The Sun.
London, England, 1867-04-13 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENCE FROSI PARIS•

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Friday Evening.
The difficulties which were several times inter-
posed to prevent the formation of the new Italian

Ministry seem to be now definitively overcome, ex-
cept as regards what is perhaps the most important
point, the appointment of the Minister of Foreign
Affairs. M. Pescetto, Alinister of Justice, will
perform the duties of that office temporarily until
the appointment be regularly made. M. Rattazzi,
in making this communication to the Chamber of
Deputies, spoke of the necessity which existed that
both the Cabinet and the Parliament should imme-
mediately occupy themselves with the financial
measures required for the necessities of the country
and the restoration of the public credit. The Mi-
nister added that Italy, relieved from anxiety in
regard to foreign affairs, might now exclusively de-
vote herself to the ameliorations alluded to in the
Spe2ch from the Throne. Ile then announced that
projects of law would without delay be introduced
for a new arrangement in regard to taxes and
duties, the organisation of the army, reductions in
the Budget, the liquidation of the property of the
clergy, and for the commencement of works of great

public utility.
The Moniteur mentions the receipt of a telegraphic
despatch announcing that the greater portion of the
Turkish garrison had evacuated the fortress of Bel-
grade. The Ottoman troops had embarked, and
were descending the Danube. •
The Prince of Servia was received with great en-
thusiasm by the Turkish authorities at Routchouk,
where his Royal Iliglaness stopped on the course of
his journey to Constantinople. The Governor-
General went out to meet the Prince, who arrived
on board au Austrian ship, the arrival of which was
acknowledged by a salute of 21 guns. The same
honours were paid to the Serviau flag by the French
ship Magicienne at the mouth of the Danube.
Each day increases the excitement relative to
Luxemburg. Sonic of the papers have long articles
upon the subject. With few exceptions the Paris
journals view with pleasure, or at all events with-
out regret, the probable opportunity of checking
Prussia in her ambitious d ill-advised career.
Some of the journals, howevaenr, are of opinion that
Prussia will recoil from the idea of provoking
hostilities with France. A newspaper of some in-
fluence, the Opinion Nationale, on the other hand,
says It appears to us that the party of action
will prevail in the councils of the Governmentt,
con-
and
that it will determine M. de Bismarck to ac
trary to the declarations which he made before the
war and recently renewed in the Parliament, and
that King William, intoxicated with his recent vic-
tories, will see, without much annoyance, a move-
ment which will urge him towards a fresh war."
The King and Queen of the Belgians have ar-
rived in Paris, but their visit being a private one,
and chiefly for the purpose of visiting the Exhibi-
tion, the King did not go to the Grand Hotel, where
his late father was accustomed to stop. He is at a
retired hotel, the hotel Walewski, in the Avenue
Montaigne, Champs Elysee.
The students of the Quartier Latin have taken a
very wholesome step to check the extortions of pro-
prietors of houses who, as well as restauranteurs and
other persons, have exhibited strong symptoms of
attempted extortion upon visitors to Paris during
the Exhibition. They met, to the number of 4,000,
and passed resolutions to the effect that if any house
proprietor should demand an increase of rent they
would leave the house immediately. That a com-
mittee should be formed to make out a list distin-
guishing the, hotels where increased rent was de-
manded from those where it was the same as before,
and that these lists should be published. The per-
sons who let rooms in the Faubourg St. Germain
are getting alarmed, particularly as the students
hold out the idea that if increased rent be established
the whole body of students will leave that side of
the river Seine.
The necessary works have been commenced at
that remarkable edifice, the Hotel Carnavalet in the
Rue Culture Sainte Catherine, for its conversion
into the municipal Museum of the City of Paris.
The ornamental portion of this edifice, due to the
celebrated Jean Goujon is very remarkable, but its
chief celebrity arose from its habitation by the
Marchiones; de Sevigne. That celebrated lady, in
her well-known letters, says she had changed her
residence ten times before she could find any resi-
dence which pleased her. She took possession of
the hotel in October, 1667, and occupied it till her
death in 1696. At a later period, by direction of
the First Napoleon, it was devoted to the School
of Bridges and Highways. In 1829 this school was
transferred to the Faubourg St. Germain, to make
room for one of the principal portions of the College
of Charlemagne. In Sauval's " History of the An-
tiquities of the City of Paris," he says that the
facade of this hotel is the most beautiful, the most
majestic, and yet the most simple in Paris.
The day before yesterday the Marquis de Mous-
tier, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, gave a long,
audience to Count de Goltz, the Prussian Ambassa-
dor, who, at its termination, immediately sent de-
spatches to Berlin. Coming events, it is said, cast
' their shadows before.
There is another extraordinary change in the