Parisian Letter.

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume XI, Issue 1056, 5 October 1892, Page 3

Parisian Letter.

{Front our Own Correspondent.} • ■ ; PabiB, Ancfuat ■■!.' • ■ ACTUALITY.

THE BULL FIGHT AT MONT DE MARSAN, Bull fighting is the national sport; of Spain, but is forbidden m France. Yet' a pfenning bull fight has taken place : ,a£ Mont dejMarsan, and a large . section., of the pres^ is protecting against the spec-; tacle. The bnll fights' seen m Paris' are" a hollow sham ; no horses are ripped open ; the 'balls are not butchered in the arena, No doubt the spectacle is more' impressive when thus performed ; but it. is also rtiore objectionable. That thou sands of; people boasting christain sentiments can possibly stand by and see as many as twenty horses rent to pieces m a moqt barbarous and atrocious manner, and; that' such a spectacle can roue.^ bo called human ; beinga to the utmost degree ojf pleasurable excitement, is to us simply .appalling. These poor, wretched animals^ what have they done! to deserve a death so barbarous ? If animals are confided to man is he not. under the most sacred of all trusts to prevent cruelty and abuse towards crea tures only one degree removed m intelligence from himself m the scale, of creation. The horse has quite a special claim, to consideration. There can be nothing at all akin to sport m seeing these noble beasts so ruthlessly mas-, sacred, while all the evil passions of toe savage are fostered m the , spectators, The French journals; are. therefore to be congratulated on the campaign they have undertaken against this attempt to initrodnce a degrading and . revolting ! amusement m France. The 1 Grantiiout Law for the protection of anima's ought [to be enforced ,even m ihe. Laudes, .qf which Mont de t Marsan is the principal town, near as that Department is to Spain, That bull fighting should be extended to France is a fact too deplorable for words and we arc -sincerely glad that the French Minister, of the Interior has not hesitated to take .steps;, $at indicate his, determination to put a, stop to these atrooities. '-. ■ . . >.-•:■ PARISIAN LETTER, ' The parliamentary session has come to an end, and the legislators of France have been given a holiday until October-' During three mpnths the Cabinet will live without fear of interpellations. The Chamber is conscious of the needs of Governmental stability and among the Republican majority the opinion prevails that if there <is to be a thorough shuffling of the Ministerial pack of cards" it' ought not to take place before the general; elections. The present Cabinet has profited by this feeling, and it must eleo be said that it has managed to' steer pretty c.ear of the many difficultiesof the political situation. . French colonial policy, as discussed m the, Chamber of Deputies, has cost M Cavaignac, the Minister of Marine, his "portfolio, and now M Burdeau, the able reporter of the Bank of France Bill, resigns m his stead. : The debate was exclusively a technical one, viz., whether the military and naval forces on the West African coast ought to be under united or divided commend ? This question was one hardly within thp competence of a mere legislative as

flpmWy, and was), ie for 'he Exocutfvo • o decide. M. dfavaienac 1 was oMbiS* opinion, and refused to admit the Clmmber's competence m the matter; huh ho wna'qnick'y ma<le to pay for his ra«h assumption of independence by nn adverse* vote. At first it was thought that tbo Loubet Ministry would throw .m its- Jot will i s Minister of Marino ; but after a short consultation between the President of the Council and his colleagues,; it was deemed a wiser act to appoint 'a new Minister of Mnrine m the person of M. Burdeau, than to resign m a'horly. The debate m the Chamber showed on<;e more Badicals and Reac tionesses vbting together, m order to upset the Government. A portion of the Republican Press is already taking up a position with respect to fhe PrepidentiaPbrection||n 1894; oh'd' the reason it assigns for ffais sudden call to arms.isj that the question is, at the present moment, a political without being a personal one. I .to the prolongation of tho Presiflspfe-I^pwerp qnthe plea that fourteen years tennre of officeiby the same individual would be equivalent to a Monarchical reign. It must be admitted ttirftf^ihoreX .is" soraV Force m this objection, ■' but the rempdy lies m the nowar of the Con areas not to re elect. IF, however, the Congress reelects the present occupant of the Presidency, it is fquiv.ilent to declaring that there rs.no force m the objection urged. A declaration of ineligibiliiy, inserted m the Constit'djtiop, woi?ldj\e a, daj^gerpujg. expedient', as it mieht deprive France of the services of a President at a critical moment. The executive,., power! irx. ..tliP; French Constitution is euffioiently weak ag it is, without m° kins? it weaker by o declaration of ineligibility. iiltmust be rpmembored that the President of the French Ropoblic hag no veto, and hia prflroffatlve ia practically lirtritflrl^ toS'the' choice' of Ministers, who are responsible not to him, but to the Chambers. J»OLITICAti REVIEW. The proposed visit of the French fleet to Genoa Hops nofc seem aereeahlo-to tho Italian official press, which asserts that m the present state of Italian feeling, a French riaval demonstration would be misunderstood. This action of fcbei^official Press is aH the more extra ordinary, as M. Redsmann, th« Italian Ambassador, is exerting himself to ihe/ utmost in -order to bring about a more liberal commercial wgiine^ than that which 'now exists betweeti'lliftlriand Franoe; The explanation of the apparent pon f ra;lic ( tion between the professions of the Amtas'sa'd'br »nd tbß.ftction^ ...of-'ttw official Italian Press 1 , 'is'- Hhe* approachiner general election, and the necpssitv of avoidjn.s^.discnssiqn ; f op v rthp Italian foreign policy. But tKTs" "would be confessing that Italy's forpis-n policy is not popnlar wi^hi r »^be, v .Jtalisn people wbifn there is every reason to believe, t^at' this foreiern po'icy is at this very .moment popu'ar m Italy. •■';lt, r ;iß/ k more/ likely. that the Italian Government lias [discovered that the proposed demonstration at Genoa would 'be; •disagileeable'} tp>: orio of ita nlHep. ' 'The Hamburf/e- Nachnchten returns to the snb]"ecfcof4he"'nonjappeartfn'se of Prince Renas, the German Ambassador at Vienna, at the marriage ceremony of Count Herbert Bismarck. Prince Bis>marck'B organ maintains that personal antipathies are all .powe'rfu'rvjtff'er the presen.t .German regime, to which the welfare of Germany is subordinated. But the present German regime is that of the Emperor William and his ..Ministers, and *£ *H^' r r*WConstittition, the.-BQiJßqstagJs^deli.^erja^ ' t tire 1 body, but has no executive power. Prince Bismarck m his halcyon days ''has define'} this position over and over again, andihe canno,bjiow, .because .hejs.j not.in. office, take exception. toja^regimf:,,,

which he liimseir-createfli' '""The fxChancel'or is a member of t'e Reidi3tnq: nnd it is quite open to him if 'he "Thinks fit, to place himse' f at the hond of tlie Oppositionielemnits m tbo Reicbs'agf, ami to en'icnvoar to rnnul I leeislstion ; n accordance with bis present view.', but the Emperor's Ministers are ns much beyond him aa is tho Emperor himself, the Reichstag individually and collectively havipg no executive power whatsoever. : v »■-..." It is nh doubt very mortifying to Prince Bismarck to find himself out of office, but the way back to it is not the one he seems inclined to pursue.