The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-30 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

LREUTER'S TELEGRAMS.]

FRANCE.

The Emperor and Empress were present yester-
day evening at the representation given at the
Opere-Comique, on the occasion of the anniversary
of Ilaievy's birthday. The perform ince consisted
of the Eclair and a musical interlude. Their .I)iajes-
ties remained to the close.

The thirteen deputies who have voted against the
Budget of 1865, were MM. Carnot, atrimon,
Dorian, Jules Favre, Garnier.Pages, Glas.B.:zoin)
lienon, Magnin, Marie, Emile Oilivier, Pelletan,
Picard, and Jules Simon. Among the Opposition
members who, although present, took no part i❑
the vote, weie MM. Berry r, Gueroult, and Navin,
M. 'Tiers voted for. •

The works for the restoration of the Cathedral of
Notre-Dame being nearly finished, the consecration
of the building has been fixed for the 31st instant.
It may appear singular that the venerable old build-
ing should have existed for so many centuries
without having witnessed this solemn ceremony.
Such is the fact, nevertheless, as will be seen by the
following sketch of its history. Ia the time of the
Emperor Tiberius, the site of the cathedral was
occupied by a temple of Jupiter,on the ruins of which
the first Christian church was raised seen after the
conversion of the Gauls by St. Denis the Martyr.
Several churches were successively erected on the
same spot, and destroyed in the troublous centuries
which followed, and in 1163 the first stone of the
present building was laid, during the episcopate of
Maurice de Sully, by Pope Alexander 111., who had

hen fled to France to escape the persecutions of

the Emperor Frederick and Victor, the anti-Pope.
Bishop Maurice died in 1193,s laving the cathe-
dral still unfinished, and the works were eon.

tinned by 0.10 de Salley, his successor, till 1203, in
which year he died. During the succeeding cen-
turies the building advanceu but slowly, and much
of what had been already completed was mutilated
by injudicious changes. The western front was
erected in the 13th century, and the two tran-
septs i❑ the 15th, During the test two centuries
the church underwent many capricious alterations,
but made little advance towards completion, when
the great revolution came and menaced ,its total
destruction. The injuries then inflicted had bee❑
bu, partially repaired when a popular tumult in
1831 destroyed the archbishop's palace and seriously
damaged fte cathedral. Little was done to remedy
the damage till 1845, when the Government en-
trusted the direction of the works to MM. Lassos
and Viollet-Leduc, and they have continued tilt
now with occasional intermissions ; thus, after
being in the hands of masons end artificers for more
than seven centuries, the old cathedral is at last in

a fit state to ieccive its solemn consecration.

BOURSE, May 28.—The market has not been very
animated, but previous prices well maintained.
Threes, far the Aocount, are unvaried at M. 70e.,
and Mobilier at 1,1471. 50c, .?..-f.ailway Market also
firm. The market cloaed as foLows

41 per Cents 93 10 Italian L 09,13 69 20
Do, end month.... Do. end month 69 10
3 per Cents
Do. end month.... 66 75 Now Mesicaa .... 59 75
Credit Mobilier.... 1150 Russian.
Do. end month.... 1145 Austrian
BAnk Shat-es 3380 Spi,,riieh Threes
Credit It oncier 1240 ome Debt 50 75
Roman
IF A Yte
(;:ash.
Urleani ..... 575
No here
995 .. 990
Lyons end neditc-agzeari 577 50 877 50

Account.

New ditto
S,)ut horn
Vv'este,-r,
Eastern ..... 465 25 46G 25
SarJiniata 363 75 ~ 36.5
Atte:rim-I -
Lon-bird

North of Spain
Saragossa.. 555 552 50
Ditto to Barcelona

THE CONFERENCE.

The Coneitutionnel publishes at the head of its
columns and with a great display of type one of
those aricies which it desires to be considered as
semi-official. The sutjsct is the probable csurse of
action which the Confercece msy decide en for the
Dushies. The writer declares that there can be but
two modes of solving the difficulties which exist :
" Either," he soya, " the stipulations decided on in
1852 must be returned to, and France w ho signed those
arrangements has no motive for opposing such a
course, if it were admitted that they have still any
practical value, or the causes which led to the war in
spite of those stipulations would appear to have such a
character of gravity and permanencythat the old order
of things must be abandoned, and other combina-
tions sought for. In the latter case the Principal
object should have been, and has been to remedy
the inconveniences which'the arrangements of 1852
have produced, and to prevent the same causes frcm
leading to similar difficuities for the future. If
there be one point evident and beyond all discus-
sion, it is that the struggle hes raised a qucstion of
nationality. Time, instead of bringing about a re-
conciliation between two races, has only caused the
differences to be more strongly marked, aid excite
rival and long-standing pretensions. For that cause
of disturbance there is, in the opinion of ail serious
and disinterested men, only one really eff,ctual
remedy—separation—that-is to say, the union
to Denmark of the Danish part of Schleswig
and the formation of a German State out
of Holstein and the German part of Schleswig.
In the interest of the integrity of the Danish mos
narchy, combined with German aspirations, an idea
was at first entertained that the new State might
be united to Denmark lay a hoed less close and less
immediate, and the expression personal union' was
mentioned. Bat, in addition to the complications
with which such sin arrangement would saddle the
future, it would not remove any of the embarrass-
ments of the present, since three would still be the
union, and from the forced union it is that the war
resulted. That combination was therefore soon
abandoned, and the effective separation
only seri-
ously remained under consideration. What we
must now ask is, what will the new German State
be, and what will it become ? Danish Schleswig
is and remains Danish ; that is well understood
But how will the fate of the new State be regulated
and who will be its Sovereign,? On that subject, the
political principles of Imperial France are well
known. She dos not admit that a Sovereign should
be given to a country, or a nation to a Sovereign,
independently of the will of the people. The
French Government has therefore put forward the
principle most in conformity with the ideas of
modern civilisation, and has dernaricled that the
nation interested should be called on to decide its
own fate. The fate of that suggestion has been
what frequently happens from the most just and
the truest propositions. It at first excited astonish-
ment ; but afterwards by degrees that feeling was
followed by adhesions, which increased to such a de-
gree that we feel no hesitation in believing in the
success of the French proposition, and that such will
be the ground on which coneilation will be effected."
The Presse speaks strongly against the pretension,
attributed by come of the French journais to Eng
land, of wishing to interdict the formation of a
Federal port at Kiel. The writer says ;—" The
question is nothing less than to bring forward in
the Conference, and perhaps at the next sitting, the
pretension of prohibiting Germany from making
Kiel a Federal port. If, on the one hand, there be
understood all the interest which England, and she
alone, would have in Germany being forever deprived
of a naval force, every
one will, on the other hand,
admit that such a pretension is quite inadmissible.
Supposing that Holstein and a part or Schleswig
should form, as an independent State, part of the
Germanic Confederation and that point being ad-
mitted by England herself, the question as to when
ther the Confederation will establish a Federal port
and the point whore She will do so within her
own territory comes exclusively under the com-
petency of the Germanic Body, and in no way
under that of the Cenference of London. Eng-
land, in spite of this elementary principle, cer-
tainly entertains the project we speak of, but
we consider it difficult for her to reasonably submit
it to the Conference. We feel on this sutject a
hope and a certainty—the hope is that the prudence
of the other Governments will prevent England
from Olefin?, such a gratuitous insult to Germany;