Year: 1870

lFROM OUR OWN CoRREaPoSSDBSTI


PARIS, April 81 dare say you would be glad 10
hear the last word about Pierre Bonaparte and his
trial and am sure should be glad to say it; but,
unfortunately for the peace of mind of etterreaders
and Of letter-writers, these ugly affairs have way
of dragging consequences after them that makes II
long before the last word gets itself fairly spoken
As if it were not enough that the end OF my last
letter fatty contradicted the beginning, now find
it necessary contradict my contradiction and to
confess that know nothing whatever as to where
Pierre Bonaparte may be living at this moment The
story that he was exiled OF that he received
polite request from the Emperor to go into foreign
parts and to stay there for indefinite time, is
doubtless as true most OF the gossip that flies about
Paris. All can venture TO say positively IA that
if it was not true Pierre Bonaparte had gone 10
America-and l am glad to say it uasn't-it was no
more true that he had gone to the Forest OF Ar
dennes The newspapers obli2i 2ingly distributed him
over Europe during the week that followed the trial.


and it refreshing TO see with what alaerlty the
journals of the different countries credited with en-
tertaining such bad company took up the charge AZ
if it were an insult and hastened to rid themselves
of it, After the newspapers had played battle-door
and shuttle-cock with the acquitted murderer, long
enough to serve the purpose of the Government
which, evidently, wished to keep the public ignorant
of his whereabouts and after he had been thus tossed
from Auteuil to America, from America to Brussels
and from Brussels to Switzerand it came out that he
had been all the time at Auteuil with his wife and
children the house being guarded inside and outside
by policemen, and diligent patrol Of policemen
kept up in the street beside few days ago he
drove along the Boulevard in an open carriage,
accompanied by his physician and chum, Dr. Morel,
the charlatan inventor of that marvellous hair-dye
the Eau des Fees" (which Sara Felix, the sistg of
Do hor vi hv ha kb
lying evidence before the Haute Cour in the fact Of
his masters having received blow, went further
than anything else to bring about acquittal Itis
now said and this time if il true, that Pierre
BOnaparte is actually going to Belgium, to a chateau
he has there But in truth the interest in him personally
has quite died away, and dare say, nobody greatly
cares whether he goes or stays. You will remember
that when the advocate of the Noir family
called for judgment against Pierre


Bonaparte for 00C00 francs lie blurted out, angry,


that he would rather pay 10000 francs to the poor
of Tours, and that, later, his generous impulse
boiled down to the moderate sum of Dy0C0 francs.
This sum, the newspapers tell us, he has actually
sent to Tours to be distributed among the POOR but
it is remarkable that there has not been in con-
sequence any outburst of admiration for such noble


generosity from the ImpeIialist organs. i suppose
there must be few people who believe that if the
money has been really paid il came out OF the
bravOs own pocket, and the few who do believe 1T
may perhaps have asked themselves how the money
ever came into his pocket-a question the answer TO
which could hardly fail to cool even Imperialist
enthusiasm. For the man, as you know, never
earned cent in his life All that he has TO
live on is pension wIurg, It's said, from hs cousin
by threats that if not made sharer in the fortune
of the family he would join the democratic ranks
and make trouble. And where his cousin gets the
tn reia friends QcDeUG-
ents, and to pay his tools, you and everybody else
know as well as l. 'Tis all wrung from the hard
hands of peasants distilled from the sweat of labo-
rious France and people here know this too well to
call il generosity or charity when few drblets Of
what is forciby taken from the poor find their way
back to the poor again. Considering that the En-
peror has his hands in the pockets Of every man in
France and almost literally, the public treas
ure as if it were his own it would have been little
more decent and polite IT, in giving direc
tions to the Haute Cour how to manage the trial and
what verdict to have brought in he had also given
orders to see that the Noirs indemniicd far
as money could indemnify them for the loss OF their
son.


But who ever heard of noble generous act on
the part of any member of the Imperial familyf
In the seven months that have been in France,
| have never heard from the most devoted admir-
ers of this family nor ever read in the journals most
devoted to its interest, Of any action indicating
sympathy for suffering, or a desire to right what
is wrong in the world about them.


They have intrenched themselves in their Tuieries
chateau against the verdict of society, whose tongue,
if it wags at all against hem must wag in silence.
Thus the unfortunate NJ. Bazire, who as told you
in the time of it, seeing the Emperor summing him
self on the terrace that overlooks the Place de Ia
Concorde, could not resist the impulse to put his
bead out at his cab-window and TO shout "Nlye Ia
Republiquew has been finally condemned to six
months of prison and TO 500 francs ne instead Of
at first, to three months and 700 francs


This, il is 10 be hoped, will teach people To hold
their tongues and TO resist improper influences. But,
how fortunate il is that there safetyyayes some
where! Poor DR.. Tardieu. of whose woes told Yen
in my last, has been more and more unfortunate
since then. There has been organized and uncon-
querable opposition formed against him, determined,
cost what it might, to prevent his leeturlng III hls
course before the Ecole de Medicine. Ii seems that
this is not the first time he has been, metaphoricay
speaking, ridden on rail. He has been guilty Of
many professional peccadilloes and even OF the mon
srous crime of declaring man Of undoubted sanity
mad, in order that he might be seqnestraed for the
benefit of person who paid Tardien for his
names and dates, but the story is well
known in Paris, and has long since condemned Tar
dieu TO infany in the highest professional sOciety
AS little doubt exists among those who knew him
that he was paid directly for his evidence in the
Bonaparte trial. and although, III general such stories
are not to be credited there earthly for
supposng that this Government, every member of
which is tainted is incapable OF employing such
tools when any particularly rascally work is to do
tons in the Ecole de Medicine directed against
Tardieu for his old otfense, but the students them
selves who took part In the manifestation declare
scandalous conduct before the High Court at Tours


The last disturbances took place on Monday, and
they so tumutuous that the faculty have taken
the and apparently quite unJustitabe step OF
closing the school in all its departments until the st
of May! As it was thought that Others beside tho