OUR PARIS LETTER.

Evening Star, Issue 4256, 17 October 1876, Page 4

OUR PARIS LETTER.

'. . '■.". • ' ■'■'..' August 6. ' .80 long as the few makers in this country the lawbreakers, it is useless almost j Reaching up respect Constitution to Ifihe imajses. ; Manners ever; descend firpm ! a P° v e, .One of the. unhappily tco many ini stances of these remarks, has just been ; afforded by the Minister of War, a fuuetionary for whom much can be>said for and ; a K a i n st». a^ : General deCidSey-is an industrious official, of the second order in point' j of talent, .In January last he adopted an j innovation for tfie, staff .officers which involved an expenditure, of over three million fran.-*s r and put ttyer decree into effect without even first obtaining; the authority" of the Chamber for the expenditure. The Budget Commission declined to allow thiß highbanded practice,., so when the Minister of War ha<t stated; he was wrong, and would sin no more, the Commission voted the sum, less a deduction, to.guard its omnipotence. The Republicanshave not only thus asserted the controlling power of the Chamoer. of! .Deputies, but have secured the good wishes of, the officers-rwhat perhaps some calculated they would sacrificei "_ A very singular murder has occurred at Brest. A naval barber had on a visit with him some months since an old chum> who was married .and the father"-of three children. This chum seduced, the barber's daughter, ;-jfiid'' the /knowledge of her "jbeing ericiente came taTuef fathers.ears. The father kept the matter to himself, and When his friead arrived,.as usual, to be shaved, ignorant that his misconduct was no longer a secret, the b •rber.severed "the fcelucer's head from • his body razor. .'.,!••■: :.f The promulgation of the law directing the holding of the 1878 Exhibition has taken 'tftrfte posters.- ' : ' ®ie police prohibit the"public from going to sleep on.toe seats before lie 'monkeys' cage in the Zoplpgival Gardens.'.. They must gq home'rind sleep,- and thus allow seats to be occupied by those who want really a few minutes' repose. A very remarkable society has, within the' last few years, come to the front, and may now be ranked as a success ; it is called th« . FWh G^entrale" of Fine Arts applied toindustry. The object of the S ciety is to workmen in art; by placing at their disposition a library connected with industrial .fine-art,' as Well aB specimens of worfa.to be studied. The Committee, for & f VV**?* undertaking, as weU as the, the Society,,: is composed of aitistes, theloversoi the bekutiful, andth« admu-ersof pure French, taste, desirous' H industrial 'art at its highest exhibiting periodically it productions. It irthils that 350 exhibitors now display marvels ,pf their skill in the 1 Pahtce ;„of _Injiqßtiy in the Champs! Elysee*. What 4 multitude of charming things: it would require columns to alone enumerate: glass: oorcejain, bronze, -lace, marquetterie,; m<waics, artificial fipwers;&c,' There is a basket of flowers carre'd in wood that cost »the, workman, M, Tangs, two years' labor, .m*sm§ Tt rt- A.M. Charleux exhibits, in 11 * alr Wpik, a tableau, representing a the Jate inundation of the beine. The coffin is placed npon a boat, ?S& |; w P maD » holding. an infant on her knees, weeps bebide it; while some men, kneeling in the water, look at the sad cortege as it passes by. There.are twenty-, rooms allocated to a retrospective exhi-' bition of'caipets, from the celebrated manui facturing centres of Europe; wherein whole i ''pages' of history are' set forthi as well as •copierof faihdijS' paintings and well-known monuinefita.-" ••■•■• . ••n.-'-, .- i 1