FRANCE.

Southland Times, Issue 3306, 24 January 1879, Page 2

FRANCE.

•» (FROM OUS OWN COEEESPOXDISNT.) PARIS, December 5. General Chauzy. the Governor-General o f Algeria, was a popular favorite at the conclusion oE ihe Franco-German war. lie and Fairdhevbe were the only two officers that displayed serious ability during the campaign ; they were the only commanders that the Germans felt to be worthy of their steel. Fairdherbe is paralysed in the limbs, but bis j intellect is as vigorous as ever, and is employed, cbaruber-iawyer-like, by his country. (Jhanzy professed at one time to be a Republican, but as we fall on the side to which we lean, he perhaps belongs to the •' no name " politicians, neither fish, noi flesh, nor good rcd-hernng — the most contemptuous of factors in all political organisation. He is a senator, and like the great ones of the earth, moves to and fro between Algiers and Paris. But a note was taken that when the Republic was hard pressed in the Senate for a vote, the General ever found the moment pressing to return to Algeria, and to visit France when whipping time in the Senate was over. He at one time possessed very favorable chances of being chosen for the next President of the Republic, but has never been the same, since the public choice has indicated M. Grevy. As France for the future will have uo soldier as President, so the road is being cleared to nominate a civilian next spring Governor of Algeria. The liberal press of the colony is very severe on the General's high-handed system of administration, and as he cannot re-demand the state of siege, he has applied to the home government to send him out a cargo of editors to belabor the independent press. The Republic is asked to supply funds to establish officious? journals to combat the Republic I The governmental organ) it seems, is not equal to the task, though possessing, ex qfficio, all the virtues under, heaven. This demand confirms somewhat the proposal to found a professorship -of polemics. The General is very irritable — big wigs as a rule are. A Republican paper stung him recently, so one of his staff called out the .editor,': and tboy e^chauged shots, ; Ohanzy has been, re-

■HllllHlJlllll ■[■■■■■^^■IIIH II IIJ umdedof the:casi3 of General Yusuf vhen.eut tip by fa-, writer, did not dele* <ii de-de-camp to seek "the parmaceiif' ■inward bruise, fiut called the offend Himself. There appears to be an ende; lucLs just now in France : it is one jj -.attributes of the moral revolution this try- is passing through — shaking off sj of society and their partisans for the eignty of the nation, based on parlian,! government, .no- longer a sham aud , vcrsal suffrage which is neither pack violated, but an impartial reality. The - agitation f or ; a freer trade America, in" the sense of reciprocal ier]o iv tariffs is making way, and deserve encouraged, if only for the canse of n» — that is, of pnblic discussion at rn;^ ings, an instrument of government ] unknown to the French, and needed] the relinquished place of barricades,' Franco - American commercial "(j is destined to drill the Gauls into fc, discipline, and, above all, of patience, demonstrate to them, that while in tt of tears subjects may ba logically tt; are controlled by prejudices and jr that must be respected, and even h; not taken by assault and battery. Americans desired to learn at the nice Sunday last was, not the comrades Washington and Lafayette — thelatter> son happens to be rickety on free tr kept away, but whether American!; am better served by locking out the fo; and flooding his home markets with notions, and something more serio; wooden nutmegs. The French have ever blamed Entri; pursuing that foreign policy of ■ shutti *elf up like a mouse in the . Dutch ■ hence, why Lord Beaconsfield has, approbation, and his predecessors j disapproval. It is only by acting her j the European family that Continents! | cau be secured, and Russia kept in lit j Lord Beacousiiold is eulogised for hi? courage, and in boldly grappling v Ameer ho is considered as merely v previous faults. It is only by thus nt stand, and shewing that she will ever-; t he necessities of Europe require, that I can count upon the sympathies of ibei It is incumbent on civilised nations to of fight, to have an eye constantly { the *war path, and quite a corniic.; feathers and paint. , England has her tea-fights, and G* her Kitjf'rcs, the latter might be at borrowed by Parisians, now that chip/ free to enter the coffee-pot — what a fc for Good Templars — as real Mokn, ai the inclemency of the season exacts o beverages, from tisane saloons up fc palaces. There was a time when simj trusted to a relic to preserve them y the world, the fta-h. and the devil, biiif days to ba health-proof, one mnstnotjl much a- medicine chest at his elbow. ad plcfo apothecary's shop. It frigid read the list of remedies advertise?] though contradictory, necessary it ?e| pai ionise, if we wish to cheat dj a few years. Formerly simples bos Latin names now they are nothing Greek prefixes and affixes. Note the anee tar has taken for bronchial nfii however, Bishop Berkcly has a gie.it rity for the virtues of tar water. Co too have increased like tadpoles. Catherine limits to 2~> years the n extreme chances of matrimony. Bali thirty as the zenith of feminine bemitr '• angels were ripe ;'" well, by a curio: cidence. all the new cosmetics are da to ladies aged SO and partial to iJ dresses. I The i i refect of Valladolid has dispk much zeal, in prohibiting the entry im of the Petite Girondr, a republican it one sous, simply because it was rep. and .so unfit for Spanish monarchal After all, the Pyrenees do exist. J French are very much in earnest alxc republic, and while perfectly satisfie costly and bloody experiments that: form of government which best sni wants and temperament, tluyy do not! impose if-, on other people.?, still h wanting in respect towards the foni vernment any nation may please ti France will have neither Bourbon o partist ; the first, as the Comte dc Ck late manifesto shows, takes God into; to subordinate the civil to the clement. Louis XIV. did not sci identify the State with himself. No! the harmless follies of the age, the ! offensive is surely that which p a man that he is the moiety ( The Bonapartist sees in the ss power ouly a lever, a means ; jc takes up universal suffrage, if allf manipulate it. Here neither royj empire can, like the Republic, face vote and an impartial code. Tbe I <>[ late is accused to be godless; the S fesses no doctrine ; it has only a neti but sm important one, tlifit of defoni liberty of conscience of the citizens' encroachment, whether from Prates tramontane. Materialist, or Jew. neither the right to persecute nor any religious idea; it is essentis which is the great conquest of the re The worst of atheisms is tbe pretes fondled by the Comtc de Chambord, God reign by the sword of a king, right divine or constitutional. The 7'fii'fitrr I' ra nca in has scored success in reviving Le Fill JVafurrl. in five acts, by Alexandra Dumas house was crowded by celebrities i tlic worlds, (jambettn was close to King of Spain, and the Orleauist beside their ouce-despoilers, the Bo: The piece was written in 1853. 0 ing Dumas left Paris with some gaj a ream of paper, and a bundle of qi Havre. To avoid his noisy compa bribed the caretaker of Alpbonsc Ks tagc at Saiutc-Adrcssc to allow him there. The cottage had not a stick tine. but. it was smothered in Horn mas borrowed a chair, and wrote ihrcc acts on his knee inside the ho it rained, and in the garden w weather was fine. The finished pi ay i til IS ■">:•; in a drawer when he re it. and gave it to the pn flic January of that year. I cess made a sensation, above famous third act. I may obst Dumas avows, "'all the ridicules, the and the weaknesses T have place credit of my characters. I have evo from my own past." Dnmas is not cal as many believe. He cries in p l be }>ln v : lie states it is bis work of fio'i. the commencement of that comedies which he calls '•• useful," compelling the spectator "to t! leaving the theatre. The plot treiposition society makes towards an illf child. Charles Sternay is a fast i had a natural son by a country girl.' pensions off, as he is about marry™ boy (Jacques) is talented, grows vm and has the good fortune to inherits fro n a consumptive gentleman, wtß fancy to him. Provided with meaittH becomes educated. Sternay has noffl and his bachelor uncle, a Mar.iuis. iofl adopt Jacques as his heir. Sternavw to then recognise his son. li You fl says the notajy. " What !"' CB Sternay, "a father cannot reeogniseß sou — strange law indeed !" '• Ye&Bj the lawyer," but you should haye d(« the moment of his birth." This isM sational scene, in the famous ttfl Another hit is that where Jacques raj Sternay — '• For twenty-five years JM condescended to call me son, anflH never mentioned to any one you 9 father." This recalls the reply of I nouueed d'Alembert, also an illefl child, whom his proud and beautiful™ Madame de Tencin, abandoned at ifi steps of the Church of St. Jean leK-B who was found and brought up <jl glazier. When d'Alcniberfc became cJI liis mother wished to make herself ra him, but he repelled her, with tbei-H am the son of the Vitriere, the B The notoriously bad feeling — iv iR meat diet particularly — to which tfrH soldiers are subjected, owing to <W contractors, is raising the quesfcio&B ought the regimen! snot to buy theiro'H on foot and, since there aye butcltfjß ranks, slaughter them ?" Similarly, : S gested, that each barrack have a isw kitchen-garden iv the vicinity of &&, to be cultivated by the men. Tbis'Tßment succeeds so well in Caen \mt soldier-gardeners have won a silve:^B the Exhibition horticultural shotf^^E and vegetables. Respecting the po^jß tiotf, it has no longer even thehonPf'S| 7)arnc''l. Paris is worth living in no^jK can walk the streets hands in pocket jB ever being elbowed into the kennel^ S have no. more the rich harvests of and October, and so- complain that SS zens are .on strike -towards .* nena " : i» already organising several little eS }jp officious, .if not officinl, and cIes&SMS parehtly, to keep the ..administratoi|mi great,,affair ajiittle. >ytUe louger

' I°° lottery drags its^l^yiengti ! .' it will likely be Ne\vYe*Ps day-be l|K the drawings commence j. the delay iha' UK? ft> r consequence* '.to -demolish thousands ißCdes built in the air. , . "\ ; .-.., vj^Btfe continue to-havo some love and chari^lMiY/iiflinas. A young woman, aged eighteen, i^B* » o ]d by her admirer, Albert, that he was gJUpnpllcd to many another: she .replied, ■^Brl are free; \vhen this arrives I will be He rushed. to her room and found JMr" 'rtov creature gaspincr. They have resolved iBuK.-m and wife. The Master of theMiiit |i«f Bordeaux has been ariested. Rothschild sjißfliim some bar-silver to coin, which lie iB but fa r himself . ■■^Bite political caricatures of the Pretenders ®tt their partisans, continue to be i more IMPL as the period forthe Senatorial elecs|Mr- approaches. It 5s quite evident that lUfwffll original fun— from tlie boy's standj»£f the frogs— can be evoked when iUf 1.,;kl „;k are free, as in .the case of the vSMrfll prints, which have nearly killed oi! ifißL'r opo'-'ea* 5 - • ; '"■■'" . Hf There is a fierce competition raging between U| -insurance Compauie?. Since the fall of JR! Empire 'no less than ten new establishffißjjts h ave been founded, independent of JmLj^p offices opening agencies. One comsHL r r bas leased the Italian Opera House dor IK office- Po much for business — and arU David has expounded, before the 18-sileroy of Sciences, his new system of denHfo rT% 'He extracts the diseased tooth, pSLiises it with chemicals, and replaces it in jfSTininis where, in 19 cases on t of 20, it re-roots. Uis'the sa^c process employed now by surißons for grafting bones nnd flesh. Without ugKn£ mnu and wife two strAngerscau become Haeof bone and flesh of flesn..: > pj»ybeu nn adversary is more slender than his iSLsoni-st iv a private, duel, it is proposed to Unon a sccondaloug with him to secure the a»<im s ' tc volume. .''•■■ WBeg-^ai' ! " What . meanness ! that man h : s Exhibition medal for alms."