New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-04-27
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psy. embodes the nominal practice OF tfeNA
trsde,men Hence j. is that, in spite Of grave
los,es and general st4odstl in commerce, they
have gone through the crisis so wei. Failures nave
uot be en- uoticeaby more numerous than 10 former
wears among regular merchants. la the way oil
Grand crashes and rsscalties in high finance
France shows nothing 10 compare With England and
America Oder failed honorably; Proc, is the only
dathipg. adventurous operator who has come 10
scapdslous erd The Credit MOblier, which has
been held up as the great bubble type, has never
seen lie shares sold below par sells for 1oO to-day
II could close It's affairs tomorrow by paying all It's
d, bis and returning 10 the stockholders something
handsome above $50 fares TO the share. AT least
such is the opinion expressed 70 me by fnancer
Lot interested in but likely TO be amii ar Will NE
condition OF the concern.
Reside politicians merchants and spectators, a
good many people Just now are exercised IN thelr
minds by a bill before the Legislative Body which
proposes 10 reinsttute penalties for the wearing OF
titles Of nobility that do not by inheritance OF Iale
roya or imperial grace belong TO their inventors.
True, the law is purposel so loosely phrassd mar
the ipactiug Of punishment depends almost entirely
on the good pleasure OF the magistrate, VINO II IS 10
be supposed will infct il only IN those cases Where
be is directed 10 by the higher powers. ms oi IL
self az YOU may well suppose, IS made grave oo-
lection 10 the law by grave PERSONS but those most
alarmed by the likelihood of its passage are OF the
larger French class of frivolous persons VINO lear
10 be stripped of their title of count, baron VS.
count and other such peacockeries 10 which they
have as little right as your correspondent. Some
thing has been done 10 quiet their fears by an ex-
planstory article in the MOnacar, which would re-
present the object of the law 10 be rather check
upon the rapid increase of these borrowed plumes
than plucking of actual possessors. Alter leol any
one who chose could put dc otter hs chrlstened
name and before the name OF his farm or native
81. IL
than jenkins from Onondaga one could call himself
Jonathan 'Onondaga His acquaintance laughed
for six months. aud ended by calling him so TOO
At the end of six wears bis nobility was patent ana
confirmed a prefxed baron or count was
accepted as a natural complement on his card and
in social address Such is the origin oil not oniy
numerous class of mobiles who have arisen since
1851 but at different and earlier periods OF French
history. running back at least as far az some Tune
efore the DAYS of Louis XIV, who tried to cheek
the evil of a still more numerous class VINO
now claim hereditary authority tor their tltuiar
rank Let this be warning to American notei-
keepers ard private families who are sometimes
too ready to extend their republican hospitality 10
| titled strangers. Let it specially be warning 10
American young ladies not 10 extend their hearts
and hands to SUCH lest peradyenture their Montmo-
rency prove on historical examination to be bogus
neither firstrate as Christian or baron.
| Speaking of names and noblemen, read this
curious extract from provincial paper; - Last
Sunday, the Sub Project of st. Omer delivered
L" to the young Henri Clay of Iaut Pont, aged ten
"years a silver medal accorded to hun by the En-
"peror for having saved two of his comrades from
drowning in the canal Two days afterward, the
"youDg Henri Clay, hearing cries of Help, help,
Z" he is drowning-come quick, Henry ran up,
"saw a child in the water, dashed in and brought
| it safe to land" How there comes To be French
Henry Clay at ST. Omer is not explained; but 1t is
| good to see the hOnOred name 10 honOrably and
cbaracteristcaly applied Just the style of action
that belonged to the original Harry.