New-York tribune., 1879-12-30

REHEARsING THE SPANISH FETH.

VIGOROUS WINTER OPENS THE PURSES Oh THE
RicH-DoING GOOD As FASHION THE FEns
IN AID OF THE MURcIAN sUFFEuERs--Kx-
QUEEN ISABELLA UNDER THR ESCORT OF AN
UNCoURTLY REpupILcAN-A sQUABBLE OVER
"L LA MARsRILLAlsE."
lFRoM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNE.l
PARIS. Dec. 12.-It is an evil wind, truly. that
blows nobody good. Tho sharp North blast which
has been blowing over Paris for the last ten days,
freezing everything it touches has famed the
flame of charity into fire that warns the domcile
Of many a half-famished human creature.
Christians, Jews Royalists and Republicans
vie with each oths IL IT. ing bring succor to the
poor and needy Tie Latin race is an admirable
conductor of what the moral order of things
answers to the electricity O tho material universe.
Ii is rapidly bitten with generous idea or car
ried away by an heroic impulse; and In no
member of the family is this capacity so
developed as in the Gallo. France is the country
par excellence of crusading zeal. 1t foremost in
answering in the Dark Ages to the Papal appeal to
rescue the Holy Places from Saracen infdels. In
the struggle for religious reform its mobiles wagod
long war against the monarchy. and were only
crushed by the union against them, under Valois-
Medican auspices, of treachery and assassination.
At Port Royal sacred fire burned bright
just seven miles from Versailles. where the despotic
Louis XIV. had intrenched himself in his barrack-
palace with his seraglio Of high-born ladies. Day
for day. one hundred years after the Chapel of Port
Royal was torn down by the Kings orders and a
plough run through the burying ground attached to
the Convention declared war against the coalesced
monarchies of Europe and proclaimed the Republic.
1t would seem now as though France were
warmed with flame of charity, and were going to
set the world an ams-giving fashion. Those who
have lighted the sacred fire are. however. Hebrews
and they have done for party purposes. 1t
is curious fact that all the ultra CathO-
lie journals from the Figaro to the Uni
rers now in Hebrew hands. The OBJ
ject which the Israelites who manage them
had in view at tho start was, no doubt To detach
the people of Paris from the Republican Municipal
Council. from Gambetta aud from the representa-
tives IN general of democratic ideas. But they
counted without that French capacity which have
noted for the rapid transmission OF electrical
currents. Harriet Martineau and Brougham
would if aware Of what is now going
on in Paris. start in their graves with horror. No
"pauper test" is required. in the England of
Brougham- -Martineau legislation, beyond the certi-
ficate of the landlord and district policeman of nom
capacity to pay rent and to obtain employ
ment The charity-givers are not repulsive
beadles and poor-law guardians, but gentlemen,
and no less gentle and highly cultivated
ladies', and aristocratc old noblemen who take as
much pride in showing themselves courteous to a
beggar as to of their own peers. If the French
knew what charmingly attractive form they
give to any virtue they led into TAX
lug up, they would be always virtuous
Women brought up IN the lap of fortune
and reared on the knees of the Church join with
still weathicr and no less beautiful Jewesses to
distribute hot food in soup kitchens improyised i'll
the poor quarters OF the town by Hebrew finan-
cers In other places for the distribution of out
door relief. soup, bread, blocks of wood and warm
clothing are given, with the most exquisite bonnie
grace to poor shivering wretches OH whose hearths
no fire has burned for many days.
CHARITY TtAT DID NOT BEGIN 1T HOME.
Fashion is proud to cast large of money into
the begging bags sent round by priests, by Sisters
of Charity, by nuns, by Journalists and by the
Municipal Bureaus for the outdoor fohef of in
digent Parisians. The Chief Magistrate of the Re-
public lends himself to to the movement which be-
gan in the appeal made by the Spanish Embassy and
the Paris press behalf of the inundated Province
of Murca Ii enriched vice, provided 1t has managed
keep clear of the correctional and Assize Court
tribunals. comes forward to make rich Offering,
all past naughiness will be condoned and the for
given cocottethat when she istoo old TO relapse
into evil ways-will be received with open arms by
what is best and fairest Of Paris ian society. NJ.
Jules Jaluzot has advanced a million francs.
| which the Murcan Lottery Committee Is to
| repay and Madame Jules Julazot, b. whose ante
nuptal earnings. and the Printempa SPECULATION in
| which they enabled him to euihark q in conse-
quenoe to be in yited to the Elysac en to be pre-
sented to the Queen of Spain and tho Archduchess
| Elizabeth. Madame j. j. was very
pretty and, from pecuniary point of
view highly successful actress. She has been very
auiet since her marriage and il IS owing to her
ccient taste that the Piatemps has always such a
| charming assortment of silk, satin and other
draperes in its windows, and Of articles de Paris on
| its counters.
was so fortunate yesterday as 10 obtain ticket
for the rehearsal of the Spanish fee which is to be
given at the Hippodrome December Is. This circus
is great wooden building at the junction of the
Avenues de Roi de Rome and Josephine, near the
Bridge of Jena. There is not just now.
though the aspect Is southern, "a colder
point in all Paris. owing to the draught, of
air which the Seine brings with 1T as III doubles
round the foot of the Trocaiero Hill. was taken
up by member of the Committee Of Management
on the B0ue, ard Montmartre al o'clock in a
cab which had been ordered eaIly in the day: Tor
we could not. unless by Offering "a high inducement
such as five hours uninterrupted employment at
more than double the ordinary fares and handsome
gratuty for the driver. secure "A carriage that
would venture into the Siberian end or faIs. near
the Pont de jena We drove along at fair enough
pace until we came to the Place dc la C0ncofde,
which was like high sea suddenly frozen over. l
have had enough rides in the Pyrences, IN the
of Ireland, but do not remember
having ever been so badly jolted as last night on
my way to the Hlppodrome. w hen IN the course OF
the morning the sweepers had gathered tho snow
away, another snowfall came on, and then the
whole mass was suddenly frozen Over. lhere were
small glaciers everywhere. The general aspect
of the Square of Concord" upon which Louis
co;ya ond hia ill-starred Oueen were behCaded WAS