The Sun.
London, England, 1867-04-25 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Wednesday Evening.
The Jlontieur publishes a telegram which states

that the King of Denmark returned to Copenhagen
on the 17th from England. his Majesty no longer
feels any alarm respecting the health of his august
daughter, the Princess of Wales, and his arrival
announced to the Prince Royal and the Court that
he brought the most tranquillising news respecting
her. The Queen of Denmark will remain for some
time in England, and wilt not return to Denmark
till a few days before the 26th of May, the anniver-
sary of her marriage. On the day following his
return King Christian presided at a Council of
Ministers, and signed a rescript, which was pub-
lished on the same evening, announcing to his sub-

jects that he had resumed the exercise of his sove-
reignty, which duty had been entrusted during his
absence to the heir to the Throne.

The Marquis de Banneville, Ambassador from
France to Switzerland, returned to Berue on the

18th inst., and resumed the direction of the business
of the embassy. The Federal Council of the Hel-
vetic Republic have created a post of Minister
Plenipotentiary from Switzerland to the Court of
Berlin. It is M. Heer, of Glaris, who has been
appointed to the office.

The Italian papers announce that the conferences
relative to the treaty of commerce between Austria
and Italy were terminated on Saturday last. The
two States grant each other r.spectively many ad-
vantages. It i. believed that the treaty will very
shortly be signed and ratified.

The polemics and conjectures upon the subject of
Luxembourg continue ; but in the greater part of
the journals which I have seen various circum-
stances are mentioned which tend to prove conclu-
sively that Prussia, so far from being disposed to
conciliation, is ready to brave the opposition of all
the Powers, rather than relinquish her claim to
occupy the fortress. The Paris Press may be said
to be unanimous, for the exceptions are rare, in be-
lieving that war is inevitable if Prussia should not
consent to withdraw her troops from Luxembourg.
It is very long since there appeared in France such
a disposition for war.

" It is certain that) Prussia,oina in
nays :
The Memorial D.l l t•
consequence
of the
eventualities which may arise from the Luxembourg
question, has sought with an earnestness
which can
be well understood to enlist the neutrality of Den-
mark. With this view
the Berlin Cabinet has made
proposals to the Danish Government, ff o ermo. as the
price of neutrality to give it immediate satisfaction
in regard to the sth article of the treaty of Prague.
" According to our information the answer of the
Danish Government was very laconic,
but precise.
It contented itself with replying to the communica-
tion from the Prussian Government that its right
was formally conservated in a treaty which bears the
signature of Prussia, and the execution of which
ought not to be made subordinate to any engage-
ment calculated to affect the national inde-
pendence."
I have already noticed some of the most promi-
nent of the works of art in silver, plated, or in
bronze, exhibited by Messrs. Chrietofie and Co., but
the ensemble presents such striking proof of the
great advance made in France in this branch of in-
dustry that it is right to mention some other beau-
tiful articles, some of which are in class 21, and the
others in class 40, in the interior of the Palace, and
in the Park. They comprise specimens of several
new processes connected with the fabrication of
bronzes and electro and galvanic plating. The gilt
and silver plate is remarkable, because some of the
table services are manufactured in four styles, and
after four models, for instance simple, but elegant,
style of Louis the 16th, some of Louis the 14th plain,
and also of Louis the 14th engraved. The tea ser-
vices are in form and style as diversified as they are
tasteful and useful. Among the articles of art in
silver and other materials is a vase of exquisite taste,
the Education of Achilles, modelled by Mathurin,
Moreau, and Madroux. The bas-relief represents
the Centaur Chiron exercising the young Achilles
in the race. Two genii, bearing a branch of palm to
symbolise emulation which leads to good, and the
rein, which moderates and directs. The English
must take peculiar interest in the work illustrative
of the art of navigation, a tribute offered to Mr.
Larkins, of the Board of Trade, by the French
Government as a souvenir of the services rendered
by him in concert with M. C. Sallandrouze de La-
mornaix, the figure modelled by M. Carrier
Belleuse. There are other remarkable articles iu
repousse chasing. Visitors, I am sure, will be as
much gratified with those articles as with aby in the
Exhibition.

The Italian portion of the Exhibition, though