The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-01-28
OUR PARIS CORRESPONDENCE.

IAhSlSI DL' -C1 iCo1.
The Deputies, when they agree on the stage,
their unauimity is wonderful they have agreed
to demand a higher salary than u, 800 +. a year,
as that sum is inadequate to meet the wear and
tear Of Parliamentary life. They are a good way
behind Billy Pitt, whom Byron states ruined
Great Britain gratis. One Journal irreverently
suggests that the representatives ought only to
receive supplemental remuneration, and that ex-
clusively. from their constituents, in the annual
form of pOurbOire. or tips, like garcons in cafes,
and the race domestic in general. These local
contributions would serve to remind Mp s how
far they were esteemed by the sovereign people.
1t is a cardinal principal of democracy, that the
laborer is worthy of his hire.
Public opiniOn-that is NJ. Gambetta, or Julius
or Vitellius Caesar, as his antagonists dub him
when they are in tue insulting mood and that
is generally every day in the week, Sunday in
cluded-has decided that NJ. Roustan return 70
the place from whence he came-Only he has
been enioined to purge, leave off sack, and live
clean. lie must have no more felons for attaches
and confidential secretaries and if he be resolved
to throw his handkerchief at any of their wives, it
must be done not TO shock the %virtuous pOpula-
ton of Tunisia, or Rochelort, or a Partisan jury,
as in the latter case such might again involve a
conviction, and uecessitate a visit of the foreman
of the Jury to condole with NJ. Roustan for allow
ing the law to take its course. After Brutus
condemned his sons to death for a street row
Alciblades was banished for tying tin kettles to
dogs tails, and practising viVisection on that
caudal appendage, he retired to his private apart
ments, aad wept as bitterly as st. Peter.
To be revenscd on Gambetta's new departure
from the immortal principles of 1898, by his
sending Roustan back to Tunis instead Of to the
guillotine, the HttrdHSigeantS have found their
man and the occasion to cOntOund the politics OF
Gambetta. At all times a parsonage or a corpse
proved une-half of the success of a political aglta-
ton OF IL revolution. How many eminent Repub-
licans to-day, from Gambetta downwards, have
made their fortune by trading on the death OF
BaudIn! The No-surrender RAIDS. have taken
up Major LabOrdeTe as a fit and proper candidate
to represent Paris in the Senate. In 1877, when
MacNIahon the First was S~tale-mated by Gam
BETA, he considered for a short time the posi-
bility of executing a little coup d'etG. General
Mirabel drew up a plan, as Irochu did OF the
siege of Paris. to realize the Marshall fee Jaw
fun views. Owing to the Ministers declining To
stake their heads and fortunes on the game, the
stroke of craftsmanship became a Easco. But
Mirabel retained the credit Of the affair, and also
Major Labordere for throwing up his sword,
sooner than execute secret orders against the
Republicans. Mirabel is now in Abraham
bosom. being n chef Of chefs at the War Office,
while Labordere 10 at the plough like CIncIn-
natus. There Rocheforte and Co. have sought
him, and throwing him at Gambetta S head,
invite tn" Romans TO look at this picture, and on
that. Gambetta has no end of flies IN his ONT
menI.a ana, 10 du2ulelL HE lubCc tHO Hh
bassadors have resolved to dine him to death.
ONLY Gambetta fills the public eye OCCASION
alIy the existence of NJ. Grevy is remembered by
his countor-signing official acts, and resolutely
holding out against The use OF the guillotine, as
tending to dim inish the population of France
the worst use Il man can be put to is to hang
him. Better send Bill Sykes and his Nancy to
New Caledonia to pass their honeymoon, become
exemplary farmers, and give hostages to fortune.
The Ministers are overshadowed by Gambetta-
so much the better for them is the cell pse. 1t is
rumored that in respect to Tunisian Levy, that
John Bull will take that out OF Roger Bontemps
when negotiating the commercial treaty.
Christmas festivals passed off very well the
Nac YORK. HeraldS weather clerk obliglngly
secured Us a special frost that sent pains and
aches out Of many bones, and plenty into others.
The fatted calf was extensively killed, and also
the iattened pig. as every part OF that = angel
as Munsolet in his ode to the poroine race so
affectionately addresses the mother of seven
sucking youngsters ready for an auto DATE forms
a bonnie 6ouche at Christmas Eve suppers. The
institution OF Christmas is taking root in France
indeed it was anciently common to Franks and
Saxons. Concierges back up the innovation, ex-
pecting an overture tip to New Years Day
Germany sent numerous Christmas trees, with
TOYS to hang from the bougbs. Paris supplied
the snow and ice in the form OF 6On6OnS. The
Alsatians had their Noel tete, and their caps had
as MANY black ribbon streamers as would make
the fortune of half a dozen German mercery
stores. The midnight masses were very well
attended. | happened to hear the church, ana
for reward obtained a private entrance-eard to
St. Eustache, where the finest music Is to be
heard. and the best OF organs 1t played once
upon Il time when Napoleon made his prisoner,
Plus VII, celebrate mass In that basllIc. AT
the midnight mass the music executed, called
a Noel. is generally by Adam; it is deliciously
sweet. and the emotions awakened are IN keeping
with the Son that unto Us was given. The altar
is fully lighted up. Faure sang the solos-neyer
did | hear bis baritone voice to greater advantage
he was in the organ loft, and had only a single
candle to read by he looked weird-like, as one
of the magi out of place. The chorus was very
effective. only it was out of season 10 applaud.
What a terrible state of things 1t would be were
a consregati n conceded the right to-disapprove?
Already pious souls exercise the privilege OF going
to sleep. and sleep according to Samson l. an opin-
len. Rather let US agree with Sydney Smith, that
some Boanerges take sin out of their congrega-
tions, as the Creator did Eve from Adam-by
casting them into n deep sleep. At the midnight
service many people, especially the young, par
took of the Holy Sacrament. On quitting the
church, there was a crowd of roughs outside,
who INDUCED in hooting the congregation to the
air Of the - Marseillaise.' mingled with UirGS for
the Republic. France has much lee-way to make
up in the matter Of liberation.
fHugo's ..I793 " has been dramatized by Paul
Meunice, and the Gate Theatre has brought it
out. 1t is a sad spectacular piece, revealing
wildly the terrible civil war in La Nendee be-
tween the Whites (Royalists) and the Blues