The Sun.
London, England, 1867-08-09 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Thursday Evening.
The evening Moniteur, in its weekly review of
foreign events, says :
" A few days before the departure of the Em-
peror of Russia from St. Petersburg for the Crimea,
to meet the Empress, he signed an ukase relative to
the reorganisation of the newly-annexed provinces
of Turkistan. 'The two administrations, civil and
military, are declared to be conjoined under the
authority of a Governor-General. The natives
fill a good many offices, and the customs of the
country are scrupulously respected. Tho Govern-
ment of the Emperor Alexander has obtained an
important success by extending its intluence over
those countries which, in the vicinity of Persia, the
Indies and China, occupy in the heart of Asia, as
it were, such an important geographical position
under the double rank of politics and commerce.

" The elections for the Confederate Parliament
have commenced throughout the whole of Northern
Germany. The scrutiny will commence towards
the end of this month. The absence of any pay-
ment for the deputies has rendered candidates
less numerous. The Prussian Government has sus-
pended the measure which it proposed in regard to
the treasure of the ancient electorate of llesse.
Instead of adding to the Prussian Treasury the
reserves successively accumulated by the sovereigns
of that country, it is proposed to apply them to
objects of local interest.

The Sultan left Vienna on the 31st of July to
embark in the Danube on his return to his States.
During the interruption of the labours of the
Reichsrath, the committees charged with the exami-
nation of the laws presented during the session
pursue their task with activity. The Confessional
Committee is occupied with propositions having for
object to give matrimonial jurisdiction to the civil
tribunals, to emancipate public instruction from
ecclesiastical authority, to regulate the relations
between various religious communities, and to
decree the equality of the confessions before the
law. The Chamber of Deputies has already
accepted these propositions in principle, but it ap-
pears doubtful whether the House of Lords will
ratify them.

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I theo agitation
foment
appears
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endeavouredtay
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com-
pletely dispelled by tie public good sense. The
note published in the Malheur, on the subject of the
journey of General Dumont. to Rome, has replaced
things in their proper light and. put an end to all
equivocation or misunderstanding. The Govern-
ment of King Victor Emmanuel, like that of the
Emperor, exhibits the firm intention to scrupulously
respect the Convention of the 15th of September,
which is at once the safeguard of the' Pontifical
territory, and the pledge of the amicable relations
existing between France and Italy. The Chamber
of Deputies held it last sitting on the Ist of August ;
it will not meet again till November. It is believed
that the Senate will agree to the law for the liquida-
tion of ecclesiastical property without difficulty."
The packet which has arrived.at St. Nazaire from
Vera Cruz has brought a despatch from at Dano,
dated July 8, to the Government, and anterior tc.
the telegram recently published in the Moniteur.
Juarez had not yet arrived at Mexico, where, how-
ever, he was expected without delay ; and Parfirio
Di,tz,
who continued to hold the command, seemed
personally disposed to exhibit moderation. General
Vidaurri, who was arrested in consequence of a
denunciation made on the morning of the 7th, was
shot on the same day in one of the principal squares
of the city.
The school vessel, the Jean Bart, has arrived at
Brest. The health of all ou board is excellent.

Prince Napoleon and the Princess Marie Clotilde
have left Paris to take the waters in the Pyrenees,
where they will remain for the reason.
The Siecle, in discussing the nationality of
Schleswig, says :
" What could have been more easy and more ad-
vantageous for victorious Prussia than to have ful-
filled the treaty of Prague, as regards Schleswig ?
By executing it faithfully there would have been
extenuation for greater violence on her part.
As Andrieux says—" A. windmill is respec'ed ;
province is robbed." The windmill fur Prussia
consisted of the rights of that courageous little
population of Danish Schleswig, who resisted and
who still resist their invaders with such heroism.
If it be true that homage due to courage in mis-
fortune, no nationality ought to be more respected
than that D inish nationality, so attached, so de-
cided, and which now prefers dispossession and
exile to submission to Prussian Germanism. We
had occasion lately to see in Paris a certain number
of persons of various classes belonging either to
Denmark or to the provinces in question. It, is
unp)s-Able to imagine a population better beloved,
better instructed, or more sympathetic, or who
merit less the misfortune which has occurred to
them. Some statistics relative to the elections ex-
plain why Prussia does nOt proceed to the vote
respecting the cession of Schleswig in pursuance of
the treaty
of Prague. She knows that the inbabi-

noon.

DN, FRIDAY EVENIN:I, AUGUST 9, 1867

-tints wish to be again placed under the dominion
of Denmark.

The papers are remarkably barren of news or in-
4::)rmation. Their attention is still centred upon
the elections to the general councils.

The robbery of jewels from the Swedish portion
of the Exhibition was effected in this way : A well-
dressed gentleman walked up to the glass case while
many persons wore about, took off the globe under
which the ornaments were kept, and wrapped them
up carefully in tissue paper, and put them in his
packet. This he did in such a business-like way,
without any concealment, that no one had a sus-
picion, as the gentleman was supposed to be one of
the Swedish Commissioners. It may be well to
explain that many stands are left the greater part
of the day without any one being iu attendance to
look after them. Some of the proprietors of articles
only come once a week, although, as a general prin-
ciple, there is a representative of the owner. The
most curious part of the affair s•ems to be that,
although this stand inclosed such valuable jewellery,
the win-low was not under lock and key.
It is stated from Rome that, although the depar-
ture of the Pope for Castel-Gardolfo was fixed for
this day, it is the intention of his eliness to remain
in the former city until the cholera shall have en-
tirely disappeared. The cases of cholera have very
much diminished, and the disease is now in such a
mild form that a cure is generally effected. At
Palermo, however, on the second day after the
disease manifested itself there were no less than 80
deaths. M. Rattazzi intends very shortly to put up
for sale ecclesiastical property to the amount of 200

Strange stories are told about a doctor who re-
sides on the Faubourg St. Antoine, where he gives
consultations in a little room on the second floor.
The landlord allows the doctor to live rent free in
consequence of the good done by hint to society.
He never goes to the house of a patient. All his
patients visit him. He literally gives advice, for he
will never accept money, although he effects mar-
vellous cures. his treatment is a perfect mystery.
Seine say he cures simply by his presence. He does
not allow any patient to come a second time, be-
cause, he says, if he can cure at all he can cure in
one visit. The crowd of patients is so great that it
is necessary to give numbered tickets, and they go in
their turn. Sixteen hundred tickets were given some
time ago, and about thirty patients were admitted
daily. The doctor, whose name is Jacob, is a man
nearly 40, of middle height, and a very intelligent
countenance. He is a soldier, that is to say he is a
musician in a regiment of Zouaves of the Guard.
When interrogated the other day relative to the
wonderful cures he is said to have made, and asked
how he was enabled to effect them, he said he did
not know. Some attributed the cures to spiritualism,
some to mesmerism, and some to charlatanism. The
doctors, he said, called him a quack, but that did not
give him any uneasiness. When asked if his pa-
tients were really ill, he replied that they said so,
and that he did them good, and that was all he
cared for. " Some come," he added, " who can't
move, but when I tell them to stir, they do so.
Above all things, I tell them not to drug themselves
and to take no physic." Mysterious as this may
seem, it is quite certain that there is always a
crowd of patients about the house. Among
them aro lame, blind, and paralytic, and what-
ever the disease the visitors all seem confident
of obtaining relief. When the doctor is in garrison
at Versailles he gives consultations there,which are
as much frequented as his consultations in Paris.
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He says he has never studied medicine, but when
disease
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a whatat patient
uhnidmer.he tells him instantly

The King of Sweden has been several times to the
theatre since he has been in Paris, but he goes in
private without the least ceremony.
A railway line has been commenced to connect
Switzerland with Italy. The ceremony of laying
the first rail took place at Sion (Switzerland), on
Tuesday. It was performed by the President of
the Council of the State of the Valais.
By the advice of his physicians, M. de Lamartine
is gone to Switzerland for the benefit of his health.
The weather is inclined towards storm, and the

wind is rather violent. It was very dull and cloudy
in the morning, but it became bright iu the after-

THE SULTAN'S RETURN TO TURKEY.

The Sultan arrived by the Danube at Restschuck
on Sundayvn
Majestyt
evening, and left on Tuesday morning,
arriving four o'clock in the afternoon.
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was highly pleased with the arrange-
ir
irsiiga Varna
ments made and his journey over the Varna line.
This is the first railway which has had the honour
of
io
We learn from the Levant Herald that the Sul-
'ithis
for his reception with
tacehnaenyding his Imperial Majesty in his own
r
dominions.
ertavi Fiala had left Constantinople
Majesty. Great preparations
are
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e excelling being
eclatt alna
madel g everywhere
that with which he was received
on his return from Egypt. The preparations alone
tit the principal yalis on the Bosphorus, from
Tophanch to Buyukdere, were a sight in themselves;
conspicuous amongst them were the palaces of the
Viceroy and of the Persian Minister at Eruirghian ;
and the illuminations promised to be marvellously
varied and beautiful. In Pera, too, carpenters,
lampists, and decorators were busy, and a very
handsome triumphal arch was being erected at the
Taxim. It was understood that the illuminations
on the Bosphorus would take place on the first night
after his Majesty's arrival ; that the second night
would be devoted to the illuminations in Pera; and
that at an early date a fete of unusual brilliancy
would be given by A'ali Pasha in the beautiful
grounds of his villa at Bebek.
The Sultan is stated to have given 25,0001 r. for
the poor of Vienna, to which is to be added a sum
of 150,000 fr. of which he made a gift to the charit-
able institutions of the two Turkish communities
lgiginigon. The scr-
to the Greek
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ibsehl ortei
vants placed at the orders of Abdul Aziz and his
suite received a sum of 50,000 fr. The Grand
Equerry, Count Crenneville, the Grand Master of
the Court, Prince de Ilohenlohe, the Grand Master
of the Ceremonies, Landgrave Furstenberg, and
the Grand Cupbearer, Count ‘Vratislaw, were deco-
rated with the Grand Cordon of the Order of the
Medjidie, and received snuff-boxes with the Sultan's
initials in diamonds. The Chancellor of theEtnpire
Baron de Beust, received the Grand Cordon of the
Medjitlici in diamonds ; and in return, the Emperor
of Austria conferred on Fuad Pasha the Grand
Cross of the Order of St. Stephen, also in diamonds.,
Ilaidar Effendi,
---assa,ler of the Porte at Vienna,
was decorated by the Sultan with the Grand Cor-
don of the Medjidie, and by the Emperor with the
Grand Cross of the Order of Leopold. During the
Sultan's stay at Vienna, Mgr. Facinelli Antonucci,
Papal Nuncio at the Court of Austria, was received
in private audience by his Majesty, to whom he
to
the c
presented an autograph letter from the Pope, in
which his
HolinessatholtihcaCnkheumidhhi,s Majesty for the
,
protection afforded in his States to Christians be-
longing

SUDDEN DEATH OF A REPORTER.—We regret to
announce the death of Mr. James Brooke, who for nearly
40 years has acted as ono of the principal reporters for this
paper. The department specially confided to his care was
that of the meetings and public out of
the railway system; and theltici,plirtoycaeenddingcoisT arising
noss.of his
reports gained for him not only the approval of his em
ployers, but the respect and esteem a
the railway interest.
Mr. Brooke, who was in his G3d year, died very suddenly.
He had attended the meeting of the Metrop Titan Railway
on \Vednssday in the discharge of his ordinary ditties, and
although complaining of fatigue retired to rust apparently
in his usuil health. Yesterday morning, however, ho was
found lifeless in his ht-3, having died front an attack of
epilepsy. His loss will be deeply felt by his colleagues
and a large circle of friends.—lierald.
RELICS OF THE PAST.—Upon lifting one of the
flooring deals in an old house about to bo pulled down
and
rebuilt at Linlithgow, paintings of a remark:able awl inte-
resting kind were discovered on the under side of the floor
and across the oakenHsts. The tal•tuo3 of " L°r`i
Fleming," "Erlo ainiaz," "Lord Letoun," "Erie do
Argyle," have been found apparently in connection
with their coats of arms. The house, whose walls are
above four feet in thickness, is said to have
been a great
resort of the nobility in the time of Queen Mary; and tra-
dition has it that each nobleman sat under his coat of arms
before proceeding in a body to the palace.