The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-04 00:00:00

PARIS CORRESPONDENCE.

THURSDAY EVENING.
The relative positions of the Left and the Left Centre
are of course the great topics of the day. Ernest Picard's
manifesto in the Electeur Libre, his own paper, is generally
commented on. He avers that the seventeen deputies who
act with him and who thought it advisable not to associate
their names with those of the journals at the time of the
plebiscitary demonstration, have no wish to break off
from their old part. He denies indignantly that there is
any truth in the rumours that they have made any compro-
mise with personal power. M. Picard thinks the great
line of distinction between parties in the Chamber should
be drawn between the official candidates and the inde-
pendent members. Had this distinction, he avers, been
preserved, we might by this time have had that new and
freely elected Chamber, "without which our Constitutional
reforms will never be perfect. The Electeur Libre says
that the members of the Left who had not signed
the journalist's manifesto immediately afterwards invited
their former colleagues to resume their deliberations with
them, and until they receive a definite answer
to this appeal they must maintain a suitable reserve.
The Left Centre held a meeting last night, at the grand
hotel, to discuss the nomination of the Mayors. The
Marquis d'Andelarre presided, and M.M. Buffet and
Daru were present. In a preliminary discussion it was
decided that the constitution of the Bureau should be

postponed till quieter times, and then the great mayor
question came up for discussion. Several members
present proposed that the mayors should be chosen by the
municipal councils, after your English fashion. Count
Daru and M. Bodmir thought it better the
mayors should be chosen by the Executive,
from a list of three members. Others, among
whom was M. Brame, supported the Govern-
ment scheme, which M. Buffet observed was the
only one possible if their programme was not carried out,
and he added that he thought it better to give a vote of
confidence to the existing Cabinet, h w Ter faulty, than
to provoke a Ministerial crisis. This conclusion was not
very well received, and,several members p t left rather
than vote.

The Siecle is satirical at the expense of the new Alge-
rian Constitution, which it compares to a wealthy old
lady who was more anxious to gain than to deserve a repu-
tation for open-handedness. She would call a beggar
across the street, and putting her hand in her pocket turn-
over ostentatiously a handful of gold. The expectant
suppliant would eagerly watch her, and would by-and-
bye receive a single Hard.
Louis Blanc has written to the Temps about the Uni-
versity Tests Bill, which he describes as more strange to
French ideas than to the French language. He gives a
sketch of the bill, and traces the .various successes and
defeats which its projectors have met with. He declares
that when once an idea has taken possession of the public
mind in England, it is difficult to uproot it. Mr. Glad-
stone's change of opinion on the subject meets his com-
mendation, and he honours him for his enlightened con-
duct. There are enough political persons who retrograde
in their movements ; let us lose no opportunity of doing
honour to those who advance.

The Jews of Paris have sent a circular to the Emperor
thanking him for the proof of his liberal sentiments which
he has given in nominating to the Senate a member of the
Jewish persuasion. They venture to make a suggestion
to the Emperor to the effect that the only superior chief
of the Jewish religion in France, the Grand Rabbi of the
Central Consistory, should be chosen for the honourable
position of senator. This decision will, they are con-
vinced, receive the approval of foreigners as well as of the
French nation.

The Gazette des Tribunaux mentions that the First
Advocate-General has proposed to send for trial seventy-
four persons accused of being mixed up in the plot
against the Government. The-Afarseillaise has been pro-
secuted once more on two charges—first, for exciting
hatred against the Government, and secondly, for giving
notice of a public subscription to raise the amount of the
fines to which it had been condemned on a previous

conviction.
A dancer at the Vienna Opera has just died from the

effects of the burns she has received.

Many thousand

persons attended her funeral. It is a deplorable thing
that no experience can. induce the authorities of operas
and theatres to insist on the use of uninflammable ma-
terial for the dresses of their employes.
Guillaume Bayor, who was condemned to death for as-
sassination, followed by robbery commited in a railway
carriage, has paid the penalty of his crime at Valence.
He displayed the greatest cynicism during his last
moments, and made flippant remarks to the crowd.

LONDON GAZETTE---I=,st Evening,