I shall better still define the respective condition of the Mussulman and French morals and laws by recalling to recollection that Emir who went about Paris displaying, in a triumphal manner, two girls under age purchased under the title of wives. If we take the oneness and the sacred nature of our indissoluble marriage-institution as the measure of this outrage on the dignity of humanity, we see in it a defiance to our civilisation. It is, nevertheless, a fact that Abdel Kader could have been supplied with human flesh on the Parisian market on much easier terms; if he repudiates his Circassians, he must provide for them, while he would have been free, on his departure, to turn Parisians out into the street. In the investigation of our scandalous morals, we shall meet, among our officials, with types of degradation which would make the Grand Chief Mussulman blush. If, therefore, from our lawful monogamy to the Arab polygamy, the distance from heaven to earth be measured, there is between our irresponsible profligacy and that polygamy all the interval from earth to hell. Before our time the children born in the harem belonged to the father; in our time, those born out of it belong to the mother. The economical results of this state of things, in a country where woman has no means of support, can be calculated. Footnote 9: Some years since, a wealthy foreigner offered a brothel-proprietress 10,000 francs (£400) for a young girl. She bought her from a greedy mother, who was to receive half the price of the sale, but the procuress disappeared after delivery of the girl, and receiving payment for her. The mother, disappointed of the part she agreed for, went to a lawyer with her case, but he declined to have anything to do with this unsavoury affair. Footnote 10: At the July Revolution, the gates of St. Lazare were opened for them, but they declined to go out from it. Footnote 11: A Parisian tenant was complaining that the house which he thought was well-tenanted should lodge women of doubtful reputation and be the theatre for riotous and scandalous orgies. The porter replied: “These women, who pay for their occupancy as you do, are more generous than yourself; if you are not satisfied with the neighbourhood you can look for a better—in any event, _their money is worth as much as yours_.” Footnote 12: Brière de Boismont has made out a list of seventeen suicides, in ten years among the girls registered in Paris. Footnote 13: Lamartine—History of the Girondins. Footnote 14: According to Lairtullier, she stabbed him herself with a dagger. Footnote 15: “He who takes a prostitute for his wife,” says Innocent III., “performs an act of piety, for he rescues her from the road to ruin, and obtains forgiveness of his sins.” Footnote 16: The livre was worth about 10½d. Footnote 17: