The New York herald., 1868-06-25

our PARIS CORRESPONDENCE.

EASmQAABLE GOSSIP In PARIS.
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our PARIS CORRESPONDENCE.
PARIS June r. 1868.
would have exhausted the eyes, bewiaered the
head and stirred the wonder or envy Of the most
nod stole OF the na ad'nirarf school to have con
Sonplated the immense and briians throng that
poured for three hours on Sunday last through the
Oaamps Elysees on their way home from the Bois de
Boulogne The Emperor and his lovely half ; the
little Prince Imperial in carriage and four Of his
ewn, with Outriders; the noble and fashion
able, foreign and domestic In their holiday
equpages; the demfnsonde, arrayed In all
ias glory; and q motley assemblage Of oil
Glasses professions and creeds rolled by In stream
sf six carriages abreast all taking smiling and
gesticulating In the joiest OF moods, while thou
sands Of people of both sexes seated standing on
the spacious sidewalks, were staring pointing and
sxclaiming with that ardor and abandon
sever seen out OF la belle France-what
was II all about, do you supposeY 1t was
not review nor the opening Of another
Exhibition, but simply the last great race Of the
season. What social revolution since twenty-five
years for such mass Of French people to turn out
merely to witness q horse race The thing has be-
come fashionable at last. Lord Henry Seymour,
sporting Englishman, labored hard for years to in.
trOduce his national pastime into France. He was
followed by sundry gay Frenchmen who had caught
this Anglo mania; but the gorgeous display of last
Sunday is due to Napoleon I'LL. who, amid all the
grand things he has done for Paris has blessed it with
anew amusement. Besides his august presence ana
lot OF splendid prizes, he has created mag
nicent race course on the Bols de Boulogne, within
stones throw of the capital and has constructed
road to that for every kind Of beauty is the finest
drive In the world. There is not pebble to Its
smOOthness nor grain OF dust to diminish its charm.
10 not the race course therefore, that brings thher
% many Of the monde Elegant That is only
pretext for the display Of gorgeous equipages
and electrifyng toilets. Such spectacle as
this is impossible in England, simply because
are too far from sixteen to twenty miles, 10 render
1ne equipages and costly dressing possible. The
road TO 1t Is sorry contrast to the Avenue de pIm
peratrioe. The race OF last Sunday had an unusual
attraction Some celebrated English horses were
pitted' against the most renowned OF the French
st2ble. This national contest brought over
aSr ooe Of csrryep Sass IN the
purses well lined with French gold The fates
90 ordained It, for the Earl horse Of Lord Hastings
$4,000, given by the city OF Paris annually The
French were wofully disappointed and must have
defeat by peyUde Albion on the race or else
where would have put the nation into mourning; but
the French OF to-day have forgotten Waterloo and
the siege OF Honneur. Napoleon Iii. has had good
deal to do with The transformation. The French
nowadays engage in contest with the English with
xest but no bitterness; the failure Of last Sunday
was soon forgotten, while 1t was mitigated by the
recollection that French horse couple OF years
ago carried of the famous Derby stakes at EPSON.
II had space it would amuse your readers to give
. sketch here and there OF some of the nota-
OF last Sunday. What a treat for the lovers
Of scan. mag. II were to give the piquant
history OF that handsome woman, 80 exquisiteIy
dressed and rolling by in carriage and four a Ia
Daumont that ecIpses even royalty in it's splendor!
Paris, and is gradually spreading through the fast
world OF Europe. New York cannot be wholly igno-
rant OF her. since she is gay native thereof Mu-
sard, who travelled in the United States with con-
cert troupe, was vanquished by her various charms
and married her. ON coming to Europe it
was her luck TO fail In with the King OF
Holland and the end OF alrthat was that his Dutch
Majesty one day made her present Of lot OF old
shares in some mine other that had never paid a
dividend and which this cunning gentleman thought
nc could part with without paying too dear for his
whistle" To the delight OF his lucky inamOrata and
the amazement Of her royal protector the shares
turned up trumps and the result fortune Of seve
RAJ raj millions Consequently the equipages. the toi
Madame Musard are often the talk OF the gay folks
OF Paris and always the wonder OF those who wit
ness and share In them. There Is no decrying 1t,
the American people are enterprisng, energetic
and ambitious lot. The men stake everything for |
fortune and the women, high and low, what won't |
they do for q sensation But happily, there |
are none out Of the monde gallant who would |
compete with the queens OF the Breda quarter, |
and there are precious few Of them who stumble into
royal mines and are drawn up miionnaires Prince |
Napoleon has gone on on q second mysterious |
lin, and now he is bound TO COnstantinople. This is
only ruse, for 1t is not the Grand Turk he s AFTER
but the Emperor OF Austria and his Prime Minis.
Ger, Won Beust, as wen as the Potentates-
q various degrees Of the South Of Germany
Much may be whispered and agreed upon
among those great folks that 1t would never do to
put on paper or trust even to ambassadors. This
II another symptom that Napoleon means to be well
prepared for war with Prussia should It come 1t
y not expected this year. and may not at all;
but Bismarck played shabby trick on Napoleon
N NAT nFna 10 hn cCVo orad
mp. There u no doubt the Prussian jockey pledged
the Rhensh provinces to France r the Emperor
that Bismarck had long planned. The bargain was
T9e SS asf the
nnger to his nose and prOianeiy told NAPOLEON
ssid provinces. Nobody likes being humbussed,
people. Still, Napoleon is too wise and cool man
TO indulge an anosity at the expense of his inter-
ests which simply means he win never make
war on Prussia unless France desires It. which rs
hkey, and not then unless he can induce the south
roa o. to stand ssas which Let US
the Emperor at home has changed It's base.
People here have got so tired OF the stun and non.
Kinds and varieties, liberty of the press liberty OF
speech and above all, the liberty OF upsetting the
the day are forced at last TO change the topic and
light the autocrat OF the Tuileries behind new bar
they @ ey 10r NOW snoSs yor
srne =, exbenditure,n as they don't compre-
nenu " win no small Industry they have over
hauled the general outlay OF the empire since 1852
anu compared II with that OF Louis Philippe's and
preceding governments. The contrast is stupendous,
70 pe sure Yet II a comparison OF expenditures was
mace between Lincoln's administration and John
Quincy Adams, the result would not be less
astounding. There is this difference, though.
Napoleon can show for his money the won
derful development OF France IN every form
and manner possible; whilst our government
what can t showf Little else than the Cemeteries OF
thousands and thousands of dead soldiers and the
ruined fields OF the luckess SOUTH or course we
must put TO the credit account nigger emancipation,
Niger votes and nigger everything.
have time left 70 discuss THIS Interesting tonic
0f the day. mean the finances OF the empire. viii
m my mo- 4 IL uortht