The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-30 00:00:00

FRANCE.

We are assured, says the Union, that towards
the latter part of last week a very animated con.
versation took place between M. Drouyn de Lhuys
and Count de Goltz, the Prussian ambassador.
The intercourse between the Tuileries and the
Cabinet of Berlin are said to be growing more and
more cold, whilst it is quite the reverse between
Vienna and Paris.
Abd-el-Kader, actually residing at Cairo, has
just forwarded to the Emperor Napoleon 111. a
long memorial with reference to the present rising
in Algiers. This document, which is written in
Arabic, will be translated and published. At the
same time the Marquis de Moustier, French am-
bassador at Constantinople, has transmitted to the
chiefs of some Circassian tribes an offer to emigrate
to Algeria, where some lands will be granted to
them.

The Journal des Villes et des Campagnes notices
as follows a book which is at the present moment
creating a great deal of sensation throughout
France :—" The Frontiers of France,' such is the
title of a large volume in 18mo which has just come
out of the pen of M. Theophile lavalles, one of the
professors at the Imperial Military School of Saint-
Cyr, and well known in the literary world for his
historical works. The present bock sketches briefly
the victorious as well as the unsuccessful campaigns
which have enlarged and diminished our territories
in the course of the last two centuries, and also the
treaties which have sanctioned our victories and
our reverses."

M. Lavelle?, in his preface, protests against any
intention on his part of alluding to the engrossing
topics of the day. He has only wished to write fox
his pu, ils a book intended to complete the lessons
of history in a manner specially adapted to their
military vocations. In spite of this declaration,
which is after all supported by the long studies of
which this book presents a resume, certain news-
papers have insisted on seeing in M. Lava Lee's
work a sort of experiment—an attempt at reviving
in the hearts of the French people their grievances
against the treaties of 1815; and this preoccupation
has givPn to the new book a temporary vogue
far beyond its real merit and the object
which the author had in view. More-
over, the conclusion of the book is not
calculated to dissipate completely the suppositions
of the papers, in spite of their little foundation.
"France," says the author, has recovered her
natural frontier in the south (Nice), shall she re-
cover her natural boundary to the north (the banks
of the Rhine and of the Skeldt) Undoubtedly. She
must have the limits which the hand of God has
traced to her; those which she possessed in the
Celtic and Roman times, those which she conquered
again during her regeneration in 1789. She must
grasp within her territorf the field of Tolbiac and
the tomb of Charlemagne; she must have,
as Vauban said to Louis X iV, her square
field ! The natural frontiers of France have become
since the last twelve years a part of the public right
of Europe; they are a primordial necessity of the
modern times ; they are a pledge of the world's
peace." But if you ask from the author when this
restoration is to take place, he will answer :—" It
is a work of time, of patience, of conciliation; it
will be done without struggle, peacefully, if
Europe is wise and has confidence; it she will re-
pudiate her old prejudices and accept that which
nature, history, reason, and justice have rendered
necessary." This prospect alone will only halt
please the pupils of St. Cyr; but the end of the
paragraph is, perhaps, of a nature to bring back a
smile upon their lips :—"But from this day, and
whatever Europe may wish or do, the treaties ot
1815 have ceased to exist."

We have heard those worde already uttered on
several solemn circumstances. -Whatever may lap.

pen, the doom of the treaties of 1815 is pronounced
M. LavaHee has only summed up the case, merely
stated the points of right and fact. But it is else-
where than his book that we shall be able to find
any future information respecting the time and the
moans of execution.

The celebrated traveller and naturalist Junghuhn,
well known for his curious researches on botany,
fossils, and ethnography, has just died at Java.
His agitated life did not shake his love for science.
He was at first a surgeon in the Prussian army, but
having been condemned to twenty years in prison
in consequence of a duel, he made his escape and
went to Algeria, where he acted as medical assistant
i❑ the Fore;gn Legion. He joined subsequently
the Dutch service. He had gathered a multitude
of observations, which he published in several
works. lie was only 52 years of age.
The market has been less firm than yesterday,
and the arrival of lower quotations from England
has been fo;lovved by a retrograde movement here.
Threes, for the Account, have receded to 65fr 60c,
and Mohilier to 1,043 fr. Railway Shares quiet,
with but trifling variation in prices. The market
closed as follows :

4i per Cents. .. 93 25 Italian Loan 6g 65
00. ead month.... Do. end month 69 80
3 per Cents
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Northern
Lyons and Yieditsrmasan 877 50 .. 889
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tlTcstern ....
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Saragossa
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His Holiness the Pope.

The following is the text of the reply made by the
Pope to the congratulatory address delivered by
Cardinal Mattei, on the occasion of the anniversary
of the Pontiff's accession :—" The crown which the
Lord has deigned to place on the head of the most
humble of his servants has became the object of the
plots and artifices of the enemies of the Holy See.
One part of those adversaries have never belonged
to the Church against which they wage an implacable
war; another part, after having had the happiness
of being born within its pale, have abandoned it to
make common cause with the former. By both of
them all means of attack are considered good, per-
secutions, violence, falsehoods, and calumnies. Like
Absolom at the gates of Jerusalem, they constantly
repeat that if the crown, of which they wish to de-
spoil the Vicar of Jesus Christ, stood on another
head, justice would be better dispensed, the people
would become freer and happier, and the golden age
would age in flourish for all. I need not point out
the gross errors with which such reasoning abounds.
May those who make use of them have the heart
pierced not with the spear which went through that
of Absalom, but by a ray of divine grace, which
would make them aware of the iniquity of their
actions, and show them the abyss of the eternity
which they approach, blind'and deaf, without per-
ceiving the brink of it. And you who faithfully
assist me either in the administration of the shred
of state which has been left to me, or in the more
difficult one of the universal church, continue to
assist me with your fidelity and your devotedness.
I do not arrogate to myself the gift of prophecy, but
although I do not see in the horizon any gleam of
hope or any probability of human essistatice, I
nevertheless think I can sffirm that our sufferings,
our resignation, and our prayers will in the end
merit for us from God those mercies which he is
sometimes long in granting, but which he never re
fuses to those who area Him with fear and love."