Paris by sunlight and gaslight. A work descriptive of the mysteries and miseries, the virtues, the vices, the splendors, and the crimes of the city of Paris. By James D. McCabe. Illustrated with over 150 fine engravings, by Gustave Doré and other celevrated artists of France.

274 PARIS BY SUNLIGHT AND GASLIGHT.
fair delinquent, and charged her with her fault, which she
indignantly denied, and demanded to see the letters. The
Signor coolly held them before her, and she at once proclaimed them the exercises she had written at his dictation. Of
course her husband could no longer doubt her innocence, and
the Italian did not attempt to deny it. He confessed the plot,
but demanded ten thousand francs for the exercises, and
threatened to show them publicly in the social circles in
which Cockney had moved, and even to send them to the
friends of his victims in England. It was a most unfortunate
as well as an infamous complication. Cockney was perfectly
convinced of his wife's innocence, but knew also that to make
the so called letters public would damage her as much as if
they were genuine. The result was a compromise, and Cockney paid five thousand francs for the letters. The documents
once in his possession, he seized the Italian by the collar and
kicked him into the street. The Signor complained to the
police, Cockney was arrested, and being unwilling to state
the cause of his quarrel with the wretch, was fined roundly
for his assault, and only saved from a week's imprisonment by
the interposition of influential friends.
Spiritualists, bogus inventors, and the like, are " thick as
hops" in Paris, and the manner in which they succeed in
getting the better classes into their toils, may be seen from
the following account of a suit recently tried in one of the
French courts.
"The long pending case of Princess Isabeau de Beauvau
Craon," says a letter written from Paris, " has come to a close
and it is so long since the last hearing that I am afraid I must
refresh the reader's memory, and tell him what it was all
about. The suit was brought by Princess de Beauvau, who
petitioned the Civil Tribunal of the Seine to' interdict' Princess Isabeau, her daughter, or, in plain English, to declare her