The Sun.
London, England, 1867-10-05 00:00:00

ON, SATURDAY EYE NlN3t, 00 FOBER 5, 1867.

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, Friday Evening.
The news received in Paris to-day from Italy is
not very precise, and is in some respects contradic-
tory. There is excitement in several of the pro-
vinces, and great agitation prevails at Rome. At
least so say some of the accounts. The Government
increases its precautions, and has sent more troops
towards the frontiers. It is mentioned from Flo-
rence that Nicotera, one of Garibaldi's old compa-
nions in arms, has undertaken to direct the revolu-
tionary movement which, according to report, is
resolved upon.
The German papers give some further details of
the proceedings of the democratic pasty at Stutt-
gard in opposition to Prussian policy. That party
while repudiating the idea of accession pure and
simple to the Confederation of the North affirms its
patriotism and attachment to Germany, and repu-
diates strongly any idea of French intervention. At
the banquet, which followed the meeting to which
I have alluded, toasts were given in honour of Ber-
lin, " the city of intelligence and character," and to
the offensive and defensive alliance against all vio-
lence, internal or external. One speaker talked in
an excited and rather incoherent strain about what
they would do in case of an attack by France upon
Germany (as if such a thing were contemplated or
probable), and said they would do their duty as
Germans, with or without a treaty, although they
had not the honour of belonging to the Confedera-
tion of the North.

A. Paris paper of some influence, in remarking

upon those German deihonstrations, says :—" After
such declarations, it is impossible to misunderstand

the real character of the opposition which M. Bis•

mark will encounter on the south of the Maine.
All that we can insist upon is, that in presence of
this feeling in Southern Germany the best plan

which France can adopt to overthrow the ambitious
projects of the Cabinet of Berlin is to abstain from
any inopportune step which will enable that Cabi-
net to dominate, in the name of Germanic
patriotism, over the resistance of the Liberals of
Wurtemberg and Bavaria. It would only be to
play the game of M. Bismarck if any pretext should
be afforded to him to evoke the spectre of foreign
intervention. It is too well known with what art
and what success M. Bismarck has many times
since the battle of Sadowa been enabled to excite
the shadowy susceptibilities of German patriots.
The most exciting reports have been rife in Paris
to-day about Italy, but the Moniteur repeats its
information of yesterday, that the Italian Govern-
ment has taken very energetic measures to prevent
the passage of hostile bands across the Pontifical
frontier. It adds—" The most complete tran-
quillity has not for a moment ceased to prevail at
Rome. The general feeling is satisfactory."
The game of a portion of the Paris press is to
excite alarm about the condition of Italy, which the
above statement in the Moniteur is calculated to
dispel. The French Government does its duty in
contradicting the alarming inventions circulated at
the Bourse, and a prosecution has been instituted
against the Epoque, which seems to have sought
notoriety by its prominence in circulating such
rumours. In the present crisis in Italy a good
crop of false news may be expected every evening,
for the Parisians must have something exciting to
read, no matter the foundation of it, and even if it
be necessary to contradict the information next day.
Indeed the truth of alarming foreign news is the
last thing the cafe readers of the Paris papers in the
evening trouble themselves about. What they want
is something spicey.
The Memorial Diplomatique describes a matter of
internal complication for M. Bismarck, from which
it says the Minister will find more difficulty to ex-
tricate himself than he experiences generally in
overcoming the embarrassments of foreign affairs.
The heirs of the numerous great families who pos-
sessed Sovereign States before 1815 intend, it says,
to claim from the Federal Presidency of the North
new guarantees for the privileges which were
granted to them by Article 14 of the Con-
stitution of the ex-Germanic Confederation,
signed at Vienna on the Bth day of June,
1815. These privileges consist of feudal rights,
exemptions from taxes, a right of executing justice
in their domains, and other privileges of despotism.
All those privileges (says the Memorial) are in
direct contradiction to the principles of civil and
political equality, to which the great majority of the
members of the Federal Parliament of tlfe North
are firmly attached. On the other hand, the feudal
party possess enormous influence at the Court of
Berlin, and M. Bismark will find very considerable
difficulty in settling these matters, particularly as
the King of Prussia is deeply imbued with these
antiquated principles of absolutism.
This has been another day of winter. Very
cold, dull, stormy, and rainy towards evening. In
short, it was a December day. The leaves are be-
ginning to fall from the trees in great abundance.