The Sun.
London, England, 1867-08-07 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, 'Tuesday Evening.
The Manikinr has an additional half-sheet to-day,
but it is chiefly devoted to decrees of local import-
ance. The other papers have their space chiefly
occupied with intelligence connected with the
General Councils, which, although of great interest
for France, have none for England.
The Journal de Rome contains accounts of the
celebration of the fetes of the Company of Jesus,
on the 31st of July, which took place with more
than the accustomed pomp at the Farnese, the
church dedicated to Ignace de Loyola, the founder
of the Jesuits' Society. On the Ist of August the
canons of St. Sauveur, of the congregation of Latran,
celebrated in the church of St. Pierre-es-Liens the
fete in which the Church commemorates the memory
of the chains with which the Prince of the Apostles
was bound at Jerusalem and Rome, and which are
now preserved for the contemplation of the pious in
the above church. His Holiness the Pope went to
the basilisk during the first vespers, offered adora-
tion to the Holy Sacrament, and venerated the
precious relics which perpetuate the testimony of
the sufferings endured by the Prince of the Apostles.
The basilisk was profusely ornamented, and an
immense number of the faithful were present, who,
after prayers, were anxious to kiss the sacred
chains.

M. Alfred Verliere, author of a pamphlet en-
titled " Deism and Social Peril," is summoned to
,r orindaythene
appearpolice Police-office, eo n
doublext
char
rhgee Correctionalagainst public and religious morals, and an attack
upon the system ;if public
worship
legally recog-
nised by the State. Phis prosecution affords
another proof of the desire of the Government to
promote religious and political liberty by suppressing
licentious attacks upon it.
The evening Moniteur has the fullowinr, informa-
tion relative to the visit of the
Empress to her
Majesty :
"The amicable feeling which
exists
between the
Empress and the Queen of England
is considered as
another proof of the sentiments cordial
•
ments between
England and France. The more the relations be-
tween the two countries multiply, the greater is the
mutual esteem between them. Personally the Em-
press Eugenie is much beloved
body does justice to her eminent qualities as wife
and mother, as well as to her senti • ments of charity.
" The Empress arrived in the Isle of Wight on
Monday, the 22d of July,
at three o'clock in the
afternoon, accompanied only by her lady of honour,
the Duchess of Bassano, and
Count de Cosse Brissac.
As her Majesty travelled
incognito,
the flag of the
Imperial yacht, the Reine Hortense, was not hoisted.
The most cordial intimacy
was displayed by the two
Sovereigns at their meeting. Queen Victoria, sur-
rounded by her children, the Princess
Alice, Prince
Arthur and Prince Leopold, had none of her Minis-
ters near her. The Prince de Hesse, ,her son-in-law,
the husband of Princess Alice, was at Osborne at
the time, and also Lord Alfred Paget,
and General Seymour.
" The chauteau inhabited by the Queen
is in a
beautiful and picturesque position, and is sur-
rounded by handsome buildings. The Empress and
the Queen took several walks and drives together.
Prince Arthur followed the carriage on horseback.
When the two Sovereigns took leave of each other
they exchanged the most affectionate words. The
departure of the Empress took place on Wednesday,
July 2-1, at ten o'clock in the morning."
An old soldier of the French Empire has just died
at the Invalides, nearly 90 years of age. He had
rendered many services to the State, but he used to
recount one of them with peculiar glee. He was on
duty in the so uare here the murderer of Kleber
was executed, in Egypt, and he gave a glass
of water to the murderer in his agony when
he panted with thirst. It may not be recol-
lected that General Kleber was assassinated
at Cairo, after a review, on the 14th of June, 1800,
by a young Mussulman named Soleyman, who
stabbed him with his dagger in several places. The
punishment was terrible. His right wrist was
burned in a small furnace, and he was then placed
over a fire which consumed him gradually. He
remained alive for nearly four hours. Oppressed
with terrible thirst he supplicated a glass of water,
but the favour was refused to him because it would
have assuaged his agony . Nevertheless, a soldier on
duty, who had served as a volunteer in the Army of
Egypt., moved by compassion at his pain, went and
procured a glass of water for him. The assassin
drank it off and expired instantly. This is the sol-
dier, named Darroy, who has died at the Invalidt*
where he had remained for thirty-four years.
Among the objects of peculiar interest In the Ex-
hibition is the model of a Ss,vedisli infant school. It
is in the house of Gustavus Wasa, and its arrange-
ments show the care taken for the comfort of the
pupils. Literature in Sweden is in a more ad-
vanced state than may be generally supposed.
Major Staaff, a Swede, attached to the Legation
in Paris, has compiled an extensive and remarkable
book, which may be found in Class 90, containing
the most choice specimens of French literature from
the time of Charlemagne. In this work the French
romances and poems of the middle age are not for-
gotten.
Although one is astonished and delighted at
glittering and valuable works of art and taste at
the
.Exhibition the useful is not forgotten. For