The Sun.
London, England, 1867-02-23 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

PARIS, Friday Evening.

The Moniteur to-day is nearly filled with the
despatches from the official book, relative to the
great events in Germany and Italy. It has not a
word of news, and it has not even its fails (livers
(miscellaneous facts), an omission which rarely

The telegraphic despatch from Vera Cruz, an-
nouncing the entire evacuation by the French
troops, has not excited much attention, because it
has been anticipated for some time. It was posted
on 'Change as if it had been something important,
but it had no influence upon prices. There is
more to come however. The affairs of Mexico will
assume prominence. I have reason to believe that
the Government is in possession of intelligence which
leaves little hope that the Emperor Maximilian will
be able to maintain his position in Mexico.
Again the proposed law upon the Press forms the
staple of the argumentative portions of the Paris
papers. The Journal des Debats comes out, but
somewhat timidly. It, however, declares itself
against the continuance of what it calls " the vague
and indefinite offence termed excitation to the con-
tempt and hatred of the Government."
A letter from Rome states that although Cardinal
Antonelli is still suffering from the gout, he is again
able to attend to business. Monseigneur Berardi,
however, has been compelled to repair to Frascati,
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he is in a very critical state.

M. Norhomb, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary for Belgium to Berlin, has been
recalled temporarily by his Government to Brussels,
in order to receive the necessary instructions rela-
tive to the stipulaticns which are to be made in the
marriage contract of the Count de Flandre with the
Princess de Hohenzollern.

A literary paper gives some curious particulars
respecting the four Statues of the Plantagenets,
which are now in the chapel of the abbey of Fon-
trevault. England wished to possess those statues
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vault. A French writer, perhaps with pardonable
vanity, says the race of Plantagenets proves that
" France has governed England." The genealogy,
is thus traced. Geoffroy, fifth Duke of Anjou,
having married, in 1127, the widow of King Henry I.
of England, their son, Henry 11., whose statue is at
Fontrevault, ascended the throneof England in 1154.
This race, of French blood, occupied that throne
331, years, that is to say, until the accession of Henry
VII., chief of the House of Tudor. The English
kings who had the blood of Angerin (the province
Anjou) in her veins were Henry 11., Richard Coeur
de Lion, Jean Sans Terre, Henry 111., Edward 1.,
Edward H., Edward M., Richard 11., Henry IV.,
Henry V., Henry VI., Edward IV., Edward V.,
and Richard 111. Henry 11., whose statue figures
among those mentioned, was, according to this bio-
grapher, the first English Monarch of French blood
who commanded at once Great Britain, Anjou,
Maine, Touraine, Normandy, and more than half
of France beyond the Loire, and yet wanted to
possess it all. He fought Rome by " ideas," and
Louis VII. by arms. He committed the crime of
assassinating Thomas h Beckett, Archbishop of
Canterbury. He was conquered by events, and
was forced to do penance before the monk, whom
he had made a martyr. lie died at Chignon, in
1189, and was interned at Fontrevault.
The Emperor, with his accustomed liberality, has
given 10,000 f. in promotion of a subscription to
enable workmen in the departments to come to
Paris at the time of the Exhibition. The Empress
has subscribed 5,000 f. with the same object.
On the Ist of December last there were 2,091
telegraph offices in France. During the last six
months of 1866 the number of telegraphic despatches
transmitted by the various offices was 2,367,991,
being an increase over the number sent in the cor-
responding period of 1865 of 306,534. The receipts
amounted to 6,471,186 f., being an increase of
602,603 f. over those of 1865.
The poet Lamartine, who, in his time, has re-
ceived a fabulous amount of money, but who is
always in difficulties, is, it is said, about to receive
from the State a sum of 400,000 f., which will be
accorded to him " as a national recompense as the
former head of the Provisional Government." The