Morning journal and courier., 1885-11-07
MAX ORELL'S LETTER.

l Parts-A Canny Scot.
 Special Correspondence of the JOURNAL AND CouR- TER. All Rights Reserved.l
 LONDON, Oct 24.
 | To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 The French elections are over. At the l first ballot, held on the 4th of October, 176
 Conservatives or Monarchists and 131 Repub-
 l licans were returned. At the second ballot, last Sunday 26 Monarchists and 242 Repub- Iicans were returned. The first elections ! were protest against the policy of that strange form of Republicanism which is called Opportunism, and the second strong l manifestation in favor of the republic. Mod crate ideas have sustained a serious check The majority of the new chamber is Radi- cal. M. Clemenceau, the leader of the left or M. Floquet, the president of the last chamber, will probably be called upon to form cabinet. The Debats explains clearly the defeat of the Opportunities. They have indulged in frivolous and vexatious religious prosecutions, squandered the public money, outraged public conscience and imperilled material interests; this is why three and a half millions of electors returned Monar- chisss to the Chamber of Deputies. The Opportunists have played into the hands of ! the Extreme Left with the result that three other millions of electors responded to their advances by returning radicals.
 The utter discontinue of the workmen candidates was an amusing feature of the election. They each had about one vote their own. This is not to be wondered at ! The Paris workmen held no end of meetings with view to securing the return of candi- dates belonging to their own set. So far
 T ! about the choice. Jealousy excited ! Each thought that he was as good his neighbor of course, and they would not 1 pledge themselves to vote for one in particu-
 { lar, and finally they voted for journalists
 | who advocated their claims in Paris or even | for manufacturers and land owners.
 Anglomania was conspicuous during the \ electoral period and the book1nakers made ! good bit of money. The Republican list was of course the favorite. M Herve, however, who was the best Conservative candidate, was backed at two to one Bricard the "pa- triotic candidate, :" was quoted at fifty to one, l and Bellelle, the "terror of bailiffs," at one ! hundred to one. All this would be highly comic if not somewhat disgraceful.
 ! The English papers, full as they every day of all the electoral verbiage of Tories and Liberals, are very dreary reading. So it
 was treat to hear MT. Sturgeon, at the London Baptist association yesterday, deliv ] CT himself of characteristic protest against the prevailing tendency to inaugurate the forthcoming Reign of Joy and Plenty for ever and ever" by giving absolute authority to the State as represented by the local voting majority. E'The fancy now in poli- tics," he said, "seems to be to trust the gov ernment. The government is to do every thing; the government is to give a piece of land and a house; the government is to put fire into every mans grate and pot over it, and potatoes into that pot and the government is even to give every man l knife and fork and salt, and I am not sure whether the government is not also to eat the potatoes" I do hope that the English will not initiate the French in allowing the government to look after them in all details of life.- Thanks to this wrong system, the French government monopolizes industries, I undertakes to supply the taxpayer with ! birthstone matches that will not light and
 \ three penny freproof cigars, and sells at
 ! three half pence the very same box of wax
 I lights that we get in London for one penny. | Again and again it has been pointed out
 T of n as9,,sg f fhs to be questioned and to question witnesses ! It is of course within the limits of possibii ty that clever rascal may now and then es cape justice by so adroitly questioning and replying as to carry conviction of his inno cence to the minds of the jury while he is guilty; but that is of small moment com pared with the iniquity of imprisoning an innocent person. We have seen new illus tration of this during the week. A man, convicted on Wednesday of two robberies at Leicester, has made confession of another burglary, for which 8 natter named Kilby is now undergoing eighteen months hard labor. The poor man Kilby was tried at the Derby AssiFes and several witnesses swore to his identity The judge even said that Kilby ought to be logged. His innocence is now clearly established and it is expected that he will immediately receive free pardon" A Vl,a5 f0 fhaiJ1 knees and ask pardon of poor Kilby.
 M Jules Claretie, the Parisan journalist and novel writer, has been appointed admin istrator of the Theater Francais in the place of M Emile Perrin, of whose death l spoke last week. The government had a much better candidate in the person of M. Ludo- vic Halevy, member of the French academy and author of Froufrou and PAbbe Con stantin; but M. Halevy is a friend of the Princes of Orleans; therefore his claims were disregarded. I expected that NJ. Francisque Sareey, the king of French critics, who has made the study of the French stage peculiar ly his own, would have been asked to come forward: but M. Claretie the candidate of the government and the persona grata. What politics can have to do with the man. agement of the first theater in the world am at loss to know. The new administra tor does not show himself possessed of any very special dramatic or theatrical faculty, and as critic is much inferior to Messrs. Sarcey and Weiss. He will probably patron ize the new school, the comedies honnetes, or Ohnettes, as they are now called, in honor of their most successful manufacturer, M. George Ohnet.
 Radicalism may have made great strides in France, but it has not yet succeeded in de- stroying the feeling of pride in old and hon. ored names like those of La Tremoille and La Rochefoucauld, which have a grand and pleasant sound to true born Frenchman's a11s of mt n days of chivalry and associated with the past glories of France. Was it not La Ire moille who shared with Joan d'Arc the glory of having defeated the English foe at Or leansa And all the brave acts of these grand old families of soldiers, are they not written in the memory of proud and grateful peo- plea So this week, when the young Count de ia Rochefoucauld led Mademoiselle de la Tremoille to the altar. Paris looked on with pride. All the grand monde was present at the ceremony, including the Prince of Wales, who had come to Paris to be present at the marriage of Prince Valdemar of Denmark to the Princess Marie of Orleans.
 The latter great ceremony was celebrated on Thursday, at least the religious part of it, for marriage in France is a serious business, when you consider that first there is the civil ceremony to be gone through, then generally on the eve of that day the signing of the contract of marriage, which is made the oc- casion of a family gathering, and takes place at home, presided over by notary, and finally the religious ceremony, wherein the finishing touch is put by the priest. All this must the happy pair, royal or simple, go l through before they at liberty to look upon themselves as one. The princess pres ents are numerous and prineely Of course, including splendid riviere of diamonds, bracelet of thirty-three diamonds of the first water and dog collar of emeralds and dia- monds. To wear with this dog collar an es- pecial dress has been made, composed of green tulle over satin of the same color and ornamented with 8 large bunch of yellow flowers. All the toilettes of the young blonde bride have been composed under the
 direction of her mother, who has thought
 l out all the details and displayed great taste
 over the labor of love. The select ana for
 l tunate party of ladies who were admitted to
 ! private display of all ths beautiful gowns
 which the young princess will take with her
 \ to begin married life in were specially
 | struck with the almost complete absence of
 ! that camel-like hump which has lately been ! disfguring female garb. The princess has
 perfect figure and can afford to wear dress
 es that simply display it's contours, so one
 of her most beautiful gowns is an evening
 ! dress of ruby velvet without single puff
 l or frill This dress fits her as if she had
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