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

Monday ovening, and will doubtless enjoy a prolonged
season of success. Mr. Fechter, who has appeared at the
French Theatre during the past and part of the present
week as Claude Melnotto, will play Don Omar de Bazan,
for the first time in this city, on Wednesday evening. His
performances are exceedingly attractive, as demonstrated by
the large audiences which assemble nightly. The muchtalko d-
of Spanish ballet troupe made their debut at the Grand Opera
House on Monday evening, appearing in the spectacular
' drama of the " Twelve Temptations." The other places
of amusement are all enjoying a fair share of patronage,
but call for no mention at the present time. Be-
fore leaving the theatrical arena I must not forget to
state that it is announced, on apparently good authority,
that the present manager of Selwyn's theatre in Boston will
retire from his position at the close of the present season,
and that Mr. Fechter will succeed him. The rumour is
plausible enough, and, if founded on fact, you will lose a
great actor, and we shall gain one, and the Alabama claims
need not be considered any fut thee.
And now let me mention minor matters in a final paragraph.
In the case of Heath et al (English stockholders of the Erie
railway) against that company, the defendants have for-
mally entered their appearance in the clerk's office of the
United States Circuit Court, and their answer will be filed
on the first of next month. The sense of decency of this
community has long enough been shocked by the doings of
Fisk and his accomplices, and we owe a debt of gratitude to
Messrs. Heath and others for endeavouring to bring them to
justice, even should the effort prove unsuccessful. The
new commissioners of the Central Park are going to introduce
a new feature into that charming place of resort, j
namely, promenade concerts on Sunday. The proposition
meets with general approbation. The work on the bridge
between this city and Brooklyn is being carried on without
interruption, and before long the two cities will be within
walking distance of one another, as they should have been
long ago. The spring Exhibition of the National Academy
of Design is, in many respects, the best ever made. Though
there are many weak and a few tad pictures, the great ma-
jority are of a high order of merit. The rooms are thronged
day and night by the fashionable world. Property to the
value of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars was •de-
troyed on Sunday last by an extensive fire in Centre-street.
The buildings burned were occupied by the New York
Printing Company. Much activity is to be noted in all the
departments of trade, and business-men look forward hope-
fully—the streets are thronged by numbers of fair women
and brave men riding in superb equipages or enjoying their
constitutional stroll. Balls and parties innumerable are
given every evening, and, in a word, the season has begun
PRINCE HAL.

PARISi CORRF,'SPO,:DENOE.

SUNDAY EVENING,

The grand ceremony of yesterday still engages general
attention, and various are the comments which are passed
upon the affair. 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 cortio
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 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 Pl -
biecite. 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 Emille 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 'hewed off the brilliant.
toilettes of the elegantes to the gieatest advantage.
There is little general news to-day, for the proceedings
of yesterday have completely engrossed the public
attention.

THE GARIBALD4N MOVEMENT IN ITALY
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

ROME, 17th May.

A separate notice of the singular outbreak of the late
eight days cannot be otherwise than interesting to your
readers, and although it has for the moment failed, it is
impossible to say when or how it may again break forth.
The facts of Catanzaro are not less significant than those
of Aspromonte, and what has passed, and perhaps is still
passing in the Maremma, is so strange in a country boast-
ing organized Government, that it is almost incredible.
I put aside for the present the hypothesis that the
movement is approved and winked at bythe Cabinet as on
former occasions. It is perfectly unfounded ; for the
monarchy only exists by sufferance, and has more to fear
from the success of the Mazzinians against Rome, than any
other power has. What is far more alarming is that the
Government of Florence was perfectly ignorant of the
scope, force, and leadership of the bands till they were all
over the province of Grosseto in which is situatedthe royal
castle of San Rossore, which is supposed to have been one
of their objects of attack, although their leader, Gagliano,
a Garibaldian officer of not very good fame, published, on
the 10th of May, the following proclamation, which de-
notes a fully developed scheme of action on a scale of which
an active and watchful Government had no right to plead
ignorance :—" Order of the day. Officers, sub-officers,
and soldiers I—Behold us here once more. Oh, my faithful
comrades on the field of glory ; behold us here in arms for
this last and decisive struggle, to sweep from the surface
of our Italy that most opprobrious and shameful stain of
the Papacy, maintained by the forces of obstruction and
foreign tyranny.

The Academy has lately been busily engaged in the
election of its two new members in place of M. do
Pougerville and the Duo de Broglie. M. Marmier
was chosen to fill the first vacancy-, and M.
Duvergier de Hauranne, the second. The latter is
:n his seventy-second year, and has attained considerable
literary celebrity. In early life ho 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 be
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 Casimir Perier. When the Mold Ministry came
into power M. Duvergier de Hauranne led the Constitu-
tional Opposition, and wrote a work on Representative Go-
vernment, 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 retirad into private life
writing his " History of Parliamentary Government in
France," his bast known work. M. , Duvergidr de
Hauranne, has three children, a son who has contributed
some readable articles to Revue des deux Maddes,
and two daughters, 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 Month-
lembert and Villemain.

" I ask of you constancy and faith in your chiefs, and
above all rigorous discipline ; remember that we are two
glorious vanguards of other and numerous legions of
volunteers, that the eyes of Italy, of our fellow soldiers,
and of the world are upon us ; which of us, then, will dare
violate the honour of our legion, of our country, and of the
Garibaldian uniform which we wear? If there be such
an one, I will have him shot without fail; and I desire
that if I should myself deviate from the paths of duty that
the same punishment-should fall on me.
" Officers, sub-officers, and soldiers,—Strong in justice
and in the holiness of the Italian cause, we will support
with courage difficulties of every kind. Privations,
fatigues, disastrous marches (.sic), and what we desire still
more—a meeting with an enemy who prevents the com-
plete emancipation of Italy and soils our beautiful land.
On, then, to the shores of Tiber, and chase for ever from
Rome the Papal` domination. Courage, oh, my brave
companions, and forward ! God is with the valiant.
Let our cry be, ' Long live Italy ! Down with the Pope-
King !'

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 6 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 ha.. attained an unenviable notoriety, has
written a letter to his colonel to ask pardon for the dis-
grace he has brought on his regiment. lie says that he
was drawn on without considering what he was doing,
and he begs the colonel to express his sorrow to his
comrades.

" The Commandant of the Legion,

" GIACOMO GAGLIANO."
This heroic patriot, whom may I observe (par parenthese)
distinguished himself for cowardice and rapine in the cam-
paign of 1867, in the province of Viterbo, and especially
at Bagnoria, where he sacked a convent of poor Francis-
cans, beat the defenceless monks, and stole their money,
and ultimately became leader of the bands in the Maremma.
The minister's Lanza was so little aware of what was going
on that he named an engineer, named Mayer as the chief.
The truth, I believe, is that Mayer has advanced funds
and lent his workmen, but did not take an active share
in the affair. Lanza has evidently been deceived right
and left by the prefects. The telegraphic communications,
too, were to a great extent in the hands of the
Mazzinians, to whom half the employes belong,
and the bands were were three hundred strong
when they seized the arms of the National
Guard at Lustignano on the 12th. That they have all
disappeared at a given signal as rapidly as they appeared,
is one of the most alarming symptoms, and only proves
the perfect organisation of the Garibaldian committees.
Considerable excitement prevails in Rome, and Colonel
Aletti despatched two companies of lancers by
rail to Montalto, on a four days' expedition, yester-
day morning, with orders to patrol the country,
from Aquapendente to Orte Valentano, the extreme
confines of the Pontifical States on the Tuscan frontier.
A number of bad characters, long known to the police as
agents of the insurgents, have left Rome to join the bands,
and several arrests have been made; but nothing further is
anticipated for the present of a dangerous character,
although the agitation is universal in Southern and Cen-
tral Italy, and Lanza's downfall is considered imminent,
after the proofs of incapacity he has given.
The weakness of the Administration has never
been more evident. In spite of the repeated
armed outbreaks in Calabria, and of the fact that at
least XOO persons were concerned in them, numbers of them
prisoners, it L notorious that no proceedings will be taken
to vindicate the law. Menotti Garibaldi was, there is not
a rational doubt, the organiser• of the movement, and his
brother Ricciotti is still with the bands at Costalo. His
servant is among the prisoners, and was severely
wounded.

Dr. Cabarrus has been buried in Pke-la-Chaise. He
has appointed Emile de Girardin, of the Liberty, 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 codes, 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,!his
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,—
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 biirdeii. when neithef 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.

In Naples there have been two emeutes of the students,
and the University is dosed in consequence, and every-
thing presages further disorders,
I learn this moment that a squadron of Dragoons has
left Rome to reinforce the frontier posts, and that an in-
crease of the French garrison at Civita Vecchia and
Viterbo will take place at the first sign of danger. There
is a report of a movement in Sicily, and of the desertion of
a body of troops in one place. Several sub-officers of
the garrison of Livorno have already joined Gagliano.
The tranquility of the Roman frontier has not been hitherto
affected, but as Rome is full of revolutionary agents, a
considerable amouat of uneasiness exists. Many of the
great Roman families dare not leave home for their
annual journey to Paris or the German baths, and are
already goncealing their plate and jewels.

AN 4MERIOAN OAATOR. Mr. Chandler, a
,
member of the *United States SOnetei 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 ! Mr. President," he ex-
claimed, "is that gorged and insolent brute the
BriffSher, wlw 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 "ultiniate attitude of impudence
for him, or even his catspaw, the Dominion, of Canada,
to talk about getting up an expedition tD settle the
hash of these Red River patriots, who want to be
annexed to us, who are a hundred thousand strong,
and Who liave control over a territory to which that of the
Dominion'is tint' a: Speck on the map ?.Here, Howard, hold
this up, will you hero the senator thrust into the
hands of one a. his colleagues a 'map Of North America,
and made him hold it up to the view of the Senate;' white
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 -Crown to flinders ; to arrange for some
on,-) or two hundred thousand British graves forthwith ;
t.) cabbage the whole boundless continent without any
further procrastination."., ' • •

THE PALL MALL FRACAS.—It stated that the
"peremptory interference of friends" ha's retßated in a
settlement of the fracas between two members ofthe
Reform Club—one of them a member of Parliament.

Fnuwa vrox TIE BIILLFINCH.—The Bombay
Government have received a letter from Colonel Pelly,
which gives details of the firing on one of the boats of
H.M.S. Bullfinch, which gave rise to apprehensions of
troubles in the gulf. Captain Godder repoited "to the
British Consul, at Muscat, that the Bullfinch's boat bad
been tired upon as it passed between the mainland and
the Port Tejalee. It now appears that the British Govern-
ment need not be refeired to; the Consul having summoned
the Muscat Agent; received for explanation that the
mistake .
had arisen through the darkness of the night.
A written account of the affair was afterwards given,
which was to the effect that merchant vessels having come
into the harbour, the guards of the fort had been directed .
to keep a good look-mit to prevent smuggling, and that
the whole was a PieCe of gross carelessness, " for which
the Ogyernor of the Voi't ihe4 been imprisoned, and all)
the garrison. charge.Pl-77.:?'

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

TIM PRESS LAWS IN FRANCE.

The 'Committee of the Corps Legislatif appointed to
inquire into the- operation of the newspaper stamp duty
has presented its report. It consists of five articles, the
first of which provides that from the Ist of January next
the stamp duty upon newspapers shall be abolished.
Article 2 makes it obligatory that the transmission
of all periodical publications beyond the locality
in which they are issued hail be through the Post-
office, and that the postal charge shall be two centimes
for 20 grammes weight, with proportionate increise of
charge for greater weight. The next article propo to
diminish these charges by one-half for all newsvers
published in the departments, except that of the Seine,
and circulating in the department in which they are pub-
lished and the adjoining departments. No additional
postal charge is to be made on account of suppler rents
containing the official reports of the proceedings in the
Legislature. The report was received very coldly by the
Chamber, and it is regarded as very doubtful whether
any change in the actual regulation affecting the Press
will be adopted during the present session. In the slight
discussion which occurred on Wednesday, M. Fillancourt,
the reporter of the committee, alluded to a proposition
made by M. Emile 011ivier, which chewed that he was not
very friendly towards entire freedom of the press. The
Paris Journal explains this incident by stating that one of
the deputies, M. Haentjens, having strongly urged the
necessity for a total abolition of the newspaper stamp
duty, M. E. 011ivier replied to him, " This is a question
which must be regarded in a political as well as a financial
light, and I desire to select my own time for dealing with
it. It would certainly not be aereeable to me to esta-
blish a Marseillaise in every departMent." In the mean-
time the discussion upon the Press law goes on, but a
suspicion prevails that even if the Corps Legislatif should
adopt any decision upon the subject involving any modi-
fication of the existing restriction, the measure would be
effectually strangled in the Senate.