The Sun.
London, England, 1870-09-02 00:00:00

THE EMPRESS AND THE CAPITAL.

Apart from the progress of the war and military events
expected, which engross most people's minds to the exclu-
ajon of every other topic, the great question of the day in
diplomatic and political circles is that of the Empress and
her Government—are they, or are they not, to remain in
Varis in the event of a siege ? As you have already beentold,
the Empress is bent upon remaining, and hitherto the
Ministers apparently have not opposed her decision with
sufficient energy to shake it. A plan propOied was that
part of the Ministers should remain here, and that some
of the others, especially those of War and the Interior,
should establish themselves at Tours, or any other town
that might seem more convenient, and thence continue to
organize and direct the defence .)f the country. But to this
plan strong objections presented themselves. Under the
old absolutist regime, the Emperor might have done
whatever he liked in this way. Supposing he had chosen
to remain in Paris during a siege he might have given full
powers to persons in his confidence, have appointed them
Lieutenant-Governors or Vice-Emperors of the other
parts of France. But the country has now a Constitution
which precludes such an arrangement. The Sovereign or
the Regent (as at the present moment) must have the
Ministers near them, and must sign the decrees the latter
countersi6n. A vote of the Chamber is requisite to confer
" extraordinary powers." If the Empress is bent on re.
maining in Paris she must keep the Ministers with her. The
inconveniences of such a course and its probably disastrous
consequences for France have been already pointed out,
Moreover, for the Empress personally it would hardly be
a safe one to adopt. Paris is being armed—not only-its
forts and ramparts, but its population also, to an extent
at which some of the middle-classes begin to shake•their
heads. " Every citizen," says the law of the 29th
of August, published in to-day's Journal Qciel, "is
considered to form part of the National Guard who sport•
taneously presents himself for the defence of the territory,
with such arms as he oan obtain, and wearing one of the
distinctive signs of that body," &c. This is likely to
place arms in the hands of numbers of men very ill-affected
to the dynasty. Supposing the Prussians round Paris and
fighting going on, nothing would be easier than to get up
one of those cries so readily listened to by an excited
population, and often only too hastily acted upon—a cry
of treachery, for instance, of negotiations for a surrender
in which the Government was alleged to be engaged.
Might not this suffice to rouse revolutionary passions and
to take an armed mob to the Tuileries I—Timer' Patie
CorreVondent

SUPPOSED MURDER BY AN ITALIAN AT

CAMBER WELL.

Considerable interest was manifested on Wednesday
night in the neighbourhood of Camberwell on it being
currently reported that an aged man had been murdered
by an Italian in a fit of jealousy. As far as the facts
could be ascertained, which there is every reason to be-
lieve are authentic, it appeared that an Italian named
John Bonbenno, who was in the employ of a Mr. Smith,
a framemaker, of the Strand,!and living at 32, Claren-
don-street, Wyndham-road, Camberwell, last night went
home, and not finding his wife there, he went
in search of her, and at length traced her to the Castle
public-house, in the Camberwell-road, where she was in one
of the compai tments with the deceased. As soon as Bon-
benno saw his wife, he struck her a violent blow in the
face with his clenched fist, and the result of his violence
was a pair of black eyes; and she then left the place. It
did not attract particularly the attention of the persons
at the back of the bar, but some time afterwards 'the old
gentleman, whose name is Lewis, and who lived
in Crown Court, Liquorpond-street, Gray's-Inn-
road, was found crouched up in a corner.' At
first' it was imagined that he had fallen asleep,
but on a closer examination it was found that he
was quite dead, with several marks of violence about his
head and other parts of his person. An alarm was given,
and Police-constable William Harrison was called in, and
with assistance lifted the dead body from the floor. Medi-
cal assistance was promptly procured, but life was pro-
nounced quite extinct. On searching the deceased's clothes,
a gold watch and chain. a miniature gold locket, contain-
ing the portrait of a lady, a piece of coral attached
to a gold chain, 10s. 30. in money, a pocket-book were
found, and a pair of spectacles. Deceased was about 68
years of age. The body was at once conveyed to the
Camberwell Workhouee, and a search was made for
Bonbenno, but he was not to be found. Intelligence of
the event, however, was immediately telegraphed from
the Carter-street police-station, and Bonbenno was found
in the neighbourhood of Holborn, and taken into custody
on the charge of killing and slaying the deceased.

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