The Sun.
London, England, 1866-08-31 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FRO)i OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Thursday Evening.
I regret to hear that the Emperor is still rather
indisposed, so that perhaps his departure for Biar-
ritz may be delayed for a day or two. His Majesty
yesterday presided at a Council of Ministers at St.
Cloud.
The Moniteztr enters into the following explana-
tion of various points connected with Italy and
Germany :
" In consequence of the difficulties in the way of
the signature of the armistice the period for the ne-
gotiations was later for Italy than for the other
States engaged in the late war ; but there is reason
to hope that the conclusion of peace will not be
delayed.
"The Commissioner appointed by the Emperor
Napoleon to arrange, in concert with the competent
authorities, the measures resulting from the cession
of Venetia to his Majesty, has left Paris for Venice.
" According to the desire expressed by Austria,
it has been decided that the Conferences between
that Power and Italy shall take place at Vienna, and
the Italian Plenipotentiary is gone to that city.
where the Austrian Plenipotentiaries are ready to
enter into deliberations with them without delay.
" The convention of Nikolsbourg, between the
Courts of Vienna and Berlin, has been converted
into a definitive treaty signed at Prague. It recog-
nizes the fact that Venetia was ceded to the Em-
peror, to be delivered up by him on the conclusion
of peace. The other details of the treaty are not
known.

" The greater portion of the states of Southern
Germany have terminated their arrangements
with Prussia. Wurtemburg and the Grand Duchy
of Baden have not to make any sacrifice of terri-
tory. Bavaria has only to give up a few unim-
portant districts, comprising from 30,000 to 40,000
inhabitants. Hesse Darmstadt also hopes to save
almost the whole of her possessions. Various
difficulties have arisen in regard to Saxony. The
new relations stipulated between Prussia and the
other German Cabinets have put an end in right
and in fact to the existence of the Germanic Con-
federation, and the Diet has reached the end of
its career. It was created in 1815, after very
long and agitated discussions between the German
States, and was first opened in 1816."
It is said in well-informed quarters that Austria
has proposed to cede to Italy, for a pecuniary con-
sideration, the territories of the Italian Tyrol, which
appear to be indispensable for the regular limitation
of her frontiers. A Brussels paper, the _lndepend-
ence Beige, which often has accurate information,
says that the cession of the valle3s whose waters
flow into the Lake of Garde has already been de-
cided upon.

An Italian paper, the PeSti Naplo, has the fol-
lowing views in regard to what ought to result from
the treaty of peace :—" Venetia has been ceded, but
the fortresses are still occupied. Though expelled
from Germany the idea is not abandoned of return-
ing to it. Hungary, above all, is menaced with
monarchy by the Polish question, What does Aus-
tria consist of ? The greater portion is composed of
counties and people belonging to the crown of St.
Stephen. They ought to form one great body in
order to re-establish ancient Hungary, and render
her free, powerful, and happy. Hungary ought to
occupy the first rank in the German empire."

During the last short thunderstorm at Paris the
electric fluid entered an apartment in the Rue, de
l'Orne, and did much injury to tue chimney. It
penetrated to the dining-room and shattered a time-
piece and two bronze candelabras into atoms. The
fluid emerged through a window which had been
left open. A red flame suddenly illuminated the
walls and the ceiling, and a lady who was sitting in
the room lost her eyesight for the moment, but she
has not since experienced any inconvenience.
The new Bishop of Marseilles, Monseigneur Place,
will be consecrated on Sunday next. The Pope
will send a representative, and the ceremony is
expected to be very splendid and imposing.
The Paris papers throw discredit upon the re-
port of an intended visit to Paris of M. Bismarck.
A new room has just been opened at the Louvre
for the exhibition of the works of ancient masters
only. Among them are several by Raphael,
Michael Angelo, and Rubens. Among some dirty
paintings in the lower rooms of the Louvre there
was found a day or two ago a chef d'oeuvre of Ary
Scheffer, the renowned French painter. It was
saved with great difficulty in 1848 at the Palace of
St. Cloud, and was supposed to have been lost.
The picture represents Louis Philippe on horseback,
surrounded by his sons.

The taste for horse flesh is on the increase in Paris.
Twenty establishments are about to be opened for
the sale of soup made exclusively from this meat.
Printed notices will be posted up at these houses,
so that the public cannot be mistaken in regard to
what they have to partake of.
To-day has been very stormy, wet, cold, and dis-
agreeable. There have been violent storms both in
the west and south of France. There was on Sun-
day a very splendid and interesting fete at Amiens,
in honour of Madame Cornuau, the wife of the Pre-
feet of Somme, who so courageously and usefully
devoted herself to the cholera patients in that city.
The Empress, it will be recollected, presented
this lady with a gold inodal,- and tho town also,