ANOTHER CANADIAN CONTROVERSY.

Temuka Leader, Issue 408, 5 July 1881, Page 3

ANOTHER CANADIAN CONTROVERSY.

It is not long since we mentioned the battle royal raging in Canada on the subject of retaining or discarding the use of the French language, and now we have to record another war of words that has broken out over an analagous but still more difficult subject. The apple of discord this time is not the language of the Parisians, but the Parisians themselves aniKhat half of the Parisians which is by almost all visitors to the city deemed decidedly the better. A violent and, as Some say, a base attack has been made upon the Parisienncs ; and a faction has started up in their defence, which is confronted by another almost equally powerful attacking force. The charge was originally led, as it seems, by one of the judges at Quebec speaking at a public meeting, and the accusation he made was founded on a piece of overpowering evidence. A friend of the judge had been actually staying in Paris, and had come back to Canada with an impression that the ladies of the capital were somewhat gay and giddy. This gentleman bad, indeed, heard from the bps of one of the Paris ladies themselves that neither they nor their husbands were at all disposed to the vice or virtue, whichever it may be, of jealousy. Upon this text the journal called The Cau adian builds up a grand impeachment, which it strengthens by the addition of fresh proofs. On the other hand, the Quebec Journal is equally vigorous in its advocacy for the defence, and uses alternately the weapons of logical argument and poetic oratory. On the whole, most readers of the controversy will come to the same opinion as the majority of sojourners in Paris—that is to say, that the Parisian women, although they may have their faults, will stand comparison with their sisters in any other part of the world.