The Sun.
London, England, 1866-01-31 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Tuesday Evening.
The Opposition papers in Paris resort to all sorts
of deception and misstatement to damage the
Ministry if they can. They have for several days
past assured their readers that the diplomatic docu-
ments relative to the Mexican question would not
be made public, because the Government are afraid
of discussing upon the policy it had adopted respect-
ing Mexico. Mark how a plain fact can demolish
the insinuation. The yellow-book, just presented
to the Chamber of Deputies, contains all these docu-
ments. The objection was, indeed, foolish and
puerile, for most of these despatches have been
published in the American and English papers. If,
upon closer examination, I should find anything
new or important, I will translate it for you.
Another electoral point of interest was dis-
cussed yesterday in the Corps Legislatif. The ques-
tion, divested of extraneous difficulty, was whether
a Deputy who had resigned his functions as a repre-
sentative of one place, without the acceptance of
that resignation by the Chamber, could solicit the
suffrages of the electors of another place. The
candidate objected to is M. Larrabune. On the
4th of October last the 21Ioniteur published, simul-
taneously, the convocation of the electors of the
first circonscription of the Basses Pyremies and the
resignation of M. Larrabune, who had represented
that department since 1852. That gentleman im-
mediately announced himself as the Government
candidate and was elected, while proof of the confi-
dence of the electors in the policy of the Adminis-
tration was of course unpalatable to the Opposition.
Hence a proceeding similar to an election petition
in the House of Commons. The result was that
the Chamber declared the election perfectly valid.
An important improvement is nearly completed
between Paris and Passy. The steep ascent called
the hill of Tro-adero, where at one time it was in-
tended to build a palace for the King of Rome, son
of the first Napoleon, has been levelled to the ground.
An esplanade will be constructed, which will not
only form an agreeable promenade, but on occasions
when there may be an interesting sight in the Champ
de Mars it will prove an eligible spot for spectators.
It will command an excellent view of the Great
Exhibition Palace.

The Constitutionnel, discussing the views disclosed
by the official documents published in the yellow
book respecting Mexico, says :—" Tho legitimate
object of the expedition will soon be attained. The
principle of non-intervention will be for us as with
the Cabinet of Washington the basis of our reci-
procal action ; and after having obtained for French
interests the guarantee required by the national
honour—for that is what France protects under
Napoleon the Third abroad and at home—ourtroops
will leave Mexico as will be becoming for a vic-
torious army which has nobly fulfilled its task."
The following details from the blue-book respect-
ing the breeding of horses in France will no doubt
interest your sporting readers. The administration of
the Havas (studs) has successively ejected all horses
except thorough-bred and half pure blood. In
1865 the number of stallions of pure blood and half
pure blood was 783, worth 746,400 f., and the
others authorised of the same spec was 99
The breeding and care of horses in France i,
becoming much better understood. In 1865 the
number of breeding schools was 24, for which a sum
of 238,500 f. was devoted, to :be equally shared be-
tween them ; the sum of 87,500 f. as prizes to breeders
for the best cultivation and management of horses.
In 1860 there were only 63 hippodromes in France,
with an allowed aura of 862,700 f. In 1865 the

number of hippodromes was 110, and the receipts
from the races amounted to 1,860,950 f. Gladiateur
realised for his owner 493,500 f. in six prizes, throe
of which were for victories gained on the English
turf. Steeplechases continue to increase. They,
in fact (says the club book), are the only induce-
ment to breeders to create the best saddle-
horses. The breeding of horses in France
is no longer a theoretic or administrative
matter. It has increased, and has become an indus-
trial question. The assistance given to the State
in its efforts to develope the qualities of the French
horse proves that this point is now in France, as it
is in England, a popular and national one.

The Moniteurof this evening states that the
packet-boat Vera Cruz for Martinique has arrived
at St. Nizaire, with newsfrom Valparaiso to Dec. 10,
Lima, Dec. 21, Panama, Jan. 1, and Montenegro,
Jan 10. The Spanish Minister Plenipotentiary at
Peru, and the Spanish Consul at Callao, are among
the passengers.

The 42 per Cents. fell 50c. to-day. The Credit
Mobilier rose 17f. 50c.

The Extradition Treaty between France
and England.
(REUTER'S EXPRESS.)
PARIS, January 30.
The following is the full text of the despatches
exchanged between M. Drouyn de Lhuys and the
French Ambassador in London relative to the
Extradition Treaty between France and England :

" The Minister for Foreign Affairs to Prince de la
Tour d'Auvergne.
" Paris, Nov. 29, 1865.
" Prince,—l had the honour, in February and
March last, to address to you various communica-
tions upon the subject of the repeated want of suc-
cess experienced by our demands of extradition in
Great Britain, and my last despatch of March 11th
foreshadowed the probability, and even desired you
not to leave the Cabinet of London in ignorance,
that if the ameliorations we were desirous of intro-
ducing into the system created by the convention of
1843 were rejected, we should probably find our-
selves obliged to give notice of the termination of
the treaty.
" You are aware, Prince, of the difficulties of
every kind in face of which our demands for extra-
dition have constantly failed. I will confine myself
to recalling the two principal ones.
" In the first place, the British Government
refuses to give up to us condemned persons, upon
the plea that the convention of 1843 only mentions
those -who are accused.
" Without dwelling upon the contradiction, in
our eyes, of a system which recognises the legiti-
macy of extradition with regard to individuals upon
whom weighs only a presumption of culpability, and
which rejects it as touching those who have legally
suffered a judicial sentence, we proposed an addi-
tional clause to the Treaty of 1843 to include con-
demned persons, but our offer was declined by the
Cabinet of London, which was afraid it could not
obtain the acceptance of this clause by Parliament.
" In the second place, the extradition convention,
as interpreted by the advisors of the Cro orn, and
consequently by the British Administration, would
consist in the obligation of having the case, in some
sort, adjudicated in England, as we have once more
been able to perceive the refusal recently given to
our demand for the extradition of a certain Seissier,
one of the pirates of the Fzieris Arca, who, it was
supposed, might land in Calcutta. The Attorney-
General of the Indian Government and the Crown
lawyers have stated that, to authorise the arrest
and return of the fugitive to France, it would have
been necessary to append to the warant of arrest
copies of the depositions already received in evi-
dence, and whose authenticity had been attested by
the oath of persons by whom they were put in, so
that the police magistrate at Calcutta would be able
to state whether the fugitive was prima facie guilty
of the crime for which his extradition was required.
" Such requirements constitute a permanent
obstacle to the success of demands for extradition,
and differ from the practice pursued by the other
Powers of Europe. Extradition is not a measure
invented in the special interest of this or that
State ; it is the widest application of the principle
of penal repression from the point of social order,
which unites the great family of civilised nations
in one common end of mutual protection and gua-
rantee. Its object is to restore the guilty person to
his natural judge, by depriving him of the benefit
of the right of asylum as it existed at the time
when peoples, placed with regard to one another
in a state of hostile isolation, remained indifferent
to criminal acts effected outside their territory. If
this be so—if extradition, brought back to its
true character, is at bottom only a law of in-
ternational procedure and competence ; if this
measure, as I said above, is only a means of
returning the fugitive to his natural judge, the
contracting States, in such matters, should not
demand reciprocally other proofs than those in-
dispensable to verify whether the proceedings are
serious, directed by the competent judge, and oc-
casioned by common crimes. Every treaty that
departs from this rule is devoid of real utility,
and does not present that character of reciprocity
essential in international relations. Twenty-two
years of experience have demonstrated the ineffi-
cacy of the treaty of Feb. 13, 1843, or rather
the anomaly of a situation in which the contract
is only executed by ono of the parties, and which
could not be prolonged without inconvenience to
our own dignity.

"In this state of things the Emperor's Govern-
ment has been obliged to occupy itself seriously
with the care of relieving itself from responsibility,
in presence of the facilities offered to malefactors
for taking refuge a few hours' distance from our
coasts, and of an impunity for which public opinion
is, up to a certain point, justified in calling it to ac-
count, so long as the treaty subsists.

" Consequently, Prince, you will have the good-
ness to make known by an °facial note addressed

to her Britannic Majesty's Chief Secretary of State,
that availing ourselves of the privilege continued in
Art. 4 of the convention of February 13, 1813, we
have resolved upon giving notice of the termination

of the troaty, which will cease to be ia force six

months after this declaration.

" Receive, &c.,
(Signed) "DROUTN DE LIIUYS."

" The Ambassador of France at London to the
Minister for Foreign Affairs.
" London, Dec. 6, 1865.
"M. le Ministre—lmmediately after having re-
ceived the despatch your Excellency did me the
honour to forward on:the 29th November, I hastened,
agreeably to its instructions, to address to the
Queen's Chief Secretary of State.an official Note,
bringing to his knowledge that, availing itself of the
privilege contained in Art. 4 of the extradition con-
vention of Feb. 13, 1843, the Emperor's Govern-
ment had determined to give notice of the termina-
tion of the treaty, which would in consequence
cease to be in force six months after this declara-
tion. I have the honour to forward a copy of a
Note of the 4th December. I should have sent it
to your Excellency earlier if I had not hoped to be
able to append the acknowledgment of its reception
at the Foreign-office. But Earl Clarendon, whom
I recently reminded of this matter verbally, and
who considers the expiry of the treaty as notified in
due form, begged me to await his reply a short time
longer, am he was under the necessity of agreeing
upon it with the Home Secretary.
" Ba good enough to accept, &c.,
(Signed) " PRINCE DE LA TOUR D'AUVERGNE."

FENIANIS3I AMONG THE LIVERPOOL DOCK LA-
BontEus.—Tho dock labourers have been for some time
suspected of Fenian proclivities, and as they number some
three or four thousand tho authoritias have been on the
alert, no doubt contemplating any confirmation of this
suspicion with a little anxiety. We understand that there
is not the slightest doubt a great number of the labourers
have become tainted with Fenian principles, and that se-
veral cases aro known in which the Fenian oath has been
administered. A Fenian meeting was to have been held
in Liverpool at the latter end of last week, but the police
were on the qui vice, and the brethren for once acted
discreetly, and the gathering did not take place. That
the dock labourers should be imbued with Fenian sym-
pathies there need be no surprise, and less apprehension
of the potency of their combination.---Liverpoolpaiti Pod.'

LA TEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

SPAIN.

MADRID, J. 30 (Evening).
Two Chilian privateers have been seen off the
coast of Spain. The frigate Isabel has received
orders to pursue them.

The insurgents have almost completely disap-
peared from the provinces of Barcelona and

Tarragona.

The Government has stated in the Senate that it
was desirous of introducing economy in the Budget,
but that it would not reduce the army nor change
its organisation.