OUR PARIS LETTER.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 2834, 11 September 1890, Page 4

OUR PARIS LETTER.

(FROM OUR I'ARIS CORRESPONDENT.) Paris, June 23. The Anglo-German Treaty continues to be something between a puzzle, an astonishment, and an irritation for the French. The geography ot the African lakes and Equatoria they do not understand ; taking over Zanzibar they observe is merely to occupy the other end.of the Nile ; and all the rest is confirmation itrong as proofs of holy writ that England ias gone over, bag and baggage, to the Triple Alliance. Some advanced copies of Stanley s new wok have fallen into the hands of French ournalists. They deal with the political elations between Stanley and Emin Bey. I'he latter's conduct is severely conleaned in point of honour, pluck and fratitude. Emin seems to be a mau of elly, whose backbone aud steely nerves -diil he ever possess either?—have oozed ,way, likely due to being so long out of ouch with western civilisation. ]5y his ndecision and crookedness he has many leaths of the rescue party on his head. The criticism is the more to be noticed, is Stanley is not in the odour of sanctity vith the French. For example, M. )nesime Rcchus, in his description of the Joiigo, alludes to Stanley as a "man mit.illy anti-French." In looking through the Napoleon-Talleyrand-Alexander I correspondence, is being published by M. Tatischcff, the iminent diplomatist counselled Napoleon ii ISOS to make an alliance with Austria, md among other things to give her a mil of Bulgaria and a portion of the Jlack Sea coast, so as to form a Boule'ard against Muscovite invasion, thus naking Austria upon that sea, as upon he Continent, the rival of Russh. Talleyrand's Chief Secretary, M. d' lautrive, added, "the Russians will lever quit their barbarism ; they will be Jways the scourge of their neighbours, nd the enemy of the tranquility of Europe. M. Renan just writes ; the oratic king, ?lio would carry into practice the maxims if the perfect king of Israel, as laid down n Psalm 101, would be a redoubtable yrant. It is a dangerous programme hat, which has for end, to purge a city of iod's enemies ; that is to say, those coniluded to be such, for God takes nobody nto his confidences, nor 'communicates iis list of friends. Philip 11, in order to ict on the Psalmist's programme, drew ip extermination list?, and had hem executed overy morninjr. Israel, idds M. Renan, founded morality rather han liberty ; strictly speaking, 700 years lofore Jesus Christ, nobody possessed the dea of liberty as we understand it Greece lerself then commenced hardly to perceive ts glimpses. By means of the system of corrcsponlence ticket, any person can travel by he busses, between the most excreme loiiits of Paris, for six sous. There are wo circular railways round the capital, hu smaller or inner, which skirts the he fortifications, and sends in spurs to he grand termini. The outer or strategic circle has radii, extending to Versailles, St Germain etc. Both "circuars"aie cojointly owned by the great ailway companies, who have just agreed o grant a second-class ticket —there is no hird-class—over all the inner circle railvay, a distance of 22 miles—the circumerence of l'aris, for six sous, instead if as now, eleven. The plan will elieve the congested 'bus districts, lending the construction of the Meropolitan line. Respecting the latter ,nd such projects as making Paris a seaiort, and connecting the Bay of Biscay vith the Mediterranean to give a wide lerth to Gibraltar, the Minister of Public

Works has just stated that these schemes will have his support the moment it ia shown that the capital exists to execute them. In Paris the ra<?e at present is for the five o'clock tea- Sixty years ago tea only appeared at soirees ; at eleven o'clock dancing and music suddenly ceased, when tea was served from an immense pot, where it had been boiling for hours, with milk. Sometimes this was replaced by oaten milk, called avi-iM, being the white wash of oatmeal, boiled and served like tea. July r>. Whether " naval" or military alliance, or both, has, a> thu French swear by all the gods of Olympus, been arranged between Germany and England, the effect of the rumor is as plain as sunlight. It lias acted as a wet blanket here on spirits, and taken nil the vigor out of energy. There is no innro " hij;h falutin" writing respecting per/hh: Allium : the now situation—it' it be new—is viewed with sobriety and tempered with caution. Ills the attitude of persons, placed suddenly face to face with a new momentous problem, for a quadruple alliance implies, rim isolation of Franco and the paralysis of Russia. Tho best. French minrls never did, nor do not believe, in a FrancoRiiaaian alliance. It may be ndded, the report of such, has enabled I'ussia to float a loan, and the Muscovite, like all borrowers, must employ tlm honeycomb towards lenders.