Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1893-10-07 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

FRENCH AND ENGLISH JOURNALISTS. It is interesting, says the Paris correspondent of the Dai'y Telegraph, to read the notes and impressions concerning London and English life contributed to the newspapers by some of the Paris writers who attended the last annual conference of the Institute of Journalists. M. Aurelien Scholl says that he never had so splendid an opportunity of seeing London well. He and his friends will long treasure up the memory of the hearty welcome accorded to them, and the remembrance cannot be effaced by political, or, rather, commercial quarrels. London he looks upon as a Colossus, a monster, and it would be necessary to add three capitals to Paris in ord-r to enable it to equal the British uietropolis in size. It is not alone, says M. Scholl, the capital of the British Isles, but of India, Australia, of thirty countries and forty archipelagos. Everything there is gigantic. Its numerous bridges, networks of railway, and buildings cause the head to turn. The writer was especially charmed by the magnificent reception accorded to M. Zola and the French visitors in the Guildhall. Lord Mayor Knill—called by M. Scholl, with pardonable inaceuracy,considering the difficulty which Frenchmen experience in understanding English titles, "Lord Stuart Knill "—resembles Arsene Houssaye, as the latter ss as twenty years since. Commenting on the fact that the First Napoleon left a legacy of hatred against England, M. Scholl points out that Parisians and Londoners were for a long time equally at fault about each other. The former were firmly imbued with the idea that raw beef was the staple diet in England, and that lords and gentlemen spent their days in boxing. In London theatres French marquises and cooks were represented by beings thin as skeletons and unutterably stupid, while Cockneys believed that Frenctim, n nourished themselves on nothing but vegetables, soup, and fried frog. Nowadays all that is changed. English dandyism reigns in Paris perhaps a little too much, for all the Rue Auber belongs to English trade. It is only in the very low and ignorant classes that any of the old antipathy and prejudice against the English can be found. The two nations are, however, still far from resembling one another. Money is the English vice; vanity that of the French. In France affectation is the original sin of men well brought up; in England it is haughtiness. One wants to appear amiable; the other powerful. In the brilliant days of French society all the vanities were in competition, each one trying to beat the other in saying good things, or seizing quickly whatever was ridiculous. In England bullion is always king. Interest predominates, and homage is rendered only to birth or fortune. In the selection of the fruits of revolution England preferred liberty, France equality. M. Scholl finally compares the relative position of literary men in the two capitals, and he finds that while in Paris they are popular favouritea, and on a par with the great, in London they have no definite status, and even if they be temporarily elevated above the crowd they soon sink back into their social obscurity, like kings of the carnival.  At Kingston-on-Thames, on Friday, Lucy Jenkins, 36, barmaid, was remanded on the charge of attempting to commit suicide. She was found in a semi-unconscious state with a laudanum bottle beside her. The stomach pump was used, and she recovered consciousness, whereupon she observed, -"I am sorry it has failed this time. but I will do it again."  The prices of coal frighten one. What the very poor are to do this winter, and even the rather poor, I know not, unless they conquer a little prejudice, and lay in a store of the peat fuel so much advertised in London last winter. I can assure you that prepared peat fuel has many excellent qualities hitherto undreamt of in a townsman's philosophy.—Gentleworian.  The Llvitepool Jeersel If Compares nye: Pres bably for the Ant time in the history off com• mace the salt exports from the Mersey to the East were overstepped last month by the exports from Hamburg. As compared with the Arst nine months of last year, this year's exports from the Mersey chew a falling off of something like 25 per cent.  tilliiiii , ' #