The Sun.
London, England, 1867-10-02 00:00:00

and precision that they are very useful for purposes
where large and complicated machinery is not re-
quired. It is said that the motive power is the
most economical yet produced. The origin of these
little vertical machines is rather remarkable. The
inventor of them had long been endeavouring to
solve the problem of aerial navigation, and
his researches were devoted to the endeavour
to discover a motive power at once light,
powerful, and occupying little space. The
boiler has all the accessories of a large steam
engine, but reduced to the smallest possible dimen-
sions. This was the first idea which led to the
construction of these vertical portable machines,
which are now employed with great advantage and
economy.

During the work of restoration in the church of
St. Graville, Sainte Honorine, near llavre, a sarco-
phagus has been discovered, and, from the researches
made by the Abbe Cochet, inspector of historical
and religious monuments of the Seine Inferieur,
there is no doubt that here was the tomb of Sainte
Honorine, the patroness saint of the church. The
form of the coffin does not present any of the types
of the middle age, and from the character of the
stone and other circumstances it is believed to be of
the 4th or sth century, and, consequently, confirma-
tory of the tradition that this tomb is that of Sainte
Ilonorine.

Accounts from Boulogne-sur-Mer state that the
herring fishery has been very successful on several
days lately.
According to the Belgian papers there is now no
doubt that the cattle disease has manifested itself at
the Garden of Acclimatation at Liege. The garden
has been placed under a sort of quarantine, and
every precaution has been adopted.
Considerable excitement was produced in Paris
last June by the discovery of a mutilated body.
The head was found near St. Denis, and the trunk
in the canal St. Martin. The mutilated remains
have been minutely examined, and have been iden-
tified by his son, as those of a farmer named Dugue,
who resided at Meux. The police hhve also dis-
covered that the deceased had been to sell some hay
at St Denis, and that he had been in company with
a man named Charles Armain, who is supposed to
have murdered and then robbed him. Amain
has been taken into custody, and will be tried for
the murder at the next aassizes of La Seine.

PARIS, Tuesday Evening.

The letters from Florence state that, notwith-
standing the removal of Garibaldi, the Italian
Government intends to continue its precautions to
prevent any insurrectional attempt against the
Pontifical frontiers.

The German papers mention that the committee
of the Nationalrerein at their last sitting decided
upon submitting to the next general assembly, the
period for the meeting of which is not yet fixed,
the question of the dissolution of the Arationalverein.
It appears that Garibaldi was liberated by the
Italian Government without any conditions, as will
be seen by the following letter from him addressed
to the director of the Alovimento on his passage
through Genoa :

" Genoa, Sept. 27, 1867.

" In the citadel of Alessandria the offer was
made to me to go in full liberty to Caprera, and
without any conditions. To avoid all equivocation,
I beg you to publish this.—Faithfully yours,

" G. GARIBALDI."

Various manifestations were made in favour of
Garibaldi at Genoa before his embarkation for
Caprera. They are, however, to be considered
rather as demonstrations of personal feeling than
as marks of sympathy with the foolish expedition
he was about to attempt.. There are papers here,
however, which affect to believe that the arrest of
Garibaldi at Sinaluuga is not to be considered as a
check upon the efforts of those revolutionists who
think it possible that they will be able to bring
about the overthrow of the temporal power of the
Pope. The journals, whose information is to be
relied upon, treat such a consummation as impos-
sible.

The splendid manAolcum erected to the memory
of the Duke de .horny in the cemetery of Pere
Lachaise is just finished. It is a beautiful and very
artistic monument. The architect is M. Viollet Le
Due, and it was constructed by M. Victor Lemaine.
It is situated on the western summit of the elevated
ground which dominates over Paris, not far from
the tombs of Casimir Delavigne, the poet, and
Honore de Balzac. The tomb is surrounded by a
small garden filled with beautiful flowers.
The environs of Fontainebleau are again in
excitement. Very near to the spot where Madame
Mertens was murdered. there has been another
murder. A dead body has been discovered in a
state of decomposition and much devoured by in-
sects. It has been identified as that of an inhabi-
tant of Fontainebleau, who had been missing for
some weeks. The deceased is known to have gone
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of the robbery.
Vice-Admiral the Marquis du Bouzet, whose
death was recently announced, was one of the sur-
vivors of the last voyage of Dumont d'Urville to
the South Pole. He made many long voyages. At
twenty years old he had made a sea voyage of four
years, and a voyage round the world under the
orders of M. Bougainville. In d'Urville's expedi-
tion he liad the second command. His naval skill
and nautical knowledge were so appreciated by M.
d'Urville that the great navigator wished to ap-
point him his successor in his projected important
voyages of discovery, and he was making further
preparations for another expedition when Death
selected him for a victim. The Vice-Admiral had
made voyages of discovery or in aid of science to
the Brazils, although he passed much of his life in
the South Sea. He also rendered much service to
commerce. It was he who founded the first
establishment in New Caledonia. The Emperor
conferred the Legion of Honour upon him. His
great passion was study and travel.
There is an exhibition here,which, if not an agree-
able one, is at all events very wonderful. A tribe
of 26 persons, male arid female, from Algeria, called
the Aissa llouas, are to be seen at the Athletic Arena
in the Rue Lepelletier, who go through some
strange performances, mystic dances, eating fire and
swallowing serpents. The tantams beat monoton-
ously during a curious ballet. One of these young
Arabs puts a large piece of burning charcoal in his
mouth and crunches it with his teeth. A piece which
fell down burnt a hole in the floor, so there is no
deception. A large piece of window glass was given
to another, which crumbled in his teeth, and was
eaten with voracity. The teeth of the fire eaters
are burnt and the gums calcined. While they eat
the fire they make horrible contortions. A box of
adders was brought in. An Arab selected one, and
while the irritated reptile put out its sting he first
bit off its head and then ate it all. You could hear
the noise of the eater's teeth, and the blood ran
upon his lips. The music of the tantams and kettle-
drums accompanied this epicurean feast. There are
other similar things to be seen, but this perhaps is
enough of them. The name of Aissa Houha,
according to " The Dictionary of the Nineteenth
Century," is given in Algeria to men who eat ser-
pents and pass for sorcerers. They also form a
Mussulman religious order, founded by Sidi Aissa.
Among the notabilities now in Paris is Prince
Augustus Cosuic Iturbide, a man about 40, the son
of time Enmperor Augustus the First, who for a time
occupied the throne of Mexico, and whose career
was terminated in the same unpleasant manner as
that of the Emperor Maximilian.

The price of bread has risen three times within
the last six weeks in Paris, although all the bakers
did not take advantage of the last rise, which oc-
curred a few days ago. The subject is beginning to
create much interest in Paris, because some fears
have existed of a scarcity of wheat. During the
first ten days of September the importation of wheat
and flour into France rose to 187,243 metrical
quintals, whilst the exportation of the same articles
was only to the extent of 7,118 metrecal quintals.
From this fact it ensues that from the Ist to the 10th
of September the importations of corn exceeded the
exportations by more than 18 millions of kilo-
grammes (a kilogramme is 21bs.), which circum-
stance must necessarily have an influence upon the
price of bread. The excise duty levied upon corn