The Sun.
London, England, 1870-02-12 00:00:00

WEST INDIES AND MEXICO.

Leave St. Nazaire on the 16th of each month for St.
Thomas, Havana, Vera Cruz, New Orleans, Porto Rico
Haiti, Santiago de Cuba, Guadeloupe, Martinique.
JAPAN, NORTH AND SOUTH PACIFIC, AND

CENTRAL AMERICA (via Panama).
Leave St.Nazaire on the Bth of each month for Mar-
Anique, St. Martha (United States of Columbia.), Colon,
Aspinwall (Isthmus of Panama), La Guayra, Porto Ca-
bello, Guadeloupe, Trinidad, Demerara, Paramaribo,
Cayenne, &c., Callao, Valparaiso, &c., San Jose, La Union,
San Francisco, China, and Japar..
Hand books, with full details of all the routes of this
company, can be had of
STRINGER, PEMBBROKE, and Co.,
Agents. 8. Austinfriars, London, E.C.

lADO - EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH
PANY (Limitcd).—New Telegraphic Route OVERLAND
TO INDIA, by Special Lines, in connection with the Govern-
ment of India Cables, through the Persian Gulf.
NOTICE.—The Tele raphic Lines of this Company, via the
above route, arc NOW open for transmission of messages for the
public.
he Charge for a message of TEN words from LONDON to
CALCUTTA, BOMBAY, MADRAS, and all places west of Chit-
tagong, is £1 17s. Od.
Messages for this marked via Indo-European, will be re-
ceived at any of the Offices of the ELECTRIC and INTERNATIONAL
TELEGRAPH COMPANY throughout the Kingdom, and at the
Offices of this Company, IG, Telegraph-strWEeet, City,
R. AVER, Secretary

KING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL, Portugal-
street, Lincoln's-inn.—The Committee earnestly
APPEAL for FUNDS to defray the heavy current ex-
penses. Assistance is urgently needed.
J. W. WALDRON, Secretary.

LIS7 FOR THE USE OF VISITORS TO

THE METROPOLIS.

ALLEGED ABSTRAGITION-Or I)=NtrirTS
FROM THE FRENCH ARCHIVES,
In Thursday's sitting of the French Chamber, M. Maurice
Richard, Minister of Fine Arts (an office which has just
been created) gave the official reply to the ques-
tion which had been • put to him on the state
of the archives. The State documents, ho said, might
be entrusted to persons on the responsibility either of the
Director or of the Minister who had deposited them. After
the lapse of a certain time they might even be destroyed. •
The archives contained nearly 129 million files. When
the correspondence of Napoleon was published it was
necessary to refer to a number of papers under the respon-
sibility of Marshal Valiant. They were removed from
the archives, but afterwards returned. M. de Keratry had
spoken of twenty-eight documents indispensable to
history. The Minister, in reply, said that
there were formerly many family documents in the
archives which have been restored to their owners. For
instance in 1848 the papers of the Orleans' family were
found in the Tuileries, and only those of historical
Interest were deposited in the Archives. The same
discretion had not been exercised with regard
to the documents be' o aging to the family of
Napoleon I, and it was right to make restitution.
M. Richard then read the decree ordering the restoration
of thirty-five private letters. It was countersigned
Rouher and Valliant. This decree had not been pub-
lished, because it was useless in such a case. Those
papers had been removed in due course from the
archives, and he (the Minister) had no., power to
obtain their restoration. With regard to the Boulogne
papers, he thought they were complete. They had been lent,
but returned. One portfolio had been given out on the
demand of Marshal Valiant. He might order the return
of that portfolio, but, on his own responsibility, he should
not do it. M. de Keratry; upon hearing this explanation,
rose full of indignatiolind declared that the ministerial
reply was comprised in Two phrases. Some of the missing
documents had been returned and others would not be
returned. He was surprised at such a reply from a parlia-
mentary Cabinet, which was following the example of
personal Government. The decree had never been
published. The Ministry knew well enough how to
enforce the law against the citizens, but it could not
enforce it against the head of the State. They were not
a Parliamentary Ministry but a Ministry of the Court.
M. Keratry proceeded to even stronger language,
which called upon him the rebuke of the President,
and M. Richard, in reply, asked him how public docu-
ments were to be useful to historians if they were to be
communicated to no one. The whole matter, he added,
had been decided before the accession of the present
Cabinet to office. M. Keratry would have resumed, but
the President insisted upon proceeding to the order of the
day.

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THF,ATRE (under the manngetnent
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I omen.

Aft r which, CIELPERIC, by Trerve: Messrs M. Marius, G
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