The Sun.
London, England, 1869-01-29 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, THURSDAY, January 28.

Three demands for interpellation havebeen submitted to
the bureaux, and two have been rejected. These related to
the Interior ; the third, which was accepted, referred to
the right of public meeting. One of the two rejected
demands was preferred by the Left, the other by the tiers
parti. It seems that the bureaux were by no means
unanimous in their opinion on these demands. Both Were
lost only by a division of votes in one or two
of the home bureau; and this division was interpreted in
the sense of rejection, contrary to the law which provides
that such division shall be deemed equal to acceptance.
Both the Third Party and the Left have protested against
the decision. A lively debate took place yesterday between
M. Thiers on the one side and M. Rouher on the other.
The latter said that a debate on the interior policy of the
Government by means of interpellation could not be
tolerated. It might embrace all the acts of the Govern-
ment as applied to the administration of the.
Interior. The simple interpellation would lead to
an endless discussion.. M. Thiers replied that the limits
of the interpellation were clearly defined ; they were
to relate to the press and the elections. The apprehen-
sion that the discussion on these points should
exceed due limits was just as applicable to any
other interpellation. The Corps L6gislatif was
by no means hearty in its approval of M. Rouher's arbi-
trary policy. It approved the rejection of the interpella-
tion by a majority of only 114 votes against 102--numbers
which are rarely, indeed, the result of a political division
in the French Chambers.

The interpellation which has been accepted—that on
the right of public meeting— will raise a fierce discussion.
In the press indeed the controversy has already assumed
the magnitude of a national question, and is becoming a
curious embroglio. The right of public meeting has led
to many orderly and unobjectionable gatherings in Paris,
but it has also led to many meetings at which communist
doctrines of the most violent kind have been preached. A
party of the lowest Democrats have taken advantage of the
new law, and at various places in Paris, particularly the
Redoute and the Vieux-chene, they have openly promulgated
doctrines of the most extravagant type. They proclaim
themselves Atheists, deny Providence, and demand the
abolition of property, of marriage, of paternity, and of
inheritance. They are few in number ; but their
preaching is not the less dangerous or obnoxious to the
great mass of Frenchmen of all parties ; and it is the
immunity which the new law gives to their teaching
that is to form the subject of the great debate
which may be anticipated on this interpellation.
What involves the question still more is the
accusations of some of the Opposition papers,
especially the Gazette de France, that the semi-official
journals themselves promote this revival of communism,
with a view to rescind the law. It is hoped that the
scandal of this preaching will bring into discredit a
measure which has been and ought to be generally bene-
ficial. Nous verrons.

Count
,Girgenti has returned to Paris, and has engaged
apartments at an hotel near the Palais Royal. He shews
no great anxiety to avail himself of the project accredited
to his supporters—an expedition to Mexico to make him
king.

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A mysterious discovery, which would have been of
infinite utility to Miss Braddon if she had not availed
herself of a similar incident already, has just come to light
in the Rue Princesse, near the Od6on. One of the
tenants had remarked that in drawing water from a well
in the courtyard the pail invariably brought up some
object which always fell back before reaching the top.
To find out what this could be, he let down a hook
attached to a cord, and was greatly shocked to bring up
the leg of a woman. On making another cast he fished
up a second similar member. He then gave information
to the police, who have ordered the well to be cleaned out,
in order to ascertain whether it contains any other human
remains.

Of mysteries, indeed, there is a surplus just now. The
disappearance of Professor d'Archiac is a mystery yet, and
promises to remain so. A much-decomposed body was
taken out of the Canal St. Martin the other day. It was
at first believed to be that of the missing professor,
because of some writing in the pocket of the dress. But
the hair was brown, and the body that of a com-
paratively young man, whilst M. d'Archiac's hair
was grey, and he was 66 years of age. There is yet
another French mystery, A son of a near relation of the
Marquis de Moustier—a youth aged 17, who was attend.
ing the lectures preparatory for St. Cyr—quitted his
parents' house a few days ago, having previously
asked for £2 10s. to distribute amongst some
poor families he was in the habit of visiting.
He neither returned home nor appeared in his
accustomed place at the lecture. On Friday last he
was picked up on the seacoast near the Hague, in a state
of asphyxia, gagged, dripping wet, and wounded in the
shoulder. In his pocket-book were found twenty Hanes,
and, most fortunately, his name and address. His father
was apprised, and started for the Hague. He found
his son partly paralysed, and able to speak only after two
days of medical treatment. He has been brought
to Paris, but he can give no account of what happened
to him.

The weather is very agreeable : the frost is less severe,
and a bright sunshine in the day and the moon at night
have been the ruin, for the time, of indoor amusements.
Skating goes on with great spirit ; but the end is clearly
coming. A falling thermometer will speedily convert the
lake in the Bois de Boulogne once more into a
sheet of water. The Empress has tried the exercise
once more, and manages very well—with the support of a
gentleman on each side. The unseemly spectacle of Impe-
rialism heels uppermost on the ice which presented itself
to the frequenters of the Bois last winter is not to be tole-
rated a second time. The same objection, however, does
not apply t D the hope of the Napoleonic House. The
young Prince skates alone, and flounders about in the
most heroic style. He fell eight times yesterday.
A. fire broke out the evening before last in the hold of an
American ship at Havre. Thomas Burnett, the lieutenant
in charge, a native of Glasgow, was suffocated,

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