PARIS.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1475, 8 November 1872, Page 2

PARIS.

fFEOM OUS OWN COBBESPONOENT.J' August 10. Bazaine's comfortable house of deten-~ tion in one respect is likely to resemblethe Bastille—that of the inmate beingforgotten when imprisoned. There is a& little of exact knowledge known as to what is going on respecting his trial*, as about the Alabama process. Bazaiue like Napoleon 111 has in a sense, dropped out of the public mind.. The Red jour* nab assure us,, that no matter what length of time he ■' may be under arrest,. that will not prevent his being dealt with, in the only way he deserves; that Communists were shot months after receiving* their sentence, for loving liberty, not wisely but too well. The condition of the army is excellent; if the masters'*, eye makes the horse thrive, the vigilanceof M. Thiers will never allow the mill? t ar y —officers above all—to fall into the* decadence which marked them under thelate empire. Chateaubriand observed,. " France is a soldier "; in addition to-: making an army of soldiers, M. Thiers will not the less develop them as men. He is resolved that his reign shall not beM twenty, years of feebleness, with a. moment of strength misapplied," as was, said of Louis XVI, and while desiring it shall be peace, that it shall notresemble hi 3 ex : majesty's which was-, only so because the emperor knew nothing about war. The appointment of general Chanzy to a regional command,, secures employment for the first... soldier in France;. side by him. may be ranked Faidherbe. As an. honest man*. Marshal Macmahon cannot be surpassed. Paris has seen hotter days than she has just experienced.. In August 1705, people dropped dawn dead in streets—like flies; the thermometers, burst; the leaves of the trees descended; like the cinders of burned paper ; eggs> were cooked in the sunshine ; linen if;' exposed was scorched. The inhabitantsafter sun-set came forth from the cellars,, and turned fire in so-far as. imploring that the god of day would veil his face for a while. The city not, quite so full,, since the Hegira set in for tne fields and the sea side ; but now ii, the pleasantest time to enjoy Paris; in, another three weeks the return stampede will set in. Everything continues to bo very dear; the heavy taxation, cheerfully borne, accounts for this; therestaurant keepers have become most extortionate, and their prices will drive many French men to quit them, and try 44 all the comforts of a home." It would! seem that since M, Thiers has imposed a tax on " metals," that hotelkeepers make us pay it for the use of their pots and: pans. The Acadamy has distributed the annual prices for virtue, the proceedings were uuusually tame; the most interesting recipients were two French niggers,, who were once slaves, but bought their freedom and remained attached to theirmasters all the same, and succoring them when fortune frowned. The prospect of being roasted on •' Plant amour's day," the sth inst., and being converted into a highly gaseous body in the twinkling of an eye, without graduating by the millenium for a better- world, did not affect, muudaue matters; the day being very wet led many to believe our sphere was* about disappearing by a flood, rather than; being purified by fire, it is prudent not. to halJoo till out of the wood. l)t Plant-

amour thinks the comet may not arrive till the 10th, so that there is a few days left for one to will their goods to the poor, and hand over all their interest in the new French loan to the clergy. They laugh best who laugh last. Jules Favre, the most despised of men, is about takSig an action against the foreman of the jury, who informed the judge, that he and his fellow jurors objected to hearing Jules Favre advocate any cause, and especially that strange one confided to him—the defence of a woman for supplying bread-stuffs to the enemy during the war. It is uuaccountable that so able a man as Favre will not bow to the repulsion his name excites, and retire from public gaze. He has tasted to the full the intoxicating joys of popularity : he was once adored as a god ; as a party leader multitudes accepted every word he spoke as gospel; now they crucify him. His private character, that he himself revealed has not been blameless, and counts. i

The due d'Aumale is not going to enter a Trappist monastery, as so many French noblemen do when broken by the trials of life or disgusted at its pleasures. He deeply mourns his last and only son, the dnc de Guise, while bitterly recalling the death of his other child, the Prince de Conde ; and though having become silent and strongly religious, the duke will not forsake political life. France no more respect 3 the competing dynasties now —and rarely doing so since 'B9 is the difficulty for monarchy to hold on — than she does the contents of the Sovereign's Museum just broken up —after so much care bestowed to bring the real brie a brae together. (to be continued.)