New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-01-25
PICTURES OF PARTISAN LIFE.
EyEyYs OF The GAY. SEASON.

ROYAL NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. AND HIS "ON-
FUL BATTLE PICTURES.
lpRoM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT or THE TRtBCNh'I
PANS, Jan. IL note few, but very few,
SYMPTOMS of the return Of the gay season. Mrs
Bowes of the Rue de Berlin wife OF Mr.. John
Bowes. of Strathmore Castle. Durham, has issued
cards for q dinner on the 18TH Madame Meynard
Dorian gives children's party on the 14th. Gam
beta next week entertains thirty political celeb
rites at one of those feass when his chef from
petite 50 well knows how to prepare; prlnceSs no
heulohe intends to hold grand reception toward
the end OF the month. On Twelfth Night. which III
tnis country is the Festival OF the Kings, there
were dinners, at the Hotel de la Rocheioucauld'
at the villa of Don Carlos and that odd product OF
Nineteenth Century civiiiza ion, Baron hickey-lar-
den gave an artistic and literary entertainment IN
honor of the crowned heads of the world at his resi-
dence in tie Rue Scribe. NJ. Hickey-Harden owes.
Understand, grandmother to Scotland, father
10 the Green Island, and fortune 70 America. lie
calls himself Baron Of St. Patrick. and believe
was decorated by the late Pope and by Don Carries.
His money floats a reactiOuaIy and satircal Jour
nal called lie Tifbou7et which is MISSIONER. since
the deformcd execuiOuer of Victor lIugO's drama,
lie Po SAmuse.' whose image IS on
tho front Page, is supposed 10 nay
Rcpu1lcaus and 90 vcncIate the lawful King, OF
whom there IS on another page also medaihon
portrait, with which is coutrasted bdeous Yrago'
rejecting the passions vices and appetltc5 oil the
Rev Jluiiouary canaille
MAKING SPORT OF THE RfpUBiC.
NJ. Hickey Harden, whose dwelling IS a museum
of royaist antiquities, invited to his solree the
finest flowers of tie FaubourS st. GeTma'n' VINO
answered for the sake of the cause, no doubt. to
the bosptabe call. There were to aruse them
Hermann. the Ylcnnese conjurer, and PupazzI, who
acted q little farce entitled - The ENNIS OF Oar
Masters: or. The Daily Troubles of Our Rulers"
The dialogue was smart and sparkling, and the
spirit oil the play hunOrstic and anti-Rtpubucan,
which naturally suited the Logtimlst company
that looked on. Gambetta was represented
irving orders for Lucullian feast to his
cook 1rompette, to whom he coniided TIE
ornents OF ms official life, and the Archaeology 1eel-
ing Of safety which. now that he lives IN palace'
has the bes' cellar in Paris rides in carriage bullt
10y the Rovalst Binder. and drawn by horses worm
90 900 francs apiece has taken hold of him. NJ.
Gf6vv complained of the spokes' which the IreS-
dent Of the Chamber is intent driving into the
wheels of the ear OF state" an only the shadow
OF authority" signs the honest President II But
that rs too much for the citizen at the Quai dOrsay
He has finer palace and better cook than have;
he "a ko;Ooed by the ambassadors. and ne has I'M
plisoned me IN a Cabinet of his own making.
He has called young Daniel lWilsonl to ruie with
rod of IRON 30 600 receives of customs ana lZOOo
receivers of taxes. and to manipulate with the
BUDGET Commission Che finances OF tins gOid-laden
Republic But the heart OF the great Tribune Is
not satisfied | take the precedence OF HIM Oh the
few occasions in which meet in the course OF
twelvemonih, and that IL enough to render hln w
different n the fayors Fortune Is never tired OF
/ heaplng upon him. Poor Repnblcl Poor France!
/ We have now a full score of monaTchs instead of
4 +I.f. fll1pq
| President Gr6yy makes his bow. and the Minister
for Foreign Affairs comes upon the scene 10 read the
/ tel,prams with which he is " bomb1rded" By the
/ diplomatic agents abroad of the Rep"biique Fran
clise They all make ont their positions nj the
| Courts to which they accredited to be intoer
| able. and they owe II to their dignity to send IN
| their designations. Republican Egerlas. moreover
who all happen TO be widows, are brought upon the
scene and clevcry taken of. They. too have Their
eanuis Mn. les Pupazd inculcate the moral that
the French temperament is not Republican one
and that the only regime which suits II IL the an
cient Monarchy.
JU rs sIMoS As A GRANDFATHER.
~ and Madame jules Simon. VINO know how 10
! gather round them truly distinguished people, and
to set their guests at ease have been prevented re-
/ su,ning their Thursday evening receptions by the
! birth OF a granddaughter. The baby has received
| the soft-sounding and familiar name OF Marguerite.
She is remarkably fine child and her grandparents
are entirely wrapped ND In her. Her birth took
place in the fifth floor suite of rooms IN the Place
| de la Madeleine. which NJ. Jules Simon has occupied
| since 1916. As her mother is "A Jcwess and has not
embraced Christianity and as the Simon family are
Deists, there has been no christening. II
there had been a baptism. some of
the most .lluStriOus men and women in Europe
would have been glad to stand sponsor for the
little stranger in renouncing the pomp and vanitcs
! oe the world etc Victor Hugo would not have
shrunk from acting the capacity of godfather. lie
has weakness for the baptismal rite which was
with his consent administered tohis darling Jeanne
and his well-beOvcd Georges when they were
! babies.
TIE QUERN-MoTHER's ANXIETY.
When Ex- Qneen Isabella was celebrating la F6to
des Ros she received telegram which robbed hei
of all strength. The little Queen, who d few weeks
ago was married with 50 much pomp and who
seemed the happiest of brides, did not bear up a
the official prints of Madrid represented, against the
shock she received when pistol balls whisted by
her and the Kings heads. She has fallen into state
of health which gives rise to the gravcst ap
prehensions. Fit follows upon fit
the King goes out unaccompanicd by Der, she il
more dead than alive during his absence. when h'
takes her with him she masters her nervous terIOis
wren she is in the Streets but the moment she re
turns TO the palace collapse takes place and sh'
falls into tit This state of things is complicated
by the prospect of Prince or Princess OF As'ura,
which in all probability Will, if birth IL survived
be an idiot. 1t is impossible not to feel for the po
. | young Queen who went, so JOyOusly III No
| yemDer TO the antique crown whcl
the enamorod King offered 10 place on her head
| Queen Isabella happy as the BRIDE
| elect. Her distress of mind ID now unutterable
She cannot eat or sleep. and she has gone 10 tn
country in the hopes chat brisk walks in the oil,
woods of her park Will calm her and restore
: her strength.
| A GREAT sOLDIER-ARTIsT.
Ishan terminate my letter by short notice of n
Varschapn's paintings which are exhibited at tn