The Sun.
London, England, 1866-11-30 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Thursday t vening.
The weekly analysis of the evening Moniteur con-
tains the following remarks upon the views and in-
tentions of Austria :

" Since the termination of the war the Ministers
of the Emperor Francis Joseph have been energeti-
cally at work to ameliorate the social position of
Austria. The promise of the revision of the treaties
of commerce in vigour with the Zollverein and Italy
has been fulfilled by the acts signed at Prague and
at Vienna, and it was formerly stipulated that the
ancient clauses should only have a temporary opera-
tion. An understanding arranged with England
laid down the principle that the duties levied upon
British produce should not exceed 25 per cent, of
their value. The French Commissioners are pre-
paring to meet in a few days the Ambassador of the
Emperor at Vienna, where the negotiations which
were commenced at Paris last month will be pro-
ceeded with for the arrangement of a treaty of com-
merce and navigation.
" Thus everything is in preparation with a view
to a change in the system which regulates the trade
of Austria with the principal countries of produc-
tion and consumption in Europe. Already on the
Bth of November the Charge d'Affaires of Austria
at Berlin was requested to ask officially for a dis-
cussion, having for object to substitute for the
Customs' Convention signed at Prague in the
month of April, 1865, a treaty more in harmony
with the new doctrines of political economy to which
Baron de Beust, the President of the Council of
Ministers of Saxony, gave his adherence without
reserve at the time of the negotiations between the
Zollverein and France.
" The Italian Government, which had concluded
a treaty of commerce with Japan, entered into ano-
ther with China on the 26th of October last. The
relations which exist between the various Powers of
Europe and the countries of the extreme East be-
come more developed, and the increase of commer-
cial interests overcome every-day prejudice and
routine."

In Paris unusual anxiety is manifested relative to
the news expected to be brought to Southampton
to-day from Mexico.

The Siecle says :—" People persist in thinking
that the destinies of the Mexican empire have been
arranged by the French and American Govern-
ment 3. his even said that the United States have
arranged with the French creditors."

The funeral of Monsigneur Pavy, late Bishop of
Algiers, took place with great pomp and ceremony.
The chief mourner was M. Pavy, Vicar General of
Constantine, the brother of the deceased. The whole
population of Algiers, no
denomination, are said to have repaired
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formed part of the procession,
which was headed by
the gendarmerie. The troops were attended by
their bands. M. Sarlande, Mayor of Algiers, pro-
nounced a funeral oration, in which he
alluded to
the virtues of the deceased, and said h* that
is death
was regretted by the whole population of Algierq.
An arena is in course of construction at the Great
Exhibition whit.l will contain 15,000 spectators,
for the representation of mimic bull fights, that is to
say, no blood will be shed. There will be golden
balls upon the horns of the animals, so that they
cannot wound, and other weapons of the bull-
fighters will have a button on the point. The ceremony
and costumes will be the same as at a bull-fight in
Spain, and the only difference will be that the cruel
spectacle of horses trailing their entrails, and bulls
covered with blood and writhing in agony, will be
avoided.

An accident of a peculiar frightful character has
taken place on the Boulevard Malesherbes. The
highway being under repair a workman was on the
trench at night to watch the light. His wife, an old
woman, came to bring his supper, but in descending
she fell headforemost into a burning cauldron. The