PARIS.

Southland Times, Issue 1281, 19 July 1870, Page 3

PARIS.

OPEOM OUR OWN COBBESPONDEtfT.) May 21, 1870. The Chamber of Deputies has examined the official returns of the vote of the Bth of May, and the plebiscite, when " decomposed," as the French say, represents "Yes," 7,330.142 ; "No," 1,358,825 ; " Null," 112,875. These are the figures which go down to history. The Deputies cheered the verdict with Vive VJSmpereur — the Irreconcileables with Vive la nation — in. which the Imperialists might heartily join. The result will be formally presented to his Majesty with every solemnity, when Napoleon will deliver an "utterance" — now but secondary, since his Cabinet does this part of the governing. Napoleon has seven friends for one foe; and that huge voting machine — the nation — will be content to grind Partant pour la Syria rather than the Marseillaise. The days of barricades have vanished, and it is to be hoped the authorities have preserved an overturned buss, a few white blouses, and such revolutionary paraphernalia in the National Museum, for future generations to smile at. Public opinion desires to finish quickly with the pending trial of the conspirators — with Baudry, who wished to kill the Emperor, but couldn't — with the artists of the bombs to blow him up, along with half the city — with the pierate of potash — press--with the entail of hard times and arbitrary laws— with those who cry hosannas inthe morning, and crucify in the evening. There ire legal abuses to be remedied — the heritage of days before the Empire ; there is -stability to be founded and cultivated as a^ religion ; patience to be preached, and T the Jkria Jraneese to be restrained. The Opposition, instead of being obstructure, must become constitutional ; the shibboleths of '93 exchanged for the " whole duty of^man " of 1870 ; and the violence of party passions cease to resemble the Bourbons — who learn nothing and ; forget nothing. A witty French lady classified her eountrymeh as "cat-men" and "dog-men," which exactly describes the patriotic politicians. Outside the Buonapartists, all other parties have been black-balled bj the national vote just concluded. The Ministry has been so occupied accepting the resignations of some of its members, and appointing successors, that the march of the projected reforms is slow. The new Foreign Minister, the Duke de G-rammont, is the strongest of the pew crutches received by the Cabinet. He is popular, belongs to the old aristocracy, and is a conscientious diplomatist — his only fault being that be speaks his mind. He is a man of giant stature, compared with the dwarfish dimensions of his colleagues. He has seceded from the Legitimist party — but this is not a cardinal crime among a people where "Manners with fortunes, humors turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times." His first entry into public life was the severe punishment he gave to two laborers, who shouted, " Down with the rich" as his carriage rattled along. '* He descended, challenged his insulters to box, and showed how the rich can in that way also put down the poor. As ambassador at Vienna, he was much esteemed ; but then the Empress Elizabeth has thrown her cap at the Prince Imperial for her daughter, and seems to be engaged in a tie race with her sister-in-law, the Queen of the Belgians, who has also a blooming princess blooming in her teens. Hence the French ambassadors at both courts are very popularr-motive, " The Eape of the Heir." From Borne, the French bishops have forgotten the transcendental importance of infallibility, to urge their clergy to chant a Te Deum in honor of the success of the plebiscite — the least that could be expected from a state clergy, for the hand that protects and nourishes them. The Democrats need not feel sore at this proceeding, for if they had their loved republic to-morrow,- the same shepherds would be the first to chant the Surtum Gorda. Flourens mapped out the assassination of Napoleon the Third because he was not appointed successor to the chair of natural history, vacant by the death of his father — 'tis true he denies ever having applied for the post, but the circumlocution office has found his demand for it in a pigeon hole. Another noisy Bed took to sedition because he was not made an officer in the Movable National Guard - r and Bochefort assumed the toga of Gracchus from imperial disappointments. A Frenchman has published a work, to show that his compatriots "sit below the gangway" because they cannot be included among the " governing classes." It is the old, old story— " What makes all doctrines plain and clear P About two hundred pounds a-year ; And that which was proved true before, Prove false again? Two hundred more." Prim is going to Vichy ; possibly as he floats in his bath, sucking a weed, he may solve the Spanish difficulty, which lies rather in making the two ends meet of the national account, than providing a king. If Prim is "to be king hereafter," when Espartero, aged 80, leaves the crown to young Harry, the sooner the better. Anything definite is better than the most glorious uncertainly. The Empress still continues to manifest her aversion to the intrigues of politics, and undoubtedly longs for a lodge in come vast wilderness. Her latest act of charity is the furnishing the poor? girls of France with their confirmation dresses, the want of which deprives the ceremony, in the eyes of the young communicants, of its intrinsic value. The sudden death of General Goyon, in his carriage, en route for the Senate, deprives the Second Empire of a faithful sermteur. The General was suspected of Orleanism, which but increased bis zeal for Napoleon. He loved to be known as an aide-de-camp to his Majesty. It was in Italy, particularly at Borne, that he

distinguished himself. On one occasion he informed Cardinal Merode, the Pope's Minister of War, that he would box his ears, only he respected the cloth. In 1848, in the June insurrection, he commanded a light dragoon regiment, which sabered so gently — but completely — the insurgents, that his troopers were ever afterwards known as " Goyon's young ladies." When a lieutenant, his room was made up by a charming maid, named Anais. One evening on returning he found his room locked — he burst 'open the door, and stumbled over a jupon and a helmet. Striking a match, he found his bed occupied by a trooper and Anais, as happy as Don Juan and Haidee, who " Sustained his head upon her bosom's charms.' Beside the bed was the lieutenant's bottle of brandy emptied, and his meerschaum, recently smoked. He awoke the soldier— told him he turned his blind eye to the catastrophe, and dismissed Anais. Tears passed on, and one evening the lieutenant, who had become general, was introduced to a brave captain and his charming wife, who formerly occupied his bed. - Nice has just supplied us with a terrible drama. A young gentleman, poor, but of respectable position, was in love with the accomplished daughter of a Parisian librarian. Their means they considered were not sufficient to enable them to support, when married, that state of life in which it had pleased God to call them. They resolved to die, and in death not to be divided. Setting out one afternoon from Nice, with a bottle of laudanum, a cane sword, and a revolver, they selected a romantic nook to die. Mile, hung up her white jupon on a tree to enable their bodies to be found. They drank the poison, hut it failed to kill, and wakening in the middle of the night, it was resolved to end the pain by the revolver. The young lady begged to be shot, but not to disfigure her features. It was done, but she lived to tell the tale. Her lover, after firing upon her shot himself in the heart. At Nantes, during the late voting the number of rioters arrested at one of the military outposts was far greater than the soldiers, and escaped as soon as apprehended. Pending the arrival of reinforcements, the officer, to mark his " quarry," ordered all the buttons to be cut off the clothes of the prisoners as they were brought in, - - The Sappel is one of the several rabid organs of the Opposition. Having stated that the military were compelled to vote as the Colonels wished — which the 40,000 votes against the Empire, by the soldiers, but too seriously proves the contrary — a corporal waited upon the editor to demand such a calumny to be withdrawn. The brave soldier "was unceremoniously pushed out of the office, receiving at parting a kick " Just in the place where honor's lodged, As wise philosophers have judged." He re-entered, seized some three of the editorial staff, and threw them out of the window, adding somewhat—" That it was a way we have in the army." The weather has become so suddenly hot that all Paris is flying to the country or the sea-side. The theatres are being emptied for the advantage of open air concerts — very attractive and always agreeable. For many families to go to the sea- side is a work equal to a positive emigration —it puts the Boulevards almost in mourning. It is the pain of separation that causes several circles to pull down all the blinds and evidences of life in the front of the house, to lead a squatting existence in- the back premises, with a few square yards of a garden, and a couple of sycamore trees, ! to remind them of such a thing as the vegetable kingdom. Even when others take to the open country, they must ever be in sight of the towers of Notre Dame, dress and live as at Paris. The mountain must come to Mahomet. The bourgeois loves -flowers, and the garret window, with a few flowers, gives him all the transport of a botanical garden. It, is the manner of viewing the delight that gives the pleasure, as the^ Hidalgo, when the cherries served at his dessert were small, was provided with magnifying glasses to correct the defect. Co-operative societies are very general in France,' and are daily extending. The latest has been founded by some " monks of the (cork) screw," who have for object the provision of wine and brandy cheap, plentiful, and good. Even in begging there is novelty; a vagabond has just been arrested for; soliciting alms- in the public streets, a privilege only allowed twice a year, when the maim, the halt, and the blind — so afflicted for the. occasion — reap a golden harvest. The Monsieur in question "'was dressed most respectfully. He informs a " kynd public" of his having seen better days, laments the degradation of levying an income tax on sympathisers, takes off his hat, leads, the subscription by putting therein a two-franc-piece, hints his objection to the "smallest contribution will be thankfully accepted" doctrine, and after the silver shower, " skedaddles" to fresh fields and pastures new. One of the leading doctors of Paris has come out with a pronunciamento against the wearing of kid gloves. He finds that the tips of the fingers, " where the bright waters meet," the arterial and venous blood becomes indurated, ulcerated, and heaven knows what besides. He counsels the children to avoid this mode, as their elder sisters ought tight stays. Death, rather than be unfashionable, will be the reply. A celebrated doctor— Carabus — has just died. He was "medicine man" to the operas, and certified, at the 12th hour, when an artiste, was indisposed, such as Patti, Nilsson, &c. On one occasion he left a model of a prescription. The waiter of the cafe" where he habitually resorted to play chess, asked ' him to visit his mother, who was dying. He left his game, saw the patient, prescribed " rest and beef-steaks" on a scrap of paper, which was a bank-note for lopofrancs, Bemember poor Goldsmith's

pills, a score of sovereigns in the orthodox box, to be taken as required. A teetotaller lectured us the other evening, and among other flowers of eloquence, observed that " red noses were the light-houses in the ocean of life, to warn us against such rocks as brandy, absinthe," &c. It is the custom in France for all editors to attach their names to their writings. As r a,proof of their obliging disposition, • a deceased editor appends his signature to an article three days after being interred. What greater proof need be demanded of the power of the press ? It resuscitates, if it kills. Nil novi tub sole. :'■''■