The Sun.
London, England, 1866-08-25 00:00:00

OORRESPONDENOR FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
• PARIS, Friday Evening.
There is no news of importance to-day respecting
the affairs of Germany,. but it appears from the
Moniteur that a little change has been made in regard
to the territory which is to be ceded by Bavaria to
Prussia. It is now settled that it will comprise the
districts of Orb, Gersfeld, Hilters, and Tanu, which
contain a population of 40,000. They are situated
to the north of the kingdom. The war indemnity
has been definitively fixed at 30 millions of florins.
Bavaria will still retain Lichtenfeld and Culmbach.
The ceded territory is situated at the extreme north
of the Maine, and stretches to a point between the
Saxon Duchies and Electoral Hesse. In French
money the little bill to be settled by Bavaria
amounts to 64 millions 800,000 francs.
Prussia is very restive about the press just now,
and is not disposed to allow it much latitude. The
Gazette l'Allemagne du Nord, of Hanover, of Mon-
day last, has six white spaces among its columns,
intimating that so many passages have been ex-
punged by the Prussian Censorship. Prussia seems
to have forgotten that the censorship in France led
to the expulsion of Charles the Tenth from the
Throne.
The Presse, of Vienna, cites a significant proof
of American sang froid. General Manteuffel inti-
mated to Mr. Murphy, the American Consul at
Frankfort, that he could not prevent him and his
countrymen from being compelled to lodge Prussian
soldiers. Mr. Murphy, putting on his hat, said,
" General, allow me to inform you that our fleet is
in the Baltic," and immediately retired. No
Prussian soldiers have been sent to lodge with the
Americans.

A strange and terrible accident has taken place

at the village of Tilhouse in the Upper Pyrenees.

The commune celebrated its national fête at a wine
shop, and on this occasion all of them were open
during the night. In one of these establishments it
was customary to use for a candlestick a hollow
cannon-ball shell, which had been brought from
Lannemazan, and from which it was thought the
powder had been withdrawn. The candle was place
in the hole which serves for the train to ignite the
projectile. Towards four o'clock the landlord went
to bed, leaving a number of guests in full carousal.

All of a sudden the train reached the bottom of the
ball, which contained a heavy charge of powder.
There was a tremendous explosion. Four men were
killed instantly and two others grievously hurt.
Five others happily escaped uninjured. The furni-
ture was shattered to atoms.

At the last sitting of the Academy of Sciences,
M. Chevreuil related some curious facts to prove
that China had its age of stone. By age of stone is
meant those ante-historical times, when men, not
being acquainted with metals, manufactured their
arms and utensils in silex, stone, and other material.
Confucius was at the house of a certain learned man,
when the King perceived from a terrace in his gar-
den a bird of prey, which appeared to have three
wings, and which flew in a very strange manner.
The King ordered that it should be brought to him
dead or alive. The bird soon fell on the steps of
the palace. The bird had but two wings, but the
feathers of an arrow, which had penetrated through
his body, explained how it appeared to have three.
This arrow, very different from those of that period,
was armed with hard stone filed to a point instead
of iron or wood. The friend of Confucius was
ordered by the King to explain this fact, and Con-
fucius recognised the bird to be a species of hawk.
This bird of prey," said he, "is a native of the
north of Tartary, and very seldom comes to our cli-
mate." As to the arrow, it is very similar to that
which was offered to a Prince in sign of sovereignty.
It was a foot and an inch long, exclusive of the
armed point of stone. Look into your depots of
art, said the learned man to the King. This arrow
may have been preserved there. If one be found
let it be compared with this arrow, and if so, it must
be concluded that Heaven favours your Majesty,
since it sends into your hands the authentic signs of
sovereignty. The text (that of Amyot printed in
1788) adds that the King ordered the researches.
The empire had then existed for ten centuries. An
arrow was found exactly similar to that with which
the bird of prey had been killed.

The Nazione of Florence says that the Govern-
ment of the Ring of Italy has granted an amnesty
to Mazzini, and adds We doubt, however,
whether Mazzini will be disposed to profit by this
amnesty, but that is his business, not ours. Should
he continue to be a martyr and •an exile it will be
from caprice, and in that case we say, so much the
worse for him."

A very joyous wedding, contracted under war-
ranted circumstances, has just been celebrated at a
chateau near Herblay. The marriage ceremony
was performed in a small church in a quarter of.
Paris inhabited chiefly by the working classes, and
never before were seen so many carriages or such a
numerous company of fashionables iu the vicinity.
A handsome orphan work girl, Emma B-, lived
comfortably on the fruit of her honest labour, and
had for some months been courted by a young man
alsoear belonging
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the young girl said to him, " Charles, you have been
pressing Inc to marry you for three months, and I
have postponed the marriage. Now, however, I
will no longer delay it. A rich American has
offered me 1,000 dols. a month if I would consent
to be an honest woman, and that I should also have a
splendid apartment ou the Boulevard Malesherbes.
There is my baud, put up the banns directly." The
lover, highly indignant at the American, was too
glad to obey the direction. The banns were pub-
lished, and the marriage has taken place in the
quarter where the lovers resided. The evening be-
fore the wedding however, the bridegroom told
Emma that be had a secret to tell. Ile was not a
working man, but was one of the richest proprietors
in an eastern department of France, and said he
should take her the next day to the beautiful chateau
which he had inherited from his father and mother,
for he, like his bride, was an orphan. The young
lover it appears saw Emma a few months ago and
fell in love with her at first sight. She lived iu an
attic, and he had taken a room in the upper story
of the same house to be 'near her. Thus be could see
her every day, and a mutual passion soon sprung up
between them.

The Empress Charlotte of Mexico has left Paris
'or Brussels, to proceed from thence
.to Miramar.

Her Majesty was accompanied by a numerous suite,
and was cheered at the Northern Railway station.
The Princess Mathilde has also left Paris for her
villa of Belgirate in Switzerland.
The weather has been warm and more settled
to-day, but the meteorological observations at the
Observatory presage storms on the west of Spain,
Italy,:and the Gulf of Gascony.
A gardener in the Bois de Boulogne, on Tuesday,
gathered a quantity of what he supposed to be mush-
rooms. He made a present of some of them to a
neighbour, whose family consisted of father and
mother and a little girl. They have been poisoned.
The little girl died a few hours after eating the sup-
posed mushrooms, and both father and mother are
still in a very dangerous condition.
Madame Battel, the wife of an eminent artist who
has considerable reputation as a caricaturist., has
just presented her husband with three girls. Their
formation is perfect, and they, with the mother, are
what is called as well as can be expected.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

OIEUTERIS TELE(IRAUS.)

ItUNGARY.
PESTII, Aug. 24.

. It is stated that the Tavernicus, Baron Sennyey,
will be entrusted with the formation of a Hungarian
Ministry, upon the bases of the Constitution of
1848.

There will, however, be no portfolios of war or
finance for the present.

The Hungarian Diet will probably open in Sep-
tember.

SPAIN,

MAnnin, Aug. 24 (Evening).

A circular from the Governor of Madrid has been
posted up at the Bourse cautioning the public against
attaching credit to the false rumours disseminated
by revolutionists.

CHINA AND JAPAN.
SHANGHAI, July 25.
The Nyenfei have been successful in the north.
Two French bishops and seven priests have
been massacred in the Corea.

Intelligence received here from Japan announces
that civil war was being carried on between seine of
the Princes.

AMERICA.
(By Atlantic Telegraph.)
NEW YORK, Aug. 23.
President Johnson has abandoned the Fenian pro-

secutions.

ARRIVAL OF THE CHINA.
(Via Roche's Point.)

NEW YORK, Aug. 16 (Evening).
The Philadelphia Convention has elected Senator
Doolittle as chairman.

Mr. Vallaudigham has withdrawn from the Con-
vention. The Massachusetts and South Carolina
delegations entered the Convention arm-in-arm,
amidst cheers for President Johnson and the 36
loyal States. The President telegraphed that the
people must be trusted. The country, he said,
would be restored, and his faith was unshaken
as to their ultimate success.

The Convention adjourned to-day, after passing
resolutions declaring the Union and the Constitution
to be restored, and that neither Congress nor Go-
vernment could den;; representation to any State.
The resolutions urge the people to elect none but
men admitting this principle. The right to prescribe
qualification for the elective franchise is reserved to
States. No State can withdraw from the Union,
nor by its action'in Congress exclude another State
from the Union. The resolutions further tender
sincere support to President Johnson.
Cholera is abating in New York, but is raging
fearfully through the west and south-west.

The Bavaria has arrived out, and has been placed
in quarantine. She has had eight cholera cases and
three deaths on board.

MEXICO.

Advices received here from Matamoras to the
10th inst. announce that the Liberals occupied
Monterey, Saltillo, and other towns on the 28th
ult. The Imperialists retreated to San Luis Potosi.
Marshal Bazaine had set out for the City of Mexico.
Juarez was en route for Monterey.
The Liberals occupied Tampico on the Ist inst.

The American General Lewis Wallace had arrived
at Matamoras in a steamer from New York with
men, arms, and ammunition for the Liberals.
Wallace holds the commission of Major-General in
the Liberal Army.
A French corvette iz blockading Matamoras.
QUEENSTOWN, Aug. 25.

The royal mail steamship China arrived here at
5.45 a.m. this morning, with 117 passengers and
$25,215 in specie. She landed a portion of the
mails, consisting of 111 sacks, and proceeded for
Liverpool at 6 a.m. All well.
She was detained 12 hours at Halifax by fog.