New-York tribune., 1885-07-12
PAR1SIAN GOSSIP.
pOI,TTICs. MONEY. AND SOCIETY.


This functionaryswas the most pushing and quick
witted agent in the Far East of the adventurous
colonial policy which Gambetta inaugurated III
1870 at the instigation not only Of Prince Bis
marck, but Of the Tory Lords who governed Eng
land in that year. The German Chancellor saw
the Hebrew and the English nobieman who went
to represent Queen Victoria at the Berlin Congress
failed to see-that in opening field in the lndo-
Chinese territories to French restlessness tney
threw the politicians at the Quai fOrsay
into the way of being tempted by Russia
to conspire with her against Great Britain
do not suppose that NJ dc Freycinct actually
hopes in sending M. Harmand to India to revive
the claims that peninsula of the defunct french
East India Company. which Duplex and Lally Toll
lendal asserted with so much bravery and ability
against Give and Warren Hastings But suspect
that he may DO sent there to help to raise storms
with the object of establishing protectoratc over
the Burmese and Siamcsc Empires Harmand has
obtained concessions for French companies from
Siam, of q nature important that those who
hope to finance them keep them IN abeyance rather
than to provoke the opposition of England.
The ex-Premier has tried hard to get himself
named reporter of the committee appointed to
study the draft of the Franco-Chinese treaty, and
dare say would have succeeded but for tho publl-
cation Of Admiral COurbets priv ate letters. his
document is officially named the Treaty OF Tien-
tsin' But it should not be confounded with
the one of the name which CON-
mander FORMER negotiated with Ii Hung Chang
last year. The former an irTegulary executed
and makeshift affair." In the latter no ceremony is
left out there are hard and fast clauses relative
to the iron roads which the Celesias will shortly
make, and for the creation of which the Chinese
Government engages itself to use French capital
and French personnel" The latter word is 81
vague that it may well be regarded with suspicion
French capitalists of course mean Levy Cremieux
who drew Gambctta down among such a mob of
Bourse sharks when he was at the Petit Bourbon
| and tho brothers Ferry. These worthless are the
chief men in the Franco-E Egyptienne and the
| Paris ct dc Pays Bas banking estao-
| shments, which have been making. through
| the completely Of successive governments, I'M
| mense fortunes. In 1878 Jules Ferry was
| briehess barrister. He and his brother Charles
| lived in poorly furnished ffth-foor fat in the
| Rue Dnptrat They had servant. char
woman used to come in for the hours when they
cciycd calls to open the door and clean the rooms.
Charles was traveller for crockery factories in
Lorraine and Of his specialties was bed cham
Der dclf of which there pile Of specimens in
the dining room without any sort of cOncealment.
Through his partnership with Levy Cremieux and
the cx-President of the Ministerial Coun-
| ell. he Is now able to order dinner
service valued at "a, 900 francs which all Paris is
going to see and the other day seeing tenement
| house going cheap Mt an auction he bid for 1t
| ZOO. 900 francs and obtained 1t. This firm just
missed getting 90, 900 900 francs out of Mexico by
the unexpected opposition to tho conversion of the
Mexican loan and the defeat of the friends of the
Ferrys who were power little while ago in
| Mexico Some members of the committee charged
| TO report on the Franco-Chinese treaty, remember
ing this have asked for further explanations as to
| tne meaning of an appeal to French capital and
| French personnel"
The few old landmarks of Paris are rapidly dis
| appearing Votairc's and Gambetta's old haunt.
| the Cafe pronounced in the eighteenth century
| Cag0 Procopc, has finally been enguIfed in
bankruptcy and is going to be transformed into
| grocery. 1t was the first coffee-house that was
onened IN Paris, and its original proprietor bor-
rowed the idea of starting it from WilIs's in Lon
| don The beverage imported from Mocha was never
no,ular in France until the wits. the actors and
| dramatic authors who frequented the Odeon began
| 70 meet at Procope's. His coffce-room was long
| and narrow with low ceiling. Voltaires place
| was onite at the end where he sat with his back
| TO the wall, able TO SEQ every one who entered;
Cafes, multiplied toward iasS Oia'fashlonsd sasSi
arenGm,ne" 81 their sons now 60 to clubs Each of
a5 them '"'h had hs coflce-honse where he met ac:
| omaintances who had common tastes. They played
daomnoes aoH aud billiards. read the newspapers and
| ofa.r tbev had passed an heur or perhaps moro in
light and perfectly harmless dissipation returned
| home The Cato de la Rcgence near the Pa ais
Roval was as IL still is, the resort OF chess players;
military men used to go the Cafe du HeIder on the
boulevard des Itaiens, and to the Cafo Foy in the
| Paiais ROYAL where many Englishman were in
| suited by old officers OF Bonaparte during
the fifteen years that INTERVIEWED between the Battle
of Waterloo and the Revolution of the Days of July
| Fov,s coifee-house dragged on an anGmc existence
| for n long course of years and would have gone.
| sooner into bankruptcy had not Horace Vernct one
1 has main nfAI I'm fnkU fnafn nnfu
swallow on the ceiling. The Cafe du Helder. which
was also restaurant has been ruined by the COM
| netition of gambling hells disguised as clubs Din
| ners are provided ut these places much more
| cbeap than they could be anywhere else. and
| those customers who bring rich acquaintances to
| be plncked are made much Of by the walters.
| bohemian youth that is not gilt and is unambi-
tIous goes TO the beer saloon, where damsels ar
| rayed like Alsatian or Swiss peasants serve the
| frothy draughts in glass mugs They accept drinks
| of th, cus oniers the understanding that those
| who treat are to 90 irlbibing with them. Some
girls are broken down after four or I'VE months
| malt or hop and IL detestable concoction As it
contains sulphuric acid, it ruins the teeth and the
| coats of the stomach. hear that the Cafe Richie
is tottering to its fall. and that the Cafe
Anglais is not in more hopeful state.
Yearly nsysy :S y'nss dessred tSa wseueSsi 4 Ss
see light in the first floor windows 1t seems to me
| a novelty. The Prince of Wales was regular Gus.
| toner of this house before he paronzed the Cafe
dc Ia Paix. whittier ne was drawn by number OF
his Bonapartist friends. H. X. II. not infrequent-
| ly when here breakfasts at the Cafe de Paris: In
| tic Ayenue de rOpera. The Russian Grand Dukes
| notronizs the CaIe Anglais. Constantine was so
pleased tho last time he was here with the cuisine
aud service of that establishment that ne sent the
workmanship and large boxful of tho most ex-
| auisite cigarettes.
The Hon l.. +. Morton is taking tho strengthen
| inc waters of Bourboule in Auvergne. Mrs. Nor
ton has had, since he was in London. very serions
illness through which she has. however, got safely,
| though good deal weakened. She goes to Trou-
vile to recuperatc, and will sail on July 25 for
| New-York.
| | have not seen Mrs. Mackay since her return
from England where it appears she has spent three
| months very agreeab'y. But cannot believe she
| was so delighted with London as to make up her
Al Ia a ,A..sl.,.