The Sun.
London, England, 1867-07-09 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FRO3I OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Monday Evening.
The latest news received from Mexico in Paris
records another assassination. According to a tele-
gram from New York, Santa Anna has been shot.
The Siecle of to-day has a severe article upon the
conduct of Prussia, both as regards its policy to-
wards the whole of Germany as in reference to the
Duchies. The Siecle contends that Prussia does not
fulfil any of her engagements. She forces young
men to serve in the Prussian Army, and imposes the
oath to serve under the Prussian flag upon the mass
of the population and fugitives from Denmark.
The evident object of this Russian system (says the
Siecle) is to demoralise the country and to deprive
the population of their energies. The Prussian
Government, however, appears, at least, to be dis-
posed to pay attention to the cry of reprobation
emanating from all points, and has ordered an in- '
quiry as to Schleswig and the expulsions.
The Moniteur has the following respecting the
Emperor Maximilian :
" The crime of treason, of which Mexico has just
been guilty against the person of the Emperor Maxi-
milian, is not the first crime of the kind which has
been committed in that country. In lez,s than half
a century since her so-called independence the an-
cient Spanish Viceroyalty, so prosperous, so tran-
quil under the regime of the mother country, has
three times stained its soil with the blood of the
chiefs of its Government. In 1824 the Emperor
Iturbide was shamefully delivered up and shot at
Tampico, and in 1829 the President Guerrera,
cowardly sold, had the same fate at Acapulco. But
whatever interest may attach to the memory of
these two personages, nothing in their origin or in
their existence is at all comparable with the illus-
trious victim of whose d..ak destiny the whole uni-
verse will hear with horror.

" Descended from that glorious Emperor Charles
the Fifth, under whose reign Fernand Cortez and
his bold companions founded the Mexican
monarchy, the Emperor Maximilian, Archduke of
Austria, this prince, brought up and impressed with
modern ideas and in the practice of Government,
seemed designed by Providence to create in the new
world an establishment worthy of his house and of
the sovereigns who exhibited such anxiety to re-
cognise his accession to the throne.
"For fifty years Mexico had been a prey to the
most frightful anarchy, pillage, and civil war. He
also wished to devote all his endeavours to pacify
the country, to repair the chaos of revolutions, to
re-establish order, and to endeavour to impart
happiness to countries so favoured by Heaven—that
monarch, betrayed by one of his subjects whom he
had loaded with benefits, has just fallen under the
balls of the assassins. The prince accepted on the
10th of April, 1864, the crown which had been
offered to him ou the 3d of October, 1863, at the
chateau of Miramar. A few days afterwards the
Emperor and Empress Charlotte sailed for Trieste
in the Austrian frigate Novara. They landed at
Vera Cruz on the 24th of May, and made their
entrance into the capital on the 12th of June, 1864,
and were received with universal acclamations."
The official Gazette of Vienna publishes an
Imperial rescript, which orders the flag of each
vessel of the fleet to be covered with crape for seven
weeks, in remembrance of the eminent services
rendered by the Emperor Maximilian to the
Austrian navy while he held the command in chief
of it.

The review, which was postponed the other day
in consequence of the fatal news from Mexico,
took place this afternoon iu the Champs Elysees
and the Place de la Concorde. The Emperor and
the Sultan were present, but no notice having been
given of it, or there being a fear of another dis-
appointment, the spectators were not very
numerous. The weather was all that could be
desired, and not hot or oppressive. The tempera-
ture changes several times a day. In the morning
early the wind was very cold.
King Charles the Fifteenth of Sweden, after
having been present at the grand manoeuvres of the
troops in the environs of Stockholm, which will be
concluded on the 10th instant, proposes to come to
France, and is expected at Vichy about the 14th of
this month.
A hint to visitors to the Exhibition in regard to
time may be derived from an accurate calculation.
An average of five minutes should be allowed to
each stand or case. As there are 45,000, this
would require 225,000 minutes, or 3,750 hours,
or 156 days and 6 hours ; that is to say, 5 months,
6 days, and 6 hours, reckoning the day at 24 hours.
But as the Palace can only be visited from 10
o'clock in the morning till 8 iu the evening—that is
to say 8 hours a day, instead of 24—this inspection
would require 15 months, 20 days, and 2 hours, of
course supposing the visitor to remain every day
from 10 in the morning until six in the evening. if
the Exhibition, therefore, is only to last six months,
it would he impossible to devote even 5 minutes to
each stand.
In the Art and Labour Department of the English
portion of the Exhibition there are many interesting
articles to be seen. I have been particularly struck
with two objects of prominent historical value. On
referring to the catalogue I find that they were
kindly sent to give increased value to the Exhibition