New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-07-18
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE.
FRANCE.

FRANCE.
ALLEGATION OF QUEEN IsABELLA-THE ORLEANS
PRINCES REFUSED ADMISSION TO THE EMPIRE
NJ oURBETs LETTER DECLINING THE CROSS
OF THE LEGION OF HONOR.
lRRoM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.
PARIS, July THE drouth, the COurDet let
ter the abdicaton OF the exQueen Isabella and the ie
OF the Orleans Princes demanding permission to re-
turn to Francethese the subjects OF most interest
people have found to talk about since last wrote
As for the drOuh, il still continues and the country IL
suffering greatly from the infection Wells are drying
ND and the springs and small streams failing; even
the larger rivers are becoming uncomfortably low In
many parts OF France water is being sold at 30 much
quart and OF the papers printed the other day Dill
presented to a groom at LOngchamps for the entertain
ment Of his horse In which the water furnished inquired
IA an item costing as much the hay. The Sene IN
Paris with its solid banks OF cut stone Is never as you
NAV imagine very rurallookng stream, but in these
DAYS with the water getting lower and lower there 10
most dreary preponderance OF masonry vi course as
the water falls the river becomes more and more muddy
since the current Is not strong enough 10 carry OH 'o
sewage and In the heat OF midday and AFTERNOON, ING
odors that arise are not the most delightful that one
could imagine Still, when speak OF sewage II must DO
remembered that only the street-washings and the
rinsings of the house-sinks are allowed to return
to the river All other matters are carried on from
the houses and from the places OF pubic conVeh-
ience separately, and do not find their way 10 tine
river at all Ordinarily great quantity OF water Is useu
in watering the streets and squares and In supplying the
numerous fountains, but, with the steady fali
Of the Seine this luxury has had TO be
nartly foregone The street-watering is greatly
diminished aud the public fountans-even those In the
Place de la Concordeplay only occasionally TINS last
measure OF economy, although, no doubt absolutely
necessary serious grievance TO the people VINO are
pent ND in this populous city, In these sitting Summer
hroaf ~ afr atirrin
pash of the abundanty fed fountains great COM
fort Even the noise tho water made was something,
and missed it greatly last evening as passed acrosthe
Place de Saint Sulpce, where the fountainone OF the
largest and handsomes in Paris designed by Nlscont,
with its statues of F6nelOn, BOssue Fletcher and MAS
slon-was not playing. One misses such fountain IN
such quarter even-at least do-than in large
shoysouare like the Place de Ia COncorde because that
by its surroundings suggests nothing but wealth and
pleasure, with its Tuileres garden on one hand,
the beginning OF the Boulevards on another, and
tho Champs Eysees on a third, with the open
river and the free quarter OF tho Corps
Legislatf stil fourth. But, when fountain has
been set I'D in crowded region like the Latin quarter,
with its narrow, twisting, sinking streets, with is
houses piled up story upon story and never garden TO
break the dull monotony the stoppage OF such fountain
be sorey felt Last evening the air was very close
and IL seemed II everybody had come into the street
The stone piazza the middle OF which the great foun
tain stands, was crowded with children playing their
games while their parents and the older people sat
the benches sauntered up and down on the
sidewalks The trees, which, like all the Paris trees,
look II they merely another species OF policemen,
shaved, dressed as rigy possible and condemned 10
do duty standing on leg the hub Of eartwheel
were last evening looking less like trees aud more like
policemen than usual The flower market, which, II l
might Judge by the number Of towering plants in plots,
each onveoped in its regulation cornucopa OF white
paper still standing on the pavement had dragged out
a not very profitable day. was yawning ana gaping
preparatory TO getting into its and drawing out
into what called the country again-the country, Ia
eaDpaOne France meaning place where you have all
the discOmfors of the CITY, dust payements gendarnes
and of shade, with none OF its comforts Ihat ls
suppose the flowers in Paris come from the country ana
grow in gardens though have often an uncomfortable
suspicion that they only the artificial flowers from
the miners' windows, galvanized little for market
days. and that in the of days the unsod ones are re-
turned to try their chances with bonnebuyers To my
rude American eyes all the flower markets of Paris put
together are not worth one Covent Garden.
As for the effects of the drouh the crops we are in
the midst OF harvest and shall know If thcfears
that have been seriously expressed are likely to be
realized There are different reports, depending upon
the quarter to which the writer directs his For the
drouth has not been equally bad all over France ana
while we Parisians feel its bad effects in
the poor quality Of our frmt-eheTries being
an exception, since they are unusually good and
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have been if they did not have to take the place OF
Strawberries raspberres and aprcos; and in the slim
provision vegetables the farmers saying that the
wheat unusually fine though the yield of straw is not
in proportion. Algeria has done spendidly this year,
and don't know whether she ought most 70 be praised
for her crop of wheat her crop of Noes The first
-four OF the wheat of 1870 appeared the other day at
the Corn Market and the specimen bag was bought by
the Emperors baker TO make bread for His Maiestys
table. But there enough 10 make little for us,
nobodes, and l suppose it is all our tables.
should add that, as the drouth cannot In reason last
much longer and for days the clouds that be-
token rain-les Provencaux" told the soft little
balls Of cloud that the sky in bands called
have frequently observed the priests are beginning
pray for rain, and talking Of organizing process
sOns the country 10 suppcae the heavens for water
suppose If they should happen to get up procession
on a particularly lowering day the Church would get all
the credit of the probable consequences.
The Courbet letter queer story, Of which we are
gradually getting at the truth You know that NJ Maui
rice Richard, amiable gentleman, believe but a
broom, with mild mania for making something out
Of his perfectly useless Office seized with desire to
make VI. Courbet member OF the Legion OF Honor and
had his name recorded on the list OF those who were
to receive that socalled distinction NJ Courbet s as
understand q OF extreme vanity, many and
many clever painter land more not at all clever has
been before him. lie is individual person wholly de-
voted to his art, and holding protesting TO hold
(Which in France two very distinct things extreme
republican opinions The story to which the Monftew
sticks, and which up to this day has never been
denied, is that NJ. Richards intention
intimated TO NJ. Courbet, and that he expressed
his satisfaction, asking his informant how he
coud best thank the Minister what he had DONE and
whether he thought little sketch Of his would give him
any pleasure NJ Richard has been much blamed for not
having found Courbets views the subject OF Deco
ration before offering him and especially before sub
jectng that highest % Of all decorations TO the risk Of
snubDing But II the Moniteurs story be true and
10 he nil