The Sun.
London, England, 1867-05-11 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 11, 1867.

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Friday Evening.
The official part of the Atoniteur contains the an-
nouncement of several diplomatic changes. The
Marquis de Cadore, Envoy Extraordinary and Mi-
nister Plenipotentiary to the Grand Duke of Baden,
is appointed to the same post in Bavaria, in the
room of Viscount des Meloiges Fresnoy, resigned.
Count de Mosbourg is appointed Envoy Extraordi-
nary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Grand
Duchy of Baden, in the room of the Marquis de
Cadore. M. Duries de Verninac is appointed Se-
cretary of Embassy of the 2d Class, in the room of
Baron de Dampierre. The successor of M. de
Verninac is Count de Vielcastel.
Yesterday the Emperor reviewed, in the court
of the Tuileries, the Egyptian Battalion. The
Egyptian Battalion has been five years in Mexico,
and did good service in the Terres Chandes and at
Vera Cruz. Many of the officers are decorated. Be-
fore the troops defiled his Majesty congratulated the
Commandant of the Bittalion upon the excellent
appearance and discipline of the troops, and dis-
tributed medals to those who were wounded in com-
bating for France.
An official announcement has been made in the
Italian Chamber of Deputies by M. Rattazzi of the
approaching marriage of Prince Amedee, Duke of
Aoste, with the Princess de, la Cisterna, which is to
take place at Turin on the 30th inst.
A letter from Moscow, dated May 2, states that
the Emperor Alexander, accompanied by the Here-
ditary Grand Duke of Russia and the Princess
Dagmar, arrived on that day at the country seat of
Petrorky, near that city. On the next day there
was a splendid ceremony in honour of the entrance
of the Russian Court into the second city of the
empire. Twenty troops of all arms had been con-
centrated at Moscow, and they formed inline from
the Gate of Iven to the entering of the Kremlin.
The reception of the Royal Family was extremely
enthusiastic. 'The Russian Court was to remain at
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"The healths of the Emperor, the Empress, and the
Imperial Prince." The toasts were cordially and 'I
enthusiastically received.
No official account of the proceedings of the
Conference at London having been published there I
is " ample scope and verge enough" for the inveu-

live faculties of the newsmakers in Paris.

The

papers abound in speculations and versions as to
what has been said and done. As I know from
offi:ial sources that some of these accounts are un-
true, I forbear from noticing them. The Opinione
Nationale says : —" The Conference has assembled,
but still greater uncertainty prevails respecting the

views of the statesmen who represent the different

Cabinets. The pretensions of Prussia, and the
mode in which she appears disposed to manifest
them, are such that it will be difficult to reconcile
them with the interests of France. King William,
in fact, in effect maintains his rights in regard to

the fortress of Luxemburg, and will only renounce
them upon condition that the whole of Europe shall
be substituted in the Grand Duchy for the House of

Hohenzollern, thus closing it for ever against
France."

The Queen of Portugal has arrived in Paris.

Her Majesty travels under the title of Duchess de
Guimaraeus, and is accompanied by the Duke de
Loul6 and suite. Her Majesty's stay in Paris will
be of short duration.

The packet Imperatrice Eugenie has arrived at St
Nazaire with dates from Vera Cruz to the 13th of
April. Prince Iturbide was on board. Vera Cruz
was still besieged by General Benavides, with 3,000
men. The capture of Puebla is fully confirmed,
but General Marquez had left Mexico with 6,000
men, with the intention of endeavouring to recap-
ture it.
The Siecle says that its private information rela-
tive to the London Conference enables it to con-
firm the report as to the difficulty which arose
respecting the guarantee of the neutrality of Luxem-
bourg by the Great Powers, but adds that it is
enabled to say that the difficulty is not of such a
nature as to delay the pacific solution which is
likely to orise from the deliberations of the Confer-
ence.

The Imperial Court has dismissed the appeal of
M. de Girardin against the sentence of the Cor-
rectional Court inflicting a fine of 500 f. for an
article in the Liberte exciting hatred and contempt
against the Government. It also condemned M.
de Girardin to pay the costs of the appeal.
An old woman has just died at Fumay, in the
Ardennes, who was the very type of avarice. She
lived very miserably, half starved herself, and went
about in rags. A few days before she died she sold
the sheets from her bed on the plea that she wanted
to buy bread. At her death, after minute researches,
the sum of no less than 60,000 f. in gold and silver
was found carefully concealed in the cellar which
belonged to her apartment. In another part of her
lodging were two chests both full of gold. They
were so heavy that the Justice of Peace and his
assistant could not lift them. This miserly woman
has left a very extraordinary will. She has be-
queathed a sum of 20,000 f. to the woman who did
her household work, although a few days ago she
refused the small addition of one franc a mouth to
her wages.
On Wednesday the fete of Joan of Arc (May 8)
was celebrated at Orleans with great pomp. Ac-
cording to traflitional custom the garrison marched
;!ito the c:ty, an.l m :sic being played, an 1
torches being borne in the front. The mass coin-
mcinorative of the deliyeranc. of the city of Orleans
was celebrated at the church of Sante Croix, in the
presence of all the leading persons in the depart-
ment. The Abbe Fressel, Professor of Sacred Elo-
quence at the Sorbonne, pronounced an energetic
panegyric upon the heroine. Ia the evening the
city was splendidly illuminated.
Some of the mo6t magnificent Arabian saddle
horses ever seen in regard to shape and blood have
just arrived at Paris from Cairo, aud are now at the
Imperial stables at the Louvre. They were pre-
sented to the Emperor by the Viceroy of Egypt.
Two of the superb animals, five years old, were born
in the environs of Bagdad, and have Persian blood
in their veins. A third, rather older, bay brown,
belonged to Said Pacha, and has been brought from
the stables of his son, Toussoutn. In form they are
the most pure and perfect resemblance of Nedje, the
real courser of the desert. As to their va!tv, the
amount at which their worth is esteemed is fabulow.
The heat has been very oppressive to-day.