The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-07-12

A Dutch vessel OF arTfved and TOOK away the
chip and the Batavia authorities say that any claim for
salvage be duly decided by the courts o. Batavia
Captain Tucker then pu, the matte into the hands of the
Consul and the American sloop o.wa Portsmouth
sbly wen, to about 1t, bu. believe take In the
ratification OF the American treaty with SIAM
The dates frosa Foo Cboo the 3oth OF April and
mention the approach OF the rebels, causing
considerable uneasiness among the merchants and
wealthy people, who removing their property. A
soppsge Of trade anc ed and operations
could be carried on for the next season.
A. Hong Kong asiness very quiet and freighu
altered.
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
LONDON MONEY MARKET.
Money active at unchanged rates. Consos opened q
shade higher than yesterdays rates. but subsequently
pereuced fall, and closed dull at OK 92s for
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.
LIVERPOOL. June 80, 1851
The cotton market to-day closet quiet but firm, at
about previous prices The sales for the last three days
foot up 10 bales or which taken By specu
900 for export The advces from Manchester
are favorable.
LIVERPOOL BREADsruFFs MARKET.
Bresdstuns generally dull The weather reported "a
vorabe the crops Notwithstanding my days
recently Flour quiet Richardson, speuce& Co quote
Western OF 30s Cd Sis Cd Phil telpha and Baltimore
sl, 99s Cd; Ohio s2s. Cd 3ss Cd wheat s. Cd
n
36s. Q Sos Cd: yellow 36s Sos Sd whi.e s9s. 40s.
LIVERPOOL PROVISION AAREET, ETC.
s Is SS e.a sso ad Bss
steady. Pork dull Bacon quiet Hugar qdos. Tea has
Is.sa A advance or " and Is in seSs
qualities. Pet and pearl ashes quiet
LONDON MARKETS.
Sugar closes dull o decline OF Cd. Ia. Coffee firm.
Rice closes bu,yant In tea there is large speculative
inquiry, and common Congo commands Is 3D.
rHx VERY LATEST.
LvsRrool, July LII o'clock p NJ
Rreadstuas quiet and unchanged.
Provisions dull.
Produce quiet
Tea active ai the advance.
Our Paris Correspondence.
PARIS, June "a, 1867.
lpar4s out ofthe Season-7he CITY Through Ams
rtcan Eyes-Oddity of Charaetsr-A French
Hotel The Sights of Par;s-7he Paintings at
the Palace of Industry-7he Sireefs-7ne Police
The Emperor at 81 Cioud-Reguiation of Car.
riages-Some Words for the Ladiss-Art and
Notwithstanding Nice for Nec York, &c, &c.
Everybody" said fop to the old Duke Of Queens
bury, everybody out of town. "Shll" return
ed the duke, "there are q great many more people
in town than there are in the country" This find
to be the case at Paris; although the best society
has taken its fight 10 the country, TO Plombieres
to Baden, to the Rhine the Pyrenees still there
are a great many people left-still the Boulevards
are crowded with representatives Of every nation
under the tun-sti the theatres are full-still the
Champs Elys6e and the Bots de Boulogne display
hundreds OF elegant equipsRes-stIl the coffee
houses present collection Of subjects particularly
interesting to the student Of human nature.
Ones first impressions Of great capital like Pa
ris are Ike ones first trowsers first visit TO the the
atre first prize at school, first pocket money, first
filtration first anythng-n fac, something too de
hoious to lie described. We know very well what
makes New York great, wealthy, prosperous city.
We can't help knowing that it rs com nerce-we
tumble over too many boxes and bales 70 forget il.
We see written In every mans face trade, business
OF some kind or other. But Paris is a place where
people seen to live only for pleasure. Paris is all
ebow-all glitter. Our people have too few holidays
too little relaxation. In Paris every Sunday is
fets OF course In such state of society there are
q great many people, foreigners especially, who
make excess of enjoyment and soon become bast;
but your true Partisan is a child always, while ia
America 20 severe il the discipline Of life at least
among the DOOR that one can hardly rem smber that
he ever a child at all.
The last letter of this series left the tourist in the
Rue Saint Lazare, after an exceedingly comfortable
railway tide. We will go now, If you please, TO
Files de IT. Thomas. The French hotel is quite a
different affair from the stor the 81. Nicholas.
This establishment is built in the shape OF quad
range, With a courtyard in the middle, garden &c,
&c. We enter ind + an archway, and on the right
is the porters Office. The porter il woman;
the 'chambermaid" Is a man. The head of the
bureau, corresponding TO the room clerk in an
American hotel, " pleasant lady. I paid for a
little parlor and bedroom on the third floor sixty
cents a day twenty cents for service aud twenty
cents (per weekly for light. You may dine at the
taoie dhote' by giving po,lce IN the morning, for
rant at Q fixed proe, sixty cents eighty cents or a
dollar Each dinner IS three courses dessert and
half bottle Of ordinary claret. Breakfast can be
had very good for forty cents No one takes break.
fast (which includes three dishes) before ten. or
dimes before ak. In the summer no one takes tea
or supper So you see how it foots up:-
Apartments and service, per day ..............sl
Breakfast and dinner .......... ''' ......... l
Tofal. ss.s.......s....t
Two dollars a day, and you may choose your own
hours. This lie much cheaper than any Of the so
called European hotels in New York, and Il Is Ger.
tainly much pleasanter than the hotels upon the
American plan. We have not the splendid parlors
there IL no gas In the rooms, nor water, but the
apartments are very comfortable, aud the beds
superb Whether the Paris plan would succeed in
New York cannot say, but I know that If must
live in hotel prefer those Of Paris 10 the great
csravsnssrios Of New York.
You will not expect page two OF the guide book
here with relation 10 the sights OF Paris, oescnp
ton OF the -four or FIVE miles Of paintings 10 the
Louvre statistical account OF the Tuileries. Bat
the vister 20 the Louvre after contrasting the chef
d'eurrs, Of the Flemish, Dutch and Italian schools
with The French, viii 20 away with the impression
that the latter nation is In the background At the
exhibition OF works Of living artists In the Paais de
rTndustrie you can for one franc two thousand
six hundred paintings very few Of them good for
much however. Horace Vernet has n portrait ~
che Emperor on horseback, with a grenader on one
SIDE and Zousve on the other. The soldiers are