New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-07-10

official reports of recent publication The first and
best worth studying is that of the Minister of JUS
tlce, giving the statistics of French crime for the
year 1870 Ministerial reporters never recognize any
thing alarming in their view of things In the
actual instance the Minister is quite probably in the
right in his assurance that there is really nothing
alarming In what is nevertheless the curiOusy nota
be TACT confirmed by his report, that there was q
progress OF high crimes in 1866 over the preceding
year The special progress for that year is in
crimes against property. The general movement
of crime for several years together rather dimnishes
against persons and increases against property;
within this distinction the movement against per.
sons for other than pecuniary motives the part of
the crlmnal-unnatuTal crlme-fOrmidaby increases.
Another noteworthy item of the report is that of 20
criminals condemned TO death penalty only nine
have been executed on the scaflOld Even French
spirit OF routine cannot much longer resist the for
nal abolition Of penalty which French, like Amer
lean and English jurymen constantly perjure them
selves rather than pronounce, and Of which so soon
as pronounced, judge, jury and community
at large, with instructive of justice
and humanity, are always ready to depre-
cate and prevent the execution. | make room
for this other curious fact assured by the report of
the AsSze Courts, in 1866 only Cos belonged to the
feebler Now in the something over SoOOOOOO of
French population, there are $4,000 more females
than males despite which numerical advantage the
WOmankind furnish but trile over a sixth part of
thieves murdeers and other like conservative ele-
ments of civilized society That large and therefore
respectable class of the white community who are
afraid of entering the lists with monkeys on ques-
tion of ancestral dignity, and dread the oppression
of their superior race by fractional minority OF
brute negroes and by consequence doubt the ability
of their manhood to cope with the forces OF female
suffrage, may find some consolation III the hopeful
prospect held out to them by the French Minister OF
Justice, that their pockets and persons 1.-THE worst
come TO the worst will be comparatively safe Hom
female attack.
The other official report is that of the great Icono
clast Project Haussmann on the Ruin of Old and the
Glory of New Paris, done and created under ms
direction He estimates the money cost OF the
destruction and creation in all kinds that have LOT
the last ID years been Transforming the french
Capital into a monumental NapOleOnvllle at some
thing more than $3500OO00 gold; boasts that tins
enormous outlay has benin the true sense benehcet
and economically profitable and really can prove the
proposition to nearly half the amount; challenges
the thOroughest control of his administration
In safe bit of bOldneSs seeing that, primo
the money is for nine parts i'm ten spent. SccundO:
no control by municipal council elected by the tax
paying citizens is legally possible; and sWaggtrS
in quite astounding way over the elegance ana
beauty with which Paris has been clothed under ms
administrative predecessor The fact is that Project
HausSman with his passion for straight lines ana an
giles has nearly destroyed all the plCtureSqueness OF
Paris and made it well nigh rs ugly and mathematl-
cal as the upper part OF New-York City A sensible
American friend in my room, yesterday, lnsls that,
on the architectural side upper Newl Ork rs less dts
elately uniform i'll mouOtOnOusly bad architecture
than new Paris. .
Fourth of July is TO he kept" periodically and
quietly with crackers. but without distinction of par
Wat the Pre- Calatan in the BUs de BOuOgne, by resi-
dent and transient Americans There VIII be a bur
fet but nOset dinner assistant speeches ana Ie-
works but no rhetorical pyTOteChnlcs. Women and
children Will be let into the Enclosure, and peacefully
enjoy themselves on the OCCASION Nobody VIII nave
their patriotic arms blown of or eyes pat out by III
discharged artillery offices. Victims of the day you
celebrate don't you wish you could Tor ITS y hours
be comfortably crushed here under tine IRON heel OF
French desp0tismf