New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-10-15


Those that settled I'm Holland numbered over $4,000 ana
the political effect upon that country may be distinctly
traced in political changes, national go"h anu 'no
OF the Prince Of Orange. The stimnAuhg e'c"
OF the presence the Protestant refugees Is aceaDe ID
the histories of Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, and
even Of Russia.
The material aside from the political consequences to
Prussia Of the that time of $4,000 eHies from
France special attention at the present moment
There were not wanting among them aconsdorable pro
portion who found occupation In the learned professions
or in military service, and many in these and similar
walks of life acquired celebrity but the most remaTka-
able results achieved by those whose skill was de-
veoped in manufactures and The establish
mcnt OF banking facilities previously unknown In Bran
denburg and astonishing variety OF manufactures Of
linen, wool silk, leather, glassware and the metals
brought about rapid increase OF activity and wealth TO
Berlin, Halle and Magdeb0uTg. Whatever of popula-
ton of trade o manufactures other cOun-
tries gained France lost
yNearly all the historians Of the French revolution OF
1852 in tracing back its causes find among them the emf
grafton consequent upon the Revocation OF the Edct or
Nantes. To this they attribute the feebeness of French
industry It's Inability 10 supply the wants OF France or
compete with the industry Of other countries the dis
content of the masses, occupied neither in trade com
merce nor manufactures and,wanting profitable employ
ment deficient also in common comforts and the hopes
If an improved condition. These were the people, clam
for bread who overturned the throne ANA mus
that emigration which helped to provoke great political
changes I'm other lands chief cause OF the most as
tonishing of revolutions in its own as moving mass OF
the electric force both at the points Of its departure and
its arrival produces explosions, whether by 0ccasonhY
a deficiency or a surplus II disturbs the equilibrium
With the revolution OF 1882 France experienced another
emratOm-tha OF her mobiles. Extensive as TINS move
ment was point Of numbers, apparently important IN
social position and acknowledged abilities OF It's hd-
ydua members the French emigration at the close oil
the last century not generally accounted as having IN
hcted grave losses upon France or as having brought
great ADVANTAGES to other nations. The nobility were
not only not producing class but they helped to con
sumo the produce OF others, and it Is even question
whether the truges natl did not by departing
enrich rather than mpOyersh the country they LETT
CurOusly enough that emigration was nearly cOncdeht
with new birth of industry the year 1896 signali-
zed 10y remarkable awakening Of manufacturing enter
prise in France and the foundation was then laid for
much Of the prosperity which supported the wars 0f the
Consulate and the First Empire.
Certain kinds OF wealth nevertheless utterly
swept away by the emigration OF the nobles such riches
especially representing the aDors Of generations
of the OF toll, had accumulated In the form OF
permanent and costly luxures, for which there was no
longer purchaser About 1895 trading company, called
the Bande NOirc was formed to buy up at low rate IN
assgnas all the chateaux and estates withdrawing be-
onged to the emgrants or the northumberland been con-
fscaed No portion Of the Indebtedness OF the Govern
represented by assgnats an issue which In years
amounted to S. OOOOOOOOO, ever paid. The debt was
ultimately extnguished by legislative act and the as
sgnats themselves declined in value from the date
Of their first issue. But the property that the
Bande Noire acquired at SO cheap rate IN
exchange the face value Of assignats obtained at
liberal discount did not return to that company much
profit in sale As a fair example Of what became of such
possessions the Chateau de MOntmOrenci may be in
stanced In most desirable position in the enyirons Of
Paris that had apparently suffered nothing
time accident and at the outbreak of the reyo-
luton was regarded one of the finest private resi-
dences in Europe. 1t was, moreover, in recent and
thorough repair The painted ceilings had just cost $780,
900 the metal pipes and the pierglasses, $4,000 That
building and 80 of peasureg ounds after purchase
and repurchase continually declining prices, were
eventually bought by working brazer, who offered
them for sale for $1,000 Failing to find buyer he de-
moshed the building and in 1877 all that was left Of 1t
a heap of ruins.
An estimate of the losses which must be inflicted upon
French industry the present yet be made
with any approach to accuracy. To Paris it must prove
peculiarly runous, that is prominently manufactur
ing city In 1si7 its manufactures valued at nearly
S3OOOOOCOO, employing more than $4,000 work
men, the revolution of 1s4s reduced the value
OF manufactures by more than half. COnse
quently the unemployed workmen filed the
with bacades and more than 5000 of them per-
ished in the instruction which Cayaignac suppressed
The industries OF Paris peculiarly artificial and
sensitive to the slightest cloud IN the political horizon
The consumption Of articles of prime necessity is among
the best test Of the condition OF a people, and during
1913 the consumption Of butchers meat in Paris fell of
as pork 40 and wines "A per cent This is the note
worthy, because it forms the one exception to con-
tnual ratio OF increase in such consumption indicative
OF the advancing prosperity OF the workngclasses in
Paris, which is regular in other years the quantities
consumed per head having otherwise steadily increased
between 1910 and ls0-he total increase in that period
being TO meat sold at auction, s5 and to cheap
wines, l20 per cent.
The long interruption Of industry which the present
siege OCCASIONS may he regarded likely of itself to
permanently divert the trade upon which Paris is SO
largely DEPENDENT but the expulsion of 10000 working
people would to be the certain of methods to
accomplish this result There must be also frghtful
poses of market gardening alone without reference
building purposes land Paris has OF late years been
annually rented at average of $40 per acre. indicating
actual value equal to that OF city lots in the suburbs
OF NewYOrk, within radius OF five miles from the City
Hail. The suburbs of Paris had moreover, beauty OF
their own, different FROM yet in atractiyeness not in
feror the city itself The proportion OF foreigners in
Paris has always hitherto been very large and whether
temporarily permanently staying there many OF them
have been accustomed to spend in that city the
they drew from other lands Thelestructon from which
the surroundings Of the city have already suffered will
for years render it less attractive to visitors lombard
ment would infct permanent injury, from which it
could never recover.
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