The Sun.
London, England, 1866-04-03 00:00:00

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, Monday Evening.
No papers have been published to-day, in conse-
quence of Easter Sunday. In the absence of direct
channels of news, however, the Bourse to-day has
been very crowded, and for some time past I have
not seen so much animation. Warlike rumours re-
specting Prussia and Austria have had their full
swing. The public is so confused by the contradic-
ory statements in regard to those Powers that I
think it well to quote the opinion of M. Forcade,
who is the very best authority. M. Forcade, in his
admirable summary of the week in the Semaine
Financiere says :—" The public funds and secu-

Judged by the test of public meetings the reform-
roibtsieesuraer, ewabtiebthaerrimveesrcyfroomf thßeernlienwso,rmlorireennoar, less
t
ing constituencies arc not so much opposed to the would be as absurd to hazard predictions as to the
the House next act of the Governments of Prussia and Austria
Ministerial measure as the members of
of Commons. Edinburgh and Sheffield must ter-
as to deny the influence
Germany has upon the Stock Market. There
tainly be accepted as fair representatives of the public which the fear of a war in
bseeetmwseeto ben
x at fear that a war will speedily break out
feeling in the matter, inasmuch as they hold fast to
easptrelsoenngtersttabteanof uncerttbaiinntky.
the question when other parties and places were very possibleus trihaatalithd Prussia.
We believe it to be
contented to leave it in abeyance. These two cities on the point may 1
Austria could not begin' people
warer weifthtohuetseenptoaiwlienrgs
heavy expenses. Prussia could not try it with a
held large meetings last evening to consider the
new bill. The gathering at Edinburgh took
single. corps d'.arme'e. As naeith
wish to begin the attack matters may remain
place at the Music Hall, and was a very
for a long time upon their present footing.
large one. The movers and seconders of the
several resolutions were respectively members We cannot give the assurance that the difference
of the Edinburgh Bar and working men, and these between Austria and Prussia will not end in war ;
resolutions, which were • three in number, affirmed but it is not at all impnssible that the demonstrations
that the bill was an honest and substantial measure with which each alarms the other may be only a
of Reform and worthy of cordial support ; also that devise (une ruse) to make the other pay clearly at
the meeting should petition both Houses in its fa-
the end. Under such circumstances the Italian
Government and Parliament were badly inspired
your, and that the Members for the City should be when postponing the solution of financial questions.
requested to give it their earnest support. All three Such indolence is inconceivable in the midst of the
resolutions were unanimously passed, and the City crisis of Italian credit.
Members, who were present, seem likely enough to " The amount in the Bank of France has reached
carry one of them into effect, for they both spoke 508 millions. This total very nearly reaches the
sum to which the prolonged stagnation in affairs
in favour of the bill. Mr. M'LARE, whether to
conciliate the opposite party or not we cannot say, The last steeplechase races of the spring meeting
endeavoured, in his speech, to prove that under the Republic raised it."
at Vincennes yesterday went off well. The weather
the proportion of the working classes among was fine, and the betting animated. The Prix de
the newly enfranchised voters would not be so large St. Maurice, of 2,000 f., was won by Count de la
as was imagined. This was a somewhat singular Bignes La Chatte ; Mireille, 2 ; Pronostu, 3. The
reason to give for supporting a Bill, framed prin- Prix de la Marne, a handicap of 4,000 f., for horses
cipally to meet the wants of the labouring classes,
4-yrs-old and upwards, was won by Mr. Harper's
Astrolabe ; Ossian, 2 ; Sentence; 3. The Prix de
and to extend to them those political privileges from la Pyramide, for horses bred in France (French
which they have been so long debarred. The Lord jockeys), was won by M. Bournet's Robert ;
Advocate, in considering the question of redistribu- Tambour Battant, 2 ; Magenta, 3. Robert was a
tion, said that Scotland had no seats to give away, length in advance of Tambour-Battant.
though she had a good many to claim. With
There being happily to-day a cessation of politi-
cal alarms, I profit by the occasion to give you an
illustration of the amenities of the slaughter-house.
respect to the working classes, who do not, by the
whole
way, seem to get much favour north of the Madame Gautier has just figured at the Correctional
Tweed, the Lord Advocate said that the Police office as a complainant for an assault made
upon her by Madame Dubut. " What is your question had been treated too much from their
pro-
point of view. They did not, he said, enfranchise fession ?" said the President. "I am a slaughter-
classes, but men, and in enfranchising more men of
house woman," replied the lady ; " I take the place
h
intel • .
gence and independence they strengthened of a man at the boiler." (In slaughter-houses the
the Constitution,
offal is boiled down.) Complainant—" She might
This is undoubtedly true, and
cational say she takes the place of two men, for she is strong
therefore we should
have liked to have seen an eda-
enough to carry half of the heaviest ox ever born.
franchise included in the measure. It is
men of intelligence and independence that,we want tLiooloisk).at her hand (it is a hand of gigantic propor-
, both among our representatives With that little toy," proceeded the com-
, men of original and
esentatives and the represented ; plainant, " she struck me. If she had given me a
individual convictions, not
cliques who follow a leader, or
who oppose everything •, and though it might
political Fenians
conflictsecond blow with it I should have fallen into atoms."
A witness who saw the commencement of the
be unwise to alter the whole constitution said that knowing how dangerous was
the electoral sys_ ,
by changino• the b ' of
a educational which made him dislike to see women fight, he in-
the defendant's hand, and being of a temperament
terfered, and asked if two members of the gentle
in-
tern, yet the addition of a
4 sex could not settle their differences more pleasantly ,