Extracts from our Paris Letter.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3643, 30 August 1880, Page 2

Extracts from our Paris Letter.

The dispersion of the Jesuits is eclipsed by the national fete, and the arriral of fiochefort: the sympathy was thus very limited for the order in France, owing to their refusal to bow to the law like every* ~ body else. Up to the present 140 fanetionaries bare resigned, rather than lend a P hand to applying the code against the dis- ; "" persed these are simply 140 fewer offittll '•>** enemies of the Republic, and the only regret is, that the number still in office is legion. The ministers commit a great error in continuing the services of its armed adversaries.

At Augers, the Jesuits hired, through their gardener, a mob to attack their monastery, with the view of exciting sympathy at the east of the republicans: the gardener confessed the Superior engaged him so to act, and he was sent to prison accordingly. A man has been discovered, who committed suioide by cutting his throat with - aragor; the head remained attached to • the trunk by a shred of flesh; yet he wai kept alive for a week, was perfectly sen* /. sible, and ascertained he, experienced no pain. His body, is to^wa&efgp a clinical post mortem eiamini'tiOD.fFainfeis decapitation, is more wonderful tbatttsiUo tooth extraction. . «,-£;<■;£ , A senator has been arrestsJ* for :bfeinjjr. . blind drunk in the streets/ and.#h^lggig, - " Down with the Hepublic J "^-FiVe demi. ; - mondians have offered to^pujrcthaje tMe> Due de Monchy's palatial [kf^ofi house, but the duchess will nojt efeni^crUin the idea—she does not object to <iW it ib"> the ex-Khedive for his/Aofttityf rUna^f'"-' Mile. Auclere tows shewill not pWyv 4 single centime of taxes, nor her lister-^ friends, till they are accorded the right* to rote. -=: