OUR PARIS LETTER.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 304, 17 June 1879, Page 2

OUR PARIS LETTER.

(FROM OUIV .OW.N CORRESPQNDENTi)

Paris, April 24.

France presents'the happy,and enviable spectacle of reducing lier 'taxes despite unv tiirie/s. : [fko/ Republics'■ .'thus make's a terrible propaganda inthb'se kingdoms'blightedby"' foreign loans',- Subjected to' afpEcedcurrency, or ground: down by imposts. Itireali'ses what: (dynasties promibo but evci adjourn ; -\\c sec kingdoms nd (. pi i ill *i>ll ucipe , i i<l uLCja n( v I ksoi to op dicnti to " ,' 11 ni| In' h\ he 1 1 ii ol ii ii on i, \ciiiiii4 , ilic nation, li.nee clute Ui.ts on s T iujpi tU<grim^ ; kt'eio oi ii(e-) rlui dw i lielll-., paptr,' j] f lllv. c iiictb ik and irt

struct, more powerfully than the most beautiful prose of Kenan to a " German friend " on the resuscitation of his country. Letters from impartial sources attest the extreme misery of certain classes in Germany — engineers, whether civil or mechanioal, are only too happy to work at a reduction of 70 per cent of salary ; architects that six years ago had 22f. a day are glad to accept 6or even 4. At the present moment there are more Germans in France than before the war—not hewers of wood and drawers of water as heretofore, but cultivated men, speaking three or four languages, accomplished in a profession, and as resigned as Mahomedans to fate.

Russia applied for a squad of French detectives, almost on their own terms, but they would volunteer to track Cetawayo and Sitting Eull rather than a Nihilist.

The social disorganisation of Russians iis even not at its worst; the authorities decree severities which add but little to a code already Draconian. "Terror for Terror," reply the Nihilists who now print their journals with red ink, and care us little for such brave and popular generals as Gourko, Totleben, &c, being , appointed regional dictators as the terrible Mouravief. In the- time of the Czar Nicolas, it was easier to stop revolutionists travelling; then they had to post, and explain at each stpge ; now a ticket on a railway transports the told-offi executioner from Arch-' angel to Odessa, and from. Simbirsk to Warsaw. The Guild of actors of Paris have,telegraphed their sympathy to the Czar, their liberal {customer, at having escaped assassination. The revolutionary association of Kussia is not only rich in money and the devotion of members, but Journal is written—it consists of' sixteen pages--by men of education as well -Ss by- individuals only partly Instructed. The paper is thick, and the type" is a kind of "pye," and evidently " set up " in .different places. It contains a list of officials condemned to death, and reminds such as have escaped assassination to prepare themselves just, the same for quitting this world. Functionaries resign en fiiasse, and those who remain cannot move without an escort of cavalry. The Nihilist journal not only reviews books, but has even advertisements. At Simferopol, 27 children of an Orphan Asylum belong to the Nihilist Union. Soldiers are rapidly replacing civil servants and policemen, and .outside the, hotels are large boards on twhicirare chalked''the names of the occupants of each-bedroom, the time they go out and come in. —These boards are inspected every hour., r . The Austrians are said to hold more of the Egyptian debt than either the French or the Italians.. .Opinion is more calm on the" subject of the Khedive's pranks, and resigned to let him play, especially as Italy and Kussia. are less suspected to abet him. We are. sending a good deal of money to Szegedin, and satisfaction is felt at Austria working her way to JSTovi-Bazar, -the high road to" Salofiica; she will thus prove a better dyke against pan-slavism, than Servia or Eoumania, which become

when necessaiy, not barriers, but advanced guards -for therMuscovite. ' •A'greatShany persons have started to see the"' 1 Silver wedding " at Vienna ; the csremony will be unique in its way, and will satisfy the love of the Viennese for ■jfetes arid tun.;. The Danube in any case s is ever worth a trip, owing to the excellence of the river boats ; once or twice is [enough on 'the Rhine. • Vienna, like Paris, has now its yacht club, and a French " All eleven " is to try a pulling match on the grey-blue Danube against the Austrians. Monsieur ought to feel almost at home in t the suburbs of Vienna, which compile a region of Vineyards, where each proprietor, unlike France, can sell his " own make," and which customers, heads of families, and olive branches troop from vineyard to vinejwd'haTf seas pver. to tijste. The rejoicings have thrown -into the shade tbe nuptial honors'paid' to the King of Holland and his. bride, December and May. The F/endh' rather like the; Dutch, though they hold'th'at nation responsible for giving them that ''accident of an accident" Nftpolefon; 111.- ; Imitation is the best kind of flattery.:, Amsterdam, in honor of the. \ new queen, intends to show that it is still ; built'on herring bones, as its municipality is rich' enough , to. project a Champs Elysees./ ~.;,:,.;

i Ms Zola is being hit hard by the critics for his attacks- against contemporary literary celebrities. -He claims to be a re-t publican, but advises everybody to beware of , its. " Puritanism, its equality, and .utility." He,adds. "'yrs are so knocked •about by the Republic, that we commence jtb-regret-'trie grand sifence of of the Second iEmpire." Zola forgets that it was the Republic allowed his abornin!able novel A-Ssornmoir to be published, and Wen dramatised*]with all its " naturalism," that is, obscenities and crudities : he has •never pardoned-the omission to bestow on him the Legion of Honor, "and he labors under the drawback of never having rcceived'l "triethocHcal education. i The hew.principles.,of reading, or rather the old ones popularized,'by M. Legouve, of the 1 Eraricli Academy; are being adopted in-all'the'cplleges; and more especially in girls' schools;- tr J?hese principles appear to be based on Hamlet's advice to the players —:" suitrthe, ac,t}on, to, the word." Head naturally, as you, would speak, and from the,chest; to. iriteVpret the sense of what is read by ; ui]deretar)ding the subject, and marking itjs phas6S"iy godiofoiis punctuatiahs ; arid t modulations, l We are about c|liangihgnUie-.i'4ic,trtxi ,q£) 'gigaro —'* all not ]])vprtk,jlxg[tro.u;b i le^£ being said, «! j,....,.,',.,',' ' a '*''■>"'■ziwii *■;■.,.'■* ..!; ; P j Murders of '' r 'lohely-" women continue Without interruption;'ahdi the' Paris police hjavei a> 'prettj'j'rilolig ;"list ■of assassins " ; wanted." Suicides'are on the increase, many being;Soliliers. In the, provinces, a aged 50,' and : fatlier' of -three . children, fell in love with a ser\ T ant girl," they'tied themselves together, and jumped into, a horse-pOnd.. • A wife hjas been beaten in her application for a on the'ground bf her husband Tiiiving becovne paralysed: and an idiot ; s: and"an abbot; Clerc, of Villercal, has been fined 200fr. and for \ attacking tho Mayor and Town Council from the pulpit.

ilt is quite an attraction for the Parisians o|i a Sunday togo and visit the old Exhibition. The, departed merits that respect; it is a- vast necropolis; the Trocadero is in summer so bare as to re. enable a desert; half an hour's promenade across the slope would enable'any nephew to finish an expectant and apopkctio uncle , \ l"1, th's. \astlu ,1 Cl \\n\i i J) -uli c 1 i "i * d H ) iK I—d->1 —d-> n 11k, 1 iiti . U I his b<. r li f i t <. - ' ilOi«deiO IS ' ,v i' t \ i ill m a portion ot the cataJ loiii,)s The nibtdllation of the Captive j balloon ib in piogiebb, and the new com- | pan) will adopt inanj improvements for >

tho ascensions this season. The puce ior a "free -balloon" and guide will be jeduced ore IHf The prospectus is of a society tint -\\\\ tho Incs of all \oyagers at tho rate of one sou per £1000fr. The oxpcurU bondholders ate flocking to nitres-, a ceremonial sv»oid, with two to bo presented to the Shib o£ Po-m' b\ e\ auec IsiloMa of Spam, nib nJil/ dcooiitea Certainly her ilaje'tj aoes noi- do ihirg-. b> hahes. People complain alreidy tint the Figaro fatbn oil m hvebness smeo the death of VillemessJit, Ha tlaef editoi. This rathci too summary , the paper pndi?s itselt on hawnaj £V political biograph}' of; Gambetta's cook, and the c\cUisi\c intelligence oi a °=ston's suicide, in cor<*e queuce of gnej. *>+ fie Ios , ? of thiee cats T!ic Fija, oiil n ny 'up clomd by tbe repnbLc.n joui' i-, v.Luch celling well, enabV their d rec + ois to pa\ for news, whithe ,- -eal or imnijinM}, i-> mo l- \eiy impoituii . In Alsje'ia "wo biotiicra ha\e boon condeinnoJ, oi e1 ) iU t'i iru t'io other to tranepoitition for hie , a thud biotlui, inairiid, aiu , iith & r of tv o 1m" sold his tar n, dec'aic Ihe \ il! fo'low the con\ict bio*l ;r to Ca\on find iodide wit i hin I r i Uiiecx'i tl iii.iy if plea c Ih * rec o, A l ' \rnuer the Grcit anc J| io o-\ ,iii lijt r v hi, -\ henwieicd to select ot » n^il" , 'nem^eT , ot 1 ci f unilj fiom eiCcii 1 oa, c'io'-G ncr biothei rathor than her Vi-baiK 1 In Iln ■-!? a 1 T-vny goiK , .1 & lined out _or <in e\e»uig P n it> to dinner, to giaic the lopipinj, ib ait baioiib and coutU v<o , "fca, 10 oi ljfi with lepi^t A rat'icr ce\ )r J cC h pocriuc lad} is no , vmtine; rloAvi t ii*p il»I c, o Gam! .it md t' < rlea 1 115 gentlemen decline to pition bVi bt'loii Our v. i!> crick t<! at Borhn, the pi opt itfr <A \ l »c 'i his i iihnl, rewil' a ore \ .1 vl< \ - (1 a sensation, by stni'ii' '..1 i"olJj oi\ i< r "lifns n Sob" 11] ic 4 'A- 1 iip-, w all, whvii. •we j" v, c t(n - without Li owing it, t Ai uo '.i 1 ur > L nkT pro-e