New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-06-04
FRENCH TOPICS.
NOTES FROM PARIS.

GOOD VINTAGE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. FOR MEM
srRs OF THE ACADEMY-M. LEMorNNE's SUCCESS.
mon TUE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE rRIBuSE.l
PARIS, May l9.-On Thursday the Assembly passed
xhs following resolution by a vote of $40 to 279;
Between the present date and that of the coming
General elections no partial election shall be held"
There are present fifteen vacant seats IN the AS
sembly. The term within which the law requires
that elections should be ordered for filling them has
sxpired in two of these fifteen instances, and the
electors were already cOnvOked. The term for the
sshers will have passed before October, the
EARLIEST time when the dissolution can take place.
Meantime the Assembly is to pass an electoral law
and 10 choose rs members of the new Senate. The
vretcxt for thus directly violating law in two in
stances and suspendng its operation in thirteen
more is the old of saving the country from agi-
tation motive with the reactonary majority for
fhus putting universal suffrage i'll allegiance is the
extremely probable fact that, if the people were con-
sulted Immediately las they have right to bel, they
would fill at least twelve of the vacant seats with
Republicans which would greatly weaken the
chances of some of the MOnarchists for becoming
Senator's by choice of the present house. Many Re-
vubhcans however. especially of the newly convert
Al Oreanst variety voted for the resolution. Many
more would have cheerfuly done so if they could
have obtained an additional clause to the resolution
tons: the mover of the resolution met their ap
pieation with one of those smart phrases that so
often turn French heads by tickling their ears.
There If moral date that sufices. This in
sense was true and has since become pressingly
trne than the author of that phrase anticipated
when he uttered IT, The passage of the resolution,
which admits that the general elections are pro
sAa;scs has undoubtedly brought them nearer and
morally weakened the hold with which the mort
ia IN,
consideration of this and from lack of previously
concerted action that so many sincere Republicans
went with the majority. Other are in prep
sa;ion and one is already brou ght forward for de-
Terminus the nearly out existence of the present
Assembly and IL seems less and less impossible
many will tell you more and more pTobabe-that its
labors viii be ended that the general elections can
h. held while the new wine is fermenting next Au-
tumn.
What vintage we are likely to have. spent last
Sunday with a hospable friend at Boississe la Ber-
trand The hillsides rising the right bank Of the
Seine for miles there along almost continuously
patched not TO say clothed with whey aTds that In
rood seasons yield a light but uncommonly agreed
Bile beverage But il is long since the small proprie-
tors in those parts have had a good vintage. This
year promises, in its funess to recompense them
for the long years of waiting. Though 1t
gives nothing to the husbandmau, the vine de-
nands the same attention from him in barren as
In abundant years Now IN acres upon acres of VINE
yard through which walked | found no stock
where there were not on each of the lusty growing
shoots two, three, four. more magnihcently bud
ding clusters. The oldest inhabitant WHOSE memory
indeed. by reason of his advanced age, Is quite
antrustwOrthy) does not recOllect anything like It.
Report of similar fruitfulness comes up from the
larger districts. The only complaint in the country
l. II. e .,.,, an1a
fields Ii is long time from now to the middle of
Septamber. But if the weather serves France half
kindly between now aud then, happy Will be those
who have in their cellars Set on their tables
the wine of 1878.
On Saturday aud Sunday last-making no account
Of the happier fugitives who could 90 in the
crowded trains of Friday evening TO spend Whit
untide away from the city, of the beated eXcur-
nOnists of Monday, nor of the numerous holders of
sason tickets who from May to October habitually
sleep in the suburban villas and villages-the six
railway lines carried ont of the city 2i7 1862 passen-
gers. Despite this, 34,595 persons took occasion
Of the fte and the free admission Sunday To visit
the Salon. On the following Monday, which was
also fete day but at the Salon payday there were
over 5000 paying visitors. The average daily at
tendance at the Salon since ts opening, exclusive of
the many hundreds of free ticket holders has been
over 100.
1t is my duty to say word of the last electoral
IN at the French Academy. Two arm-chairs
made vacant BY the deaths of Jules Janln and
2 n. Guzot. There were seven or eight candidates
sntered-sOme for one, some for the other, some,
think for either of their empty seats. These cand-
dates were as always of two classes-persons who
4 vt up claims 10 the succession on merely literary
4 grounds and persons who hoped TO make
i claims available other grounds. Among tho
q I,,la md Gharla
q Jules Simon is a man Of the highest culture, once
Professor At the College de France, who gave mp his
place for the sake of keeping his serespect after the
avp dtaL He is the author of half dozen works,
m which grave social and philosophical themes are
& treated from al elevated point of view, and In "A
style which his political enemies admit to be model
pure French His political emDeDce and career are
known to all. Charles Blanc, much questioned. dis
pued and repulsed as authoritative sound critic
Of art is recognized on all hands to be an inter
estng entertaining writer Of classcaly pure French,
and, withal an author who, considering the volume
and quality of his writings had higher claim TO
) election than any Of his compeers, Tame having
retired from the lists. Next in proper order comes
N. Dumas very highly esteemed scientist, who
( has shown in his official reports, and other brief
Writings, that be is past master OF the dlfncultles
and delcacies of this wonderful French language.
Then there was NJ. Lemoinne, who has been Tor
years an editorial writer for the Journal des De6dts
Well educated French folks, competent las only
sne ia something less than a million of for
# egners can bel to speak in the case, Will
s al tell You that NJ. LemOinne's leaders are
finished specimens of literary art in dictiOn and
style. ! suppose they But we may imagine
that well written they are, II he had published
them in half dozen journals OF various parties IN
stead Of ENJOYING the advantage of having them all