The New York herald., 1874-11-16
F R A N G E.
The City Of Paris About to Contract
a So, 100000 Loan.
WHO WILL DISCHARGE THE DEBT2
The Difficulty with Spain and the Cost
Of Prince Napoleon.
PARIS, Oct. 80. 1877.


The city OF Paris is about to contract new loan
OF $50, 900, ,oOo more than half OF which is required
TO pay OF portion OF the floating debt and to
meet other obligations already contracted. The
remainder ($23 400 OO0) will be expended public
works, and IL Is to be hoped that some progress
will at length be made with the restoration OF the
Tui!eries and the hotel de Vile. The loan will be
taken up readily enough. but Paris can hardly
bear the $3 600 Of additional taxation which It
Will necessitate.
FRANCE MUST COME TO THE RESCUE
and render material aid to the finances OF the cap
ital by vote OF the Assembly 1t Is only fair that
France should pay for the losses suffered by Paris
during the two sleges. Yet France herself is hard
pressed and cannot In the nature OF things
avoid an ultimate suspension Of payments unless
she takes the question OF retrencnmenr seriously
In hand. The estimates Tor the civil service
especially need looking into 1t has long been Q
complaint with Frenchmen that their country Ia
Overgoverned by innumerable functionaries, all
paid and too many OF them having large powers
OF drawing on the puDuc funds. A republican
government once drmly seated would probably
withdraw the State suDventton to the Catholic
Church and the other religious bodies thus saving
between fifteen and twenty million dollars an
nually.
ANOTHER DIPLOMATIC COMPLICATION
seems to be threatened, If the news from Santander
be true, that Spanish gunboat has fred ride
volley az French merchant ship and subse-
quently sent party 60 inspect her. THIS In
cident is the more to be regretted as
Marshal MacMahon's Cabinet is honestly
doing Its best to observe international
obiigations-a colonel and thirty-two ofi-
GERS OF the Carlist army having just been
tnterned at Bourges and in the neighborhood. To
shls old town. famous IN history as at one time
coIo oS K,uor ~ho
invading armies of England, the Minister Of War,
General de Cissey, has just paid visit He was
duly shown over cannon foundry, spent q few
| minutes in the cathedral and then called on the
| Duke OF Aiencon. Indeed the Orleans princes are
| treated with such extraordinary Difference by
| government Orhcials that one almost wonders
| what they would gain by the sO-calied restora-
tion that is, the accession Of the Comte de Cham
| bord or the Comte de Parts to the throne Not
power certainly, OF which the king would have
very little to spare; II Is, moreover, tradition
with Bourbon monarchs not to allow the members
OF the Royal family much political innuence. When
the Count Of Artois afterwards Charles Ky wished
to take part in the councils Of Louis XVIII,
Talleyrand interposed, and said to him. "when
Your Royal Highness becomes king you win thank
me for having excluded the princes of the blood
from participation in your prerogative." PROB
ably all that the princes hope for by the re-estab
nshment Of the monarchy Is
A LITTLE HARD CASH.
which these descendants OF o hundred kings
pocket with innnite grace whenever they have
chance. The s.dotations" or allowances from the
civil list to French princes have always been hand.
some. it may be interesting to American readers
10 know what Prince Jerome Napoleon received
under the Empire. He has just issued an address
to sne electors OF Ajacclo declaring that che
ohn iuf fho fdaoc mol or Iha INF TIM
perial rule" This is perfectly true. His High.
ness shared in something much more substantial
than hopes and ideas-to wit,
| A Pear.
/ Civil list. s 400, OOC
! Salary as q Senator ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 5000
| AS Councillor or state te.................. 5000
| AS knight OF Grand Cross noo
OF the Legion Of Honor 1''>'
As General OF Division q ooo
mot on the active list '''.'''''....''' -'ooo
The Empire lasted eighteen years, so taat Prince
Napoleon realized oy hts Cousins elevation the
modest sum OF $7,452,O0o. Nor was this the whole
extent OF his gains. The Palats Royal, the rental
or which cannot be estimated at less than 500 00O
was placed at his absolute disposal, and he was
commonly reported to receive sundry allowances
for gas which never appeared to be turned
on, and for amplighters who were never paid.
Then he was given something like q
hundred thousand dollars worth OF pre-
daughter. At one time he was Minister for
Algeria with salary OF $780, 900 year. In short.
this man, who is now uttering heroes about his
disinterestedness netted at least S. 00O 900 by the
reign OF that dynasty which he did everything In
his power to thwart.
AGAINST THE REVOLUTION.
The present government Is evidently determined
to crush II 1t bo possible. the revolutionary In
stinct in Frenchmen. 1t Is o thankless, but one
must confess necessary, task. On the 4th OF Sep
tember. 1870, penniess and INSCRIPTIONS men ar
rogated to themselves the supreme authority in
several OF the great towns. made illegal arrests
and treated their prisoners with such cruelty that
in the indictments recently preferred against
some OF them IL Is described as "bod-
lily torture.n They expected, OF course, that
anything would be forgiven In time OF revolution,
and they had no reason to spprenend any IN
pleasant consequences from their acts under
GamDetta or Tniers. The prosecutions which are
now being conducted before councils OF war were
not instituted till MacMah0n had been some
months President; but they are now being fol-
lowed up with vtgor and the sentences will strike
terror into the lawless for many day to come.
At Marseilles barrtster mas been condemned to
four years. imprisonment and Ave years. suspen-
sion; one Savter, jailer, to ten years. imprison-
ment, with hard labor and ten years. police super
vision; another subordinate oflcial to i've years.
hard labor and ten years. supervision. This se-
verify will not have been misplaced II 1t has the
effect OF preventing few Bohemians rom assum-
ing temporary dicsasorshlps when the next revo-
luton breaks out.
N. THEIRS coMPLIMRNTED.
M Theirs Is once more ON French soil, and was
duly sercnaded By his admirers at Nice the even
ing before last. The Nzzans are Italians and love
little excitement They would have preferred
screnading Patti, or, indeed, the injured DORA
Pearl; but, failing lady, the eminent little man
furnished . fair excuse for making noise. They
meant no harm, and would never do much mis-
chief f.the authorities steadily refused to treat
them seriously.
Ex-KISas COMING TO THE DEMOCRACY.
Two ex-Kings have taken houses In Paris for the
wiuter-Francis l. OF Naples, and George v. OF
Hanover the latter OF whom has Just failed In the