The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-09 00:00:00

P IRIS CORRESPONDENCE.

TUESDAY EVENING.

Rumours of a Ministerial crisis were current here yester-
day, but they are not to be relied upon. The Cabinet,
says the Siecle, has a stronger support than the Chambers,
and it will not fall unless that support be withdrawn
from it. The members of the Right, who follow Baron
Jerome David, know this as well as the members of the
Left Centre, who follow M. Buffet. Whether this be
true or not, it is certain there was a talk of a change of
Ministers, and a Cabinet, in which MM. Magne,
Pinard, Duvernois, and La Gudronniere should form part.
However, I am assured M. 011ivier, who is always an
optimist, feels more secure than ever, though it is a fact
that Bourse and Palais Bourbon have alike lost faith in
him. Whether the Tuileries is of their opinion remains to
be seen.

During the week M. Chesuelong, the reporter of the
Budget, will probably present his report. It is a suffi-
ciently voluminous work, whose printing and reading will
take about a fortnight. There is little chance that the
financial debate will begin before the 25th of the month.
The interval, however, may profitably be employed in
considering the stamp duty, the law on the municipal
nominations, and other matters which must be settled be-
tween the Cabinet and the Left Centre.

The Congtitutionnel maintains that the division between
the Prime Minister and the Right is a matter of re-
joicing. Had the Right been a little more prudent he
might have been entrapped by the wiles of his former
adversaries, whereas his real strength lies in his position
as head of a great Liberal party. If he forsakes the Left
for the Right he will abdicate into the hands of his
adversaries.

We have been holding our steeple-chases at Vincennes,
where there was a fair show of holiday-makers, notwith-
standing some misgivings as to the weather. The rain,
however, obligingly kept off until the evening, shewing
more consideration for the gaily dressed company on the
race ground than it usually does. The rain was, however,
welcome, since the country is suffering from drought,
which has probably something to do with the disastrous
fire at Fontainebleau. It broke out two days since in conse-
quence, it is supposed, of a lighted cigar being thrown
among the dry underwood of the Forest. As soon as the
extent of the danger was perceived, messengers were sent
to the town and to Melun for assistance, and troops
speedily arriving set to work to cut down the trees. So
widely had the flames spread, however, that it was not
until the following morning that the fire was entirely
extinguished. Some five hundred acres of ground have
been laid bare, and the glare of the fire was seen ten
miles off.

We seem fated to have a succession of carriage acci-
dents, and the last is a very melancholy story. Major
Chambry, of the Conseils Generaux, was driving out with
M. Husson, Inspector of the Academy, when the horses
took fright and bolted. Both gentlemen jumped out.
The Major was killed on the spot, and M. Husson severely
cut. The coachman managed to stop the horses, and went
for medical assistance, and found a Dr. Jaquemin, who,
unfortunately for himself, got into the carriage to drive
to his patient. The horses again became unmanageable
and started. They dashed against a cart, and threw
out both driver and doctor. The vehicle went over the
doctor, crushing him dteadfully,and the coachman's life is
despaired of.

A graceful old ceremony took place on Sunday at Nan.
terre. The Rosiere, who forms the heroine of so many
prettyold stories, was duly crowned. She is something like
the English May Queen, and the ceremony is a popular
one. The Rosiere this year is about seventeen years old,
and is a slight, fair girl, who gains a gold watch, brooch,
and other articles of jewellery, estimated at 600 f., by her
dignity,

Figaro took us all by surprise this morning by preten
ing to have been purchased by the Red Republicans.
Veteran as he is, M. de Villemessant will hardly obtain
the forgiveness of Jules Simon, Victor Hugo, and the
rest for his clever travesty of their politics in extremis.
The LiberM, it is again positively stated, has changed
hands, and M. Detragot, the nephew of M. de Girardin,
has become its possessor, having paid 12,000 francs for it.
In changing hands it has, I am told, changed its poli-
tics, and in the course of a few days a letter from the
editor we have known so long will announce his with-
drawal from politics. We are free to suppose that the
awkward position of his quondam ally has something to
do with the voluntary eclipse of the brilliant Emile.

The Minister of Finance in Russia has sanctioned
the employment of women as book-keepers and clerks in
custom-house offices.

The Parliamentary Session commenced yesterday
four months, and the number of public Acts (besides local
statutes) passed is 14.

The Ancestor, an old Sunderland ship, with grain
and flour, from Montreal to the Bristol Channel, has foun-
dered at sea, and will prove a heavy loss.

The Ist of July has now been definitely fixed upon
by the Reception Committee for the Prince of Wales to
lay the foundation-stone of the new school at Reading.
The Parliamentary papers published yesterday refer
to the Canada Railway Loan Act, Public Prosecutors' Bill,
Army Gymnastics, Index to Army Departments, Regis.
tered Newspapers.

The Council of the Senate of the University of
Cambridge have determined to institute a set of regula-
tions regarding the class of canoes that may be used by
students of the University on the Cam.

His Royal Highness the Field Marshal Com-
manding-in• Chief, attended by Lord William Paulet, Sir
Hope Grant, and Colonel Tyrwhitt, officially inspected
the troops at Aldershot, on Tuesday.

Eliza Wood, only 14 years of age, is now lying at
the Cheltenham Infirmary, suffering from two severe
gashes in her throat, which she inflicted because she had
been dismissed from her situation.

A prize fight for £5O took place near Glasgow
on Tuesday, between Joe M`Donald and Jamie Stewart,
two local champions of the ring. Upwards of 1,500 people
were present. M`Donald won, after sixty-one rounds.

It is reported that Mr. Fletcher, the High Bailiff
of Bury (Lancashire) County Court, drowned himself
on Tuesday near Black-lane. The deceased had held the
office of bailiff for many years.
Two tailors on strike in Cork were arrested in
that city on Tuesday for having threatened the life of a
master tailor. A loaded revolver was found on one of the
prisoners, and a bullet on the other.

The Rev. J. Moore has been appointed by the
Crown to the vicarage of All Saints, Liverpool ; and the
Rev. J. C. Gladstone to the vicarage of St. Matthew's,
Wolverhampton.
The Irish Times states that the Government will
not until next session allocate to new constituencies the seat
or seats in Ireland which the House of Commons will
have to dispose of by the disfranchisement of Cashel and
Sligo.

Over 100,000 bushels of grain are awaiting
shipment over the California and Oregon Railroad, north
of Marysville, California. It is believed that the total yield
of the State will be much larger than was anticipated a
month ago.

It is announced that the Hon. and Rev. Francis
Pelham, second son of the Earl of Chichester, the much-
respected Lord Lieutenant of Sussex, will shortly be
united to the Honourable Alice Carr Glyn, daughter of
Lord Wolverton, of Stanmore Priory, Middlesex.
It is understood that the Right Rev. Dr. C. J.
Abraham has resigned the bishopric of Wellington, New
Zealand, to which he was appointed in 1858. He is now
acting as coadjutor to the Bishop of Lichfield, who was
formerly Bishop of New Zealand.

It has now been finally decided (according to the
Eastern Budget) to send Prince de la Tour d'Auvergne
as the new French Ambassador to Vienna. The_pour-
parlers which have taken place between Count Beust
and the Duke of Gramont have greatly contributed to
this result.

The City of Paris, which arrived off Queenstown
on Monday evening, is the first steamer of the Inman
line that has brought the United States' mail since the
change in the subsidy. Irish merchants will, by this
new arrangement, have their letters three days sooner
than by the southern route.

On Tuesday Sir Stafford Northcote, Lady Northcote
and suite, arrived in Liverpool from Quebec, in the Scan-
dinavian ; Bishop M`llwane, of the United States, and
one of the late Mr. Peabody's executors, arrived in the
City of Paris ; and his Excellency the Hon. Spencer St.
John arrived in the Australian from Jamaica.

The delegates attending the Primitive Methodist
Conference have adopted a petition to the House of Com-
mons which declares that the Government Education Bill
cannot be accepted as satisfactory by Nonconformists
unless such amendments are introduced as shall definitely
secure the unsectarian character of all schools supported
or aided by school boards.

By the retirement of Vice-Admiral Sir Robert
Spencer Robinson, K.C.B. F.R.S., the Controller of the
Navy, Rear-Admiral the Hon. James Robert Drummond,
C,8., Superintendent of Devonport Dockyard, becomes
Vice-Admiral, and Captain George Henry Richards,
F.R.S., the Hydrographer to the Admiralty, Rear-
Admiral.