The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-07-15
NEW YORK HERALD TUESDAY JULY Is Is7s-TRlPLE SHEET

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makes fat pickings for the Law vers' whose ices
together with the original bills with costs
have finally to be paid by the taxpayo1>s Ihi
is no time to turn back into the city trea>, ur'
appropriations properly made for street ind
provements already under way and sumrna-
rly stopped in order to throw q big surplus
bonus into the treasury for the edifcation OF
millionaire taxpayers. wise and judicious
system of economy in public expenditures is
always commendable, but an economy that
may entail upon the city incalculable dis
asters, both in regard to health and COM
mercial prosperity, can only be tolerated by
those who have not really the material inter-
ests Of the city at heart. Let the health an
thorities pluck up courage, let more Iberality
be shown in the disbursements for the preser-
walton of the sanitary condition of the me-
tropolis, and we may yet be able to stay the
steps of the scourge that has already crept
stealthily into some of the finest and hitherto
most salubrious localities in the South
Civil and Religious Persecution I'm
France.
A difficulty has arisen in France It is q
new difficulty, and one which few weeks ago
we were scarcely prepared to expect. When
Marshal MacMahon come into power he said
that, with the help Of God and the French
army, he hoped to be able to maintain moral
meant by "moral order" was a much dis
cussed question at the time. The difficulty to
which we refer goes far to explain the Presi-
dents phrase as we'll as to illustrate the spirit
which animates the majority in the French
Assembly.
Some time about the middle of June NJ
Brousses, member Of the Assembly for the
Aube, died. and, of course, had to be buried.
nj. Brousses was not o member Of any reli-
gous denomination. He was not Churchman
nor dissenter but rather a Voltarian, as
such people are commonly called in France.
BY his own direction this man was buried
without any religious ceremonial. In other
words, his burial was what is called a
civil burial. According to very stupid
rule, which still has force in France,
the corpse Of any member of the
Assembly has to be attended to the grave with
guard of soldiers. On this occasion the off,
GERS in command, finding that there was no
religious ceremonial, abruptly and very I'M
tremendously left the cortege, taking, of
course, their command with them. Fierce
citizen indignation was the result Indigna-
ton took more alarming shape when it was
known that M. Ducro, Project of Lyons had
issued an order that funerals celebrated without
clerical aid should take place at seven o'clock
in the morning in Winter and at or before six
o'clock in the morning in Summer. What
gives intensity to the feeling which still pre-
walls is the fact that the wording Of the order
reads almost like an extract from the DEGREES
of the Council which followed on the revoca-
ton of the Edict of Nantes
1t was supposed there might be some mis-
take, and the whole matter was brought before
the Assembly at Versailles. All over France
the Votarians or non-clericals felt insulted, and
it was hoped that the Assembly might redress
the wrong or the government offer some salts
factory explanation. What was the result?
The Minister of War, General de Barrail, de-
funeral OF NJ. Brousses and justified the order of
the Project Of Lyons The Minister of War was
loudly cheered by the Right; the Left Centre
showed signs of sympathy with the govern
ment and M. Ducro's order at Lyons was
sustained by vote of Alb to 251. We have
little to do with the arguments on the govern
ment side. The great fact is that the French
Assembly, as the French Assembly is at pres
ent composed, has decreed that non-Chris-
tan is sort Of dog who ought to be hurried
out Of sight and buried in darkness. M.
Theirs, it is said, was with difficulty restrained
from going down to the Assembly; and when
he heard what the Assembly had done he de-
clared it to be his purpose, notwithstanding
the outward respect he has always shown the
Church, to have it put in his will that his
own funeral should be Of a civil, not of reli-
gious kind This may mean " moral order"
according to MacMahon and the Assembly, but
to us it seems persecution which must bring
about revenge. Of this funeral and of this
order we shall hear more by and by. Wrongs
of this sort are not easily forgotten or forgiven;
and we may rest assured that Gambetta and
his friends, although silent, are biding their
time.
Tho shah's Progress-How He VIII
be "Impresscd" by His European
Tour.
The Shah Of Persia, in turning to the east
ward, it is given out, will not visit the capital
of Austria in consequence of reports which
have reached him of the prevalence of cholera