The New York herald., 1876-03-05


a. the Tuileres. Now contract is hard to get at ALL
and when got 4 unsatisfactory as a dry bone with
only little grslle on IL company OF hungry
hunters
Also, in the piping times OF the old monarches,
Deputy who handled his votes wisely and played, so
to say, at bob chorry" with them TIL he tantazed
Ministers half out OF their in times OF crises,
such a Deputy had an excellent chance OF more
OF the best snecures which the government had to give
away and several OF these places provided their hold
ers with comfortable incomes for life. There were
great many Offices which brought in from 5000 IA
$4,000 year, with excellent furnished apartments
service, Gre and lights. The course, therefore
OF the Deputy who respected his interests was not
to angie for the snowy sort Of appointments, such as
embassies aud procedures He left that prohtesa
business TO the and frivolous while he contented
himself with the noseless administration OF some inn
perlal palace, whero he snugly housed, or the
stewardship OF some woods and forests which yielded
excellent revenues under good management, though
nobody but few ignorant farmers knew how tho
trick was done. Fontainebleau, Compegnc, St. Cloud
and versailles had many pleasant OF this Sort now
they have all been routed out ana their dilapidated
ruins have got into tho hands OF impccunious old.
sodierA In short,
THE PARLIAMENTARY TRADE
looked at from a commercial point OF View which ia
the only one interesting to business men, has become
q bad one. IL was thriving occupation and may
become again; but at present the trade is ruined.
Even "eary Information the credit of possessing
it, which was of the patent and exclusive articlea
sold by the Parliamentary merchants is pooh-
poohed upon the Stock Exchange. Nobody nquroa
what the government of hacMahon is likely to do. be-
cause 1t can simply do nothing without the consent OF
the opposition that such items ofItelgence as are
not known to everybody may be safely set down as
ina mav ba haro
THE AMERICAN COLONY PARIS
were moro amused than angry at observing that n.
Alexandra Dumas in his new play, "pEtrangere" has
revived stupid calunny, which accused American
ladies of being diplomatic spies Tho truth Is there
longer any diplomatic spies in France. because
there no longer any diplomatic secrets There are
ladies who hold secret Instructions indeed, from
Russia, Austria and Italy, and few years ago there
was great lady very busy in the service OF Prussia
But they all really ambassadresses whose mis-
sion we'll understood at the where they
sided and there has beenat least Tor the last
six yearsa single American lady among them. spy,
indeed, whether male female, would be sorely puz
zled find out any mystery in Paris The President
of the Republic probably never had secret In his life
N. Buffet certainly has no secrets, his orderly and
rather clerkiy mind being quite unequl to the comp-
cations necessarily arising out of occult transactions
Meantime all the chiefs OF parties have their newspa-
pers, which tell all they know and more than they
know besides all which they nope and fear. The up
permost sentiments in the mind OF NJ. Gambeta be
all purchased for two every morning, with much
other entertaining information printed IN La Repubqud
Frdncaise M Theirs still enlghtens his fellow
rynen through lie Bien Public, though 1t only iaI
to add that this experienced statesman so ttld
for public opinion that no refused to be at the expense
OF newspaper himself and allowed lie Bien Public tn
be recently sold for very small sum by auction The
Oreaniss have newspapers; the Bonapartiss are
said least forty prints less, devoted
TO their fortunes; and the portly mdde-aged in
valid whom old in the Rue du Bac still call
Henri Cnq has journal which will endeavor TO ex-
plain his hazy notions TO any one who will cxpcnd
means on the purchase OF 1t. Finally tho old Para-
menls used 10 be
VERY PLEASANT CLUBS.
were in England down the time of the Reform bill,
the most agreeable social gatherings In the
tropols Tho orators. indeed talked in the big bow
WOW style the footghts TO satisfy their
ents and the public in the reports Of Legislative
proceedings; but the best pieces made anywhere in
| Paris came from the Chamber of Deputies, and thu
! drolIest stories. Now honorable members cannot
trust themselves to be funny; for workingmen cand-
dates understand jokes; and Versailles Is Just
| as dun ST. stephens. IL Is great pity Bo ssy
and d'ITunoldsten, Sheridan and Gra,tan much
more amusing and even moro patriotic than the very
superior persons who get into Parliament now and who
hardly what TO do with themselves when they
there