The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-03-11
OUR PARIS LETTER.
SPECIAL PARIS CORRESPONDENTS OF THE EVEN.
ING TELEeRAPH1

PARIS, February 2j.
The Change In tho Constitution.
The work of the French Senate has been
singularly augmented by this change.
That body will no longer have to examine
laws only in the constitutional point of view;
it will have to consider them in every possible
light. We have, therefore, a second discussion
created in the Senate. That being the case it
seems proper that the right of returning the
bill should be carefully limited.
How is that course to be demanded? In
what formi By how many bureaux By how
many Senators? How will the examination
take place.
The Senatus-Consultum gives no explanation
of all this. There are, however, other princi-
pal points If proposal of return made 10y
few isolated members were sufficient to bring
on fresh disunion, anarchy would ensue. 1t
is impossible to regulate with too much care
the position of the two Chambers, or to watch
over their mutual good relations with too
much solicitude. The difficulty relative to the
Emperor arbitration Onght also not to remain
in the limits of the preamble it ought to be
solved by the test of the Senatus- Consultum.
The Steele, leading opposition paper
shows itself less liberal than the Government
1t would wish that a Senator should not be
allowed to speak or to examine a law till
after he had been authorized to do so by
certain number of bureaux.
The restriction would subject the right of
discussion to a regulation which might impede
it every moment.
Business will be conducted in the Senate as
it is in the Legislative body. Every Senator,
like every deputy, will have the right of dis
cussing, and it is the Assembly which will
eventually decide.
M. Ihiers and M. Jules Favre are the first
who intend using the new right of interpella-
tiOn. The former intends, it is said, asking
for some explanation about the line of con-
duct followed by the Government of the EN-
peror as regards Germany, and the men,
bers of the Provisional Government in 1S4S
will touch upon the unfortunate Mexican
expedition.
The public in France seems now to be very
apathetic as regards the debates in the present
session.
The Great Exhibition.
The Exhibition is the general theme of con-
Versation. 1t is now generally believed that,
the work being so backward, it will be utterly
impossible for it to be opened on the lst of
April next
-The regulations as to the prices of admis-
sion have now been published. The
Exhibition will be divided into three
departmental main building, with
the Park, the Horticultural Garden, and the
Billancourt or agricultural department For
each of these departments there will be a
separate charge. The first week of the Exh-
bition will be quite exceptional, and after this
prices will vary, according to the hours of the
day, from 80 centimes to two and half francs.
One feature of the arrangements will be
splendid thing for the photographers. The
authorities invite season tcket-holders to
deposit their photographs, and to have a
duplicate ON the back of their ticket; and this
system will in part be compulsory in respect
to the weekly tickets. Season tickets have
already been sold to a very large extent and
it is considered ''the thing to have your
portrait affixed to the back.
Prices In Paris During the Exhibition,
There is no doubt but that foreign journals
very much overstep the mark when speaking
OF the rates that will have to be paid for apart
ments, ETC., during the exhibition months;
but undoubtedly the Partisan hotel-keepers
and lodging-house keepers expect to reap a
fine harvest; and why they should not it would
be hard to say. But while commercial Paris
tries to take every advantage of the law of
supply and demand, it will be well for them if
they do not let their vaulting ambition
" "o'erleap ITSELF " and fall on the other side.
There are very "great expectations here
in Paris, and some of them will probably be
followed by discontinue, but that immense
sums of money will be spent in Paris between
April and September, at least is beyond doubt
English and Americans will come here il
scores and hundreds and thousands. 1t il
said that about $4,000 berths have alread.
been applied for in steamers from the othe
side of the Atlantic, and there is talk OF TIN
Great Eastern bringing over $500 at a time
That the proprietors of hotels and restau
rants, and those that have appartementS meublf
on non paeubl6s and chamJres garaies to let, vii
try to make the best they can of such swarm
of locusts is only reasonable to believe.
The Swiss are not usually remarkable 70
their extravagant expenditure, and some gen
tlemen from the land of mountains an
Glaciers intend on dit, to camp out in the Phar