The Sun.
London, England, 1866-04-25 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
Runs, Tuesday Evening.
The Moniteur publishes the text of the despatch
addressed by Count de Mensdorff to Count Karolyi
at Berlin, which I have already described, and which
no doubt you received by telegraph. The Paris
papers have no other information from Germany.
The Siecle, under these circumstances, places in the
most prominent part the appreciation made by
The Sun of the gravity of the position in regard to

Germany, and directs attention to it in an earnest

manner.

Information has been furnished to the Minister
of Marine and the Colonies that vessels from Brest,

St. Nazaire, Nantes, and the whole of the sea from
Cape Finnisterre to La Rochelle, are now exempted
from the quarantine imposed upon them in conse-
quence of the former existence of cholera in those
waters.

Another ingenious swindler has been exercising
his talent upon a rich jeweller here. Next to his
stall at the Theatre Francais an evening or two ago
was a well dressed and exceedingly intelligent gen-
tleman about fifty. They engaged in conversation
and talked upon all sorts of subjects. The gentle-
man told the jeweller that he had come to Paris ex-
pressly to purchase some valuable jewels for a
foreign Power. Upon this hint the jeweller offered
his business card to the amiable stranger, who said
he should have much pleasure in visiting his estab-
lishment next morning to select his purchases.
Towards 10 o'clock the swindler pleaded sudden and
severe headache, and took his leave. He imme-
diately went to the jeweller's shop and asked to see
the wife, saying that he came with a message from
her husband. He told her not to be alarmed, but
that a strange thing had happened. He and
her husband had been to a cafe after leaving the
theatre, and, unfortunately, on entering they had
knocked over a marble table and broken it, and
also some valuable articles which were upon
the table. Neither he nor her husband hap-
pened to have enough money in their pockets to
pay 50f., the amount demanded for the damage
done, and therefore the latter had sent him to
request madame to let him have that sum, as he
was detained as it were in pledge on account of
it. Saying this the swindler presented the jewel-
ler's card as a proof that he came from him,
although the lady was so pleased with his win-
ning manners and was so free from suspicion
that the money would have been given without
such a guarantee. The lady therefore instantly
gave him the 50f., and indeed also thanked him
heartily for the trouble he had taken on account
of " her good gentleman." Of course there was a
disagreeable surprise for the lady when her hus-
band returned home.

After the service to the memory of the late
Queen of the French, which took place at the
parish church at Neuilly, some of those in at-

tendance were favoured with the sight of an au-
tograph letter written by the deceased lady, who
at the time founded an establishment of sisters of

charity there. The following is a copy of the
letter addressed to one of the sisters :

" Eu, Sept. 15, 1845.

" Here, my dear sister, are 550 francs to distri-
bute according to the subjoined note and a few
petitions -which need inquiry. It is impossible for
me to send the letter, which I return to you, as
I neither know those persons nor their addresses.
I have had the pleasure of seeing here a great
number of your good sisters, all as active and as
pious as you. I recommend myself and all my
family to the good prayers of my good sisters of
Neuilly. " M. A."

The Constitutionnel contains a letter from St.
Omer, which, referring to the report of an extended
camp of reserve at Helfaut, says that so far from
this being the case, the portions of the camp con-
structed a few years ago there are about to be de-
stroyed. So much for the alarmist articles about
the warlike features of the ensuing camp at Chalons
and other military demonstrations alleged to be in
contemplation by the French Government.
The same paper, in explaining the position of the
English Ministry in regard to the Reform Bill, says
Among its adversaries are a certain number of
members who sit on the Ministerial side, and who
persist in calling themselves Liberals. On the other
hand among the supporters of the bill are Mr.
Bright and the members who compose the Radical
phalanx." It proceeds to describe the Opposition
as a mixed opposition, but says that the English
papers call it a coalition. Without giving a de-
cided opinion n regard to the bill, the Constitutionnel
appears to coincide with the views of the supporters
of Lord Grosvenor.
A paper of some influence at Berlin, the Corres-
pondence Zeidler, denies that there is any truth in
the report that the Prince de Hohenzollern had re-
fused the Throne of Roumania, the simple reason
for which is that it has never been offered to him.
The Prince has declared that the only knowledge
he has of the offer has been derived from the news-
papers.

Among the railway extensions about to be com-
menced in the vicinity of Paris is that for prolong-
ing to Boissy St. Leger the line between Paris and
la Varenna St. Maur. The distance to be completed
is inconsiderable, but it will necessitate some im-
portant and extensive engineering operations im-
mediately, in order for the formation of a passage
across the river Marne. There are some interesting
recollections connected with the Boissy St. Leger.
It is near the celebrated chateau of Gros-Bois, built
at the commencement of the seventeenth century,
and which belonged to the Duke d'Angouleme,
illegitimate son of Charles the 9th, and to the Count
de Provence, afterwards Louis the 18th, and to
General Moreau, who was arrested there in 1814.
It was also the residence of Berthier, Prince of
Wagram, whose son occupies it at present.
Seven new members have been admitted to the
Jockey Club—Count Eugene. de Sully, Count de
Croix, Count Albani de Froissard, Baron Gaston
de Montesquieu, Count Anatole de Montlaur, Count
de Romanet, and Baron Val de Guimont.
I gather the following items connected with
Theatrical matters. M. Faille has succeeded M.
de Chilly as director of the Ambigu. M. Eugene
Moreau has resigned his position as director of the
Theatre Beaumarchais. M. Angier has written
another aet for his last piece, "La Contagion,"
which excited so much controversy. It gives quite
a different termination to the drama, and when read
to the actors of the Odeon appeared to be more
satisfactory to them than the act first written. At
the Gait 6 M. Eugene Nus has read a drama in five
acts, called " Les Noces Islandaires" (the Irish
Wedding). Every preparation had been made for
opening a new theatre—the Theatre Imperial, near
the Boulevard du Prince Eugene, but several
, architects having given their opinion that the pillars
• were not strong enough to support the weight upon
them, the Minister of the Emperor's household, in
the interest of public safety, has forbidden the
opening of the theatre until a Government architect
shall have examined and reported upon the sbject.

KNIGHTS OF THE GARTER.—Sir Charles George
Young, Knight, Garter Principal King of Arms, with his
assistants, were engaged yesterday (Tuesday) at the Chapel
Royal of St. George, after morning service, in taking down
the regalia over the stall of the late Lord Palmerston as
Knight of the Garter, and placing in its stead the banner,
helmet, surcoat, sword, and brass plate, with the arms and
titles of Lord Cowley, the newly-elected Knight of this
most noble order. The regalia of the lap King of the Bel-
gians has not yet been removed, but it will shortly give
Placo to that of lai4 Ron, the present g,overeign•