The Sun.
London, England, 1866-09-13 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Wednesday Evening.
The following is from the bulletin of the 2loni-
teur :—" They wrote from Berlin that the commis-
sion of the House of Lords, charged to examine the
project of law concerning the annexations, recom-
mended the acceptance pure and simple, but the
amendment in favour of the adoption of the project
in the form modified by the Chamber of Deputies
was agreed to by a large majority. The textof the
project of law for the elections to the Parliament of
the Confederation of the North, which have been
definitively arranged by the commission of the
Chamber of Deputies, has just been published at
Berlin. By the terms of this law every citizen of
good life and manners, who has attained the age of
25, is an elector, and every one is eligible as elector
who has belonged, for three months at the least to
one of the States of the Confederation. There is

to be a deputy for every population of 100,000
souls. The election is to take place in public ; it
is direct and will be carried by the absolute majority
of votes."

It is stated that a project of law has been drawn
up by the Government, having for object to place
the army upon such a footing that a million of men
may be called into activity at any time upon the
first notice. The plan is based upon the idea pro-
pounded in 1843 in the Progres du Pas de Calais by
the then Prince Louis Napoleon, who proposed to
divide the French forces into a permanent army of
316,000 men, a reserve and National Guard of the
second class, composed of men of the age of from
27 to 35, and also a National Guard to form the
third class.
The Journal des Debats expresses its approval of
the practice now in progress in England, according
to which members of Parliament make speeches to
their constituents after the close of the Session. It
adds, " This taste for extra Parliamentary eloquence
is not unknown iu France. To prove this we need
only refer to the anxiety of the Presidents of the
General Councils to seize the opportunity of the
opening or the close of the session of those assem-
blies to make speeches, sometimes political, often
agreeable. Objections may be made in certain
places against Parliamentary eloquence and against
the abuses of the Tribune, but the orator who
believes himself to be such will always find a tri-
bune for his oratory. It will be long beforJ elegant,
animated, and impassioned words will cease to be
the most efficacious motives by which man will
induce his fellow man to action. The abundance of
speeches made every year during the sittings of the
departmental General Councils attests the continu-
ance of a taste among the people for the public exer-
cise of speech. We are still the same people of
whom Cato, the ancient, said that we excelled in
two things—fighting and eloquence of speech.
Besides, is not eloquence, particularly political
eloquence, a form of combat ?

A fossil foot and part of the leg of a man has been
discovered on the land of a gentleman at Saint
Agne. The foot is of the ordinary size, and the
nails are perfectly developed. A surgeon who has
examined the foot says it is an exceedingly curious
specimen of petrifaction.

I have mentioned the religious fetes of September,
and the processions of numerous pilgrims to St.
Cloud. Hundreds of pilgrims have also been to the
chapel of Notre Dame des Anges, in a solitary part
of the forest of Bondy. According to tradition
that chapel was piously founded by three merchants
who were miraculously saved from the violence of
robbers in the age of Philip Augustus. In 1260
ewnheiuehghwatso
entrustedpersons,
that day. The high altar was considered a master-
piece. The most valuable relic it ta. d
con inewas an
image of the Virgin Mary in wood, -which
bore the mark of ages. It was proposed to
replace the antique church by a new edifice.
This edifice was solemnly consecrated on the Bth of
September, 1863, in the presence of a vast assem-
blage of pilgrims.
It is stated that the Count de Goltz, the Prussian
Ambassador, is about to leave I'aris for Biarritz,
where he will stay for a considerable time.
The Constitutional pursues its commentaries upon

the evidence given of electoral corruption in Eng_
land. After noticing some of the evidence, it pro-
ceeds to say—" To make these disclosures an argu_
nient against Reform is said by the patrons of Re-
form to be an impudent manoeuvre. Such is the
language of the English papers. We must not be
astonished, therefore, if a disciple of Statesmen who
support restricted suffrage should prefer to make
himself the echo of the Tory journals. Only
nothing proves better that many of those who call
themselves Liberals in France would not be ac-
cepted as such, even in England, where they are
to be found amongst the most incorrigible enemies
of Reform."

Some further particulars have transpired respect-