New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-05-31
MR.. MORTON'S FAREWELL
LTJNcHEoN at The LEGATION.

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tyRom THE REGuLAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE rRIsuxHl
PARIS, May 16
Mr.. Morton has made his exit from the post
which no has filed here in graceful. d'gnifed and
very pleasant manner As he is going away every
body who had the privilege of knowing him and biz
amable wife seems to have cried Yeror-a pretty
phrase which ought to be rendered in English BY
the May we soon and often meet again OF the
Irish. Mr.. Morton has been a very popular MIN.
ister He was extremely obliging, was glad IA
promote any American cause or interest. and gon-
orally showed great tact in his Official and social
relations. He also showed an American capacity
for getting quickly. posted, taking soundings and
acting according to them. He came when thingC
social and political in q state of transition,
and became quickly alive to the fact that the tide
has entirely flowed from the aristocratic caste and
Royalist and other Pretenders. Nothing could
be more thoroughly and cordially Republican thaa
the two festive days which marked the close of his
period of Office. On the first Of them he entertained
ut luncheon ten members of tho City Council who
were deputed to represent the municipality at tho
unwilling of copy Of Bartholdi's statue of Liberty
in the garden facing the American Legation in the
Place des Etats Unis. There was at their head
their President or Chairman, and there were with
them Prime Minister Brisson, N. Floquet the Pres
ident of the Chamber Of Deputies n. Allan Targ6,
the Home Minister General Pittie, who represented
NJ. Gr6vy, NJ dc Lesseps Senator Lafayette, and
not soul of aristocratic pretensions except tbs
Marquis de Rochambeau, who Is Rochambeau only
by adoption. He was invited because Of the.name
| he bears. Senator Lafayette is too consistently
Republican to take his stand upon the Marquisats
which belonged to his illustriOus grandfather and
| more remote ancestors lie is q simple quiet
hammered and amiablc gentleman, OF high principle.
| ana though scrupulous himself. charitable in
| Judging the sins OF his ncighbors. am afraid,
however that no will not long represent the honor
| able old house of which he is now the sole living
| descendant, in the male line. The falling eyelids
and the loosened under lip, which to have got
! beyond the power of muscular control are symp-
toms which cause anxiety to his friends.
| 1t gave me, and am many Others, pang to
witness the disnantled state of the salons at the
United States Legation ALI the beautiful furnturc
except that in the diningroom and small drawing
room where the Minister'S portrait by Bonnat still
hung, had been packed up for transport to New
| York. After lunch the rooms quickly filed with
| much larger company than had sat down to table.
| NJ Barthold was good deal liOnized. He Is
man of an expressive and energetic Southern physi
ognomy, and very like in profile the bronze figure
of Blanqui in a winding sheet which Dalon has sent
| to this Salon. Lesseps gravitated toward Madame
| ADAM who spoke to him pro bono pabhco and
| reminded him of how he arrived in Paris from
|
in the evening came to her house to keep tele-
graphed engagement to dinner at half-past 2, and
was kissed by her in token of her deep sense of the
compliment 50 paid her. I observed that Madame
| Adam has taken the resolution not to hide gray
hairs except with dust of powder She looks far
more attractive than If she attempted to fight with
| dive against the SHOWS of time The whitened hair
harmonizes with her fair skin and brings out the
rosy tinge that still fingers her cheek In going
to the garden where the speeches were TO be made.
| she gave her arm to n. de Lesseps. She is .
| vigorous woman with qnick step, and probably
forgot that he is near eighty the old gentleman was
ill at ease in trying to keep pace with her without
| betraying inirrnity He stopped frequently undes
the pretext of looking at vase, bright-eycd
| child q bed of flowers, an effect OF bunting,-and
so got on to the wide space in front of the statue
where the rostrum stood embosomed in bloom.
The orators faced Dame Liberty and were bare-
headed. NJ Floqnet, as President OF the Chamber
of Deputies stood at the night of Mr.. Norton and
beside him was NJ Poubelle, the Project OF the
Seine. To the lett were NJ. Brssoa, the Chairman
OF the Municipal Council. Admiral CALDER and the
| Home Minister, who comes from Black Anjou
| where his family have been three hundred yeau in
tho judicature NJ. Allan large has q dark, pock-
marked face and is strangely like Henri H., and
other members of the House of Plantagcnet who
were like MIN, Angeyina He married a daughter
of the witty NJ. LIE vilemain, Guizot's friend and
fellow Minister and Academician but he il now
| wdower
NJ De Lesseps and Lafayette were on side
| bench and Madame Adam continued there her con-
| versation with the former. Mrs. Morton sat per
haps ten seats off but in the same line. She was
dressed in black with good deal of jet adornncnt
aud wore little bonnet with horseshoe of black
| beads behind aud row Of them all round the edge
| OF this dainty headgear Her children we're all
| with her. They are farhaired and have an English
| look.
Mr. Morton was the first to ascend the tribane.
| which was seven steps above the ground DE has
a straightforward. clear. and unaffected style, and
| is IL not an ambitious orator. q telling one. OF
course he paid Paris aud the Parisans many COM
pliments, and they all returned with interest
a little later NJ. Brisson made clever speech.
He was rhetorical. but in artistic and effective
| manner and he looked if he spoke out of the full
ness of conviction when he was delivering the Lead
ing passages of his Grafton. NJ. Floquet thought
looked disappointed at not being asked to speak
and certainly ". Jules Simon was 50. He kepe
| rather in the background. perhaps not to be seen
| with NJ Blowitz (who is one of the shortest and
| latest men in Paris hanging on bis arm n.
Blowitz with characteristic push. fastened upou NJ
! Simon, when he found that no Minister present
recognized him. After NJ. Brisson. NJ Bone made
| an Grafton in the name OF the City OF Paris Inc
matter of his speech was admirable; but the man
ner Of its delivery humdrum.
Paris was amiable in sending quantities
flowers Tags benches covered with red velvet,
| horse and foot guards and the Republican band,
which played the Star spangled Banner." Z" Hall
| Columbia" @Le Chant de Depart" and the
| aMarseaise." The outside crowd evinced en-
tisiasm when the first bars OF the latter sounded
| They conceded with the opening phrases Of N. do
Latayette's little speech, which was in answer 70
| and 60 Rochambeau was curious to See how the
creator of the Suez Canal would hide the growing