The Sun.
London, England, 1866-12-13 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 13, 1866.

river on the one hand, and drawing a regular supply
of water from it on the other, certainly appears to
reach the very climax of folly. We can hardly be
said to "be wise in time," with all the deaths at
the East-end lying at our doors ; but let us see
to it that we let no more time elapse, and that
the very next session of Parliament establishes
some better system with regard to the water sup-
ply of London.

We have now a more complete summary of the
draft of the Address that is to be discussed on
Saturday next in the Lower House of the Hunga-
rian Diet, and it fully bears out the good opinion
we previously entertained of its style and character.
It states that the apprehensions entertained in Hun-
gary have not been altogether allayed, because the
EMPEROR has not promised the Diet that their request
for an immediate re-establishment of the Constitu-
tion will be agreed to. It is well that this
should be pressed upon the notice of the Im-
perial Government, because there is reason to
fear any further delay in the settlement of this
important matter. As it is very truly set forth in
the Address, there is a great danger when the " in-
ternal affairs of a nation have been unsettled for a
long period," and at this juncture especially, when
the state of European affairs is so complicated that
it is especially undesirable that uncertainty should
prevail.

We hope that the EMPEROR will realise the force
of the argument here met with, that neither the
affairs of the Empire nor of Hungary are so com-
pletely set in order that they can meet all
contingencies that may arise with calm-
ness. Becoming more impressive towards the
cpnclusion, the framers of the Address declare
that they prefer their requests in the " interest of
their own country, of his MAJESTY, of the Dynasty,
and of the whole Empire." While we cordially
concur in the expressions here made use of, we
would as earnestly condemn the course pursued by
the Extreme Left of the Lower House, as the mem-
bers of this perverse party have now resolved to
submit to the Diet a separate draught of an Address.
Such is a most unwise policy to follow, and it is one
which is rendered all the more reprehensible, in
consequence of the present state of affairs.
We trust that the cautious yet firm measures
of M. DEAN and his party will even-
tually triumph over the factions of the
adverse party. It is of great consequence that
some satisfactory settlement should be speedily come

It is said by the semi-official Provincial Corre-
spondenz that there is reason to believe that the
measures just adopted in Hanover will be a useful
warning, and preclude the necessity for the Govern-
ment resorting to the severe measures which it has
been determined to adopt if necessary. That is
just what might have been expected from the
policy previously pursued by this audacious power,
and it forms an undeniable proof of the fallacy of
of those assertions which would have had us believe
the Berlin Gorernment intended to be as considerate as
possible in their dealings with the annexed States.
We always doubted this, and subsequent experience
has unhappily fulfilled our predictions. It is now
definitely decided that the Ministerial Conference
will meet in Berlin on the 15th for the purpose of
deliberating upon the Constitution of the North
German State. 3. It makes very little difference what
conclusion is nominally arrived at in these con-
sultations, because we feel convinced beforehand
what the result is certain to be, and all that tends
to increase the power and to extend the influence
Df Prussia is very much to be deplored on every
account.

The news which is brought to us by the City
of Washington from New York on the Ist chiefly
refers to the relations of the United States with
Mexico. There is still the same uncertainty about
MAXIMILIAN'S abdication, apparently, though there
is in reality no room for doubting that he has actu-
ally abandoned his troublesome and profitless dig-
nity. He remained, it is said, at Orizaba on the
25th ult., but was exercising no official functions.

His baggage had reached Vera Cruz, evidently en
route fo: Europe, and reports reached Nev, York
three days later to the effect that MAXIMILIAN him-
self had left Vera Cruz for Havannah, but this was
subsequently contradicted. At any rate, the Arch-
duke's dream of empire in the West is over, and
whether he leaves his adopted country a few days
sooner or later is matter of little moment. For
himself his position deserves our sympathy, since
he appears to have given no actual cause for com-
plaint to the people under his rule. No doubt,
however, a better and happier career is yet open to
him in Europe, though it may be less dazzling and

deceptive in its promises.
The Federal Government, according to de-
spatches received from Washington, are per-
fectly satisfied of NAPOLEON'S intention to
remove the French troops from Mexico. M.
de MONTHOLON has given the Cabinet the
names of 20 transports about to sail from France
to bring home the troops by the end of December.
If MAXIMILIAN has actually abandoned the throne
there can be little reason for retaining the French
troops in Mexico, and the EMPEROR will no doubt
be glad, in presence of European complications, to
concentrate his troops nearer home.
As for Mexico itself matters are still most uncer-
SEDGIVICK was said to have occupied Mata-
moros, and General SHERIDAN advised the Federal
Government of the report, whereupon Gen. GRANT
telegraphed instructions to General SHERIDAN
to depose SEDGWICK, and disavow endorsement
by the United States. SHERMAN was to leave
tlavannah for Mexico, though for what object is not
stated. BAZAINE, it is said, though not very intelli-
gibly, anticipated no trouble from SHERMAN'S visit."
The unsettled condition of affairs in Mexico is likely
to give the Federal Government some perplexity.
We have little or no internal news from the States
themselves, with the exception of the financial report
of Secretary APCULLOCH. Whatever may be the
condition of the American money market generally
the Government has little to complain of, the
public debt having been reduced $200,000,000
during the last twelve months. The debt itself
amounted ou the Ist inst. to $2,685,000,000, so
that at this rate it would be cleared off in little more
than thirteen years. Such an achievement might
satisfy even American ambition, and would certainly
astonish those countries of the Old World who have
been groaning under national burdens for successive
generations. But to carry out this purpose and
relieve the people of the incumbrance domestic peace
and prosperity arc necessary, and this fact the Con-
gress
will do well to remember.

;ain.

TILE GA3IIN OFl'Anrs.—The little rascal has lived
frightfully fast ; his precocity is absolutely startling.
At 10 ho looks 15, and talks like 25 ; while his knowledge
of all ho ought not to know has attained its maximum. We
stand aghast at his self-possession under no-matter-what
circumstances, and as we watch his unembarrassed air and
steady gait, his matured expression and self-conscious
aspect, we mentally admit the melancholy fact, "Il n'y a
plus d'enfans !" The gamin is up to everything : he smokes,
he drinks, he gambles; but then we must remember, if he
indulges in the vices of a man, he is often expected also to
exercise the strength and the skill of one. Many a gamin
is the soutien de la maison ; a sick father, or a widowed
mother and several young sisters, often depend on his
earnings for their daily bread : of course it is only bread ;
still it is he who gets it for them, and gets it bravely, too.
—Once a Week.

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Wednesday Evening.
The following news is from the bulletin of the
Moniteur :
" In the absence of his Excellency Prince Met-
ternich, Count de Mulinen will have charge of the
Austrian Embassy as Charge d'Affaires.
" We hear from Berlin that the King of Prussia
has conferred the Grand Cross of the Black Eagle
upon the King and the Prince Royal of Denmark.
His Majesty, accompanied by Prince Frederick,
went yesterday to a grand hunt at Kosnigswuster-
hausen, at which were present the Ambassadors of
France and England, Count de Bismarck, and
Messrs. ltzenplitz and Eulenbourg.
" In pursuance of the announcement made a few
days ago, the Commissioners of the King of Italy
in Venetia ceased their functions on the 10th.
Their duties will henceforth be confided to the
Prefects."
The death is announced of Monseigneur Coqueran,
Canon of the order of Bishops of the Imperial
Chapter of St. Denis, Chief Almoner of the Fleet,
and Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour.
The Emperor, on becoming acquainted with the
serious disaster at the factory of Roubaix, on the
same day sent a telegram announcing that his
Majesty would give 5,000 f. for the assistance of the
who have been thrown out of employ by
the fire. The announcement was received with
sentiments of profound gratitude at Roubaix, and
with the same promptitude an address of thanks to
the Emperor was signed by the Municipal Council
and the delegates of the workmen. More than
1,000 workmen have been thrown out of employ-
ment by this calamity.
It is stated from Moscow, under date of the 23d
of November, that the telegraphs in correspondence
with Moscow had ceased to work in consequence of
the wires having been frozen from the sudden
change of weather. Telegrams could only reach
Moscow through St. Petersburg.
The following interesting particulars relative to
the Prussian army and its losses during the late
campaign are compiled from official documents at
Berlin. The army in campaign in June, 1866,
amounted to 363,109 men, under the command of
7,091 officers. The army was thus classed—
First Army, Second Army, Army of the Elbe,
Army of the West. According to 12 lists
which bad been compiled, the losses were these :
killed, 2,910 men; wounded, 15,551; contusioned,
3,022 men. Calculating by an effective force of
1,000 men, the loss was 8.01 per 1,000 wounded ;
42.83 per 1,000 ; contusioned, 8.32 per 1.000. The
losses of officers killed are more than triple those of
the soldiers. These figures do not include those
who died from cholera and other diseases, but only
those who died from their wounds in the hospitals.
On the day of the battle of Kosniggratz, the 30th
of July, the army suffered in this proportion :
officers killed, 75 ; wounded, 249 ; contusioned, 3 ;
soldiers killed, 1,097; wounded, 6,455 ; contusioned,
1,817. Besides the soldiers thus enumerated, the
Prussians had in the depots, fortresses, and in re-
serve, about 230,000 men. The Prussian forces
therefore amounted to 600,000 men.
The Court of Assize at Niort has found Marti❑
Reau guilty of the poisonings with which he was
charged, but, strange to say, the jury have dis-
covered " extenuating circumstances" in his case, so
his sentence is hard labour for life. The reasons

which induced a French jury to append this saving
clause to their verdict do not transpire, but it is
difficult to conceive what extenuation there can be
for crimes like these.
It appears that there are many contradictions in
the telegraphic account sent to the newspapers of
the allocution of the Pope to the French officers on
the occasion of their leaving Rome. In reference
to these inaccuracies the Siecle says :—" We shall
not publish this document until there is some accord
in the text."

A letter from Bohemia says :—" The vote of the
second Chamber in favour of the Deak proposition
is entirely approved by the majority of the popula-
tion of the capital. 'The considerations which have
ex..reised their influence upon the Deputies occupy
every mind. The want of a good understanding
with the Government is felt. Concessions are made
because all see the necessity of the existence of
Austria for Hungary."
The other day I gave the particulars of an extra-
ordinary chango in the colour of the hair. A letter
from Latour-du-Pin (Isere) states that a curious
phenomenon has been witnessed in that commune.
NI. Thevenet, a gentleman of 70, whose hair was
grey, on getting up a few mornings ago was very
much surprised to see that his hair during the night
had become black, like that of a young man. It
had become of the same colour as in his youth.
His family at first thought that his hair had been

dyed, but this was not the case. Al. Thevenet
suffers from a diabetic affection, and this disease,
as some French medical men assert, affects the or-
dinary secretions. The doctors of Latour-du-Pin
ascribe the phenomenon to this cause.

Some reports sent to the police respecting a
,ragical affair in the Rue de Charonne have led to

the trace of a double crime. It appears that in
1862 there were frequent altercations between a man
named Cerceuil and his wife. The husband had

discovered that his wife was too intimate with a
young workman named Adolphe. The former died

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a few months ago, and his wife, at her husband's

death, went immediately to live with Adolphe in
the Rue de Charonne. They lived together about
three years. On the 15th of October last Adolphe
disappeared. The door of his lodging was broken
open and the dead body was found upon the floor
near three little vessels for burning charcoal. The
widow Cerceuil returned home while the police were
pursuing their researches. When questioned about
the death of Adolphe, she trembled, and replied
that three days before she found him suffocated, but
as she was afraid to say anything, she had slept
beside the corpse until it was nearly in a state of
decomposition. It has since been discovered that

Adolphe had another mistress, and the woman Cer-
ceuil is supposed to have suffocated him with the

charcoal when he returned home drunk. Not only
did jealousy prompt the woman to this crime, but
there are reasons to believe that she poisoned her
husband in order that she might live quietly with
Adolphe.
In spite of the many improvements effected of
late in Paris, it appears that of the 57,000 houses

which the city now contains there are about 35,000

which are destitute of any supply of water. Indeed
it is only within a very few years that water has been
introduced into the houses in Paris at all, it being

generally brought by water-carriers, an industry
which occupies many thousand persons.
The weather has again become stormy. The wind
was very violent last night, accompanied by heavy
rain. The rain has continued to-day.

The Fenian Movement.

DUBLIN, Wednesday Night.

This morning two persons,
names unknown, were
arrestel by detectives on board the steamer which
arrived from Liverpool. A respectably-dressed
young man, named O'Keefe, was arrested to-day
when at breakfast at an hotel on Ormond-quay.
While the arrest was being made a young man at-
tempted to push his way into the room. lie was
recognized as the brother 'of Pa trick O'Connor, one
of the convicted Fenians, and was taken into cus-
tody. A large dagger and a life-preserver were
found on his person.

MR. G. TURF IN'S BENEFIT. -- HAYM ARK ET
THEATRE.—.The annual benefit of the best of box book-
keepers, the affable George Turpin, is fixed for Wednesday
next, the 19th inst. The popularity of the benificiaire
must rally sufficient friends to make a house, although the
entertainment were not so excellent as it is set down. The
Came of Speculation, with Charles Mathews; the come-
dietta of A Comical Countess, and the mirth-moving Box
and Cox, with Buckstone in his original character, for this
night only, must
.impress upon all the necessity of the
advice, " come early."
RESPITE OF THE WOLVERHAMPTON MURDERESS.

—Yesterday morning the authorities at the Stafford County
Prison received a communication from the Home Secretary
intimating the commands of the Queen that the execution
of the sentence of death passed upon Mary Brown, now in
Stafford Prison, be respited until further signification of
her Majesty's pleasure.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

AMERICA.
(By Atlantic Telegraph.)
NEW YORK, Dec. 12 (Evening.)
Gold, 138. Sterling Exchange on London,
109 - ; 5-20 United States Bonds, 107 a ; Illinois,
1171 ; Erie, 721. Cotton—M. Upland, 331.
The Hamburg and American Company's steamer
Bavaria has arrived out.

ARRIVAL OF THE TEUTONIA.
SOUTHAMPTON, Dec. 13.

The Hamburg and American Company's steamer
Teutonia, from New York, passed the Needles at
9.45 a.m. to-day.