The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1874-08-15
THE PACIFIC
Commercial AOOrrtisrr.
SATURDAY. g Is.
OUR PARIS LETTER.

pire, and all that Is now required Of II, is TO le-
gally proclaim the Republic, and leave its organ
ization to the new Chamber. The hour for the
last reflections of the Assembly is rapidly ap-
preaching, and the crisis is at hand when the
Monarchists must decide between the Republic
and nothing. The liberal section of the 0rlean-
lists continues to be appealed to in order to aid
that form of government, where their prince
chiefs can remain the first citizens; if however,
the moderate Royalists persist in remaining ire
coneilables, their sins must rest on their own
heads. They have only one more fault TO commit.
In any case IL is a relief to see at last the begin
ming Of the end. The L~egitimists, a respectable
but forlOrn hope, are about proposing, Henri V.
or Dissolution-Rome or Death; the Orleanists.
the Septennate OF Dissolution; the Republicans;
the Republic or Dissolution; the Imperialists
anything that viii keep away a definite arrange
ment. II would seem thus, that the dissolution
ought 10 be voted next to mem. con. 1t is TO be
hoped, that if the Deputies will persist in doing
nothing, that Marshal will exercise
his grand common sense, and the As
sembly to restore to the nation the right to exer-
else its Sovereign powers.
OF late the evidence is clear, that a resolute
and impartial hand is gradually directing affairs.
The seizure of the documents connected with the
Bonaparthst propaganda, as also those belonging
to the extreme Royalists has given a good deal OF
satisfaction. To strike all disturbers alike, no
MalIeF - WHAT Jucy NAY DelOu8s 10 simple JUS
tice. 1t is prudent also. as it will MP troubles in
the bud. Then again it is not q bad sign to re-
mark less disposition 10 convert Republicanism
into the Turks head. The clemency In allowing
some suspended democratic journals to resume
their ordinary course Of circulation, is an earnest
Of better times, and the concession to the press in
nominating a distinguished journalist TO assist in
the preparation of the proposed press laws-such
are ever on the constitutional stocks-is also an
excellent measure, because just. Why ought not
Marshal MacNahon, as the fortune tellers lay
down, found the permanent Republic, now that no
other form of government is practicable? He has
real, unquestioned power, and being legally
strong, can afford to be legally liberal and officially
impartial. at the misfortunes of the Bonapart-
lists, cool people only laugh-as one does at the
bitter and the file. The curtain is about rising on
the last act OF the present political imbroglio.
Surprise has been very generally felt that a
financial Minister Of NJ. Magnes' abilities would
persist in his plan of increasing the indirect taxes
TO cover the deficiencies of the budget-some 40
millions of francs, when this source of taxation
is unquestionably on the decline, more or less
accelerated by the general stagnatiOn of work.
The budget Committee has all but unanimously
rejected the Ministerial plan, and approved of the
sensible proposition TO reimburse the Bank of
France its loans, by annual i~nstallments of $780,
000,0 600 instead of 200 900 900 of francs, thus
leaving fifty to cover the net deficit, and to meet
some items of increased but necessary expenditure.
The yield of the revenue for April and May ex-
hibits a total diminution of 30 ,OOO, 600 there
has been an increase of eight millions, chiefly
under the head of tobacco-smokers perhaps
smoke more when compelled to remain unem-
ployed-and a few unimportant s%undries, thus
revealing q clear loss of nearly "a 600 900 Of
francs for the two months in question The fall
ing away by over three and a half millions under
the heads Of stamps and registration fees is the
conclusive illustration of depressed business the
diminution on home and foreign sugars, amounts
to six millions on beverages to ten millions ON
tickets for travelling by rail, &C., two and a half
millions on foreign postage, over half a million.
So much for the social condition of the country.
In a few departments of the Post Office, notably
the transmission Of money and -valuables, there
has been n small increase but tho foreign postage
is, as il has ever been since the imprudent increase
of tariffs, a dead loss. The Government only
regards the post as a source Of revenue, not at all
Of public convenience, and concluded it was SO
great a necessity that any rates fixed for letters
would be paid. The tax was eyaded simply by
the : underground railway" system ir was a
part of the fiscal policy of Nj. Thiers-mess,
muddle, and obstinacy; excellent as has been
that statesman in other respects. New men,
above all a new and more enlightened Postmaster
General, are rapidly reducing what is excessive
and a failure. Then France has had such heavy
bills to pay, that she may be excused for trying
oil schemes to raise money, as much as possible
also, by mulcting strangers. The Bank of France,
which means the inexhaustible riches of the
country, has q plethora of gold it would be
healthier to see its portfolios swollen with first
class trade bills than its cellars full of ingots.
Money fructifes only in being judiciously en-
ployed. Commerce and industry are so discour-
aged by political instability, that they prefer to
remain with folded arms, till security and conf
dence are developed by deeds and not talk hence
banks are not oyer-solicited for discounts. The
lmportations of grain and -four to cover the def
ciencies of last years harvest, are represented by
the sum of nearly half u milliard, leaving a large
balance of trade against France. However, the
agricultural prospects Of the country this year
are sound, the vintage promises to be excellent,
the economical situation of the nation and its
producing powers are very healthy; the people
only desire to labor, to rest, and to give to all
that can embellisff a nation, that intelligence and
creative power, now absorbed and lost in misera
Paris has entered upon what is by fiction
called her dead season, which really means some
big dinners in town-houses less, and fewer vehicles
in the Bots between the hours of two
and five in the afternoon. Strange, there is more
banqueting in the open air, and more remarkable
still, more visitors to the Bots, and an increase of
vehicles for after dinner drives. Thus cabs and
hired carriages do an immense business. The
upper ten retire to make way for good humored
provincials and money-spending birds of passage
from foreign countries. a Frenchman has been
studying the habits of the animals in the Zoolog-
ical Gardens when the temperature is 90 degrees
in the shade; the heat so overcomes tigers and
lions, that they doze away into Incidence, while
the bears &c. commence to be frisky hence, why
the inhabitants of warm climates make excursions
~Dorthwards in summer, and why the people OF
cold latitudes, travel pending the same period, to-
wards the sunny South. Among other celebrities
who adopt the antipodean fashion of leaving the
country for the capital during the Dog days, is
George Sand she alleges that Paris is at this
period to her most attractive, particularly the
mornings and the nights. Although she is now
20 years of age, with her hair cut short, and
something like a gentleman's straw hat, a stout
cane, and a dog, she may be encountered any
morning at eight O'Clock walking around the lake
1 in the ROiS- and IL is only after midnIphf She bids
adieu to the Champs Elysees. She is an excellent
walker, composes her works, like Victor Hugo,
while promenading. With both, a drive would
be regarded an the evidence of falling health or
old age. - - z-
There is no denying the thrifty habits of the
French. Now from a Savings Bank point of
view, every inhabitant of France represents but
IA fr. so invested, while in England the sum per