OUR PARIS' LETTER.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 411, 13 July 1880, Page 3

OUR PARIS' LETTER.

■tt ■<■ ■ ■ <;" ■■ • ■•. : ■..,; . .■;; .. . , :•• . •; "["(niOM OW. OWN'.CORRESPONBKNT.) ' P/Ml Iprif 22. ■**■-Pdbfie'*4iicatio!j'"in- Vtmm fcbrti prises three sfrrgge^'tW-Pi-rfnfiry, dr- National ; the Secondary, or Middle-CJIasN ; and tlie" Superirir, or University. To push «1J these forward—if posnible, lit express epteii—is the dominant'pasfcfdfj of -France ; and, ts if these pmfoHsipnal systems., were inadequate, Deputies, SeufttorH. Town -Conn- , cillors, and atoateurs generally,, contribute tbeir" services to the enlightenment of the masses. The' 'University btinjr, now independent, and 'revivified' by now blood, private professors can open courses of Btudy, propound their views, end broach innovations. • -The Superior - Council of Education hae just been ejected by the voces of all, Cue learned bodies' of the country. 'J lie* nifcinbmts of this body are p'rogreuHife eduvniionista, in the highest geiiHe qf the word, ajkj direct the pftl/'i*; of the nation. Tbose profeuaionaily conrected xvith Becoudary edin-ation have (>rgßni««j a pertnaneTit Instiliite, divided into s;vo sectioni?, each devoted to a epeciiil Vj/anth, nnd n!i presidetJ ovpr by M.. Brim), r.ne of the highest auihoritiee on modern «Uifation in Frauoc. Tbi.s Congrese takffi nf all t'.int if? ;»ew in t')O HyiU-'llt. :■> '(-»> M l'"i: ' ! , ,- vhj:-! the

world, an J practically tests their com para? tive value. It is remarkable that they are the noirleeted "ideas of Cousin and Sainfc Maro-Griranlin, aa ventilated—and for? gotten— 1835, that are being now deinalitliid I>y public opinion. Ihe m<tHt wonderful fact about the vcnhiit «i.d übiqnitoiie M. de Lesseps is his age; at 75 yearn."he conunence^jto illustrate tile theory <it man is then unfy arrival at the threshold of youth. VV'hat a fuml of energetic enrnetrt| np.sfl, dogged■jesolution, mkl belief in his : work,, the venrrahU't'«tid |( p[ucky engineei -poeeefiHort! W a£ redt the legendi respecting the climate, .the physical ditfi culties, and the political rivalries connected -with the cutting of the , Darjen Ca*jialjth( vieited''and surveyed the "proposed'roiiie and of hie travels, crowd of friendej on last Saturday evening, at the Sorbonne ; nearljf 2500 packed like eardineej and more than that .number could,not find admission. i: TriHeedi'the lecture? had td forego hit) table and clmir, and driver lai? address frooi amidet the, c/.owd, ,on the platform. The cau&rie &*.& by a eeriee ot diaaelviug views} each ing a tort, a joke, or a racy, aneodote, interspersed with impromptu sanies offwiti To demonetrate the bealthjnoee of the cluoate, M. de ,Lee<rtpt> brought, .out hie wife and yotmg family to iebare the' peeudo dangers; they .ali jpet3i*\ed m, Aβ; most perfect health, efid, like iimweif, utouter ; more, be introdaoiirSieuj totbe audience! Hie pretty little daughter FordirriiDHe,|a4*4 five, commenced the canal, by /firing tluf first mine. The%'lifßftte was favorable td births, M<k *hV tcver&ge iiuwiber^cf iufanti per .family from 1£ t0,.'£5;./grand] mothers were' tfHH jiUemle, "though "Counting progcTiie«*>f 4 52 'c&J&eti-; tllti-climate, too, was favorable to matrinioßy, Aβ one of bin engineers Vac ! married 'dim* n# ffae tripj end the, .bride, a • toost beautiful ,branettei was-rhWdKOeU i Ti* tfc «tti«na] was, the. leader of tiie party of .mdepe.ndenct and liberty. M. rte"Mi»»ey>e; J ae im iseull of hie technic*! the task of cttrtmg the canal ie ieeß<iifficujl tiian he It eousipte in following' the railway traefc. " The 'Woponed comprises two valleys. 1 dft-icfejf by iLfifil and it took three ccwtune't> , tb"dieco'v*crt' I tn« (riniple path Nature herself had ntepaFetl He eutituatee that six years will. suffij cienl to complete ,titQ fork, end legrti! inatfly'boat's iC Will '-bk kccAxh jSiUHbd foi» the glory of ««d fpr.tfaeUenefit o| the woHd. He claims to have a legal con-; cession from the free Jitid independent Stateß. of Colopjl_tit,»s aa^nffln a canal,.and or Uncle Sept; but the lattec, he ißo\v,believes, ia not" opp««jd l to the jnpject:. 'The'lin-j pressnon in cir-cle* is that M. de Leeseps will • obtain ihoney' he requires, ,'m/ - >A ~•> ■J<>t\ ./iHttipublic ie at last sNtisfied, tliatitdißsj enough.gff- 6«rah) v-hiiiw, pdditjeis.; <Iv bq the oonerved of all ohtjetvors, die han in her late eaoapdflo, overshot the inarkl Then age ever}' at tern prat autocracy, whether from rnlere or spoiled actr<j6ue«.<i £ Fairrlf thdj baritone, eingejy would go| into hyßtericetlieday be would, }psy e tM , Opei*ft'? ia«do s fools of themselves by calling on him, and; begging he would withdraw his ronigna-| tion; l\d refused, and he is now f i«g bjrfthe (frgot;,- MW«ef line Eclipsed Inh). -So with'i Samh Bern-I bard't Tiicatrel Fraiienw kept that house in perpetual hot! water. Slie came to rehceraals only when ehe pien«ed, and refused even to perform.; wheat, tije spirit; iqoycd - ( her .». t Shejiae poei- r ijveWj proved a faillire, 'Clorinde," in Einile Aiigjer s "insrtsre." ' ' Sho'iiliVt'ook "the as a' e'ritic ¥«ry pliiirilj"t6l(J h.Vr, for tlint Vtrginie in - Zdla's na«ty ■>■ As;iomtiioir," , ahd ifaence hef flusceptibiiity. -She her ireeigrtfltjon at." tUe : of the maoagef.ae' she often did fteforfx, ; v has; dqcamped. This-time it will be accepted ; the Theatre Fradaiy irSs&tJdo tint do'WjMolft! f liaV'fii el' oi theatres? The! t public* if6uda- have not been by her j Jj-aacibiUjiy.. The truth uvOfi the. ttfJEair. _i ,thie t : Two rising MlTe's'/ Bartet and Dud lay' were, rapidly, treading on her kibes, to say nothing of: Renarch-fofe Groizbtte. • Furtneti her pecu-1 niary position is not brilliant; she has* lately disputed her .acceptances; in \ Court,; and being free, counts upon making her' fortune r by a series oj star erigagem«nts in ; "Engfand arid : Atiierica,'' Tliciq'e a* method j 'in her madness. ' •>'''■■- [