The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-06-11
OUR FRENCH LETTER.
Correspondence of the HERALD
PARIS. MAY Is. 1882.

l AASO AOtCcIS IN the QrSL line. LQ6 w
subjects cast NJ. Grevy's fencing d
JeuneTs into the shade, and depriN
Gambetta's determination with IL
engine drivers of all interest. Egyl
is the natural home Of sphynXe'
now the latest puzzle there pr
duced is, explain how EDglan
and France, with hostile interest
are in harmony about holding IN
land of Goshen ? England claim
preponderating influence in tina
country as it is her boulevard O
India, while France regards 1T a
the rampant of her India in NOrtI
Africa. 1t is uncertain if the com
Dlned fleet intends to shell Calr
from Alexandria, or will conAn
the demonstration to another inter
national regatta. The Russians ant
the Italians in Paris are not at al
pleased at the two leading western
powers playing the role of police
men, when special cOnsCables they
say ought to be sworn in. FUTURE
Abercrombies may have hard nuts
to crack in Egypt. 1t is not 81
much the keeping Of the French
out, as preventing other Paul Pry;
frsm dropping in with their II hope
/ don't inCrude," that complicateE
the harmony.
French opinion, while denounc.
ing the murder of the Irish secre-
taries, begs that the systematic
atrocities, which formed a kind OF
diversion" during the winter
against folks who have no niche in
the almonach Of Gotha, be mot for
gotten. No one put on sackcloth and
ashes for them. Though terribly
severe, the latest coercion bill is
here considered as a necessary and
sharp remedy tor a terrible disease
Napoleon the thirds formula has
been adopted: "Let the wicked trem.
BILE and the good be assured" There
were several correspondents, "regu-
lar" and especial" connected with
Paris journals in Ireland. They
have suddenly disappeared, emil
grated like swallows. This may ex.
plain why one newspaper dishes up
sketches of Ireland in 1910, under
the heading Of history of to-day. NJ
Fourier, professor of law at Gre
noble, supplies us with later, though
it be but scanty, intelligence. His
volume just published is chiefly de-
voted to the examination of the
land acts Of 1850, 1870 and 1881; he
grew tired pottering over the last,
and sought refuge in a general
The professor considers
the absence of peasant proprietors
as the true difficulty of Ireland, and
has but little faith in the success of
N. Gladstone's measures.
In eIevating the Irish to the same
standard of the French peasantry.
NJ Fourier deals with two very
factors. The latter are
sober, thrifty and industrious. But
their social life is not an ideal even
with these virtues. To possess his"bit
of land" the French peasant will
pass his existence a drudge, like the
horse in the round, practicing not
so much frugality as parsimony.
Life is hardly worth living on these
Nature has been excep-
bOuntiful to this country in
climate and soil; and industries
agricultural work. The
children toO-alwayS few-of
French peasants, hive off at an
early age to do for themselves,
bringing with them the hereditary
habits of thrift, labor and sobriety.
Such is not the position of Ireland,
and the most benevolent govern
ment in the world cannot succeed
in the role Of gO-cart for fellow citi-
Zens.
The stagnation Of public opinion
in matters political, continues to be
still one of the frequent signs of the
times. Any hurly-burly that exists
is manufactured by the deputies and
the press, but it does not touch the
nation, whose lethargy is evidenced
by theiWalk-over of three monarchal
and Bonapartist candidates for the
Chamber of Deputies. Local squab-
bleS between republicans alone are
the order of the day, and which add
strength to the sole solu-
ton Observation-Disclosures Scrutin de
ZiSte.
The communists have missed an
inning; they were triumphing over
the announcement that one of
theirs had, with a band of brothers.
disguised themselves as ZuluS.
and killed the Prince Imperial,
This death bed confession of a ref
ugee communist, was, as all intell-
igent people divIned-a shave; yet
the gogoS here swallowed it with
rapidity, and led to an editor chal-
longing a confrere. Since Louise
has witnessed the utter
failure of her drama, she will see no
person; she cannot maze a Mr..
Chick effort to deliver a diatribe
against society or Gambetta. Rachel
will not be cOmforted.
Partisan families, whose only care
is how to spend their money on
pleasure, are busily occupied fixing
where they shall pitch their tents
during the summer monthS-for we
are on the eve of breaking up; soon
the Grand Prix will be run, and
sooner our Derby Parisiennes talk
Of travelling but they never indulge
IN voyages, save mentally. AS Nine.
lie Girardin observed, they like
when seated on sofa, to vow they
admire mountain climbing, like to
see the sun rising, to listen to
storms and the echoes of thunder
claps, to peep over precipices and