The Sun.
London, England, 1866-11-02 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Thursday Evening.
A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon
at St. Cloud, at which the Emperor presided.
The Illoniteur says it has received a telegram from
Constantinople, dated October 30, announcing
news from Crete of the most satisfactory character.
The Ottoman troops had occupied Apokrona, one
of the strongest positions of the insurgents, after
a combat which terminated by the complete route
of the rebels. Mustapha Pacha was marching upon
Sphasia, the last refuge of the insurgents. A boat
was expected at Constantinople with the details of
the victory of Apokrona.
The official Gazette of Italy publishes the fol-
lowing statement of the situation of the Treasury on
the 30th of Sept. last. Receipts, 5,645,481,523 85 ;
expenses, 5,459,319,142 30. Cash and bank
notes in the Treasury on the 30th of September,
186,102,381 55.

I mentioned to you that, happily, the health of
the Emperor was re-established. Some of the papers,
nevertheless, persist in publishing unpleasant and
fa]se rumours upon the subject ; but they cannot
do so with impunity. La Trance LYentrale, a jour-
nal of Blois, has just received a second warning for
" having published false news, this publication being
made with the bad and manifest intention of spread-
ing, contrary to the truth, alarms respecting the
health of the Emperor." This warning will be use-
ful in two ways. It will discourage the news fabri-
cators, and it will confirm the favourable account I
was able to give of the health of his Majesty.
On Tuesday evening a new drama, in five acts,
"Un Fils," by M. Auguste Vacquerie, was pro-
duced at the Theatre Francais. The plot is com-
posed of a variety of incidents arising out of a false
position. A rich young man is upon the point of
marrying one whom he loves with great sinceray
and devotion, when he suddenly learns that he is an
illegitimate child. Sensitive in regard to honour,
he immediately resolves not to keep property to
which he considers he has no legal claim. The
interest of the piece arises out of the various devices
to which he resorts to break off the marriage with-
out a disclosure of his mother's dishonour. These
materials, somewhat of an ungrateful character, are
worked out somewhat gloomily, and the combat be-
tween love and honour did not present sufficient ex-
citement to sustain the sympathy of the audience
for the length of time it lasted. The acting,
however, was so excellent as to make up for the
insufficiency
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dialogue. Bressant was admirable as the hero of
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and got more of his part than he ever did
with Maitre Guerin. The guilty mother was well
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listened to rather with attention than with satisfac-
tion or pleasure.

The tribunal to whom the difficulty between M.
Sardou and M. Harinant, the director of the Vau-
deville, was referred, condemned M. Sardou to pay
500 f. a day for every day on which they could not
pity the piece, "La liaison Neuve." M. Sardou,
with rather bad grace, has since superintended the
rehearsals.

The Committee of Authors have induced M. Sas-
dou to restore his piece to the director of the Vau-
deville, and it will be represented in the course of a
fortnight.
The Maharajah of Lahore has been for a short
time in Paris, but he intends to return to Singapore
in a few days.
The Central Swedish Committee for the Great
Exhibition have ordered the construction of the
model of a Swedish house. It will be of the shape,
height, and proportions of the house which Gusta-
vus Wasa inhabited at °macs, in Dalecarlia, This