The Sun.
London, England, 1867-10-18 00:00:00

RIDAY EVENIN:3I, ocroBER 18, MT.

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, Thursday Evening.
The information I collected yesterday from various
sources as to the " situation " in Italy is encirely
confirmed by the latest authentic accounts received
to-day, and proves that, in spite of the collection of
a few bands in some of the provinces, there is yet
no serious ground for supposing that an attack on
Rome is imminent. Some of them cross the fron-
tier. Their officers are in uniform. The Garibal-
dians appear to be concentrated to the number of
about 3,000 between Monte Librette, Monte Rio
Romano, Nerola, and Moricone. To show the
good feeling of the peasantry, it may be stated that
on the 13th, at -Vallecorsa, on the southern frontier,
a column of volunteers with some gendarmes kept a
band of 200 Garibaldians in check. The latter had
10 killed, among whom the chief and three officers,
and had also several wounded. These volunteers
took 46 Garibaldians prisoners, and also some arms
and ammunition. It is stated, on official autho-
rity, that throughout the whole of the Pontifical
states, the population is not only tranquil, but, in
some localities, join in manifestations against the
agitators. The Garibaldi party, it should be added,
continue their misrepresentations in spite of the
want of sympathy in their cause. Nerola, where
Menotti Garibaldi has his headquarters, is a small
town not far from the frontier, And in the moun-
tains of the Sabine, between the valley of the Tiber
and that of Teverone de Nerola, is a road leading
to Rome over Monte Librette, MonteMaggiore, and
Monte Rotonda. The distance to Rome is less than
50 miles. The Pontifical troops, as has been already
stated, were at first repulsed by the advanced guard
of Menotti Garibaldi, and, retreated temporarily to
Monte Maggiore, but Menotti's band were after-
wards repulsed, and were compelled to evacuate
Monte Librette. They then returned in order to
make their camp at Nerola as secure as possible.
The Skuptchina, or National Assembly of Servia,
was opened on Friday last at Belgrade. Prince
Michael on this occasion pronounced a speech which
was almost exclusively devoted to the internal affairs
of the Principality, and which recognised the tran-
quillity which had arisen from the wisdom of which
the Porto had afforded proof in renouncing his right
to garrison the Servian fortresses. The prince has
expressed his gratitude for the flattering reception
he had experienced from the Sultan, and for the
conciliatory disposition exhibited by the Turkish
Government. He also alluded to the proofs of
friendship which the Powers had manifested to-
wards Servia. Satisfied with its legitimate aspira-
tions, the Principality had been enabled to enter
upon a career of practical amelioration, and to oc •
cupy itself with economical and administrative
questions which deeply interested the future condi-
tion of the country. The speech was exceedingly
well received.

A very interesting ceremony will take place on
Sunday, the 27th inst., at the Palace of Industry
in the Champs Elys6es, where there will be a dis-
tribution of the rewards offered by the Society for
the Protection of Apprentices and Children em-
ployed in Manufactories. This society merits and

enjoys the support of all who take an interest in
improving the moral and material condition of the
rising generation. The prizes will be distributed
either by the Empress or the Imperial Prince. The
number of children employed in industrial pursuits

will be at least 10,000, and the attendance of visitors
will be very numerous. The children will pass in
front of the Throne in procession before the prizes
arc awarded. Previously the young apprentice
girls will be seated to the left of her Majesty, and
the boys to her right. They were afterwards re-

Baled with fruit, pastry, and confectionery. The

prizes will consist of 10 large engraved portraits of
the Empress, and 10 portraits of the young Prince,
with an inscription stating the motive of the
reward, with the autograph signature of her
Majesty and the Prince. Twenty embroidered
banners given by the Empress with her
initials. Forty gold, silver, or bronze medals, and
four " honourable mentions." Commissions were

appointed some mouths ago to select the children to
whom the prizes are to be awarded. The first Com-
mission was under the presidency of Monseigneur

Darboy, Archbishop of Paris, and the second under
that of M. Dumas, a Senator, and member of the

Institute. The Secretary-General of the society is
the Duke de pouchy.

A statue is to be erected opposite the College of
France to Charlemagne, as the creator and protec-
tor of schools. It will be an equestrian statue.
When it is completed Paris will have four equestrian
statues—that of Henry the Fourth, on the Pont
Neuf ; Louis the Fourteenth, in the Place des Vic-
toires ; Louis the Thirteenth, in the Place Royale,
in the Marais ; and that of Charlemagne in ques-
tion.

The Imperial Exhibition Commis.sion have given
notice that the juries will. have terminated their

labours on the 25th instant relative to the classes
which were reserved (Agriculture, Horticulture,
&c.) The prizes will, therefore, be awarded at the
following dates :--The gold medals from the 15th
to the 30th of November next, the silver medals
from the sth to the 31st of December ; the bronze
medals from the 15th of January to the 29th of
February, 1868. The diplomas will be given at
the same periods, and those of " the honourable
mentions" from the Ist to the 31st of March, 1868.
According to the report of the medical men, M.
Fould died from angiflus pectoris, and on the morn-
ing of hie death there was no symptom whatever to

indicate that there was any derangement in his
health. There was no idea of calling in medical
assistance, but M. Fould's doctor happened to call
by chance about 5 o'clock in the afternoon. About
half-past 7 o'clock M. Fould was in great pain, and
his valet de chantbre was called to rub him, to re-
lieve what was imagined to be his old disorder,
rheumatism. One of the papers gravely argues
that M. Fould's death was accelerated by smoking
a cigar between the two attacks of anginas.
The cotton factory of Messrs. Serive at Lille has
been destroyed by fire, and the damage is estimated
at nearly half a million of francs. A man named
Bolydieu, who had been dismissed from the factory,
and who was heard making threats against the
establishment, has been arrested on suspicion of
having set fire to it.
A carter, residing in the environs of Paris, had

long been on intimate terms with a young girl
named Celina P., and had promised her marriage.
As he had lately ceased to visit her she went to the
place where ho was employed, having heard that he
was about to marry another. The man having ad-
mitted the fact, she drew a dagger from under her
dress and stabbed him in the heart. tie died

instantly. She then stabbed herself with the same
weapon, and throw herself, bathed in blood, upon
her lover's corpse. The wounds are so serious that
she is not expected to survive.
A case of premature interment has taken place at
Sainte Eutrope, in the department of Finistere,
which has created considerable sensation in the
locality. A girl of 25, named Philomene Jonetue,
having died, as was supposed, from cholera, and
there being much alarm about the disease, the
interment took place seventeen hours afterwards.
When the grave-digger was about to throw earth
over the coffin he distinctly heard several knocks
from the interior. He immediately went to the
church for the minister, and a surgeon was also sent
for. On opening the coffin it was found that the
cloth which bound the head was much tumbled,
from which it is supposed that the head had been
tossed about violently. The same thing occurred
with the linen which covered the feet. The heart

had not entirely ceased to beat, but the surgeon
could not restore animation, so the body was soon
afterwards reinterred. Several persons are said to
have heard the noise in the coffin. The head had
certainly moved from its position.
The second day's Autumn Races at Chantilly did
not excite much interest. The results were the

Prix de Montefontaine, 2,ooof.—Clochette, 1 ;

Bunshant, 2 ; Mon. Soleil, 3.
Prix d'llallate, 2,oooE—Fitz-Compiegne, 1 ;

Palette, 2; Turenne, 3.
Prix de la Table, 3,000 f, Peretie, 1; Czar, 2 ;

Canotiere, 3. Amount of the prize, 3,600 f. ; 700 f.
to the second.

Prix de Conde, 5,000 f. Lady Henriette, 1;
Geophobe, 2. Amount of the prize, 6,950 f.
Prix du Petit Couvert, 2,000 f. Virgule, 1 ; La
Rochelle, 2. 80Cf. to the second.

There is no truth in the report of a proposed in-
terview at Baden between the Emperor of Austria
and the King cf Prussia, and consequently all the
speculations in which some of the papers have
indulged respecting it naturally falls to the ground.
The last day of the stay of the Emperor at
Biarritz was embittered by a lamentable accident.
One of his Majesty's couriers was walking on the
rocks, when he was surprised by the rising tide and
was drowned, iu spite of the efforts to save him.
His body was recovered. The Empress was, unfor-
tuately, a witness of the accident.

The Archduke Henri of Austria has just married
an actress of the theatre of Gratz, Aldile. Hoff-
mann, upon whom the Emperor has bestowed the
title of Countess.

LA TEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

THE PAPAL INVASION.
FLORENCE, Oct. 18.

Advices from the Roman frontier announce that
Menotti Garibaldi had taken up a position at Monte
Maggiore. Nicotera was at Ceccano, and was in
full communication with the bands in the moun-
tains. A few bands had appeared at Yalmonte,
and in the neighbourhood of Tivoli. The Pontifical
troops beyond Frosinone were falling back without
striking a blow. Among the insurgents there was
a complete band of 1,200 Roman emigrants under
the command of Major Ghirelli.

The Italie announces that even yesterday the
Italian Government had ordered the arrest of 70
young men about to embark for the Pontifical States.
The Italie also affirms that the number of persons
arrested for the same cause up to the present ex-
ceeds 2,000.

MARSEILLES, Oct. 18.

Letters received here from Rome, dated 15th
inst., confirm the statement that the Roman autho-
rities have seized some papers at the residences of
two Italian officers, Signori Macragoni and Came-
lazzi, who have been arrested on the charge of
organising an insurrection in Rome. The officers
named are at present confined at St. Michel pend-
ing their trial.

According to the same letters Baron Hubner,
the Austrian Minister at the Papal Court, had re-
turned to Rome, and had urged the Pope not to
quit the capital.

As regards the insurrection, three considerable
bands appeared to threaten Viterbo. The Sabina
band, reinforced by the continual arrival of trains
full of volunteers from Naples, exceeded in number
2,000 men, whose chief camp was at Monte Car-
pignano. Other bodies of Garibaldians were ex-
pected to disembark from Sicily.