New-York daily tribune., 1851-07-17
FRANCE.
Hotels in PariS-Americans Here-Fashiona-
able eShopkeepers-Persons- ons-Things-Debate
in the Assembly Oh Free Trade IS Tariff
Association.

Correspondence OF ne Tribune.
PARIS Thursday, July g.
As Americans are hocking to Paris, and
may not know the best, and at the same time,
the cheapest hotels, let me recommend the ifo-
tel CastigliOne, u Rue CastglOne, close by the
Tuileries, commanding the groves of the gar
den in hot weather. the long arcades of the
quarter IN wet weather, and within two minutes
walk OF the Bouevards and the Champs ElySees.
with superior table and attendance
Marvellous is the number of Americans now in
Paris 1t gives the shopkeepers ideas on the
greatness of our country to find such quantities
of the natives abroad-eSpecialy American la
dies who are devoted to the fashions, and pay
like martyrs The money spent in this way, put
into bushels of wheat sent from the interior,
would make a frghtiul figure, and should cause
us to pause in the career of spending abroad.
There is among our ladies away from home a
kind OF supposed wager, which shall lay out the
most money in dress, SO rs to cut the finest Inquire
on her return The French fashlon.mongerS are
not slow to avail themselves of this amlable
weakness. and, accordingly our fair peripa
tetics don't find French things cheap The
dame dc compton is business-beauty that has
parallel out of Paris If she marry, IL Is iair
business transaction-SO much additional Gus
tom and If she love, the less that Is SAID the
better For example, an American lady OF my
acquaintance, who gets her fine things at GER
tam shop. was informed by the head OF the
establishment of her (the head's) intention 10
get married 4" am making great preparations
for the event 1t will extend my business One
dav the American lady found some carriages at
her door, and out got the bride, leaving her huS-
band. The BRIDE walked up stairs. " Madame,
I've ust been marricd-am returning from
church do look at my dreSs-examne these
laces TIN, is the style We do things IN. Should
any american ladies' want trousSeaux at our mag
a,fn-this Is the mode now-charming for
blonde as well as a brunette. 4 very trying GER
emony-gett!ng married but this dress Is
much admired-the church service was so nice
our new stock Will be opened next Monday
! am quite agiated, assure you-les Ameri-
canes are as amiable as beautiful, and may we
count on the cOmplalsance OF Madame and her
friends +" &c.
i went Yesterday with NJ Vattemere to the
Library of the Assembly. E;e pointed out, with
pride. the American legal and political works he
had placed there, through his international eff
forts On this idea he liyes-to exchange the
minds OF the two countries. AT the RIblloteque
this exemplary gentleman has placed some iye
thousand OF the most esteemed American works
IA monument of his devotion TO a good cause.
Americans cannot be too civil to him, or make
too pointed recognition OF his worth.
There is calm IN affairs. Generaitles and
par,iculari,ies regarding the Worlds Exhibition
are nearly exhausted. The American part of
the products having received It's portion OF con-
tempt and the British It's OF gorlilcalon the texts
from the Crystal Palace are less cogent
Mr. Dudley Mann is now In Paris, with his
son, very accomplished young man yet IN his
minority, who speaks, yernacularly, four Ian
guaCes Mr Mann intends TO go to Switzerland
TO finish of the treaty he made with the Gov
eminent, which Las been slightly modified by
cur Senate.
-Mr RiveS and Mr. Sandford are in London,
looking al the things in the FAIR.
A grand concert took place at the new Sale
constructed on acoustic principles. NleuX-Temps,
the most IluStrlOuS of viollnlsts, played piece
twenty-five minutes long. In honor of the
Americans abroad, he titivated up our heroic and
classic melody, Yankee Doodle. making that
brightest beam of the sun of Apollo shine on
PariSdom-wbo, up 10 this time, have not been
so Illuminated. So travels Art. There Is after
all. hope for humanity Suspended from the
ceiling, like musical chandelier was a circu-
lar platform. Herein was placed a chorus.
These anal harmoncs softly wooed the ear but
did not fully satisfy the critics.
The present monotonious current OF French pol
Trade
From the time Of the Grand Colbert what
ever fux and retiux there may have been IN the
tide of French progress, the State has been an
chored to the rock of selhshness, In her inter
course with the rest of the world As regards
persons passports to let one inand out of the
territory, and a system of espionage almost unex-
ampled for its low, coarse, sneaking, beggarly
procedures, have uniformly marked her and,
touching things nothing is let freely into France
that can be taxed, until the very steeple OF the
edifice OF foreign products is covered with the
waters Of prohibition. This compound system has
TO an equal effect the means OF lowering morals
as well as productive energy hence few years
ago, the Minister OF Commerce said, that II
French merchants did not mend their morals, the
trade of France would be ruined, and the Minis
ter of the Interior declared that the laws were
made for Frenchmen, not for foreigners.
When the hollow cant of national intercourse
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