Extracts from our Paris Letter.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3480, 19 February 1880, Page 2

Extracts from our Paris Letter.

French correspondents, if one reads between the Hues, do not speak eutuu* siastically of the Spanish wedding; the people hare been cracked up to hurrah it; but sober heads say, the political marriage trill prove to be impolitic. One winter came across Bazaine in a bookshop, by a stare he awed the ez-Mar«hall into insignificar'co : be looked daggers but used none. The King,intends decorating all the foreign journalists who were present at the cortege: he confessed to one of them, these displays fatigued him, and when the last was over, he and his wife, on arming at the palace, changed/ their clothes, and went out secretly to promenade amidst the crowd. The bull fight is admitted to hare been very barbarous, and resembled an abhdttoir, which is considered a proof of success. Another correspondent stumbled upon the remaining effects of the late Queen Mercedes, which were being quietly packed off to the Escurial—or . oblivion, which is worse than death. The sAtn o Tril.«r had l!»e intention 'to run down^to ricr Uie rii:«»»fiier*< of M'nrcia, Hut. a.» Englishman iMSuml him if He desirod to go rapidly, he ought to pojt it—a'mod* of tVßfc llinsc which bp«t th*'railway-train bj! thirty six hours, OT~^ The OKHuoirß o!' Prince Metterni^,, - now being published, are capital reading before a snug* fire, and in an- easy, chair, . taken with those 'of Mme. de Bemusats, they confirm the littleness of the Great Napoleon. The latter avowed he lost 30,000 horses in one night in the Russian campaign trom the cold, and that hig generals were so demoralised, that they cried like ohildren: of the 300,000 men lost in the expedition of 1812, Napoleon confessed only 30,000 were French. In marrying an Austrian Archduchess, "I made a fool of myself," be said, Benyer, the celebrated royalist* orator and lawyer, was very poor: on one occasion \\ millions of francs in bank notes were placed under his papers in the Chamber of Deputies to purchase bis silence—here gold, bat he refused.

M. Gye was solicited to lend Albani to sing nt the opera in Paris, tke manager boasting, ',' I hare the most beautifol stage in Europe." Gye refused, adding,. "You hare the cage, but I hare the bird." > • Zola's nasty novel Nana, is pronounced to be, a failure, even by the; lovers of Billingsgate and slang. ' ■'• - - A prospectus of a public school, gives the latitude and longitude of the .establishment—about as valuable as a railway lime-bill. ■ A prize poem from Belgium a in honor of coal, thus opens: "I snig of coal, whose burning breath, Boils on rails, the ambulatory pot." A Frenchman quoted a few days ago, as a line from an English poet: " There's nothing new under the sun." " Sir Vaterloo " is the way the journal! announce the arrival of Sir Sidney Waterlow at Nice. A father eulogising the merits of bis unmarried daughter: "If you'could see how she talks to. the bailiffs . and creditors!" >

Lady, "I do not like the orchestra; there is only one violinist, and his playing lacks individuality."