New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-05-25
FRANCE.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Improvements.

lie tables are IuIutcs anu CpufttoA'''A
them. leaving stsgnant politics in silence The tables
are turned the old world borrOws its fashions from the
new: French furniture undergOes German lnvasloo
The moving Of tables by imposition OF hands whlch mas
been amusement my stery common enough IN Amer
lea for the last three years rst excited yer
many weeks from the present date. Now tins pnenom-
non il reproducing itself with wonderful yyaey In fars
and the provinces 1t is all the go With the meaes or
novahles as they are fifty named Of TINS )Pe
Tie method fdeveOping the latent ST Ntusdance that
seems 10 reside in all table legs is Of the simplest
number Of persons in proportion 20 The size OF the
spBjecf form circle about IT, II is indifferent to the Ell
feet Whether they believers or unbeeyers IN their
own influence whether they are simple LAY men or earn
Cd clerks political Facing bOth-ways, human hello
fropes aways turning TO the rising power or con-
sstent men They lay their hanos on the table which
after an imposition OF from ten 10 thirty minutes dura-
ton begins 70 wrggle then to hoist leg or two, then
70 lead off reelng dance about the room, with the cir
Gle of operators for partners Such are the leading ea-
lures Of experiments daily reported IN the news
papers Many laugh at all this; some believe; scisn-
ifc assistants look grave and keep their own counsel
unable 10 explain, unwilling 70 confess ignorance OF the
cause Of the phenomenon The very indefinite and I'M
satisfactory notion that there is something in il" Is
growing one among the spectators Of successful expert
mens The only one that have witnessed was an emil
neny unsuccessful one pTactlced on equity writing
stand and resulting in nothing but loud laugh from the
by.sitters Az said above however the new move
rert in French cabinet work is the topic of the day,
partly for H. novelty, and partly because It u one OF the
few topics that may be freely discussed II 1t goes on
much longer the Academy Of Sciences will be likely to
set Committee on b. il; then We shall have Reports
darkening knowledge some newer wonder will come
10 occuuy public attention aud relations to the rest
Of the Univ rise viii remain much Of a mystery as
they have been for the last six thousand years But not
20 be too crave o. dul which is much the same thing
over lis gneOanimsl magnetism close the paragraph
with a relevant anecdote, taken from German paper
which il characteristics if not true: Several young
painters at Heideburg listening to an account read
by one OF their number, OF famous case OF ischraeteH
reported in an Augsburg paper The idea came INTO
their heads 10 Try similar experiment. As no table
was al hand they substituted wooden mannikln, such
as is used BY artistic placing il its hands and knees In
the middle Of the studio. In the first quarter OF an
hour il began 10 tremble The magnetsers encouraged
by success rodoubled the efforts Of their Wills aud
charged the mannikin strongly with the mysterious
motive fluid that il squirmed and wrgged and hoped
and presently starting 70 It's feet dashed round the room
in pursuit of the accidental young Frankenstens who
only saved themselves by boiling out of the door, and
slammng II in the face OF their wooden persecutOT
Here in France hats well tables yie ding to
the attractions Of the new motive power, wherein q
rhymcr satiIizes as follows:
i est sssez de gems en- France
Fq Ho ne Rs.. %i ne. 'a ssSss ss e'''
There is nothing from the Tuileres. The En-
press is doing well the Emperor is doing IS usual.
Quite at the other end of the word-of Paris on the
raggedest outskirts Of its society, there is agitation
enough rumOr runs among the Clif0HSrs, aud gains
credit in their "wellinomed circles that their bust
ness is 20 be destroyed 1t is said that measure which
Louis Phippe's Government was not strong enough 70
carry through is about 70 be put in execution. House
holders will be forbidden to throw anything into the
public way baskets will be placed at their doors az an
early hour in the morning to receive all the miscellaneous
ocasng Of the preceding day which will then be imme
distely removed And so Paris loses another of its
cbaracteristcs-the phlosophc chonier with his great
paner on bis back the catholic receptacle of all things
searching with his lantern along the streets of the city
like another DiOgenes defty gathering good out of evil
and profit out Of other mems waste or loss An urban
Bomad wsnderer in the ctys wilderness, living trust
fully from day to day on its Outsweepng sud oiscour
ing which are its nightly falling Ii ia not said
what provision is be made for his tribe when their
occupation is gone. They number some thousands aud
are strongly attached TO their mode Of life which has
its charms of uncertainty and of hopes OF lucky findings
Tales current in the guild of ancient ChifOriers y
ING in distant quarters who have found silver forks and
gold spoOns-thOugh these tales are fear, ornate le
gerds aded by tradition bordering rather myth than
on history, dependent for their credbiity less
Poseror foundation of facts than on che Pr0r prOba
bility deducible from a human weskness-the care
lessness of hOusemaids Be that il may they have
their attractive infuence-they are the romance of
the rag-pickeT's life. The freedom from the " Con
"ventialfies is another charm, priced and rel
ished as much by a Partisan ChifOner as by one Of
our far west pioneers or trappers. The hereditary
of the more regular industrial classes those who
adopt the profession from choice reduced 70 il
by the folly Of their former lives by last necessity,
seldom desire to renqush it, The hereditary members
of the Tribe in general the most respectable. No
one need laugh use the word sdvisedly; there are
respectable Chioners there are honest lawyers aud
dsinterested politicians and sefsacriicing ocehOders
Nor do social distinctions among them stay this They
have their upper classes who carry large strong baskets
and brass mounted pickstcks and are on terms with
the b0HseS and p0rs Of the street they sTpiOH and
sell their well assorted gathering only the weeks end
Men Of substance these with perhaps something IN the
Savings bank At the other end Of their social ladder
are the poor al fifth and rsgs hardly distin-
guisbabe from the heaps of Ota they cropping among
their faces deep rutted with Viee misery IL is that
sort Of that appear the Ope. light a. promenade
hours when revolutions break out much 10 the srsrse
Of stupid historians and others who then rst learn of
their existence and pay rather dearly for the unwecome
information Let Us be very thankful that there is no
thing Of the kind-being or becomng-in NeE-YOrk
The writers of the saiei0Hs de BOHrse e. Money an
ces Of 81 the newspapers Of Paris were invited last
week TO assemble at the Ministry Of Police They were
there informed =. az Government hsd is eyes upOn them
ready 10 punish them severely for anything appearing in
sheir accounts oftte Money market which should ress
be attempt 81 interested exa.gera.isn The exray-
sgant speculation 10 all sorts Of stocks With vaEe and
OF value, is Of reasonable anxiety 10 the Gov
eminent. source OF anxiety in other quarters il the
free expenditure BY the city authorities fer tAe new
streets nov building, and other Embellishments Of the
Metropolis. The horifew came cut on Saturdsy NTH
soothing article on this heedat least Il was intended 10
dispate the fears Of taxpayers should say the logic
of it was not Of the soundest do not refer 10 IN Now
ever for the sake OF criticism but to quote as matter
of curiosity one two Of It's statements The consc
ton Of the great Central Market now going on viii o
the CITY ever 81 100000 france This Includes the pur
chase money for part Of the site and the expense Of
enlarrDg some Of the neigbborng streets The erten