The New York herald., 1868-05-22
FRANCE.

The Political Horizon Calm But preparations
for War-Trade Prohibition or Free Trade
An Election Hustings' Question-The Ilmo
Of Government-The Herald's Dispatches
from Abyssinia-Art and Art Patrona&e-
Euxeuie,s Birthday-Pati's Marriage.
PARIS, May s, 1898.
The politca horizon, like our balmy May sky, is
clear and serene; the squabbes OF the Deputies
among themselves certainly not Affecting the world
at large There perhaps few clouds gathering
over Tunis but il they break out 1t will relieve the
dockyards which are very full and busy, and on
which money continues to be expended with reck-
less generosity
It has been whispered that Marshal Mel the
War Minister, and NJ. Rouher, have at length come
to different opinions on this subject but l know for
certain that the only shade OF difference In their
views consists in that Marshal Mel asked for funds
enough to keep France up to the European arming
point and that the Minister Of State said he did
not for moment dispute that necessity. 1t ap-
pears to me that brothers could not agree more
fraternally.
l referred to small Emergencies Of feeling among
the Deputies; the subject is prohibition and free
trade repeal great struggle protectonist strug-
gle Is looked forward to on the anticipated dis
cusson, which is to take place on the 11th Of May
In capital like Paris where men Of business are
q few score years behind the times, where many.
or less have been injured by free trade because
the system is as yet imperfectly carried out 1t can
not be expected that the debates will be gone through
with calm earnest inquiry. The coming elections
and the opposition could not miss such an excellent
chance OF aggression and the treaty of commerce
will be made answerable for effects Of which war,
crises, bad haryests and many others are the pro-
bable causes. II there Is thing more difficult to
achieve IN France than another 1t Is to give con-
TENT ''Content with restriction y, excaim those
who are happily bred and reared In the bosom
of 1flaral inQfit nnh vyh Enn nth nj
what are the various passions sown and carefully
fosered by successive governments until they have
grown up into rank obstacles wherever an open, free
outlet Is attempted What is the result Of the re.
forms OF the goth Of November and the 18th of Janu-
ary-ref0rms which should not have been held back
go long truyf The clearest consequence OF what de-
served to be greeted with JOY Is that instead OF five
Deputies on the opposition benches, there are now
twenty-five, and that evening paper lately venti-
lated-"when government has lost twenty-eght
years It has but to resign quietly before causing any
bloodshed." Thus, a nation that has prospered deli
antly for twenty eight years. must come to natural
death This is ickle people, not yet trained to vie
with wiser populations, who maintain wisely their
governments, and would give tooth and nail for the
common veal
The few members OF the press who had dreamed
ofsupporting the so-caled ''dynastic unon," have
failed In the practical part Of splendid Utopia 1t
desire ' to be noticed and Thought Indispensable.
Under this banner number OF intelligent but aul-
sltoas men were desrous to leave the outcourts OF
word for very old thing was III adapted. Emile
Olivier, Clement Davernois and Emile de Girardin
The news OF the stormIng of Magdala having been
conveyed to the London Times through the CORES.
he Fen rhsy
much wonderment IN the & public papers that the the
eapsdoa S0 s Se English ssoad naVs
had correspondent naes on the spot ,Io who
ous the Malta ne was deyered to the MEsAcn
stan In London before the English suspected they
had 'come and seen and conquered" The members
OF the press In France would wonder little harder,
guess II they could how regardless OF dollars
the HERALD is when intelligence is to be got even as
in this Abysslnan case up up ever from the top Of
rocks which are quite perpendicular. newborn little
American Journal, the Continental Gazette, that has
come out in Paris, very neatly attired In trim, short
articles the first to call the attention OF the Paris
press TO this example OF precedence ever shown by
the HERALD, and tho news has run like wildre ever
The great run of the week ought to have been the
Longchamps races, but the opening Of the Exhibition
very hot affair indeed Last sunday, admis-
sion being free, the crowd round the paintings
dense that the entrances were closed several
times while visitors sought egress from the opposite
side Of the edidce 1t is almost impossible give
cumstanc6s, but until criticism can have fair play
can freely inform your readers that this Is the best
There are In all 42l5 different subjects exhibited,
which can be divided as follows:-Pantngs 2,bs1;
drawings so2 sculpture 4s7; engraving on on, medal
graphy, IS. The honors were done TO two immense
Prussians paintings, one representing the corona.
ton OF the King Of Prussia, the other the meeting OF
the two prussan Princes after Koniggratz. These
have nothing to do with real fine art criticism.
which must Be served up at the banquet table,
but on which real epicureans DO not least least.
OF resistance, and I'd much % prefer enough Of
d good thing to too much Of great one These
nSesn nssn sa ms o V samre 9eaer genrs for er
such love to call In old fashioned style the figure OF
life handed down by the brush of painter. IL Is
early morn aud the ldmptons cast ghasty SHIN
with his coat pierced by fresh bullet marks beside
s aussve po aSS eomes neM
young monk sits erect among number OF hodding,
the monotonous tones Of one Of them reading .
sermon. The awakening OF the neophyte's soul to
he alone feels and may become thus stuitned, il
simply the eCssa @srchs Ma sSa thk aaai
has produced Penelope and Phryne. The iorme
In pure, Saste serene gray ~ holds piece % OF woo, wool
should never be suspected. The painting breathe
forth ali Inc antique virtues which the antiques di
nGp PsrspS + The beauty we meet not at the MabC
she Ia too much above ~ but In the courty notnouse
Rowing sspt or artisticaIiy nnkempt, where her marD
shoulders bare and her bosom ls but ha conceaes
Phryne is not the lowest Of women she y rega, vi y,
blushlng voluptuous and pampered lavorite u
reverse or Penelope Phryne Is the woman wh9r
we all have seen at the opera at some time OF ON;
Of our lives and on whom ell glasses are raiSeu
This is the summary OF very unpleasant visit to u
uiols va tuc fTtDCn AChuelnt VI Iuheih8' ~
was considerably poDunele, and from the precincl
OF which l returned home particoored blue al
green, with shade OF yellow over my vision.
Thls date being the 9th OF May and the Empires
Eugenies birthday, am reminded that lady reader
may ike TO Know her exact age. She was born
1920 We have several other anniversaries In tn
month. The King oi Spain was born on the 18th {
this month In lo22; the Pope on the 18th, 179.
Charles XIV, King Of Sweden, on the 3D. 1895 an
Princess Mathilde on the 21th, 1920.
Another telltale before close. II NAV be remen
bered that in one OF my recent correspondences
alluded to dinner party given to few select friend
by N. de Sane Beqve on Good Friday, when he an
his quests being freethnkers, ate OF the fat of tb
land when the lean even was prohibited That il
yeterate female, Anastasie again (the censur
having heard that q caricature was to al
pear In paper called the Eclipse, In While
bslnte Beuve, the Academician, and Prince Napoeo
Qu6kt were portrayed a. i.se eaters, the paper vi
stopped and Gustave Doreon, veloclpede was gu