The Sun.
London, England, 1866-11-08 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Wednesday Evening.
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The Moniteur contains an advice from Berlin,
according to which Count de Wimpffen, repre-
sentative of Austria at that court, on Monday pre-
sented to the King his letters of official credit at an
audience, at which was present M. de Thiele,
charged temporarily with the post of Minister of
Foreign Affairs during the absence of the Count de
Bismarck.

In consequence of the signing of the Treaty of
Peace between Prussia and Saxony, the disband-
ment of the Prussian troops stationed in Saxony has
just been ordered.

A private telegram from St. Petersburg an-
nounces that the Prince Royal of Prussia, who
visits Russia to be present at the marriage of the
Grand Duke, heir to the throne, had arrived at the
Imperial Palace of Tzarskozi-Selo. His Imperial
Highness is accompanied by a numerous suite. The
Prince of Wales has also arrived at St. Petersburg.
He stopped at Potsdam, where he had a long inter-
view with the King of Prussia.
A letter from Berne, dated Oct. 29, says that,
encouraged by the success which has attended the
operations of the works of utility, the most import-
ant for Switzerland, the Federal Government is
about to undertake an equally interesting task, the
object of which is to dry up 42,848 acres of marshy
land in the environs of the lakes of Morat, Neuf-
chatel, and Bienne. The last operation was the cor-
rection of the waters of the Rhone. The present is
termed the correction of the waters of the Jura.
The expense is estimated at 8,000,000 f.
By the demolition of buildings the beautiful
church of St. Nicolas des Champs is open to view
from the south, and in a short time it will be com-
pletely isolated, and it will form one of the remark-
able ornaments of Paris. The front is profusely
ornamented. Over the door is a Latin inscription
engraved on marble, which explains the circum-
stances under which the enlargement of the church
took place in the reign of Henry 111.
The commission for the re-organisation of the
army had its first sitting yesterday, at which the
Emperor presided. Nothing official is yet published
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Observatory announces that there has been dull and
stormy weather upon several points, and that the sea
was very heavy yesterday at Boulogne and in the
Straits of Gibraltar.

The Academy of Sciences was, a day or two ago,
occupied with an historical and scientific fact of
peculiar interest, the discovery of the skull of a man
close to some fossil bones of antediluvian animals.
The skull was found near Eg,uisheirn, in the Depart-
ment of the Haut Rhine. The point discussed, in
reference to this discovery, was whether man has
only existed for 6,000 years, or whether the human
race has not been created for some :hundred thou-
sand years, as some anthropologists contend.
The Journal des Debats has a saticical article in
reference to the measure adopted by the Italian
Government recalling the bishops v;ho had been
compelled to leave their dioceses in cot. sequence of
the changes which have taken place. In this article
the Debats, in a curious vein, says that the oppo-
nents of the measure are disciples of Machiavelli,
and are neither satisfied with the d(!parture of the
bishops nor with their return, as t: hey accuse the