The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-22 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY EVENING 22, 1866.

combine in so good a work, a work which will as
surely repay itself in the improvement of public
health, and the moral elevation of the people, as the
neglect of it will bring upon themselves and our
fellows great and terrible evils.

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Monday Evening.

The Moniteur was the only paper published this
morning, yesterday having been a great religious
fête, and on such occasions the printers have a
holiday. The Moniteur bas not a line of news from
Germany in addition to the telegraphic despatches.
It states that General Almonte, whose arrival at
Paris from Mexico on a special mission I have men-
tioned, bad an audience yesterday with the Emperor
at the Tuileries, to deliver his credentials. The
General also bad the honour of being received by
the Empress. His Excellency Sassvet Pacha was
also received by the Emperor and introduced to his
Majesty by his Excellency Kernel Effendi, Minister
of Public Instruction of the Sublime Porte.
The Emperor was present at the Paris Summer
Meeting yesterday, in the Bois de Boulogne ; but
the general attendance was less numerous than
usual, although the weather was splendid. The
following is the result of the races :
The Prix des Champs Elysees of 3,000 f., for horses
three years old and upwards.
Due de Bourgoyne

Herring ....................................... 2
C0re5ia........................................ 3
The Prix de Cedre of 10,000 f., for three-year-olds.

Czar

Coune Lagrange's Baionette
Le Sioulet 3
The Prix de Escoville of 4,000 f.
Gaulois

Druse
Anisette the Second
The Prix d'lbos, a handicap of 6,000 f
Souverain
Prince Regent
The Prix de Satory of 6,000 f.

A raravedis
La Fortune
Novateur

The Rev. Francis Mahony, whose papers with
the signature of " Father Prout" in Blackwood's
Magazine excited some interest years ago, has just
died in Paris from a disease of the throat, in his
62d year. Latterly he was the correspondent of the
Globe, to which office he was appointed on the death
of M. Merle, formerly editor of the Courier, Lon-
don evening newspaper.
The general meeting of the Credit Mobilier took
place on Saturday, at which M. Isaac Perine pre-
sided. Last year a dividend of 25f. per share was
declared, but on the present occasion, although the
directors stated that the position of the company
was prosperous, yet in consequence of the present
condition of the money market the directors did not
consider it expedient to make any dividend. The
report, however, stated that if the value of securi-
ties generally should improve in the course of the
year an extraordinary meeting of the company
should be held, and a portion of the profits should
be set apart for the purpose of a dividend. The
report was agreed to.
The result of the election at the Academy of
Fine Arts on Saturday was that M. Gounod was
chosen as a member of the Section of Music in the
room of the late M. Clapisson. There were 19
votes for M. Gounod ; M. Felicien Daud had 16
votes ; M. Masse one vote only.
The accounts from Nantes respecting the cholera
are satisfactory. The disease was on the decline.
On Saturday there were only two deaths from that

disease.
The Opinion Nationale contains a letter from a
gentleman who for a long time resided at Valparaiso,
in which he supplies some interesting additional in-
formation respecting the bombardment of that city.
The writer says that the part of the city which
suffered most from the attack was not a distant
portion of it, as the official account would have
people to suppose, but is situated in the heart of the
city. The Spanish Admiral had destroyed three-
fourths of the most important and the richest
quarter of the city, and the safety of the other
fourth was owing to the exertions of the firemen.
The enormous loss to French subjects from the de-
struction of their warehouses and goods in the
quartier de la Plantrada is independent of
18,000,000 f. of goods, which is the amount of mer-
chandise destroyed according to the Custom-house
registers. The writer then contradicts the state-
ment that Valparaiso has a citadel. The city, he
says, has no fortification, no wall, no parapet, not
even a stone quay, and yet the Spaniards, without
even a pistol having been fired against them, and
without any pretext, had destroyed a vast locality
full of most valuable property.