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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 54, 4 March 1874, Page 2

Melancholy tales (a correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette says) nre told of the amount of suffering in Paris. A journal not interested in making out a bad case says it could name twenty masters who used to employ 500 workmen, and who bow can hardly find work for fifty. It is not only the trade in articles of luxury which id in & languishing condition, but that of the most ordinary articles. The furniture in the Faubourg St Antoine, for example, is in a bad state, and numbers of families are now living on their savings. A large number of workmen have emigrated, but still those who remain behind are more than sufficient. Of course each political party blames the other for this Btate of affairs; the Republicans affect to believe that Liberal measures and the frank recognition of the Republic would make everything go like & marriage bell; and the Royalists naturally retort that what poor widowod, deserted Paris requires is a King and a Ccurt, state balls, and the blue liveries of the legitimate monarch. In a short time Marshal MacMabon will receive at the Palace of Ihe Elysee, but this will be the glimmer of a farthing candle to a capital which requires the sun. As for the nobility and gentry, they are keeping quiet, and the amount of beggars in the street is quite unusual.