The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1881-11-26
OUR PARIS CORRESPONDENCE.
PAR1s. OcT. 8. 1851

PARIS, OCT. 8, 1851.
Opinion commences TO think that Roche
fort and his journal are carrying practical
joking too far. Were France accustomed
TO free writing and free public meetings,
the nonsense would be simply nonsense
but unfortunately a fair number Of fools
accept the claptrap as gospel. When the
JacObins commenced business they were
only 600 strong, but in the end ruled and
ruined. The Communists at first counted
1900, yet they were thousands in March,
1871. y new political fashion Is ~springing
up-that Of the people forming themselves
into a tribunal, to accuse, testify against,
and condemn some individual mo : or less
obnoxious in their eyes. \ step farther,
and they would be eXecutiOners also. One
Of these gatherings has just taken place.
That political viragO, Louise Michel, re-
cOmmends the cat-O'-nine tails and putting
into irons OF all public OppTessors and
scheming representatives. One orator in
dictated That the accused before the Areo-
pagus, If found guilty, ought to be got rid
Of, he did not even indicate the means
When Felix Pyat spoke in that style he
always alluded To the invaluable aid the
smallest Of pistOl-balls could afford in dis
posing OF Napoleon III. Respecting the
meeting in question, one Lullier ~waSjudged,
and vowed to the indignation Of all honest
meu-thO5 OF pOsterity Included. Two of
the indictments weTe-that at tile breaking
out OF the Commune, he connived II the
escape from Paris OF N. lllerH anu his COL
leagues; mex permitted a line regiment
TO follow in their wake with all the hOnors
Of war and lastly. accepted money to open
the gates Of Paris to he regular army in
May 1871. Gambetta is the next TO be put
on the cutty-stOOl OF repentance the
verdict in his case may be anticipated
happily he Is presumed to be in Switzer-
land. Many persons attend these rsuniOns
for fun's sake, to applaud the tall-talk' and
enjoy the emotions OF hearing public per-
sons being abused. The price of admission
is only five sous. So far the evil is not inn
POrtaut, but might become a serious danger
when stormy winds commenced To- blow.
VI. Faurelle in his pamphlet, "France in
Ruins" claims to nave discovered the cause
Of all her misfOrtunes and decadence il is
to be found in the increasing poverty OF the
soil, and the studied neglect OF agriculture.
The land, being exhausted, cannot afford
the necessary stamina to the plants il bears,
hence a population insufficiently fed. Re
suit Disease, dwarfishness in stature, and
the diminutiOn Of inhabitants. The same
cause, the author alleges, has necessitated
the lowering OF the standard-height for
conscripts. The latter national misery is
not exact the military urgeOns found
that the smaller men had just as good neck
and thOracic muscles for holding a musket
straight as the taller brdUcS.
No doubt the ups and downs Of the Com
mercial Treaty will, in due time, be drama
tiZed or worked up as a feuilletOn. The chief
difficulty in the whole affair lies in the
Legislature having, uuueT the lulltlccS OF
protection interests, and the incOmpetency
OF a Ministry, placed the French negOtiators
in the impOssibility to negotiate. France
was quite free TO vote the specific duties
but her hand forgot its cunning in conclud-
ing that the second party to the bargain
would accept such on the "swallOw il dog"
principle. II England desires to renew the
treaty, even on the pseudo-liberal lines of
the Golden Treaty ; If she wishes well even
to France herself, she cannot tell the latter
too plainly that her mind is made up To
no treaty rather h a one-sided
affair; and also that the existence OF
English trade neither depends upon, nor Is
IL at the mercy of, French customers. How
ever, it would be q mistake on the part of
John Bull to conclude the accession of a
Ministry would put an end TO all
the tergiversatiOns on the part of France.
NJ. Gambetta is presumed TO be a free
trader; but the extreme caution which he
has s~edulOusly observed never, up To the
present, to proclaim himself such, speaks
volumes. Individually, he may be as COM
mercially liberal as Napoleon III. but his
Cabinet, like his party, would not be all of
his way of thinking. Out of the $50 depu-
ties elected, only two alluded to free trade
in their electoral addresses. Further, the
political position Of NJ. Gambetta is not at
all what il was after all his noble efforts
for his country, all his sacrifices for the
Republic, he is reduced to the daily task
Of defending his political existence, the
struggle for life.
- OAG abDEaA1 W = - mt AAAR
Tunisian affair. Public opinion agrees
that IL is a bad business. Rochefort leads
the extreme Press i'm spreading alarm a. to
the condition OF the troops there, and the
of commanders; his writings
receive the more attention. because his dark
brushings contain some truth. He accuses
half a dozen leading p~ersOnages of having
organized the seizure Of fun to fill their
money bags.
IT. Cloud Fair has terminated the last
day was better han the first. Many Ameri-
can and English visitors looked in on that
time-hOnOred institutiOn-the few spared
by demolishers and refOrmers. The balls
tina, recall the light OF other days to 80
many grey-haireL philosophers are dying
out. Aunt Sally, drawing-roOm targets for
rihes and pistols, electric toys, and other
progresses Of the age have finished them.
Even the al GrcscJ dinners are no more,
where fowls and plain joints were cooked
on the green, customers dancing the "Pont
dAvignOu" as the finest diversion till the
waiter announced the repast was served,
and g~allantry was kept busily employed,
lending a knife or n fork to the lady next
TO YOU, or mOderating her shrieks as insects
unknown TO uaturalists dropped into "a
plate Of soup and swan for their lives. The
wine consisted Of the worst that all the
country round could concentrate the last
Of the melons there received their aPOtheO-
sis, and by the time a joyous soul reached
Paris in a cuckoo he was ready for in
slant admission into an hospital ward, and
the strongest remedies against cholera. On
the present occasion the original toy
brought out was a Kroumir pulling the tail
Of a pig last year a Jesuit occupied the
Rroumir's place. Some journals find In