UNKNOWN [FROM OUR OWN COEESPONDENT.] Paris, May 7.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 2025, 30 June 1885, Page 4

UNKNOWN [FROM OUR OWN COEESPONDENT.] P aris, May 7.

Tin: tune consumed in tho osculations betweenpe.ici uid Hiii Ills unbled opwi id on the (Joutm 'lit t > indulge in silutaiy n 11 'ctitins, .iml t» K r r,is|) the wide-^piead consequencer of tho hmio between England and Kiivtn -alien-, m i.ijc, ideas mduvih-a turn, l'ir-t i>f ill, lVmue\ » little g.'uno ii. is boon perfectly seen through, and tho con cliisuin armed at is th.it it is not the Chancellor's divide and conquer, for German) understood, policy, which can secure the peace of nations bo well as England's armaments, vigilance, and backing up of hoi diplomacy by foice. It will be no small {fain to public tranquility, if the Czar's am bition has roused Britain from her lethargy and caused her once more to measuro herself against .\ll-comers. She must mu/.zle Bruin by diawing a line beyond which ho is not to pass, India-wards, while well knowing such boundary will be respected with tho .same solemn assurances that Russia gavo for the Black Sea treaty, and to never go to Khiva and Merv. There will be always Czars to break their pledges, and Komaroffs and Ahkhanoffa to command the execution of the artifices and tricks desired by their Go\ eminent. In France there are two currents of opinion respecting the peace attitude of England. One approves, as it saves their country from the unknown of a general conflagration, while England's honour and courage are not in their guarding. The second accords the stakes to Russia, who .is ever has achieved her end, and forced Britain again to swallow hurriblo pie — an attitude that neither Hindu* nor Afghan* will hkoly celebrate with bonfires The Muscovite miy well rest and be thankful, and while England will relapse into torpor he will be at his undermining work among the Masaic tribes of Afghani ntan and the dwellers in and around Persia, for Russia possesses the Ffcret of Oriental barbarism. She knows it, and farms it. She has the art to extract adrantages from the temperameut of nations, to utilise then sympathies or religious aversions, as well as tho ability to keep alivo and fan their dis cords. Is tho destined to regenerate Asia, and hold it in her hand as did Ceynes '• Her system of leisurely intrigue succeeds admirably. By her system of detaching tribes, she can eat into the heart of any coveted region. Her army is composed of officers who hold tho C/,ar as their hostage. An army in a ben«e thoroughly deumciatic, since it is open to all ranks to rise, ami which sees m war the only possible road to promotion, power, wealth, and gratified ambition. However, all is not bairen from Dan to j Beersheba. The fact remains that England has challenged the Russian advano. towards India, and so exhibited to the world she is not afraid of tho Colossus that Turkey alone, in her 1876-78 grappla with Russia, would have strangled single-handed were it not that she had to combat at thu Hamo time tho Montenegrins, the Servians, and the Roumanians. The world aNo has, by the Afghan incident, noted that Eng land did not undertake a pilgrimage to Vamn to -solicit pormis-ion to make war or conclude peace ; that BiMiwrck abdicated his role of self-appomtcd peacemaker of the i world, speculating that the big war would xccuic Germany the fruits of the Skiernie j vice nllnnce, The importance of Turkey as <i necessary ally of England has been also demonstrated. A good understanding between both powers is ,v necessity. To counteract the policy of of Bism nek, England ought to promote tho union between the Tinks, the nun-Slav Gneks, and tho Roumanians — the Balkan Confederation. This would keep tho Austrian puppet fryuriaying violent hands on Halonici,- andsecure Trieste against (Jem.in avidity, to revert to Italy when the moment comes for the dis.ippcai mice of that kaleidoscope of races which con>tituto<i the Austrian Empire. A.s for Bulgaria, her Slavs will never be allowed to spiead ovei Europe and regenerate it, and cure its old civilisation sores by inoculating it w ith young barban.sm. The .Sultan cannot , m JLoe sharply remember that in holding Suakim England possesses the key to • Mecca. Italy has been made by nature to be a right-arm for England— tho latter's satellite, and where no jealousy can ever spring from the union. Both nations aro eminently commercial, unaggressive, and colonizing. They can make the MediterL r.inean an Anglo- Italian lake, and work up itsourcos of Egypt and Suakim. The of the Euphrates becomes, hence-ju-*t .ti impoi taut as Afghanistan, and could be used to outflank Russia, as " Roum inia Austin. Theie is one Power still whoso friendship England ought to cultivate -that of China. Her unity of 3?>o millions of population can become a source of mesistible power. Who can foretell what China may decide upon aftei feelwg her drawbacks w ith Fiance ? If she re-oiganises her revenue, modernised her army, establishes a commis'-eriat, becomes drilled and licked into shapo.by British and European scientists, befoioa quarter of a century she could havo an army of three millions of men ever ready to strike Russia m her octopus tentacles stretched over Asia to the Corea. Having Asiatic Mahomedanisin and the yellow race for allies, England could keep Russia in oulcr, and having no axe to grind in Em ope, she would bo, and not Germany, the moral peace-maker of the Continent. In the Bosphorc Egyptian affair, Franco has scored another innings, at the expense of English policy and foresight on the Nile. Had the "law officers of the crown," been consulted before the coming to logger-heads \\ ith tho French Consul, instead of after the bungling, opinion would not bo now tittering at England's men of administrative ill-luck in Egypt. The French press is unanimous in its eulogies on the manner, the Chancellor of the Exchequer presented his war budget. He concealed nothing, he did not oven gild tho pill, and while allotingto postenty its share of to day's defences, made tin present contribute not the less to tho re quued millions. This is not the plan m Fiance ; a good deal of juggling is resulted to ; of dust throw ing in the eyes, which tei nriinjtus'in adding on the milliard* for the benefit of po.sterity, either in the form of a loan, or Treasury bonds renewed like pionmsory note*. Since 1871, tho national debt of Franco has bsen npaily doubled. It v/ill soon be on a pai w ith that of England, M. Emilo Ollivier keeps lecturing on the Concordat, like a temperance apo-itle on the stump, lie wants to bo returned to Parliament at the general elections and headthe league against tho abolition of that ngreementof Churchand State, but which the Radicals desire. The women of France are opposed to tho abolition, to that ends the matter. The Republic is not ntr< n? enough to try such a fall with the Church. M. Ollivier is vanity itself, ho addresses a melancholy letter to Mr Gladstone, pointing out the parallel between the latter's position, and his own when Minister in l'->7O, and requesting to know what the power would have down, had tho journals men tried in the streets, that "the King of Prussia had declined to lereivc tin French Airibi-.sndorV&c. It is tobehoptd, Mr Gladstone will inform him ho would liiivo unitid to be sine, if the fact were correct, which it was not; that ho vvould not have kept tho teli grain denying satno in hi> po( Let fiom the knowledge of f'.irliaiii. Nt ; tli.it he would have :t< copied Thn-i/ appeal foi a secret committee to reveal tho miht.uy nnpreparedtu>rt of Fiance ; and lastly, would nov or declare an unjustifiable ■war against any nation ; nor under no circumst incos would he do so, even if jnst, \uth a " light he.nt." The R«vue dcs Deux M«nde.s, tho Orleans Foituightlv Review, has astonished it-> i«vdei-.--s ud to be ]e-*s than its subhdibers —by the assertion that it KiigInnd's position vis-a-vis. Russia, as a kind of finger of Piovidcucc matter, intended to humble her for hei d> scrtion of Fiance m 3 H70 7 1 . Politics do not occupy I'iovidence, it may be assumed. England \va-> n<it bound to bolster up tho pciional mle of Napoleon 111., with all its shams and hj pocrmes ; and hid Fiance come out of the -itruggle victonous, England vvould not h.ivo sided with Gciinany cither. The P.iy-i, tho Monitenr of Bon.ipartism, and edittd by J'.iul de O.i^-.n<'ii ie, hints that borne tiling like a pil^iun.ige ought to bo organised to I'.n ly le Mouial, to execute a T<- I >cviii at the coming d nvnfail of peifide Alljioii, He once abu-ed th" Empnoi ukl lion.ipaitism, dcclued liolli "unlit to r< ij-pi,'" aftui tliu di'.i-tei of Sed in ; wid, stiaugf, this v ii w h;is been sti arlily latitu '1 by Fiance, though M. Cas^agnac liri-, ietinned to Ins fit si love. Louise Michel declaios slio will accejit no paidon unless all her co-dutemis .no al->o liberated. The ]>ardon is signed independent of her wi'-hos, and if blip declines to move on the gaolors will expel her, as they formerly di<l Blanqui, who sat like a Roman Senator m hi* cunile chnir, nvvait ing, not tho coming of the Gauls, but of Napoleon 111., to apologise for having locked him up. Now is the time for old clo' men to strike jle ; the tailors of Pau«, 50,000 m number,

no on stiil^ 1 ; the\ deuu»nd,l.vouF. instead <>t l"isou- pei hour, and that tie day's work lie f)\ul .it ten liKtir^ 'and llio woikahops in id" as healthy only fes a modern stable. [ liopo they may w in on the lnst two points of thi'ir th uter. They aie certain of \ictoij on tho first, n- employers alwajs give in, mikmp client-, "f course, boar the expense of tho leconuliation. The Uomti 1 de Va-ili, a norn do plume, Ins giwn In- lir«t in-ta-lment of "London SoLii'ty, ' .ifU-i the pattern of his famous article-, on society .it P.eilin and Vienn.i Th" l.ittei was monotonous; it was all dancing, music, and Archduke-. But Berlin was a real A-modean peep into high latitude^, because it is next to treason to mu-al tlio behind the scenes of court life, and showed tho Russian loyal f.unily and its "entourage" in dtcssing gown nnd shppeis, and it is w ondorful now they icsemblod humanity in general. Soci^te h Londies commences with the royal family. It is not well done, because the gossip is ns old as the hills and the royal family lne* m a kind of glass house, all of whose small beer is duly chronicled by a special class of journalism. The Conite de Vasili stateho is a Russian ; he had better give a widu berth to Berlin, as, if caught, he would imperil the Skiernievice fact as effectually as England. Ho has dined m private with the Prince of Wale.-*. So much for tho w liter's nationality and social position. A few notes : The Queen has buried herself with the Prince Consort ; quite different from the days when she warbled dupts with Mendelsyhon and was celebrated for her dancing a minuet gracefully the relics of which sho displays occasionally at the Gliillies' balls-. Her hp.-ut is in tho Highlands, and her favourite companion, the tua dogs, " Sharp and jfoolo. ' When at Balmoial, her Majesty iwakened by bagpiper. It was Michclet who laid down, children ought only be awakened to the sound of music. Tho Queen dislikes fires, tobacco, and ladies separated from their husbands. She piefers ladies in nnglets and wearing thick veil". She reads, wntes, and works a great deal. The Indian shawls fhc receives as presents she he-tows as wedding gifts to favourod brides. Ordinarily, her presents <iro limited to modest brooches, her portrait, or a copy of her memoirs. He mtimato counsellors no the Duke of Richmond and General Pon&onby. The Pi nice of Wales is deservedly the fir-t gentleman in England, and has just claims to that title for Europe In hus toilette, ho unites extreme refinement to un-tudiod simplicity. He is a. Parisian on a visit to London : is witty, if quick at lepaitee, but speaks so rapidly, as to commit "Irish bulls," which afford him the oppoitunity for humouiously correcting them, and perhaps wins tho sympathy of P.iddy. His tact and omto^y are peifect, and though he be quick m anger, his passion is not of long dilution. Hift mind is well stored with gencial knowledge. Tho Prince's health is not good it seems : tho woik he has to go through would wear out a constitution of steel. His mother may In c twenty vearstill, a longevity not destined foi him. Then it may be said of the Piinco as was of the father of Phillippe do Valois and the s >n of Louis XIV, Fils de roi ; pore de roi, J.imais roi. Prince Albert Victor is a big baby, haidly yet weaned from hoops and tumbles ; he is petulant, simple, fond of tricks, and possesses no tact. Hi-, brother could buy and sell him. The three piinccs are infants .still ; they sleep in .1 common bed-room, which is plainly furnished ; they like stories ,uid fany t.vle-, <md a day's shopping is their delight. They liavo been splendidly brought up, and are tho precious stone-i of tho mothei's crown. The Princess of Wales is the idol of England. She has no enemies, and "only ono fiiend, Miss Knullys." Her featuies lack expression. She has the secret not to grow old, and though droning well, spoils herself by her attachment to collarettes. She, unlike her mother, detests politics, and is more interested in a new head dross, than in all the Bills of Parliament. She never »peaks badly of any person. The Duke of Edinburgh was born with an oar in one hand, and a fiddle in the other ; ho likes his grog like an old salt ; is not a ladies' man like the Prince of Wales, nor takes after him in dress. Ho acts on tho motto that "good accounts make good friend.- I . "' Ono time his mother-in-law, tho Empress of Russia, came to visit him, he implored her to limit her retinue, and s.ent her in the bill for tho enteitainment of herself and suite. A lunch Wiis seived just as she was setting off, its cost w.i« foigottcn in the general bill, so the Duko picsented it to the Empress in the railway cauiagi', and was then and there paid. His wife was not haughty— but proud, and will never accommodate heisclf to English manner-. She h.vs the stuff in her of half-a-dozen of Empresses ; is of .1 ni.i.sculine turn of mind, hates frivolous convocation, and discusses like a professor. Sho and tho Dnko ha\c few friends, their receptions ate cold, and not sought after. Com to Adlerberg, the Secretary for the Russian Embassy, is their almost sole and intimato friend. Those interested m mitring ftiends ought to note that no less than twenty-two corpses incapable of recognition have been taken out of the Seine within the last week. Bachelors are preferred as a rule to married men by employer-,, henco celibacy continues to augment.

The Rnr.iNG Pawov Strong hi tii\n Dkath. — The story of a miser who faced death by burning lather than tear himself from his hoii dings come 3 fioin Now York. A fiie biokc out leeeutly in one of the streets of that city, and soon a whole block of buildings was bin nine;. The lives of most of the inmates of the house had been saved by the firemen, who, in the discharge of their duty, went up to the top floors ; ntH here it was that they encountered the unusual spectacle of a. man in danger of a honihlu death who obstinately refused to escape fioin it. Tins singular pei&on was ,\ collector of curiosities, old books and pamphlets, which, with accumulated wealth of years, he hoarded up in hia loom. While the fire w.is hl.uing fiercely mound and below him he remained unmoved, and y hen a rescue was attempted by a ladder l.iiscd to the window the fireman who leaped into the chamber discovered him m the midst of smoke and flame, Hitting on the door, with his treasures collected around him. He positively refused to move. The efforts of the rescuer to drag him out of the burning house weie so stoutly resisted that they failed ; therefore all that could be done was to drench him and his goods, and leave him to his fate. It fared better with the incorrigible miser than might have been expected, or indeed, than lie deserved ; for w lien the (it e was got under, he was found half stilled and much burned, but still alive.

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