OUR PARIS LETTER.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3524, 12 April 1880, Page 2

OUR PARIS LETTER.

(FBOM OUB OWN COBBMPOWDIKT.)

PjlßH,February26. In honor of the rerolation of 1848, th« Chambers did not meet on the 24th, it it hot stated if the Orleanist princes so faithful observers of family memorial obituaries kept the day all hallowed. With republicans at large, it is viewed as Thanksgiving Day, in honor of the triumph of Universal Suffrage to the author of whieh—Ledru Roliin, a statute is to be erected. Indeed the republicans are running up, tributes to their worthies m if they were a Bonapartist dynasty, seeking sites for statues to family relations, from the frisky queen Hortense, to the free and easy military cardinal priest uncle Fesch. M. John Lemolne, editor of the Debats has been, as was expected, elected a lifesenator: the united monarchists could not muster even the ghost of an opposition against him; henceforth he will pats his life between his curule chair and academic fauteuil, which is better than au office - stool or a passable pullet in Saint-Pelagic, the priion not dear to journalists. His is now immovable, inviolable, and immortal, and in addition the prince of good fellows, he was born in London, of French parents, in 1815; there he caught his Christian name and that spice of English humor which imparts such a piquancy to hie articles. He was sent originally aa correspondent by a religious journal; to the Eternal City, but was summoned back as he had become Yoltarian, instead of cursing he blessed the enemy. Always regarding the political antecedents of a Frenchman, as so much ancient history forgotten even by himself, Lemoine has been one of the most powerful builders of the Third Be« public, despite his juu«l taste, for making voluntarily a con ottiere war to ; all parties. One of his favorite beliefs is that journals are destined*^ replace - Parliaments, and he profeiT it by politically killing the de Broglie and McMahon rule, when it gagged the nation for six months. He is associated in the Rothschild house, in the direction of the ~ finances of the Great Northern of Spain i': Eailway—filling the cash boxes, the wags say, when emptied by brigands. In certain talons he passes for Anti-christ, and many plethorio dowagers make the sign of the cross when his name is mentioned. But he has given, not tha religion, but the politics of the Vatican, some nasmyth hammer blows. During the trial of a man named Afire, for murder, he stood up in the dock* and exclaimed, "I can see nothing—l am getting blind." The Judge stopped the trial, ordered a medical examination, and. the doctor reported the prisoner had become stone blind.

The new ladies' bonnet is owl shape* emblem of sagaoity and vigilance. At the Nice race course, under a blazing sun open air stores are in use, on which ladies can place ther feet to display their ankles.

At midnight a orowd gathered round a nan, down from an attack of apoplexy: "Night attaoks again recommencing,' ■aid an old gentleman, " what a gorernt ment! what a repnblio!"