The Sun.
London, England, 1867-10-16 00:00:00

CORRESPO

'OH PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Tuesday Evening.
As a matter of truth the description of the state
of Rome is that the most perfect calm and tran-
quillity continue to prevail there. In the provinces
the condition is similar. But, nevertheless, the
foolish agitators continue their game of deceit and
fabrication. The population evince their attach-
ment to the Pope and the cause of order, but the
disaffected display an impotent desire to make it
believed that tranquillity is in danger. The machi-
nations begin to be transparent. The insurgent
partisans, being compelled to admit that order
reigns iu Italy, try to console themselves with the

ilea that there will be soon a decisive blow. The
Italian Government, however, is well prepared for

it, and every day increases its precautions for the
maintenance of the Convention of September,
1866. It is not to be denied that a few insurgent
bands exist in the mountains, and Menotti Gari-
baldi is at the head of a band, but they are afraid
to make any real demonstration. Some say it is
nearly 2,000 strong, but at all events its demeanour
is pacific. The Italian papers are incumbered with
reports of a more or less foolish character. One
of them is that Garibaldi has escaped from Caprera
on board an American vessel. Yesterday there was
a different report about him, and to-morrow there
will no doubt be another. These agitators appear
to be unconscious that the word " escape" is an odd
term to apply to one whom they hail as a liberator.
Another proclamation of Garibaldi is talked of, in
which he tells the agitators to march, and that
Italy will to-morrow receive the congratulations of
the whole world, which contemplates their heroism.

When the remains of M. Fould had been lowered

into the family vault yesterday M. Baroche, Mini-
ster of Justice and Public Worship, pronounced an
eloquent eulogium upon the deceased statesman, and
traced the salient points of his career. M. Baroche
said that M. Fould, born at the commencement of
the present century, belonged to a family then con-
nected with a great financial movement. When elected
in 1842 to the Chamber of Deputies by the depart-
ment of the Hautes Pyrenees he immediately in-
spired the confidence of the Chamber in his great
financial knowledge. The first events of 1848
proved his invincible devotion to his country. Under
a new form of government he placed the interests
o f France above all other interests. In September,
1848, he entered the Constituent Assembly as a
representative of Paris, and soon acquired reputa-
tion among the most enlightened advocates of true
financial principles. It was iu October, 1849, that
he first became Finance Minister, and his appoint-
ment to that office inspired the public confidence.
In the month of July, 1852, the Emperor appointed
M. Fould Minister of State and the Fine Arts,
which opened to him a new career, in which he
achieved brilliant success. His administration of
the finances of the State was marked by economy,
good order, and intelligence. As to the Fine Arts,
he had loved them from his youth, and he had the
good fortune to connect his name with the national
work of the completion of the Louvre. In 18b7 the
Academy of Fine Arts elected him a free member.
It was as a Finance Minister that M. Fould
achieved his greatest triumphs. His Memoir to
the Emperor, presented in September, 1861,
was a remarkable illustration of the real prin-
ciples of finance, and of the bases upon which
budgets should repose. In that memoir JI. Fould
propagated the sound and radical proposition that
the Chief of the state should renounce the faculty
granted under ancient charters, as well as by the
Constitution of 1852, of opening supplementary and
extraordinary credits independently of the Cham-
bers. That proposal was agreed to by the Emperor,
who, in a letter as honourable to the Sovereign who
wrote it as to the Minister who received it, said he
had been for a long time considering the best means
of placing the public credit upon a sound basis.
M. Baroche then observed that for five laborious
years M. Fould had devoted his courage, his bate'.
I ligence, and his patriotism, to his desire to improve

the finances of the country in spite of articles and
adverse criticism, and when he had completed his
task he retired without a murmur. After a day
passed in the midst of his family M. Fould felt a
little fatigued, went to bed, and said he wanted to
sleep. It was the eternal sleep. It was death
and in two hours he was cold. " Let us," added
M. Baroche, " bow to the Divine will, and respect
its decrees, even when they strike us in our dearest
affections." Iu conclusion, M. Baroche referred iu
pointed terms to the cruel losses sustained by the
Emperor within a few years by the death of
Billault, Morny, and Thouvenel. M. Baroche con-
cluded thus—" Good man, skilful politician, eminent
Minister, passionately loving France and the Em-
pooemprorlisrhe
ward to the history of the second Empire." This
oration excited much sympathy and admiration.
M. Lefuel, on the part of the Academy of Fine
epdo, se
andin peace ! Thy life has been well ac-
complished, thy name belongs from hencefor-
ward
Arts, spoke eloquently of the assistance and patron-
age which had been afforded to them by M. Fould.
The Emperor of Russia has returned to St.
Petersburg, from Levadca in the Crimea, and is
now at the summer residence at Tzarskoe-Selo.
No less than 66,000 persons paid for admission to
the Exhibition on Sunday. It was very full yester-
day, and has again been a scene of animation to-
day. Summer continues in the ascendant again.
The weather has been bright, warm, and beautiful
to-day, but with a slight tendency to rain towards
post hour.
The Journal des Dehats officially confirms the
information I was enabled to give several days ago
of the promulgation of a circular from Cardinal
Antonelli to the Foreign rowers, recapitulating the
circumstances of " the situation " in • Italy, and
appealing for their influence and support of the
just rights of the Holy Father.
There is no accounting for tastes, but neverthe-
less a young-girl of Lyons has just died from in-
dulgence. in what does seem rather a strange pro-
pensity. Her parents some years ago placed her in
a community of Sisters, with the idea that she
should form one of them, but she had such strange
fancies that she was not allowed to continue her
noviciate as a nun. She was therefore placed in a
silk warehouse its shopwoman. There, however,
her eccentricities multiplied. She took a fancy for
places where she could find rats, toads, and other
creatures, Considered in general as rather unsavoury,
and would devour toads alive. .In the room where
she slept there was found a collection of the remains
of rats and toads, portions of which she had eaten
raw, and the surgeons attribute her death to the
noxious influence exercised by the flesh of similar
animals upon the human stomach.

DRURY-LANE TREA2

On Monday night Shakspere's tragedy of
"Macbeth" Was performed, the novelty being Mrs.
Vezin appearing in the character of Lady Macbeth.
This accomplished actress has now -attained such a
deserved popularity and reputation that the an-
nouncement drew together a very large and critical
audience. The character of Lady Macbeth is a
part demanding such extraordinary qualifications
that but very few actresses at present on the stage
possess them, and it is no disparagement to Mrs.
Vezin to say—great actress as she is---she is not
adequate to the demands of the part. As far as art
was concerned Mrs. Vezin's performance was per-
fect in every respect. Her reading was exceedingly
beautiful and judic'ous. She entirely d'scarded ail
the old conventional " points," and depended en-
tirely for success on he-: own conception of the part.
The reading of the letter in the first act was fine,
and exceedingly natural, and in the Bt., ;p-walking
scene Mrs. Vezin showed the full extent of her un-
rivalled abilities ; but in the other portions of the
tragedy her passion was deficient in power, a cir-
cumstance altogether beyond her control. Of Mr.
Phelps's Macbeth it is qtlite unnecessary to speak,
further than to say it was as fur. of energy, re-
morse, and desperation as ever, and that it elicited
the most enthusiastic applause. Mr. Cooper made
a very excellent Macduff, and Mr. Ryder an
efficient Banquo. The whole of Lccke's music was
given in excellent style, and the entire get-up of the
tragedy was in the highest degree creditable to the
I management of the theatre.