New-York tribune., 1878-12-25
WHAT Is TALKED OF IN PARIS
GAMRIING AND MOMENTS INTRIaUEs.


PARIS. Nov. 15-A great piece of news has reached
me through member Of the Budget Committee
He tells me that to ease the octroi duties which
weigh upon the City of Paris. and to
create in the Champs do Mars permanent
Exhibition of Industrial and Decorative Art, uni
versal lottery will he created Of which the Crown
jewels will bo the prizes The scheme has been ser
ously discussed at the sittingsOf the budget COM
mttee When it was first brought forward
it was proposed to issue tickets at nve
francs apiece. Should the project be car
ried out aud / do not see why it
shouid not, after the precedent OF the
great National Exhibition lottery. the price OF
tickets will lie fixed at high igure-perhaps at TO-
or 20 francs. 1t is impossible 10 forecast all the
millions which may thus be brought into the French
treasury. Hundreds of millions " are spoken OF
When heard the words Just quoted proceed from
the mouth of the news bearing depnty. thought he
was ludlcrously sanguine; but alter ne had
explained to me on what his hopes were
based ] admitted their accomplishment was
within the reach of possibility. 1t is very snort
time since tickets were issued for the National
Lottery. Nearly 100000 OF them are already
sold and 100000 by anticipation, Tor tho
issue could not keep pace with the demanu'
Far from abatiDg tAe fever caused Dy the
appeal of the Lottery Committee to the
passion for gambling which Is strong In
tho human breast all the world over, but strongest
in the French, has gone on steadily increasing
What was not suspected before the middle OF last
month, foreign countries have got bitten with
the mania. The applications from abroad
for tickets are far too numerous to be
anything like satisfied. A speculatOr i'll New
York wants n million of them. In London
they are sold at a premium of 20 per cent and III
Vienna of 40 per cent. Depressed as are the Imam
ces Of the Russian Empire, there seems to be plenty
of money in st. Petersburg and ODESSA
to risk in tickets for the Great Exhibi-
ton Lottery. II the Crown jewels dis.
posed Of in the manner contemplated. the
drawing for them will not take place
for eighteen months two years after the issue OF
numbers should the price uf ticket be 10 francs
and lO0, 900. 900 of them be sold, the sum total
received would amount to one-ifth of what the
Prnsslans exactcd in 1870 of the French to indem-
Nifty them for their expenses. In calculating on
twice and half more it does not appear now to me
that tho members OF the Budget Committee
who promote this scheme are over saDguine. But
for it to succeed TO the full extent of their hopes
think they ought to graduate the prices of tickets
according TO categores Of lots. 1t would be pity
for the Crown which was for centuries the symbol
OF the highest dignity. to fall say, into the hands
of a Yillette-st. sweeper, which 1t night do were
one frame subscribers admitted to gamble for It..
Wishing we'll to the Republic, am sorry that Re
publcans are putting themselves forward as the
of lotteries. They are worry ingenious
and ready in adducing arguments to show that the
vice of gambling was never Kept under by Louis
PmIppe's legislation. 1t only was diverted
INTO new channels. The gamesters who used
to stake single francs rouge et Roir or
on the roulette tables IN the Palais Royal,
emigrated on the suppression of the hells there to
the Bourse, where they risked hundreds and thou
sands of francs. High society went to the German
Spas, which caused a steady drain OF wealth from
France. Small shop-keepers and clerks made books
at Longchamps Private lotteries went on at
brisk rate during tho eighteen years of Louis
Napoleons reign. and public ones at the Hotel
lie Vile. financial scheme unconDccted will
lottery was not likely 10 succeed, no matter how
sound the principles which it was based whereas
an unsound one, provided IL held out bait to
gamblers, went up like an inflated BALLOON
witness the Turkish railways, by means Of
which Baron lIIrsch cleared out French peck
cts something aDpr0Xtmating 10 NloOOo,OOo.
THIS fnanccr ordered last week a Cui-giass DIM
ner set OF Webb, the fortunate winner 0t the Grand
priN nc the Exhibition, hch will cost go guIneas.
The different pieces will be made Accord = TO the
Queen Anne pattern on show IN the NeDO stand.
they were designed by Mr.. o. Fallon.
The American machines In the Champs de Mars
came 10 full stop with the close Of the Exhibition.
There was champagne luncheon,a ,at which sentiments
were proposed aud speeches made. Mr. Thomas X.
Pickering, to whom the United States exhibitors
owe heavy debt of gratitude, which they
do not seem inclined TO repudlate, was
presented ou this occasion with q handsome testI-
monial He has for six months bad an eye, and O
sharp one il was to everything in the American sec
ton. An Australian commissioners. the Hon. Ed
ward Combes, said to me to-day. Uncle Sam owes
a good many of the 500 prizes he carried
away TO Pickerings vigilance, zeal and tact
Pickering never let Juror or Journalist slip
through his fingers do not say the United States
exhibitors do not deserve all the prizes they have
obtained. l think they do; but witnont Picker.
ing they would not have had their deserts. lie
was to them IN gaI general wha' tbo hna' ssn snsfp
machine company with which he Is con-
nected As Juror. | am conversant with the ways
t,.s ,xcept for rivals. SHOULD like to know what
ciJ i.ord Cathness and the English mechanical en-
gineers patronized by him think of Piokerlng.'
Paul do Cassaguac will no more perhaps be- able
IN MAY the part of a NOISY oostructionlst in the
Chamber of Deputies. The election was set aside
yesterday, after debate of two days, in which be
was himself up 20 the closing hour, the sole speaker
Those parliamentary men with whom returned
from Versailles seemed to think it would have
mean more polite to validate him. because he
. likely TO be reelected. listened to all they had
70 say on the subject, but did not agree with them.
think il was right to dsplace him-s proposition
nobody whom met yesterday would gansay, and
that the act will serve wholesome eximpe.
f. is also my opinion that he Will not.
IN the present current of Republican feeling
N the southwestern departments of France be re-
tnrned again to the Chamber Gambetta. was
old. was against the inyalIdation, and his friend
Snnller refused to draw up report in favor
g IL. / was sorry for Gambetta and for
hose who took their cue from him in
the lobby. The illegalities perpctrated by De