New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-12-19
FRENCH AFFAIRS.
SOCIETY AND POLITICS.

SOCIETY AND POLITICS
SOCIAL STRIKE ANNoUNCtD-A NEW PLAY by
DUMAS TO BE PRODrcRD sooN-INcIDENTs IN
TIRE EXECUTION OF THE DECREEs-a. GAM
BETA EXPLAINS WHY HE DoEs not BECOME
PREMIER.
lFROM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRBUfEI
PARIS Nov 12.-There is to be society stflke
this winter, which Will 20 on probably until the
leaders of fashion get tired of striking. Ladies arc
t. 90 mourning and TO eschew balls, the opera Oh
gala nights and the avenues of the Bots on snnshDy
days In short. they to behave as they did wheh
Prussian army corps remained, after tire Treaty
of Frankfort garrisoned in French towns. This
SUMPTION OF sackcloth and ashes will be IN protest
against tie execution of the DEGREES. As the power
of the purse is on the side of the Republic In tie
Chamber and everywhere else. trade VIII not
greatly suffer by the mourning strike" Of inc
aristocracy which, venture TO predict, VIII DC OF
longer duration in provincial towns than III Pars'
rhc vital reaction here against anything morbid rs
very powerful and speedy. Currents OF public HE
are too deep and strong for the wbimpernes of
narrow caste to interfere with il. Art Will go on
mini>terng to pleasure, ard intellect VIII Struggle
to keep head of this splendid capital noDy erect.
Great painters Will not cease to work for Salons and
ilnstrous dramatic authors 10 write plays LOT the
Francois, where this winter Llonctte," new piece
out 1t will present a novel feature. The heroine
of the play is a married woman of spotloss virtue,
who was uniusty suspected of not being all that
she appearea 10 be BY her husband, was too proud
to defend herself and separated from him. Affec-
ton tor her son has kept her from yielding TO the
temptations which besot a fair lady, practically
divorced. ald in law undivorced Tbs boy Is thr
nieans of bringing about reconciliation between
his parents, just as, unknown to him. the mothers
herosm is mos: severely tried. Mile. Cro'zette 10 10
act tile part of Lioaetie and doubtless shc and tho
play will draw crowded houses. Notwithstanding tho
sackcloth and ashes manifestation.
Since the execution of the DEGREES began IN Au-
pust it has been held good social form TO uphold the
Orders Arstocracy, aud those setting up to be ars-
toeras were then prond to afford hospitality to the
members of the expelled congregations. The pride
may not have been in harmony win the mild spirit
of religion the hospitality was. But within three
weeks fashion ana Christian gentleness baye parted
company 1t Is now fashionable to be violent par
tsan TO have recourse to the swOrd-cane and To
denonnce the agents of tho civil power. There has
bern quite a resurrection of the Muscadns, or
" Bloodsu of Thermldor Ladies delIcately nur-
tured abuse like fiShwives police agents. who are
also communicated by bishops aud snperiors OF
converts. R0wdyism is called IN TO do Gods ser
vice and excite to civil war the flames
of which UltramOntanst judges are
not Ioath to fan upon tho bench.
Claudius Cross murder and ms highly
dramatic funeral have thrown the Valley OF the
Rhoue into state of ferment dangerous for the
public peace. Cr0s was an noftenslye youth, r2'her
disposed to pity the monks whom he saw beng ex-
peed from a convent than to deride them. But.
hearing a band Of young sympathHers with the
orders crying Down with the Republic"
hat
"ylve Ia Repubique' A Muscadin Of
the name of Lubac. belonging 10 the clerical
arstocracy of tho town. ran Cros through the lungs
with a swordcane. There can be no d0ubJ that he
used the weapon with homicidal intent, and that he
procured 1t on purpose to do execution with IL ID
the public streets. Lubac, on being arrested, de-
carei the sword cane an Old one OF MS fathers,
whereas it proved to b. new and freshly sharpened
SCENES ~ NE NORTH.
In the North righteousness has not generated
theatrical scenes az the South, but it has let
loose violence and been cause of bloodshed and
much disbursement of human faces The middle
class ana aus:ocracy here have D. en IN the hablr
Of sending their sons, since 1881, TO the great
Jasuits school OF Brugeslette. N Belgium Wetl-born
las the Germans would say) manhood is therefore
intensely UltrariOntanist. Alll-owners and their
heirs are for the congregations the men in their
employment are for the Republic, with the exception
Of rbe small minority drawn into the Catholic So
cletps WorKingmcn in the North have observed
that their clerical representatives in the Corps
Legislatlf OF the Empire in the Versailles Assembly
and in the scual Chamber have been hostile to
every measu intended for the greatest good Of the
greatest nunlb Mist the wealthy classes have
strong admixture OF Spanish blood, brought orig
inaily into French Flanders IN the period ntorven-
ing between the marriage Of Joanna cf Aragon and
Philip the Handsome of Austria, and the conquest
of tha5 province by Louis XIV rhe nass of the pop
ulatIou is WaIloOn. Il is dOgged, tenacious, and lbs
intellectual horizon bounded II j. shut ont by
smoke and a gray sky from The Submitting action
IF the blessed sum- and it drinks great deal of beer,
and brandy extracted from beet-r5ot. The Pauslan
,.ouulace have small respect for legality, but are
: sceotlble OF glowing enthusiasm for principles
aud ideas. They will throw up bHireade' to ooige
tie Government to tnScnDe Liberty, fri-
ternlty and Equality On the public bn.id-
ings. There Is nothing OF TINS IN the
North, where the horny-handcd class,
m the late riots, demolished convenual window
shutters, and attempted 10 sack u convent IN the
nomt Of the law. They saw two OF three hundred
Nuscadns on the day iX-d for the execution u the
DEGREES against the Marists draw upin battle array
around tee house OF that order, These Bioods were
armed with sWordcines. A. M representatives OF
civil authority did not appear, me idea gained
ground that the Project was 'Acf c0nnlVlng ~ an
evasion Of the DEGREES. or afraid TO encounter the
owners of the swOrdeaucs VINO we're aggressive ana
Inc Obstinate Walloou Polyphemus of Tour
GOING where there have boon the worst faction
fights tnought he could not do netrcr than % and
| execute the law himself. aud OF he went. On his
way the Bloods attacked hun with their sword
cIncs Poly pLemus ret)rJel by discharging volieys
! OF bricks he having found pile OF those missiles
| ready AZ hand. lie ann ii true and lie MT hard,
| and dispersed his assallants. The rude Co
! ossis WAS in perfect good faith, and
be thought il hard ease when, rs he was battering
| in the doors and window shutters OF the Marlss.
! the cavalry sent by the represc natives Of the
| civil power to restore order charged hm.
| OF course, he resented this, ana the Dragons
! unshpathed their swords aud sashed the giant,
! VINO armed himself with bottles aud quart pots
! and attacked with them the sOldlcrv. 1t POlvphe-
| mus is Drough before the magistrates he Will n0t
be-poor, ignorant feilow-alluwed tire benefit OF
| -, .,,n,f;uT 70, .currst,ncas and he will have the