The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-25 00:00:00

CORRESPO.

DM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Wednesday Evening.
The following is the news contained in the bul-

letin of the 111.9niteur of to-day :
" The official Gazette of Florence of yesterday
states that the accounts from various cities of Ve-

netia speak of the enthusiasm with which in the
towns and country the inhabitants took part in the

plebiseitum.
" The Opinione announces that Austria has made
choice of M. Bruck, as charge d'affaires at the Ca-
binet of Florence, until the appointment of a Mi-
nister Plenipotentiary. The charge d'affaires of
Italy at the Austrian Court is Count Bati Oppi-
zoni, who has arrived at Vienna."

The papers discuss a subject of great importance,
but I believe it is merely an hypothesis, whether it
is desirable that there should be an answer to the

Imperial Speech at the opening of the Chambers. I
believe the Government has not the most remote

idea of proposing the abolition of this time-honoured
custom or formality. The Patrie and the Presse
seem to desire a substitute for the usual answer to

the address. In reply to their arguments the Siecle

says :
" The Speech from the Crown explains the gene-
ral position of the policy of the country since the
end of last session. It expresses the opinion of the

Executive power upon the questions which have
occupied the public mind during the interval. There
is nothing more logical than that there should be a
reply to Legislative power, which should state its
concurrence with or its disagreement from the appre-
ciation of the head of the State and the legal organs
of public opinion."
A letter from Koenigsberg, dated Oct. 19, says
that the cattle disease has again manifested itself in
Lithuania, in the environs of the town of Kowno.

The Prussian authorities immediately took vigorous
precautions to prevent the importation of diseased
cattle. The accounts from Switzerland state that
the disease is on the decline there.

The lloniteur announces that the total amount of
the subscriptions for the relief of the sufferers by
the inundations is 1,195,601 f. 52c.
The Government has received a despatch from

the Commandant of the Islands of St. Pierre and
Mignelon, which announces that, on the 22d Sep-
tember, there was a terrible storm at the colony,
which caused the loss of eleven ships and did much
other damage. Among the vessels lost was the
Abondance, a Government ship. Three of the
crew were drowned. From 60 to 80 sailors
belonging to different vessels perished during the
storm.

The French pickpockets are becoming at least as
clever as the English thieves. At the races at La
Marche they victimised a rich wino merchant, of
Bercy, a desperate better, who is well known to have
plenty of money in his pocket when he comes to
the races. On this occasion he had 30,0001. in notes
in his purse. When the races were over, just as he
was about to leave the scene of pleasure a hand, not
his own, intruded into his pocket. The business was
done with less delay than there is in a flash of light-
ning. He seized the hand, but the purse was gone.
The thief showed fight, but the gentleman was not
to be intimidated, and he gave the intrusive hand
and its owner into the custody of the police.
The purse, no doubt, had been passed
to an accomplice. The individual who played the
little game, being an old acquaintance of the police,
is detained in custoCy for the present.
A real Cremona violin has been discovered by a
musician at Tours. It has this inscription :—" An-
tonius Stradivarius Cremoniensis faciebat. Anno
1711."

There is now no doubt that the mission of General
Castelman to Mexico had for its object the arrange-
ment of measures with the Mexican Government to
insure the return of the French troops to France
with as little delay as possible. I have already
informed you of the preparation of vessels for sea
which are to bring back the troops. They will all
leave almost at the same time. The last news re-
specting the Empress Charlotte of Mexico is ex-
tremely unfavourable. Her mental faculties decline
rather than improve. Despatches having been sent
to Brussels describing the lamentable condition of
the Empress, it appears that her sister-in-law, the
Queen of the Belgians, intends to repair to Mira-
mar without _delay, to pay her such attention as
may be necessary.
England has taken possession of the locality in
the Champs de Mars, where the produce of English
art and industry is to be exhibited at the Great
Exhibition. At the south-eastern angle of the ter-
ritory there is a lofty mast, where floats the flag of
England, which, " for a thousand years, has braved
the battle and the breeze." Who could have fore-
told that the flag of England would have waved
over the city of Paris during this goodly year of
1866 ?
Duelling is no longer protected in France, as was
once made a subject of boast. On the contrary, the
Correctional Tribunal of the Seine has condemned
M. Duvernois to two months' imprisonment, and
Messrs. Arthur de Fonviella and Mr. Emile de
Girardin, jun., to one month for being concerned
in the duel which took place recently at Vinciennes,
and of which I sent you au account. The seconds
were sentenced to pay a fine of 100 f. The duel was
between M. Sarcey, theatrical critic of l' Opinion
Nationale, and M. Duvernois, editor of La Liberte.
The latter journal may be said to be conspicuous
from its obscurity.
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shortly enter the
renewed The Jotuhranta
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Austrian Cabinet as Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Although the Nouvelle Presse Libre seems to rely
upon the news, we hesitate to believe that the Em-
peror of Austria would be so badly advised as to
take a determination which would excite general
discontent throughout the Austrian Empire, and at
the same time render more difficult her relations
with Prussia, which do not appear to be yet upon
a very cordial footing." This latter phrase has
its significance, when it is recollected that the
Journal des Debats sometimes speaks from au-
thority.

DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY NIGHT.—This evening the
Lord Mayor entertained at dinner Cardinal Cullen,
Archbishop of Dublin. The guests numbered about fifty,
and included all the Catholic judges of the law courts (with
the exception of Judge Keogh), Dr. Leahy, Archbishop of
Cashel, and seven or eight bishops ; Lord Bellow, Mr.
Monsell, M.P., The O'Connor Don, M.P., The O'Donoghue,
M.P., the Attorney-General, M.P., Mr. C. Barry, M.P., Sir
James Power, Sir Percy Nugent, Sir John Ennis, and
Major-General Sir Justin Sheil. " The Health of the
Cardinal" was the only toast proposed; the proceedings

were private.
AN UNDERGRADUATE DROWNED AT OXFORD.—
It is our painful duty to record another of those sad
accidents which occasionally occur on the river at Oxford
and Cambridge, the fatality in this instance happening on
the Isis. It appears that the deceased, Mr. Bradley, of New
College, formed one of a crew engaged in a scratch four-
oar race with other members of his college. Three crews
had engaged in the contest, and which proceeded safely
until Saunders-bridge had been reached, where deceased's
and one of the other crew's oars came into contact, and
deceased and his four partners were capsized. The acci-
dent attracted a crowd to the spot, and an inquiry from a
spectator elicited the fact that they could all swim but
Bradley. Upon this six or seven undergraduates plunged
in, and the greatest confusion prevailed, the boat to which
the deceased had been hanging having been turned over
in the attempt to render assistance. A ballast boat near the
spot and punts were immediately in attendance, but the
deceased had disappeared from the surface. At this junc-
ture ono of the capsized crow reached the Oxfordshire
shore and made towards Oxford, which led to the supposition
that deceased had got out all right. That error having been
detected, Mr. Willan, President of the Oxford University
Boat Club, hastened to the spot, and was most untiring in
his endeavours to recover deceased by diving, but as the
water was very thick, his efforts were unavailing, as were
those of Mr. Short, of New College, and other gownsmen
who jumped into the river. It was some little time before
the water bailiffs arrived, but the drags were effectually
used by Thus (a servant of the Boat Club) and Bossom,
who found the body of the deceased, about three quarters
of an hour after the accident, at about 30 yards from the
spot where the boat went over. The deceased was the
brother of the Head Master of Marlborough College, and
had only just gained.one of the open scholarships at New
College. He was a fine young man of 19, and was Touch
beloved. The overturning of a boat's crow on the Isis,
either purposely or by accident, has generally been re-
garded as a good bit of fun, but the melancholy fate of Mr.
Bradley may probably check that love of danger which is
so deeply rooted in the undergraduate mind.