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

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 14, 1867.

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 au artistically deco-
rated litterovas 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 Bouree,
daughter of his Excellency Al. 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 hard 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
de:ence which the Government intends to under-
take at the Capitole and Fort St. Ango. 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:—(g
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 o
deaths is on the increase.
The Journal des Debars confirms the assertion o

the Pat?* 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 at 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, cf the Interior, filled for some days the post 01

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. He cannot be gone to Rome to begin his
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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 bowled in alarm.
The storm lasted two hours. To-clay there are in-
dications of more storm.