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SATURDAY y. APRIL II.
OUR PARIS LETTER.

The constitutional Royalists have returned to
their old love-liberalism, after having been some
two years on with the new, which might be de-
scribed as bambOOzlIsm. The progress made 50
far in the constituting Of the Republic, has given
general satisfaction and confidence to all, and
their name is legion, who desired to see France
rescued from being the shuttlecock Of Pretenders.
Public Funds will persist in running up, and the
rise has not been effected by any organized hypoc-
risy such as pulled up stocks when Napoleon III.
executed hIs coup d'Etat. The Third Republic lie
not yet a fortnight old. but its health and hopes
are as excellent as could be expected. Perhaps
the 8 innocent" requires most attention to pre-
vent it from being sufocated by the caresses Of it's
new adOrers, who were but yesterday it's Herod-.
The natural nurses continue to guard their of
spring with sOlicitude and foresight.
1t is said that the fear Of witnessing the return
Of the Empire was the cause Of the conversion of
the moderate Royalists to Republicanism. Ifso,
they showed not only sound judgment but patri-
otto prudence. Suspicion is the safeguard of
politics, and there is nothing reproaehful in doing
good. Ii is exactly because the Republic is the
only effective barrier against Imperialism, that it
meets with support from those who are not Re-
publicans; for sooner or later the restoration of
the Empire would bring fresh misfortunes on the
country. Then the Empire is very far from being
superior 10 a Republic, led as the present lie, by
men Of position and moderation, and for the first
time surrounded by machinery that will allow it
to work constitutionally. The Empire is better
than a Red Republic or a Communications of
government no person desires-but its advantages
go no further, and the Republic under Theirs
crushed turbulent demagogues as efectually in
1871, as did the Republic under Cavaignae in
June 1s48. Henceforth. the people mean to
govern and maintain law and order without the
exploded saviour of society, who commences by
saving his own interests first.
The Republic has yet but one rock ahead,
which a few days will definitely clear away,
namely, the constitution of the Senate. How are
the Senators to be elected 2 That's the question.
There is no reason to think otherwise but that a
HlOduS UiUendi will be found, by the newly formed
majority, and which will thus save the good work
already accomplished from being shipwrecked.
Now the Republic is essentially representative,
and in a serious organization, cannot make q
place for fctions, privileges, or phantoms. To
declare all dignItaries er O1fciO, Senators would
be merely nominating those who have already
sat in the Senate of the Second Empire. To ac-
cord as a compliment the right to Marshal McMa-
hon to name a portion of the Senators, would be
only renewing those political subtilties which
have cost France so much since inaugurated by
the fatal coalition of May, 1870. Then the Re-
public as voted, is eminently impersonal, seeing
nothing in the Marshal, but its loyal President
till 1880. The laws az drafted are made for
Presidents to come as well as for the President
actual. There is no room in them for individual
titles however respectable. To have any authority,
in a word, to be of any utility, the Senators must
be the chosen by the electors in some form or
other, leaving to them to decide, who is the most
eligible and worthy. French Senates have yet to
make their reputation in France, and the country
is not dependent on high functionaries in or out
Of Office for its supply of capable, honest, and
practical men. Ii cannot be a mistake to accord
to the electors, the absolute liberty of finding out
in all ranks of society, the right man for the right
place. OGoe does aot -sOs0POliSN Ill al 6VV1
men and true in France patriots and conserva-
tives are happily plentiful:
Paris required 200, 900 900 of francs to COM
plete some of the unfinished works that the Empire
planned ut the expense OF the citizens. However,
Augustus when he found Rome brick and left it
marble, did not effect the change out of his pocket
money, and the least Of the Napoleons had the
most slaVish admiration Of Cesar. But pigmies
are pigmies still though perched on Alps. ReDe-
mons q nos mOut0HS. The required loan was
subscribed for nearly AZ times over This repre-
sents a total OF over 81 milliards, almost double
the ransom paid to Prussia. The real gold,
silver, and diamond fields are in France. How
Bismarck must swear at not having heeced the
Gauls more than be did it is sufficient to cause
him to retreat to Varzin. What q people to sack,
those French. What a city to sack!" exclaimed
old Butcher, in looking from st. Paul's over the
panorama Of London. Only think Alsace and
Lorraine alone subscribing for the whole loan.
Wonder how much they would take in a Prussian
ernpruni. Outside France, the loan was sub
scribed for FIVE and a half times beyond the
amount required, and 20 times in Paris itself,
where the i~nstaIlments alone received amount to
over three-Quarters of a milliard. And the APP
p~lications for the loan were real. In this astound-
ing result there is a political lesson and one of no
small importance. The nation desired to show
its thorough confidence in the Republic-for peo-
pie who put their hands in their pockets as Sydney
Smith observes are very serious and further, it
may be added, weigh well the prospects of the
morrow il is a rebuke to the monarchists who
described the new Republican Municipal Council,
as consisting of tigers and petr0eurs untitled to
be entrusted with the expenditure of a centime;
it is also a slave to Paris herself, in response to
the vote of the Assembly decreeing that the seat
of the Legislature shall remain at Versailles.
The nation has by this marvellous money vote,
confirmed the Republican resolutions of the As
sembly.
The Carnival is rapidly becoming an affair Of
toys and children. The good old times are dying
out the fayorite toys are porcelaine horns which
are blown in harmony with squibs. The hard
boiled red eggs in the wine shops indicate ap-
preaching Lent, and the piles of salt Goldfish like
layers of leather at the grocers, form a strange
contrast with the gaudily decorated prize meat in
the butchers shops, for every 1000 butchers in
Paris is presumed to have bought a prize OK and
sheep at the late cattle show. Disguises are
rarely to be encountered in the streets E" folly
and bells Z" are conspicuous by their absence here
and there one meets with a lad dressed as a Jack
pudding and little girls as dairy maids a Ia Marie
Antoinette at the Trianon. Things in this res
pect are not much better at Rome, where fun has
departed since Garibaldi and the Pope have be-
come close neighbors, and Pasquin's statue for
gotten in the rush to drain the Campagna. Our
Republic has a set of to its seventies in the
number Of masked balls, where so many demand
Of mirth to be admitted of her crew. For Paris
ians the masked ball at the New Opera was a
capital event, although it was at one time said