The Sun.
London, England, 1867-01-11 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Thursday Evening.
It was intended by the Government to open the
Legislative Session in the course of this month, but
as the plan for the re-organisation of the army will
require some further discussion and arrangement,
and as the projects of M. Fould, the Minister of
Finance, may require further deliberation before
they can be embodied into law, it seems probable
that the French Chambers will not commence their
labours until after the period appointed for the
commencement of the Parliamentary campaign in
England.
The Moniteur states that the communication by
sea between Kiel and the various ports of the Baltic
has been interrupted since the sth of January.
Letters for Denmark are therefore now sent by
Jutland by the small fishing boats of the Belts.
The Augsburg Gazette announces the death of the
Duchess Adelaide de Nassau, daughter of Prince
Frederic of Anhalt-Dessau, and niece of the Queen
of Denmark. The Duchess died at her chateau
of Ruppenheim, near Frankfort, after a very
short illness. She was born on Christmas Day,
1833.

The French Government has received by the
Panama despatches from Mexico, Dec. 9, and from
Vera Cruz, Dec. 14. According to the advices by
the latest mail, the return of the Emperor Maximi-
lian to Mexico was immediately expected, but up to
the 14th it had not been announced at Vera Cruz.
The military movements of the French troops were
not in the character of warlike operations, but were
rather confined to arrangements connected with
their return to France. Some slight skirmishes
had taken place with the enemy, in all of which he
had been defeated. It did not seem probable that
Podfirio Diaz intended to resume the campaign, for
he had disbanded several of his battalions. The
health of the French troops was satisfactory.
Another Cabinet Council was held yesterday at
the Tuileries, at which the Emperor presided. The
Empress was present at this Council.
The sporting men of France have naturally taken
great interest in the yacht match from America.
The Regatta Club of Rochelle has voted a medal
of honour to Mr. J. G. Bennett, jun., the proprietor
of the winning yacht Henrietta, and most of the
other nautical clubs of France will speedily follow
the good example.
A farewell dinner has been given to M. Le Saint,
the intrepid traveller, who proposes to explore the
whole extent of Africa, from the Red Sea to the
Atlantic. The dinner at the Café de la Paix was
attended by many members of the Geographical
Society, and the prevalent opinion was that the
expedition will be attended with important results
for science and civilisation.
Strange rumours have been in circulation in Paris
respecting the death of a young girl who has re-
sided with her family in a town in the department
of the Yonne. She had been seduced by the son of
a rich merchant residing in that town, who persuaded
her to come to Paris. Late in the evening he took
the poor girl to a house in a lively position at Chail-
lot, where he placed her in the care of an old woman
who is professedly a midwife, but who exercises her
art rather by killing children than in bringing them
into the world. This old woman, in the pursuance
of her terrible vocation, used such violence that the
girl died. The body was sent to the Morgue, and
by the direction of the Commissary of Police a
surgeon is engaged inestigating the circumstances
of the death by post-mortem examination :
The following remarks of the Patrie relative to
the mission of M. Tonello are worth attention :
" We must congratulate both the Pope and the
Italian Government upon the result of the negotia-
tions. If the Cabinet of Florence may be said to
have exhibited during these negotiations a really
liberal spirit, if with courageous decision it may
have abandoned the formalities of placet and exe-
(paha whiJii caused the failure of M. Vcgezzi's
mission, his Holiness the Pope, on his part, has ex-
hibited more condescension than has been desired
by some of his excitable friends. In short, this
negotiation, the principle of which was admitted
from the commencement, has had a favourable issue,
and the importance of it is evident. This fact may
be judged of from several important results likely
to follow various arrangements between the Italian
Government and the Court of Rome, a Customs
and postal union, a fusion of the Italian and Roman
banks. In short, the happy consequence of the
negotiations is likely to be the realisation of various
useful reforms.
The result to be deduced from the tables of
Customs just published respecting imports and ex-
ports for 11 months of 1866 is that the exports
exceed by 300 millions the amount for 11 months
of the previous year, and by 400 millions those
of the antecedent year, which total was 3 milliards
110 millions. The amount of imports was 2 mil-
liards 718 millions ; that is to say, by a proportion
equivalent to the total exportations of the two pre-
vious years. This shows that we ask less from
the foreigner than he takes from us. The total
amount of our.special commerce for the 11 months
of 1866 was nearly six milliards.
The wind has been very violent to-day, and the
afternoon closes with a stormy aspect. The tem-
perature, however, is not cold.