The Sun.
London, England, 1869-07-31 00:00:00

CORRESFONDFAWE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, FRIDAY, July 30.
The Ministerial deliberations respecting the text of the
redoubtable Senatus Consultum continue unremittingly.
The Petrie finds ground for satisfaction in the fact that
nothing is proposed, discussed, or decided save in
Council, which it accepts as an indication of the
liberal sentiments which animate the Emperor.
The part to be played by the Corps Legislatif assumes
more and more importance. The Council of State will
no longer have the right to reject amendments.
The Senate is to be enlarged in its character, and
will, according to the Patric, henceforward bear some
resemblance to the House of Peers in England, or the
Belgian Senate. Yesterday, it is said, the last Cabinet
Council on this weighty subject was held at St. Cloud,
when the full decree was read, the members of the
Privy Council and the President of the two Chambers
being present.
Already twcntyone candidates are announced for the
tour circumscriptions of the Seine, vacant by the choice
of Marseilles, Lyons, Montpellier and Bordeaux by the
four "double deputies." The Liberte asks, If such
is the case now, when the date of the election is yet un•
certain, what may we expect when it actually arrives?
It was rumoured a day or two since that General Melli-
net, wearied out with the numberless complaints of the
National Guard, himself conveyed his resignation to St.
Cloud, but the Emperor, while admitting his arguments,
requested him t) retain his office until his successor was
nominated.

The Viscount de la Guerronibre has disposed, I hear,
of his interest in the journal La France. The French
Ambassador at Brussels, according to the Figaro, will
henceforward abandon all share in the political direction
of the paper. It was high time. Ambassadors ought net
to be connected with papers which abuse the Government
to which the diplomatists themselves are accredited, As
did La France on the Belgian railway question.
A terrible accident occurred yesterday at the Notre
Dame Coal Mine, near Douay, by which eleven men lost
their lives. As twelve miners were ascending in a cage,
a heavy block of stone fell from above, breaking the
cage and precipitating the men a distance of
sixty feet into the depths below. They fell into a
pool of water, the broken cage falling on them.
Eleven of them were killed on the spot, the twelfth
escaping with his life by a miracle. He was terribly hurt,
and had not recovered his speech late last night. The
Procureur Imp6rial has opened an inquiry into this pain.
ful affair.

A general service was yesterday celebrated in the Rue
St. Antoine, in the Church of St. Paul, in memory of the
citizens killed during the three days of July 1830.
After the ceremony wreaths of immortels were placed
on the railing round the column on the Place de la
Bastille. The popular living favourites of the day are
likewise receiving ovations. A banquet, at which twelve
hundred covers were laid, was given two evenings since
at Rouen, to M. Jules Favre, and to M. Desseaux, the
member for the city. M. Favre spoke at some length,
and declared that public opinion was reviving in France,
and that the days of those who lived upon war and upon
privilege were over, and it would no longer be tolerated
that individual rights should be sacrificed to one who
believed his worst attacks upon liberty would be
pardoned. M. Favre denounced personal Government,
and his speech was loudly cheered throughout. Great
enthusiasm was manifested.
The great case of Pic and Taillefer is expected to finish
to-day. The verdict of the jury will not be given till
late.

A curious sight was yesterday to be seen in the vicinity
of the Palais de Justice, when the copies of the famous
Lanterne which had been seized were removed. They
filled forty-two bags, and amounted to about 100,000.
It was rumoured yesterday that the health of Marshal
Niel was such as to give rise to serious uneasiness, and
that he would probably have to retire from the Ministry,
in which he would be succeeded by Marshal Bazaine.
Strikes are still the fashion. The printers of Rouen
are the last performers in this line, and the Courricr dt
Rouen has been forced to suspend publication.
A man of some note has just died at Florence. Giuseppe
Dolfi was a baker who exercised a great influence on the
people. Ten years ago he took an active part iu
the outbreak which caused the Grand Duke
to leave the place. Dulfi maintained his ascen-
dancy over the multitude, and Baron Ricasoli often
had interviews with him with a view to further the
public interests. Del fi was a decided Radical,
and entertained peculiar opinions about religion.
I e left directions that he should be interred
without any religious ceremonies taking place, which
request will be complied with: Stich a funeral is a rara
tbhe in Florence, and it is sonic years sin,:e the forms of
reliw,ion were thus despised. Doll' spent a great deal of
his money in the Caribaldian cause. lie was noted for his
determination to keep in his own sphere, but he had none of
the characteristics of a demagogue. He died rather sud-
denly, having been greatly affected by the heat of the
weather. In other circumstances he might have become
more distinguished, but he suceeded in inspiring universal
respect, and will long be remembered.

Mr. Gladstone is satisfactorily improving in
health. llt r Majcsty has sent telegrams Every day this
wet k inquiring titer the hcalth of the right lion, gentleman.
The Dublin corrcsrondent cf the 7 ablet states that
a rumour current some time lack that the Lord Chancellor
of Ireland was to bo raised to the Peer:To has been revived.

Mr. Hadfield has deferred his moticn, "that it is
t xpedient to relieve bishops of the Church of England from
attendance on Parliament," until Tuesday next.

Official letters state that all the dockyard emi-
grants sent out to Canaea have behaved well; the arrange.
meats have answered perfectly. Hitherto no difficulty has
been experienced in obtaining employment.

The Board of Trinity College, Dublin, met on
Thursday, and came to a resolution respecting Mr. Fawcett's
motion, the effect of which is understood to be that they
will not oppose it.

The Scottish Bishopic of Brechin is likely to be-
como vacant by the resignation of the Right Rey. Dr.
Forbes. The right reverend prelate, who is son of Lord
Me dwyn, was formerly Vicar of St. Saviour's, Leeds, and
was consecrated Bishop in 1847.

On account of the illness of one of the members of
Ids domestic circle, which is so serious as to entail the
necessity of a residence on the Continent, Major-General
William Napier, the Vice-President of the Council of Mili-
tary Education, is likely to resign his appointment.
A memorial for the reprieve of Fanny Oliver is
being signed at Birmingham. The memorialists urge as a
ground for the reprieve that the proof of the fact of the pre-
sence of the poison rested entirely upon the uncorroboAted
evidence of a single scientific witness.

The ship Protector, 1,278 tons register, belonging
to Messrs. R. Ash and Co., of Hull, which left that port in
October last, for Bt. John's, New Brunswick, with a cargo
of coal and a crew of 25 bands, has not since been heard of,
and it is believed she has gone down with all bands. The
Protector was the largest sailing vessel belonging to tho
port of Hull.

The London correspondent of the Manchester
rxaminer mentions reports that the health of the French
Emperor is on the decline. Ho evidently betrays groat diffi-
culty at times in walking. This is attributed to the return
of an old malady which some years ago bad nearly proved
fatal, but which his physicians were confident they were able
to cure.

A meeting of the Orangemen is to be held on the
12th prox., for the purpose of " commemorating the past,
reflecting on the present, and inaugurating the future."
They propose to have Lord Derl-y's likeness taken "as he
left the House of Peers on learning the ignoble compromise
of the Bill," and to have an engraving of the same made, in
order that a copy may adorn the house of every true Pro-
testant in Great Britain.

Five betting agents and their employes were sum-
moned before the Birmingham magistrates on Thursday for
infringing the Bitting Houses Act. William Cosby, landlord
of the Golden Elephant, was fined £2O and costs, or in de-
fault six months' imprisonment. James Francis, landlord
of the State Cabin, Dale-end, was fined £lO and costs.
Alfred Hudson, James Francis, and Walter Francis, servants
of Cosby, were fined is. each and costs.

A singular accident occurred at the sulphurous
springs at Enghien, France, on Wednesday. A workman
whose business it was to clean the pipes for tho
conveyance of the spring waters to the drinking
establishment, fill it to the principal reservoir. A
stoker, mined Delune, who happened to witness the
accident, stooped down over the sulphurous water, and,
suffocated by its fumes, fell into the reservoir. Five other
omployds o: the establishment, attracted by the crowd which
had assembled, successively, in attempting the rescue of
their predecessors, followed their example and fell into the
reservoir. Only three were got out alive.

A meeting of clergy and laity of Wales was held at
St. Asaph on Thursday to consider the best mode of increas-
ing the efficiency of the Church in the diocese. Earl Powis
presided, and among those present were Sir Watkin Wynn,
Bart., M.P., the Bishop of St. AEapb, and the Dean of St.
A sal h. The report of an executive committee, appointed by
the Bishop of St. Asaph; was read, containing a number of
suggestions. The discussion on the suggestions occupied
several hours, and the meeting ultimately resolved that the
subjects mentioned in the report were too numerous to be
decided bz*ltillcppeg, and that they would be
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