The republic., 1852-06-28
Pari. Correspondence OF tho Republic.
PANS, June Ii, 1852


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Paris Correspondence or the Republic.
PANS, June Ia, 1852.
The rupture between the government and the
COnstitutionne has filed the interval snce my last
communication. It hardly seems worth while to
go back fortnight and give detailed history Of
this very curious affair. But the consequences
have been serious to the confidential organ Two
warnings from the Ministry OF Police, which leave
the paper in state OF very disagreeablc uncer-
tainty to the future intentions Of the authorities
the dismissal from the editorial corps Of the writer
who had undertaken to speak for the government
without authority de Cassagnac; his omis-
sion, at dinner given at the Elysee to the repre-
sentatives from his department Of whom he is one
and given, propaby, expressly to show that he was
not invited; and the disgrace of the proprietor of
the ConstitutionneI, DR.. Veron, who persisted in
declaring his belief that Cassagnac had been
directed by the President to indict the incrimi-
mated articles DR.. Veron's fall is terrible, and
his modification complete. His fetes cham.
petres at Auteuil, which he meant should
be feature of the year, have been source
OF annoyance to him rather than Of gratiica
ton. Many cards Of invitation sent to the minis
ters and generals were returned without answer
in other cases previous engagement was plead as
ascent, which was prepared for the amusement OF
large concourse of spectators, was executed be
fore thin sprinkng of literary men and artists.
The Constituti0nneI has, since its second warning
held its tongue upon all subjects Of interior con-
cernj 1t has fixed its gaze on Botany Bay,
Cayenne, and the mines in Cornwall. II
has been rumored that the place Of Cassagnac
will be filed by Gueronnere, who is to desert from
the Pays; but this ia probably premature. Louis
Napoleon seems to have walked up to q conscious
ness of the injury that may be done him by over
officious, unscrupulousy jealous friends; the Con
sttutionnd has seriously prejudiced him by think
ing it necessary to assail Arago Changarnier, and
Lamoriciere, on account Of their refusal to take
the oath; and in many other ways has it's III.
judged zeaotry alienated rather than won. But
this seems now to be in a fair way of improve
ment.
The Council of State is engaged in celebrating a
law having for its object the laying Of sumptuary
duty upon dogs and upon horses and vehicles kept
for pleasure, and not in any way used for trans
porting articles of trade. Ills proposed that the
duties be levied in the following proportion:
Dogs, throughout France, franco per head per
annum; vehicles four wheels in Paris 100 francs
per annum; vehicles on two wheels in Paris, 6O
francs per annum
In communes containing from four 10 fifty thou
sand inhabitants vehicles four wheels 90 francs;
vehicles on two wheels 30 francs.
In oommunes containing over fifty thousand in
habitants vehicles four wheels, 80 francs; vehi-
cles on two wheels, IS francs.
And in communes containing less than four
thousand Inhabitants, vehicles four wheels 80
francs, vehicles on two wheels Is francs.
do not learn what the Ia upon horses is to be;
it possible that the duty upon the vehicles includes
that upon the horses necessary to draw them. But
there is still large number Of saddle horses,
which would thus be exempt. Wheelbarrows,
used by children for conveying their pies from
place to place, seem to have been entirely over
looked, and yet some hundreds Of these voitwss de
lure may be seen every day at the Tuilerics.
The effect Of the tax upon dogs will be TO dimn-
ish their number one-third, at lcast; and no one
would be sorry at such a result. The Prcfect OF
Police has issued his annual bulletin of directions
to be followed by all those who may chance to be
bitten by dog, whether known to be mad not.
The dog not be killed. but taken alive If pos.
sible to the Veterinary College at Abort that his
malsdy may be proved. The wound must be
pressed in every way. in order TO squeeze out the
blood and the venom |; II must be washed with ley
or salt water; and finally must be cauterizcd with
piece Of iron-wbether a nail, key, or any thing
that may come bandy-heated white. All this the
victim must do for himself, If no physician can be
obtained at once. Above ALL the patient must be.
ware Of chsrlatans, who cell specifics against mad
ncss; whereas none but csoterizaton has az yet
been found 10 be OF the least avail. Hydrophobia
is frequent enough in France to be regarded
veritable scourge; and a little dimnution in the
number Of dogs will not, imagine, be regarded
with dsfnvor.
The Csorirari represents the whole dog owning
population resorting TO every possible sbift to
cvrde the tar. and has the picture Of gentleman
place Of her lap-dog, which be has sold account
of the duty with which be would be soddled If he
kept him.
The Nonii,,u announces that il is not the inten-
tiop Of the government to enforce the Observance
Of the Sabbath by law, aud 70 order the closing Of
the shops ball rooms, cs,ro., &C, on the seventh
day. No sensse person ever supposed that this
was the intonton of the government. IL simply
impossible to make and enforce such a law, and
that is reason enough why no prudent government
win ever undertake il. Not all the police Of Paris
could keep order at the barriers on Sunday, If the
little green tables and The beer and the fried pota-
toes, md the blue wine, were put under lock md
key. The hundred thousand able. bodied men that
smuse themsclvos in the open air ON Sunday after
would positively almost be match for the army
il any such law should suddenly deprive them OF
right they consider imprcsoriptible An affair Of
conscience s not subject for legislation. II is
true. that in the United States the lave require the
observance, to some extent, of the seventh day
Bot in the United States this law is sustained and
seconded by the manners OF the people or, rather
the manners existed before the law, and the law
only embodied and sanctioned n prevalent and
widely spread custom. Bot In France IL would be
an evident infraclion of the acquired habit. and
tastes OF the people. Reform the manners and NOR.
ais of the French nation, IL you can md then
make your laws to render tho reformation pcrma-
nent and traditional. Bot in making Law in de-
hance Of the spirit OF the people, you encounter a
resistance which will prove in the end invincible.
." II is not question:" as the Deban well says,
I" that depends upon the government, but upon the
governed ] firmly believe that Sunday Law
passed just now, at the commencement Of summer,
would not only head to bloodsbed. but would pro-
ducc revolution that would overthrow the govern.
ment
The Berlin Eladsradufsh, or Punch, has Just been
stopped on the frontiers OF France, and notice given