OUR PARIS LETTER.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1596, 29 June 1887, Page 3

OUR PARIS LETTER.

(from oo n rAnis oorukspondent.)

Paris, Apiil 29.

Tho exhumation of tho remains of Roaßini, at tho cemetry of for. LachaiHO, will take place on tho 30th of April. Tho body will be removed to Italy for final interment at the Churoh of Santo Croco, Florenco. The Italian colony will iho largely represented at tbe ceremony m Paris.

The inmates of tho Fultan's harem havo just been vaccinated. There was a perforated screen throligh whioh 130 arms we.c succe'jsive'y thrust, nnd subjected to tho operation at the hands of an Italiun surgeon, whose eyos wore voiloi towards tho close of each operation by two of tho faithful eunuchs attached to tho Palaco.

The first three days' sales at tho Pa- is auction rooms of tho Roman and Byzan. tine coins of tho Ponton d' Ame'court collections produced 163,786fr A unique •piece of mon^y, the only gold coin known to have been handed down to us from the reign of Giordianus Africanup, the Elder, 238 A.D , sold for 6 720fr. Another extraordinarily well preserved coin, of the reign of Uranius Antoninus, A.D. 222, produced 6,100fr, and 4,-OOfr was paid for a rare coin of tho reign of Pescennius Niger, 193 A.D.

[ Prince Victor Napoleon has written to M. Albert Duruy, thanking him for a skotch of Napoleon's life which recently appeared m a supplement of tho " Figaro." He says : Napoleon created modern Frano. ; Code, Concordat, TJniver Ity, the administrative, judicial, financial organisation, the Bank of France, the Legion of Honour, everything dates from him, and comes from him. The institutions with which he endowed us respond so much to -the needs of the French people that for 75 years past all successive Governments, evon thoßO which have been mo3t hostile to his memory, have been compollod to hold him m rcßpect

A singular incident occurred the other night m the Faubourg St. Honor.. Two members of the Club m tho Rue Royal lnid a wager that they would walk blindfolded frcm the Cub to the Villa Said, m the Avenue dv Bois de Boulogne. They started i_up tbe Faubourg St. Honor., accompanied by a few friends, and were very quickly surrounded by a crowd, which increased aB thoy went on . The sentinel on duty at the Elyseb, seeing an unusual crowd m the street, summoned the soldiers on guard, who turned out m force, A police officer then begged the two members of the Club 10 declare their bet off, whLh they did incontinently. The coldblooded cruelty of a young worn; n named Anticr, who was. condemned a few daya ago to seven years' soli(ai> confinement for the murder of her infant is, it is to be hoped, exceptional. When called on fcr her defence, Bhe said she starved the child because it cost too much to keep. If she had strangled it, she would • certainly have been arrested, whereas, when the child died the death sho had chosen for it, she thought Bhe might rbly on no ono observing anything suspicious about it. If she hod wept for it, it would have been.no good- What was done, was done. It cannot bo sa : d that the sentence passed on this unnatural mother wob too severe.

Ihe conditions for obtaining tho proposed map of the Celestial Noi the m Hemisphere aro now comploted. A refracting instrument is to be used of the same fecal distance as those m use at the Paris Observatory. The starß to bo photographed are to bo of the 14th magnitude and upwards, and tho operation of photographing will take about an hour. The bethrothal of Prince Albert Victor with tbe frincees Clemonce, daughter of (he King of tho •Belgians, will be officially announced on tho 20th of June, the an nivoißary of the accession of Queen Victoria.

A singular recovery of stolen property has just taken placo. About the beginning of the month an American traveller, who came to ' an hotel m tbe line Bergere was robbed of a puree containing 25,000 francs m bank notep, and of an additional sum of 5000 frnncs m gold. A traveller who occupied the next room was arros'ed, together w ith a woman with whom he was connected. Both of thorn denied all knowledge of the robbery, and alter a lengthened inquiry they wore about to be { set at liberty, when an hotol waiter from a house m the Rue St. Marc, called on tho I Police Commissary and brought back the I pocket book. It appeared that the woman had written from the Saint Lnzura Fr'acn, asking him to send some articles from a hat box m her room, and also 10 francs, which she said she would repay when sho left the prison . The waiter, not knowing the woman, took npon himself to seirch tho hat box, and there found the pocket book containing iho stolen notes ond also tho 5000 francs m gold m a leather purse. The American promptly identified his property, and gave the waiter 1000 francs for his honesty : The latter, satisfied with having done his duty, only accepted the reward offered him after much persuasion. At Scrros, the other day, Louise Michel, who was to lecture, found that ehe had an audience of two persons only. Sho barrangucd them for an hour. i Tho map of the heavens, which tho international astronomers, now m Paris, aro j taking stopa to prepare, will bo composed of from 1800 to 2000 sheets, and will give an exact impression of all tho groups of I stars. A new impotus will then bo given to tho scionco of astronomy, acd it will bo possible for all astronomers to study tho distribution of tho stars, and perchance the constitution of tho universe. 80 Admiral Mou'chez and hiß friends are thus now engaged m a most important work, the vulue of which may ho gathered, m a great measure, from tbe faot that thoy will bo able, by means of now and improved instruments, which are used already m tho Paris Obsorvatory, to diagnose, if| uch a term can bo employ, d, tho 100,000,00. of stars which, according to the statistics compiled, exist m tie firmament. Admiral Mouchez states that with the aid of the apparatus now manufactured, heavenly -objects" are plainly visible, such as Maia, one of the Pleiades, wh'ch had hitherto eeoipod the observa tion of astrpnomors ; and it- is hoped that tho same instruments will enable furthor progress to be realised.