The Sun.
London, England, 1867-04-22 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PAWS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Sunday Evening.
There was a Cabinet Council yesterday at the
Tuileries, at which the Emperor presided.
The Moniteur states, on the authority of letters
from Rome, that more than 400 bishops have already
announced their intention to be present at the great
fete of the 29th of June.
The tone and argument of the press in regard to
Luxembourg, both French and foreign, are still
bellicose—more so than before. The Siecle says
upon this subject Whatever desire we may have
for the maintenance of peace, it is impossible to
dissimulate the lamentable impression produced, not
upon us only, but upon the whole of the French
press, by the attitude assumed for some days past
by the organs of public opinion in Germany. It
seems that, in obedience to a word of command, all
the journals of the other side of the Rhine, more or
less imbued with Prussian policy, undertake the
task of exciting public opinion against the eventual
evacuation of the fortress of Luxembourg by the
Prussian troops."
An article in the Correspondence de Berlin, which
is supposed to receive its inspiration from M. de
Bismarck, declares that evacuation for Prussia
would be tantamount to abdication. That journal
proceeds to contend that the desire of the German
people manifested by the newspapers and at meet-
ings, both in the North and South, will not allow
Prussia to yield upon this point without placing iu
peril that supremacy in Germany which the events
of the last year have given to her.
The Memorial Diplomatique argues' in a similar
spirit, and prints a letter from its Berlin correspon-
dent, who states that he knows from a certain source
that, whatever may be the solution proposed,
Prussia has resolved not to evacuate Luxembourg.
Reports of an exciting character abound upon this
subject in Paris. One report, that an ultimatum
has been sent by the French Cabinet to the Govern-
ment of Berlin, is contradicted to-day. Several
journals, however, having the character of being
well-informed, assert that active communications
are exchanged between the Powers not directly in-
terested—England, Austria, and Russia. In the
meantime France and Prussia abstain from discus-
sion, and wait to see the course which may be pro-
posed by these Powers.
A sketch of the members of the new Italian Minis-
try will not be unacceptable :--M. Rattazzi, the head
of the Cabinet, was the chief of the party in the old
Piedmontese Parliament, rho endeavoured to
counterbalance the authority and influence of
Count Cavour. lie thus rallied around him in the
new career in the Italian Parliament a party who
represented a sort of compromise between the old
Piedmontese party aad those who supported the
necessities created by the national movement. Thus
it was that M. Rattazzi assumed the place of the
late Count Cavour, when the Peace of Villafranca
for a time arrested the aspirations of the Italians,
and that he again surrendered the post to the Count,
when the central annexations again opened the field
for the renewal of those aspirations. Upon the same
principle M. Rattazzi succeeded M. Ricasoli, when
it was feared that the Revolutionary movement
would be too much for the Government. From
these circumstances M. Rattazzi may be considered
to represent in the Parliament the party of com-
promise between the Piedmontese element and the
moderate party. He is liberal but not revolutionary.
M. Tecchio, Minister of Justice, a Venetian, long
in exile, has, under various vicissitudes, followed the
fortunes of M. Rattazzi, to whose policy he is
opposed in some points, whilst in others he is
closely identified with it. Many Venetian Deputies
will on his account support the Government.
M. Campello, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Senator
of the Kingdom, belongs to an ancient family of
Spoleto, and is closely identified with the Pontifical
interests. In 1848 he took a very active part in the
political events of which Italy was the theatre, and
received the title of Superintendent-General to the
small army sent to Venetia by the Pontifical Go-
vernment, under the orders of General Durando.
lie was afterwards Minister of War, at Rome, in
the Constitutional Cabinet of which M. Mamiani
was President, and, at a later period, he took part
in the Provisional Government which was formed
after the assassination of Count Rossi, and preceded
the Republic. At the time of the occupation of
Rome by the French troops he left the capital with
a passport given to him by the French authorities,
but his relations with that city, in which his family
continued to reside, were not interrupted, and they
cannot now be without influence upon the negotia-
tions between the Courts of Rome and Florence.
This may be considered as the chief reason why he
was selected for the post of Minister for Foreign
Affairs by M. Rattazzi.
M. Ferrara, the Minister of Finance, is a native of
Sicily, and has often distinguished himself by his
skill in dealing with financial matters. For Italy
finance at this time is the great and all important
question. Whatever may be the phase which poli-
tical events may assume, so long as the present
financial difficulties exist the subject of finance in
Italy will form the most exciting and important ele-
ment of the situation.

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tempestuousteorawin.d,
clouds of
succeeded
dust, which obscured the roads like fog, and occa-
sional showers of snow, rain, and hail. In the after-
noon the agricultural machinery department in one
of the separate buildings at the Exhibition was half
inundated. To-day the tempest has continued,
accompanied at times by heavy rains, flakes of snow,
and the other features of winter. We may, perhaps,
not escape without frost to-night.
The Paris Cricket Club have announced grand
matches for to- morrow, Tuesday, Thursday, and
Friday at Madrid, in the Bois de Boulogne. They
will be more important matches than any which have
yet taken place in France. To-morrow and Tues-
day the game will be played between 11 members
of the Paris Club and 11 members of the Maryle-
bone Club. On Thursday and Friday the match
will be between 11 members of the Paris Club and
11 of the Zingari Club of England. The band of the
4th Voltigeurs of the Guard will play at intervals
during each day. These matches excite much inte-
rest among the sporting world of Paris.
The monster cannon sent by Prussia to the Great
Exhibition has arrived at Charier •oi on its way to
Paris. With the stand on which it is placed, and
the accessories, the weight is no less than 71,000
kilogrammes, or more than double that number of
English pounds. The diameter of the interior is
nearly half a yard. It
was despatched by a slow
train. This great gun of the Exhibition is from the
manufactory of Shrupp &Essen, Westphalia, where
the Prussian guns of the fortifications of Antwerp
were manufactured.

There has been a sale of valuable pictures which
belonged to Marshal Soult. Among them were
three of Murillo, three of Zurbaran, and two of
Ribera. " The Soul of St. Philippe ascending to
Heaven," by Murillo, was sold for 16,000 f. " A
Brigand Stopping a Monk," by the same great
Spanish master, realised 12,000 f. " Christ ou the
Cross," also by Murillo, was sold for 3,800 f. " St.
Anthony," by Zurbaran, for 7,000 f. " Sainte
Appoline," by the same, for 6,000 f. " St. Romain"
and " St. Barulas," also by the same, for 5,350 f.
" St. Sebastian Succoured by Sainte Irene" (Ribera),
realised 13,600 f. " Abraham offering Hospitality
to the Angels," by Fernandez de Navarette, was
sold for 18,100 f. A painting of the Muril:o school,
" The Adoration of the Shepherds," was bought for
4651.

In uprooting same trees on the estate of the
Marquis de Bougy, near Caen, 14 very ancient stone
coffins have been found containing human skeletons.
It is believed that then; formerly existed a Mero-
vingian cemetery at this locality, and further re-
searches are being made with a view to more dis-
coveries of a similar kind.

The religious duties of Easter Sunday have been
performed to-day in Paris with much fervour and
devotion. Seldom have the churches been more
crowded.

The Volunteer Review at Dover.

DOVER, Sunday Evening.

The arrival of volunteers yesterday and to-day
has been very great. There are not less in the town
now than some three or four thousand. The streets
are literally crowded with them, and all sorts o f
excursions were extemporised to Calais and else-
where for Good Friday and to-day. On Saturday
the hopes of the townspeople and the volunteers re-
ceived a severe check. From a very early hour the
rain poured down, and Caere was a severe thunder-
storm. At night, however, a very stiff breeze from
the north-west sprung up; it became intensely cold,
but the clouds were dispersed, and in the bright
moonlight hundreds of the volunteers who arrived
by late trains were wandering, bag or portmanteau
in hand, from hotel to hotel, seeking in vain for
sleeping accommodation. This morning the wind
has been from the north-west, the weather is fine
but cold, and nautical sages say that if the wind
continues in this quarter we shall have a fine day
for to-morrow.

The various corps as they arrive are now begin-
ning to develope themselves in the shape of indica-
tions as to their head-quarters—thus a tremendous
blue flag, with a Prince of Wales's feathers, sur-
mounting the turret of the " Lord Warden" Hotel,
indicates that there Lord Bury's Regiment (the Civil
Service) have taken up their abode, so far as the
accommodation can be afforded. The London Scot-
tish have their head-quarters in a large house at the
Western corner of Waterloo-crescent ; whilst the
Queen's officers and staff are at No. 18 in the same

line of splendid houses facing the sea. For the Lon-
don Brigade, Lieut. Clearson, the quartermaster, has
secured a large house at the corner of Wells-terrace,
near the Baths, with a frontage to the sea, and the
head-quarters of this notable corps were distin-
guished by the well-known arms of the city of
London. The " Victoria" Hotel, Castle-street,
has been secured as the head-quarters of the Ist
Middlesex Artillery, whilst those of the Honourable
Artillery Company are at the " Pavilion" Hotel at
Folkestone. Iu regard to Folkestone, it may also
be remarked that during the afternoon the War
Office Company of Lord Ranelagh's regiment,
the South Middlesex, arrived at the Ewell
station, and marched into Folkestone by
the Alkham Valley, taking up their quarters
at the West Cliff Hotel, which they had previously
secured. The Ist Surrey are also at Folkestone,
instead of Dover, that is the head-quarters and staff,
&c. The St. George's are at the Dover Castle
Hotel, whilst the Victorias have divided their
favours between the Ship and Gun Hotels, and some
of the officers and members of the North Middlesex
are also at the Gun. The 19th (Working Men's
College) are at the Albion Inn, Hawksbery-street,
and the 20th Middlesex at the Flying Horse, in
King-street. At the Walmer Castle there are quar-
tered 50 of the 26th Kent, and the Providence
Hotel, Council House-street, has a batch of the 7th
Surrey and other corps. During the day the mail-
boats brough 7 over a number of the French National
Guards, and the Belgian boats some of the Garde
Civique and Eclaireurs from Brussels, Ostend, &e.

Easter Sunday is kept in Rome with great religious
pomp and ceremony. So early as five in the morning
salvoes of artillery are fired from the fort of St.
Ange. The church of St. Peter is always com-
pletely filled by the pious, At ten o'clock the Pope

and a grand procession enter the basilisk. The pro- LATEST INTELLIGENUJ.
cession is formed by priests of all religious orders in
grand costume, some in scarlet and ermine. The (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)
jeweller of the Vatican carries the tiaras upon
cushions. The Pope, with his tiara on his head,
advances to the dais prepared for him. By his side
are the Swiss troops in full uniform, bearing with
them the seven swords of the Swiss cantons. All
the members of the Pope's household attend, and
the whole chapter of St. Peter dressed in scarlet and
ermine. The tiaras displayed are four in number.
One given by Pius VII. to Napoleon I. cost nearly
a million of francs. It is enriched with diamonds,
sapphires, emeralds, rubies, and pearls, and weighs
eight pounds. Another was bought in the reign of
Gregory XVI. This is the one worn by the Pope
on the occasion. It is rich, but only weighs three
pounds. Tho third was given by the Queen of
Spain to the Pope in 1854. It is ornamented with
18,000 diamonds and 1,000 other precious stones.
The other tiara was presented to the presont Pope
by the Palatine Guard in 1860 on the occasion of
his coronation.

INDIA.

BOMBAY, April 16, 5 30 p.m.
71b shirtings, srs 10a ; 6rs 10a ; 40 mule
twist, 13rs. Cotton dull. Dhollerah, 230 rs.
Exchange on London, ls. Hid to ls. llid. ;
4 per Cent. Government Securities, 85i ; 5 per
Cents., 1044 ; 5} per Cents., 108.
Freights to Liverpool, 60s. to 655.
The latest London date is April 12.

AMERICA.
(Arrival of the Hansa.)
SOUTHAMPrON, April 22.

The North German Lloyd steamer Hansa, from
New York, on the 11th, arrived here to-day with
118 passengers for this port, Havre, and Bremen,
35 sacks of mai?s, and $24,000 in specie for London.
Since the 13th the Hansa experienced strong
westerly gales throughout the passage. On the 12th
she spoke the Bremen bark Atlantic. The Olden-
burg bark Fanny Kirchiner arrived at New York
on the 11th inst.

ARRIVAL OF THE lIANSA.

NEW YORK, April 11 (Morning.)

The petition of Judge Black, Charles O'Connor,
and Ex-Senator Cowan to the Supreme Court on
behalf of the State of Georgia, requesting that tri-
bunal to grant an injunction to restrain the Secre-
tary of War, and Generals Grant and Pope from
executing the Reconstruction Act in Georgia, is
based substantially on the same grounds as the
recent appeal of Judge Sharkey and Mr. Walker in
behalf of Mississippi.
It is reported that if the Supreme Court refuse
the injunction in the Mississippi case, the petitioners
will attempt the indictment and arrest of General
Ord for treason against the State.
General Pope has prohibited whipping and maim-
ing as punishment for crime in his district.
General Sheridan has declared the recent elec-
tion of Livingston, for the parish of Louisiana, null
and void.

The Senate has ratified the Russian-American
treaty. There were only two dissenting votes.
The treaty cedes to the United States all Russian
America and the adjacent islands. The present in-
habitants are to be protected in their rights of
liberty and property, and to be permitted to choose
whether they will return to Russia within three
years or become citizens of the United States. The
purchase money is now said to be ten million dollars
in gold.

The Senate has passed a resolution asking the
President for copies of any correspondence that has
passed between this Government and Mexico rela-
tive to the treatment of prisoners of war captured
by belligerents in Mexico.
The American Consul in Havana has remon-
strated against the enlistment of Spaniards in Cuba
for the army of the Emperor Maximilian, as a vio-
lation of the neutrality law. A statement has been
forwarded to Washington showing that 200 men
have been enlisted for the Imperial service.
The Senate has rejected the nomination of ex-
Senator Stockton as United States Minister to
Vienna.

The Jersey Legislature has rejected the bill for
enfranchising negroes.
The 'Wisconsin Legislature has passed a bill for
enfranchising all women of legal age.
The New York Republican and Democratic Con-
ventions have assembled at Syracuse to nominate
delegates to the State Constitutional Convention.
The Republicans have passed a resolution fa-
vouring negro suffrage.

The Democrats passed a resolution condemning
the course of Congress.
The Democrats have carried the municipal elec-
tions at Albany and Hartford by increasing majo.
rities.

ROME, April 21 (Evening).

To-day being Easter-day the Popo bestowed
the usual benediction, urbi et orbi, from the bal-
cony of the Vatican, in pre3euce of a large mul-
titude of persons, including many foreigners. His
Holiness was enthusiastically received.

MARRIAGE OF THE DUKE OF FLANDERS.
BERLIN, April 22.

The marriage between the Duke of Flanders and
the Princess Hohenzollern will take place here in
the Catholic Church of St. Hedurg, at three p.m.,
upon the 25th inst.
The members of the Hohenzollern family, the
King of the Belgians, the Count of Flanders, and
the Prince-Bishop of Breslau are expected to-
morrow.

The Prince-Bishop of Breslau will perform the
ceremony, at which a distinguished company, in-
cluding the Princes of the Royal House, the Diplo-
matic Body, thq Ministers, and the Generals, will
bc, present.

A Court dinner will be given in the White Saloon
at the Royal Castle after the marriage, and a soiree
at the Crown Prince's palace in the evening.

In the forenoon of the 26th the members of the
Divine
Belgian and Hohenzollern families will attend gnService at the Church of St. Iledwig, and a
&leaner will be given at the Royal Palace in the
afternoon. In the evening the King of the Bel-
gians and the newly-married pair will receive the
diplomatic body, after which a Court will be held
at the castle, followed by a concert.