The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1880-04-20

RegulAr Correspondence.)
Pans. FRANCE. March q


Pans, FRANCE. March 90, 1880.
Politics are entirely, and business almost en-
tirely, laid aside. and Paris has given itself
thorough holiday. Yesterday and to-day crowds
of people, favored by the lovely weather, have
been enjoying the fresh air, and to-day all those
who have not gone to the opening of the racing
season at Longchamps are sitting under the trees
in the Champs Elysees, watching the long stream
of carriages going to and returning from the Bots.
Eastar has brought us the usual number of" per-
sonally conducted tourists from England, and
the English tongue, though not always that
usually described as the Queens" is heard from
one end of the French Capital TO the other
The theatres are In full swing, the Hippodrome
has just opened, the aforementioned races are
going on near the historical Windmill at Long
champs, 80 that, with the addition of the Ginger
bread Fair at the other end of Paris, visitors
from abroad and holiday-ma from within
cannot complain of lack of amusements The
celebrated fair has been so often described that
need only say that it comprises this year the
usual number of attractions in the shape of fat
women shows, round abouts, wax works, fortune
teers, and NATURAL or rather unnatural, phe-
nomena, such as hens, dogs and lambs, with a
superfluity of necks legs and other limbs. A
new feature in connection with the fai. is one
which will strike dsmay into the hearts of those
who delight in a feast of horror, namely, the
police edict, which forbids the entry OF keepers
into the cages of wild animals. Paris has seldom
enjoyed more pleasant Easter.
An immense crowd visited NJ .:Loyson's church
on Good Friday including large number OF
Roman Catholics, anxious TO hear how the ex-
priest of their church would treat the subject
peculiar to the solemn day. His bold, striking
historical sketch of the Jewish nation since the
time of the Divine tragedy was very different to
the mild platitudes, varied by scattering abuse,
to which one is accustomed from some pulpits.
With remarkable fearlessness he did not shrink,
on the anniversary of the Saviour's dea th, from
tracing before his congregation The picture of the
sufferings and prosecutions undergone by the
Jewish race, whose marvellous vitality and un-
ceasing energy enabled them to recover from
every defeat, until at last they had attained TO
almost unlimited power in commerce and litera-
ture. NJ. Loyson made several pointed illusions
to the faults with which he reproaches the Church
of Rome, its retention of the spiritual power by
means of bayonets its pomp and vanities, and its
deviation from the true doctrine originally laid
down by the Divine founder of the Christian
faith. He spoke with his accustomed eloquence
and vigor, and his full, rich voice was as power
full as ever.
sad accident has just occurred at Fontaine-
bleau. Lieutenant Roussel, the riding master at
the Ecole d. Application, was giving lesson to
some of the officers when his horse took fright,
and, running away, threw him with great vio-
lence against tree. NJ. Roussel was Immediately
borne to the hospital, with his skull fractured,
and soon after expired He was an officer of
unusual promise, and his unimey fate-he was
not yet thirty years of age-has cast quite a
gloom over the town.