New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-05-30


be notes among our peculiar Institutions the fire.
quent and populous bar-rooms, co-religious
mob, street-preaching demonstration in the
Park, ard perhaps fashionable soiree-beiny a
shrewd observer, what else is left for him than
to observe that NEWCOMERS and consequently
Americans are not domestic in their habits and
have 10 idea Of the chez OF the foyer of home in
the true sense Of the word
A lively, rattleheaded French woman, who
visited our country apparently on an unsuccessful
millinery speculation, has returned and recently
published a book entitled LAutre Monde. This
"other world which is certainly quite different
from what YOU have seen in this, is the world as
she saw il in the steamboats,, hotels and streets OF
the United states. My hOnOred friend Prof. j.
assured me that lie could not read it with dry
eve that be still achcd in the sides for laughing
over its pages. Ny friend Green took q different
view Coming to passage where the lively ie-
male compares American and French domestic life
10 the great disadvantage, almost to the denial OF
the former his vexation broke cut with some
warmth The impudent Partisan troope, 20
pretend that we have no notion and practice OF
4" domestic life, when in fact there Is no such
" thing properly as home and family in France "
beg your pardon, sad soOthingly, but did you
ever chance to visit in French family Ny
friend Green never did so chance. But he has
resided in France several months-HOtet des
FtTGngers rue dc la Justice. His personal observa
ton OF French household ia limited to that of the
concierge Martin and his wife, by the necessities
Of their profession q rory housekeeping couple.
To return to tie Nectqr des Families 1t is a
new drink the next tier Of capitals informs us-a
piece Of Information rendered interesting BY the
present high price of wine, owing 70 the bad grape
crops of the last three years. and the perpetual
~ bad water Of Paris. Unhapply we do not
escape the bad water by paying the high price for
the vine. According to the official returns OF
the octr0i, little over one million of hectotres
- of wine are brought into Paris annually yet the
annual consumption is estimated at million
and a half of hectOlitres. The miracle IL ex-
planned by the well-known fact that the waters
OF the Seine pay no octrOi duty on entering with
in tie city limit.
The new drink, healthful and nectaran, costs
but four sous Jug.
Tie closing line assures a public, nationally sus-
picous in these times Of almost universal iasliica-
ton and poisonous druggery, that the family nectar
is authorized IN Monsieur le Pr.fet he Poiice'
Revolutionary as your Partisan is when the tit
takes him. no one is more regardful of authorities,
regulations OrdoInances, Office and officials than he
when in his normal state. To such passion for
regulating ard being regulated there are, as 20
most things, two sides TIE remark is not en-
tirely nv own The good side Is that things if
over-reeulated too often, are on the whole well
regulated On this account it is not TO be denied
that life-iI you have money enough to support it
is more oonr6nitHt mot so 'much of a chore, as
the elderly Massachusetts, lady remarhed) in this
city than in some others we wot of. The bad side
il that people get so good care taken OF them by
tie Police that they do not learn or they easily
forget how to take care ofthemselges Ii Is under
stood that here only the nOnpOlitcal Police is in
question.
One day some years ago my excellent friend Or.
Growler, who was then lately returned from
abroad and myself were walking down broadway.
When we reached the corner OF Chambers-st our
progress was stopped and our eyes and ears were
struck with one of those blockings up of vehicles
and accompanying righteousness of drivers, which
were not uncommon in those days wherever
lateral street crossed the great thOroughfare The
vehcular snarl was complicated; the dlcti0n EN-
ploy Cd by parties most interested in its unrayeng
was ineleqant You would nothing like that
in Paris, said the doctor testify, before matters
cane to this pass there would have been ScrgeHs
de rifle on The ground to still the drivers and de-
eide tie order of their going. do not see the su
perio1ty of your foreign system, | replied testify
II had then been abroad and did not like national
comparfons); these men can get out OF the scrape
prefently by their own good sense and the demo
cratic principle They did. The Broadway ma
iority soon got the better Of the Chamberst-st mi
nority ind drove on.
After all, even French Police rests several de-
erees this side that perfection as protective inst
tuition which the admirers Of the system love to at
tIbutetoit Vehicular snarls reckless driving quar-
rels. accidents and murders all occur fr)m time TO
time in the streets even of the metropolis. Let
these who doubt turn for ready proof To u hle oil
the Gazcite des Truman or the Reports of the
Minister of Justice Thus in criminal matters only,
tie Courts of Assize of the country have cogni-
zance Of between 10000 and 1000 crimes yearly
of lesser naughtinesses, such as are dealt with IN
the Courts of Correction over 100 900 persons are
annually accused. Nor do these somber figures
mint the dark truth blacker than it is for not all
rogues ere caught even in France.
there is cOmmendable care for the public
shown in this notice which is repeated every year
in all the Wards of Paris In il the Mayor has the
honor of informing the inhabitants within bis uris
dictiCn that gratuitOus vaccinations will be per-
formed every day at the Marie. All children
without exception may be brought there. lnd-
gent persons are informed that they will receive
sthIee francs Ia large days wages for each child
they submit 10 the operation, and that in case Of
neglect so to do they will forfeit their claim 10 as
sistance from the bVreGH de Renaissance. Here is
another poster If official authorship-somewhat
defaced now for il dates from last Winter-where
the Mayor calls on the well-to do residents to con-
tIiluie in aid of their ill-tO-do neiglbors of the
Wad. Depend upon it, the appeal was answered
These Parissns are kindly folk TO give aims is a
precept Of religion for which they show practical
respect that would he creditsble 10 more specula-
lively de, out communities. This marked quality
Of Tiers does not seem 20 have attracted the no.
tee Of observsut travellers much as their levty.
There is 10 end OF descriptions of the public balls
oftle asureloying Parisians We read little of
their charitable balls, though the wall tells me
they are not unlrequent And what like better
is Il cir charitable dinners; no; dinners got up, as
il were with yqqfre prepsnss for a charitable end.