The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-11-08
Our Paris Correspondence.

PARIS, Oct Is, 1851
Commercial Expansion ,n France--Ihs Cloud Be
fore the Storm-Cls0n S,ceep of american Spend
hrlffs -Abroad- Young 1fwat TO be Squeezed
into pe Danubian Principalities-7 The Emperor's
Speech ON Breaking up the Camp al Chaims-
Ne,p architectural Schemes Of his Majesty-Ths
Ne,c Market Place ST. Eustache-Cu,ious
Process against bfdHe. Perger, the Sister Of The
AssGssin--7He Opera, SC.
We are in possession of the most lovely weather
that the brightest October ever bestowed on man
even in Paris. The city is not ful-far from it-but
the note Of preparation is like the hum OF bees.
and swarms and honey are the latest dream and
waking thought of the native Partisan. Still there
il threatening cloud overhead, which many predict
will burst with thunderclap. The monetary crisis
in the United States, and now making itself visibly
felt in London cannot il is thought but extend itself
TO France where speculation has been playing such
pranks before high heaven that retribution is inev
table. For the moment there is certainly no sp
pesrance Of this. Prices asked and readily given
which ten years ago would read like fable. Every
shopkeeper. merchant lawyer. government official,
nay every subordinate employe for domestic wants,
il utterly transmogrifed, and little resembles his
former self ~ the cloudy window pane resembles the
brilliant mirror which reflects his image. The weak
and unstable mind that would be utterly prostrated
by reverse, = now elated beyond measure and II IL
no uncommon thing for the customer, aghast at the
augmentation of price, to be told, in the language of
Nautilus 10 begOne-that France has no vacant corner
for such be. As 10 houses, the very prOprict0rS
themselves are bewidered by the sums they obtain.
In all quarters new spring up, only u be FUR.
nished aud occupied before the plaster y dry: aud
tenants snatch at what y offered WIN the conNu-lNe
eagernes- Of those who know that what Is eXorbtant
today will probably be ten per cent higher tomorrow.
Il i not only strangers, or 70 speak correctly,
foreigners who flock TO the wondTous capital,
which, like a mighty vortex, absorbs all
the world into Ill gulf. but quiet pro-
vincias who never dreamed Of moving from
their native haunts, can no longer rest therc--aH
must come 10 Paris, al must run their brief hour
Of splendor in the Mecca Of fashion. The conse-
quence - that furnished houses now 100 or $50,
and sometime 800 per cent dearer than they were
two year, ago. Only two days ago. Of my own per.
sonsl knowledge, had proof 81 this. An apartment
which let In 1866. when newly furnished, FOR | 500
francs month. without the slightest improvement in
it, conveniences lets TO Russian family for 900
francs Agents tell you that they have only 10 open
their mouths wide enough, anu that sometimes even
their pruverbal audaciiy almost put TO the blush
And All this in spite OF serious deficiency IN the or
binary supply of American and English ysiters, who
this year especially the former. are little 70 be
counted upon. Indeed. the monetary crisis in the
United States has made clean sweep Of the spend.
ing American class. Many who on their travels had
written 10 their agents in Paris TO secure them, re-
rardess ~ price the most presentabe houses tor the
nv
ders OF paid forfeit aud expectation A.. that beyond
very ninitssimal portion. the American dollar VIII
find no representative here in the ensuing season.
" u the more unfortunate since, encouraged ny
their numerical and opuent phalanx ground has
this year been purchased In the Rue du Berry
for the erection Of beautiful chapel for the
exclusive use Of the citizens Of the United States,
and the buiding Is IN such an advanced state of
progress that viii be ready for opening by the end
Of the existing year. What to he done with W. /,
II In every one- mouth. seeing that while sccommo-
dation u provided for a thousand not tenth of the
number can I've found. " may be doubted whether
and u IL understood that the expense l. not less than
fl00 900 sterling-from the first, the pious on specu
latiye motive was not very unwisc. An English
chanel can always I've supported here II only from
the yisiters which arrive Saturday. stay Sunday
and leave for London the following day; but from
this supply an American chapel lSgecessarly cut
oT and IN the event Of any casua 7HaSe the present
interfering with the supply Of resident visers Il
must Of course remain an empty, though beautiful
monument Of pious intentions
II seems 10 lie generally supposed IN well inform
ed circles that the son Of Prince Mura grandson Of
Joachim King az Naples, will be squeezed into the
Danubian Principalitics. Napoleon IS unquestion
ably DESTROYS that he SHOULD'VE emperor y Hissla
IL understood 10 make no objection, and " y not
England or Austria who ri this present moment
can gainsay France. The young man y ~ tne
Guides and some three four years ago married the
only daughter ~ Prince De Wagram, son OF BeTthier
whose objection 70 tho comparative poverty o. TN
bridegroom was overruled II y said, by the hin'
that there was "still a crown in reserve. lie y
about twentyfouf year, Of age and the Princess ms
mother v. IN fact an American o. very humble ex
tmcton. We Is in person handsome. and preposessng
In manner; but there h nothing about him aitordng
the slightest indication of than average talent.
The muratish party think tina, by pushing the grand