New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-06-14

tiyely-royerned Europe within the past eign'cen
months; an extra million OF men in the same time
taken from home and set 10 learn or practice the
fobting trade; taxes increased, commerce shack.
Led food and property of various kinds burned and
otherwise destroyed, false pretenses, one OF the
chief of which ia religion, set up by all parties 10
the war .
raise no question mere as to which party is
,;cbt ifany marty be right, in this war Grant that
II is all right and necessary on either side or on
both sides. Only, according to my poor philosophy
of history family, property, and religion are not
in that high state OF protection and conservation
which the remarks of those who are never weary
of telling us that the European people are not mt
TO govern themselves might lead one to suppose
Compared with this present state Of things, the
outgo of experiments in Royal, Imperial and
other such conservative governing carried on now
for centuries, 1913 does not appear to be much OF
failure" after all
A question that is in a double sense vital one
in France, the bread question: is interesting the
Government almost much as the conduct of its
foreign affairs For something like two years now,
bread has been sold here in Paris at less than its
cost the difference being made up to the bakers, at
first Immediately from the City Treasury, now by
the Agency ofthe Bakers Bank, (Caisse de Ia Boa-
langerie in either case and always out of the pro-
ceeds of taxation, l. e., indirectly out OF the
pockets of the bread-eaters. The rate for first
quality bread fixed at 40 centimes say cents)
the kilOgramme 1.-TWO pounds; to keep up that
rate had cost the City of Paris 39,0OO,0O0 francs
up to the 18th of the present month At that time
the price was raised to As cenmes for first quality,
and proportionatey for second quality, which al
ways ranges few centimes lower Poor people
were and are allowed to buy at the old price on
sufficiently proving their scantiness of means.
When the price was fixed at 40 confines the sup
position was that the next plentiful crop would
reduce the cost quite below that rate which would
still be maintained until the city had been reim-
bursed for its outlay. The contrary has been the
case, so that to-day bread sold under the new rate
of 45 costs A confines; and as the poor If not
down to the starving-pOint of poverty, eat more
bread than the rich mot having edible substtutes,)
the total sale of bread in the city for any one day
is not paid for at cost Quite apart from the Expo
siton Orany other apparently accidental cause, the
price of all kinds of provisions of meats aud fresh
vegetables still more than of bread, has been for
the past three years rising steadily IN
Paris and in the Provinces. The result
is serious hardship and serious discomfort
among the working-classes, and people of small
fixed incomes. Mechanical and other hand labor
are the last kinds of values that rise in general
augmentation of prices though somewhat better |
paid here in Paris than they were few years ago,
the elevation of wOrkmen's wages is not in proper
ton to that of their needful expenses OF living.
Hence, as / said, general and growing discomfort, |
indicating itself occasionally in strikes, of which
have read dozen instances in the provincial /
journals of the past fortnight but expressed often
est almost universally in hard cOmplalnings. The /
law is severe in the way of depressing strikes and
Furnishing strikers. OF course no law can stop |
man ffom thinking his case is hard one, and
quietly SAYING as much. The Governments |
anxiety is lest the quiet style grow unquiet;
having forbid the people to take of themselves,
il proyokes them to demand care from it, and when
worse comes to worst calling it to sharp account
for lack of care Private individuals, scientific
and industrial, and Government as well-trom
mingled motives of philanthropy, ordinary SELF
interest and preservatiOn-are now at work,
Government perhaps most seriously OF all, trying |
to solve this bread question in practical way, by
making given weight of wheat yield greater
weight of bread than it has been in the habit OF
doing 1t is said that the Governments expert
ments at st. Denis are likely to be successful ~
furnishing bread at FIVE centimes less the kll0-
gramme, than by the old processes. An improved
process of grinding by which the woody part OF
the bran is separated more carefully than hereto
fore from every nutritious property of the wheat,
seems to promise something. Certain chemical
combinations threaten to increase weight and
volume without corresponding nutritious proper
tons i witnessed the other morning the result |
of the only experiment for cheapening this food OF
the poor that is yet in practical operation, with
painful interest. A baker in the Rae Rambeauteau |
advertised month ago on one OF his window
panes that bread was sold within "by permission
q of the Government at 80 instead of Al centimes
the kogTamme." The morning l visited his
establishment there was queue at the door, as
there is at the door of the theaters when p0pu-
lar piece is to be performed. 1t was composed /
entirely of the working classes, expressing on their
earnest countenances the extreme interest they /
took in this novel denOument of their seriously |
anfa ~
tacle called up scenes in the stirring drama of |
the old Revolution. Policemen were present to
keep order, which no one showed disposition |
to disturb. So fast customers were supplied |
they came out by another door with their pur-
chased leaf in hand, which was regarded as an OBJ |
ject of curiosity by the crowd in general and fire. /
quently submitted to the special examination OF |
some attendant acquaintance. Thus noticed two |
old women discussing m0rsel that had been |
thrown in to make up the legal weight of the four
pound loaf, with such look of puzzled, pleased |
intentness, as two naturalists would fix upon |
new-found bug They turned it over and over,
and broke it and pinched it, and, the final test,
munched it-fOr a moment experimentally, then |
with zest, declaring with infinite JUNCTION, mais
" eest bon, tout ie meme! The mystery in this case
is explained by the mingling of certain quantity
Ofrce with the wheat flour.
The free entrance to the Palace of Industry or |
dered and paid for by the Emperor, was fully APP
preciated by the Parisians last Sunday Not only |
the poor, persons of very small means, but num-
bers of the comfortable and even rich classes took
glad advantage of the admission gratis And this, |
In the case of these latter, was not entirely owing
to spirit OF money saving; for it was not entirely
an objection to paying money for a spectacle but
an objection in some part to taking up new habit,
that has kept them away from the Palace Of Indus
try and from the Exhibition des Beaux Arts. They |