New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-06-05
TOPICS IN PARIS.
- ,rrp,r IrRE AND RELIGION.


,oorrsTANTs IN FRANCE AND THEIR WORK
IoN r,,r u.TrKIAI INTERESTS OF TIE STATE.
foN 20, nrcrI An CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIDuNEI
Ifkon uav 2O.-Well the Sc1Htin de iste bill Is
n ,roe,ce The Chamber has done WIN H.
pass II NOW see whether the Senate co"ed by
We s-,,o,s narrow but decisive victory, VIII hoV
.s.. 90 Mace itself on " the side Of the niooih-
noD Gambetta was oversanehne uuii's '"'
s;x weeks which preceded the bat'!e Oh yes
~ After the debate upon the scr"'mS III "nion
49,, the leading part was over ne the"en. 'lo
no - ,,os nm. and returned to his apartments III
poyrhon. not hoping, but at the same 'iihe ho'
aoun His familiars were terribly depieSS'u'
H., awaited like spirits iii very gloomy p"it"
- tberesult Ofthe counting OF the VotoS ms "''
,n uutll late in the evening. Some members
not hh'" g, ran into the crowded lobby and cried
an excited manner something which Only
ou' ~ aar.them conld understand They repeated
- r., had leen told in q louder tone Ih'H
" .. distant hearers sounded Ike
ub;ch grew louder and louder until
:, hscame tumultuOus roar, as vi
-, The words " ScrpItiR de hste! tlgh'
- maiorityw then became distinct Gamoc'tS'S
.,.hed into each others arms. The pariS'is Vi 'i'
.a.d;..e,pent or district election were taken greatly
ahoct But whips came ont to tell suagg''IS ''''.
go would be another division OH the question %
co,cv Blank faces took joyous expression a.
once. Here was an opportunity for those mo n'u
voted against the iiste to range themselves u"'
49,. hammer of victorious Gambetta. There
'o General rush of Deputies back
o. the Chamber. The eight voices III
tow uo,pents were swelled by seventy others
uben NJ Brisson, who was in the chair took '''c
cot. nm +he auestou of urgency The f0rlnali'E Vi
oecoud and third readings will therefore oe as
,esad with II the bill goes through the Senate lhe
,r.sent Cabinet may be turned out. and more us
tiuctlv Gambettist one containing po'-
opartist element, be hOisted into It's Pia'e'
10 preside at the general eiee'ohS' VII
second reading the bill might nave
been lost, The Government, through It's wire
,uers tried TO proong the debate to the next daI'
But when they found the Gambettists were deter
mined TO have a night sitting and Ia tie done Win
,hs wbole affair before divers friends of NJ. Grcvy
arrived from the country, they yielded. Those ao-
sent members had understood that Gam
hsta would not speak before Friday and
30 DELAYED their return. When they came
hack il was too late for them TO vote
Gauhetta. 10 make Use OF an Italian word. spoke
with extraordinary maestro lie an unparalleled
artist of the tribune from beginning to end. Inc
snbiect was a stale one. 1t had been discussed every
day for the last two months Every argument that
could be adduced either side was worn thread
bare Such however, is the magic OF eloduence that
Comhetta TRANSPORTED even those who were not dis
posed 10 follow him. and others who while going win
him on the question of the scrutins are otherwise IN
imical to him. His worst foe, Clemenceau. who Was
afraid the bill would be thrown out. applaudcd Cant
BETA warmly. The Government did not JOIN either
in the vote or the debate. Ferry Africanus,' who
had been jubiant the treaty with the l'cy was
crestfallen when he learned that the majority of
IN IN he pStI
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE VOTE.
Great issues hang on the vote of yesterday. Gam
betta's victory fills his friends with apprehension
when they take into account the political habits of
the nation the taste for luxury which Is springng
up in the bourgeoisie, and the alhes-the bitter
enemies of yestcrday-in whom Gambetta must look
for his point dappui. Their idea is TO transform
him into a Consul with another name. or to get him
into a groove which will fit the marty Of Prince
Victor little later. The injustice OF the extreme
Left in the Chamber. and of advanced Radicals
everywhere. toward the victor of yesterday, IN
duccs him to seek for friends among the Bona
partists who have tinge of democratic blue on
their platform.
In opening the debate VI. Barloux. the author of
the Scrutn de Iste bill, distinctly mtmated to the
rroups which until quite recently had been led by
NJ Rou',c, that the time had come for them to rally
TO an open Republic which did not ask better than
TO enlarge its oGdres.
NJ Paul de Cassagnac, who was for the lste, as
well as NJ Robert Mitchell. applaudcd this invita-
tcn to the official manger-fOr II was nothing else.
1t was a way of saying: Come over to
u.s. We shall not scan your past nor
look into the habits you have contracted.
All we want is TO have your votes here. If yon
give them to us will support you at the general
election, and q good share will be yours of the
official Oaves and fishes.
BOOKS INSTEAD or CROCKERY.
The porcelain mania has died out. We 10 longer
Hear of extravagan prices being given at the
auction mart for eighteenth century teacups, or
Bourg-la- Refine cofIeecups of the time of Marie
Antoiuette. Old and rare impressions Of
classic authors are now the curiOs most
run after The Due dAumale set this fashion. lie
Is bbliomaniac. if there ever was one. The rare
book TO fetch a great price should have the mar
gins of the leaves impaired. AT the Sale Sylvcstre
the other day five volumes of Rabeass works of the
edition published in I'LL were sold for $4,000
francs. Two odd volumes OF an anterior edition
brought 600 francs more. About three hundred
volumes of standard works printed in the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were dis
posed of for a total OF 10000 francs. The
work which was disposed of at the lowest figure WAS
aMoliere in two volumes of the 1875 edition. 1t
was adjudged for 2,750 francs. The auctoneers
fees oil this occasion paid by epurchaser and
fixed at IL per cent. Auctions of this kind show
that money is plentiful here 1t said to be at
Jerusalem in the time Of Solomon.
ZoLA's THEOLOGY
Zoia's last feat has been vrulent attack upon
Professionalism. which has got upon his nerves in
France. 1t also appears that it stands in the
way Of his and Bismarck's profits in Geneva,
London and the American cities, where Mana
a., 70 out
ngeously improper for the stage. lola accuses
Professionalism of being just dogmatc and intoIe-