The Sun.
London, England, 1867-01-16 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, Tuesday Evening,

The following is all the foreign news contained
in the Moniteur to-day :—" After the adoption by
the Chamber of Deputies of Prussia of the project

of law relative to the increase of the number o

Deputies it was submitted to the House of Lords
That house proposed an amendment, to the effect
that the number of members of the House of Lords
should be increased by 80 members, to be chosen
from the countries recently annexed to Prussia.
We hear from Venice that the elections for the
provincial and municipal councils are terminated
and that the result is very satisfactory. The coun
cils will be composed in a fair proportion of the most
honourable men of property, barristers, and men
connected with commerce and industry."
The italic says that the Western Powers have
taken up the Eastern question diplomatically.
Turkey, it says, has addressed to them a Note com-
plaining of the policy of Greece, and Greece on her
part has sent a counter-note, arraigning the conduct
of Turkey, adding that if justice be not done to her
she will adopt efficacious measure to defend her
rights. Upon this the Italie remarks that it is more
easy to make threats than to carry them into execu-
tion. A war against Greece would be the signal of
the ruin of the Ottoman Empire. If the Turks have
not been able to conquer the Greeks dur-
ing a war. of six years, from 1821 to 1827, if
in 1866 they had not the power to reduce
the island of Crete, how can they hope to conquer
Greece ? Europe would not allow them to do so.
She would infallibly interfere, and the Ottoman
Empire would emerge from the crisis she had evoked,
if not ruined, at least very much weakened.
The Russian Government has just appointed
Baron de Meyendorff as Charge d'Affaires of Russia
at the Grand Ducal Court of Saxony.
By virtue of a royal ordinance, dated the 9th of
this month, vessels from the Pontifical States will
be admitted to free pratique in Spain. Vessels
from France, England, the United States of
America, Hamburg, Holland, Sweden, Norway,
and Austria, destined for Spanish ports, will in
future be subjected to a quarantine of three days of
observation at Carthagena, Cadiz, and Santander.

A letter has been received in Paris from Blidah,

dated Jan. 5, which states that on the previous'
evening there had been several severe shocks of
earthquakes, and that two of them were very vio-
lent. The earth was continually trembling, and
great alarm prevailed from the indications that
some more terrible convulsions would take place.
A letter from Naples, dated Jan. 7, in the
Journal des Debats, says " a fact of great import-
anco has been accomplished at Naples and through-
out Italy. All the monks have left their convents.
If ►here be exceptions, it is only in small communes.
They are resigned, if not indifferent, and say that
it is the will of God.
An account has been received of the death of M.
Victor Cousin, one of the most illustrious members
of the French Academy, which took place at Cannes.
He was formerly Minister of Public Instruction
and a peer of France. M. Cousin was born at
Paris on the 28th Nov., 1792.
M. Ingres, the renowned painter, has, as was
feared from the first, succumbed to the violent attack
of bronchitis which suddenly seized him. He was
born at Montauban in 1781, aud, although at this
advanced age, he was in the full possession of all his
admirable faculties. The number of his paintings
is really immense. At the Universal Exhibition of
1855 a room was Mlukiyoly reaoryed for them.