Parisian Notes.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVI, Issue 50, 5 April 1889, Page 3

Parisian Notes.

A NEW and ominous celebration proposed for th? centenary of the Involution is that of the promulgation of the rights of woman. A congress of the sex is about to be held, at which the method of this promulgation is to be settled upon. Coming events, however, cast their shadows before, and, if we m»y judge by some of the protests that have been made, woman will assume her rights in a very Stirling fashion indeed. One of her leaders, for rximple, declares that she will appear armed as an amazon, to crush the treacherous monster. man. What she will do when man has finally been squelched remains to be seen, and probably she herself is not prepared to say. There is room for us, therefore, to hope she may abide gracefully at rest beneath her crown of laurels. As the sex, nevertheless, is nroverbially fickle, there is also the chance that fhe may betake bereelf to raising op man again from the cru3hed condition into which she has cast him. The poor doomed wretch, at least, can only comfoit himself by hoping for the best."

The sensation of th'j period has been the icUirn of General Boulanger, by a majority of 81,. "550, out of a total of ■J.V>,B()O, at the election in Paiis. The contest was watched with intense interest. Crowds filled the streets on the polling day, and awaited the result with eagerness. Good humour, however, prevailed throughout, and the tone of the people generally Feemed in agreement, and favourable to Boulanger. The Ministerialists and anu-Boulantrists are sadly disconcerted, an i predict all kinds of evils to the country. Indeed, some of thos3 electors who supported the General have become much daunted by the cousensus of European opinion that the election is significant of trouble to come, and feel inclined to repent of the votes given by them.

A Bjulangist maniferto has been issued disclaiming all intention on the part of the General to aspire to n dictator-hip. It finds fault with the existing Republic, which it accuies of bung mnnaichic.il in everything but name, and advocates the formation ot a National Republic by which a revolution, with the probibility of the restoration of the monarchy openly acknowledged, would be avjided. The appeal, neverthe'ess, is lather vague in its arguments.

The erection of the Eiffel tower proceeds apace, and already the construction is a stujeodous obpetto contemplate. The tower is intended to hi perm-inent, and when tne approae l iin_r exhibition, m connection with which it is bung elected, has been closed it will serve for many scientific purposes. As from its summit, besides, a view will b ■ commando i of sixty milt g in cveiy dne:tion, it will be of great use should another invading army approach the capital. In tnis case it will possess the advantage ot beiog indesliuctiblc phot or shell. The frame woik ( t wmcli it i*-cmipos d ii i > too open to permit of its biing M'M'iusly d. imaged in this minncr. Tie t ower ia alnadv many feet higher tba.n any monum>'t t e\i^ting. and « hen its full alum le of lo J,) ft. is icachel, as will shorty !».■ tlccis:, the crowning work of muA gei i is, >»<> l,u as mere height is i- m < erned, will be accomplished A> tor the 'iiciiitecural el inns di the building they may ne LjII to the taste of t v ie indi\ idiul. P» an is perhaps moie curiou-* th >n be mtiful. 1' h.i-, in In d, Ik el e.nnp.ued to a vast accumulation ct &calluldiiig. Iron nf eour-e f a ins i>s in.itci lal, M. Eiffel, the architec'. fioin whom the tjwt: t.iL s r.s n uno, bting famous for bia use of tins mi tal.

High life in Fiance has iereived a rude shock, by a cnme committed within its sphere an 1 by one of its numbu^. 'J he cnme alluded to is tin murder of the lUron de Clavier^ committed by his witvJ at his chateau near Toulon. Ine lidy, it appear*, bi ing of a hot temrer and augry with h -r bus-bind, sei/.ed a carving knife and ran it into his stomach, killing him on the spot. She has bei n arrested and a cause crlebrc is looked forwaid to with interest by people who are addicted to puch cvutcraentp. The 15 iron de Claviers was distinguished a j a snrant no less than by his wealth and htandiug in society .

The crematory lately erected in the cemetjry of IV re l.i Chaise has begun Us work. The first body burned there has been that of a, little boy — the son of a Doctor Jacoby, of th. 1 Hasjbkir Tanars sect. It may, ucverthcli b 3, be txpec'oJ to take some time to icconcilc eveu French atheists to a practice so much opposed to that luting icgard for the memory of the dead which is one ot the n ablest chaiactiiistics o£ the nation. The crematory will piobably be left comparatively idle until France has proceeded some degrees lower in the scale ol trieligion.

At a meeting ol shareholders in the Panama Canal company held recently in Paris M. de Lesseps announced his intention to found a new company to take the place ot that niw existing, legally dissolved. The amount of capital, he said wou'd be 450 OOO.i'OO francs, not including interest at 5 per cent. He also promise I that bo would go personally to the Isthmus to give what assistance he could there. Whatever opinion there may be as *o the prospects of his work, everyone mast agree that the veteran engineer la a man ol indomitable spirit who deserves the utmost sympathy and reep ct.

Ihere is nothing to record of any spem 1 importance in the religious world. Unless it may be the visit of B,oi >p Coxa ot New York, recently paid to Pans for the purpose of an njg the renowned Father Hyacinth in a reorganisation of tvs Galicm Chuich. In what the reorganisation consisted, neve-theless, it woul I be dithcult to say as indeed it would be difficult to say in what the Cburch itself cjumhls. IVre Hyacinth and his Ci urch are by this time reduced to a state too lamentably ludiuuua to dciivc

benefit from anything that might be possibly done to aid them. Tt is moreover, enggestive tbat, anxious as some English Bishops are to meddle with religious affairs on the Continent, no Bishop could be found nearer than New York to arrange mutters more comfortably in the Loyson household of faith. The fall of the apostate monk has, indeed, been to the lowest depths of religions debasement. He is hardly worthy even of ridicule, being to all intents and purposes killed already.