The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-11-10
PARIS NOTES.
srssE YrsDrNG UP OF THE CHEAT EN~
TEHNATTONAL EXHIBITION.
ssnYnrtetta and the CEauTch-The Late
Bishop Dupauaoup-A Mysterious
Murder


ispecinl Correspondence of the Denocrat.l
PARIS, October 1G, 1878.
The Exposition is drawing to close. In
Dreviolls letters to the DEMOCRAT we nave
referred to the tardiness Of the committee OF
arrangements in regard to some OF the most
common place as well Us the most Important
affairs pertaining TO the great international
Exhibition. The same dilatory spirit seems
TO pervade the jury who have
THE DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZES
In hand. IT is now decided, but the actual
medals are not yet struck off, and conse-
smently will not be bestowed on the prize
winners till January. At the distribution OF
prizeg. to take place shortly, diplomas will be
given the successful combatants In the
peaceful field of the fine and liberal Arts,
Commerce and Agriculture.
GAMBEIrA,
In q speech made at Grenoble, has fully set at
rest those disqueting rumors set afoat by
the clerical party since his now celebrated
discourse delivered at Valence In which he
bade defiance to priestly influence, In polit-
ical sense. Reports breathing death and de-
struction to all religious institutions and mar
tyrdom to their ministers are not pleasant,
when heard buzzing In the air Of q
country In which were enacted the scenes
OF 1889. Notre Dame, with Its dia-
bolic twelfth century faces grinning into
ones face, is calculated to harrow up sug-
gestive souvenirs Of the Goddess OF Reason,
etc. There Is no doubt the reaetionary party
has done all In it's power to foster this sense
of forthcoming revolution-e revolution
r-t., TT, ,,;4t NOR
the sacredness Of religion would escape.
But Gambetta, We repeat, in q statesman
like speech, made at Grenoble, has poured
oil on the troubled waters, and In plain words
set forth his policy as regards the Roman
Catholic Church. He desires the separation
from the State. There Is the gist Of the
whole matter. He counsels respect for all
ministers Of religion who occupy themselves
with their own affairs. Interference with any
religion he declares to be no part Of his pro-
gramme, except where the church shows it
self ambitious of holding the reins Of govern
ment He relterates his statement that
France although O. republic, is being gov
erned by men who are not republican, and ad-
vises reform on this point. He Is supported
In this by statistics, for Of the seventy-five
outgoing Senators who are to be replaced
next January, and who compose one-third OF
tsAlfse He Senate, hfty-six Reactionists and
nineteen Republicans. or the fifty-six Reac-
tionists forty-seven are Royalists and
nineteen Bonapartists 1t remains to
be seen whether the approaching elections
will change these figures 80 as to make the
balance fall on the other side. Certainly
Gambetta does not spare energy or elOquence.
His political tours are triump phs conqueror
OF old would have envied. He has @ power
Of swaying the multitudes which not one Of
his opponents Is happy enough to possess.
10 those essentially democratic tendencies
Il found inherent in the bosom Of the working
and middle classes. He comprehends-nOn
better-that the leader who holds the middle
and lower classes grasps the numerical
strength OF the country. and, when the ballot
Is la question, numerical strength means
victory.
We Informed you after Gambetta' s te ling
speech at Romans that
MoNsEIGNEUB DUPANLoUP, THE BISHOP OF
ORLEANS.
was preparing O. reply. We should have added
D. ", for MUnseigneur will never again take
part in the wOrdy strife he so loved awhile
since. The following telegram announced TO
the Roman Catholic world d loss not soon TIC
be supplied:
"CHATEAU DE LACoMBE LANCEY,
ITO the Vicar Gtner als | Ole ms:
"Great aftiiction. Monseigneur Is dead
After having read the Journal crisis came on
[ had time only to administer the absolution
Open will and come on. W. are waiting.
~ 15.. "ABBE CHAPoN."
Monseigneur Dupanloup was Bishop OF Or
leans for thirty years. He was man o
great and varied erudtion, and constantly
used his talents-sOme say genius-YOr the
advancement Of his party. His seventy years
:. witnessed many and great changes III the
government.
Ordained priest in 1926. after having fin
ished his ecce5ias' ical studies st st. Sui plce,
Paris, he became, first, cnfessor to the Duke
Of B0rdeau and then chaplain to the wife o
the dauphin.
After the revolution Of 1880 he was named
first Vicar OF st. Rocheand accepted the post
OF Superior Of the Seminary OF St Sulpice. Al
the same time he was named Vicar Genera
by the Archbishop of Paris.
The latter having died NJ. DupanIoup, on ac
count OF personal differences with his success
sor, resigned his office as Vicar General
Named titulary Vicar General he went to Rome
charged with o mission to the Pope.
II 184l he was elected to the chair OF
sciences of the Theological Faculty Of Paris
His lectures were al lways attened by expect.
ant and Interested crowds but his judgments
on Voltaire aimed as they were at every flaw
In the armor Of that by no means invincibit
champion OF infdelity, reused scenes Of tu
multi and disorder In 1845 he resigned all
titular Canon Of Notre Dame.
April 6, 1840, he was named Bishop Of Or
leans. During the years that have elapsed
since then the facile pen Of the Bishop has
1ever been idle. 1t was stepped in politics
literature and church affairs. His opinions
were sustained with an impetuosity and force
oil conviction bordering on tyranny. For in
stance, during polemic encounter with the
Cntuey.s, q journal whose views did not coin
eide with his own, he forbade his subordin
ates to read it, The war of words became sc
noisy that the court OF Rome interfered tt
put an end to the unseemly quarrel.
The Steele, another sheet whose statements
ne attacked, instituted q suit against VI. Du
panoup for slander, which resulting In @ Sc
we're Judgment, without condemnation, by tht
9ourt OF Paris, was carried to the Court O
Appeal and modified In very rigorous sense
II II regard to the defamation Of the memory O
ny sseead Sne eead The judgment probably furnished
y pseCerSht for the decision taken III the case q
ex-Prince Lueien Bonaparte when he sued on,
of the Paris newspapers for defamation of th,
memory Of his father and obtained a decre