The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1875-06-26
OUR PARIS LETTER.

PARIS, May 4, 1875
Everywhere the note of preparation. There is
preparation for the meeting of the Asembly, as
we'll as for its dissolution; PREPARATION Tor the
electing of Senator's, for the .Assing of the budget,
the transitory press lave III TACT a putting OF the
house in order. p-paratory to abolishing the
state of siegeJ~nd consulting the nation. The
Rennb,ico-s Of all shades continue to be SO prac-
teal noderate, and sagacious, as to discomfort
= the calculations of their opponents. For SER
tain speculative politicians, the wisdom Of Gam
betta's programme, is more embarrassing than
would be his violence and exclusiveness. He has
become an irreconcilable with all that is impet-
uous and intoerant; be not only aims to create
an alliance between the working and the middle
classes, but he is occupied in uniting the peasantry
to make common cause with the towns-people, by
proving that they are men and brethren in politics
as in interests.
Every used-up politician, aware that universal
suffrage has no longer want of his services, desires
to become Senator. There is no reason to expect,
that under the severe discipline of the Republican
party, their future representatives, whether for
Senate or Assembly, will be kept free from that
terrible scourge, trimmers and men who do not
huOh lutlI OHu mluu. 10e Assembly HAS Tue
right to select rs Senators for life; but it is a
prevailing error to conclude, that the candidates
must be taken from among the present deputies.
Every Frenchman is eligible to become one of the
FIVE and seventy. 1t would also be a mistake to
assume, that the present complex majority in the
Chamber, will vote for men hostile by nature, re-
~lations, and belief, to the present constitution.
OF late NJ. Theirs is coming back in public no
tIce, not that be either desires or needs it. His
niche is made in history and creditably so. Bel
fort, that he secured to France, for the equivalent
of allowing the Germans to occupy the Champs
Elysees for q few hours, wishes to have Theirs for
it's Senator-and so becomes a competitor with all
France. In certain high ATTITUDES, this ovation
would likely prove gall and NORWOOD, and if
Theirs be chosen President of the Senate, France
smelling the same rose. Though Theirs be keep
ing in the shade, 1t is best to estimate his studies
and his i~dolatory for art treasures, as something
akin to Sixtus V. and the crutehes.
The country is to be endowed with the luxury
Of a new law on the press. This time it will be
only transitory-just like the application of an
original tax, and which generally turns out to
have a life as a robust as an annuitants. How
ever, it is the price for abolishing the state of
siege, and is cheap for the purchase money. Any
measure calculated to restore France to her normal
life is good and pleasant. Besides, under tho
ucH udElDC u buOII Dl1 Ill COIICCI II ccNCEl-
ties, as a short bill has made them. NJ. de Cir
ardin lays down, that liberty of the press means
nothing more than the liberty of contradiction, of
opposing a 8 no" to a yes" ct rice rerSd. He
denies that the press is a power; it is simply an
agent OF publicity, in the sense that the post and
the telegraph are SO. Less paradoxical is his as
s~ertiCn, that the best law on the press, is no law
at all. From the time of the First Napoleon,
who extinguished not the journals, but the editors
who presumed to question him, down to the
Machiavelian regulations of his nephew, the re-
s~trictIons imposed on the press only accelerated
the fall of ministries and the overthrow of dynas-
ties. There are some lessons Of history that pos
terity will persist in ignoring.
Putting aside the nervous attention that Prus-
STA bestOws upon France, as well as the false re-
ports manufactured at Berlin to disturb the Con-
tInent, at all of which the French laugh in their
sleeve, while preparing their powder, as well as
keeping il dry, much careful attention is given to
the revenue. The best of military chests is an
increasing revenue, not the locking up of treasure,
as at Berlin and Teheran. The year 1875 ap-
pears to have opened under the most happy au-
spices for France. AS compared with 1874, the
increase in the revenue for the quarter ending the
81 March last, is a net eight millions of francs.
The external commerce of France never has been
more considerable; public funds are at q very
high figure, railway traffic has increased l6 per
cent, and the savings banks register an excess of
deposits equal to 10 millions weekly. The hal
cNOQ QayS OF tue C6COuu Umpire are SURPASSED IN
material prosperity by the Republic. And pri-
vate financial establishments compete with the
Bank of France il dIscounting paper. The i'm
portatiOns have been less in 1875 than in 1874,
but in any case superior to what they have ever
attained before the war. This result will be
gratifying for those who believe, that d nation
ought ever to sell to, but never buy from the
foreigner. These importations were raw mate
fials, and some food supplies as France does not
produce; but a diminution in the importation Of
grain is the consequence of her own plentiful
harvest, and in the case of cotton, one of her best
manufacturing districts has disappeared with Al
SAGE. The latter reason will also explain, why
thers hes been an increase in imported cotton
manufactured goods. To give heart of grace to
German ~alarmists, France has nearly one half
million less horses now than before the war, and
she has exported during the first quarter Of 1875,
1000 more horses than she imported, and pur-
chased less forage by II millions than she has
done during the previous eight years. The in
crease in expectations is nOrmOus has never
been equalled hitherto, and indicates an excess of
100 millions as compared with 1875. This aug
mentation lie due 10 MANUFACTURE in silk, wool,
and leather, jewellery, and fashionable clothing.
If beet-sugar has been largely exported, the
government %unhappily backs it up by a bounty.
The trade in butter and eggs lOurishes ike
,Jonah's gourd. What may be new TO many, the
expectation Of tools and machinery shows i'm
alcuz- ptu5loaz, O-.-s 4v-o.O ,.----- .- --.-..-A
@ any four Sc -s before 1870. France thus sells
other Trli-e.- tlal wines. silks. articles fs Paris.
artificial flowers. de.ir-cies and llZuries. Equally
10 keeping with this happy tah,elu, France pro-
tGCsI more coal and minerals. Since ave years