The Sun.
London, England, 1868-12-25 00:00:00

MARCH.

Liverpool 3 Cambridgeshire M 18
Rugby (Grand Mil.) 8; 9 West Drayton lB, 19
Kingsbury 12, 13 Crewkerne lB, 19

AN ENGLISH CORRESPONDENT 0 V THE
AMERICANS IN PARIS.

The American colony in Paris will be amused,
although some of its members may be indignant, at
the remarks of .the Paris correspondent of a Loudon
paper called The Press and St. James's Chronicle.
It is well to know what people say of you, as with
ignorance and malice, there may be truth ; we there-
fore reproduce his remarks, as it will give those al-
luded to, an opportunity of reading them, which
they never would have had so long as confined to
the journal in which they appeared. Our Own cor-
respondent in Paris, as well as some members of the
American community there, may have a few words
to say in reply, for it appears incredible to those
not habitually mixing in the gay and wealthy circle
which constitutes American society in Paris (many
members being leaders iu their own country among
the most sensitive and proud) that they could thus
act, except in rare and isolated cases. All Eng-
lishmen allow that there is no snob on earth equal
to the British snob, and no American presumes to
deny that snobs spring up like mushrooms among
themselves. It is, therefore, not impossible that
transactions even as idiotic as those described may
have taken place, but where the correspondent of
the English paper is ignorant and malicious is in
his generalities, nor does he even know where a
Yankee comes from —or what the States are whose
citizens are proud of the designation, who ever
affects to repudiate and despise it.

"..ince the cessation of the war in the United States
there has been a large influx into Paris of Yankees
of the ' shoddy persuasion.' At first they appear
in excessively new garments—hats, boots, coats,
neckties, chains, rings—all are new—new ! This
wears off, and then they are distinguished 133 their
eager efforts to get into society. Nothing pleases
a Yankee more than to speak to a live duke or
a live lord, whilst to approach a live Prince
fills him with ecstacy. The means by which
most of these people strive to gain admission into

,he charmed circle of society is by toady-lug some

individual able to introduce them and able to re-
spond for them. But as it is not always easy to
get hold of such an inlividual willing to be toadied,
some of them have recourse to very singular expe-
dients." This lively correspondent's experience of
human nature differs widely fioin ours as regards
titled persons willing to be toadied, a number we held
to exceed that of Americans willing to toady. The
reverse has been hitherto ascribed to the Yankee
character, but Paris way develope something new,
or this smart correspondent may calculate the dif-
ference at six of one, and half a dozen of the

same. But it is instructive to learn the Yankee
tricks to get into society. "Three or lour, for ex-
ample, have coolly sent invitations to dinner or
bait to people of position of whom they . knew no-
thing, their hope being that in the number a feW
would. accept—a hope not unfounded, seeing that
certain French people are willing to go anywhere
where amusement is to be gained." Poor Shoddy
alas to what depths you have fallen ! " Persuasion''
is indeed the true word to apply to you. Think Of
scouring Paris for stray barons and counts on whou2
to practise the wiles of dinners and balls ; think of
the unbounded Itepublican impudence of teniptiog
these hungry aristocrats into such company by tbeo
device a donkey boy employs on his ass—" a feed.
" Others have succeeded—Heaven knows hovi--111
inducing some battered old women of rank, it is true,
but beggared in purse, and not intact iu reputations
.
to invite their (the old women's) friends to their
(the Yankees' houses) to be entertained at their

(the Yankees') expense, subject to the condition.'
understood, but not expressed—of allowing the
said " Yankees to be presented to them." 'Phis
too rich not to be rehashed for our Paris readers; it
will furnish some innocents with a mystery to uh"
ravel, and set them to discover who the old wo-
men, beggared in purse and reputation, are. The
more knowing will be supplied instead with 0-3
fine a specimen of a British snob as they are
likely to find after a protracted inquiry. Their
Yankee tricks will be read at home with as much
surprise as interest. We had no idea of the
verdant nature of the "Yanks" who cross the
Atlantic, nor had those who remain in New Eng"
laud. We dare say the Californian, the Southerner,
the Westerner, are all included in the correspon-
dent's term " Yankee," though few of them have

reached suc!i a pitch of refinement. The good Nevi
Yorker, when he dies, goes, they say, to Paris
and we suspect that it will prove these ghosts wil°
are endeavouring', through these women, beggared
in purse and reputation, to be reintroduced into
the "world."

COURSE OF EXCHANGE—Last Evening•

Amsterdam Short ... 11 191 ... 11 101
Do
Rotterdam — ... 12 1 ... 12 11
.
Antwerp ... 25 371 ... 25 421
Brussels — ... 25 37; ... 25 42*
Hamburgh — ... 13 10/ ... 13
2210 i
Paris ' Short ... 25 15 ... 25 i
Ditto
Mraseilles
Frankfort-on-the-Main ••• -, •.. 1201
190/
Vienna — ... 12 20 ... 12 30,
Trieste — ... 12 20 ... 12 321
Petersburg
Copenhagen.
Berlin
1
Madrid..
Cadiz
Leghorn
Milan — ... 27 10 ... 27 20
Genoa — ... 27 10 ... 27 20
Naples
Palermo — ... 27 10 .., 27 20
Messina
Lisbon — ... 521 .., 521
Oporto — ... 52 ... 52*
Rio Janeiro - ••• -- ••• -
New York

Foreign Mail Packet List.

MAILS DUE.

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Births. lit
COBB—On the 22d inst., at Adderbury, near Banburil
wife of T. E. Cobb, Esq., of a son.
,„, WO'
Kriox—On the 22d inst., at 13, St. James's-plaoot
Mrs. Stuart Knox, of a son.
RUSSELL—On the 22d inst., at The Mount, Northfloe"
wife of John Russell, Esq., of a daughter.
Marriages.
(4.10i14
DETEREVIC—BARWISE—On the 23d kat at St.
Camberwell, Edward William Devereux" of Tbo,,‘"" of
to Eliza, youngest daughter of John BarwiSe,
D 644
Grove-lane, Camberwell. 11 J
WARWICK—CARTER—On the 22d inst , at Stock's.° r of
A. Warwick, to Florence Marion, youngest daughteo,l6
the late W. Francis Carter, Esq., M.D., R.N., of 11W.5
Northamptonshire.
Deaths.
(.1e Veill
EDWARDES-- On the 23d inst., in London, Major-`-"
Sir Herber( B. Edwardes, K.C.B. and K.C.S.I. v 44
HANKEY—On the 22d irot., John Barnard HaulieSi
of Fetcham Park, aged 83. cool'
SNOW--On the 13th inst., at Pinner, Mrs. Christian''
aged 93.
SIMP,ON—At his residence, 266, Regent-street,
Simpson, Esq., aged 74. rAtlrelA
WILLOWS -- On the 20th inst., John Willows, Tho --
Hornsey, and 101, High Holborn, aged 41.

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