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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 237, 9 January 1875, Page 2

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(from our own correspondent.) October 31. The extreme Republicans must perceive uy thi-, iiia: there is somei hing good in ail tilings ev:l. The visit of the Prince ■ >i IVaii's has put life into the dried bones of the old French aristocracy, and money into ill: pockets of Parisian traders; and his affable and agreeable manners, coupled .villi nis generous nature and undiguised sympathy for the French, made him not only a welcome but the favorite guest. He displayed so much liberty, equality, and fraternity, that it is not quite clear, waelher he liasgoneover to the Democrats or the latter have become constitutional Monarchists. One more political party will not make much difference iu France, where nothing is constitutional. This is the moment of retours, the Prince of Wales and his Princess return to England, and our Deputies are returning to Versailles to rehearse their coming battles, for the Palace is intended to contain an addition to all the glories of France, that of an Assembly decreeing its own immortality till the year of grace 1889, after immortalising itself for such a long rime past. Madame Patti has returned to us iu a kind of “ swallow flight ” of song, doing her best to succeed in her impassible music lessons in the Huguenots and Eaust, where she proved a beautiful failure, she received 5,000 francs per night to eon firm her break down,with the right of making her own soda drinks between the acts, and setting theatrical critics and political editors at loggerheads, and nearly ruining France by producing a rupture of the banns which united the vain Faure with his soft-hearted director. Paris feels more relieved at the departure of Patti to enioy her drosky and roubles at St. Petersburg, than at the collapse of the Serrano-Bismarck threatening letter, inviting France to prepare her coffin, because the Spanish troops cannot drive Don Carlos over the border, being too much occupied like a celebrated King of France, who marched his men up a hill and then marched them down again. The Grand Duke Constantine has returned home, amazed at Republican France being more tranquil than linperialised Poland. Hehasbeen the uneonsciouseause of stimulating the fashion for gentlemen to wear bracelets on their a ms, out of memory to patron saints, and fl.-st wives, or in honor of great expec a ions from maiden aunts with life preserving rheumatisms. The Grand Duke had a simple bracelet of his wife’s hair. It it said he left Paris precipitately to avoid the monster charity opera for the distressed Alsatians and Lorrainers in France, a colony that must be in a plight, since pity or patriotism accords their members numerous professional favors at half price; several dentisis wiil operate on them at a reduction of fifty per cent, and a noted patent medicine dealer will supply them with purgative pills and cod liver oil on the same terms. At the operatic representalion in question many robes displayed flowers and diamonds; there was a delicious toilette in straw satin, wi:h a gauze tablier, < miiroidered with pa.i ics in divu-s shades, with a piouff behind, aud raised with a satin scarf similarly embroidered. It was remarked on as being tiie piincipal costume distin-gui-med by individuality, for fashion is tending to become personal, so that a salon fill. d with ladies, may, in matter of toilettes, resemble-so many pictures, and not a collection of uniforms. The Duchesse de Montmorency carried off the palm for head dress; the chignon was worn very, high and very far back on the head, in- the form of a crown, united

to the bands by a bunch of flowers at the left side. Tabliers were in great favor and were surcharged with jet embroidery and velvet applications, and garnished with divers colored flowers. The new jet is made in so many shades, as to possess all the brilliancy of sapphire, emeralds, rubies, and topazes ; when one thinks of all the cuirasses, coats of mail, laces, fichus, vol vet bands, &c, covered with spangles and pearls, none by pretty ladies in the crush of splendidly lighted salons, with fascinating music, mixing its harmonies with the perfumes of exquisite flowers ; it may be forgiven for concluding one has strayed into Mahomet’s paradise, Another retour very much spoken of is that of Prince Jerome Napoleon to his first love—Red politics ; but he has not even frightened a single lady annuitant to take time by the fore, lock by quitting Paris. People never allude to his Princess, poor dearcreatn e, wrapped up in her children and piety ; how happy it was for her to have been bred up to a cloister-life, for Victor Emmanuel kept his daughters as concealed as if they were born in a harem. Italy conducts naturally to the pifferari, who for some years have had the run of France; these musical gutter-children never made much money for themselves, but a great deal for their speculators. As France and Italy have been striking a balance of their accounts, the pifferari have to go home with the whole of their impedimenta, comprising a hurdy-gurdy and an Alpine rat. French ladies have an excellent plan of shopping; first I should observe, the principal drapers at the commencement of each season advertise, very largely, a combination of poster type and diamond print, in the last page of the newspaper, for the first is sacred to political lucubrations; each article advertised has its price also set forth. Ladies study and mark the sheet with the gusto that an amateur won’d the catalogue of an exhibition of paintings; they set out on a pilgrimage to the bazaar, for a shop now-n-days is only that, and spend two hours examining the articles exposed, cooly asking assist, ants to unroll this aud open out that, and finally support the house by purchasing a pair of gloves for two francs. That evening something between a cabinet council and a court martial is held respecting the goods, &c., examined, and next morning (for serious customers arrive before breakfast, that is to say first dinner,) they make their purchases with the enrtness and decision of a stockbroker, It is a nuisance that some of these establishments do not undertake to send purchased articles to your address; on the other hand there are shops with delivery vans the size of Noah’s ark, and which it is said serve as dormitories for the shop assistants, that will convey a spoul of cotton or a pair of Sweedish gloves with all the solemnity of a wedding trousseau and all the precaution of a registered letter. A superior to antihilions bills is the modern cure for impaired digestion, that of eating grapes, you are to pass your days in the vine c , like the haresand partridges,eat as many of the luscious grapes as possible, and ns little of anything else, and walk till feeling fatigued. This kind of “ grazing” is far superior to that indulged in by Nebuchadnezzar : five weeks of this mytholovicil dietary would reduce an enlarged liver of fifty years’ standing in an Indian officer. It was, it is alleged, to the good effects of such a mode of treatment that Prince Gortschakoff was enabled to possess the excellent health which enabled him tn revise, unaided, the treaty of Paris of 1856. K