PARIS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 332, 11 December 1875, Page 2

PARIS.

(from oub own correspondent.) October 14. The Official journals devote much attention to the matter Of the population shouting vice la Repnblique, wherever the Marshal appears during his military tour. It is obligatory to give a viva for the President, and is considered somewhat shameful or wrong, to indulge in the same for the Constitution. In some localities, the initials of the Republic have been prohibited in the bouquet of fireworks, and at Lyons, an enthusiast has been fined for hanging a flag on the outer wall of his abode in honor of the anniversary of the 4th September, 1870. The notorious Prefect of Lyons, Ducros, of police detective associations, is charged with re-naming three streets, in the second city of France, after the exrjeniperdr, putting up the new plates during the night, it is said. Another Pacha, who rules the Department of Gard, has prohibited the sale of alt Parisian and local journals on the public way. It was not far from the truth to observe that the only elements of disorder at present in France, are the functionaries.

It was generally remarked at the time, that the omission of the Lord Mayor of London, to invite to his cosmopolitan Mayor’s banquet, the President of the Municipality of Paris, was so far as the compliment to France was concerned, Hamlet without Hamlet. The Prefect of the Seine, Duval, was of course, invited, but he is a political functionary, and, differing in politics from the Municipal Council, was held responsible for the slight. He now denies that he controlled the invitation list of Lord Mayor Stone, and adds he was not consulted even as to who should be invited. It is now for L. M. Stone to explain, and if he cannot do so satisfactorily, he need never expect to be again cheered by Parisians. The Bonapartists are divided about the Prince Imperial taking a voyage round the world; he might bo wanted at any moment and accidents might happen to him. To all appearances, he will have ample leisure to travel for many years to come. His cousin Jerdme, is becoming the centre of a strong minority. Give a dog a bad name, and you ean hang him. Louis Blanc formally protests, for the thousandth time, that he was not the author of the fatal “ National workshops ” in 1848 ; on the contrary he was opposed to them. The originator was Ledru Rollin, and he was politically ruined with the failure of the idea. As a set off, Rollin carried universal suffrage for his country. Some people open their eyes and mouths very wide at the reeent toast proposed by the Minister of War (at the Rouen banquet given to Marshal Macmahon) in honor of Marshal Canrobert, who is, it appears, the incarnation of “ all the military virtues.” Parisians would eat Canrobert, even without a grain of salt; it was he who mercilessly mowed down the citizens on the Boulevards with his artillery, during the coup d'Etat. His Imperialism is so notorious, that public opinion compels him to remain in private life and waste his sweetness on the desert air. Now that Bazaine has been lost to sight, it is on Canrobert the Bonapartists count in case any coup d'Etat work is to be performed. He is married to a Scotch lady, who introduced herself to him, at one of the Tuileries balls; she was a great favorite of the Empress Eugenie, and, observing Canrobert was not dancing, though admiring those who were, she adressed him ; “ Monsieur le Mardchal, will you please make me dance like the Russians ; ’ he regretted he could not dance, but called a lieutenant to becoma

her partner, telling the officer ho “ envied by a Marshal of Franco." Love ensued, and matrimony followed. The story of the invalid with a wooaea head—not a metaphorical one, is not • legend. A sober Parisian journal, gravely announces the fact, that in an island »O the Mississippi; a cavern has been discovered; where the evidence js clear, that the “aboriginals were acquainted witij mechanical surgery,” as a “ bronze skull' has been found along with human relict of the stone age. Darwin ought to note this important instance of the fitness of things; nothing superior to a bronze Lead where scalping is an institution.