_Id._... Even the vaunted politeness and gallantry of the Frenchman is not proof against the far more deeply-bedded masculine jealousy. M. de Blowitz, the erudite correspondent at Paris of the _Times_, reports that— “The law students yesterday hooted down Mdlle. Jeanne Chauvin, 28 years of age, who was to have argued a thesis for a legal degree. She had chosen as her theme, ‘The Professions accessible to Women and the Historical Evolution of the Economic Position of Woman in Society.’ The uproar was such that the examiner postponed the ceremony _sine die_. Mdlle. Chauvin is the first Frenchwoman who has sought a legal degree, but two years ago a Roumanian lady went through the ordeal without obstruction.”—(The _Times_, July 4, 1892.) To revert to the “loaves and fishes” argument, an incident now to be given will show that medicine and the law are not the only professions in which the objections to the equal status of the sexes are largely prompted by a “jalousie de métier” of a selfish and mercenary character:— “The following letters have been received at Auckland from the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge in relation to the memorial lately sent from New Zealand in favour of the opening of degrees to women:— “‘DEAR PROFESSOR ALDIS, “‘Your very interesting memorial reached me yesterday. I still await the explanatory letter and analysis. After receiving I will write again. “‘Yours etc., JOHN PEILE, Vice-Chancellor. Christ’s College Lodge, ‘Cambridge, Nov. 2nd, 1891.’ “‘MY DEAR PROFESSOR ALDIS,