New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-07-06
FRANCE.
SPANISH AFFAIRS IN THE CORPS LEGIsLATIF-
FRANCE WILL NOT ALLOW FOREIGN
PRINCE TO RULE OVER sPAIN-THE CROPS.
PARIS Tuesday, July 8, 1870.

SPANISH AFFAIRS IN THE CORPS LEGISLATlF-
FRANCE WILL NOT ALLOW FOREIGN
PRINCE TO RULE OVER sPAIN-THE CROPS.
PARIS Tuesday, July 5, 1870
In the Corps L6gslatif, to-day, several mem
beers Of the Left Center submitted interpretations con-
corning the proposed canddature of Hohenzolern
Prince for the Spanish throne. They assured that
the Duke de GrammOnt, Minister of Foreign Affairs had
informed the Cabinets Of Berlin and Madrid that France
could not give her to the project 1t was also
stated that France would propose Congress OF the
Great Powers TO settle the question.
The proposition 70 reduce the Oetroi duties on wines
brought into the City of Paris has been postponed until
uext session.
The heat is again intense The recent rains were light
and only temporary and partial relief from the
drouth by which the country afflicted. In Brittany
the douth is that the farmers are selling their
cattle at the of cents per pound. In Paris how
ever the butchers s keep up the prices OF meat The
provincial journals concur estimating the yield Of the
grain crop at onefourth below the average
conflict is impending between the Senate and Corps
Legsla over certain laws lately passed by the Lower
Chamber the press official announcements, and on
the Councils General The Senate desires reject these
laws and will probably send them back to the Corps.
Judgment in the Of the members Of the mteTna
tonal Workmen's Society will be rendered on Friday.
lie Paps Umperialist newspaper contains noticeable
article to-day, in which is laid down law Of self
preservation that France must possess the Rhensh from
tier and that without this the country never be
cure
ART AND ANTIQUITIEs-CLOsE OF THE SALON
TIE ROMAN ARENA-FAILURE OF THE SUB
sCRIPTION TO BUY IT-PARIs BANKRUPT.
PARIS, June 22.-The Salon was announced
10 close Monday, the 10th, at O'Clock and close at
that hour il did, in spite Of crcumstantal statement in
one Of these Paris papers called suppose, be-
cause the news is the thing yOS need never hope to
get from them that the Exhibition was 70 open again,
Immediately after the distribution Of the medals and to
continue open, tree 10 the public nothing ike good lie,
with plenty Of details, while you about IT'D until the
end Of the month. On Tuesday the Minister OF the
Fine Arts, NJ. Maurice Richard made speech to the
artists that is 10 those Of them who thought it worth
their while 10 come and hear him, in which he weakly
eOmDatcd the nOtOngettng 10 be .uncomfortably wide
spread In these daysthat art in France is at low ebb
but unfortunately he found IL difficult TO strengthen his
with sufficient facts 20 make IT as consolng to
the national vanity would have been desirable
Besides as II 10 emphasize his omission Of great even
Of very distinguished names, there was the Salon itself
with its amentable show Of third and fOurthrate pictures
10 make the decline Of art in these days patent decline
sadly admitted by every writer on the SUBJECT whose
knowledge and experience give him right to be heard
One passage in NJ Richards speech applauded, that
namely which he said that he did not come before MS
audience a. d Director, but ambassador, an En-
bassadOr the empire 70 the republican letters ana
aTts. The only noticeable feature of TINS ceremonial
gathering was the absence OF the painter, NJ GustaVe
NOuTDc Who ldQ rev Gays " i'ON''N
the cross Of the Legion OF Honor and who would not
honor with hs presence the ceremony OF the dlst
button OF sO-caled distinctions" IL is a little hard
upon this poor disheveed second ate) Empire that IT
IL not only obliged put up with the modification OF
having hardly notable in arts letters 10 bless
Itself WITH but that, when she gets tOerable one, nc
refuses TO have anything 10 do with her.
As for the Salon ITSELF that IL is among the d0ngs
VI the past know that there is anything IN par
hcuar regret not having said Notice has been taken
exhibited this year, and much Of their work was very
sOod though 81 Of such excellence as 10 call Tor
special remark careful review Of the statuary made
Tue conclusion inevitable that the coming Phdias VIII
haidy he born in France, though, for that matter, IT
~oud be hard to say, Just where he will be born
The statuary IN the Royal Academy Exhibition as unsat
sac'oIy a. mat IN the French Salon, and doubt II an
American OF herman collection could be any better zee
that the i"V d. Osgood OF your city mildly exults In
the fact that our countrymsn MI Larkin /. Mead,
has produced the tdigest statue in Florence
group Of three figures cut out OF a single block Of
marble Perhaps, II the question OF greatness in art is
10 be settled by an appeal 10 the bgncss Of the artists
productions may come out al the top the heap and
cary % al the hOnOrs Dr., unfortunately for the
efena geuelnans theory, they make bad big things
a. well under p0tc and mOGaIchicG governments
under free, republican Ones, and yet there seems