The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-10-19

of Europe and her wishes less law of other conn
entail States Is now no longer Of late French diplo-
matsts have not been successful They wanted to reconcile
Italy the Pope but Italy and the Pope greater enemies
than They wanted to regenerate the Latin in
America and curb the AngoSaxon; yet at the bidding of
the latter they had to desert unfortunate prince whom
they had sent to his destruction and almost reduced
to wish that the very Angloaxon they had intended
to check would step into their succession and what they
themselves, Frenchmeh, had failed accomplish. The
statesmen of France had counted the defeat of Prussia
yet Prussia victorious They had interpoed in favor
of Danes and Poles Danes and Poles had been ruhes
crushed They had asked for few coal fields the banks
of the Rhine but met by curt REFUSAL and the solu
ton of the Luxembourg question like defeat than
victory The peans of the Government and its party grated
their ears for they detected their hoowness The En-
perors speech Lille where he confessed past dscomure
acknowledged the existence of dark spots the horizon of
the future but declared his confidence in the strength Of
France is but of the thousand proofs of the ability by
which he has long ruled France thereby he separated
himself he has done than before from his too
Jealous followers and stood forth the true representative
of the feelings of the nation So much for politics. but they
not the only of uneasness At home the laws of
political economy have been violated and the consequences
beginning to be felt Employment to be found for
the working classes gigantic works undertaken many
publc utility and by others Paris and the other principal
Government and municipalities head and in
debt and more loans are everywhere in contemplation All
that transforms itself in the long into increased taxation
and sagnaon of rade that again into want of employment
with which Government in the end unable to cope. DO
complain much about your position in Italy, was
constantly said I'VE not much better oil here only
things managed dexterousy and made to look
pleasanter" This financial depression brings social ques
ons to the surface and perhaps this the most abundant
of apprehension The French the great question
between labor and capital presenting itself in England for
solution and although struck with wonder and admiration at
the peaceabe working of REFORM which they consider
great revolution they hardly bring themselves to believe
that the labor question will likewise be peaceaby worked
Be that it may they that this and other equally
grave questions inevitably approaching in France The
revolution" said to than once "will be
social poitical and the Emperor will either put him.
self at the head of the movement it would be in his
fo do in In t1p
French, rightly wrongly, feel sorely Inundated po-
caly financially and socially they calculate that however
peacefully inclined their rulers may be- will before long
be necessity to avoid what they fancy might be greater
evils.
1t is to be hoped that American ladies do not generally
with the treatment in Paris which Mrs Truefeld
experienced the hands of NJ Lemone the landlord of the
Hotel des Italiens, 20 rue de Choiseul
This gentleman ~ has had pay in purse and in person
for ndn in his amusements being summoned before
the tribunal by American lady In the beginning of June
last Mrs Truefeld with her son. aged five years. arrived
the Hotel DIES Iaens 20 de Choiseul kept by
named Lemoine. She provided with unexceptonabe
recommendations and engaged room for which the price
agreed ten francs per day. About week later the
following bill presented to her. "Two Candles 2 bed
Candles If BATH 6f two dinners 16f; strawberries,
ST. four days 40f four days ditto 80f services eight
days. ST. Considering the prices exorbtan the charges
for the chamber especially having been doubled after the
first four days. Mrs Tueed declined pay and expressed
her intention to seek lodging elsewhere She first, how
determined to consult her banker and leaving her child
IN the room proceeded 10 go OUT put was prevented by
concierge named Steiner who forced her back with
such violence her cohes after which the landlord
locked the lady in her room and kept her under key
twelve hours Two days later Mrs Tefeld again attempted
leave the hotel and succeeded in reaching the street. but
she followed by Lemone who attempted to force her
back she however chung to iron bars before window
where the landlord selling her violently by the wrist and
forcing open her hands finger by finger oosened her hold
and them throwing her down. dragged her her back into
ebue of the hotel and closed the door prevent the
spectators outside whose indignation had been aroused from
interfering Among the bystanders the Count Eagnac
gentleman aged sevenyve, and he with assistance
forced an entry and in spite of the of Lemone
refused to leave until the police arrived Mrs Trueed bore
marks of the violence which she had been subjected
her right hand her left foot and her back The above facts
having clearly proved by several Witnesses the court
condemned Lemone to hundred francs fine and months
imprisonment and the Steiner to six days of the
punishment
Abyssinia.