OUR PARIS LETTER.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3859, 12 May 1881, Page 2

OUR PARIS LETTER.

(FROM OUS OWN CORRESPONDENTS.) Paris, March 24.

M. Naquet is a savant, a brilliant orator, and a politician of extreme views. He is 46 years of age—a hunchback. He took out his diploma as a doctor of medicine, but he is above all distinguished as a chemist. Of late he has given the whole of his attention to social subjects, notably the re-establishment of divorce, and the solution of the contest between capital and labor. . To succeed in the latter, the working classes mast, he maintains, form co-operative societies; these they cannot profitably direct till they he suitably educated. To help on the good work, he maintains all railways ought to be owned by the State, and the national bank should not be a monopoly. Opinion is not favorable to the first, and the second is not of superlative importance. M. Naquet is more at home on the question of divorce; he is separated from his

wife, but they visit etch other «• o i d friends. They disagree on reli K ion ;JJ is Catholic, he i 8 Materi»lUt • I*l although he has the leg al tend the education of hi ß only cBR son-^he chivalrously leaves him to th« case of his mother because it WO n7j break her heart to take him «»., M Naquet has secured the reoeal «>■*?"' divorce law, for the comin/pUL ! will undoubtedly rote it He h ceived the unexpected testimony " the efficacy of divorce in the case o f th! Princess de Bauffremont. BhV> ti I "I™*- to«worthless husband-hath! ■ obtained a separation, she went to sSJIt {for six months, took out letter. of naturalisation as a German subject j mamed as such the Eoumanian PrS Bibesco, and now declares herself to be the happ.est of wives and mothera. and her house m Bucharest the mpst gay Married, she was chained ta miseryind Sl^ifr • TV u lTOr d ' Bhe »«»3 found new life m the husband who understands her. Thus happiness li es , a 8 Pttßcal observed, in the manner in which we use it.

. aeElysee balls now commencing will be highly enjoyed by young folks: their elders have been dined and wined M Gre»y's table has obtained the reputation ' of being the best served in Paris—as Napolf on the Third's was ever the worst. The President rarely gi*e S an official ~ spread but some uncrowned or to be crowned head is among the guests. H^r r-. always dresses in black, with the grand * ! scarlet sash of the Legion of Honor: thflfccostume serves to distinguish the Bepulric from Monarchy, as the kings of France ever received their guests in blue doth. On the return of the Prince of Wales and his brother from the marriage of their nnphew at Berlin they are to dine with M. Grevy. By-the by, the bridegroom- -, * in question, it may not be generally known, was born with only one arm ; the second has been supplied most ingeniously in steel, so that in the natural course of * events the future Emperor of Germany, will rule his subjects with a hand of iron. Prance may now be considered as definitely clear of the Greeks; she will not send them an officer, uor lend them * Gras musket. The debate on the 30,000 rifles was a triumphant success for Gambetta; he victoriously put in devonte, Rochefort and his band of caluminators, who have been laboring to make the nation believe—-for electoral purpose*—?he desired to plunge France into war, andwas the voice behind the throne greater than the throne itself. He defied Clemen* ceau to adduce evidence .to support.his calumny, and he challenged past and, r present ministers to state if he ever inter* fered with their action, still less weighed on their decisions. He is still pausing for a reply. It was a short aud timely, .'■ speech, full of passionate earnestness and ' patriotism, and makes him virtually., master of the coming general election's: ;'^ People are alternately astonished and% amused at the Senators: one day thejf out-herod Herod in liberalism, and the next they vote a prohibitive tariff that ought to make the hair stand oh end of a Protectionist, or rap up the spirit-of Cob-; , , den without the aid of a medium. -

The abominable trial at Bordeaux for the pel version and debauchery of ..thelittle brother and sister Delmout, causes profound horror. The accused, though belonging to the most respectable —and the most degraded ranks of society-are T equal in point of depravity, though' not*steeped to the same degree. Attention is most concentrated on Colonel Chatel/tbe "' once commanding officer at Bordeaux, pending the perpetration of the outrages. His constant cry is that were he guilty ho would ere this hare committed suioide. That has not much importance in the mouth of an officer whose honor is already ■ compromised, and criminals are cowards. Suicide may often be the supreme rerolt- ' r of horror, or the expiation of a fault. %%'"' r\ occasionrlly becomes the heroism of. T despair. Men of reputed honor eau survive their s"hame, and when culpable, one can easily understand why they abstain from suicide. A well known Marquis, who has gambled away his own and several other peoples f< rtune, has been arrested for shoplifting along with his mistress, a circus rider. He confessed. b.e had lived by theft son^e months, and found the profession as easy as it was highly lucrative. Much sympathy was felt for the Princess de Persigny, aged 19, who .was left desolate on the a;zest and, imprison, .g ment of her sister and her brother-in-law,^ for forgeiy. Wheu all the world aban. doned the wrecked home, she daily visited the incarcerated, and toc?k their two infa.nts and supported them by her needle. The Bussian Ambassador, P.iuce Orloff, has found her a husband, an Austrian baron, long resident in Russia; and' secured him the Consulate of Russia at Yokohama.

Pending the appearance of Priuce Tally rand's memoirs, Plon has given us the second part of those qf Afetsternich; The latter attributes the assasiiaation of Kotzebue to the revenge of the revolulionists against the deceased for exciting the Emperor Alexander Against German writDrs and German Universities. A goci part of the present two volumes relates to almost contesnporay events: the Prince had a holy horror of liberty of the Press, and could not bear the idea of taking the subject of its emancipation into consideration even. In 1828 Metternich complained that Turkey was fatiguing Earope, Bad that it was time to change the Ottoman Empire iuto an independent state. The champion of riglit divine aud absolute power grqu *d in spuifc at the coming to the front of a" new Soeiely. His descriptions of Napoleon I are far inferior to the revelations of &me. de Kemusat. He esserts the mc^ns that served to elevate Napoleon also achieved Jo®, i c'• He " ™ry severe on Mme. de b'.ajl, end asserts egoism wa3 the basis ot her charter. Mile, Jjarbier hag written a r&;j attractive biography ~«<-A sentimental Jouraey around an Old Maid ;" it gives the description of an old girl s garret, with its books, pictures, & 3 . t and the converration of her relatives and friends, their ideas end opinions. She says nothing ig easier fo'r v an unmarried lady to bear than getting old, if she will only console hersel}" to the fact.

Mr Parnc'.l recently boasted that threefourths of the journals of Prance are with him; he could be more correct instating that three-fourths of the journals ignwe him. Fie has all Communist papers on his side, plus a few totally ignorant of; Irish grievances, or English' remedies. The jackdaw of Kheirns never created a greater sensation in theological difficulties raised by his thieving, than has th e nephew of the present bishop of that diocese, who has thrown divinity studies to the dogs, and become a •" bo|4 sogep

The educational estimates this year indicate au increase of 6,000,000^, or «0

per cent as compared with the last six years. The city of. "Paris since the war has augmented its educational grants to the extent of 150 per cent. ChereT is a-likelihood that the capital may be found—in time, to erect the contemplated Crystal Palace in the reserved portion of the Park of St. Cloud. For the success of the scheme, a railway direct -rEi aris into the Pttl*ce is a necessity. The Municipal Council of Marseilles ha* cancelled the rote according a site in that city to Thiers—" the massaereur of the innocents of March, 1871" The widow pf Balzac complained that her house near Versailles was louted in 1870 by the Prussians; Jthe .latter Hfter considerable search returned her a telescope.