The Sun.
London, England, 1866-08-11 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Friday Evening.
The Siecle gives a prominent place to the follow-
ing important information from a correspondent,
who I have every reason to know has access to good

sources of information :—" I announced to you in

my last letter that the question of Prussian annexa.
tions would probably form the subject of inter.
_ _

national discussions. lam informed, in fact, thai

France, foreseeing considerable Prussian aggran-
disement of territory, has opened communications
with the Cabinet of Berlin relative to the frontiers
of the Rhine. I am informed, also, that hitherto
Prussia has not thought fit to accept the French
proposals."
It appears by the news received from Germany
that the belligerent armies, according to the terms
of the suspension of arms, maintain the positions
they occupied at the time. of the signature. The
five brigades of volunteers under the command of

Garibaldi arc stationed at about 50 kilometres to
the west of Trente. Other divisions of Italian

troops are stationed at the limits of the provinces

of Venetia and Istria. The desire of the Italian
Government is to obtain the armistice on the same

conditions as the truce, and to maintain the ui

possidetis. The Cabinet of Vienna, on the other
hand, asks for the evacuation of the countries not

given up by her, and now occupied by Italian
troops. According to the Nazione, the French

Government, acting as mediator, takes the Italian
view of the question. Whatever may be the objec-
tions started by Austria, there being entire agree-
ment between France and Italy, Italy need not pay

attention to the desires of Austria. Italy has made
the concessions which French mediation thought

necessary.

Austria may adopt whatever course

she may like, but if Austria should decline, the
mediation which every one thought was accepted at

Vienna, upon her will be the responsibility of the

consequences."
The Italian troops (says the illoniteur) have re•

tired from the Tyrol and behind the Tagliamento,
that is to say, on the line of demardation demanded
by Austria for the negotiation of an armistice with
Italy. There is, therefore, reason to believe that
the difficulties heretofore existing which prevented
an agreement between the two Powers have been
overcome, and that the armistice will be very
shortly concluded.
Although a treaty of peace may be aboat to be
signed and sealed, there is still something like a mis-
trustful feeling in Paris, particularly at the Bourse.
Several of the Paris papers, as well as foreign jour-
nals, draw sinister inferences from the abrupt return
of the Emperor to St. Cloud, and the return of the
Minister of Foreign Affairs, M. Droyn de l'Huys,
to Paris from Vichy. These inferences have no
foundation in fact. The Emperor, I believe, did not
conic back in consequence of any political event,
but simply to accompany home the Imperial Prince.
M. Drouyn de l'Huys returned only to preside at
the distribution of prizes, of which I gave you an
account. The Emperor, lam told, is likely to be
in Paris on his fete day, having for the last two
years been absent upon the occasion.
The Louvre of Louis XIV. has just been en-
riched with a new museum, the Museum of Painted
Glass. Five hundred specimens, admirable in de-
sign, composition, colour, and transparency, have
just been placed in the large windows of the rooms
called the " Appartements de Henri IV." They
come from French, Flemish, Dutch, and German
manufactories of the 15th and 10th centuries. The
Louvre will be complete when it shall have received
in the Museum of Ancient Tapestry the rare and
beautiful specimens which are about to be trans-
ferred there.
It is, I believe, settled that Blondin is to be per-
mitted to perform a most daring but dangerous feat
on the day of the Emperor's fete (Wednesday next).
The permission has been accorded at Blondin's own
special request. He asked to be allowed to run
across from the top of the Tuileries to the Arc de
l'Etoile. This proposition was refused, but he will
go through various performances on a tight rope
from the summit of the Palais Bourbon to the top
of the church of the Madeleine. A resting point
will be erected on the summit of the Luxor obelisk
in the Plac de la Concorde, which is about midway.
The Genoa Gazette gives some statistics relative
to the emigration of Italian subjects, from which it
appears that the number of Italians established in
France is 76,500; in Algeria, 7,400 ; in England,
4,500 ; in Switzerland, 13,800 ; in Egypt, 15,000 ;
Tunis, 6,000 ; United States, 40,000 ; Brazil,
18,000 ; Buenos Ayres, 10,000 ; Rosario di San-
tafe, 10,000 ; and Peru, 8,000. The total number
of Italian subjects disseminated in the new world
is estimated at 100,000. It is remarked that the
case is the reverse of that applicable to the Irish
and German emigrants, who leave their native
country without any idea of ever returning to it.
Italian emigrants, like French emigrants, go to
seek their fortunes in distant countries, with the
hope of enjoying the fruits of their industry in their
native land.

An incident, which created a powerful sensation
in Paris, has taken place at the tribunal of the
Seine. I\l. Pijon, a barrister of eminence, while
pleading for his client was suddenly attacked with
an apoplectic fit. He could scarcely articulate, his
face became pale and cold like marble, and he fell
against the bench. Lethargy succeeded, and it is
said to-day that he is still in a dangerous state.
A man named Pierre Bernard, 65 years of age,
residing at Challais, has just committed suicide,
who, it appears, had a penchant or monomania for
hanging. Two years ago be attempted to hang
himself, but he was cut down in time. He had be-
fore made a similar attempt. His family, knowing
his propensity, took care never to have any rope
about the house. A day or two ago, however, he
which had been en
returned home in a state of intoxication, and seeing
a rope
a n inadvertentlyout- ho out-house e and left
in the
ed
garden,
he took it d
into
himself to a beam. This time he
was successful
and was found quite dead.
A lamentable accident took place at Deauville
races. Ouvreux, ridden by Musgrave, full, and
Beautiful, ridden by W. Carter, was precipitated
over her. Both riders were taken up insensible, and
Carter had his arm broken in two places. The
Jockey Club has taken steps for the manufacture
of the cup to be given to the winner of the Great
Prize of 1867. The committee, composed of
Messrs. Delarnarre, Reiset, and Daru, invited the
jewellers of Paris to compete for its manufacture.
More than sixty designs were sent in, three of
which were the most approved of.
The Paris papers have not quite exhausted their
—O. Prussia's
comments upon the Kic n of. speech. La
Liberte says :—" If this document be recommended
hat of confessing the com-
mission of great wrongs—on
by a certain nobleness—that
the other hand every
one is shocked at not finding in it anything about
Europe, Italy, or France, who, in impressing upon
Austria the necessity, and up to a certain point the
justice, of not refusing the demands of Prussia, and
made enormous sacrifices for the amicable solution