The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-12-16
FRENCH POLITICS.
And Who are the Great Men Of
the Country.
Correspondence of the HERALD
PARIS, November l6.h. 1SS1.

The chamber of deputies havjnI
verified the election of two. thirds OF il
mem bere, the House has consequently
been declared legally constituted snC
SO 1t and proper ter the despatch O
business. The contested election!
are few and OF nc serious practics
importance: the protest is chieil,
maintained to annoy the suceessfu
candidate. and is kept up till the last
moment when the petition committee
declares there exists no proofs fol
quashlng the election. The protest.
besides cost neLhipg, 1t was in this
sense the radicals eDdea7ored to an.
BOY Gambetta; alter pouring out
some more venom upon him, they
Withdrew the opposition. In the
opening OF this Chambers after the
general elections, there were no in.
cldents strange to say worthy OF being
recorded: The ancient deputies drop.
ped into their Old places, and the new
took possession like the sheep of Pan.
urge. Th= republicans have 50 in
CREASED IN numbers that many OF
them Low have had to be accom-.
modated among the mOnarchists.
Bishop Treppel has for comrade, an
able, and these representatives OF the
Church have in front OF them, q pas
tor OF the OAlvinist persuasion, who
will theologically and politically say
no to their doxy. Indeed it may be
observed, that nothing 81 much re-.
sembles an old House OF Represent
6tlves as new one.
Gam BETA has played his cards we'll:
he insisted on DeiDg elected provis-
ional:: president OF the chamber, thus
he wa. able to show by the majority
OF the votes that be scored, he was still
the FIRST man in France, represented
the natiou, and was hence az it were
imposed On M. Grevy to select az
prime minister. Thua Gambetta
avoids the ordinary course OF being
sent for. Another significant fact
Was the complete collapse OF the rad
icals. During the vacation they
kept up hurry burly recalling a
dog with q tin Kettle attached to its
tail: once in the House they were as
gentle as sucking doves. On their
first indulgence In their usual rifle
practice, that OF vituperatiou, the en-
tire louise cougbed them down: this
had more effect than at first could be
ina gined: not q few deputies who had
decided to march through Coventry
with Louis Blanc and OlemsnoeAn,
whose programme is ali or nothing
coupled with a mortal jealousy OF
Gambetta, at once sheered around to
the moderstes.
1t is a cut and dried arrangement,
the Gambetts Cabinet: his accession to
Office, will like charity, cover a multi.
tude ofElns OF the Ferry ministry; the
mess and muddle of Tunisis ia rapidly
fading into ancient history; the dead
has buried its dead: the 80 ldiers are
better of now, aid the Tunisisns
have Vanished on the approach Of toe
French, or demanded pardon, the
better 20 reform, if circumstances
favor the strategy, year, or 8 cent
ury hence. In fact. Tunisis must be
occupied. and posts pushed in
advance.
There is the ghost of greater in
terest being displayed in the CON-
mercial treaty negotiations. now that
Gambetts is about taking the helm.
The Prince of Wales Sir Chas. Dixie,
and Gambetta, are reported to have
settled the whole matter in an alter
dinner chat, but that the glorious
uncertainty will be maintained till
the new minister be definitely Coz
stituted. The accession OF NJ. Tissot
to the Foreign Office is an excellent
nomination. He is about 53 years of
age, and hiss been tnirty summers in
the diplomatic service: be is the ugly.
lest, yet one of most agreeable men
in France; is a charming cGuSeur,
promises everything, but accords
Eo,hing: he impresses you with the
idea, that be is devoted to you heart
and soul, but he is as false as a hirt;
he has promised about one thousand
PERSONS, tina. if nominated minister
of Foreign affairs they will all be pro.
vided for-no such thing: they will
sill be forgotten, for in tits sense he
has independence OF heart. He
has the pen of a ready writer. which
can be used with a Swiss zeal On any
side OF diplomatic correspondence. as
his dispatches prove: be is a dis
Psychologist, his WritipgS
being in this ology 30 profound, Gthat
emily the Pickickian elect under
stand them-he is more devoted to
than to the ladies: be cap
tivates the hearts of the latter at will
but none can catch him: he hirts
better than his secstaries. He pos.
sesses another marked qualification:
be can have an attack OF govt, rhu-
matism, enlarged liver. the gravel &c.
on the receipt Of ciphered telegram,
and be allows his sufferipgs to be
witnessed in sulphur or an electric
bath. The necessity for the malsdy
passed, he throws away the crutohes,
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