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New Zealand Tablet, Volume X, Issue 514, 16 February 1883, Page 9

Within two years twenty-fire British officers have entered the wine trade. Mr. Crawford, a wealthy Londoner, offers to erect at his own cost a statue of Burns, the poet, on the Victoria Embankment. The statues already in position there are those of Mill, Brunei, and Outram. Mr. Lilyvick, in " Nicholas Nickleby," considered that French was not a cheerful language, and if recent stories published concerning the streets of the French capital be true, Paris is not a cheerful city to be abroad in after dark. This is what a late report says of it :— " The strange and horrible scenes enacted nightly in some of the ordinarily frequented quarters of Paris would make one imagine that the most civilised people of the universe had suddenly become more savage and lawless than the Ku Klux Klan of America. It is not an uncommon thing for a foot passenger returning home from the theatre to be stayed in his promenade by a human form flung from an upper window and falling lifeless at his feet. Nor is it rare to be accosted by a group of brigands who pinion their victim behind while the accomplice, rifles his pockets. Even in the aristocratic streets it is dangerous to remain out late at night, and the police are becoming less end less able to compete with the dangerous organisation of thieves, who usurp the pavement." — Pilot.