The Sun.
London, England, 1866-04-14 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENCE FRom PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Friday Evening.
The Journal des Debats, arguing as it says from

its own private sources of information in regard to
Germany, professes its disbelief in the amicable
sentiments and views of M. de Bismark :—" The
desire of humbling Austria, and of obtaining fresh
aggrandisement at its expense, has become a violent
and impatient passion with the Prussians, which
King William the First shares, and of which M. de
Bismark is the faithful interpreter."
The Siicle says :—" -Without being the least in
the' world in the secret of what is said and thought
at Vienna at the present moment, it can be safely
asserted that great embarrassment and uneasiness
prevails there. It would not be good for the
Empire of Austria, confused as it is present, that
universal suffrage, that is to say the most manifest
expression of national feeling and popular right,
should be established in Germany, at the risk of
turning everybody's head in the provinces not
German, hitherto in submission to the house of
Hapsburg."
M. Cavillier Fleury was yesterday elected a
member of the Academie Francaise, in the room of
M. Dupin. The number of votes was 32. M. Fleury
had 20; M. Henri Martin, 11; and M. de Cham-
pagney, 1.
The Moniteur has no official part to-day. The
Legislative Body is occupied with the important
subject of the Mercantile Marine. The mercantile
navy is alleged to be suffering under great distress,
and to be in a declining state. The Government
has, therefore, introduced measures having for their
object to relieve it from various burthens and to
give it development. In short, the spirit of the pro-
posals is the relaxation of the Navigation Laws, an
object which has hitherto met with great opposition
in France.

The conference of the ministers and members of -
the consistories of all the Protestant -churches,
which usually take place at this season of the year,
to consult upon various points connected with the
Protestant religion, has just been held at the Pro-
testant church, the Watoine, in the Rue St. Honore.
More than usual/ excitement prevailed in conse-
quence of the difference upon some doctrinal points,
which led to the dismissal of M. Martin Paschoud,
which I have mentioned. M. Paschoud was pre-
sent, and many members of the Church from the
departments. M. Guizot, the honorary President
of the Society of the History of French Protestant-
ism, in adverting, with regret, to the recent diffe-
rences among the body, expressed his attachment
to religious liberty, provided That this liberty was
not dangerous to the Faith. He defended Faith in
the all-powerful Creator, and in supernatural be-
lief as the foundation and root of the Protestant
religion. Political and liberal convictions, however
sincere they might be, could offer no example of
the perseverance which religious faith had given to
the world. The orator, in conclusion, recommended
the faithful to have a liberal spirit and a mild
heart. Some doctrinal points which it was intended
to submit were withdrawn, on the ground that
their discussion might lead to differences and

schism.
A story about smoking is very prettily told in a
literary paper, A widow, young and handsome,
had a lovor ; but although she had sworn not to
marry again, every day she seemed upon the
point of perjuring herself. She had a particular
aversion to tobacco. One day her lover screwed
his courage up
so far as to , ask permission to
smoke. The lady was bewildered with astonish-
ment, but being told by the gentleman that there
was some affinity between love and a cigar, she
assured him that if he could prove the fact he might
convert her salon into a tap-room. The lover pro-
ceeded to argue that the flame of love could be
lighted in various ways, just as there were several
modes of lighting a cigar, by a pipe-light, by the
cigar of another person, and by a lucifer. In youth
the head was inflamed too quickly by love, just as
some cigars burnt out too speedily. There was,
perhaps, some danger if love were extinguished,
but if the fire of a cigar went out, it could easily be
re me of love, how ever, like a
re-lighted. The pu
good cigar, never was burnt out. The lady was
convinced by the arguments. The-lover was so
earnest that his cigar was extinguished, while he
talked and discontinued to smoke it. The widow,
looking at the fire, suddenly recollected that an
offer of marriage bad been made to her, and, in a
mild voice, said, " Henry, light your cigar."
A grocer waned Yilleuiy, about 70, residing at