PARIS.

Evening Star, Issue 4121, 12 May 1876, Page 4

PARIS.

It is reported that J>r Gawiques, who with his mother and the farm overseer were accused of poisoning his father, is dying. He and the servant were acquitted, and the mother sentenced to imprisonment for life-. Fok twelve months the' young doctor, an extraordinarily clever man, was under preventive arrest on the dreadful charge of parricide, and is now liberated—a ruined man. Had he been more humane one could sympathise with him, but it is a blot on French justice to incarcerate an accused' so long on suspicion. Such practices were not astonishing when the Church had its States and Naples her paternal Bomba. A journal remarks, it, would; be a misfortune to guillotine alLdoqtors- charged with poisoning, for ;then : none would be left to cure us? In Moliere's day patients had the right to ■ whack theiil medical advisers.

A Legitimist Mayor and his two co-adra-tsrs were nominated to their offices by the Due de Broglie, after the resignation of ! Thiers, in 1873. They have now resigned the task of governing their parish of Montlticon, as they disapprove of the Republican form of Government, and were informed that their duty on taking office was " to assist Marshal Macmahon to overthrow the Republic." The whole "moral order" plan of government by De Broglie and Buffet is concentrated in this exposure. The French telegraphic service is bad • it takes two hours to send a telegram from the centre of Paris to.Passy, a distauce accomplished by a bus in forty minutes By i adding the word "urgent,' and paying extra tor it, the message experiences more delav • so that persons find it more expeditious {>atronize the post than the wires. The de ays are owing to the childish practice of concentrating all telegrams at the Home Office,-to first examine that they are neither treasonable nor dangerous. Jtisto be hoped the Republic will clear away all these nueii lities. r

Lent continues to be absolutely gay. This is the natural re-action after the- ennui and; the severities of the general elections, where- i the ladies were forgotten. The fair sex are now making up for lost time. Everywhere dinners and chamber concerts ; only i&Msd society dancing is postponed for titer mainder of the forty days. It ia, ** r , n " oommon to witness three parties Mtthe 9 ft „T house, given by different families,, an&tfft™ times .there is a humorous mi&ine Tit guests. * OI