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

SATUR PAY EVENING, OCTOBER 5, 1,,,361.

Miscellaneous Foreign News.
(From Correspondent of the Ant-go-American Times.)

• PARIS, Oct. 3.
The 29th of September ended the fetes and festi-
vities of the great Fair of St. Cloud, after the
duration of a month, and dividing with the Exposi-
tion the attention of the good folks of Paris—lsay
dividing, but I ought rather to say eclipsing, for the
latter has certainly gone down to No. 2 on the
occasion, that is, if one may judge from the com-
parative number of visitors in each case. It sounds
strangely to the foreigner to hear so much said
about a fair, but he is not aware that in France
these exhibitions are under the immediate protection
of the Government, and form part of its machinery,
adding enormously to its resources in the shape of
indirect taxation, and reflowing through a thousand
other channels, to the advantage of commerce and
industry. In the days of the Valois these fetes were
paid for with the money arising from an overtaxed
people by an unscrupulous Minister of Finance ; to-
day the people themselves provide the fête, being
indebted only to the Sovereign for the full and free
use of the royal park and pleasure grounds ; and
with all this difference, I question if—not-
withstanding the millions of francs lavished by
the Orleans family—l question if ever more
brilliant fetes took place at St. Cloud than those
now offered by the people themselves in their ame-
liorated condition. But the fair of St. Cloud bears
a far more ancient date than the Chateau or Palace,
as it is recorded that a bridge spanned the Seine at
St. Cloud as early as 841, for at that period we
learn that Charles the Bald encamped his army be-
tween St. Cloud and St. Denis to prevent the pas-
sage over the bridge in question of the army of -his
brother Lothaire ; and at treat period so numerous
were the peopre who resorted to the fair from Paris
in boats, at a time when boats were little else than
mere compositions of IN ood and pitch, and the river
the only route that soldiers were stationed to pre-
vent the entrance of more than 16 persons into each.
The famous "Filets de Saint Cloud," which have
formed the subject of more than one romance and
melodrama, were hung
.up at the arches of the
bridge in question, not merely for the reception of
the renowned eels of the Seine, but of the various
articles drifted by the current down from Paris,
amidst which, at that remote period, corpses formed
no inconsiderable proportion. St. Cloud, which,
since the building of the Palace in 1658, has inva-
riably been the favourite summer residence of the
royalty of France, has evidently been selected from
the great natural beauty of its position, for, whilst
erected on the slope of a hill, at a bend of the Seine,
where the river is the widest, it commands au ex-
quisite view of river and woodland, Paris at the
same time lies spread out before it like a map. It
possesses also three methods of communication with
Paris—first, the broad direct read from Paris to
Versailles ; secondly, the omnibus steamers on the
river ; and lastly, the Railway of the Ceinture. The
Palace was built in 1658 by Louis the 14th, who

purchased for that purpose various lands and pro-
perties, the principal one being the House of Geroine
Goudi, an Italian banker, who had often received

there Catherine de Medicis. This house is also
noted for its connection with the murder of Henry
the Third. The King, who had purchased these
properties with the intention of building thereon a
palace for his brother, the Duke of Orleans, ap-
pointed the artist Lenotre to design the park and
gardens. The palace itself was built after the
plans of Lepaute. The gallery and saloons
were painted by the celebrated Miguard. After
being in the possession of the Orleans family
for more than a century, and being noted for the
magnificent fetes given by Monsieur to his brother,
King Louis, which have become a matter of history,
for the death also of Monsieur himself and his queen,
the charming Henrietta of England, the palace em-
bellished to the utmost by the gorgeous taste in the
fine arts, which characterised the reign of Louis
Quatorze, was purchased of the then Duke of
Orleans by the unfortunate Marie Antoinette,
whose architect, Micque, effected notable altera-
tions, to be altered in turn by Napoleon 1., Louis
XVIII., Charles IX., and Louis Philippe, who suc-
cessively elected St. Chrio as their summer resi-
dence par excellence. The latter, commencing the
railway at present in action between Paris and
Versailles, and, of course, through St. Cloud and
Sevres, so celebrated for its manufactory of porce-
lain, St. Cloud still continues to preserve its charm,
being much in favour with the present Emperor and his
family, who, however, with characteristic liberality,
affords on every occasion an opportunity to the
stranger and the public of beholding those rare
relics of the fine arts, which are nowhere to be
found in greater beauty and excellence. But lam
getting ahead of my subject. Back to the fair—
this fair, which enjoys the singular title of the Fair
of the Mirlitons, the mirliton being a kind of primi-
tive flageolet, made from a piece of hollow wood,
varying in length from a quarter to three or four
yards, covered with a brilliant paper envelope. The
perfect simplicity of this contrivance, too, affords
an additional testimony in favour of the extreme
antiquity of the fair. It lasts about a month, and
takes place in the magnificent Royal pleasure
grounds of the park, immediately underneath the
Chateau. Let the reader figure to himself an
encampment of baraques, or little ships, ex-
tending in three long lines through the broad
glades of the park, wherein aTe sold every
production or merchandise of France, jewellery,
porcelain of Sevres, nonnettes (sweet cakes) from
iswings, remarkable either
Dijon, &c., whilst mixed with them are billiard
fo rtables,
their
shooting
powerful
gaollr h r musical machinery ; cir-
cuses, galleries
shows, pavilions of every description, cunz
multis aliis, which it would take much too long to
describe. In the midst of all this rise the grand
cascades and fountains, the play of the waters
forming such an attraction on all occasions for the
Parisian, the beautiful designs of which have been
executed by Lepaute and Mansarde. Flowing
down under a double triumphal arch, crowned with
statues, over a slope cut into stone steps, adorned
vasesrwoiatdhway,
faolflsflowers,into
a tshereiewsaotef semicircular basinsr passing under the
expanding in gentle waves, and spouting from the
mouths of numerous bronze monsters which adorn
the several ledges. But lam exceeding my limits
and excluding general news. La suite a denzain,
then, as the French journalists say ; or, in other
words, I promise to finish my sketch next week,
and not to omit the description of the Palace
of the Bal des Canotiers after the regatta, or
of the grotesque Retraite aux Flambeaux by the
Voltigeurs of the Imperial Guard quartered at St.
Cloud. A very able review of the external policy
of France appears this week in the Siecle, written
in consequence of the recent episode in Italy by
Garibaldi. The writer endeavours to prove the
inefficiency alike of violent interference on behalf of
Poland and the Crimean campaign to limit effectually
the power of Russia, which, he argues, would be more
effectively done in raising up Poland as a barrier,
and, at the same time, in concentrating and taking
the lead with the slave States. In regard to the
affairs of Italy, the writer argues that the prestige
which would otherwise have accrued to France in
the Italian war was in a great measure lost by the
jeaving of Venice still in chains, thus necessitating
her deliverance by other hands, whilst the fact of
France interfering for the, support of the temporal
power of the Pope tends still further to lessen her
influence amongst the patriots of Italy. He con-
cludes his article with an allusion to the war of

1866, endeavouring to show that the mediation of
France has had, as it were, the effect of dividing
Germany into two parts, north and south, thus afford-
ing to M. Bismark the opportunity of representing
her as interfering to prevent the treaty so evidently
desired by the German patriots. I merely, however,
present these remarks as the resume of a French
opinion upon French politics, endorsing it in no
point of view. A curious commentary on the free-

dom of desert life, so beautifully pictured by

Byron—

" In the wilds of starry climes he made himself a home,

And hie sml drank their sunbeams ;

By his side stood camels grazing. And a man
Clad in a flowing garb did watch the while."

And in connection with the advancing progress

of civilisation, is contained in an Algerian newspaper
which I received this morning. A caravan of fifty
camels, under the conduct of a large number of

Arabs, had stopped to pasture in the olive grounds
of a. colonist named Burck. As these animals me-
naced the greatest destruction to the olives, Burck,
who had received notice of the fact, came hastily on
the ground, followed by the Garde Champetre, and
attempted to turn out the camels and their guardians;
this, however, the Arabs sturdily resisted, alleging
the, free right of the desert to pasture their beasts
where they pleased, and upon the Garde Champetre
attempting to seize one of the camels as a guarantee
for the expenses, the Arabs presented the muzzles
of their guns as a counter argument. The colonist,
however, having fired in the air as a signal, a strong
reinforcement of colonists came up, whereupon the
intruders took to flight upon their arrival. At the
neighbouring village of Boaffarick they laid a com-
plaint against M. Burck before the fuge de Paix
of that place, but an investigation of the circum-
stances turned the scale, and a lodgment in the
prison of Blidah afforded to the sons of the Desert
time to reflect upon the advantages of civilisation
as applied to Desert life. A most interesting re-
union took place on Sunday last at Montmartre,
of young persons, deaf Ind dumb, of both sexes
coming from the special institutions in Paris. The
house selected was the scene of the primitive labours
of the celebrated Abbe del Epee, the originator of
these institutions in France; the day selected being
the Feast of St. Michael, the patron saint of
the Abbe. The saloon was decorated with various
pictures, sculptures, &c., executed by deaf and
dumb artists. The arrival at Paris of the Emperor
and Empress of Austria is said to be fixed for the
20th. Louis the Third, of Bavaria, will leave for
Nice on the 24th, where he will pass the winter.
The Duke of Rutland has arrived from England.
He is about to visit the south of France. American
personal news in Paris is dull. Several of our
friends, however, have requested me, when occa-
sionally speaking of the Exposition, to notice some
of the most remarkable of the American inventions
and products comparatively with those of others.
I shall be only too happy to oblige, expressing at the
same time a strong opinion that, although late in
the field in the Exposition Comparative Examination,
will in very many points not find her behindhand.

-Wherever civilised soldiers are opposed to savages
who are at all successful they conceive the idea
that the savages are led by traitors, either from
their own ranks or from some other civilised race.
A report has gained currency that white men direct
the operations of the Red Indians. On the 13th
Sept. five stage stations between Hays City and
Fort Wallace, in Kansas, were attacked, 40 mules
and, horses captured, one man killed, and several
wounded. On the 15th, two days after, the Indians
seized a train of 40 waggons east of Hays City,
killing the two drivers, and appropriating 30
animals. On the 17th an attack was made on the
grading parties on the Eastern Division Pacific
Railroad, and seven men were killed. On the2lst the
Peace Commissioners had decided on leaving Omaha
for the North Platte, where they were to meet
Spotted Tail. Thence they were to proceed to Fort
Laramie to propose the terms. The Indians lay it
down as an essential condition of peace that the
whites should abandon the Smoky Hill route, along
which the Eastern Division of the Pacific Railway
is being carried, coupling with this the withdrawal

of the United States troops from the Powder River
country. An officer lately from Big Horn River
estimates the hostile Indians in the North at 22,000
men ; most of whom are under Red Cloud, chief

of the Upper Brule Sioux, who is reported to have
said, when at peace we are poor, when at war
rich. Several hostile tribes are gathered on the
northern slope of the Rocky Mountains, be-
tween Forts Philip Kearney, and C. F. Smith.
Numbers of Indians are awaiting the Peace Com-
missioners at Fort Rice, and a counsel had been
held between some Federal officers and the chief of
the Kiowas on the 10th ult., at Ford Lamed, when
some satisfactory resolutions were arrived at.
The negro majority in the Southern States will
probably be curtailed by a difficulty as amusing as
it is unexpected. When giving their surnames as

Pompey, Caesar, Solomon, Sambo, Friday, they
were required to add Christian names, as the simple

surnames, each embracing a host, was not sutli-
ciently distinctive for registration purposes. This
puzzled " darkie," who in his perplexity adopted
the suggestion of the man at his elbow. Before
Sambo reached home he had forgotten the name he
had given, and a considerable number of votes will
in consequence be throw❑ out. Two hundred were
rejected at Richmond on the Railroad Aid ques-
tion, and it is possible that a large number will
be lost from a similar cause in future elections.

The Indianapolis Journal has an on dit that the

worthy sheriff of Butler County, Ohio, tendered the
M'Coole-Jones party the freedom of his bailiwick, and
told them they might fight in the Court-house if they
wanted to. All he asked was a front seat and a free
ticket.

The Taunton Republican says Hon. OAkes Ames,
of North Easton, has contracted to build nearly the whole
of theremainingportion of the Union Pacific Railroad— some
six hundred miles, passing through thn Rocky Mountain
region—receiving therefor over forty-seven millions of
dollars. This is believed to be the largest contract ever
entered into by one man.

A company, which has been formed in New
Jersey for the purpose of applying the pneumatic prin-
ciple to the transmission of parcels and mails, propose to
erect an experimental line between Jersey City and
Newark. They have decided to build a wooden tube,
three feet in diameter, resting on the ground or elevated,
through which cars with packages will be driven, by an
American patent, at the rate of ono hundred miles an
hour. The tube will cost about $lO,OOO per mile.

A private dinner was given to Gen. Beauregard
on Thursday, Sept. 19, at the New York Hotel, by about
a hundred friends residing in New York. He made a
speech to the effect that the talk of another re-
bellion was slicer nonsense. It was utterly impossible for
a generation. We should now bend our energies towards
again building up our Union to that magnificent status
among the nations of the world to which its destiny evi-
dently points. He urged thorn to give the Government
their united support.

The annual exhibition of the Hampden Agricul-
cultural Society was to be hold in Springfield on the first
two days of October.
The American frigate Minnesota left Lisbon for
Cadiz on October 3.

The troop-ship .Hintalayah, with the 4th battalion
of the GOth Royal Rifles on board, has been detained in
quarantine at Quebec, cholera having broke out on board.
The tallow tree of China has been transplanted
in the Punjaub with great success. Dr. Jameson has pre-
pared hundredweights of grease from it, and has forwarded
on trial a portion of it to the Punjaub Railway, to have its
qualities tested as a lubricant. The grease thus obtained,
it is said, forms an excellent tallow, burning with a clear,
brilliant, and white light, emitting no unpleasant odour or
smoke.

The Tribune " special despatch" from Constanti-
nople, ten days ago, announcing the presentation of an
_ _ _

" ultimatum" to the Porto by the Russian Ambassador, and
demanding the cession of Candia to Greece and the equa-
lity of the Christians, gave that journal " the satisfaction
of being the first to announce a movement, on the part of
Russia, which probably assures the speedy dissolution of
the Turkish empire, and may be the signal of a general
European war"—turns out, as we predicted last week, to
be just three-fourths fiction. The Constantinople corre-
spondent furnished us on Wednesday morning with
a full proof of his wildness and excitability. The

"ultimatum" is neither more nor less than an
elaborate plan of reform, drawn from the Russian
Government by a visit of Feed Pasha to the Czar, and by
ct personal request for advice addressed to General Ignatief
by the Sultan himself, "recommending" the cession of
Candia to Greece, and "proposing" certain internal re-
forms. The only pretext for calling it an "ultimatum" is
General Ignatief's saying that if this advice was not taken,
his master "would not be responsible for the conse-
qnonces." The correspondent then unblushingly adds—
"l do not think RuSsia is ready to follow up this ultimatum
now ; but it is evident she is preparing to strike AS soon as
war breaks out in Europe." Our advice to tho Pribu'rals
to instruct this gentleman in the meaning of " ultimatum,"
and to add to his " special despatches" a caution to the pub-
lic.—The Nation.

GEN. SICKLES'S SPEECH IN NEW YORK.—NEW
YORK, Sept. 14.—Gen. Sickles concluded his speech to the
serenaders last night, amid loud, long-continued cheers,
as follows:—''Much remains to be done before our
country can enjoy the repose and security you won
for her at Gettysburg, at Atlanta, at Spottsyl-
vania, Winchester, and Richmond. Tho enemies
who surrendered to Grant, and Sherman, and Sheridan—
(loud cheers)—are now on their parole of honour to obey
the laws of the land, and I believe their parole will be
kept whenever the Government, in all its departments, is
agreed on the duty to be performed. The will of the
people who put down the rebellion must be executed.
(Applause.) Then, and not till then, shall we have peace.
Let us have faith in the future. Let no one take counsel
of the timid. Whoever may be tried and found wanting,

the army of to-day, the armies of 1865, the citizon soldiers
of the Republic and Grant—(loud cheers)—their invincible
leader, will never falter, never fail."

•
singular curiosity in Martin county, Indiana,
is thus described :—lt stands alone in the dense forest, a
gigantic stone jug about 50 feet in height, about 5 feet in
diameter at the base, 8 feet midship, and 2 feet at the top,
upon which rests a broad, flat rock about 10 by 15 feet,
covered with bushes and wild ivy, and some 3 feet from
the centre stands a small tree. The rock is a great curi-
osity, and a view of it should never be lost sight of by the
traveller passing that way.—Baltimore Weekly Commercial.