The Sun.
London, England, 1867-02-13 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 13, 1867.

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Tuesday Evening.
The Moniteur announces that the Emperor will
open in person on Thursday, in the grande salle du
Louvre, the Legislative Session of 1867, and will
receive the oaths of the members of the Senate and
of the Legislative Body, who have not yet fulfilled
that formality. The places for the members are
assigned. The only change I see is that Marshal
MacMahon will occupy the seat of the late Marquis
de Boissy, who so distinguished himself as the
enemy of perfidious Albion.

The Belgian Moniteur received in Paris to-day
states that the Kingof Prussia has given his consent
to the marriage of the Count de Flandre with the
Princess Marie Louise de llohenzoliernSigmaringen.
After having solicited her band at Berlin the Prince
returned to Dusseldorf, and the betrothal was to
take place yesterday. The Princess Marie Louise,
21 years of age, is the fifth child of Prince Charles
Antoine de Hohenzollern. The marriage, which is
to take place in the latter part of May, will be cele-
brated at Berlin.

The Pontifical Government has just given its
consent to the monetary convention concluded at
Paris on the 23d December, 1865, between France,
Italy, Switzerland, and Belgium. By virtue of this
convention the monetary system will be uniform be-
tween the States of the Church and the kingdom of
Italy. According to the last accounts from Rome, the
situation of the Pontifical States continues to be
very satisfactory as regards the maintenance of
public tranquillity. The army, composed of 11,000
men, is capable of preserving tranquillity in the
interior and in the provinces. The Italian troops
exercise great vigilance in preventing adventurers
and agitators from entering the States of the
Church. An Imperial decree recently promulgated
nominates to the high position of Primate of the
Kingdom of Hungary, Monseigneur Siinor, Bishop
of Raab. In the Church of the West the title of
Primate is given to Bishops or Archbishops in-
vested in regard to a certain number of
neighbouring seats, with a jurisdictional au-
thority similar to that of the patriarchs of the
East. In a political point of view the Primate of
Hungary occupies a very high position in the or-
gaui,,ation of the kingdom.
According to the information of the best informed
Gertnan papers, at the approaching meeting of the
Parliament at Berlin, eighty deputies of the an-
nexed provinces will take their seats in the Chamber
of Representatives and in the Upper Chamber, the
chief of the aristocracy of the provinces. Besides
this, Northern Germany will probably be constituted
into a Confederation, according to the plans of the
Cabinet of Berlin. ilea the important functions
of the Prussian Parliament will be transferred
to the Federal ParliameL' and should there

be an equal division of political feeling,
the Chambers of Berlin will no longer have their
former prerogative influence upon local legis-
lation. Upon this account the Constitutiounel
says :—" In the opinion of -many persons on the
other side of the Rhine, this change in the Berlin
Chambers will diminish the danger of fresh conflicts
with the Government. According to other views
there will only be a change in the place where. danger
exists."

Meteorological cairn again prevails in Paris. The
tempest is stilled. The temperature was warm this
afternoon, although there was a slight frost during
the night, and the Seine is rapidly descending, so
that one great source of alarm is passing away.

Real news is scarce to-day, as the fabrication of
sensation reports are somewhat cautious of promul-
gating inventive speculations, which would meet
with such speedy contradiction at the meeting of the
Chambers.

The cattle disease seems to be of a more virulent
character than was supposed, and increased alarm
prevails in Belgium respecting it, because the con-
tagion affects individuals. A butcher who wont
to Hessault from Liege to kill cattle received a
scratch in the arm during the operation. A swelling
took place like that from contact with a poisonous
serpent, and he was dead in a few hours.
The exact days for the races during the present
year have not yet been fixed, but I understand that
the first meeting will take place at Porchefontaine,
near Versailles, on Sunday next, the 17th instant.
It is, I believe, also settled that the race for the
Grand Prix de Paris for 100,000 f. will take place
at Longchamps in the Bois de Boulogne on Sunday,
June 2.

The Journal des Debats says that a Constantinople
journal promizem, an (agreeable surprise upon the
Eastern question, which has created so much anxiety
in Europe. Thai surprise consists of the fact that
Turkey has assured the Russian Government that
she will herself cut the Gordian knot of Oriental
complication by conceding all the claims and de-
mands of the Christians, and establishing the best
relations between the Mussulman population.
" God forbid," adds the Journal des Debats, " that
we should discourage those good intentions of the
Porte if they really exist. It is evident, however,
that such a desirable consummation must one day be
accomplished."

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