The Sun.
London, England, 1867-01-26 00:00:00

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, Friday Evening.
Information has been received in Paris that the
delegates of the Confederation of Northern Ger-
many signed the Federal treaty on Monday last.
The Prussian Government, after concerting with its
allies, has fixed the 24th of February for the con-
vocation of the Parliament of Northern Germany
(the Reichstag).
The proposals of the Cabinet of Munich, having
for object the establishment between the Southern
States of Germany an understanding upon the basis
of the reorganisation of the Army appear likely to
he entertained by the Governments interested. At
all events it seems settled that there will be a con-
ference at Stuttgard, at which the Ministers of War
and Foreign Affairs of the respective Governments
will be present.
King Louis the Second of Bavaria has just been
betrothed to his cousin, the Princess Sophia, daugh-
ter of the Duke Maximilian of Bavaria and sister of
the Empress of Austria. The Princess was born on
the 22d of February, 1847, and King Louis 11. is
21 years and six months of age.
The Italian journals judge the late decree of the
Emperor with as much a favour and satisfaction as
the Paris papers. The Gazette de ?urin says :--
"The Constitutional reforms in France appear to
us to be calculated to satisfy the demands of the
most importunate and to respond to the desires of
the most ardent of the French Liberals. It may be
said that the Constitution of the Empire has ad-
vanced a great step towards the tranquil fields of
more ample liberty. As to us Italians, we ought
to rejoice deeply at seeing the edifice raised
by the only true and real ally Italy ever
had constructed upon the very firm bases upon
which our edifice stands. They are bases which
reaction will never have power to shake."
The Nazione has an article written in a similar
spirit, which concludes thus :—" Great spectacle !
and worthy at once of a sovereign such as Napoleon
the Third and of a nation like France. After hav-
ing used absolute power to repress the enemies of
society, to re-establish moral order, and to restore
the country to the eminent rank to which she is
entitled, Napoleon the Third spontaneously, without
being impelled by any
exterior force, restores a por-
tion of that power to the hands of the people, who
had confided it to him by an almost unanimous
vote. This noble conduct insures the fate of the
dynasty of the Bonapartes."
The remains of Victor Cousin having been brought
from Cannes were at first placed in the chapel of the
church of the Sorbonne, and they have been interred
with the ceremony, respect, and sympathy due to
the illustrious writer. He was a member of the
French Academy and of the Academy of Moral and
Political Science, honorary professor of the Faculty
of Letters of Paris, and Commander of the Legion
of Honour. The funeral ceremony at the church,
which was imposingly decorated upon the occasion,
was attended by a vast concourse of members of the
learned societies, literary men, and artists. The
pall was held by M. Patin, the President of the
Faculty of Letters ; M. Parieu, of the Academy of
Moral and Political Science, Vice-President of the
Council of State ; and M. Mourier, Vice-Rector of
the Academy of Paris. Behind the funeral car was
M. Duruy, Minister of Public Instruction, the
relatives and friends of the deceased, his executors,
and troops of notabilities. The body was received
at the door of the church of St. Etienne du Mont
by members of learned bodies in academical cos-
tume. A rich and splendid catalfalque in the
church was surrounded by the clergy. The Normal
school and the Lyceum of Paris were represented
by vast numbers of students. After Divine service
the vast procession accompanied the remains to
Pere La Chaise, where the interment took place.
Military honours, to which the deceased was en-
titled as Commander of the Legion of Honour, were
rendered by the 17th by a battalion of 100 men of
the National Guard. The observed of all observers
among the mourners was Mr. Gladstone.

The Moniteur contains a long report, dated Jan
15, from Marthal Rondo'', Minister of War, sug.
gesting various cbangcs with a view to the ameliora.

tion of the social position of the army. The object
of these changes is described in the following sum-
mary :—" When these changes shall be carried into
effect the army will be governed by a homogeneous
administrative legislator, satisfying every want,
including every guarantee, and presenting impor-
tant simplifications and modifications in the double
point of view in the execution of the service and
the supervision of the accounts.
The Scientific Association in France will this year
award several important prizes. Two medals of
the value of LOOf. will be given to the best two
memoirs relative to the application of meteorology
to agriculture. Two gold medals of the value of
from 100 f. to 300 f. will be arwarded to the best
series of meteorological observations taken at sea
or in localities little known so far as climate is
concerned. Last year 28 gold medals were given
to recompense labour of this description. One of
the points which occupies public attention in Paris
now is the promotion of a subscription to erect a
statue to Voltaire.

Says :—" At the latest
momentlle rn
jowuerael des
ceivepefrebtssah despatches dated from
CJnstantinople, which announce once more ' the
general submission of the insurgents of the Island
of Candia.' Let us wait for the telegrams from
Athens, and the news in the Russian journals."
The Moniteur de la Meurthe mentions the acci-
dental death of a magnificent stallion, Souverain,
which
the Government at
h
price of 10,000 f. for the horse-breeding estab-
tehad been purchased by
ment (the Haras). The horse had arrived at the
Rosieres station, and was about to be taken out
when a goods train ran into the stable train and
Souverain was killed upon the spot. This is a real
misfortune for the the Haras, and also for the
Eastern Railway Company, as it will probably have
to reimburse the value of 10,000 f. to the State.
Although the frost has left us, there are some
interesting circumstances connected with it. Two
celebrated skaters the other day went from the
chateau de Serraut to Angers at a more rapid
pace than the d'Orsay Railway. There was
a strange circumstance at Besancon. The
waters there are generally frozen with a thick
ice at a temperature of 5 degrees below zero.
This year at a temperature of 11 degrees the
water did not present the slightest symptom of
freezing. In the memory of man, says the account,
such a phenomenon
was never before heard. In
the Pas de Calais one of the local postmen perished
,
in the snow in the cross-country • and AI. Cailiette,
of St. Pierre, near Calais, lost his way while
driving a cart, and both he and the horse were
found dead. At Chalons a sentinel on duty was
so injured by the cold that he died a few minutes
after being taken to the h'ta• l• At Bilboa, in
ospi
Spain, some travellers by the railway in arriving at
the station were in a dangerous state of exhaustion
from the cold, and it was expected that several of
them would die. Although such severe weather
prevailed generally at Toulouse the winter has
i
been mild and wet. Field labours have been
for three or four days only by
a slight
fall of snow. On Monday last there was a warm
southerly wind, and vegetation presented a green
appearance.

The Princess Bacioccli is dangerously ill at
Vannes. The Bishop of Vannes has administered
the sacrament to her.
A commercial traveller has been fined 50f. for
rather ingenious fraud upon the Post-office. It
was arranged between him And his wife that, in-
stead of sending letters, to save postage he should
scud a newspaper, with a circle made with ink
round certain letters, consecutively, to make a sen-
tence. Thus she could unlerstand from one news-
paper the following information :—"I shall leave
this evening for Auxerre and shall be at home on
Saturday or Sunday." The Argus eyes of the Post-
office clerks solved the enigma, and the idea turns
out to have been bad eccnomy.

THE RIOTS AT DEPTFORD AND GREENWICH.—
Owing to the efficient police arrangements adopted by Mr.
Walker, the chief Superintendent, and Mr. Superintendent
Wakeford, the tumultuous assemblages in the streets of
Deptford and Greenwich were effectually dispersed on
Thursday night, and both the towns are now quiet. Thorn
were only two charges in connection with these di4turb-
ances before the raagisttite yesterday va9raipg.