The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-14 00:00:00

concentrated at Mulacker. The King of Wurtem-

berg and Prince Alexander of Hesse will have the
command of it. As to Prussia she will in three
weeks have an army of 415,000 men ready for the

field. Speaking of Italy, one of 'the papers says
that Garibaldi has long meditated the deliver-
ance of the Italian Tyrol, and that it will now Le

attempted.
The movements of troops in Italy having occa-
sioned serious interruptions in the postal communi-
cations, the Post-office authorities there are about
to organise a special service by way of Nice, Genoa,
and Spezzia,•by which means letters to Paris may
arrive more speedily than at present. Letters and

papers from Italy have lately arrived very irregu-
larly in Paris. By the new mode letters for Paris
will reach Nice in 25 hours, from Nice to Spezzia in
14 or 15 hours, including a stoppage at Genoa.

From Spezzia to Florence only three hours are re-
quired by express trains. Thus letters from Florence
to Paris will arrive in 44 hours.
Several of the Paris papers treat the vote of the
German Diet as a solemn manifesto and grave in-
cident. The German papers speak of military pre-
paration on every side. The Alleanza of Milan

estimates the Austrian forces at about 40,000 men,
stationed in line between Udine and Nabresina.
The Gazette de Milan says, " Our station has be-
come a real camp. Military trains succeed each

other rapidly. We see and hear soldiers of all ranks,
who leave or arrive, singing patriotic airs." A cir-
cular from. the Italian Minister of Marine announces
that the Government has made all the arrangements
necessary for placing the military marine in a com-
plete state of armament, and to be ready for all
eventualities connected with the defence of the
country."
The Siecle, in an estimate of the strength of the
Austrian army, says :—" Austria has habitually on
the peace footing 280,996 men—viz., 201,925
infantry, 391,188 cavalry, 28,171 artillery, 8,784
artillery, and the rest' coinposed of other troops.
This army, according to official Austrian
documents, when changed to the war footing,
may be increased to 619,210 soldiers. The following

is an estimate of the amount of the forces belong-
ing to the States which voted for the proposition of
Saxony in the German Diet. Bavaria has 68,880

men of light and heavy infantry, 7,400 chasseurs.
9,276 cavalry, 8,440 artillery, 3,000 equipages

2,000 artillery, &c. The Bavarian reserve amounts
to 79,000 infantry, nearly 12,000 cavalry, and 1,200
artillery. The Bavarian army has always had the
reputation of being one of the best in Europe. The
troops of Saxony are not to be despised. either.
They are composed of 15,740 infantry, 4,000 foot
chasseurs, 3,200 cavalry, and 2;400 artillery. The
reserve is considerable. To this army may be
added that of the Duchies of Saxony—Sax-Weimar
has 3,625 soldiers, Saxe-Miningen 2,564, Saxe-
Altenbourg 1,473, Saxe-Coburg-aotha 2,000.
The army of Hanover is nearly equal to that
of Saxony. If the States which voted for
the Saxon proposition should unite against
Prussia, that Power would have fewer troops
to take the field than her adversari6s, although
she would have a very formidable army. They
amount to 116,135 men on the peace footing, and
218,000 on the war footing. But to this must be
added the troops formed since the mobilisation of the
army, amounting to upwards of 105,400 men ; also
18,500 workmen and depot troops. To these must
be added the troops in garrison, amounting to
153,860 men. As to Austria, paralysed by Italy,
she could not dispose of all her forces ; one-half of
them must be employed against Italy.
M. Dupliex de Mezy, formerly Governor of the
French Indies, and who in that capacity had impor-
tant struggles against the English, has just died at

Paris at an advanced age.
French artists appear to be wonderfully sensitive
in regard to the " bubble reputation." A question
of great interest to artists has been submitted to the
Commission of the Academy of Fine Arts. M. Leh;
mann was commissioned by the city of Paris to efie-
cute two paintings for the Chamber of St. Clotilda,
but illness having prevented him from finishing
them, he intrusted the task to one of his pupils.
The two pictured have been placed in the church,
but M. Lehmann says' that they are unworthy of
his reputation, and wishes to take them away and
destroy them, offering to reimburse the amount paid
to him' for them. 'I he city of Paris, however, is
satisfied with them, and says they are very artistic
productions. Hence the appointment of a commit-
tee of the Academy of Fine Arts to decide this curi-

ous and knotty point.
Marshal Vaillant has been appointed member of
the Imperial Central Agricultural Society of France
(section of horticulture), in the room of Dr. Mon-
tague, deceased.
On Whit-Monday the Grand Annual Military
Steeplechase (gentlemen riders), will take place at
La Marche for a stakes of 5,000 f., 1,600 f. of which
was given by the Administration des Haras.
What is called the French Derby is to be run for
to-day at Chp.ntilly. The following is the result of
the races on Thursday. They were not so well at-
tended as usual :—Prix de la Morlaye, 300 f.,. Count
Lagrange's La Favorite 1 ; Alexandra 2 ; Corsica
3. Prix de la Pelouse (gentlemen riders), 3,000 f.,
Gaulois 1; Sccerola 2 ; Anisette the Second. Prix
de Courtenil, 3,000 f., Germanique 1; Last Born 2 ;
Gayant 3. Poule de deux ans, 200 f. each ; 23
horses entered ; La Rochelle• 1; Turco 2 ; Le
Tricorne 3. Prix des Lions (gentlemen riders),
3,000 f. The winner to be claimed for 15,000.
Eight ran. Mercedes 1; Meli-Melo 2 ; Druse (Mr.
Thomas Carter) 3. Prix du Chemin de Fer du
Nord ; Count Lagrange's Argence 1; Ceres 2 ;
Satellite 3.

In pulling down a wall, in the Rue Cadet, the
workmen have discovered a stone on which is in-
scribed " Limit of the faubourgs of the City of
Paris under the reign of Louis XV., on the part of
the King. Here is the last house of the faubourg,
beyond which it is forbidden to build, in conformity
with a declaration of his Majesty of the years 1724,
1726, and 1727." The Rue Cadet is now only near
the beginning of the Faubourg Montmartre.

Garibaldi's re-appearance in the field at the head
of Italian volunteers has been seized upon for the
issue of biographies and innumerable portraits in
Paris. In the memoirs written by Garibaldi him-
self, and translated by Alexandre Dumas, the war-
rior says he was born at Nice in the same room as
Marshal Massena. Marshal Massena's father was a
bailer. The great pursuit of Garibaldi's youth was
swimming, and he believed himself to be born am-
phibious. Ilis father was a fisherman, and they
were almost always in the boat together. When a
mere child he entered the Sardinian Navy. In
fighting to make Italy free in 1834 he was unsuc-
cessful, and he left the Sardinian Navy, and took
refuge in France, at Marseilles, " when," says
Garibaldi, "I learnt for the first time that I had
been condemned to death." From 1848 to 1852 he
was either at Rome, or in China, or South America ;
and after the war in Italy he retired to Caprera,
where, like Cincinnatus (" the wise"), he em-
ployed himself in cultivating the earth. " Like
Cato, firm ; like Aristides, just." Garibaldi is now
60 years of age.

THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT EXHIBITION, South
Kensington, is decidedly successful. With that from the
sale of catalogues, the receipts at the door for admission
amount to about £5O a day. The complete Catalogue,
with its triple indexes of the painters, subjects and owners
of pictures, has been published, and is very serviceable.
THE THAMES AND SALMON.—Having heard this
morning that a report was circulating in the Lon-
don clubs that a salmon had been caught yesterday in a
net off Billingsgate, I sent down immediately my secretary
to make inquiries. He found Mr. Stephenson, salesman,
who kindly gives the following information :—There •is no
truth in the report of a salmon having been caught yester-
day ; be never even heard the rumour, but live dace and
roach aro caught by the boys daily off Billingsgate. He yes-
terday•had several of the fish brought him in a basket, all
very small but one. "The river is now as clear at Billings-
gate as New River Water," and he believes that owing to
the Thames Embankment it will soon admit salmon up it.
He remembers 35 years ago, when the Phoenix Gas Works
turned their gas water into the river, the water was covered
with millions of barbel, chub, dace, roach, in fact all sorts
of coarse fish; and it is not, in his opinion, the town sewage
but the gas water that does the mischief. It is no use for
the City authorities to purify the river whilst the people at
Staines, Richmond, Ringston, Windsor, &c., send their
filth down the k•treatn.— F. DUI:LAND, May otll.—Land end
Water.