The Sun.
London, England, 1867-02-27 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENCE FROA PARIS.

PARIS, Tuesday Evening.
The sagacity of the writers in the Paris papers
is again in full swing in inventing supposed facts
relative to the propozed new
.law upon the press.
The statements given one day are contradicted on
the clay succeeding, and thus there is ample scope
for alarming reports upon the alleged despotism of
the new law. The France takes the lead in these
fanciful anticipations. After mentioning various
sums as the amount of the security money which
would be required on starting a newspaper, it now
says the law will not make any change in this
respect. The stamp duty, too, it adds, will remain
the same, but literary journals will be exempt from

it. The Council of State will decide upon the pro-
visions of the law in the course of the week.

The printers of Paris and the departments have
drawn up a memorial to the Council of State re-

specting the proposed law, which will, no doubt,

receive every attention.

Yesterday M. LOyanni had the honour of being
received by the Emperor at the Tuileries in public
audience, to present to his Majesty the letters which
accredit him in the quality of Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of France
from the King of Greece. After the audience M.

Deiyanni had the honour of being received by the
Empress. M. Delyanni was conveyed to the Palace
by a master of the ceremonies, the introducer of
ambassadors, in a Court carriage with the accus-
tomed ceremonial.

The official book explaining the condition of the
Empire gives an account of the French navy. Dur-
ing the year 1866 the construction was continued
of the ships of the new war fleet in proportion as
the credits were voted for the purpose. The num-
ber of vessels of this war fleet, which was 129 on the
31st of December, 1865, and 130 on the Ist of
December, 1866, is thus composed :—Ships and war-

clad frigates, 13 ; ironclad corvette, 1 ; coastguard
ironclad vessel armed with rani ; vessels not iron-
clad of various kinds, 35 ; frigates not ironclad, of
various descriptions, 24 ; corvettes, 12 ; screw avisos,
44. Fast sailing ships, 101; vessels of different
kinds, 29 ; total, 130. The complete list of steam
vessels, the building of which is finished, gives an
amount on the 31st December, 1866, of 340 ships,
with 92,106 horse-power. The fleet under con-
struction in the docks and building yards includes
28 ships, with a total of 12,670 horse-pcwer. The
appropriation of the ports for the reception of the
new fleet is continued with as much activity as pos-
sible, according to the amount of funds voted for
the purpose, and important works have been finished
at Cherbourg, Breit, Lorient, Rochefort, and
Toulon. Besides this modifications have been made
both in the cannon and the projectiles. New mor-
tars and shells have been manufactured, and the
foundries for casting cannon have undergone im-
provements. To this official account I may add
that almost every day experiments are made with
new guns and arms at 111.endon, near Paris, and the
firing is kept up for some time.
An accident which created great alarm took place
after the races at La Alarclie on Sunday. A pos-
tillion, who had been too copiously furnished with
libations by sonic of the winners, drove back a light
carriage in which were three young ladies. He
said would make a triumphal entry into Bou-
logne and pushed on his horses with fury, the result
being that he was thrown front his saddle. He
seized the mane of one of his horses, and in this
position was dragged for some distance to the terror
of the spectators. A sergeant de ville, assisted by
a courageous bystander, stopped the horses, but the
unfortunate postillion had been thrown under the
wheels, and he was taken up bleeding and in a
dangerous state,• as it was first supposed. After
being taken into a doctor's shop and attended to,
the postillion was again seen in the Bois de Bou-
logne with his vehicle, quite as drunk, but more
enraged than before.
As the Imperial Commission decline to be re-
sponsible for any damage that may be done by fire
to articles sent to the Exhibition an international
insurance company has been organised.
Among a great. abundance of new books is a
marvel of cheap literature, " Shakspeare Complet,"
by M. Emile Montegut. It is illustrated and pub-
lished in penny numbers. Shakspeare has been