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THE PACIFIC
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SATURDAY. JANUARY Q.
OUR PARIS LETTER.

CSAuih6 " ID pIOftEOs anu tue eIeeple cuasS
anxiety to produce solutions for the state of the
country, are too unsound to invite selection. Il
is felt that in some way or other France will as
usual fall on her feet. in saving herself and dis
posing Of her own destinies. The dissolution, is
the CRY, and a Republic without phrases, the
wish bat no where does any one speak Of ma
tiopal suicide. The official organs assure US,
Allah be praised that Marshal MacMuhon has no
idea of attempting coup d Etat, so Parisians can
sleep TRANQUILITY, and representatives deliberate in
peace. The age of coups d Etat besides is past.
The tranquility Of France, as an eminent writer
once stated, depends upon the causes; that mems
minds be satisfied, and that their sIomachs do not
suffer. Both these centres Of content are i'll, but
not diseased, for their owners are resigned. The
country is q model Of patience and reason; many
trials have afflicted it since the peace, but it sub
mits to all without much complaint and with few
murmurings. Its patriotism is on trial; it gives
no uneaslness, and demands only to work and to
live. The sickness arises from parties who ignore
what alone is possible in the conditions that
events have created for France; they promise
however, to save her, on condition that she will
surrender herself to them first as her lords and
masters.
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to satisfy all tastes, all ideas. Yet none can find
a majority to carry any one of them into law, be-
cause the only majority that can be formed deals,
not with possibilities and realities, bot with
ehimeras; chronic helplessness is thus the result,
and the dissolution is the only sovereign cure.
The Septennatc may be considered as only await
ing a splendid funeral; it is a cake, but dough on
both sides; it is the sending rufies to a nation
demanding a shirt. The Legitimists have de-
clarcd hostilities against MacAiahon's Office, and
not a little unfortunately against himself. But
the times are so passionate, that if one were as
pure as ice or as chaste as snow, they cannot es-
cape calumny. Not a Legitimist who m
with his heart and is still, but can say of his chief
the Comte de Chambord, he failures from afar,
yet, as 1 follow flies" The Moderates seem in
clIned as Bob Acres, " to fight to prevent misun-
derstanding;'' they are always fusing and are
never fused; they are holding out, like Gold
smiths r%ustics, to tire each other out. The Be-
napartists make use Of every friend-eyery foe,
and assure the world in the most innocent fash
ion, " that the Slys are no rogues.' However,
till they conquer the Republic they are no danger,
and once the country is constituted, they will re-
tire Ike other phantoms. Matters are so unset
tied, nothing being clear save the dissolution of
the Assembly, that
"The doctrine to-day that is loyalty sound,
Tomorrow may bring Us a halter"
In great emergencies says Puff, there is nothing
like a prayer. The Bishop of Orleans has issued
a pastoral calling upon the faithful of his diocese
to pray for the Assembly. Many hold it to be
past-praying for, and hence, perhaps, why the
effort is to be INDUCED in a fortnight before it
remeets. A tour Peae Diiserecorde. The docu-
ment inviting to prayer does not recall the best
days of the famous prelate; it has all the hearth
ness, hut nothing of the m~ellowness of age; its
massive rhetoric is Iarded with Latin, and is full
of hesitatiOns and inconsequences, because it is a
pleading in favor of the Septennate, which is
only an ambiguity. He attacks both the Lcgiti-
mists and the Republicans; the latter, with
Theirs at their head, being a disciplined troop of
demagogues, beyond the pale Of salvation. But
the Legitimists it seems in opposing the Septen-
nate, display hostility to the very designs of
Providence When will cultivated people re-
linquish the reprehensible practice of seeing the
finger Of Providence in party politics and lobby
combinations? When France decides to have the
real Right Divine element controlling her desti-
MES, by re-occupying Rome and recognizing Don
Carlos, or his CrcddeS 0mbo Serrano, she will
never pass by Henri V.
Paris is about electing a new Municipal Coun-
ell the present was almost like another famous
body, chosen too in a day of misfortune. The
aspirants for civic glory are hasing their claims
on their politics business capacity is a mere
secondary consideration. Some of the outgoing
Councillors have startled us by proposing as the
very essence OF democracy, that their services
ought to be remunerated. DIR. johnson observed,
that whoever wrote for nothing was an ass to
discharge the honorary duties of citizenship it
appears is nothing better. Yet there are thou
sands who would gladly give their time free,
gratis, for nothing, and there is no end of back
stairs influence employed to secure many public
appointments on the same terms, from the presi-
dentship Of a savings bank. down to the functions
of a relieving officer. Man everywhere likes to
be clothed in a little brief authority. The voters
have a stronger claim for payment, as of late
between Legislative, Municipal, and Communal
elections, they are constantly on the road. Dur
ing the first revolution, citizens were paid two
francs a night for attending the sectional meet
ings, and no better plan could have been devised
for securing a crowded audience. The National
Guards did not receive one-half that sum for
defending Paris against the Prussiaus. Another
unpalatable, and very untimely project, is that
for taxing capital the richer you are the more
you would be held. This is the tip of the ear of
communism. An income tax is one thing, but to
strike capital-eyen were it possible, is not at all
the same. The Convention established a pro-
gressiTe tax on capital and incomes, which at a
certain stage amounted to confscation of revenue,
so that the rich were as badly off as the poor.
However, extremes meet, happily such san
equal division of unequal earnings" has not the
ghost of chance of being applied.
NJ. Guizot was considered as the Pope of the
Reformed Church of France, and it is rumored