The Sun.
London, England, 1867-05-23 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Wednesday Evening.

There is nothing of political importance in the
Moniteur to-day, and the Paris papers generally are
destitute of interest.

Prince Oscar of Sweden left Paris for London at
the same time as the Prince of Wales and the Duke
of Edinburgh. Prince Oscar will stay in London a
week or perhaps a fortnight.
The opening of the industrial Exhibition of
Chemnitz took place on Friday last. The King
and Queen of Saxony were present at the inaugu-
ration, and were received with great enthusiasm.
A letter from Florence, dated May 17, says :
" A deplorable event, which recalls to recollection
the violent traditions of the Italian sects, has taken
place at Ancona. An inspector of police, M. Alex.
Viazzi, was assassinated while in the performance of
his duty by two individuals whom it is supposed are
those who have been taken into custody. What is
particularly worthy of remark is the sympathetic
demonstration which took place on the occasion of
this murder. All the most eminent inhabitants of
the city, nearly all the officers of the National
Guard, many officers of the army, and a number of
workmen followed the remains of the murdered man
to the grave. In a country where the authority of
the Government was for a long time nearly over-
thrown, or at all events not supported, such a de-
monstration affords a striking proof of a remark-
able change in the public feeling.
" The B-y of Tunis has just presented as homage
to King Victor Emmanuel a colossal and magnifi-
cent bronze cannon, which was formerly seized by
the Barbaresque pirates from the galleys of the
Medicis. This homage is in one sense a gracious
restitution. It is about five metres in lengths and
nearly a yard in diameter at the breech, and weighs
27,500 lbs. It is nearly covered with chasing re-
presenting trophies of arms and allegorical and figu-
rative subjects. The head of 'St. Paul is sculptured
upon it. This extraordinary implement of war,
which has upon it the date of 1638, is the produc-
tion of the celebrated cannon-founder, Cosino Cenni,
a Florentine, and is a curious specimen of the war-
like weapons of Italy of the period. Whatever may
be the improvements of Armstrong and Whitworth,
and those of the Prussian needle-g-aa, this weapon
proves that the Italians, even two centuries ago,
were not entirely ignorant ofawar's vast art."
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It is expected that the Commission of the Legis-

lative Body appointed to inquire into the proposed
plan for the reorganisation of the Army will make
their report to-morrow.
The Gazette de la Croix announces that the de-
parture of the King of Prussia for Paris is fixed for
the 4th of June.

Rather violent polemics occupy some of the Ber-
lin papers in reference to the immediate consent
given by Prussia to the evacuation of the fortress of
Luxemburg. Some blame what they call the con-
descension of the Prussian Cabinet, others are angry
with M. Bismark for having so speedily, and, as
they hint, injudiciously deferred to the wishes and
representations of the Great Powers. The Berlin
papers also state that there hAs arisen such a violent
agitation on behalf of the ex-King of Ilanover that
it has become necessary for the Government to di-
rect its attention to the subject. There is some talk
of a plot to restore King George to his sovereignty,
and Prussian police agents have been sent to Hano-
ver to make investigations into the matter.
The first of the four fetes to be given by the
Prefect of the Seine at the Hotel de Vitre, on the
occasion of the Exhibition and the visit of the
Sovereigns, will take place to-morrow at the Hotel
de Ville. To-morrow it will be a grand dinner,

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to which 250 persons are invited. The other three
fetes will be balls, at which some live or six hundred
persons will be present. The second fete will be
about the middle of July. It will be on a splendid
scale, and a vast temporary gallery will be erected
for the purpose.
A peculiarly interesting fete will take place at
Nanterre on Whit-Monday. It is the fete of the
rosiere, when the most virtuous and best-conducted
girl of the village is crowned with roses, and is
presented with a dowry on the occasion of her mar-
riage, which takes place shortly afterwards. Sixty-
seven girls have been crowned with roses since the

institution of the ceremony in 1800. De.ith has

been busy with many of them, but 37 will be pre-
sent on the ensuing occasion. The oldest of them
was married in 1802. She is now 84, and lives in
retirement at the 13atignolles with one of her grand-

sons.

Just after I closed my letter yesterday there was
a sudden storm of thunder and lightning, and hail-
stones fell in abundance, as large as cherries. It
was very stormy during the night, and the atmo-
sphere is still unsettled and stormy. There has
not been any rain to-day, but the thermometer was
little above frost early this morning, and it has
been very cold during the whole day,
It is as dangerous as it is ill-natured and im-
proper to carricature the " human face divine"
in Paris. A paper called the Luna gave a grotesque
cArricatnee of M. Veiullot, the well-known writer
and author of " Odeurs de Paris." lie took pro-
ceedings against M. Levy, the director of the 'Lune,
before the Correctional Tribunal of Paris, and that
court, considering the caricature of M. Veiullot as
a contravention of Article 22 of the decree of Feb.
17, 1852, has condemned M. Levy to be imprisoned
for a month, and to pay a fine of 100 f. and the ex-
penses. In the text of the Lune there was mali-
cious insinuation against the complainant, but this
was not taken into consideration.

His Highness Prince Grannette Doria and the
Duke Marco Grazioli have arrived at Claridge's Hotel
from Paris.
Their Highnesses the Prince and Princess
Dhuleep Sing have arrived at Claridge's Hotel from
Elmden Hall, Thetford.
The Countess Apponyi will have an assembly .on
Monday, the 3d of next month.
The Earl and Countess of Bradford have returned
to town—the earl from Shropshire, and the countess from
visiting Lord and Lady Forester at Willey Park.
Miss BRADDON.—This popular writer has a new
novel in the press, which, it is understood, will .appear
early next month under the title of "Rupert Godwin."
WAR CONTRIBUTIONS LEVIED BY PRUSSIA.—The
following account of the contributions levied by Prussia
upon the different countries opposed to her last year is
taken from a report on Prussian finance by Mr. Hugh
Wyndham, ono of the secretaries of the British embassy at
Berlin ; Austria, 20,000,000 thalers; Saxony, 10,000,000
thalers; Wurtemburg, 8,000,000 guldens; Hesse Darm-
stadt, 3,000,000 ; Bavaria, 30,000,000 guldens;
Frankfort,6,ooo,o7ldoe
guldens;ns amounting in all to about
55,000,000 thalers (X 8,250,000).
PIGEON SHOOTING SWEEPSTAKES.—A number of
the aristocracy, including the Duke of Hamilton, Lord
Willoughby de Broke, and Sir Hugh Campbell,
assem-
bled at Mr. Warner's shooting ground, at the Welsh
Harp Fishery, on Saturday, to contend in the first great
arranged handicap sweepstakes, ged by Mr. Frank Heath-
cote, the handicapper. Nearly 150 gentlemen had en-
tered their names to contend, out of whom 42 competed.
Mr. Short took the first prize, £l2O, by killing his six
birds in succession. Captain Baskerville, Mr. Dillwyn,
M.P., Mr. Hope Barton, Sir Hugh Campbell, Capt. Peach,
Mr. C. Thornhill, and Colonel Fellowes tied for second
and third prizes by killing five each. On shooting off
Sir H. Campbell secured the second prize, £5O, and Cap-
tain Baskerville the third, £3O. The latter gentleman
was the favourite at 6 to 1, and was backed for several
hundred pounds at that price, owing to his winning the
great sweepstakes at the Gun Club the previous day;
100 to 4 was laid against the Duke of Hamilton, 100 to
5 aget Lord Willoughby de Broke, 100 to 6 agst Sir
C. Legard, and long prices offered against the others.
The " Miss Annie Adams" referred to on Monday
last, under the head of " Law Intelligence.—Court of
Queen's Bench.—Judd v. Harding," is not the vocalist of
that name.

M.P., in recognition ofhis services as
THE BRAND TESTIMONIAL.—The testimonial in-
tended for presentation to the Right H. Henry Brand,
"whipper in" to th•
Liberal party, will be presented on the 19th of the ensuing
month, at a grand banquet at Willis'a Rooms, King-street,
St. James's, when Mr. Gladstone, M P will preside.
MADAME TUSSAUD'S.—Ever anxious to introduce
novelties into this magnificent Exhibition, Baker-street,
the spirited proprietors have, at a considerable outlay, pro-
..
cured from the Paris Exhibition a most beautiful new silk
material, which is in every way well suited for ladies'
trains, &c. It was designed by M. Blache, the eminent
silk manufacturer, of Lyons, who has been awarded the
gold medal for the same, and is, we understand, likewise
about receiving the order of the Legion of Honour. The
silk in question now forms the dross on the life-size porft
trait model of her ltopl Uighneas the Pziucess Alice. . .