New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-11-05

ration Of the immacu lat- conception OF the virgin
does not settle il the official announcement that
the Fmpre,s Eugene has entered upon the NTH
month OF her pregnancy in perfect heii'h, ana the
cop,equeDt prescribed clerical Thanksgiving
throughout the empire, helps as llttle; Inc ease
;,b ,yLicb rloans are raised and the def:i in
the grain crop 20 very little way toward explain
log IT, The national prosperity OF which such boast
il made, does not solve it nor pronise % solve H.
IL seems that national prosperity III "ouh DC
more cor ect to say national wesltn-gro"s along
aide Of growth in popular misery In other words
while French lands, houses, stocks, grams ana
,ne,,s have rsen within few years from third
10 half in money value workmSns wages have
not ri,en quarter in their rates. This Is gener
n proposition aud in general is true, not"ths' and
irg exceptional qualifications that any one may
poiui out The SUN Of natiOoal wealth increases
hut the poor are growing poorer whle the rIch sre
growing richer. The diEproPortion between la.
boreTs' wages and the price OF articles cahed oil
mime necesfity, is widening year bJ year-more Il
iears of bad harvest than in years o. good harvest
Int ever widening This is true, not only OF Paris
and France but 10 greater or lees extent OF other
western European countries. And u i worm our
while 10 consider whether II may not oecom7 true
-wie'her the seeds for ats gro wing true are not
already plapted-in the American ecOnOmic1 social
ty,t.m But heaven forbid that should ran lato
any efsa,inq Of socialism here. To those Who may
think already that hat has Just been sad smells
of that rank ofene or that II is tnctured-not 20
say stained IbrOueb-Tcd, with exaggeTa'lOn, let me
| commend the careful perusAl Of the recent works
| of lie Play ard DucpftauX-" Les OHrr'eTs LETo-
"plens, ,iudes sur les harGu1, Ia RE d0nesii7He Il
Ia condition morale, des populations Ourricres dr.
| "ff uTope by the first, ind BRfgets EconO-
miquc dfs oas"s Ourricns en- Bdgiqne by the
| secOI famed Of these gentlemen These works
| Lave a twOfud value-hrst, a. the well-arrhnged
On bodiment Of very extensive and careful lnvest-
cation into the condition OF the working classes
aLd fecondly. as being the productions OF persons
occupying each under bis respective conservative
government high official stations. This last men,
| TONED fact will secure their authority doubtless,
| fu IN that suspicion which always hOyers IN GER
tain minds over the best confirmed statements snd
most logical deductions Of 4" Socialist writers
! Tie various remedies for the social evils of which
they treat suggested by these authors, are too nu-
| uefous TO be here set down even in the form oil
catalogue Among them will be found, under
other names reorganization Of labor, association,
interference with the so-caled rights OF property,
and much else that presented by other authors,
We have so often heard roundly abused. But
must omit further notice OF these truly valuable
works
The general eoverDmtn Mt, municipal councils AMI
private persons Of thoughtful and charitable minds
are much occupied with the means-all mostly
proyi,iopal-for allevatng the anticipated suffering
among the poor during the coming Winter The
new regulation i'm regard to the sale Of butchers
meat in Paris went into effect lat Tuesday. An
ordinance Of the project of police, posted in all the
butchers shops, fixes the prices at which the diff
ferent kinds and qualities Of meat of which there
| are len categOries,' must be sold This tariff,
which is TO be reconsidered, and if ne ed be- altered
| every fortnight 10 calculated on the mean whole
sale price of the live animals at the markets, quail
fed by the net weight of saable meat they furnish,
by the expenses of slaughteriDg octro mpost, etc,
e. 4 IL Lvtn har ThA ratna Of hIa
tariff are much lower than the prices Of last week.
Your readers may like to compare some of them
with TIE TRIBUNE's tables Of NewYOrk family
marketing. Ok beef, best pieces, excepting the
tenderloin, seventeen cents the pound; poorest
| pieces nine cents; COW beef best fifteen cents
| second best, twelve cents poorest seven cents;
mutton, best, seventeen cents. One would say that
an easier way to settle the matter would be TO
leave the sale Of meat to free competition but the
economists Of the city government are almost IA lit
tie inclined to such a as the butchers them
selves. These la.t grumbe bitterly over the new
RI eulation but are too small class to disturb the
authorities by their grumbling, with the mass of
| citizens against them.
| A queer affair-they call il a " rout here, and
| some call il a rOut Americana in their profound
| ignorance of the English language and American
manners and equally profound despair Of finding
| any one French word TO define it a queer affair
| / say, came off a, the great Hotel de Louvre In
/
benefit, an advertisement, of the new house. 1t
was a sort of party, masculine party, what is
| sometimes called gander party. comp )sed of ex-
hibitOrs at the Palais Crystal and any other num-
| Der Of mankind who chose to pay twenty francs
| and 20 in to see the really magnificent hotel and
look at the Prince and Their chance of getting
something to eat and drink and to recover their
sticks and overcoats at the end of the row. The
good hide Of il that the receipts over expenses
| were given to the poor. The hotel as / said, is
really magnificent in its way-larger than the st.
Nicholas, furnished and Ornamented in much bet
ter taste, accommodations less expensive and more
comfortabe-apd DO murders in the bar room
Dom Piatt our sometime secretary Of legation,
has left Paris on his way home. The legation
itself has almost left-tbe office being moved up to
Mr.. Mssons residence in the rue de Beaujou which
s on the outer verge of the city. In spite offeeble
health, Mr.. Mason holds on to the berth yigor-
ousy. After all, for anything really done by the
| legation, any one man who can sligo passport is
as fit for il as another. We regret the loss of Mr..
Piatt then not that by bis departure the legation
is shorn Of diplomatic strength, but because we
love the pleasant intercourse with hearty, friendly,
much-loyed gentleman
Apropos-I have lately had the good fortune TO
hear some pages read from work entitled " inner
"iean Diplomacy abroad by late Charge dAf-
"fairts" The writer has the great advantage over
many authors of being what he pretends to be, and
knowing what he writes The book will startle
those who still believe in the importance of our
foreign diplomatic establishments /; it will smuse
or sadden the rest of u.s. according as our philoso.
ply, or our temperament-which has much more
to do with the matter teaches US TO laugh or to
cry over human folly For our author aims clearly
and cOpyncinply, by facts more than argumepts-