and conservative republic wa alone po&ible henceforth for France, averi-tab:e averi-tab:e revolution Iias been accomplished. accom-plished. Two of hU niinistori even are distinguished riieuihu-ra ol the present I cabinet; equally wonderful, a monarchical mon-archical and reaction! ry assembly has been compelled by the necessity ot events to entrust the administration of the destinies of the country to that rtipublic which ransomed France from Prussia, and liquidated the bankruptcy bequeathed by the col-lapricd col-lapricd empire. Perhaps thia revolution revolu-tion is to be traced to the transformation transfor-mation which hits taken place in the republicans themselves. They no longer resemble their ancestors ol liilii, smitten with absolute maxims, enamored ol grand principles and eloquent manifestoes, disdaining compromises as cowardice, and always al-ways ready to fall back on their ultima ulti-ma ratio barricidcs. Such heroism and extravagance no longer exist; the republic.! ns of l.S7- " roar as gen tly as a sucking dove, they have all learned that violence only becttt reaction, re-action, and that it is wise to take human naturo as it is; to turn ditli-cukies ditli-cukies in order to surmount them; to practice the great art of patience and to leave all to time. The French have thus shown that they are culpable culpa-ble of political education of enjoying liberty, and at once. France may now be entrusted en-trusted with liberty; she demands only from the present transition min-j ietry to arrange tor the gene- ral elections in autumn, and to repress Bonapnrtism, not in private, but in ollicial life. The republic cannot now be cither spirited or intrigued away; the nation entire is iis guardian. The prefects must tor tho future head their letters and proclamations with the word "republic," "re-public," and since all must obey the law, the Bonaparlist press low in hopes and resources, will have to find another designation for their prince, in France, than "imperial." Comte de Chambord is net called Henri V., nor the Comte de Paris, the Prince Royal. Despite the Gregriau calendar, the year commences with sprine; it is from spiing that dates all youthful-ucss, youthful-ucss, all passions, all poetry, all regrets, re-grets, all hopes. For ladies of a certain cer-tain age spring is the limit whoro the last hopes of vanished youth aro interred. in-terred. During winter one can indulge in-dulge in an extreme struggle by ex hausting ait tne ariinces ol painting, but a March sun clears up all lies, and ba files all the prodgiiea of chemistry, chem-istry, and the melting miracles ot periumery and the apothecary. It is necessary in spring for one to decide to have their real age, or as near to it as possible, and the dress maker is appealed to in accents of despair, to exercise all her talent. At the recent steeple chase at Auteuil, it was ttie subject of common observation, that : the fair sex have not come out of the ! vigorous and persistent winter with-i with-i ut serious marks of the SNOW-FALL OF TIME. Another unfailing evidence of the return of spring, is the installation of the weighing machines in the park of St. Cloud. Parisians flock to these in order to ascertain if they have "profited "pro-fited " by the last six months; rnera-ieurs rnera-ieurs desire to know have they necome men of weight, and the ladies if they have acquired that charming embonpoint em-bonpoint which is one of the graces of an Orieutal beauty. The owners of some of these weighing chairs have pmtcd up a tabic of the approximate weights persons ought to have at certain cer-tain ages, in accordance witn natural laws; just as in the mineral water shops a scale of waters is laid down corresponding to one's lustres. A new-born baby ought to weigh it appears ap-pears 5 pounds; a man between 20 and 30 years of age, 9 to 10 stones, and a woman of the same age, from 7 to 8. A subscription ticket, with right to be recorded on a register and weighed monthly during the season, costs one tranc. More marriages have been arrang- I ed this lent, to be celebrated after eaeter, than has ever be?n known in the history of Parisian life. Those two Latin races, the Spaniards and the French, display a mutual weakness, weak-ness, or courage, for marrying and giving in marriage. Hidalgos with the bluest of blood, and titles that would shiver to fragments the trumpet of tame itself to pronounce, are not .above wedding the daughters of the bourgeoisie provided they be rich, i "What a world of yiie ill-favored faults looks handsome in three hundred hund-red pounds a year." FASTING AND PIETY are not the causes of this matrimonial tendency; philosophors attribute it to drawing room theatricals, which have been found, here at least, to be the most powerful weapon in the arsenal oi a Belgravian mother, or a successful success-ful shopkeeper. The malady of private pri-vate theatricals has, during the season sea-son just expired, been as intermittent as colds and influenza; not a drawing-room drawing-room but had screens upon screens, to be as speedily converted into a theatre as an Arab would pitch his tent. Then young people were enabled en-abled by this means to see each other a little more in pantouiet, while enjoying en-joying not a little the intrigues and vanities ot the professional theatres. Ladies ot uncertain age ever sought the youth lu 1 roles, and bachelors of fifty disputed for the Romeo parts. Why not? Firniin. the famous actor, though aged 60, made an incomparable lover and a stage Adonis. The rehearsals arc not the least amusing parts of the performances, and somehow young ladies and gentlemen do prolong nieir ueoaies as to costumes, and making up generally. A well known Russian princess has resolved to give a series of what looks very much like ballets in her Pans mansion next winter; perhaps these will be the prelude to amateur balerincs. Russian Rus-sian theatricals are on the eve of being represented here. There are several openings now in Paris for the ind gent to make a fortune: for-tune: first, to join in the rush of re-'vived re-'vived work consequent on fixity of, I government, or to hang on to the skirts of the great Belgian financier Piiiliippart, wiio never abstains from successful siecu'ation in funds or scrip, except to count up his gains, and lor which, it is said, he employs a Babbage calculating machine; he : is accused of harboring the idea of purchasing tne bank ot r ranee itself J cellars included. To suit different j tastes. BFDEL, THE LION TAMER, ; will give any person 10,000 francs : who wili enter the cage and hold a tete-a-tete with his lions; and the cannon can-non bail performer, who catches a ':b. ball on its discharge from a cannon, consents to pay 3,000 francs in hard cash to whoever imitates him. A journal suggests that regiments of such men ought to be formed as the best solution of the artillery ditlicuHv in battles; the same paper proposes the formation of regiments of strong-minded strong-minded women, excluding all nuns the mother of six children, and ladies who write poetry, Argente, |