The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-24 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 24, 1870.

PARIS CORRESPONDENCE.

SUNDAY EVENING.

The grand ceremony of yesterday still engages general
attention, and various are the comments which are passed
upon the &fair. Taken as a whole, the Emperor's speech
has been a decided success, and contributed
not a little to strengthen the position already secured
by the Plebiscite. Some surprise has been expressed
at the comparatively small attendance which was observ-
able on the occasion, but this may be accounted for by
the fact that the Emperor went to the place of
rendezvous by the new galleries, and not by
the Place of the Carrousel. The Parisians love
shows, and as it was known there would be no corteye
they were not over anxious to appear. Some further
changes were made in the disposition of things inside,
Hitherto the Emperor alone has occupied the throne, and
the Prince Imperial and Prince Napoleon were on each
side of him a step lower, while the Empress had a
seat placed for her to the left of the Throne. Yester-
two chairs exactly similar were occupied by the Emperor
and Empress and the Prince Imperial and the other
princes of the Imperial Family were to the right. When
the door of the Rubens Gallery was opened to admit the
procession the sight was a fine one. The princes
and the princesses joined the Sovereign in the
Salle Dnon, where the Cent S Gardes were in
attendance. The reception which the Emperor met with
from the assemblage was most enthusiastic. The cheers
were repeated again and again. The Emperor appeared
delighted, the Empress smiled graciously, and the Prince
Imperial appeared somewhat gene. M. Schneider next
made his appearance, and handed the Emperor a small
roll of paper, which represented the all-important Phi-
biscite. The Emperor inclined his head in approval
when the President touched upon any important point in
his address, which was several times interrupted by loud
applause. The Emperor then delivered his reply. The
speech was received throughout with cheers, and at the
conclusion the applause was so great that the Imperial
cortege had driven away before the acclamation ceased.
Among the noticeable incidents of the affair may be men-
tioned that M . de Gramont inadvertently entered the hall
bythe door of the Denon gallery, instead of by the usual en-
trance. His striking appearance and imposing deport-
ment produced a decided effect upon the company. The
Prefect of the Seine also met with a warm reception
People crowded round him, and inquired with interest
after the state of his health. The Empress was elegantly
attired, and appeared to great advantage. The belles of
the assemblage were Madame Emilie 011ivier and
Madame Carette, whose fresh spring toilettes imparted a
liveliness and grace to the solemn and imposing scene.
The hall was crowded to excess, and before eleven all the
places reserved for the public were filled to overflowing.
The sun shone brightly, and chewed off the brilliant
toilettes of the elegantes to the greatest advantage.
There is little general news to-day, for the proceedings
of yesterday have completely engrossed the public.,
attention.

The Academy has lately been busily engaged in the
election of its two new members in place of M. de
Pougerville and the Duc de Broglie. M. Marmier
was chosen to fill the first vacancy, and M.
Duvergier de Hauranne, the second. The latter is
'An his seventy-second year, and has attained considerable
literary celebrity. In early life he spent a year in Eng-
land, and on his return he published some remarkable
letters on Ireland and the English electoral system in the
Globe, which he edited together with Guizot and De
Remusat. Elected deputy for Cher by the College
of Saucerre, he speedily acquired distinction in
in the Chamber, where he gave an energetic support to the
policy of Casimer Perier. When the Mole Ministry came
into power M. Duvergier de Hauranne led the Constitu-
tional Opposition, and wrote a work on Representative Go-
vemment,inwhich he used a phrase which afterwards became
famous. " The King reigns, but does not govern." Later
on he opposed his old associate Guizot, when he came into
office, on the question of the secret vote, and subsequently
raised the whole question of Electoral Reform. I have
not, space to chronicle all the prominent events of his life.
but his speeches at the public banquets before the Or-
leans downfal excited much attention, and some years
later he was one of those politicians who were arrested in
coup d'etat. After a few weeks' imprisonment he was
expelled from France, but returned thither at the close
of the same year and retired into private life
writing his " History of Parliamentary Governihent in
France," his best known work. M. Duvergier de
Hauranne, has three children, a son who has contributed
some readable articles to Revue des deux Mondes,
and two danghters, married to M.M. Buffet
and Target. M. Marmier's reputation is ex
elusively literary. He has travelled extensively, and
has given the world the result of his observations
in numerous volumes. Formerly the chief editor
of the Revue Germanique, he is now one
of the regular contributors to l'Union, and has
in the interval filled one or two official literary
posts. There still remain two vacant chairs in the
Academy, for death has made havoc of late among its
members. Those now unoccupied were filled by Monta-
lembert and Villemain.

The " shadow feared of man " has been busy, too,
among the rank of amateur artists and collectors in Paris.
After M.M. La Cage, Thor Reiset, Demidoff, &c., M.
Otto Mundler has passed away in his turn. M. Mundler
was only fifty-nine ; he was an acknowledged authority
among connoisseurs, and was always ready to lend a
helping hand to novices.
Beaury, who has attained an unenviable notoriety, has
written a letter to his colonel to ask pardon for the dis-
grace he has brought on his regiment. He says that .he
was drawn on without considering what he was doing,
and he begs the colonel to express his sorrow to his
comrades.

Dr. Cabarrus has been buried in Pere-la-Chaise. He
has appointed Emile de Girardin, of the Liberte, his
executor, specifying him as the man whom of all the
world he has most loved.

M. Guizot has left Paris for the provinces after having
presented to the Emperor the resolutions passed by the com-
mittee of superior instruction. The conference between the
former President of the Council and the Emperor lasted
more than an hour, and included some of the political
problems of the day, as well as those educational per-
plexities of which England has by no means the mono-
poly.

ESPARTERO AND THE CROWN OF SPAIN.
The Epoca publishes the following correspondence
which passed between the Marquis of Castillejos and Es-
partero respecting the Spanish throne. "To the Duke
of Vittoria.—Honoured Senor,—The Government of
the Regent of the kingdom believes the time has arrived
to complete the work of the revolution by the election of
a king. The honourable ministers who preside over the
existing Government are animated by the most patriotic
sentiments. In discussing the nomination of a
monarch, it is possible that the partisans of your
Highness may consider the pacificator of Spain the
best qualified. I am directed by the Government, as on
similar occasions, to ascertain whether your highness, in
case of being elected by the Constituent Cortex, will ac-
cept the Throne of Spain. The Government
has no candidate • but it is its duty to take
care that no party shall agitate in favour of
a candidate who would not accept the election.
Your Highness will understand the feeling which animates
the Government. This letter is sent by an old friend,kis
Excellency Senor Pascual Madoz, deputy of Cortes,
who is one of the most devoted of your adhe-
rents,—Accept, &c, the Marquis de los Castillejos."—
"To the Marquis de los Castillejos. Excellent Senor,7--
His Excellency, Don Pascual Madoz, has delivered to me
a communication from you, asking if I would accept the
Crown of Spain in the event of my election by the
Cortes. lam grateful from the bottom of my heart
for the consideration of the Government, and I am
always ready to give my life for the liberty and the good
of my country, but my conscience obliges me respect-
fully to declare that it would be impossible for me
to accept so lofty a burden when neither my health
nor my years would allow me to discharge
the duties belonging to it.—With all consideration, THE
DUKE OF VITTORIA." The Epoca thinks this letter does
not in any way account for the persistence of Espartero's
friends on the subject.

AN AMERICAN ORATOR. Mr. Chandler, a
member of the Uuited States Senate, is well known to
bear no good will towards England. It seems, too, that
he has rather a remarkable mode of expressing his
opinions now and then. The other day he brought up a
resolution directing the President to treat with the Red
River insurgents. "My God 1 Mr. President," he ex-
claimed, "is that gorged and insolent brute the
Britisher, who owes us half the cost of the late war,
to be allowed to gobble up any more territory on this
Continent ? Isn't it the ultimate attitude of impudence
for him, or even his catspaw, the Dominion of Canada,
to talk about getting up an expedition t) settle the
hash of these Red River patriots,' who want to be
annexed to u, who are a ' hundred thouifilid. strong,
and who have control over a territory to which that of the
Dominion is but a speck on the map ? Here, Howard, hold
this up, will you And here the senator thrust into the
hands of one of his colleagues a map of North America,
and made him hold it up to the view of the Senate, while
he went on to descant upon his theme. "It is our mis-
sion," said he "to snatch this domain out of the hands of
the Canadians; to chain up any British troops that might
be sent to Winipeg • to take the earliest opportunity to
knock the British drown to Binders ; to arrange for some
one or two hundred thousand British graves forthwith ;
.and to cabbage the whole boundless continent without any ,
furiter procrastination."i