The Sun.
London, England, 1866-08-03 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 3, 1866.

declare at once before the representatives of Europe
all that he means to appropriate, and all the advan-
tages, direct and indirect, that the Berlin Govern-
ment propose to reap from the effects of the late

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, Thursday Evening.

The aspect of affairs in regard to Germany being
settled for the moment there is a truce in the
manufacture of alarming news. The most interest-
ing speculation I find to-day is contained in the
letter of a correspondent of the Siecle, dated Eis-
grub, July 26. The letter says :_....
" I have no hesitation in affirming that, as re-
gards the small States of the line of the Maine,
Austria has given full permission to Prussia to do as
she pleases. Once resigned to the exclusion from
the Germanic Confederation, Austria says to Prus-
sia, Do as you like with the two Duchies of Hesse
and Nassau, Hanover and Frankfort.' As a matter
of course, the annexation of the DuChies of the
Elbe are resolved upon. But as to what the King
of Prussia will do with the various States of the
Maine which are leagued against her nothing is yet
absolutely decided. At head-quarters some speak
of annexation pure and simple. Others speak of
partial annexation. I expect, however, that nothing
is yet decided upon."
The Moniteur, after recapitulating its exertions to
mediate with a pacific object, says that the delibe-
rations arising from them have led to a happy re-
sult. Austria and Prussia have agreed upon an
armistice for four weeks, and at the same time they
have signed a preliminary convention which con-
tains the basis of peace. After referring to the
difficulties which first existed, the Moniteur adds
that Italy also agrees to the armistice, and the
essential questions upon which the continuations of
the war depended being overcome, one can antici-
pate, from the stipulations signed on the 26th of
July at Nikolsburg, the guarantees of a definitive
peace.

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Prince Napoleon Jerome having fulfilled his mis-
sion in Italy has left Ferrara, and is expected to
join the Emperor at Vichy in the course of the
week.

The facts derived from the latest news are that
the Prussians continue their march towards the
interior of Bavaria. The Prussians corps of the
Grand Duke of Mecklenburg has profited by the
circumstances of the last few days to progress, as
near as possible, to the centre of that kingdom.
It appears that the young girl at Tours, who was
for so long a time in a state of lethargy, has died
without regaining consciousness. She remained in
an insensible state for 58 days. A medical man
arrived from London, but the girl had been dead
about an hour when he reached the house.

A case of remedy worse than the disease has
occurred at Pieneuf, in Brittany. A baker named
Rouget, who had been very ill and in great pain for
several weeks, was advised to try a remedy which
would promote perspiration and cure the rheumatic
pains. The remedy was to place a heap of leaves in
the oven after the bread was withdrawn, and lie
down upon them for some hours. A neighbour
assisted him to get into the oven and shut the oven
door. When he returned to see how the patient was
getting on, the oven only contained a corpse, the
embers having become re-heated.
A trick, something after the model of one some
time played in London, has been successfully adopted
in Paris. As a countryman was walking upon the
Boulevard du Prince Eugene he was accosted by an
individual who proposed that they should take a
walk together in the Champs de Mars. The pro-
position was accepted, and when they arrived there
an apparent stranger came up who said he was a
rich Pole, and he would give 201. if they would
show him the way to the Bois de Boulogne. All
three proceeded thither. On arrival at Auteuil,
which leads into the wood, the Pole said he should
like to pay for a good breakfast, but as he had a
great deal of money about him he wished first to
hide it iu the wood. lle took from his pocket what
appeared to be three rolls of Napoleons, which the
party concealed near a tree, telling his companions
to mark the spot particularly so that they might
get the gold again as they went back. The Pole,
after they had proceeded further, said that instead
of breakfast, upon second thoughts, it would be bet-
ter to wait for a good dinner, but as that would cost
a good deal of money, it would be better for the coun-
tryman to go back at once and get the packets of
gold again. He hinted, however, that as they were
strangers, the countryman ought to let him keep his
purse as security. It will hardly be believed that
the countryman was foolish enough to consent to
both proposals, and gave the Pole his purse, which
contained 165 francs. The countryman without de-
lay went to dig up the treasure. Of course, his two
companions were Rot to be found at the spot where
it was agreed that the three should meet again. A
shade of distrust passed over his mind, and he opened
the parcels. They contained only snuff and carr9ts
ingeniously packed exactly in
changers pack
epawcaky
uaps the
French bankers and money
franc pieces. The police have not yet met with
either the Pole or his companion. Perhaps the Pole
has gone back to Poland to join in the struggle
which some of the Paris papers tells us will take
place there for independence.
At the last sitting of the Academy of Sciences,
M. Babinet, a man of some authority in scientific
matters, drew attention to the laying of the cable
across the Atlantic. M. Babinet did full justice
to English ingenuity and perseverance, but ex-
pressed his fears that the power of transmission
would not be of long duration. M. Babinet ex-
hibited a thick cable which had been five years at
the bottom of the Channel. The action of the salt
water had penetrated to the very centre. Salt
water would destroy the wire, however protected.
The injurious action of salt water upon wire or
metal was to the extent of a thousandth part of a
yard per annum. " How," he asked, " could wire
resist this enormous action ?" M. Babinet also said
that from the depth of water in the Atlantic shocks
were to be feared which would destroy the insula-
tion. The exterior substand round the cable ex-
hibited by M. Babinet was reduced to shreds by the
action of the salt water. M. Babinet in conclusion
said, " I have good reasons for believing that this
time, like the previous one, the success of the At-
lantic cable will be but ephemeral."
The Council of the Order of Advocates have
fixed upon M. Alexandre Ribot and M. Edward
Laferriere to pronounce the opening
address at the
ensuing legal Conference. The subjects of the
speeches are to be Lord Erskine, the History of the
rivalry between the Parliaments, the Intendants, and
the Council of the King from the reign of Louis
XI V. to the Revolution of 1789. .

The Emperor, who seems to. be continually
studying how he can best promote the comforts and
interests of the mass of the population, has written
a letter to the Minister of State,
in which he makes
various suggestions with a view to the better pro-
vision for workmen who may be injured .or muti-
lated in the course of their labours. His Majesty
calculates that if his suggestions be adopted, 800
pensions of 300 f. a year may be granted to work-
men who may have received injuries in the course
of their labour.

The weather is stormy and unsettled. The
morning was exceedingly wet and cold. Between
two and three in the afternoon there was a storm
of thunder and lightning, and for a quarter of an
hour the rain fell with abundance and violence more
liberal than any one could desire.
The " Empire is Peace," but the art of teaching.
"the young idea how to shoot" progresses mar-
vellously. An advertisement announces some ex-
periments to be made to-night at the Grand Gym-
nase of the Rue des Martyrs with a gun which can
be fired sixty times in a minute. There is to be
firing with the needle-gun at the same time to show
by contrast what an insignificantly murderous in-
strument it is. A Paris paper states, too, that
large numbers of the new guns (firing sixty times
a minute, I suppose) have been supplied to the camp
at Chalons.

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SPAIN AND CHILL—The steamer Cyclone, of
Glasgow, was detained in Great Yarmouth Roads yester-
day, on suspicion of infringing the neutrality proclamation
witb, roopect t 9 then wuntries.