The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1873-10-25
OUR PARIS LETTER
P.el.. sen.smber I'm. 1873.

SiA1E NAY lis t4G country Eas E0E psS-TNSSSI II
eonvalescence, and THEIRS plan Of government, that
of eonciliating parties, instead Of setting them al
one anothers threats, as the coalition has developed,
is 10 be preferred. This explains why all eyes arc
once more directed to the ex-President. and those
that overthrow him are negotiating even to bring
him back. The very inertia Of the people has de-
feated the intrigues fer : monarchical success. which
at least could only be transitory. but sufficiently long
TO involve France in n war with Italy, later with
Spaln-al the Latlnl, 10 say nothing Of Germany,
not ayerse to anticipating Gallo revenge. The cos
liton is a thing Of the past, its members having
found 'most friendship is feigning, most loving
mere folly" and the ultra-royalists commence to
urge the necessity Of a dissolution Of the Assembly.
This is homage rendered at last TO the nations
wishes, that demands 10 not rest eternally in doubt,
10 live no longer in the provisional, while reposing
therein as IN q harbor OF refuge. The the two royal
ties, instead Of completing, annul each other, for the
Count Of Paris abdicates and the Count Of Chambofd
disappears. The latter will only consent 10 reign
like Louis XIV, and Louis XIV, without o~onstitu-
ton. without control. However, France has not
abdicated: her liberalism remains intact: Orleanism
has not laid that st the feet Of Henri V. The desire
20 clear up the situation, TO admit light, constitute
the whole of French politics now. The Bonspartists
are very indignant of having been cashiered, and
pass ike an Ovidian metamorphosis from ultra
Monarchism TO Radicalisu. The Republicans con-
tinue 10 be held responsible for /" filing the butchers
shops with large blue flies, by opponents who per-
vert the prophets and purloin the psalms.
In making the importation of grain perfectly free,
and decreeing its transit by rail at a reduction Of SO
per cent. per ton, the government has done all and
well, that could be expected 10 conjure the bread
crisis. 1t is work that is really wanted, but this can
only flow from political stability; confidence once
restored by a sage, liberal, and non-exclusive re-
public, money will freely circulate. No enc could
accuse the absence of luxury or second-Empire per-
sonal extravaganza on the part of the inhabitants
and foreigners under the administration of Theirs,
for display is an affection sooner caught than the
pestilence. Bismarck has succeeded in capturing
the Italian alliance, the loss of which is all that
France has reaped by change Of administration 1t
is @ great blow to French hopes; attention is now
being directed towards Austria; there is no balm in
that Gilead, no physician is there. The passing
away of the invader attracts but a measured atten-
ton; he retires from present, to former France only,
and since Theirs provided the necessary milliards
there was no sensation left for the last act in the
liberation of the territory. 1t is an adieu for cypress,
not for laurel; there remain behind g the wounds
which kill not, but ne'er heal Victor Hugo has
dedicated n piece of rant and fustian to the event,
that makes the delivery scene lugubrious. He talks
about a cloud and a crater being on his head. and
Mount Etna upon his breast. Poor veteran, he must
suffer. Happily his fellow countrymen know full
well, that neither poetry nor eloeuence will restore
Metz and Strasbourg. Large battaliOns, which Prov
idence inclines to, improved artillery, well-instructed
officers, and disciplined soldiers are the instruments
of persuasion.
There are more than sixty morning and evening
newspapers published in Paris, and collectively they
might challenge the united intelligence of the world
to find in any of them a clear and definite programme
for the Immediate future of the country. The only
relief we have from writers demonstrating that their
opponents are possessed of the seven capital sins, is
the outbreak of cholera-literature; ii is served up
historically, professionally and Economically. One
journal, doubtless to keep it's original subscribers
from disappearing against their will, offers as a
premium, an order on its chemist for a bottle of anti
cholera mixture, and a family jar of chloralum for
disinfecting purposes, with a tract for the times in
addition. Many persons are hopeful that the steady
downfall of rain now taking place will wash away
the plague. In any case the malady has not arrived
at the alarm stage. There are no signs of a STAN
pede; doctors are plentiful, are neither dying nor are
overworked: no tent or Shed-hOspitals have had TO be
run up in haste, and the bygienic state of the capital
is more than excellent. The soldiers, and the en-
ployes of all public companies, have been supplied
with flannel Wristbands; it is fashionable TO carry
bits of camphor in the pocket, and soon cholera
instructions must line the inside of hats. What is
strangely significant is, that the city funeral estab-
lshment is just now removing to larger premises, in
consequence of increased business, and ugly rumors
are again adoat that the undertaking class is
about having a strike, not for an increase of pay,
but for less working-hOurs. Misfortunes always
arrive in battalions. Two new facts have come to
light in the hospitals, that patients now attacked
with cholera have been carried of in the space of
three hours, and that diarrh@a is not always an
accompaniment Of the malady.
The best preserva'ive against cholera is urged 10
be amusement, hence perhaps why the theatres and
cOncert-halls are nightly filled. just as if three glori-
Gus days, or n siege, or a commune had been gone
through. To add TO the medicine IN vogue, q dis
believer in politics has collected the attacks made on
Theirs by %prominen men and journals since his
defeat, and what both said and wrote about him in
February, 1871, when the country was really in
danger and he its saviour. II is more interesting
than Charivari, and the effect is heightened when the
spectacle is studied of Theirs having to go to Switz-
erland to receive the thanks of such Of his country
men as have still hearts to appreciate his grand
triumph, and forget his little faults. \ Project is
rumored to have gone all the way to Lucerne 10
thank the eminent patriot. "Sire,' said General
Rapp to Louis XVIII, in pointing to his tears for
Napoleon l., who had Just died, you viii pardon
me. IL is TO him that / am indebted for the honor TO
serve your Majesty" There are 30 public bail
rooms, more or less important, III Paris, and licensed,
where the Orchestras vary from 20 fTst-class must
clans, 10 a barrel organ or q hurdygurdy behind a
screen. Citizens have thus ample opportunities for
dancing off all care about cholera. or that equally
terrible pestileDce. bad politics.
There is only space for 100 journalists, in the
Trianon palace, where Bazaine is 10 be tried, and for
which there are 63S applications from distinct editors;
Russia has asked for eight places, Roumania three,
Athens TWO, ConstantinOple four, Prussia ten,
Sweden. Norway and Denmark FIVE, Italy seven,
Austria II; the remaining wants are claimed by
France, England and America. To satisfy all, an
official abstract of the trial will be posted up in en-
ante-room every two hours, for the use of the press.
The demands are thus numerous in consequence Of a
military as well as an ordinary reporter being con-
sidered essential. 1t is well for readers to be pre-
pared for four-ffths Of the trial being purely technical.
There seems TO be little interest taken in the pill
grimages, IN the congress OF old Catholics, or in
peculiar people generally. The newspapers devote
space to other matters. In reference to the first, the
season has set in dead against outdoor marchings
and since a bulletin has been published of the mira
cles effected at the shrines-in one case nineteen
dead being restored to life-faith has been staggered.
Of course in presence Of these resurrcctions, curing
the blind, the MANNED, and the dumb are but insig-
nihcant events. 1t is worthy Of remark, that it is
the Free-Thinkers who feel ii a bounden duty to re-
spond to the pilgrims. One party improves the
occasion today, but is superseded by its opponent
tomorrow it IS the question of artillery against
metal plates a bigger gun to-day, a thicker plate
the next. The key to all is this, that beth are view
ed as political manifestations. OF late the pilgrims
display fewer banners and cieTges, which may ac-
count for civil interments being conducted by bands
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