The Sun.
London, England, 1867-07-08 00:00:00

ruler of Egypt. The Arabs are so famous
for their hospitality, as, indeed, are almost
all Eastern nations, that it would have been deeply
mortifying to the English people had there been
anything lacking in his reception, more especially
after his courteous hospitality towards our own
Heir Apparent. Happily all risk of this has been
avoided, and we trust that nothing will occur to
mar the splendour and the satisfaction of his
Highness's visit. He will see much to interest him
in the Western World, and we hope that this new
and interesting visit will tend to draw closer the
ties of amity between this country and her illus-
trious visitor.

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, Sunday Evening.

The official confirmation of the news of the exe-
cution of the Emperor Maximilian has produced the
utmost horror and indignation in Paris. Even before
the official account came the Emperor had ordered
Court mourning for a month, fifteen days of full
mourning, and fifteen days of half mourning. The
Sultan, on learning the news, requested the Em-
peror to countermand the fetes iu preparation to do
honour to him.

An intimation having been made to the Chambers
a brief but energetic manifestation was made. In
the Senate the President said—" At one of our
previous sittings the interest attached to every
noble cause led to expressions of hope in favour of
the Emperor Maximilian. We were mistaken, and
now we have to express our sentiments of
grief. (Sensation.) A horrible crime has been
committed, contrary to the laws of war, the
laws of nations and humanity_(, Very right,"
from all parts of the Chamber)—Maximilian, who
was only vanquished, treason and barbarity have
made a victim. They who have immolated this
sincere and loyal Prince, in favour of whom such
imposing manifestations were made by those who
came to Miramon to invite him to occupy the
vacant throne—those men, if they merit the name,
do not represent either the cause of the people or
any form of government. (Very good.) It is a mili-
tary anarchy intoxicated with one day of cowardly
and odious success—(strong and renewed approba-
tion)—which destroys its enemy
before destroying
itself. (Very right.) For do not doubt it, gentle-
men, the blood of Maximilian will recoil over those
who have shed it. (" Yes, yes" from all parts.)
Inflexible justice will have it so. The blood
of this innocent Prince will do more
harm to the authors of his death than
his victory over them would have done. Let us
protest against this abominable outrage against
the civilisation of our epoch, and let us attach our-
selves still more strongly to the generous and
liberal principles which made us believe such a crime
impossible." (This denunciation was received with
prolonged applause, and made a deep impression
upon the Senate.)
M. Adolphe Barrot—And the infamous traitor
(Lopez) is an officer of the Legion of Honour.
What measures will be adopted respecting him ?
Will the emblem of honour be left upon his breast?
The President—That is within the competence of
the Council of the Order, who will not fail to
occupy itself with the point.
Count de Flamarens—.The name of the traitor
has become synonymous with that of Judas.
Marshal Bazaine—lle will be degraded and dis-
possessed of the right to wear the order.
Viscount de La Gueroniere—The public conscience
demands this degradation.
Baron du Ladoucette—The Council of the Legion
of Honour will take up the matter.
The sensation created by this manifestation was
so intense that public business was suspended for
some minutes.

In the Legislative Body, the President said :
" Gentlemen,—Only yesterday nobody would be-
lieve that the Emporor Maximilian had fallen a vic-
tim to an odious critne. To-day it is too true
that we know the crime has been consummated.
The grievous news has now been made known with
an expression of sentiments with which all France
will agree. (From all parts--" Yes, yes ; very
right.") But your President feels it his duty to pro-
claim openly before the Legislative Body the repro-
bation inspired by such an act against honour and
civilisation." (Loud and long approbation.)
But few details have yet been received in Paris
respecting the execution. Maximilian was in a posi-
tion at Queretaro, which was thought to be im-
pregnable. Even in case of reverse he could have
returned by the mountains to the sea. But he did
not expect treason. A man of the name of Lopez
(says the account received by the French Govern-
ineut), in whom Maximilian placed great confidence,
obviously delivered up the Emperor while he was
asleep for a sum of money.

The 211onittur nays—" The assassination of the
Emperor Maximilian will create one universal sen-
timent of horror. Thisinfamous act, ordered by
Juarez, will stamp upon the forehead of the men
who call themselves representatives of the Mexican
Republic, a brand which can never be effaced. The
reprobation of all civilised nations will be the first
chastisement of a Government which has such a
chief at its head."

The Bing of Prussia immediately, upon hearing
the news of the death of Maximilian, sent an auto-
graph letter of condolence to the Emperor of
Austria. His Majesty has ordered a Court mourn- •
ing of four weeks. King William has left Berlin •
for Ems.
The Court of Italy has ordered mourning for 20 I.
days, and the Court of Portugal for 30 days.
The subjoined interesting particulars of the trea-
son are supplied from Queretaro :—" It was gener-
ally known at Queretaro that there were many
persons among the Imperialists in the camp who I
were ready to deliver up the town, but no one had
an idea that this would be done by the Colonel of
the Regiment of the Empress, the keeper of the keys
of Queretaro, the Commandant of the fort—Miguel
Lopez. This was the man who, during the
evening of the 14th of May, sent a letter to Esco-
bedo, offering to betray his companions in arms
for 3,000 ounces of gold. Escobedo accepted the
offer. Towards midnight the advanced guard of
the enemy, favoured by darkness, left their camp
and arrived without noise at the convent. Colonel
Lopez ordered his men to lay down their arms and
opened the gates to the enemy. At that time Maxi-
milian was asleep in another part of the convent,
for he had entire confidence in Lopez. At break of
day Maximilian was on foot, and he soon became
aware that something extraordinary had happened.
He woke up the prince Salm Salm, his aide-dc-camp,
and proceeded towards the external walls of the
had only marched a
convent ; but they
few paces
when a detachment of soldiers, led by Rincon
Gallardo, surrounded them. Lopez accompanied
this detachment, an pointed out the Prince to his
enemies, saying, in a rough voice, That is he ;
seize him Here a remarkable incident occurred.
Colonel Gallardo, a brave soldier, who did not like
the treason of Lopez
went up to Maximilian and
said, You arc) a private individual, and not a
soldier. We have tothiug to say to you. Leave.'
On saying these words he
pushed the Prince out
of the convent. Maximilk.n proceeded as quickly
as possible towards the Cerro de la Campana at the
other extremity of the town. The
imps ial officeis
and soldiers, who had not been captured fleain. con-
fusion, pursued by the enemy's cavalry. General
i
Corona, who is ever prompt in his movements,
enabled the greater part of the Juarist army to
enter first into the convent and then into the town.
lie thus took up a.ll the Imperialist positions, the
defenders of which threw down their arms, crying
Viva la Liberia. Miramon, however, was not dis-
posed to submit so easily, He rallied a portion of
the Regiment of the
Empress whom he met in the
street of the Capuchinas, the broadest street of the
town, and made head against his assailants. Miramon
was hit by a ball just under his eye, which nearly
deprived him of sight. During this time Maximilian
had reached the Cerro de la Campana,
a fortified
hill, which commands tke northern part of the town.
lie had been joined by Generals Mejia, Castillo,
and Avellano, the Prince de Salm-Salm, and several
other officers. The Cerro was surrounded by the

enemy's troops, and resistance being utterly impos-
sible the white flag was hoisted, and the Emperor
Maximilian, with all his staff, surrendered to Gen.
Corona. A few hours afterwards they were marched
to the convent of La Cruz."

A strange and fatal coincidence is worth notice
in 'elation to Mexico. The Emperor Iturbide, once
supposed to be beloved by his subjects, but after-
wards accused of treason, was executed on July 19,
1824. Forty-three years afterwards, on the 19th
of June, 1867, the same date of the month, a se-
cond Emperor of Mexico suffered the same fate.
Just before he was shot lturbide said to the crowd,
" Mexicans, at the moment when I am about to die,
I recommend to you to love your country. I die
for having come here to aid you." Iturbide was
once called the Liberator. In 1838 there was
another change in the spirit of the Mexican people.
At the demand of General Bustamente,-the remains
of Iturbide were brought to Mexico with great pomp
in that year, 1838, and interned in the cathedral,
and with the honours befiiting a hero and a
patriot.

The Chambre des Mises en Accusation has sent
the case of Berezoth,:ie to be tried before the Court
of Assize of La Seine. The assassin has been for-
mally interrogated by the President of the Court,
M. Devienne. Berezowski declared that he had
chosen M. Emmanuel Arago to defend him, and
that he had nothing to add to the explanations he
gave during the preliminary inquiry. The trial
will conclude on Monday, the 15th inst. The Pro-
cureur-General, M. de Mamas, will conduct the
prosecution.

A pleasure train from Marseilles has brought 850
visitors to the Exhibition. Among them are 40
Arabs and their wives, who intend to give some
concerts of African music.

Charles the First, King of Wurtemberg, is ex-
pected in Paris daily. The Viceroy of Egypt has
left for London.

The Empress and the Imperial Prince are about
to leave Paris for Biarritz.

DEATH OF MISS HOWARD.

It is with sincere grief that we find ourselves
called upon to announce the sad bereavement which
has befallen Mr. Howard, of Corby, in the pre-
mature death of his amiable and accomplished
daughter.

The name of Howard is a household word among
us, symbolizing all that is noble and devoted, and,
if there be any consolation under such an affliction,
it is certainly to be found in the thought that she
has, in some sort, fallen a sacrifice to the noble de-
votion which has led the most zealous children of
the Holy See to join in the demonstration which the
present ceremonies in the Eternal City afford of the
undiminished vigour of the Church of the nine-
teenth century ; and that, at the cost of enduring
the risks of an insalubrious season in a sultry cli-
mate, in addition to encountering the chances of
outbreaks of war and pestilence.
There is no doubt the splendid and unique func-
tions of Rome possess a continual and undying at.
traction for persons of every nation and every per-
suasion, but the dangers and inconveniences (and,
to the self-indulgence of our day, inconveniences
rank scarcely second to dangers) which surround
them in the month of June, are such! as to repel
most northerners who have not a special call to
attend in their capacity of members of the
hierarchy. Balls, concerts, hunting, parties of
pleasure, all the various forms of worldly gaiety,
and all the amenities of the greatest earthly per-
fection of weather moreover, join their attractions
to those of the Church's celebration of Christmas
and Easter, while the present festivities have a
purely religious significance.
In this spirit of devotion Mr. Howard and his
daughter went to Rome a few weeks ago in order
to be present at the Centenary of St. Peter. God,
in His inscrutable wisdom, saw fit to accept their
tribute in different ways. While he is left to wit-
ness
the triumph of the Church militant she has
been taken to join in the prevailing contest of the
interceding hosts above.
The young lady whose untimely end we are to-
day summoned to mourn was Mary Frances—or,
as her friends loved to call her, Mafra—eldest
daughter of Mr. Philip henry Howard, of Corby
Castle, Cumberland, and Eliza Minto Howard, née
Minto Canning, of Foxcote, Warwickshire. She
had but just completed her twentieth year, and,
added to the interest which always attaches to
youth and beauty, her virtues and piety had spe-
cially endeared her to her numerous family, and to
a large circle of acquaintance, by whom the blank
caused by her loss will long be felt, while the poor
of her neighbourhood at home will no less lament
the deprivation of her gentle charity.
The illness to which she has so early fallen a vic-
tim was a virulent form of typhoid fever, which took
but a few days to complete its deadly work. Pre-
pared by the consoling rites of the Church, her in-
nocent soul passed into the hands of her Creator on
the evening of St. John the Baptist's day.
The body was carried to the parish church of
Sta. Maria del Popolo, according to established
custom, on the night of Tuesday, the 25th inst., at-
tended by a long procession of frati. The solemn
obsequies were celebrated next morning—Matins
of the Dead at 8.30, followed by a Requiem Mass,
at which assisted the Right Rev. Dr. Strain, Bishop
of Edinburgh ; the Rev. F. Neve, D.D., Rector, and
the Rev. W. Giles, D.D., Vice-Principal of the
English College, Rome ; the Hon. and Rev. Mgr.
Edmund Stonor, Mgr. Howard, the Hon. and Rev.
John French, S.J., M, l'Abb6 Toursel, of the French
Chapel, London ; the Rev. William Wheeler, Rev.
R. Belau, &c., &c.
Letters of condolence were received from the
Archbishop of Westminster and the other English
prelates now in Rome, regretting they were com-
pelled to attend the Consistory, by order of the
Holy Father, at the same hour. Mgr. Talbot was
in attendance on his Holiness.
Prince and Princess Massimo, Principe d'Arsoli,
Principe Giustiniani Bandini, Marchese and Mar-
chesa Eugenia Serlupi, Marchesa Spinola, Lieut.-
Col. and Mrs. Forbes, Professor Valery, Mrs. Van-
sittart, Mr. Hugh Chorneley, Mrs. Stone, Mr. and
Mrs. Pierce Netterville, Mr. and the Misses Robin.
son, Miss Simpkinson, Mr. Fletcher Mr. Redmond,
Capt. d'Arcy, and a number of sympathizing friends
were also present. Mr. Palmer was confined to the
house by an attack of gout, or would have attended.
Among those in England on whom this sudden
grief will fall most heavily are Mr. Howard's two
younger daughters, now at a convent school in the
north of England, and his son, a fine and promis-
ing youth, pursuing his studies at the old English
college of Stonyhurst, who will probably hardly
have had reason to think their sister's indisposition
serious till they received the announcement of its
fatal termination. Indeed, one of the most touching
incidents of this melancholy event is, that a letter
from young Mr. Philip Howard was on its way out
to his sister, expressing his interest in the glorious
scene in which she was expecting to take part, and
his affectionate solicitude lest she should have felt
any touch of the Roman fever, at the very time
when she had already succumbed to its influence !
It is impossible to repress a sigh of human sor-
row at seeing cut short a career so full of promise,
the enjoyment of an honoured lineage, a loving
kindred, every augury of a bright and useful future,
amid all we are prone to prize ; yet, who would not
envy the peaceful passing of the bright, untroubled
spirit still unspotted by the world, on the very
threshold of the earthly shrine of religious truth,
and amid the waving censers of its brightest cele-
bration.---IVestininster Gazette.

FETE TO TIIE VICEROY OF EGYPT AT TILE
CRYSTAL PALACE.—IIis Highness the Viceroy has accepted
the offer of the directors of the Crystal Palace, who pro-
pose to entertain him with a fete of unusual brillance.
The day has not yet been fixed. It is expected that the
Sultan w►ll be also entertained at the Crystal Palace
shortly after his arrvial in this country.
S MUCH-TALKED-OF " lIYMN," says the
Musical Stodard," his fallen flat upon the ear of expectant
Parisians. Like most pieces composed for particular oc-
casions, it has proved a failure, and will be consigned to
"limbo," in company with such musical nonentities as
" grand installation odes," and efforts of that kind only
born to be forgotten.