The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-05-21
OUR FRENCH LETTER.
Correspondence of the HERALD. j
PARIS. April 26, 1882.

Senator Labo Elaye has been pla
ing the candid friend" to the r
publicans, and such, according [
Canning, is one of the create.
plaques a wrathful heaven can sen,
The senator takes very gloomin
view of the republic, where the SOY
ereignty Of the people has becom
confused with the liberty of III
citizen. In other words, the Cham
Der Of Deputies is everything, an
for fur years the country has add
Gated in its favor. The minister
are not the leaders. but the Obedien
humble servants of the Chamber
and the latter has no control, saw
that exercised by the press. But N
Laboulaye is being only hoist witt
his own petard. When he and hi
friends voted the republic, it was OF
the express condition apparently
that they alone should have it's di
rectiOn, hence, they were cast aside
by the radicals. Gambetta made
the same blunder personally, as die
Laboulaye's party, and he COO has
been Shunted to a siding. Both
however, can look on, as do Other
impartial observers, how the terrible
game of Capitalization that the re.
publican party are playing, will end
Prince Victor Napoleon is having
greatness thrust upon him. He is
at Heidelberg. learning German, and
studying chemistry. An interviewer
from the Jeames point of view, in
forms US he is promising young
man just out of his teens, and culti-
waiting a very black moustache, with
twisted up ends like that of his
grandfather, Victor Emmanuel. In
manners, studies, and also physique,
Napoleon V. IN posse, resembles mon
grand O7lcle, NapoleonI. The prince
does not follow the courses at the
University because his knowledge
of German is still limited; besides.
the alumni every morning have to
chant a domino SGlCunG .fdc-im-
peTGtoTen1, a name universal to the
VOlScians' ears. We have not been
told if the prince thinks with his
papa, that churches were only built
to please the priest, and that eating
Lorraine sausages and rump steaks
on Good Friday, are the evidences
Of secession from old and Young
Catholicism. One thing is certain,
the coming man" attends scrupu-
lousy to all his religious duties.
This ought to content Paul de Cas-
sagnac, though the free thinkers
will denounce his conduct.
The Parisians are a strange pee-
pie; only think 5000 of them at
tended the Winter circus last Sun
day to hear NJ, Loyson denounce
Torquemada; ne had challenged the
the Pere Monsabre to defend the
inquisitiOn but that divine declined
the spiritual duel with thanks, fear
ing a scandal. The Rev. M. Loyson
looks very old; his eyes are more
pOcheS; he is falling into flesh, but
his profile is still very fine. The ma
jOrity Of the audience applauded, his
at least; though on few
occasions he forgot the courtesy that
chivalrous knights extend tof0emen
worthy Of their steel. l do not
think NJ LoysOn's old Catholicism
IS making proSelyteS here, and his
boast is questionable. that "he has
half the clergy of France on his
side" He will ever be regarded as
curiosity" as the contrast is very
striking between the Carmelite i
monk, the successor of Lacordaire.
n sandals, lashing the corrupt soci-
ETY. of the second empire at Notre
Dame, and the stout. pale-faced, i
1tualistic attired clergyman, ad- +;
tressing Athenians from an impro- t
Used stall in the arena of a circus.
The journals express the deepest {
egret at the death, while paving {
he highest tribute to the memory
#, Darwin. One paper gushingIy {
Explores it as Il greater loss for Eng G
and and France than the rupture of l
he commercial treaty. Darwin is C
anked as one of the four or five T
reat men the nineteenth century a
as produced. He discovered a I
triking truth whose fundamental
alta have modified human thought. ID
lie was not Newton, but he stands o
uperiOr to Linnaus and Cuyier. f
What the French admire is the pa a
fence he displayed in details and C
ne boldness Of his congratulations. Ii
lie was an observer and an expert il
lenter, rather than q thinker. r,
nd such constituted at the same Il
me his strength. Great have
cen the revolutions created in the a
uman mind by the discovery of thel l.
nm of the earth, Of its rotation u
)und the sun, and of those bound o.
SIS and silent spaces which terri e
ed the soul of Pascal. But what 81
revolution also for science. is the "
leOry OF evolution, which enables n
) to see man, society, the world
from single cell. re-
The cuckoo has returned, and thelff
-ghtingaleS occupy faYorite shrubs +
aklng early morn a musical treat DIR
e await the swallows, or such ofI he
EN- as the Italians permit to es.
pc from the demands for MES W
he moment of the swallows arri- la
u IS interesting: they naturally ii,
axe for their old nest, and find 4 I'D
occupied by a sparrow ~
hich always accepts its interest," DIR
herever found. AninorthologicaI ho
is INDUCED in, but the 10,
arrow is evicted; if obstinate. he M
occasionally pecked to death. and ne
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