The Sun.
London, England, 1870-11-12 00:00:00

THE CONDITION OF PARIS.

The Telegraph in an article on the present condition of
Paris says : General Trochu runs Bazaine's risk in putting
off his great sortie to the days when his men will be under-
fed and weakened. If he procrastinates, he may find that
drill and preparation will not balance the lost advantages of
health and strength, while a defeat would have painful effect
upon a populace demoralised by suffering. We must
indeed allow that even as things stand, and although the
enemy's cannon has yet to open, Paris makes an heroic
defence. The spectacle presented by the gay and selfish
city, so constant during all these dreary days, is a rebuke
to those who have ima tined that her prosperity had
utterly sapped the feeling of patriotism, and that
the typical representatives of her public spirit
were the loungers of the Boulevards. The class
which has most failed—that which deserves contempt and
reproach—is the class of luxurious idlers whose influence
might have done so much to sustain and cheer their weaker
fellow citizens. The jeunesse doree, the Upper Ten Thou-
sand of Paris, have in too many instances shamefully
evaded their duties as patriots, and have vanished at the
first hint of danger. They are not to be found
either on the walls or in their rich abodes ;
fair-weather Frenchmen, they have hurried to neutral
countries, abdicating all the superiority of culture and
birth to which the laid claim. In such dreadful days it is
wise, no doubt, to have sent out of Paris women and
children. The city is no place for them now, and far
worse times are approaching. But Frenchmen
who are blessed with bodily health have no
business out of France at such a crisis, and they
must not complain if honest and manly Englishmen look
with disgust upon the well-fed young Gauls who crowd
Regent-street and fill our London and suburban lodgings.
There is, in truth, no sadder proof of the decadence of the
nation than the conduct of so many influential Parisians
who have consulted their own safety, and meanly left
their poor fellow-citizens and the provincial Moblots to
face the enemy in Paris.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday in Down-
ing-street: The Ministers present were the Right Hon.
W. E. Gladstone, the Lord Chancellor, Earl de Grey and
Ripon, Viscount Halifax, the Right Hon. H. A. Bruce,
Earl Granville, the Earl of Kimberley, the Right Hon.
E. Cardwell, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right
lion. Hugh Childers, the Right Hon. G. J. Goschen, the
Marquis of Harting-ton, the Right Hon. C. Fortescue,
and the Right Hon. W. E. Forster.
The Bock understands that the consecration of
the Rev. H. C. Huxtable, to be Bishop of Mauritius (vice
Dr. Hatchard, deceased), and the Rev. Henry Cheetham,
Vicar of Quarndon, Derbyshire, to be Bishop of Sierra
Leone (vice Dr. Beckles, resigned), will take place on St.
Andrew's Day, Wednesday, the 30th instant. It is not
yet decided where the ceremony shall take place.

The Tablet announces the death of Mgr. Andre
Charvar, the late Archbishop of Genoa, who died on the
18th ult. at Moutiers in Savoy. He wa4 born in 1795, add
was made Bishop first of Pignerole in 1834 ; Archbishop
of Genoa in September, 1853. He resigned the last-
named see in August, 1869. He was preceptor to ding Victor Emmanuel, and has left behind him many pub-
lished works.