PARIS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 76, 6 August 1873, Page 3

PARIS.

Club life is making rapid way in French manners. It will not much affect the domestic hearth, since husbands and papas will only change from their favorite cafe to a more exclusive one. Mamina will go to balls happy in her isolation, and the girls will accompany their aunt to the theatre, so that there will be no competition between mothers and daughters. Professions, whether learned or unlearned, have their clubs, permission of course being obtained beforehand from the authorities. One vice creeps into these Agapemones —gambling. Why not limit all betting to the mechanical process —by machinery, as in the case of horse-racing, which i#»the grand element of attraction for the rfiasses in their new Isthmian games ? *

Louis Blanc has tfrjttda a mdst remarkable critical on the life of John Stuart Mill, who was as well known in educated France as in England. Louis Blanc does not agree with all the gre#t thinker’s views, but respects where he cannot approve. S. Mill, he writes, had the idea "of philosopher, he sought the true he loved the beautiful; politician, he labored to realise what was just; —all four aspects of the same principle —truth in science. Pfettf wrote.: that beauty is the splendour' of truth ; Mill showed that truth was the splendor of utility. Kail way companies in France adopt the sensible plan of placing unprotected ladies in an exclusive compartment. They have ever regarded this rather as politeness than as a right. K. lady has brought the matter to a point. Returning from Amiens to Paris, and alone in the first-class compartment for ladies exclusively, the station-master at Chantilly put six men, all third-class passengers, to occupy the vacant and required seats; the lady protested, stoutly defended the Woman’s Rights question, and has had the satisfaction of defeating the company, and deciding the principle in the Superior Court. Another social right has been ruled; in the theatre the occupants of the fauteuils, say in row number one, to gain their seats sometimes pass along the row number two, disturbing the spectators. Such persons can only* enter and leave their fauteuils by passing along the row to'which they belong. A dispute on this point has led to the death of the celebrated banker and industriel, Baron Seilliere, from the rupture of an aneurism, induced by the excitement of a dispute in this theatrical politenesss.

THE American poet Whittier is a genuine Quaker of the orthodox school. Underneath iris Quaker sobriety plays a shy, genial humor like that of Charles Lamb. When describing the usage of his drab-coated brethren in regard to those who speak too often in meeting, and not always to edification, he told of a certain “ meeting” in New England Which passed and recorded the following resolution: “It is the sense of this meeting that George C be advised to remain silent until such time as the Lord shall speak through him to our satisfaction.” Another anecdote is of a Quaker who lately popped the question to a fair Quakeress as follows : “ Hum I yea and verily, Penelope, the spirit urgeth and inoveth me wonderfully to beseech thee to cleave unto me, flesh of my flesh, and bone of my bohe.” “ Hum! truly, Obadiah, thou hast wisely said. Inasmuch as it is written that it is not good tor man to be alone, lo! I will sojourn with thee.”

The Education Board.—The following resolutions, were adopted : —“ That the Superintendent be requested to obtain a loan of £30,000 to the province of Auckland to enable the Board of Education to supply schori-houses and other buildings necessary to give effect to the existi'-g Education Act.” Also, “ That the Superintendent be requested to obtain a further loan of £lO,OOO for building and endowing a college and training school for females, for which, at present, no provision exists in this province.”

Dissolution of Auckland Provincial Council.—Mr. Williamson in lhe House of Representatives asked the Premier, on what date, according to effluxion of time, it will become necessary for the Governor to dissolve the Provincial Council of Auckland ? He had been induced to put this question in order to remove certain doubts which existed in Auckland as to the time when the present Council would be dissolved. Candidates and electors were alike anxious on the point, a great deal of interest being taken in the forthcoming elections. Mr. Vogel replied that he was advised that the dale for the return of the writs for the election of the present Provincial Council of Auckland was the 18th January, 1870, and the Council would therefore have to be dissolved on some day prior to the 18th January, 1874. Two ladies in New York were talking about the sparrows and their usefulness in ridding the city of the cancer worms, which used to be such a nuisance. One said that the chirping of the sparrows early in the morning when she wanted to sleep, was as great an evil as the worms ; the other disagreed. Just then a gentleman came in, and was appealed to: “ Mr. A., which do you think the worst —sparrows or worms ?” He immediately answered, “ I never had sparrows.”