Parisian dissipation.
--A Paris letter says:‘ --For the present every one here belonging to the upper classes seems to be bont upon pursuing a round of dissipation too fatiguing to be sociable. The Countess, Persigny has brought in, by giving her last ball at midnight, a fashion in a fair way of being widely adopted, as well as one that will make the sociability of the brilliant world more life-consuming than it has ever been. Seireez now commence long after 10, private conderts at about 11, and balls at 12. The wearing affects of such unnatural hours on the constitution are warded off by the ladies, and, indeed, often by gentlemen, in a manner, so ingenious that it deserves to be recorded. Dinners are ordered half an hour earlier than they are usually served and, instead of being finished at half-past 7 or 8, are over at 7 and half- past 7, so that persons of quality can go to bed and have a long sleep before they dress to go cut at midnight." ’
