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OUR PARIS LETTER. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

Pvius, September lit. Maimmk Amu edit* herself tho depart nient <>f f >refgn politic* in Ker Xonvello Revue. Mho lias very important friendships with Austria auil Russia. Shu detests Germany as a matter of course, nnd sharo* her country 'a affoctiou for John Bull. Madame Adam assert* that the antagonism between Russia and Austri.ii> ah ready to break out to day .is nt any tune during the lust hfty \ear-", .md all depends on the preiH)ndeiaii"e of an ambassador .it Constantinople. They are united to weaken Kngland's influence with the Porto, nnd Bismarck's aim in to clone the Purdenelles by deviating the straits to be netiti.d, allowing Russia turn 1 to complete her Transcaspun railway, and then make u raid u« »be pleases nn lndi.i. She believes the Krcnsier meeting ti> bo only the renewal of the pact, or truce, that of not allowing any two of the tluee emperors to make war on a third. The Spanish incident illustrated how weak aftet all us the faggot of in) jKjri.v! stick*. It appears that M. K.itkoff, of the Moscow Ga/.atteo, is the C'-sar's ruling spirit. He is all for w.n, to extinguish Nihilism at first, and next to expel Kngland from Central Asia. He regrets the C/.ai did not take tho tido at the Hood. The treaty of mutual protection between China and England, whose secret clauses Katoft knows, explains why Unit gentlem \n ut once cooled down from military nidour to sudden peace. The Afghui fiontiei dilh culty then was conqucicd, not at London, but Pekin. Madame Adam became authoiess 111 consequence of her first m.iniagc pioving unhappy. She likes t » sij{ii ber maiden name, Juliette L.unln'it. She is the daujjlitor of a country doctor, and was born at Verbnrie, in Picaidy. She was hiought up at Cha'iny, 111 the dcpaitmi-nt of tho Aisne, where her father prartised. Her first husband was a doitoi, fn>in whom slii; sepaiatrd, then she come to Pails, and like (Jeorge Sand, hcrcupeiioriu talent, deuited lier.-.elf to liteiattuc. In iii.iiiyiug M Adam, a senator, Pivfet dc Police, and wealthy she seemed to ha\e 1 cached hei ideal. He died in 1*77. Kilt she had become a kind of Rocamiei, in possessing a iitei 11 valid i»olitical silon. With her htetary t.istcs, republican poll ties, and large fortune, she became readily famous. In her latter days, Gambetta worshipped at another shune. Madame Adam gave good dinners, soiiees and ball*, for without these adjunct*, no one cm becomo influential or of uipoitanee, in Pans or perhaps eliewhere. Many at tribute much of the Lite Lord Iloughton's success, to his breakfanN. Several of tin* Academicians are repotted to <>no their fauteuils, more to their cooks, than to their talents. Madame Adam is good looking, and stately, rather than handsome, she lovjs Greece, which may explain lierdesiie to KplM3.tr Grecian ; she is a grandmother, without being old ; is energetic, stiong111 Milled, and a busmen-like woman. One element won her friends, and still better, kerps them; she ihjsscssus winning and sympathising manners. But I do not think »he has exactly any flatteiers bu/. /.ing round her. In politic-, she leans towards Kloquet and Clcmencuau ; ut least when no admirer of Jules Feny .md Opportunism. Her Salon is widely famed ; it w.is that too which served M. Padleion for In* tvpc in his play, Le Monde in 1' on s' KIIIIU •. It is paidonnbU even to follow in the footsteps of u T.illieu 01 a de Star], and to get weary a little. Mm- opened the recent annual volunteer iifle match, whose nrganUer is M. DL'leronde, Bisnurk's hate, by hrmg the first shot. Spain having blown off her pntiiotic steam, will settle down to regulate her crumb colonies dixpute by diplomacy. This bubble and squeak smacks too much of the fifteenth and »ixteenth centuiies for our pie-»ent age. Bismarck now occupies the portion foiinerly filled by Spain -one foot in the Mediterranean, the other on the Rhine. The land of the Alhanibra and the Escurtal, that "hi ok tho throne of Knjjland by hei Armada, smd awed thr councils of Jlurope. H.us become a geographical uxpres until. Spain tnay have levolutions, but bhe c.in never ha\e resuriectioii". Ichabod, not Resuig.im, is wiitten o\er hei. The German Ptess is regarded as having thrown a good catd in urging the Spaniards to look moie after the Morocco than the ('.noline question. This is a hit at the Latin race pleasantry, that good S.imantanisin without the oil and the twopence. While the Republicans are "fighting like devils for reconciliation, nnd hating one another for the lovn of " tho Republic, the Monaichixts of all shades have but led the hatchet, and arc banded for a common nxsault against the Republic. A pmely negative or destructive piogiamme never succeed*. The know 11 difficulty, that there in nothing to leplace the Republic is the best .secuiity for its duration. One of the chief causes of the failuie of tho IS4.S Republic was the unpreparedncsH of the Republican* with a definite plan to utilise the Hiiccension of Loiiih Phdipi>e. The great fight at the piexent elections will be the «ecoud i)olling, a fortnight aftei the first, to be held on 4th October, and when the candidate v\ho hcoies the highest number it votes recoided winx. In any case the nnprpssion is geneial that there will be a Htrong family likenexs between the defunct and the new Chamber, As for the Minmtiy, its pnnr»toi\ will commencp when it ban to face the House with a programme. A« tho judge winds up his sentence on a condemned with a " May (Jod ha\o meicy, &c ,'' *•> «v «ijmlar iilc.ii for mercy may In) extended to M. JSiisson. Auiiaui has now two kings, instead of one, as a consequence ot the Kirnch taking over the country; and jet theie aie peisons who nay, the French make no progress in Tonkin. The Black l-'lag* aojiearto be as lively as kitten-*, ami a iu.te is taken that China still keeps the mouths of hei mem blocked. Foiichovv has cured John Chinafiian, .im to the allowing foiuign squadrons to uiactise evolutions in hi-* iivcm. At Madagancar. the Hovas are indulging in " tci-hghts" and mit'iii to foiget the " Kiench on the fen." The Amciit.in and Kngbsh misuionaries are also indifferent to the danger of villainous .saltpetn , as thrv org*nwe festivalw to honour the local sovereign, and purxue their ordinal y calling, art if their convert* did Hot risk becoming food for powder. The mission of Sir H. Wolff, at Con. Mtantinople, ciu«es givxt aiuiety here, daspitis the cltntd of telegrams, ni.niii fuctiiredin the editionnl sanction, that it is a failure. Kngl.md, it is felt, will, und<'i no circumstance quit K n '>pt, .md so say all of in, till she does, and x,\tisfi\ctonly, the work Ktirope requested her to nndeituke. Then again, tho Salisbiuy Cabinet, will not toleratu any more putting of oitokes mt> the wheels of hei administration in Kgypt; thu powers that do ho, she v* ill ivp iy, bv a Roland clsawhcir foi the Oliver. Turkish delnyn aie annoying, l.ut rtot dangerous ; the Sultan knows well on which side of bis bread the butter lies, and that Kimsia was only dangeious to British interests, in proportion to Bi iti*h indifference respecting India's defences. The army inunoMu ro* at Arras and Amiens pawed off very satisfactorily ; tho infantry and artillery were special effective, and displayed careful training. The army is mencing t<» " meet » long felt want " the deficient supply of instructors. In lodging and dining the delugnten of foreign |H>wers, exquisite tuct was displayed to piuvent Herman and Spanish officets from coming too closely together. Turkey, acted as a buKer between the English and Russians, and seemed to bo happy with either, weie but, " t'other dear charmer away." The approximate census of the popula tion of France for 1884 is published. It shows a net increase wf 7!»,000 for the twelve months. Strange, 111 IK7I the net Annual augmentation was 173,000. The Clnquenni.ll census of IWI gave a popula tion for the entire country of 37,072,048 ; tho annual increuw in 1882 was !»7,000 ; for 1884, as abov»\ What a fulling off is theie, my countrymen ? The important conclusions to draw from the tables aie : Augmentation in tho number of deaths, increase of illegitimate births, decrease in the legitimate birtlw, und progression in the nuinlwr of marriages. The authorities, finding their appeals to increase and multiply^ jiroTmg of no avail, and the well-to-do claiwes, resolving to have no moie than two olive branches, now employ their enerries to a reduction in the infantile death rate. Tills is all veiy good ; but it might also do something foi adult life security by {Military reforms, Kveivthing almost ienwins t«> l>e dono in the wny of tow n diain mg. The oldest inhabitant nevei can ir u ill u season when the sencis of^ Paris wetc more offen-ive than the present; the tiiieiiingji of the diain', and tli.it, too, in the, most aristocratic centies, give out whiffs of stenches nf the two and seventy Cologne standard, like a blast furnace. But afauige. quite an army of laboureis U daily employed ill the city drains ; at certain statioiw, you can ace the men catering on, »itd leaving off, work ; they IP lmtwe.ep iwtnty M tutjr j «aif of ao,

and all inbmt he.ilthy men. I asked some of them, how they could live below, and wero thry ncvci sick? they laughed and replied they hitc itevei ill, and did not mind the odours. The at my of n.ni employed in the night soil leinnval duties is a pictine of health itself, and none of the men aie ever ilown with fevei, ami have nevci had cholcia. How do scientist*, ex plain theso facts! It is as cuiioun, and certainly cjnijea home nioie to men s boson's and I)tfsme-s th.m a new star, and the velocity of its light m the Anduuncdii nebula. B.id smells have mhho adinity with wmals. A few days ago two sanitaiy inspectois called .it .some household*, alleging the landlotd had sunt them to disinfect the apartments, to guard against the cholera. They commenced burning sulphur, and t.o c«ni| cllcd the families t<> letue, pending the fumigation, the sell-.ip pointed m-pettois s O i/i>d all the \aluibU's within their lu.uh, and decamped, .inciting they weie going foi anotherchen.ic.il, to lay "the Milph u fume«. Two student 1 * had .i dnputoovur the solution of some uiatlu'inaticdl piobleiu ; they came to hot word-, challenged each othci, and jiL'ieed to mtet, within an hoiu in tho IViuliM.ud Sebi^topol, at midnight, alone, and aimed with swoid and pistol. They weie punctual; when the police aimed, the fight had eca>ed foi want of combatants; the focmen weie earned to tho ho-pital, dangeuii'.slv wounded. The son of a wine mci chant has blown hi» bianis, oi wh.it did duty .is Mich, out, because a. bar gul smirked moie at aiiothei idiot than at him self. T\\o)inlhnci,c.une to blows in the stieot on lua\mg then w»ik loom ; one, i reiucmbeiing the tragedy of Theodoia, pulkd the long pin out of liei bonnet and sUbbed hti uuupaiiioii nioi tally in the neck and face. "Mi ike at the hi id ! -aid Ca-ar to lih futuie Twelfth Legion. Piofessoi Ije>eilli', of tho Law School of Pan-, li.i- been always the authoii-ed opminii on the KecidiMitt, oi lubiluil Ltiiimials question. He denounces the new Liv, and states tho -« mini;,' of tliescouudicls abioad is only anolliu name for c\ec.itni'C them; ceitam death, in an uuheilthy climate, for men worn out by vice, is moie cuiel than tho guillotine, lie winds up Inc\hau*ti\e examination of the whole question thus .—Study the evpeiien.e of England in tho tieatment of her ctimmals, and which is that of all lational countiies not possessed of Sibeiias. Tins .unoisnts to sa.Miig, Keep ti? born .it home ;do not shoot it into Cayenni oi the Mcnntyof Au-tialia, and it will come to this thanks to the btiudy opposition of the citizens under the S mtliein ( 'loss. Attention is diawn to the fact that the Auieiicans fn.m all pails of Emopp, not those buds e\ei on the wing, but who ha\e in a len-u taki-n loot in special distncts, aie eithei "going home" pietty extensively, oi intending to pitch their tent-, in that halfway cai.u.ins.'u v, London. What does this -ign of the tunes mean? The King of Italy, though a cotnp.ii.ttiu'h young man, has hair us white as the summit of Mont Blanc, (^ucpii M.v guenta lately recencd a box of cosmetic:;, and begged his Majesty to tiy and d.uken hia hail a little. Next morning, when the Queen walked in hei flower gaiden, hei pet poodle approached hei, charged from a lovely white to an indrscnbable gieen ; the King soon at lived, and avowed he had tned the dye on her pet pug, and intended ne\t to operate on hei pan ot. On returning- to his loom his Majesty diacoveied all the cosmetics had disappeuied. Hugo maintained that man had no want of lebgion ; he did not even invent one of hit own, and set ui> images in his thpssing rfi mi, like Cointe lint Jrlugo did not tlie less believe in the efficacy of piayei. He leldtes that ho saw at Guernsey, and what occurs daily i it Paris, ,i hoise which uceives I'JOO blows of the whip each day ; tlie animal's toitt'.re coiniimiiced each morning. Hugo >-i\ys " 1 prayed to God, asking what tho animal had done to deserve such cruelty, and to put an end to it." It was veiy feeling of the port to jn.iv, but tho prayer might have been aiisweied lmuo diiectly had he handed the biutal hctor over to the police.

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Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2081, 7 November 1885, Page 3

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OUR PARIS LETTER. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2081, 7 November 1885, Page 3

OUR PARIS LETTER. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2081, 7 November 1885, Page 3

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