New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-07-23
IN THE PARIS WHIRL.
THE BARRICADES-TIIE PARTIES OF ORDEfS
AND RIOT-HONOR TO DE LESSEPS-
WRITER'S REFUSE TO ENTER
POLITICS.

Paris, July TO-
After very exciting week, which has given us
something to talk about. and caused us 10 con-
graduate ourselves on having delayed our de-
parture for the seaside, Paris has once more re-
sumed its wonted aspect. All the shops are open
again, omnibuses plying as usual, and the pro-
pretors Of cafes and restaurants have SET Out
tables and chairs in front Of their establishments
the surest indication that peace and quiet have
been restored To those of the younger genera
tion TO whom the stories of the barbados and
Of the street warfare during the Commune and at
the time of the Coup dEtat partOok Of the M
ture of mere legends, the recent troubles nave
served to bring home the fact that over and above
all the various rival political factions in France
there are two great parties one OF which Is inter-
cstcd in tine maintenance of order and in the
safety of life and property, while the other, COM
posed of the very dregs of the population, ana leu
in most cases by INSCRIPTIONS foreign adventures,
is interested in fomenting popular disturbances Oh
every kind in the hopes Of being able to appro-
pirate by violence the money and the luXures 1or
which they are disnclined to work It is perhaps
due to this consideration that even so turbulent
politician AS W. Dcroulede has announced his in
tcntion of abandoning his opposition TO the Gov
crnment and of withdrawing altogether from po-
ltical life for several years and devoting himself
to agricultural pursuits.
| 1t is difficult to appreciate the precise impor-
lance of the recent disturbances. For while, on
| one hand, they were of sufficiently serious ma
tnrc to cause the Government to reinforce our
| garrison to the extent of 10000 men, while
| kiosks, tramway cars and omnibuses have been
| burned, barricades constructed and the police
forced to their swords in charging the MOD
vet on the other hand there has been a certain
| comical clement about the whole affair. This lay
in the fact that "a very large proportion of our
| population, especially the middle and better
classes appeared to look upon the disturbances n
an entertainment organized for their particular
amusement. In fact, our peaceable citizens ana
their families seemed to think that there was no
better WAY OF spending their evenings than In
aoclino 20 the Of the riots. All the wndoWs
and balconies in the ncghborhOOd of the disturb
| ances were thronged with spectators eagerly
awaiting Sims of "A conflict, and 30 marked is this
disposition on the part of our people here 10 max"
fun Of everything and to treat everything light;
that they and nohin! but rdicule for the cXtr;or-
binary resolution passed by the municipal conn
ell of the suburb of Saint Denis, ordering that no
rcos shall be placarcd upon the walls of all pub
lie buildings calling on the citizens to provide
theuIsclvcs with revOvcrs so that they might
offer "A vigorous resistance everywhere and a.
WAYS to the action Of the police" The sugges-
ton that the expense of arming the populacc OF
Saint Denis with small arms and of practically
making rcvolvors a compulsory institution, should
be- betrayed ont of the municipal treasury, met
with objections solely economical grounds, and
was not passed.
The action of the Board of the Suez Canal Com
pany in rc-eccting old Ferdinand de lcssep, rs
President meets with universal approval and con-
stitutes a somewhat tardy atonemcnt for his per-
secution 1t is of course. purely complimentary
move on the part of the Board. since the Counts
health l. shattered to such degree that he WIZ
never be able to do any work again. or take part
in the deliberations OF the council. Not a word OF
protest has been heard against his reelection not
even by the unfortunate stockholders OF the
Panama Canal enterprise. who, for some reason or
other. have all along been inclined to pity rather
than 10 condemn the man who will still retain,
notwithstanding al thar has passed, the sobri-
ouet of Le Grand Francois.
After spending n fcv days here, during the
course of which they dncd at the Spanish En-
bassv and Mnchcd at the palais de Castillo with
old Queen Isabella, the Infanta Eulalie and her
husband have left for Madrid. being accompanied
TO the railroad terminus by the members Of the
Spanish Embassy and large number of friends,
10 whom the Princess expressed herself as de-
lighted and interested with her trip. The chill
drcn of the Princess, who had remained during her
absence in the United States at the Hotel Camp
bell instead of as usual with their grandmother.
ACCOMPANIED their parents, the Princess Icing
greatly relieved to find them in such perfect
health The pleasant things which the lnfanta
has had To say about the United States, and in
particular about Chicago. form pleasing CON
trast 10 the sour comments of VI. Octave tzanne,
who has been doing the Worlds Fair for the
Firaro" Nothing appears To have found grace
in his eyes and he sums up Chicago III the fol-
lowing unfriendy paragraph:
The course of daily life at the exhibition, its
weorvinc promenadcs without any hating places
for idlinr or resting, the bitter north winds that
blovv from moment 10 moment with incalculable
impetuosity find no compensation IN the delights
Of cocktails which one amlses ones self by sulp-
ing down standing in the company of ones friends
a. fine principal bars of Michgan-ave. Neither
the daily banquets wherein music fails to conceal
deficiencies or to drown the din OF brutal drunken
ness nor the ballads in the peculiar quarters or
the town, nor the theatres, curious ana comfort
able as they are, arouse any such genuine ana
haunting regrets might counterbaance IN the
least the sense of Joy that takes possession of the
tray cller quitting Chicago
Such descriptions as These are greatly to be re-
cretted since the Frenchman is not By inclination
a traveller, prefcrring to remain at homo and 10
derive his information concerning foreign coun-
tries from what he reads in the newspapers,
among the most popular and authoritative of which
is, assurcdly, the Figaro.
Among the marriages of the last week has been
that of Mile. Sabine de Wendell, daughter of the
wealthy mine proprietor of that name, to the
Viscount Louis de la Panousc. The ceremony
was celebrated at the Church of Saint Philippe
du Roulc, the bride being escorted to the altar
by her brother-in-law, the young Duke Of Maille,
and her uncle while NJ de In Panouse had "a