The Sun.
London, England, 1867-06-03 00:00:00

ample means of imbibing genuine old English beer
and ale, and every species of the delicious wine
of France, yet even teetotalers have been thought of.
In the park, close to the Ecole Militaire, is a
remarkable establishment, a farm, where there are
twenty Dutch cows, and here the temperate enjoy
beautiful fresh milk, which at periods of the day may
be had pure and hot from the animal. Without, the
place has all the accessories of a farm, for there are
plenty of chickens, sheep, turkeys, pigs, and calves.
A repast of fresh laid eggs and genuine milk is not
a bad one for a Teetotaller. In a farm near Paris a
novel if not unprecedented sight may now be wit-
nessed. A hen has hatched no less than 24 chickens,
and she attends to her whole brood with maternal
care. At the farm at the Exhibition the cows are
installed under a very ta3tefully executed circular
tent.

Some thirty years ago France was very much
behind-hand in regard to the manufacture of car-
riages. Even the rich rode in the most ugly-look-
ing and inconvenient vehicles, and as to the public
vehicles they were miserable and unsightly in the
extreme. The French have, indeed, changed all
this. The carriage department at the Exhibition,
which is situate near the Porte St. Dominique, has

a display of carriages which cannot be surpassed,
or, I think, equalled anywhere for elegance, com-
fort, and beauty. There is one carriage which is
signalled out by all for its striking display of neat-
ness. It is not gaudy and cumbersome, like some
of our English State carriages, but is an object
remarkable as affording proof of the great advance
in this branch of French industry and art. I cer-
tainly never saw so beautiful a carriage, and my
opinion is confirmed by many writers in the Paris
papers. The manufacturer, M. Kellner, of the
Boulevard Haussman, well deserves the tribute paid
to his taste and skill. It appears that he has just
obtained a patent for a very useful but simple piece
of mechanism to be applied to a landau. At. pre-
sent the door of a carriage cannot be opened with-
out lowering the window, but this inconvenience is
avoided by the appliance of this invention. In a
few (lays visitors will have an opportunity of seeing
it at the Exhibition.

A despatch has been received in Paris from Vienna
which announces that the Austrian Government
has received from its Ambassador in the United
States a telegram confirming the news of the
capture of Queretaro by the Republicans, and
of the unconditional surrender of the Emperor
Maximilian. From other sources of informa-
tion it appears that there is no foundation for
the report that Juarez had given orders that the
unfortuate Emperor should be shot.
The weather is magnificent to-day, but over-
poweringly hot. All Paris is on holiday. In addi-
tion to the Exhibition there is a fete at Sevres,
races in the Bois de Boulogne, and innumerable
novel entertainments.

THE CRISIS IN BRAZIL.

The royal mail steamer, from Brazil, brings
nothing new from the seat of war in Paraguay.
The cholera bad broken out in the allied camp to a
fearful extent, and shows itself a worse and more
pitiless foe than Lopez. Nearly 3000 died in five
days, and the men have become so exasperated that

hey ask to bo brought into action at once, or that

peace should be made. At Buenos Ayres and
Rosario this dreadful disease has made great havoc.
Buenos Ayres is nearly deserted, every one has fled
to the country, and business is suffering greatly.
For fear of infection Montevideo is closed to all

communication with Buenos Ayres, and to ships
coming from the Parana. The situation of the
Brazilian empire is best described by giving extracts
from their own journals. The Journal de Brazil
has a well-written article under the above head, and
so has the Journal de Conunercio, which we insert :

" We are going from bad to worse, from one
abyss into another. The folly of the Government
is aggravated by its utter inefficiency. To order an
impossibility is the act of imbeciles, to decree an
injustice is decidedly wicked ; but to admit the im-
possibility and injustice of a decree, and yet persist
in it, argues the! most lain entable depravity. Un-
fortunately it is not only the Ministers who are de-
moralised, but the very principal of authority is
undermined. We are in a dreadful crisis ; all the
bad elements of society are actively at work, and
honest men bide their heads. The Government
inspires no confidence in our citizens, nor displays
energy to quell public disturbers. Without pres-
tige, without conviction, without patriotism, the
Ministry is swayed by caprice, and refuses to re-
sign its empty honours. They began the war
without an army, they confided the campaign
to foreign generals whose interests were
highly suspicious ; they plunged the Empire
in debt, they sent the bone and sinew
of the country to Paraguay, and now when reduced
to the last extremity they have the temerity to
outrage the National Guards of Rio Janeiro whose
lives have been already so fret ly sacrificed in a cam-
paign to enrich army-contractors. Those vampires
have made splendid fortunes in the new El Dorado,
but the country will be a prey to bankruptcy, taxa-
tion, and tyranny, to meet such enormous outlay,
while deprived of the elements of labour. Whither
do they drag us? What end is there in
view, but the ill-fated River Plate, and
inglorious campaign ? More than twelve months
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Guard. Everything was kept a secret from the
people, and the papers were merely an echo of the
Ministry, but this sad reality has gradually burst
ape
on us, and we find the nation sacrificed to the mad
ambition of inept ministers. The war in the River
Plate was the grand dream of the hair-brained
Marquis of Olinda, supported by go ahead young-
sters who laughed at the grey hairs and slowness
of the oldest servants of the Empire. Now that they
are ruined they clamour about patriotism, and seek
to carry out their errors or their crimes
by requiring another contingent of a thousand
National Guards. The commanders find it im-
possible to raise such a force ; only eighteen men
present themselves in answer to the muster-roll.
There is no alternative, the Ministry must retire ;
or else we shall all descend to bathos. God grant
the Government may not further try the patience
of the people : look at the starving invalid, the
wretched widow, the houseless orphan, the aban-
doned family. Peace at any cost ? The National
Guard has rendered many services to the Empire,
.and more than once saved us from anarchy with-
out pay or reward. This is not the time to call for
cruel and impracticable sacrifice on their part ; if
disaffections seize their ranks we shall lose the only
force remaining to guarantee us from danger. The
sea is troubled and boisterous, and strange objects
are rising to the surface on every side : strange
people are beginning to figure among us. Not a
moment is to be lost : the Ministry must resign, and
the National Guard will resume their post of honour.
Any disturbance in Rio Janeiro and the provinces
would be at present a terrible event.

ARCHBISHOP MANNING has arrived in Paris. Two
days back,
visited the Great Exhibition. They aro on their way to
in company with three Belgian bishops, he
Rome, to celebrate the 1800th anniversary of the martyr-
dom of St. Peter.
THE SHERIFFDOM OF LANARKSHIRE. -- The
names of Mr. Glassford Bell and Mr. A. S. Cook, sheriff of
Ross-shire, aro mentioned in connection with the sheriff-
dom of Lanarkshire, vacant by the death of Sir Archibald
Alison. _

The term Brigade Major is to be substituted for
Major of Brigade, and the latter title is to be abolished in
all official returns and documents.- Army end Nary
Gazette.
A PilmosomiElt VULGARISED...-11r. Mill made
a speech on Saturday at St. James's Hall which
was not at all in his true line. It was against Mr. Dis-
raeli's clauses about the (then dying)
Compound House-
holder, and his speech was an attempt in the direction of
rough-and-ready agitation. It expressed his resolve "to
be a precious great distance out of the wood before I hulloa
in future," and contained other idiomatic vulgarisms of
that kind. It is more painful to see Mr. Mill studying this
style of speaking than it ever was to see Burke cutting
blocks with a razor. His style is naturally refined, acute,
discursive, above all things, intellectual. And thero is
consequently a hollow ring about his- mob-style, as well as
a painful contrast between it and that which really belongs
to him.