OUR PARIS LETTER. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Paris, August 23.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1917, 18 October 1884, Page 4

OUR PARIS LETTER. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Paris, August 23.

The Republic is now in presence of the ouly two events that could endanger its evidence—a foreign war and increased taxation. Adversaries naturally ask is the Republic, like the second empire, la paiv. The cia/e for teiritonal expansion or glory lost Napoleon 111. The Chinese diplomatists ha\e left M. Feiry nowhere His impetuous claim for an indemnity of 250 millions was higgled down to eighty millions, and when he agieed to accept this sum, the Celestials, with a farewell grin, demanded : "Don't you wish you may get them ?" For eight or eighty million francs, France is compelled, against her will, to declare a war, that may cost half a milliard, and kindle endless complications. With expenditure and time, she will force the Chinese to knuckle down, but France remembers what work four millions of Arabs gave her in Algeria, and in China she has perhaps one hundred times that number of enemies. To what causes can we attribute the attitude ot theChincse towards the French nations making warbutnotdeclaiingit, and negotiating peace to the music of bursting shells at Kelung ? To the failure of the Confeience, perhaps, where England snubbed Germany for persisting to change the object of the Conference, and France, for abusing the conciliatory disposition of the Foreign Ofliee, by making the shunt per shent bondholder a cuitcli tore-enter EL'ypt, after evicting hetself therefrom. No, China has lightly judged the French nation was averse to war, by the fact that but 173 deputies, the third of the Chamber, representing a total of Ii.'J(SS,O;H constituents., ouiy suppottcd the new credits for Tonquin. In the absence of Richelieus and Tally- j rands, M. Fciry is the ablest politician the county possesses He, if the Parliament be convoked to declare war, has a ' terrible quarter of an hour bufoic bun. The iats commence alieady to quit the ship. Yet the Chamber applauded his policy of colonial expansion, in attacking J the Asiatic continent at Tonquin and the Afiican continent, at the Congo. His predictionsso far have not been icalised, for instance, that with the Chinese tlieneai cryon arc to war the closer you are to peace. M. Ferry certainly counted on Li Hung Chang as a kind of Geneial Monk ; but the opinion here is, that the celestial Empiie, with all its incongruities is not yet ripe for disuicmbeunent. The \ scramble for the fiagments on the pait of the Wcstei n poweis would ha teinble. The patience and inertia of the Chiiiese are still living foiccs. The Fouinier tieity now falls to the gionntl, and hence, all the advantages of the Tonquin campaign obtained by that document, arc lost. Taking a leaf out of Bismarck's book, who had the Beneditti treaty of 1806, by which Fiance was to seize Belgium, to otiengthen the coulial alliance with England, photogiaphed and .sent to the foieign poweis and the Times, China has had the Fouiniei treaty photogiaphed, to show no date had been lived to e\acuate Langson. Theie was nothing absolutely wioug in France reducing tlie figiue of the indemnity, somewhat Bismarck, under the influence of England, abated the Fiench indemnity fiom seven to live niilhauls; and later, discovering his eiror, kept a milk tootli ever since against England. He made up somewhat for the loss, as he insisted the indemnity should cauy inteicst dining the whole time the coin and notes wtie being counted : tins was an affair of six weeks, and cost poor, bleeding Fiance tliiity millions of fiancs mote. The pound ol ilebh was paid. On account of the gieat distance the war with China will be very costly. Any materiel she requites, as coal, &c, will be shipped her ; it is only a question of cash. Hut what is fcaied is a sea.boaid of "21300 milts may send out piivateets. We know the injiiiy one Alabama did. Thcic are plenty ot water shaiks only too willing to speculate iv lettia dc mutquc. If the Chanibcis be convoked the chances aic the Cabinet will be defeated. M. Feny will be judged only by his successes. The whole colonial policy of France may be overhauled at the same time —it devours millions, but gives no piofits. Dc Biaqjia's enterprise has alieady cost thice millions, and all the lesult is cieating facilities for a German house to have a monopoly of the indiarubber expoited. At Tunisia they are Germans and English that foi m the coinmeicial backbone of that ptotectoiate. At Cochin China they are the same nations, plus the Chinese, who command the tiade. The Ficuch abstain ; all Fiance appeals to leap fiom her foieign jio^osions i.s the cieation of new posts foi olhci.tls. Hot love is soon cooled. The •' Var/m Ti uinjK'te.i\' as the < lei man jouinaN ate hete f.umliaily called, lia\c ically done tlicii countiy moic haim thin good by mutiny the Wench "to stamp upon, and bicak the neck ot England, and no hahes in the spoils." A fiw Chauvinistic pi into fell into the tiap, but the majority of Frenchmen nlhei legal ded the proposals as a scicaming farce, or as fresh insults and a new humiliation, which have " ri/, the back" of Joint Bull, whom it n.ay be accepted, is not idle on his side against this spint of continental coalition. The French do not sec wheie Geim.iny could inflict a blow on England ; but perceive veiy well where the latter could wound them, and vitally. The Geimans uige the French to "remember Wateiloo;" they icply : We do, and that the Piussians wcic there as well as the English, while the latter took fiom us no AKieo or Lortaine. The French aie not inclined to be thrown at the head of England, to enable M. Bitmaick the nioie icadily to fall on them and take that new slice of theii tcmtoty fiom "Dunkirk to Dijon, ' which forms an "object lesson" in the gcogiapliy of the futuie in every German primary school. Geimany may rest assured she is as bittcily hated in Fiance to day as on that when the Fiankfoit treaty lopped ofT poor AUace fiom Franco; insetted the fatal commcicial clause of tlte most fa\ onred nation, and exacted five inilliai ds of an indemnity, plustluity million? for the expenses of counting it. But she has done more; by her recent "blowings" and anot^ant o\eihires to dupe the Fiench into hostility against England, she has alienated the sympathies of the English lesidents in France, who never lost an occasion to soften the animosity of the Gauls against the Teutons. Georges Daudin's, "thou hi*twished it —" the mananme of "Codbn's the friend, not Rhoit," has been seen tlnough. It is suspected that theie is a pcicw loose in the German-Austro alliance, and hence, the necessity of great prudence on the part of France. These constant meetings of emperors and chancellors, for the despatch of business indicate leakage in the lelations. Wince England has bad the andacity to check Bismarck's impudence, pe,ople find out that the task of governing the woild is too much for him. As to Madagascar, the French keep cruising lound the Hand ; to subdue the Hovas they must be attacked in their nests. Only the ministerial journals ntter an occasional wail over Eeypt. England is still reminded, without French aid she can never hold Egypt, and if she persists to *r protect " it, as they themselves do Tunisia, her doom is sealed. The move common sense journals, that have no axes to grind, accept the Nile valley as English territory, with Ea&tein Moudan as an annexe, * The Mahdi is as dead a terror for John Bull as Germany. Thus time makes all things even, and works wonders. The Recidivist Bill, which is still in Committee in the Senate, and is to be gent to the Chamber for amendment, has given rise to a curious agitation. £he, Mend of the colo'niata in .New

Caledonia and Guyanuc, object to having liberated incorngibles slinking nbout their holdings. Tims Australians and the French colonists are one. The govei nors of the penal settlements have given important evidence, viz., that it would be next to irtadness to allow these liberated and unreclaimed couvicts to become walking gentlemen ; who cannot be compellel to work, have the light to board, lodging, and washing, and not liable to military jurisdiction. France will be driven to study the solution for the recidivist pollution, home incarceration, instead of allowing the lecidiMsts to run, in the Austialian aichipelago, " free aa nature first mado man." How to celebrate the centenary of the Revolution in 1889, is still beuig studied. It will take the form of a Woilds' Fairit seems the human mind cau invent nothing superior. A few propose a microcosmic exhibition of the several departments of France, their life, manners and industries : Others assert, that " there is no Pantheou could be erected sufficient to contain the genius of France, and that all universal exhibitions only pirate the intelligence and handiworks of the country.' 1 Never mind the old Adam. All the suburbs round the city are petitioning to be conceded the site of the coming exhibition. The municipality as well as the state, will quarantoe the funds. The monument commemorative of the Revolution itself, will likely be erected on the site of the Tuileries. It will cost 300,000 frs, a low figure, about equal to the Gambetta Statue Fund. A lady sepaiated from her husband, who resides in England, obtained from him permission to adopt an infant to while away her loneliness. She encountered at the Maternity Hospital a young woman about entering to be conlined. She ananged that the girl came home with her, and be the nurse, oven, of her own child, that she consented to j pieacnt to the lady, When the baby was born it was registered in the name of the lady and her husband ; the mother acted as muse, but soon commenced to be mistress. She had to be dismissed. Meeting the lady with the baby in her aims a tew days ago in the Rue Rivoli, she demanded back her child. Both are in puson to be tried for false declaration. A policeman shot his wife for infidelity, then proceeded to a station and gave himself up. A merchant in the Rue H. Dunus appeared on the balcony of a sixth stoiy window ; he made the sign of the ' cross ; shouted, " Good-bye everybody,"' and tlnew himself into the atreet He ■was tenibly smashed, but not dead, and while lying on the giound implored to be lent a levolver or a knife to end his agony. Another man rowed to the middle of the Seine, and bhot himself. In a note he saul the boat enabled him to ejiecute his pioject " moie comfortably." The NeuiHy band of robbers are being tiied, Their cfnj, a scoundiel of 22 )cais of age, was expected to create a sensation ; he was as mild as a sucking dove. Ho had the habit of wiiting to the joun.al> to coneet their accounts of his robb'eiies and muideis. His ambition wa3 to " remove" all the police by isolated assassination — they weie the cuise of society. The cholera cicatcs no longer any anxiety. The plague 13 considered as scotched, and will soon be killed. But e\eryone is on his guard, miciophobia being very nnceitam. The great heat is o\ei, and all that is demanded is a little rain. Three theatres will re-open with new pieces all founded on divorce. Before, the diamatists — Dumas Jils to wit, lived on the drawbacks of the absence of a divoiee law. Peihaps now they will prove the contraiy. Theie has been a veiita-ble hid on the law couits to register applications for divorce, as> it is rumoured if the Republic goes the way of all flesh, the new law will be repealed. At the sea-side the complaints are loud of the number of falbe barons and counts. This is due to fools paying waiteis to address them as titled individuals. Louis Philippe intended to surprise Thiers by creating him a baton; the parchments were piepared and all registeied, Thiers got an inkling of his Majesty's intention aim begged to decline such folly ; he had [ "no intention to descend to a court ' physician or a financiei." Immoitahty! A porcelain manufacturer will adopt the portrait of any celebrity, as a plate-patteru, at the rate of 3fr. per 100 plates, A fauteuil in the Academy is nothing to that. Much ado is made about a balloon that was mounted, some yards in the air, paddled about a while and tl.en returned home. The moth c power was electricity. There is nothing new in the toy ; can it store electiicity for a long voyage, aud a head wind ?

■Sin: per cent mote beer was drank in (Jeiminy last year than in the preceding twelve months. The aggregate amount used wws 53,000,000 gallons. OwiNn to the diought the Thames has been diy at Teddington, and a game of tucket \\j"3 ployed, and a lepa&t &ci \<A un the bed ot the i iver at Richmond.

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