The Sun.
London, England, 1867-09-14 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM CUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Friday Evening.
The bulletin of the Moniteur contains the fol-
lowing news:—

" The results of the late elections to the Reich-
stag, which is now assembled at Berlin, are defini-
tively known. The assembly is composed of 297
members ; 236 have been elected by the colleges
of the kingdom of Prussia, and 61 by those of the
States of the Confederation. As to the respective
strength of parties in the new Parliament, the com-
position of the Reichstag has -not undergone any
material alteration. According to the Prussian
journals, the deputies are divided into the following
classes :—The Conservatives number about 80
members, including those who form the liberal por-
tion of that party ; the national Liberals amount to
about 75 ; the party of progress are estimated at
27 ; the various other shades of opinion are repre-
sented by the rest of the members.

"The Emperor of Austria, who arrived at Munich
yesterday (Wednesday) morning, left immediately
for Schaffhausen, where the Empress of Austria
and his sister the Queen of Naples are ex-
pected. Before leaving Vienna the Emperor
and his Ministers were occupied with the considera-
tion of various financial questions which are now
the order of the day, and particularly with those
connected with the proposal to unite all the debts
of the State.

A private telegram announces that the Viceroy
of Egypt left Constantinople on Tuesday last, on
board his yacht the Mahroussie, for Alexandria."
Baron de Budberg, the Russian Ambassador, has
just sent to the Prefect of the Seine, Baronllipursse:
mann, a magnificent vase, in Siberian jasper, a
sent from the Emperor Alexander the Second, who,
by this act of munificence, was desirous to evince
his satisfaction with the manner in which he was
received at the Hotel de Ville when' he was in Paris.
The vase and the pedestal, which is also of jasper,
are about two yards high. The shape is at once
elegant and simple. The lower part is mounted
with leaves of the acanthus. The jasper was ex-
tracted from the quarries of Reconew, in the Altai,
government of Tomsk. This splendid and valuable
vase will now ornament one of the rooms of the
Hotel de Vine.
" What's in a name?" says Shakspeare. There
has been assembled at Geneva what is called a
Congress of Peace. The great lion of the assembly
was the laml;-like Garibaldi. On his arrival at
Geneva on Monday last, impatient to deliver him-
self of his pacific sentiments, he could not wait till
the next day when he proposed to attend the Con-
gress, but he mounted the balcony of a house on
the Quai du Mont Blanc, and after a little blarney
about the Swiss., and the heroism of the descendants
of William Tell, he gave utterance to these emi-
nently tolerant and pacific sentiments :—" It was
here that your ancestors had the courage to make
the first attack upon that pestilential institution
called the Papacy. (Interminable cheers.) Citi-
zees of Geneva—that city which has become so
magnificent—you struck the first blow at Papal
Rome, and I call upon you to complete the
work of your ancestors, when we shall give the
last blow to the monster. There is in the
mission of the Italians an expiatory work
to be completed. We will do our duty.
We will overthrow the Pope. For this year assist-
ance is necessary. I hope .I. shall obtain it."
(Cheers.)
This man of peace was acclaimed and feted in
London, and a subscription was raised for the
Garibaldians. If any Catholics subscribed towards
the fund, they were not aware perhaps that the
chief desire which Garibaldi havat heart is to de-
stroy Papal Rome by a last blow at " the monster."
It remains to be seen what encouragement will be
given by the Peace Congress to this object, At

all events the great Catholic body are now
acquainted with it on the authority of Garibaldi
himself.

The subject of the prize for " Eloquence" offered
by the French Academy for 1868 is Jean Jacques
Rousseau. M. Thiers has founded a triennial prize
of 5,000 f., which will be awarded for the first time
in 1868, for the best historical work published in
the course of three years.
There is rather a curious ceremony every year
at the Halle, the crowning of the largest pumpkin.
The prize pumpkin this year, after being crowned
with flowers and placed upon an artistically deco-
rated litter,was paraded round the Halle with much
ceremony, followed by a numerous crowd. It
weighs about 220 English pounds, and is nearly
three yards in circumference. It was grown in the
valley of the Bierre, near Paris. The season for
gigantic cabbages seems to have commenced. There
is an account of a cabbage grown in the south,
which is nearly three yards high.
M. Leone Mahon was married yesterday at the
Church of La Madeleine, to Mdlle. Clary Bmiree,
daughter of his Excellency M. Bouree, Ambassador
from France at Constantinople.
The soldier, Thommeray, accused of murdering
his mistress, Louise Divary, at Vincennes, under
the circumstances which I mentioned at the time,
has been tried before a council of war in that town.
The Court found him guilty, but, admitting cir-
cumstances of extenuation, the prisoner was con-
demned to bard labour for 20 years.

The Italie states, on the authority of its corres-
pondence from Rome, that the fear of a Garibal-
dian invasion of that city is now completely dis-
pelled. It adds that nothing can be more false
than the reports given in the correspondence of
some of the papers relative to supposed works of
defence which the Government intends to under-
take at the Capitole and Fort St. Ange. Nothing
of the kind is projected, there being no occasion to
fear any attack.
A Russian journal states that the Shah of Persia
intends to pay a visit to the Emperor of Russia
during his stay at Livadia, in the Crimea.
The Paris papers of all shades of opinion unite in
expressions of dissatisfaction with the speech of the
King of Prussia. They are, however, rather dis-
pleased with what he omitted than with what he
said, and they particularly regret that there is no
allusion to France, and no elucidation in regard to
the late meeting of the two Emperors at Salzburg.
The Union says The speech of King William
appears to be an innocent one, but it is not so. It
avoids all questions of an irritating character, but
this mode of passing in silence over difficulties and
diplomatic resistance may give rise to various inter-
pretations. There is not a direct word or even an
allusion to the treaty of Prague, Schleswig, or the
Salzbourg interview ; not a syllable respecting the
susceptibilities excited by the events of 1866. The
speech of the King of Prussia is the work of a man
who lets people say what they like and passes on-
wards. The Gazette de France is of opinion that
the speech in plain words means that Prussia will
be content with peace, now that war has given her
all she coveted. The victory of Sadowa has satisfied
her, and Prussia thinks that nobody will attempt
to deprive her of the fruits of that victory.
According to the Journal d'Avranches the cholera
has broken out at Granville, and the number of
deaths is on the increase.

The Journal des Debuts confirms the assertion of
the Patrie of last evening, that there is no founda-
tion for the reports of intended Ministerial modifi-
cations. Such reports have been in circulation in
Paris for the last fortnight, but I did not notice
them, having been informed that they were mere
suppositions, invented to supply the scarcity of real
news. The only foundation for these reports is, that
Ministers go into the country for a holiday M this
time of year, and their offices are filled temporarily
by Ministers who are compelled to remain in Paris.
For instance, the Marquis de la Valette, the Mini-
ster, of the Interior, filled for some days the post of
another Minister, who was absent at his country
seat.

According to the last account received at Paris
respecting the Peace Congress at Geneva, alluded to
above, that pacific assembly was a scene of angry
contention and confusion during two days, and it
was suddenly dissolved in the midst of a general
quarrel, which, at one time, seemed likely to end in
a regular fight. As to Garibaldi, after throwing
down the apple of discord, he seems to have de-
parted in sudden haste and dudgeon, no one knows
whither. lie cannot be gone to Rome to begin his
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About two o'clock this morning there was the
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gamelend s,
most violent and alarming storm of thunder and
lightning which I ever remember. I have not had
an opportunity of hearing the opinion of the " oldest
i
inhabitant" about it, but it s the prominent topic
of the day, as it seems to have kept everybody
awake, and frightened most of them. People have
been comparing notes about it to-day, and that
seems to have been the general result. The thun-
der shocks sometimes succeeded each other at the
intervals of a few seconds only, and the lightning
at one time was seen in forked flashes, illuminating
all around with streams of fire, and then it played
in the style of what is called summer lightning.
In the country, in isolated houses, the windows
rattled, and the doors were shaken as if an earth-
quake were at hand, and the dogs howled in alarm.
The storm lasted two hours. To-day there are in-
dications of more storm.