OUR PARIS LETTER. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Paris, April 8.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 2013, 2 June 1885, Page 4

OUR PARIS LETTER. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Paris, April 8.

Ai niou.n eveiy politician in Fiance con I Mdeis Inn-self to bo a heaven bom States in hi, a whole week has been employlcl doiin>nstiating the inability to find only a Pieuuei. Tin 1 h) ways ,uul hedges weie s ouuiigH beaten tip- UlastM. Biisson, till' Spi'.lkl'l of tllU (.'ll.llllbl'l, .lftl'l VoWlllg he would noVr c uisent to foiin a C.ibinet, consented. Jloistlie only prominent He publican the Republic has not used up, foi the l.vttoi, like Saturn, appeals to have tlie spociility of devounng its own childu'i). The. difficulty in the formation of a Ministiy resulted fiom the opposition of the debris o>. rump of the Feny majoiity, called hitheito Oppoitunists, but now dubbed Importunists, because then aim was to still cling to powei, and, abo\e sill, to contiol the geneial elections. The countij has been veiy indignant at such uiipatitotic conduct, when* the end was to enij»l<»j the Secret Service money and the influence of office bestow ings, to make Fiance, niaith .is their interests w ished. This was a, policy not only disloyal, but unwoithy of a Ke-pubhea-n legiine, wheie libeity and fan play aie boasted to i tile. If Republicanism has only the processes of the Second Kmpne and the Due de Broglio to coeice tne suffiage vote, it was not worth while, as Madame Angot says, to change the Government. The Oppoitunists may consider their occupation as gone, as the policy the nation now demands is the exact contiaiy to tint pm.lied by M. Feiry. The new Cabinet is composed of seven Deputies and thieo Senatois ; the Minister of Maiine is an out-sidei. Politically, all aie hostile to the defeated Oppoitunist*. M. Bii-son is distinguished by absence of political acts, due to his position, since the death of Gambetta, as Speaker. He has not been called to power to continue the progiamine either of M. Ferry or any othei e\-l Jienner, but because he lias nothing in common with any defunct Cabinet, fie has been made Premier by necessity ; he represents not a programme, but a situation. He has not been consulted as to his political ideas, some known to be advanced: he has been called upon by public opinion to wind up the political estate of Jules Ferry and Co. He is charged to terminate certain thing*, not to create new ones —the latter will be initiated by the new Parliament. He is entmsted to supervise sin interregnum, resulting fiom a majoiity not yet born, and a majority whose atom* aie not yet dead. His duty is t>> vote the budget au galop ; to obtain an honouiable compromise regaiding the adventiues in which Fiance is involved and engulphed ; and last, but not least, to act a-> uiidei taker of the pie-sent nioiibund Chainbi'i, and o\ei whose mtuiincut not a poison will diop ,i trai. M. Biisson is a native of Bmugr-, wlieie he was b..in in INS"*. His fathei v\.i-> then a schoolina-tei, but became latei a solicitoi. His fathei and f.ithei-in-law have been his most violent political op ponents, though ho is not an* advanced Radical. He studied law in Pans, and while not in any way lomaikable a-, an ouitor, has been evei viewed a-> a sound lawjor. His political success is due to his caieeras a jouinahst. He wiote for the Siecle, the organ of the wine tavein keepeis, as the London Tiser is Uie publicans'. His long-pointed Coligny beaid gives him an austeie look ; indeed, he has (|inte a Puritanical an, although a Materialist. He is giavc, conect, and seldom .smiles ; lie 1-5 called Givvy, junioi. Jle it <i passionate man, but full of sang fund in his violence. He dreads lespoiw bility. Ho is veiy modest in his tastes; sees veiy little society, and in private life ieside-> on a foiuth story in a by-stieet happy as a king. Ho has no family, but has adopted the two oiphans of a colleague. M. Busson has ncvei yet beeu seen at woik. He is now on his tual, and as lie has thrown himself into the bleach, much sympathy and allowance must be made foi him. In politics, observed Napoleon 111., tliL-ie aie no l)in\els of compassion The Ministei of Foieign Aftaus is M. de Fieycmet, fannhaily know as the "little white mouse.' Hi; h im stiangei. It has been oljsoived, When de Fiejcmet becomes Picnner pack up your poitmanteau : when Clenienceau aimes at power, decamp. M. de Fieycmet is om; of those men who cm nevei make up then minds, the most daugeious hence to excicise power. He is thin, delicate, and so fragile, that like Changarnier, he piesents the appe.uanco of falling to pieces if touched. Many sneer that he could pass tin (.ugh the eye of a needle. When ho speak-, he lee.ills the squeezing voice of Thieis ; it is "haip and resemble the vibiation of a Miigmg glass. He commences his addicos coldly ; aftei a while he waiins up, and liishos foi v\ aid like an e\piess tiain, not oven allowing ten minutes for lefieshments. But he is veiy amiable and very distinguished ; is somewhat visionaly, and t uit vti/intjly undi! cided. It will be a tic between him and M. Biisson for the succession of M. <;ic'v\. But who can tell, what will happen in France befoie next Janu.u} .' Tin d.ijs ago Jules Feiry was in the pude of powei and place ; he now loves to lie that none «-o poor may d> him reverence. Politically, he is acoipso that the anarchists still de->ue to guillotine, and passes lii -. disject.i membra, as did Konr.an creditois the bodies of debtors. M. Goblet, the Minister of Public Instruction and Religion, is ">7 years of age ; small, active and one of the few public men whom slander ha-> never touched foi making office the footstool to teali/e money. He is the teuoi of rupmtei-, hi- woidflow in torients, thiity lines a minute ! He is the " Eminence (itey ' of M. do Fieycinet. Be assured, he will never be a paity to anything cionkid. The, Oppoitunists detest him, but then ho has tumble claws and beck. General Cainperon is again Wai-Minister; he is an honest man ; the type of a hercc hussar; he has a terrible nose, almost a snout, hence his nick-name, "the wild boai," Ins tusks aiedieadful; ask M. Feny, whom he attacked and quit, lathei than send the aiimes of Franco to perish in Tonkin. Admual Galiber is Minister of Marine, he is unknown to fame, suie, that he dis approves of the Madagascar adventuie, and ambitions to be a good sailor. Allam Taige is Home Minister, the most nnpoitant post in the Cabinet. He is the type of pcipetual motion, as no n ortal eye evei witnessed linn quiet. He is the soul of honoui, and the umpiic in the case of all disputed duels. M. Clamagcian, though a doctor of law, rose to distinction as a pie-s-ui.in ; he has been entrusted with the linances ; he is the last life-senator elected ; he is a rmtauan, and was bom .it New Orleans, in 182S, and natuialised in 1818. Hedeliveied in IMO3, the first blow of the pick aie to the second Kmpiie. Saidi Cat not, the Minister of Public Works, is the pet pupil of do Fieycinct, and his assistant lectuier; he is a giaudson of Cainot, that "oiganiser of victories" for Napoleon I. He is fannliaily known as " Mademoiselle," fiom his beaidlo-s face ; he has not even a moustache, ho is aways blushing, shy, and dithdcnt, si political ingenue. The L.vngson lebuff is a veritable Chim so pu/,/lo ; one paity coiiMdeis it a disastci, and another has so explained the lepuKe away, that they may end by claiming it to be ;i victoiy. Biisson will give ns the truth, the whole tiuth, and nothing but the tiuth, and so calm the woman neives of Parisians. Jules Feiry only let so much of tlio truth out ;us he could not avoid, and then it was in masquerade. Tt was regrettable that the money chest, like the artillery, had to be thrown into the mur. Did the former take place befoie the Ki.ich, a company would have been formed to fish it up —modelled aftei the Vigo Bay gold plungers. Then* is no lack of rumours of peace, all wish it aidently here; but it requires two to make it. Fiance will sign the Tourniei treaty with both hands, but her desire and her indisposition must not be abused. Tin* Lantcrnc Hays there is no enthusiasm in the army for the war in Tonquin. The wonder would be that these was, and among the soldiers who left Paris for the se.it of war on Sunday last, theie was not a single volunteer. It is by " lot" the lcmfoicenients aie made up fiom theactiveaimy. The more theariny becomes n.itioii.il, the moie repugnant it becomes foi distant adventures. To defend the countiy at home, is quite another matter. If (ieunany and Fiance had to depend on enlistment instead of the conscnption, like Kngland, for their wtandnig annies, how many volunteers would they be able to niustei .' It is foi home, not abioad, Fiance ought to husband hci foices. The Afghan play of Russia is heie followed with intense inteiest and not a little anxiety. Of couise, no one views the coming struggle as a question of .i few miles of territory, but for the prestige of Kngland and Russia. The war is dow n .i^.i thine; that has got to be done, andif Xi inland lots the occasion pass, now th.it rill (In 1 odds aie in liPr favour, she will me being again tho dupn of Russian tnckiiy and cajoloiy. It is tlm moment fui her to be

hold, to occupy Heiat, and though near tho twelfth hum, olfei to help the Shah of lYi-iain defending the Pei-ian (inlf. A imlitiiy fuend reinatk- tint with a few ti link inilvvajs in Afghanistan England could Mi.ip her fingers at Ru— ia foi e\er, while cutting her out at tlic same tune of tho C'cnti.il A-wn maiket. The game of Kussm is to gain time :to enable hei lialtio fleet to escape, and naturally to look up her defence-, foi she has been taken unaw are-, in eiuleav ouiing to piactice her Usual sneak a head tactic-. Tho Mahdi is not viewed as on the load to success. It wa- expected tint Olhviei Pain and his despatches would etc this have reached Vau>, and mi thiow -onie light on the situation. Osinan Digna h also con-ideiod a shooting -tar. Wlij not noniin.ito him chairman of the Snnkim .uid Beiber railway, since John Isull, aftei making the line, intends to quit the conntiy? Heap coals on his head. Ka-tei Monday was specially lem.nkable foi the brilliancy of tho religious ceieniome- and the crowded attendance of woi--luppei-. It is the opening of the .season f.n al ficsco .amusements. Yet those were not '•o extensively patronised ah formerly. -Many faiinlie- went to the suburbs to solect le-idences foi the summer, or to gi\e diiec turn* for the blushing up of their \ ilia-. It i- the moment to invest in house propoity, whether in the city or its enviions. Tho-,e who invested in building speculations the-o last ye.u.s aio seiious losers. They have no dividend for their capital, and would be happy to only secure a poition of the latter. Many shops consideied well to do, aie now being divided in hah es to mince rent, anil it i- no secret, a good deal of money is being exchanged foi Kngh-h stock-. It 1- nut bad for tlie intelligent foieiqnei to have a ne-t egg in that land of common lefuge since stoniiy winds commenced to blow. Tlio annual gmgerbiead fail is anything but gay, yet eveiy tin e Parisian is expected to make a pilgiimage theieto. The penny gaff- have been awfully sold. They gave up the worn-out phenomena of gmillamen and diaphanous women so transparent as to be able to lead a newspaper tlnough their body, and went heavily in for " tho taking of Langson by the French and the de"foat of the Chinese." Then the Chamber of Deputies had cut out many funny programmes. Foi tune-tellers of all degieeliad quite a run of clients ; placo-huntei-anxiously consulted them. Odd, when iequehted to predict the new Mini-try, they turned away, disdainfully assuring people they only occupied them-ehes with t-en<>u-affairs. Gingerbread was e\or the te-t of the popularity of a public man. Thici-, MacMahon and (iambetta have been in due time " done biivvn," and decouted with couitit- in all shape-, -l/eand ]>nce-. Not a leading man wa- -o cmbilmed on tho pie-ent occasion. Not even Jnle- Fen y, wlio setnied so many colonies ff i >i Fiance and pummelled the Chine-e like an Olivet Cioinwell. Even the M.ihdi wanot lemi'inbeied, de-jute the suitability of In- mahogany featuie-. The wliolestiength of gmgi ilnead makeis w.i- dev<ite<l to tinning <>ut Miiularin- and Clnne.-e hoi jiolloi. Not a child in Paris but has devoured the A[ uquis T-eng. while ardent patriots hive poli-hed oil the whole [mpeii.d family, Pummel Palace and all. Note. -(Jei man y senulaige Mipplics of gingeibiead to the fan. She might leave us this indu-ti\ sinely ! It appeals the ham fair pi >ved to bo so extcn-ivoly a hoise fle-h fair that the Tiefect de Police lias piolnbtod any sau-agc-he.ncefoith bjmg made oi sold if composed of hoi so flesh. He will not excuse even the comniodity under the name, of mule oi a--, which foi ins the ba-e of the pii/.ed N"!es sausage. In industiy, a- in natuie, nothing 1 is 10-t. A commission agent l- prepared to buy all up for his English client-, who, he state-, have a, decided taste foi tho foibiddeu flint. That's the way nations ought to aid each othei. United to England by a, chain of -aiu-ages, Fiance would gam ninio than all the Dead Sea aoples Bisinaick couid pienent to Juletenv. Nothing like leather. At tlie Invalided the pun-ionei-) who hay c l<>-t then legs aic allowed money m place of -hoe-. Tins liabeen mciea-ed a- leathei In- n-en in puce.

Oi tlio Bishop of Killaloo, who died 10 ccntly a j>ood stoiy is told Di Wli itrlj was holding a \ i-it ition of his eluiL'N, and in the lioui-> wlan cleneal mattcis wcic not undei discussion was nnpiessing upon them the evcclloii^c of w.iteicicas The Archbishop licld tli.it a little i.tw vegetable was hygicnicallv an .nlmii able accoinpanitncnt to a hei\y Ineikfast. Some days aftci Hauls, at a late bieakfast of the cletgy and their chief, every lector and uuatu pie-sent had watercress on his pla'e. One joung clergyman piesent did not seem to lelish it Devoting himself to cig- and bacon, he left the cicss nnta&ted. " How comes it, Jh Fit/geiaM,"' said tlic pic Kite, "that you do notcaie for this wateiciebs w Inch your bicthien so much appreciate?" " You foreet perhaps," said this vegctible noneomformist, " that I am not in your grace's diocese " The Archbishop \h\ r \ a very high opinion of the young pauon, and in after years used to say. They tell me that I'm subject to Kit/." Tiih H vnookMk'iiel A\t.hi o.— Amid the btately palaces of Venice in the Piax/a di San Maico there .stood in the sixteenth contuiy a house frequently resoited to by gondoliers and ttmelleis of modest means. One day a solitaiy sti anger sat in this inn at a table covet < <l with the lemains of a fiugal repast, He appeared absorbed in deep thought, but sjou had his attention diawn to the con versation of the landlord, w ith a young man in the garb of a gondoliei . Thelattti sued for the hand of tin 1 iunkeepei's daughter, which, howcvei, the father le fused because the suitor did not po^iss the bum of 3000 florins. " Money I have none," h.iid the gondolier, "but strong arms and willing Jieait. Some day I may become a General of the Republic.' 1 The landlord laughed in reply, and iepeated that he would let no man lu\ c Ins daughter who had not 3000 floiins to call his own. The stranget, now io»e and asked the landlord if he weic willing to give his daughter to Gianetto, the gondolier, if he possessed the leijui^ite amount. The landlord replied in the aflnm.itivc. " Then «he .slnll bo yonis' said the sttangcr to the gondolici ; ' tine, I ha\e no money ; but leave it to me."' At these words the guest took out a stup of parchment and lapidly .sketched on it a hand so tiuc to the life that both spectators were mute with astonishment. "Take this to Cardinal Hum ho and tell him the sender requites 3000 Hut ins on the spot." Gianetto took the diawing and returned with the sum demanded and a message from the Caidinal uniting the artist to visit him on the following day. There was great joy at tlio inn. The artist attended the wedding, and aftci much pressing gave his name as — Michel Angelo. In after years CHanetto lose to the rank of General of the Republic, )et he never forgot his benefactor. He stood by his death-bed, and afterwards creeted a monument to his memory. " The hand" of Michel Angrlo is now to be seen in the Lonore, and is still much pi i/ed by all admirers of the great inastei . The Bad and Worthless are never imdalcf or loimhtji ttnt. This is especially true of a family medicine, and it is positive pi oof that the remedy imiltitiil is of the highest value. As <-oon as it had been tested and proved by the whole woi ld that Hop Hitters was the puiest, best and the most valuable family medicine on earth, many imitations spiuntf up and begnn to steal the notices ill which the pi ess and the people of tin; country had expressed the merits of H. 8., and in cveiy way trying to induce MilTeiing invalids to use thcii stuff instead, expecting to make money on the ciedit and good name of H. IJ. Many others started nosttums put up in similar style to H. ]i., with variously devised names in which the word " Hop" or " Hops" weie used in a way to induce people to helic\ c they were the same as Hop Bitters. All such pretended remedies or cures, no matter w hat their style or name is and especially those with the woul " Hop" or " Hops" in their name or in any way con ncctcd with them or their name, arc imitations or counterfeits, licwaic of them. Touch none of them. Use nothing but genuine American Hop Bitters, ith a cluster of green Hops on the white label, and Dr Mottle's name bluun in the glass. Trust nothing else. Druggists and Chemi.sts arc warned a»am=t dealing in imitations or counterfeits..