OUR PARIS LETTER.

Evening Star, Issue 4075, 18 March 1876, Page 1 (Supplement)

OUR PARIS LETTER.

January 22. Some buzzing can still be heard around the Marshal’s last—message. The Monarchal journals are not in love with it, hence it cannot be bad for the Republic ; while the Republicans accept it with the thanks generally extended to the smallest contributions. Taking it for all in all, they hope not the less never to look upon its like again. The Marshal wouM have become the nation’s darling, had he said to his Unpopular minister Buffet: “I love thdfe, Cassio, but never more be officer of mine.” As the clergy are now bound to pray for the Government, it is to be hoped their prayers may be heard' that the Cabinet may not go to pieces before St. Patrick’s Day in the morning,. when he shall have a brand new legislature. The union of the Ministry is as necessary for its foes as for its friends, for two months at least. Hence the great value of Macmahon’s proclamation* where Ministers, wn. able to agree on mundane questions, are transported to empyrean regions, where they can be of accord. This is a convenient region too, where, hs Polonius, all can see what they please in the clouds. What M. -Buffet discovers as anti-social, M. Dufaure will view as anticonstitutional—both will be very like a whale. When they do agree upon the stage, their unanimity is wonderfub—One half of the ministers are favorable to applying the official screw during the general elections ; the other moiety publicly ’protest against using the screw at all. Jh this case of house divided against itself, the unfortunate official candidates will march to the poli,like sheep t> the slaughter. The Prefects do, not know what saint to pray to, as M. Buffet, their chief, will be a nullity before the ides of;. March. In the meantime, ' the Republicans march from success to success. Their poet laureate, who. ought to be Victor Hugo, might borrow the expression. Boueau addressed to Louis XlV.;—“Cease -to conquer, or L must cease to. writenothing can be more loyal and more explicit than their manifestoes ; they invite the monarchial candidates to attend public meetings and explain' their sentiments; , unbosotn themselves: among friends.; - These invitations are ever declined, sometimes with, but oftenen without thanks. Even those reputedfearnots, the Bonapartists, keep 'shy of this preliminary “ appeal to the people.’' l The ‘Figaro,.’ which printed oh Sunday week the concocted article which brought, about the ministerial crisis, has published, on- Sunday last an h J supplement, with ah obscene sketbh "that clearly falls within the provisions ,of Lord Campbell’s Act. Yet' snch ( is the vehicle for working a cabinet ihtrigue,! As was to be expected, the Municipd CoUhcil of Paris has next to unahimOUsly chosen * Victor. Hugo to represent (Paris in the forth-» conjing election of the. Senators 5 ooadiutor delegate is Mi Spoiler.- the able df : ■ ill .l-ii'is 3.0 5.',0

ing the most Conservative journal inFranc*. • In the mutual admiration oemnony- xxmnected with the presentation, of, this certainly great honor to Htigo; the old poet ex- " pressed his gratitude for * * beingohosen to represent Pans, the City of capital which expresses resolution by sation, and which among all citieshwhewSr caused the human miiid to take a Bt«pdh ■ ■ arrear,” he feels in himself how'the * v ßohl : of Paris, which is the soul of civilisatioh?' He may be trusted to plump forthe rephblican Senators, one of whom will be himself. ■ Only think twenty-four yean ago • f ailJl lerien till Napoleon 111. perfected his ments for exiling the intellect and retpOctfi-' bflity of France. In revenge, Hugo cate ! i& —as well as the author of the “QoupD'MaP* ■ —his “ Chdtimenta" It is uncertain judgihg of the future Senators by the delegates nominated by tbeMay oralties; there are 38,000 of the latter in France. On the first bradbu they are apparently very favorable to thb Republic. The plan of oahdidate Seinaton enclosing them photographs to the elecron is spreading. The Due de Broglie no necessity of resorting to thw meaiis ot making himself known. France dbes net forget him, and, alas! never will. Hismahl-. festo is an amalgam of the bombast, and vanity that ephemeral and lamentable accession f'to power. Happily he is «6W "ddtoi the dead men”—and there let him lie£ rlv .‘ The grand Royalist pilgrimage to PaTay* le-Momal on the 21st January, the anniversary of the execution of Louis XVI., will not come off. ‘ The Pope had given his blessing in advance to the movement, bht lib appears the Government exercised a *v«toV H eiwh parly were allowed to crack up 1 it# adherents on every, red-letter ‘ day in thOir calendars, Frenchmen would be ever oh/ttiS road to shrines, Which would be the shbrain; •cut to each other’s throats. ' ‘

Visitors ,in wooden shoes will npt.be allowed to enter the galleries of the Louvr& • The noise was found to he too much for* the students; their clogs are hot in their, place on waxed floors—although we be in full public. The authorities ought to hire put slippers with the catalogues. The representation given at the Porte-Saint-Martin Theatre, with the object of securing funds to raise a statue in Paris to ; Lamartine, has been very successful. It was a Republican ft t; the principal artistes of the ■ city contributed their services, chiefly in sihg* ing or declaiming elegant' extracts from the ’ works of the eminent poet. Better than all this, and what the public most relished,* was y a cawserie on Lamartine, by that Prince <a cauaeun, Ernest LegouyS, who, to lus severe i academic look, joins good hiunor, and, keen : observation. Knowing LamartmepersonaUy,' he was ableto relate some new anecdotes. lt is thus we leam that Lamartine had the weakness to consider himself an architect* a vine cultivator, and an economist—the latter not in the sense of saving money. “At a distance one admired Lamartine j when near ' one loved him.” M. Legouvd does not ■ ■ him above Hugo as a poet; the latter sings the sufferings and hopes of Lamartine chanted only ms own passiohs and Siefs. But he is superior to deMusset. The tter only celebrated love in its closehess tb 1 - vice. There is not the portrait of an honest woman in all his works;; on the other luumL Lumartine mixes in his writings loye aim faith. In his garden at Saint Point, Lamartine had erected a colonnade displaying ait order of architecture as original as that in the Tower of Babel. “ Fifty years hence,” he observed to his visitors, “ people Wul come to admire that structure when iay poetry will be forgotten.” Lamartine very extravagant, and on one occasion, when ■ his property had been seized by the bailSte, 1 he called in a brother poet, dying in miseiy, ■ ■ and gave him asoofr, -note, all the money he possessed. It'was his voyage in the East that pecuniarily ruined mm- Lamartine once shut himself up for some, days, to complete a senes of calculations, having for result to break the bank of a gambling house. As a matter of course the bank broke him, and cured hinot ■ of gambling at the same time. - One *day during his three months of power, in 1848, he governed by eloquent words. The people invaded the : Hotel ,de Ville and demanomdf his head; “ I wish, it would please Godtb place it on all your shoulders,”. was his reply, and the crowd laughed. At a recent annual ball, given by the gußd of footmen and ladies’ maids, one of the, latter was' waltzing with the delight of nejr heart; the partner slily glanced' at flier shoulders, very fair and very bare. “Oh,” she replied,“ the fault rests with 'my mistress, as I selected the least of her low-bodied robes.” ‘ '> •.' , \ - An extraordinary case of sflfm.ftfting 1 been disposed of. The clerk of a tAWwipy office one afternoon went out to wait inth his young wife, the latter wearing, a yuan Scotch shawl,. On passing a large drapers shop, the assistant and tenter, standing at' the door,' invited 'them to step in arnTnuy something more. They replied they wanted nothing, and passed on. They wore followed, nowever, by the shopmen, who,' after an hour’s dodging, palled a policeman and gsve them into custody for stealing, the shawl. The policeman cautioned him about the .gravity of the charge, which was persisted in. The young couple were arreqtecL : conveyed to the police office,. detained somehours,, and ultimately liberated on bad.! They took' an action for £,ooofrs. against the proprietors of the shop, who repnmated the assistant oh account of excess ofs -eal. . The I jury awarded, but 500fe.. damages. At. Mohs, Prince Chimay, who is Governor, of Hainaut, has - erased from his list' p£ invitations to his official ball,' all person* who have been, married civilly,, but notby r the church. The Prince forgets that hpJe a public functionary, not f private, mop yidnal, and his intolerance ohght to be fined to the latter.,, : Hpweyer, XHtnuntih-* I time feeling runs High m-' Beljiniins, TK«‘ sister, the Princess de Bauffremont has Wn ■ lessconsideratp .for the Church, asjshe flies’ ilh its face .by remarrying, though separated , from her French husjband, and graduates in ■ .Germany to bp able to -effect a' mm ma*> 'riage. In the latter case, an old ;lpver ,waa in question, and the Greek Church Mwwed the union—no other Church being] During : the late severe weather,. ihn Omnibus; Company had to expend Lotn 19,000 Kanes. The French Transatlantic Company.‘has - been so ponspicuous .within the last two yearn. • in the. lqss..t)f ships, break downs, and mis-, 4 fortunes qf ‘all, spris, ,that a GoveriimimtinU quiry has been ordered to investigate ib»: affairs. , , The vine bug; known .as ' c threatens to destroy allthe ' France.. Chemists and S