NOTES FROM PARIS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XII, Issue 42, 6 February 1885, Page 7

NOTES FROM PARIS.

(The Nation, December 20.) The two nations that German influence may injure or serve — England and France— are at open warfare in the Press with each other. The Times exaggerates every defeat of the French troops in China, and the French papers make bitter comments on the war in Egypt , but the change that has come over the Journal des Debatg, so long devoted to the English all alliance is particularly significant. M° Leroy Beaulieu says in the number of 4th December : " Let the Germans by all means make colonies. Let them settle down at Agra Pequena, in the Cameronias, or in any other free place in Western Africa. Far from complaining or being jealous, we shall • applaud them for doing so. Tuat active and prolific German r.ice in forming colonies in the vacant places in our globe, would save the civilised world from a peril which is no trifling one. It would prevent the world from falling under the uniform and oppsessive yoke of the British race, and introduce some variety into the world, and variety U one of the best elements of progress iv Christian nations. In taking possession of half the world the English and the Americans would soon banish all variety, and would in the end submit it to the most sterile and monstrous uniformity. This from the tober Debats means more than bitter attacks on British policy in other papers. The long article, Les Luttes dt Vlrlande, which appeared in the Nouvelle Revue, I learned had been sent to several Irish papers. I shall refrain from giving the extracts I had translated, not wishing to treat a subject which, no doubt, will be noticed by writers far better able than I am to write on such a subject. It must seem strange, but it is quite true, that at no time within the last 20 years were there so many clever writers engaged in the study of Irish afiairs as there are at present. One great advantage will com^> from their writings, and one that should bs appreciated, however the opinions of the foreign students of Irish history may differ, and that is, that they will prevent the opinions of British writers from obt lining credence abroad as was the case too long. The cholera has decidedly come to an end in Paris. The Little Sisteis of the Poor are allowed to go about begging for the old men in their asylum, which was for a short time the principal focus of the scourge. I had the pleasure of taking a few hundred francs, which were sent me by four Irish prelates and a good priest in Paris, to the Sisters last week. The superioress gave me a sad account cf their sufferings, when fifty of the old men were carried off in a few days, and two of the Sisters with them. She complained particularly of the loss sustained in the bedding, which had nearly all to be destroyed. Letters of thanks were sent to the good prelates, and La Pauvre Irlande got the prayers and blessings of Lex Petites Saurs des Pauvres. I saw some of the survivors, fine old men, walking about the grounds, where everything is clean and orderly. As I am closiug ioy notes I see by the papers that an entente between Germany and England is said to be made, of course at the expense of France. It is rumoured also that that the latter country is disposed to give one of her foieign colonies in exchange for Alsace and Lorraine. That would be a move that would settle many impor tant things, and put an end to every idea of what is called la, recancne, J. P. L.