OUR PARIS LETTER.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3236, 3 July 1879, Page 2

OUR PARIS LETTER.

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:v .;. : .;■.,' Pabis, May 21. Two ' appointments'tiave'*''been made, and simultaneously because connected with the Fine Arts-—the successors to the Director of the Opera, and Monsieur de Paris, better known behind the scenes as the headsman. ,M, r Vaucbrbeil! hai'.nto resuscitate the Academy, of Music, esthetically and commerciailyi fop the latter he .deposits SOO.OOOfr.; his talents are expected to do the "rest. French operas, will, be reserF.ed from decadence when the director pays' starS^thW'salaries other metropolitan speculators dp. As for bringing out hew Works; 'tie piiljlic is prepared to put up with old masterAubers. It was something like a mercy to put an end to the opera difficulty, as it was becoming as problem _ap complex as squaring the circle, Dr Blanche's next halt;yearly, report w,ill, reveal hpif,. puny brains 5 w6re turned while searching for a solution. The only wonder was, that no journal waß.itlJdciaily>loUnded to advocate the subject, giving as primes to subscribers, a volume of music or a box of oranges; a pair of cymbals or a sevenchamber rev6lverj< q^tfrta^oflpafcer employed in the discussion of the reorganisation of thW opera wou; Id carpet, it has been calculated, the proposed Canal route across the isthmus of Darien. This shqws hpw intensely musical the French are, but whose balls ot harmony oanuot notwithstanding be sustained without the Government crutch. However, the world is not the less deeply iaterostediu the music of France, ar in her stage, her fashions, and KeFarfc—tfiey influence all other, schools. M. Deibler succeeds fibc'h as "sole-guillotine* {"Tor eth« ,',' .Cabinet , t of France," for * despite the' boasted' heterogenity 'of'- T the , country, (Corsica, .and Algeria have their separate executioners ; perhaps- the' heir governor-general of the.jlat.tef will reform this, like other incongruities'. 3spre attention .was given to Deiblar's nomination than to the censure pronouaced on the Archbishop'of Aix, for very tall political talkjiia pastoral to his flock. But Deibler conies home to men's business and " bosom's," .hence (he anxiety to proclaim his competency, apologise for Ijjs like Eyron," and' describing 'His home bo minutely, that his fellow tenants have given their landlord notice to quit. Deibler is as well paid as a-puisne judge, and describes himself on his'visiting (private) cards, as a l' The late Eoch .was an engineer, and has secured by Tetters, .patent sotne~fmproTdments in the construction of the guillotine or the bijou, so baptised by the possible subjects,for its, working. In a few'days Deibler's handiwork will be tested, and were jse i potyce able to.l'discov*F ; ' thto authors of several murders, he, would have a short spell of over-time work* „-'} The weather affects everything, from character down to kitchen gardening: it is to be hoped that " the young.,.May - moon ''—just, in swaddling wiH cont.inu.e T beaming, $if only^out !df c6mf>li-~ mclit 1 to Tom Moore's Cehteiraitt r"thi last moon by univeral testimony, resembled Byron's—the devil rwas in it and full of mischief. Dentists have made fortunes these past few monf hs, extraoling molars with r or without pain; thai owners fondly flattered themselves woWtt chip bilently away like the obelisk on the Thames, started into open rebellion under the continued atmospheric inclemency, duo to either an excess dimunition, or atsence.jof- ozone,/for, as, .usual fetors differ on the point. The proprietors of soft or dry goods establishments swear, fay ( all,;,;the saints in, and out of—the latter amount to legion the calendar,, that they, are? ruined this season, by Zulus and meteorology* Nihilists, Bulgarians, and Orientals in general, hence*, spring \ ftpoks. .are, betag sold off as residues, to make way ror summer novelties. I fear the process approaches' .thpse] .patent medjeines rendered efficacious for all seasons, by merely carefully changing the label to suit the ; solstices and equinoxes. v . Sav&n^jweUiup in geology, and knowing the elements as twell as the weather clerk of the New > York Hera'd, conclude.) ths i otm globe^is i becoming hyperborean, that some glacieri will appear on Montmartre, seals in the x Tuilenes Gardens, and whitebearpreplace ! stone lions on the place dv Ch&teau-d \Eau. | Yes, 1879 is an ajvee wiserable, all that |Hu«o could desire; pendi^Jt^t^ejnp- ■ nent snowing becomes an institution, we have persistent rain as a delicious statu. quo*. the-lilac;;has? beep;drowned; in<tbe partial deluge, and there is not a may-bus visible to be coverted into kites by small boys, or to fatten jiwallows and pparrows. It has been certified that Spring appeared for two hours one forenoon dutfDgthe week, in the latitude. o£th?< Pa^tppmift' Gardens.

I Pending that the Senate make* every i laudable effort; to find./work, to hare in--1 termitlent airs of dignity, majesty, and 'indignation, mingled., with, a kind of : Oriental enthusiasm the 'Chamber of Deputies tiansacts—in committees—the i real business of the nation. It wJI not even discuss the Blanqpi election, it being prima facie illegal, and leave :fc> President Grevy the care to set the old political .'fogey at liberty. The Archb j»bop of Aix ihas received a knock over the knuckles ; for mixing up party, politics ?.wit'i spiritual directions to his clergy and flock: the I good shepherd hag .strayed;. it i« the cool, ,niattcr-of-fact manner that the Govern' ment has' reminded, tho relate of Bit duty, which imparts isignificarice to the, event, and indicates how unimportant thW' Kepublic estimates its grand struggle' Against Ultramontnnism. The Finance Minister is freed from bis, perplexity-^----what to do with a surplus revenue.; all taxed interests made lore to him, bufc,;fchs :siren has. :proved to be .commercial licenses—an allenition in which many can sharo. The French are as anxious as the Earl of Beaconafield that the Zulus WOQld bury the hatchet, and betake themselves' to cattle breeding; instead < of war paint and feathers; that black paint, it is ' .viewed, disturbs the commercial equanimity of John Bull*, and thu« re-aoti en his general business relations. grumbles that England in. not doing her? "big beat" to settle the Greek boundcr'es. Byron warned the Greeks never to trust for freedom to the Fraijn, , ,/,,