The Sun.
London, England, 1866-09-10 00:00:00

damaged by its long immersion the cable has actually
improved. The message which we have referred to
came with greater precision and distinctness than
those of the new line. Not a single repetition was
necessary, and a warm congratulation being sent
in answer, Mr. CANNING responded again from the
Great Eastern. This is a gratifying fact, and gives
us great encouragement as to the durability of the
new line. Ever since the catastrophe of last year a
careful watch has been kept over the reflecting
marine galvanometer connected with the shore end
at Valentia. An electrician has been always on
duty, and twice every day the 1,240 miles of cable
have been tested for conductivity" and insulation.
The results of these tests were always the same,
showing that up to the. very point where it broke
off the cable was perfect. The object of keeping
this close watch was to keep an account, recording
the condition of the wire. Sometimes, owing to

magnetic storms and other causes, messages came
veritably from the sea, and incoherent words were
spelt by these mysterious agencies. But
on Sunday morning last the watcher
perceived the indication of a coming mes-
sage, and in a few minutes the flickering light
grew steady, and the long-silent cable began to
speak clearly, accurately, and definitely, with a
precision, as we have said, which surpassed
that of the new line. Few except Mr.
CANNING, the able engineer of the expedition,
had really felt sanguine as to the result
of the attempt to recover the lost prize. It is evi-
dent that the cable of 1865 was well worth the
effort, since it has remained perfect all these
months, though the cable of 1866 is, we believe,
still better. It is a triumph for the engineers
and electricians, which they richly deserve,
and a valuable encouragement not only to the
directors and shareholders of the company, whose
fortunes are now established, but to all who, when
concerned in costly and adventurous enterprises,
encounter those checks and disappointments which
await alike the boldest and the most wary, demand-
ing the exercise of that fortitude and perseverance
which have in this instance been so triumphantly
shown.

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, Sunday Evening.

The Paris papers are beginning to discuss vigo-
rously what is called the Eastern question, and they
give extracts from Russian papers with a view to
show that there is likely to be a new struggle in
Europe. The most important of these papers,
which has a semi-official character, La Correspond-
ance Russe, says that the hour has not yet arrived
for the deliverance of the Christians subjected to
the Ottoman Porte. There are, ;however, it says,
in Russia two parties who are disposed to take up
the question with great energy. The ,Siecle says :
—" According to the opinion of one party Austria
since her defeat is excited towards the East by her
friends in Europe. They seek to induce her to put
herself at the head of the Sclavonian population.
Turkey is evidently struggling against dangers be-
yond her strength. The principle of nationality
is assuming proportions hitherto unknown." The
Correspondance Russe, in proceeding to discuss this
important matter, remarks :—" Will Russia be the
only Power to deny the principle of nationality in
the face of her co-religionists. We do not wish for
conquests: we do not want to extend our domination
in the East. But when the Christian populations
who suffer under the Ottoman yoke begin to bestir
themselves, shall Russia stand alone in not express-
ing heir sympathies ; and ought we not to support
their efforts ?" In reference to this passage the
Siccle adds :—" There are no doubt in these words
symptoms which ought not to be disdained, but it
would be wrong in our opinion to regard them as
identified with projects of the Government, parti-
cularly as the Correspondance Russe denies that they
embody. its views."
The Emperor, as at present arranged, will leave
St. Cloud for Biarritz immediately. Among other
distinguished personages who will assemble there
will be her Majesty Queen Isabella of Spain. The
Emperor held a Cabinet Council yesterday at St.
Cloud. There was a numerous shooting party in
the forest of St. Germain on Thursday, and the
sport was unusually good. His Majesty killed no
less than 180 birds. A day or two ago the Liberte
had an announcement that an orphan of five years
old, poor and abandoned, wanted a protector. The
Moniteur, in reference to this announcement, says:
This protector has been found. The Emperor
has undertaken to provide for the education of the
young orphan, whose name is Paul Felix Maneille."

Letters from Brescia state that Garibaldi will
shortly leave Brescia, not, however, to retire from
military and political affairs, for it is known, on the
contrary, for a certainty that he intends to take
part in the sittings of the Parliament as soon as
they shall be resumed.
The shooting season in France, as in England, is
inaugurated by some calamity. It has hardly com-
menced, but already there has been a deplorable ac-
cident. Two young girls were at work in a field in
the commune of St. Pierre le Viges, near Rouen,
when a sportsman, having started a bare, in the
excitement of the moment, fired without perceiving
them. The two girls, sisters, were both seriously
injured. One was shot in the eye, and will probably
be blind for life. The other received shots in the
hand, arms, neck, head, and back..
The culture of flowers and fruit in France pro-
ceeds with increasing attention. What is called the
Pomological Congress will be held at Melun on
Tuesday. This will be the 11th session of this
Congress. It was founded in 1856, and the object
of it is to discover the best fruits cultivated in
France, and to study and give prizes for new and fine
varieties, and also to discourage the culture and sale
of all bad or inferior fruit. The Society of Horticul-
ture of Melun is connected with that of Fontainebleau,
and the various horticultural societies of France will
have representatives at the ensuing Congress, and
will compare their notes made during last year.

The Milan Gazette mentions an atrocious case,
which is about to be brought before the tribunal of
Brescia. It is stated that a doctor, wishing to de-
stroy the family of a successful rival residing on the
Lake de la Garde, promised to give the servant, a
girl of 15, a new silk embroidered gown if she would
destroy the four children. She made an infant, not
a month old, swallow several pieces of needles, and
she beat another child dreadfully about the head
and mouth. The child was made to swallow ten
pieces of needles in eight days. The girl threw one
of the children into the lake, but it was rescued.
Happily none of the children have been seriously
injured. The servant has confessed her crime. She
says that the doctor made an old woman the medium
of incitement to the wicked acts.

A company at Paris has contracted for the erec-
tion of several handsome and convenient markets,
which will be let at such rates as will insure a
handsome dividend. One of these markets, the
Marche Beaujon, near the faubourg St. Honore,
has just been opened as a substitute for the old
Marche Laborde. The company are about to con-
struct ten other markets in various parts of Paris.
The second market, the Marche Brezia, will be
opened on the 15th of October,. and the third on
the 15th of November, that of St. Quentin, near
the Northern Railway station. Early next January
a splendid new market will be opened at the Ba-
tignolles, a large suburb of Paris.
The Correctional Tribunal of Dieppe has sen-
tenced to five years' imprisonment the English
welchers who ran away with the stakes at Deau-
ville.

A discovery has been made of great arclueolo-
gical interest. In the course of the excavations
made in the courtyard of the Louvre, by order
of the Prefect of the Seine, to ascer-
tain the exact site of the celebrated
lofty tower built by Philippe Augustus in 1204, and
razed by order of Francis I. in 1527, they have
reached the walls of the ditch, by means of which
the tower could be inundated. This tower, erected