The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-08 00:00:00

DON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 8, 18C6.

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

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

Yesterday was a great day for fetes near Paris.
There were some half-dozen fetes in various direc-
tions. That at Auxerre was really important as
well as interesting. The Emperor and Empress
were there, and his Majesty made a political
speech, although the fete of the Concours Regional
(agricultural competition) of Auxerre has nothing
to do with politics. You will probably have re-
ceived the text of the addresses to the Emperor
and Empress by telegraph, but should this not be
so, I may as well say that the Mayor, M. Challe,
in offering the keys of the town to the Emperor,
reminded him of the expressions of re-
gard
•and sympathy for it uttered by the
first Napoleon. To her Majesty he said
that she and the young Prince might always
rely Upon the devotion of the inhabitants.
The Emperor, in his reply, said he inherited the
sentiments of the Head of his family for those
energetic and patriotic populations who had sup-
ported the Emperor in good as well as bad fortune.
" The department of the Yonne was the first to give
me its suffrages in 1848, this was because it knew,
like the majority of the French people, that its
interests were mine, and that I detested like
itself those treaties of 1815, which it is sought
now to make the sole basis of our foreign
policy." The Emperor and Empress are about
to start on a provincial tour, but they
returned to Paris last evening, as a grand
party is to be given to-night at the Tuileries
to celebrate the birthday of the Empress, who on
Saturday entered into her 40th year. They will
leave Paris again to-morrow, or at• all events early
in the week.

There is no news about Germany to-day, in ad-
dition to the telegraphic despatches; but the Journal
des Debats, referring to the statements of The Sun
in regard to another Congress seems disposed to
throw doubt upon them. The Sun is
.a great autho-
rity in Paris, and the Journal des Debats does not
profess to have authority to contradict it, but pro-
bably notices the report with the view to draw at-
tention to itself. The Journal des Debats says :
" France cannot forget that it was she who
three years ago made the proposal for a
Congress, which most of the European Powers
refused to join, and her dignity would not now
allow her to expose herself to another refusal.
England on her part was the first to repudiate the
proposal made by Frances and she ought now to
undertake the task of amending her errors of former
days, supposing that those errors were very serious.3'
The Journal des Debats proceeds to give its opinion
that it is a noble and generous idea to solve, by the
arbitrage of various Governments, international
questions, which, if left to themselves, that is to
say, to the passions and covetousness of interested
parties, would lead to war ; but in the present state
of European policy such an idea was not so prac-
ticable as it was praiseworthy.
A drama by M. Edouard Plouvier, " Le Mangeur
de Fer," is now all the rage at the Ambigu. It is
a piece of the regular Ambigu school, in five acts
and eight tableaux, with-splendid decorations and
marvellous and exciting incidents. The Mangeur
de Fer, atthough not exactly an iron eater, can
twist and turn iron as he pleases, and " locks,
bolts, and bars fly asunder" at his wish. He is a
regular Jack Sheppard, an escaped convict from the
galleys. In concert with a fascinating girl, named
Diane d'Overteuil, he assassinates the Duchess of
Navaille, with the view of getting the Duke married
to his accomplice, of whom he is sick. The Duke,
however, is not sufficiently amorous to fall in love
with Diane. The Duke's son, however, is smitten
with the siren. This, however, does not suit Phcenix,
the Mangeur de Per, whose idea was that if the
Duke married his mistress, he would assassinate
him, and as the Duke's widow would then be
rich he would marry her. Diane has another
game to play, and in order to avoid the menaces of
the iron-eater she denounces him to the police. He,
however, escapes as usual ; and, in revenge, mur-
ders Diane by placing a poisonous necklace round
her throat. Such are the leading enticements of
sr6lirarniqugs.eci
bable or not, the Ambigu audiences are delighted
with them, and the piece will undoubtedly have a
long run.

The attendance at the Chantilly races yesterday
was such as to prove that they have not lost any of
their attraction. The Emperor was engaged else-
where, as I have mentioned above, or no doubt he
would have been there. Great excitement prevailed
about Mr. Montgomery's Ceramique, as might
naturally be expected when a horse comes expressly
from England to run a race, especially with such a
jockey as Challoner. The favourites, however, do
not always win, which was the case yesterday at
Chantilly. The following is the result of the
racing :

The Prix de la Reine Blanche, 2,000 f. Anisette
the Second, 1 ; Esther, 2 ; Henriot, 3. The win-
ner was claimed for 3,520 f. by M. Delatre.

Prix du Gros Chcne, 2,000 f. Anglo-Saxon, 1
Affidavit, 2 ; Mercedes, 3.

Prix des Ecuries (Handicap), 600 f., for horses of
three-years-old and upwards. Distance, 2,400
metres. 38 horses entered ; 23 declared forfeit.
Feu Follet, 1 ; Matamore, 2 ; Gontran, 3.
Prix de Diane, 10,000 f. Here, of course, was
the great struggle. Distance 2,100 metres. 47
horses entered. 29 declared forfeit. Victorieuse
(G. Pratt), 1; Marcella (Mortimer), 2 ; La Fa-
vorite (H. Grimshaw), 3. Ceramique began well,
but it was soon seen there was no chance. The
betting was sto 4 against him. Amount of the
prize, 23,130 f. ; I,ooof. to the second horse.

Prix d'Apremont, 3,000 f. Sultan, 1 ; Czar, 2 ;
Puebla, 3. Amount of prize, 3,000 f.
There were also races yesterday at Brussels and
Angouleme (France.)

The Bank Returns.

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The Bankers' Magazine furnishes the returns of the cir-
culation of the private and joint-stock banks in England
and Wales for the four weeks ending the 31st of March.
These returns, combined with the circulation of the Scotch
and Irish banks for the same period, and the average cir-
culation of the Bank of England for the four weeks ending
the 28th of March (the nearest date furnished by their
returns), will give the following results of. the circulation
of notes in the United Kingdom when compared with the
previous month :

March 3, March 31,
1866. I MC. Increase. Decrease.
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Bank of England... 20,777,5':31:20,878.7(8 101,175
Private Banks 2,850, .3,1 2,832,627 17,6, 3
Joint-stock Banks 2,508,1751 2,5 J 5,085 3,f)90
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Total in England.
Scotland. .
Ireland

2,335,933 j 2,216,420 80.4i2
4,1(4,541 4,134,, 83 --
c,152,717 8,017,08!.I

159,566
133,635

United Kingdom,

36,583,204 I, 36,368, ,M!

214,719

And as compared with the month ending the let of
April, 1865, the above returns show an increase of
£815,797 in the circulation of notes in England, and an
increase of £1,300,870 in the circulation of the United
Kingdom.

On comparing the above with the fixed issues of the
several banks the following is the state of the circulation:—
The English private banks aro below their
fixed issue . X 1,219,779
The English joint-stockl;a.nksare below their
fixed issue

713,050

Total below fixed issue in England ... £1,932,829
The Scotch banks are above their fixed issue... 1,385,712
The Irish banks aro above their fixed issue ... 337,412
The average stock of bullion held by the Bank of Eng-
land in both departments during the month ending the 28th
of March was £14,299,011, being an increase of £763,337
as compared with the previous month, and a decrease of
£778,114 when compared with the same period last year.
The following 'are the amounts of specie held by the
Scotch and Irish banks during the month ending the 31st
of March :

Gold and silver held by the Scotch banks £2,367,721
Gold and silver held by the Irish banks ... 2,109,230

£4,476,955
Being a decrease of £236,609 as compared with the pre-
vious return, and a decrease of £51,049 when compared
with the corresponding period last year.

A MISSING VESSELARRIVED.—The Lorenzo, from
Nicolaeff, reported in the List of the Ist of May as having
sailed from Messina on the 31st of Jttnuary forth° United
Kingdom, and as not having since been heard of, arrived
at Chtoonotowla on the 4th 9# ADV..

LA TEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAM.)

AUSTRIA AND ITALY.

VIENNA, MAY 8.

The semi-official Oesterreichische Zeitung of to-
day says :—A peaceful solution of the pending
difficulties has not yet become impossible. The com-
munications brought by Count Mulinen from Paris
may perhaps offer such guarantees for the sincerity
of the peaceful declarations of Italy that the
Austrian army on the Southern frontier would be
replaced on a normal peace footing.

PESTH, MAY 8.

The deputation despatched to Vienna to present
the address of the Hungarian Diet to the Emperor
made their report yesterday, which was coldly re-
ceived by the llouse.

Yesterday the statue of the national poet Vdros-
marty was unveiled. The Diet was represented at
the ceremony by a deputation.

ITALY.
FLORENCE, MAY 8.

In the Chamber of Deputies, the general discus-
sion of the Government financial bills has closed.
The bills on public safety will be discussed to-

morrow.

Prince Napoleon has left Florence.
The hereditary Duke of Saxe-Weimar, who
arrived here yesterday, will be received to-morrow
by the King.

PRUSSIA.

BERLIN, MAY 8.

The Berlin papers announce that a great demon-
stration will take place this evening in front of
Count 'ion Bismarck's hotel to congratulate him on
his escape from the attempt upon his life.

AUSTRIA.
VIENNA, MAY 8.

Intelligence continues to be received of arma-
ments and military movements in Prussia, Italy,
and the middle. German States.

In consequence of the proposition made by
Saxony at the Federal Diet, Bavaria is said to
have addressed a note to Prussia, requesting in-
formation respecting the latter's threatening atti-
tude towards Saxony. Prussia replied that she
would not enter Saxon territory so long as Saxony
was not occupied by Austrian troops.

The heads of the offices for the collection of the
public revenue have received instructions to ex-
change on demand notes of the Government cur-
rency for bank-notes, by which means any differ-
ence in the value of the two currencies will be
avoided. The decree on the forced currency will
be extended to Venetia.

Some Italian workmen are suspected of having
set fire to the Austrian frigate Novard.

HANOVER AND PRUSSIA.

HANOVER, MAY 5.

" A report is current," says the Zeitung fiir _Nord-
deutschland, "that Hanover has concluded a treaty
with Prussia, by which the territory and indepen-
dence of this kingdom are guaranteed; and Hanover,
on the other hand, agrees to furnish Prussia with
15,000 men, who would be sent into Luxemburg
and Cologne. Count Bismarck, it is added, was
averse to the arrangement, and had intended an-
nexation. We are of course unable to say," adds
the Zeitung, " whether the report is true or un-
founded, or merely premature. It agrees, however,
entirely with what we represented months ago in
these columns as a necessity for Hanover—neu-
trality so long as Prussia would permit, alliance
with Prussia so soon as she demands it."

BOHEMIA.
PRAGUE, MAY 8.
Rifle corps of volunteers are being formed in
Bohemia.

It is proposed to constitute a legion of volunteers,
composed exclusively of students.

AMERICA.

ARRIVAI.? OF THE CITY OF BOSTON.
The Inman steamship City of Boston arrived at
Queenstown this (Tuesday) morning. She brings
$24,880 in specie and 343 passengers. After land-
ing 39 passengers and 11 sacks of mails, she pro-
ceeded for Liverpool at 7.5 a.m.
NEW YORK, APRIL 28 (Morning).
Three hundred Fenians left Eastport on Thursday
for Portland. The cause assigned for their depar-
ture is their failure to obtain the arms seized by the

Federal authorities at Eastport. Captain Grace,
the reputed organiser of the Eastport expedition,
declares the failure to be due to the imbecility of
O'Mahony. lle advises the Fenians to furnish no
more funds to O'Mahony, but to adhere to Roberts.

The popular subscriptions to Mahoney's Fenian
Bonds have entirely ceased since the Eastport fiasco.
It is reported that the Roberts' faction will now
make a desperate effort to secure the support of the
disaffected O'Mahony Fenians by an immediate
military demonstration against sonic points of the
Canadian frontier.

Unreliable reports are in - circulation that the
Fenians are gathering at Ogclensbury, on the St.

Lawrence.

The Fenians who fired at the guard on St.
Stephen's-bridge have been released, the British
authorities refusing to prosecute.
A party of the Fenians fr6m Eastport, on the
way from Portland to Boston, mutinied against
their officers. The ringleaders were put on shore,
and the boat proceeded.
The Fenian prisoners at Cornwall, in Canada,
were yesterday remanded for eight days.
Spain is semi-officially reported to have re-
quested the mediation, and agreed to submit to the
arbitration, of the United States in the complica-
tion with Chili.

Mr. Bigelow, the American Ambassador in Paris,
informs Mr. Seward that he suggested to M. Drouyn
de Lhuys, during a recent interview, that bloodshed
in Mexico might for the present be arrested, if the
Jtiarists could be assured that the French would
withdraw.

M. Drouyn de Lhuys replied that such an arrange-
ment was very desirable, as the atrocities which
were being perpetrated were dreadful, but that
France had no means of communication with
Juarez on the subject.
Mr. Bigelow suggested that this could be effected
by negotiation with Senor Romero through the
United States, and M. Drouyn de Lhuys thereupon
promised to lay the proposition before the Emperor

Napoleon.
In the Senate Mr. Wilson has offered an amend-
ment to the Constitution, prohibiting the payment
of the rebel debt or of claims for emancipated
slaves, and basing the representation upon the
population, excluding from that basis all males
denied the franchise. Mr. Wilson further proposes
that any State ratifying this amendment shall be
admitted to full representation at Washington.

Mr. Sumner has offered a petition from citizens
of Kentucky praying for the expulsion of Senator
Garrit Davis for treasonable utterances. Accord-
ing to the New York Herald.and Times it has been
ascertained that the petitioners are negroes.
it is said that 04 House Judiciary Committo

have summoned a great number of witnesses to
prove the complicity of Mr. Jefferson Davis in the

assassination plot ; but though the cross-examina-
tion is limited, nothing has yet been produced to
substantiate the charge.
President Johnson has granted Mrs. Jefferson
Davis permission to visit her husband.
The President has ordered the confiscation of
property in Florida to be discontinued.

The Governor of Georgia has requested General
Thomas to send troops to Fannin county, to sup-
press a disturbance which has broken out there, and
which is beyond the control of the local authorities.

The recent report, that a new 5 per cent. loan was
about to be issued, is denied.

Numerous meetings are being held throughout
the country, to endorse the policy of President

Johnson.

The newspaper correspondents from Mexico cor-
roborate the report that the Republicans have cap-
tured Chihuahua.

The cholera on board the vessels in quarantine at
New York is assuming a milder form and is abat-
ing ; 88 cases were reported yesterday, being a re-
duction of nine since Thursday. The Arago has
arrived out.

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HER, MAJESTY•

'WINDSOR CASTLE, Monday.
The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, ac-
companied by her Royal Highness Princess nelenai
and attended by Lady Churchill.
Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Helena)
walked and drove in the grounds this morning.
Prince Louise and Princess Beatrice also wept

out walking.

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The Pr;nce and Princess of e
The Prince and Princess of Yaks and Fri°
Alfred visited the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg'
Strelitz at Gloucester House yesterday cio e
The Prince of Wales, accompanied by -r
Alfred, rode out on horseback in the afternoon.

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Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Dina°
of Wales, Major Teesdale, and suite, honoured the For"
formances at the Theatre Royal Now Adelphi last evenng.

Attempt to Assassinate Count Bisraarcl4

ir
The following telegrams were received at -
Renter's office this morning :
BERLIN, 31aY
This afternoon, about six o'clock, „yelldreBsent
man fired 'several shots from a revolver at Coo
von Bismarck in the Unter den Linden Street.
Blind, the assassin, while unobserved in Prison
stabbed himself in the throat nine times
pocket-knife having several blades. yer-
The physicians declared the wounds not c1an...0
ous, as no important artery had been severed 9 tb
he was put in a strait waisteoat, but be we-
j

morning.
BERLIN, May 7 (11 IY'ralis-
The attempt upon the life of Count von us
marck was made at five o'clock this evening,tl
the count was returning on foot along the ding.
den Linden, after having an audience of the 4
Upon reaching the Schadow Strasse he was firedtwo
from behind by a man who discharged at him
missea
barrels of a revolver. Both shots, however,
the
the count, who immediately turned and se''''"

man. the
In the struggle which ensued between there., r.
assassin fired three more shots from his reT(i'e
Count Bismarck remained unhurt, with the expotion of a slight contusion. His clothes were ills
,fes.
burnt by the nearness of the three last disehar.'oo,
The perpetrator of the attempted assassioati.
who was immediately arrested by the Policed sall
ulce
man 22 years of age, a son of the RePb
refugee, Carl Blind. It appears that be c de.
from Hohenheim, in Wurtemberg, with the 13i$.
liberate intention of assassinating Count 'veil

marck. A, life
The perpetrator of the attempt against i 0
of Count von Bismarck is named Blind, 01;0d,
understood that he is not the son of Carl Pl'
the political refugee in London.