New-York tribune., 1879-04-08
GAMBETTA'S PROSPECTS.

lFRoM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNE'i
PARIs, March 1.-The tit, comic illustrated
paper. with cleyery drawn and coarsely tinted H.
lusiraion is cited 10 appear before the Correctional
Tribunal on the charge of having published without
the permission of the Board OF Censure. a poht'cal
carcature. The offence lies not so much IN neglect
ing to ask for the prescribed authorization,
as in the nature of the cartoon, when
is intensely hbellous We are shown Dy
the artist first parents IN the Uar-
den of Eden before the Fall but the artist
interverts the role they made to perform IN the
Biblical legend The Father of Mankind is given
the head and portly figure of Gambetta. and is rep
resented sitting on a grassy mound, under an apple
tree eating the forbidden fruit Of OppOrtunlsm.
A serpent with Jesut'- hat its head, is colled
round the boughs above the orators head, and hiss
tng at Mother Eve on whose fine form - set the
head Of Juliette Lamber, Senator Adams widow.
This lady is clothed in a Phrygian cap
and her long HAIR and is starting back
in horror from the serpent. The lctterpress is 10
this effect: " Adam aud Eve IN the earthly para
disc If You wish to know why our friend de-
yours the apple, heat the blank space between
him and his fances and you Will discover
held tho impression of the 1iG which, in spite of
the interdcton, procured, over the fire. but what
came out in sympathetic ink was too much blurred
Lamber is not a woman 10 feel angry al being made
twenty years younger than she is and given as line
a form as any of the three godesses
who competed for the beauty-prlze before the
shepherd Paris. But | daresay Gambetta Is not
so well pleased at the manner in which he Is
handled 81 the carcaturist
Madame Jul.ette Lamber was under the de-
lusion that she was to have been the
Aspasia OF the Athenian Republic, and
Gambetta the Perices She is a wonderfully
well-Drsserved woman Of fifty. Her figure though
she is rather high shOuldered and narrow in the
chest is elegant, and made to 20 well with hand
some toilettes She has small. pearly-teeth,
and quantity of long dark haIr'
which she wears falling down her back
in seaside fashion. Her laugh is gay, her
manners ara Bohemian, her purse is well filed, Sen
ator Adam having left her all his fortune. which
was a handsome one, and her cellar Is
richly stocked with fine old wines that
he bought. Madame Juliette Lamber has
a pretty literary talent; bat she wrote better
eighteen years ago. when she inhabited the poverty
stricken side Of Bohemia and furnished light arri-
cles to the Steele. She was then living IN en-
g1~coH. in the Rue Bergere. George Sands
novels, and still more the memoirs OF
tnat extraordinary woman, had rendered
her impatient of family ties. she ran away from
her native village leaving husband for whom she
never cared daughter of tender age ard a father
who brought her rp a boy. II she did not know
she was delicously pretty in the country she soon
found 10 out in Paris, where she introduced her
self to Madame sand and was presented by her to
the beqar @prits of her cenace. The pupil ran ahead
of the preceptor George Sand was all her life
laborious woman and one Of the most devoted
mothers that ever lived She never, in the maddest
,f b.~ afAf rom her
children. unless in her tour in Northern Italy with
Alfred de Musset Nor was she coquettish nor
brilliant in conversation. Julette Lamber was
both and iuconstanta as The moon. Forthe sake other
cav companionship M Edmond Adam put uD with
her whim-whams and Athenian fancies. If she ad-
mlred a brilliant writer, orator or artist the indul-
gent husband at once struck up a friendship with
him. He only saw mankind through his wIfes
ewes. For her sake he adopted Henri Roche
forts children and sent money 10 Roche
fort to enable him 10 escape from New
Caledonia Since the death Of NJ. Adam Gambetta
has been much less intimate with Madame Juiette
Lamber. and he Is very loath to become her Peri
ces in the eyes of the law. She aimed. the
early months of ber widowhood at securing the
Deputy OF Belleville for her third husband.
and gave. new as her mourning garments were. gay
dinners and receptions IN his honor. As the evening
wore on al these festivities card tables were drawn
out and high play resOrted to, as pastlme. Every
political man who fixed hIs hopes in Gambetta
courted the sparkling widow whose charms defied
the ravaang fingers Of time. The respectable
NJ Leon say himself thought 1t worth his while 10
appear in the character Of devoted and humble
slave. Ladies not invited 10 those merry meet
ings Madame Julette Lamber wished TO toss with
ease her cap over the windmill. She invested in
the graces and coquetry of her sex and she bon
L. A. 70 f,iIn IN fbu Iaar
mourning period of her widowhood. she wore jet
coronet and her hair luxuriantly streaming down
her back a black corded silk dress with a
high body and no sleeves and a dainty
little jet-spangled ruff round her neck
The sable garment set oft the whiteness Of the
which are finely shaped and might well belong TO
Venus of thIrty-fye, though they have been in the
world over half a century. Admiral Pothuan, u. de
Marcere VI. TesseTenc de Bort, Generals Fare and
FaIdherbe. >ardou, NJ Edmond About VI. Andrieux
the actual Prefect of Police, and NJ Emile de Girar
din used TO be habitues Of JGhette Lambers salon.
N. Jules Simon thought it mira dig. to 20 there
ard enmity accordingly was soTn between him and
Gambetta. It was in her drawing-room that the
plan was started TO badger the Marshal into
withdrawn from the Presidency and Dufaure
elected in his place. unconscio ously to serve as d
warming-pan for Gambetta. To understand the
political history Of the last five years. it essential
10 command q vista in this modern Nnon's draw
ing-rOom.
We seem again on the eve of Ministerial crisis
which must end IN the formation of Gam
bettist Cabinet. The Chamber needs 10 be led. IL
is left 10 Itself without cohesion in any Of It's parts
mOrOuS, uncertain in lis views and only capable of
taking 0 decision when It's fears are acted upon.
The conversion scandal has deprived Leon Say Of
authority. He cannot get over the dilemma pro-
pounded by NJ. Emile de GIrardIn of lncapaclty
OF BouTse-shaTping. The explanation of his tardy
communication of his intentions relating 20 the
per cent stocks. which N. MORGAN, the syndic of
the Paris Agents de Change. only makes things