The Sun.
London, England, 1865-08-10 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, AUG. 10.
The Emperor left Plombieres this morning, and
went direct to the camp at Chalons.
Official intelligence reached here from Vera Cruz
states that, on the 14th July, the French retook
Urnpau. On the 23d July, the chief of guerillas,
Publita, was attacked by French cavalry, and
killed, together with a large number of his band.
Arteaga has been routed. It is stated that the
malcontents are now completely repulsed in the
South, and are incapacitated for a resumption of
the campaign for a long time to come. Regrete,
during his retreat, was deserted by half his soldiers.
A grand dinner was given by the Minister of
Public Instruction the day before yesterday, on the
occasion of the distribution of prizes at the Sor-
bonne. In addition to the pupils who obtained the
principal honours, there were present Mgr. Darboy,
Archbishop of Paris, Savfet-Pacha, the Turkish
Ambassador, Abd-el-Bader, and a great number of
distinguished personages. In the evening there was
a numerous reception.
Count Walewski has returned to Paris from
Kissingen.
Baron de Malaret, Minister of France at Florence,
has arrived in Paris on leave of absence.

The General Correspondence of Vienna says :
" The Austrian shipowners having on several occa-
sions expressed a desire to see, in the interests of com-
merce, the Austrian flag reappear in the waters of
the Levant, the Emperor Francis Joseph has or-
dered, on the proposal of the Ministry of Marine,
the sending of a squadron to the East. It will be
commanded by Rear-Admiral Tegetthoff, who has
received instructions to visit the archipelagoes of
Turkey and Greece and the coasts of Syria and
Egypt, as far as Alexandria. The Austrian lega-
tions at Constantinople and Athens have been
charged to inform the Ottoman and Hellenic Go-
vernments of the arrival of the squadron."
According to statistical returns there are in
Berlin 12,000 cellars inhabited, in 6,300 of which
different; trades are carried on. The thirteenth part
of tho population, or 40,000 persons, inhabit those
dens.

Official statistics show that the annual consump-
tion of Bordeaux wine in the different countries of
the Zollverein is 58,500,000 bottles, while the cus-
toms' returns prove that only 4,500,000 bottles are
imported. The native manufacture therefore fur-
nishes the remaining 54,000,000 bottles.
A telegraphic despatch from St. Nazaire states
that the steamer France, belonging to the General
Transatlantic Company, arrived there last night at
ten o'clock. She left Vera Cruz on the 14th ult.,
Santiago on the 19th, and Martinique on the 26th.
She brings 600,000 piastres as freight and 130 pas-
sengers.

The formal recognition of Prince Alfred of Eng-
land as heir to the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg took
place at the capital of that State on the 6th, being
the 21st anniversary of his royal highness's birth-
day.
The Vienna Gazette announces that the Empress
of Austria is in very good health in consequence of
her trial of the Kissengen waters, and that, accord-
ing to present arrangements, she is to be at Ischl
on the 12th inst.

The Courrier de Saigon of June 20 says :—" The
native court has given judgment respecting the five
Chinese junks captured on the coast. One only
has been dismissed freely ; two have been set at
libertytafter a confiscation of their guns, arms, and
ammunition, and the two remaining have
been declared lawful prizes and their crews
thrown into prison ; it is not yet known
what the Government will do with the
latter. The transport La Creuse, Captain Lapierre,
anchored in the roadstead of Saigon on June 11.
This vessel left St. Nazaire on Feb. 26, and touched
at the Cape Verd Islands, Simon's Bay (Cape of
Good Hope), Reunion Island, and Singapore, ac-
complishing the passage in 104 days, including
stoppages.

The electoral operations for a deputy in the Aisne
have given the following results :--Voters, 29,622 ;
required majority, 14,812 ; M. Marsaux obtained
12,319 votes ; M. de Tillancourt, 5,807 ; M. de
Montesquiou, 4,739 ; M. de Lostange, 1,417 ; M.
Waddington, 3,923 ; M. Levesque, 920 ; lost votes,
67. As no candidate obtained the requisite majority
another and definitive election will be proceeded to.
The Court of Assizes of the Seine yesterday tried
a cabinet maker named Lapierre, aged 28 on a charge
of having, at Charonne, on the 24th May last, wil-
fully wounded a man named Daubanton with intent
to murder. It appeared from the evidence that the
prisoner, a steady, industrious man, was married in
1849, and lived very happily with his wife until the
latter became acquainted with Daubanton, who
seduced her from her duties. The woman soon
afterwards left her husband, under the pretext that
shehad obtained work for some days as seamstressin
a ladies' boarding-school, at too great a distance
for her to return at night. The husband, how-
ever, having ascertained that this story was false,
and that she was living with Daubanton at a low
lodging-house in the Rue due Centre, went to see
her, and heard from her own lips a confession of
her infidelity. In his rage at this discovery he
threatened to murder her if she did not immediately
write to Daubanton giving him a rendezvous behind
the church at Charonne. The husband lay in wait
near the spot, and when Daubanton came, he rushed
forward and stabbed him in the back with a chisel.
The prisoner was immediately arrested and commit-
ted for trial. Daubanton, who had quite recovered
from his wounds, gave evidence at the trial in a most
cynical manner, and was severely reprimanded by
the President for his shameful conduct throughout
the whole affair. The Avocat-General having said
that he had felt bound to institute the prosecution
for the purpose of showing that no man had a right
to do himself justice, but that he could not press for
a conviction. the jury without hesitation at once ac-
quitted the prisoner.

The Court of Appeal gave judgment to-day in
the Montmorency case. It confirmed the judgment
of the court below so far as that court declared
itself without jurisdiction to examine the validity of
the Emperor's decree conferring the title of Duke
de Montmorency upon Count Adalbert de Talley-
rand Perigord. But-it was of opinion that as to the
arms of Montmorency which the new duke has