The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-04-01
OUR FRENCH LETTER.
Especial correspondence of the HERALD,
PARIS, March l, 1888.

4HO oOCOnu OmUllC OOSpOl10u tue
Orleanist princes Of their property
and the third republic has deprived
them of military employ. Both
acts claim to have been done in the
name of justice and in the interests
of the nation. In point of arbitrari-
ness, they have each remarkable
family likeness. The law of 1884
was framed by Louis Phillippe's
ministers to remove anti-pathetic
political officers from the army.
Now that law has received its first
application to his grandsons. De-
spite the prOVerbial clearness of the
French language, the code when
microscopically examined, is vague.
The same law can be liberal or IL
liberal, following the bias of the
judge or the political party in power.
The Due de Broglie under Macma-
hon, ran a coach and six through
every section of the code; the repUb-
llcans have just given it a twist, an
operation their adYerSaries will
keep green IN the memory, if they
return TO power. And everything
comes to those who wait.
The elimination of the Orleanist
princes from the army is blunder.
Except the journals, public opinion
deVotes little attention to the mat
ter. Not an Indignation meeting
has been held: not letter
sent to the times. The princes have
retired like officers and gentlemen.
The Due de Charities intends tray
cling in India. The Due d'Aumale
laughs philosophically at the event
among his pictures and books at
Chantilly. The Due d'Alencon is
going to Austria. Much of the hub
bub is due to the latter's wife,sister
Of the Empress of Austria. She re-
sided with her husband at Vim
cennes. outside Paris, where he was
with his regiment as captain Of ar
tillery. His duchess, in her social
relations, derided her acquaintance
into sheep and goats, ostensibly
placing the republicans among the
latter on her left. Hinc dI9
lacrimO.
M. Challemel-Lacour, new for
eign minister, recently complained
Of the little sympathy the republic
received at monarchiai counts. The
treatment the princes have expert
enced will hardly lessen the cold
shoulder element. Prince Napoleon
and his bill sticking that originated
the turmoil of the last five weeks,
has been so totally ignored and
snubbed, that he has decided to def
nite1y retire to Brussels. The
Compile de ChambOrd, convinced he
must wait a little 10 lger for his
honor to come, has invested in
landed property in Austria last
week, to rear horses and sheep, and
found beet sugar factories. Sweets
to the sweet, ia. eWell.
The Ferry ministry has hardly en-
enjoyed half its honeymoon, and al
ready the eaves-droppers report the
usual signs of the happy family. M.
Ferry aims to be prime minister de
factO: bat his colleagues insist on
each being prime minister in his
own department. Then there are
rocks ahead, such as the demand
for revising the constitution, in
other words, abolishing the senate,
and the liberation of Prince Kro-
potkine and his co-anarchists, they
being less harmless than Prince
Napoleon. The sciene of geography
also stands in need of the first high
ness.
The Second Empire boastei tC
have laid politics and promoted ma
terial prosperity. The present re.
public is all politics and the cham.
bels of commerce and deputatlons
to NJ. Grevy complain that business
is anything but brisk. Money is
cheap, but not in demand; the
banks have cash but no demands
for discounts. Dismal groWls come
from French correspondents II
Egypt. The English do persist in
recognizing the country in oppO
sItion to French wishes, and the
fellaheen it seems commence to de
spair of seeing the French arrive Il
drive the English away. Nay more
the French language, which il
Egypt as elsewhere, and in diplom
acY, is usually spoken, is in a fail
way of being superseded by the
Anglo-Saxon tongue. And all due
to France declining to aid England
as invited, to uphold the Khedive
At Tonkin the Chinese appear to bt
naassing to resist the French adj
vance. Matters are more hopeful
at West Africa. The interests o.
civilization have more to gain in
that quarter from France than from
Portugal. 1t is then with feelings
of unalloyed pleasure that France
has made another treaty with an
aboriginal king, to supply his realms
with railroads, telegraphs, post
offices, electric lighting, telephones
etc. His majesty dwells in the
depths of Senegal, and signs his
mark, Amady-Tol. Perhaps a dis
tant relative of Teddy-Tol-lol.
The anniversary of the 1S4S revo
luton passed off TRANQUILITY. Modest
bouquets and moderate oratory
Some of the deputies improved the
occasion to remind electors of the
sorrows of Representatives. Every
deputy receives On an average two
letters a day from constituents i'm
'Fploring him to stay the hand OF
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