The Sun.
London, England, 1867-07-30 00:00:00

.CORRESPONDENCE PROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Monday Evening.
The Moniteur contains a precise and categorical
answer to various sinister and warlike rumours
which have been in circulation. It says
" Various organs of the French and foreign
press publish, as if exact, assertions which are of a
character calculated to excite trouble and anxiety
on the operations of commerce and industry.
" It is alleged persistently that our international
relations are fetterei, and authorise the presenti-

anent of a conflict more or less distant. In order to

give probability to these reports, it is announced

;hat two new camps are about to be formed on our

Eastern frontier, that military preparations are car-

ried on with activity at the 111inistry of War, and
that the effective force of the army is kept up at

the total amount which it attained towards the end
of April last.

" These reports are destitute of any foundation.
They can only have been created and propagated
from hostile passions, interested speculations, and

negotiable credulity.
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" The truth is this. The Government of the
Emperor does not find itself in the presence of any

diplomatic question calculated to modify its pacific
and amicable relations with the divers Powers.
" The Cabinet of Florence has adopted the most
energetic measures to protect the Pontificial fron-
tiers against any attempt, and the Convention of
the 15th Sept., 1864, will be resolutely executed.
" No new camp is to be formed either in the in-
terior on the positions of the Empire. The mili-

tary classes of 1860 and 1861 have been sent to
their homes since June 1. The active army is only
composed at this moment of the four contingents
belonging to the classes of 1862, 1863, 1864, and
1865. The class of 1866 will be incorporated
towards the end of the month of August, but it is
the intention of the Government to send to their
homes at the same period the class of 1862. After
the Ist of September, as at present, the active army
will only include the contingents of four classes out
of seven.

" There has been a sensible increase in the num-
ber of horses in consequence of purchases made in
the month of April last, but the Minister of War has
decided that from 8,000 to 10,000 of these horses
shall be devoted to the service of agriculturists, and
this measure is in course of execution.
"The Government is confid3ut that declarations
so precise will dissipate the uncertainties which had
taken possession of the public mind."
The Empress of the French arrived on Saturday
at Cherbourg in the Royal yacht Reino Hortense,
which performed the voyage from Brest (80 leagues)

in about 18 hours during a heavy sea. The night
had been very stormy, but in the morning the sun
shone brilliantly. The whole population pressed for-
ward eagerly to see the Empress. The roads presented
a splendid appearance. The French and American
landed. In the morning
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Prefect, to dine on board the Royal yacht.
The individual suspected of the murder and muti-

lation of M. Duguet at Longperier has confessed
his guilt. Ho is a returned convict, named
Davinant, a man of sixty-eight, and was formerly
a butcher. He enticed his victim to come to a
lonely house in which he lived in the Rue des
Chasseurs, and struck him on the temple with a heavy
mallet, to which blood and grey hair still adhere.
He then cut the body into small pieces, after sever-
ing the head, and carried away portions of it from
time to time. On being asked why he had com-
mitted the crime, lie said he was a dealer in furze,
and he wanted a horse and cart to carry on his
trade. He killed the old man because he did not
know any other way of getting the money, and he
knew he had plenty.
M. Emmanuel Carvallo, Minister Plenipotentiary
from Chili to Belgium, has died suddenly at the
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He arrived at Compiegne from
Brussels last Wednesday evening, and asked for a
circumstances.
an Compiegne, under mysterious
bed for the night. He dined, took a cup of tea,
wrote a letter, asked for a glass of water, and went
to bed. The next morning, as he did not come
down stairs, some uneasiness was created, and the
servant knocked at the door. No answer was given,
but two hours afterwards it was thought right to
break open the door. M. Carvallo was dead and
cold, partly in a sitting posture, but there was no-
thing to indicate a violent death, although he ap-
peared quite well on the previous evening. M.
Carvallo was identified by his passport. He was a
member of a distinguished family of Chili. He was
62, and leaves 12 children. The funeral service
took place at Compiegne on Saturday, and was
attended by M. Fernandez Rodella, Charge d'Affaires
and Consul-General of Chili in France ; M. Merino
Benavente, son-in-law of the deceased; M. Gaspard
del Rio, formerly a prefect in Chili ; the
principal
functionaries and many of the inhabitants of the
town.

The King of Sweden and Norway, who has been
at Vichy some time for the benefit of the waters, is
expected at Paris on Saturday next.
King Louis the Second of Bavaria seems to have
been enchanted with the Exhibition. He has passed
six hours there every day
since his stay in Paris.
He leaves the capital in consequence of the death
of his uncle, King Otho of Greece, but it is believed
that his marriage will be celebrated on the day ap-
pointed, the 12th of October.
The Patric says it has received letters from St.
Petersburg which state that the Russian Govern-
men', supports the views of Denmark in regard to
the execution of article 5 of the treaty of Prague by

Prussia.
The Sultan has arrived at Vienna. The Emperor
of Austria, accompanied by the Archdukes and
many distinguished persons, went to meet him at
the railway to receive his Majesty and to accom-
pany him to the Chateau of Schcenbrunn, where he
will stay during
his residence in Austria. The
Sultan was very liberal while in Paris. Ile: placed
33,000 f. at the disposal of the Archbishop of Paris
for the relief of the poor. A sum of 500 f. was sent
for distribution to each of the
66 curates of the
metropolis.
After some discussion the Chamber of Deputies
of Florence has agreed to article 17 of the law re-
lative to ecclesiastical patrimony which authorises
the Government to issue as many 5 per Cent. Rentes
as will provide a capital of 400 millions. The issue
is to take place when the money is required by
circumstances, and after the vote of 80 millions of
new imposts already asked for by the commission.
The weather is still of an exceptional character.
It was very cold this morning, and the sun during
the day did not neutralise the effect of the cold
wind.