The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-08-21

spatches, appears in The evening edition, and is
written by an uuder-secretsry of the Foreign
Office. The Government has taken great pans
to extend the circulation of the Pea Monpew, |
and some time ago 1t tried to lnjure the clrCu-
lation OF the liberal papers by sending INC
Petit Monue1r free through the posi-
CONTRARY to law to all it's country subScrloersl
and engaging Ponson du Ierratl, now oy al
odds the most popular French romancist, 70
write serial tale for its JeutHetoh 1t was hopeo
that this would raise the subscription list to at
least TIL ee or four hundred thousand copies
These hopes, however, were doomed 70 ul,ap-
pointment The circulation OF the Pettt MoaHeur
would not rise mucn above sixty thousand
copies, while that OF the large MOnutur ha5 ior
years been about twenty thousaud copies.
Foremost amoug toe semi-oiiical organs Is
the COnStt,1t.i1Rne. 1t is the special organ OF
the Minister of Foreign Affairs, but 1T does az
the same time. all the heavy work in defend
ing the Government III all the lmpOrtaht
questions of domestic policy. It's chef editor IS
Paulin LimayTac, stately, ornate Wrlter' VINO
certainly displays great skill IN defending IN ms
fnely-wrtten leaders the crooked ana oiIeh lu-
consistent policy OF Napoleon ~. Ihe 0pposi-
ton press, winch dares not attack the Govern
ment itself delights In pouring out The Ylhls OF
its wrath upon the Governments chosen cham
pion; hence NJ. Limayrac Is the best abused ana
best ridicued edi or in all Paris. He defends
himself Ike little hero bat Is sometimes
snguarly ndiscreet in his tilts with :he doughty
Knights ofthe opposition press. Some Tune ago
he was audacious enough to attack rardtn, who
spiked his guns al once by republishlng the harI
things Limay rae had written many years ABOUT
Louis Napoleon. Even worse was the PUNISH
meut he received at the hands OF VI, de Riau-
court of the URtOR, who asserted thlt Lmay-
rae had repeatedly been dlsavoTed by the 10Rt-
teUr. Llmayrac denied this strenuously, and
Offered, finally, in an editorial IL the C0RS,@a-
tiOnneL q reward OF one hundred ousand francs
to whoever should prove the contrary. Ran.
court did prove 1t, but the reward was not paid,
the pgoprietOrs OF the COnShtutonnc! refusing
to redeem the promises OF their editor in chief.
The circulation of the CORstt'HtOnneL IS nov
about ten thousand copies-a large lalltng-OH
from what it was under Dr. Neron's manage
ment, when Sue and Dumas published their
great romances in the teuiLte'0a, which was,
bes des, renCered famous by Saint Beuyc's eX-
Cellent CdUSerteS 3U Lltldt.
The principal stocknoder OF the Constitution
mel is now again Mlres, the no.oflOis banker,
VINO for some llme past has recovered most OF
his former prestige, aud who controls Likewise
the PTeSSe, formerly Grardln5 famous organ,
hut now rather dun semi Official sheet, presG-
ded over by NJ. Cucheyai Ulargny. Tae latter
who, in times gone By, had written number of
clever political pamphlets was believed to have
access TO the highest diplomatic circles AMI the
PreSSe, it was confidently expected would
acquire fresh vitality under hts manage meht.
These expectations no Geyer, were not to be
fulfilled. Except few sensational aruCles,
which proved 10 be cauards OF the finest breed,
the FTeSSe bad not beer remarkable Tor any
thing but q Ccrain stately dulluess and the
| rapid decrease OF is subscription list, which is
now less than seven thousand, about Que tenth
OF what it Wro in the paimieet days OF Gtardin's
management.
The Paaje is the leading evening PAGER, and
has a circulation OF about fourteen thousand
copies. 1t was sold two or three years
ago for three hundred thousand dollars,
! and is cons idered one OF the best paying
| pagers in Paris, though, at the samc time. it
| must be said tnat 1t is certainly least distin-
gulshcd for editorial, and, wlthal, is one OF the
| meauest journals IN the capital During our
| civil war The Pd7ie DISPLAYED the most venom
ous hostility towards y Q United States, and its
! columns tcemed daily with the most astounding
| falseboods in regard to the Union cause. When
! The news OF Lmcolns assassination reached
! Paris the Pdtrte published u truly atroClOus
! article on the terrible event.
1he france Is the personal organ OF the
| Vcomte de la GuerOnniere, well Known as one
! OF the most eloquent members OF the French
! Senate, aud one Of the leaders OF the liberal
wing of the B1uapartIs's.
NJ. Auguste Vltu, formerly a member OF the
sta II of the COHsttttOnRe', started two years ago
| The Lteadard and has thus lar met with good
success, notwithstanding the somewhat weak
character of ITS political matter. Its success is
! principally owing 10 number Of charming
sketches OF local and literary character, a
! great many of which have been republshel in
England and America, and which have secured
| the EtendQrd handsome circulation throughout
| France.
About two years ago the LjJerIe, which had
! been started a few months before, was near
the close of its short.iived existence. It's
average circulation amounted to seven hundred
and thrry-thIee copies, the highest daily sale
| having been hfteen hundred copies. At that
! tine Emile de G!rardin wtthdrew from the
| tTtSSe, dnh OOuglL Ihe uroOp!nS L5O5|te 10Y u
mere 'sorg.n With him he took the ablc,t
Bubedtors OF the PreSse, aud eight months
afterwards the L6erte bad already circulation
of $4,000 copies. GTardin managed the
affairs of his new paper Wlth cons am
mate skill. Regardless of the oucry
OF the publishers OF the other papers,
who predicted the speedy downfall OF
! to LibeTie, he repeated the same manmuVre, by
! which, in 1885, he had made the PreSSe The
paper of the largest circulation in France. He
reduced the price OF the paper from fifteen %
ten Centimes. Besides, he engaged the famous
| Baron de Brsse as "Culinaryn contributor,
and the daily "bills OF fare" which the latter
| published on the fourth page, laughed to scorn
as they were at first by the other papers, were
soon as popular as Girardin's pungent editorials
| on the first page. 1t became matter OF ton 10
dine according to Baron Brsse's daily bill OF
fare; every married lady, every oral Gordon 6leu,
wanted the Lib6te, aud Girardln gained
every day hundreds oil ne 4 subscribers. He thea
! offered Baron de Brisse's new WORK on Gas
! tronomy, which could not be bought at the
! BOOKSTORES, TO every new subscriber, and this
| raised his circulation TO 10000. Aud last, he
/ made his greatest aud most successful coup by
declaring war against Napoleon III, predicting
the speedy downfall of his dynasty, and cOm-
. mencmg onslGughts on him, such as no jour-
nalst had hitherto dared to make on the En-
perOr. The opposition party, as general thing,
at first did not believe GIrardin TO be quite SIN
ceTe in his sudden aud utter dese1tiOn Of the
cause of Napoleon Ill, but all bought his paper,
! which has now daily circulation OF over thirty
| thousand copies. In his latest prospectus, 81.
, de Gmardn pays a compliment to the American
can newspaper TRANSPORTED into French sOtl."
! Besides being a successful j0acnallst, NJ. de
| Grardin is skillul inaucler, aud real esttte
speculatCr r, and Teputed 10 be WORTH several mll
lions. His personal appearance is not very p:e-
possessing; he looks iOrblodng and stern, and
/ somewhat arrogant.