The Sun.
London, England, 1867-07-26 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS•

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Thursday Evening.
The Moniteur contains a decree for closing the
session of the Legislative Body.
A telegram from Spezzia, dated July 21, an-
nounces that the Italian fleet, under the command
of Admiral Ribotti, has just left that port.
The Grand Duke Alexis, third son of the Em-
peror of Russia, arrived at Cadiz on the 19th inst.
from Odessa, and left for Malta and Gibraltar. His
imperial highness, who is a lieutenant in the Rus-
sian navy, is about to embark in the steam frigate
Alexandre Newski, to make a voyage of study in
the Atlantic.

The Memorial Diplomatique says—" The rules of
etiquette prevent the Emperor of Austria from leav-
ing his States during the family mourning ordered
in consequence of the sanguinary catastrophe of
Queretaro, which mourning will not cease till the
24th of August. At that period the Emperor of
the French will take tlw waters at Plotnbieres, from
whence ho will proceed to Biarritz, to join the
Empress and the Imperial Prince. This is the rea-
son why the Duke de Gramont, having been charged
to inform the Emperor Francis Joseph that the
Emperor Napoleon, calculating upon being absent
from Paris at the end of the mourning, the Austrian
Sovereigns have postponed the period of their visit
to the Court of the Tuileries. As the Duke de
Gramont is expected shortly in Paris to take part in
the deliberations of the General Councils, and as,
on the other hand, the Prince de Metternich pro-
poses to take a short leave of absence during the
stay of the Emperor and Empress at Biarritz, they
will both be enabled to receive ulterior instructions
from the mouths of their respective Sovereigns,
with the view of making arrangements for the pro-
jected journey of the Emperor and Empress of
Austria to France, which has only been postponed
in consequence of the melancholy events which
everybody deplores."

Baron de Zaylau de Nyevelt has been received
by the Emperor to remit to his Majesty the letters
which accredit him as Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary from the Court of the
Netherlands to the Court of France.

The cholera now prevails with much intensity at
Ploumilliau in the department of the Cotes du Nord.
During a fortnight the terrible malady has created
much alarm. Out of a population of about 3,700
persons, more than 400 were attacked with the dis-
ease, and the proportion of deaths was very large.
The doors of the Clichy prison were opened on
Tuesday night. At eight o'clock the director of the
prison announced to his boarders that they were
free. The news was received with frantic joy and
manifestations of pleasant excitement impossible to
describe. The prisoners carried the director in
their arms, and treated him to an ovation. They
then made their preparations for departure. At one
minute after midnight the doors were opened for
sixty debtors, who departed nothing loth. A few
of them said they would pa=s one mare night under
the hospitable roof. The requisite permission was
therefore given by the director. The prison is now
inhabited by only five or six debtors, whose pe-
culiar situation connected with the reason for their
confinement demands attentive inquiry.

The last accounts of the insurrection in the island
of Crete are very contradictory. Advices from
Athens to the 15th of July represent the Cretans
as being able to hold out against the Turkish
troops on the heights of Spatica. On the other
hand, a telegram from Constantinople of the 23d of
July affirms that all the positions of tho insurrec-
tionists have been carried by the Turks, and that
the island had entirely submitted.
A trial is now proceeding before the Court of
Assize of the Ariege, connected with some horrible
murders which took place three years ago, and
created great excitement at the time. On the
night of the 26th of February, 1864, the proprietor
of the chateau Labastida Besilas, an old gentleman
of upwards of 70, and three of his servants were
brutally murdered. A man named Jacques Latour,
and his accomplice Audony were convicted for the
murder. Latour was condemned to death and
executed. Audony was sentenced to hard labour
for life, and died in confinement at Cayenne. The
police having become acquainted with some cir-
cumstances inducing the belief that a man named
Pierrio Salot, alias Casque de For, who was known
to be intimate with the murderers, he was arrested,
and there are presumptions that he was an accJm-
plice in the crimes. Salot, in defence, endeavoured
to prove an alibi. The murderers plundered much
valuable property from the chateau. There is a
great deal of evidence, and the trial will last for
several days.
The opening of the sixth International Statistical
Congress is definitively fixed for the 30th of Septem-
ber. Its sittings will continue till the sth of Octo-
ber. All the Governments of Europe, Turkey, and
the United States will send representatives to the
Congress.
The Emperor, accompanied by the King of
Bavaria and the King of Portugal, has visited the
Billancourt Agricultural Exhibition, which coutinuca

to be very attractive. Their Majesties particularly
admired the splendid horses, nearly 200 in nam-
ber. The sheep exhibited are the finest ever
seen. There is now a dog show at the Exhibition.
A valiant old warror of the Empire, M. A. Tillet,
has just died at his country home at the age of 82.
He was a Knight of the Legion of Honour. One of
the most remarkable traits on record is connected
with his history. General Foy related in the Cham.
ber of Deputies on the 19th of April, 1820, that
Tillet performed a most extraordinary feat during
the war, not to be excelled in the history of modern
eiployed on a mission, to effect
crossn an army of 100,000 English
days.
which
bTillet
h ad was
or Spaniards, who blockaded the strong place of
Armeida, in order to convey a letter to General
Brenier, commanding him to blow up the place
and rejoin the bulk of the French army. Tillet
was compelled to hide himself in the bed of a
river his head being between two rocks, where he
remained for eleven hours. A whole battalion was
engaged in trying to find him, but no one thought
of looking for him in the river. At night Tillet
emerged from his hiding place and proceeded to-
wards the place. In his progress 1,500 balls were
fired at him, but not one hit him, and he was gabled
to deliver the letter to General Brenier, who, with
1,200 men, forced the lines of the blockade and re-
joined Massena, General-in-Chief at the Felix le
Grand. It should be added that twelve soldiers had
successively tried to perform the task, but they had
all been shot by the Spaniards.
The Moniteur, in its weekly review of foreign
affairs, says :—" Count Bismark has just been in-
vested with the functions of Chancellor of the
Confederation of Northern Germany. The Chan-
cellor will preside at the Federal Council, at which
Prussia will have 17 votes, Bavaria six, Saxony
Royal four, Wurtemberg three, the Grand Duchy
of Hesse Darmstadt three, Mecklenburg Schwerin
and the Duchy of Brunswick each two. The other
States of the Confederation will have each one vote.
One of the first tasks of the new Chancellor will be
administrative organisation, founded upon the divi-
sion of the Federal Council into seven commissions,
respectively charged with military affairs and for-
tresses, maritime affairs, customs and duties, com-
merce, railways, Post Offices and telegraph, jus-
tice and finance.
" The Austrian Reichsrath continues its labours
with activity. The acts accomplished at Vienna
have tended to strengthen the confidence of the
whole Empire innthe moral and material force of
the Government. Public opinion is grateful to
Baron de Beust for the zeal and talent which he
has displayed in seconding the generous intentions
and liberal views of the Empress Francis Joseph.

" A Congress of Chambers of Commerce is to
assemble at Florence towards the middle of Sep..
tember."

The weather is still unsettled, with the probabi -
lty of more storms.

The number of persons who paid for admission to
the Exhibition on Tuesday was nearly 48,000.
The Memorial Diploniatique says that the health
of the Archduchess Sophia has not undergone any
alteration, whatever may be said by English or
French journals. The Archduchess lives tranquilly
with her two sons, the Archdukes Charles Louis
and Louis Victor. The Archduchess naturally heard
with great emotion the news of the death of the
Emperor Maximilian, and while anxiously expecting
official information respecting this melancholy event,
she reads with avidity the accounts published by
the English and American papers on the subject.