The Sun.
London, England, 1866-06-18 00:00:00

a turret-ship some years ago, when the science of
defensive armour was many stages in excess. We
can hardly expect in an ordinary action that shots
of such unusual character should repeatedly strike
the most dangerous points, neither would any ship
remain passive before au enemy. But the experi-
ment so far has been altogether in Captain
Co LES'S favour, and leaves us only to
regret that the trial was not made long
ago, as common .sense and fair play would have
suggested. Here have we been spending hundreds
of thousands on ships and guns, without deciding
which method of ship-building and arming is the
most effective. Here has an enterprising man given
his country the benefit of his invention, only to re-
ceive slights, neglect, and disparagement, while
other nations are following out similar ideas with
success and profit. If there is, as has been said, an
art how not to do it, our Admiralty Board are cer-
tainly proficients.

The Emperor of AUSTRIA has issued a manifesto,
which appears to be forcible and full of meaning,
and really to present us with a very fair exposition
of the actual state of things. He states that two
allied enemies of Austria have arranged their armies
with a view of shaking her position as a European
Power, and yet that. no cause has been given by
Austria for the provocation of that war. This is
quite true, for the only real reason has been that
Prussia desired to take possession of the Elbe
Duchies. "In the eyes of that Power a favour-
able opportunity is sufficient cause for war,"
is the comment here passed upon the tactics
of Berlin, and a very true one it is. The acts
of violence that have been committed by Prussia
are here enumerated, beginning with the entry of
the troops into Holstein. The concluding portion
of the manifesto is very much to the point ; it
states emphatically that the most " fatal of wars, a
war of Germans against Germans, has become un-
avoidable, and for all the misery which it will entail
upon families, districts, and countries, I make
those who have provoked it answerable before
the tribunal of posterity and of the Almighty
and Eternal GOD." There is no denying the
truth of the remark here made, that Austria has
been forced to take up arms, for it was quite
impossible for the EMPEROR to continue any longer
a course of subserviency to the Prussian powers.
During all the transactions of war and the negocia-
tions of peace, no care or consideration was shown
by Prussia for any interests, but her own self-
aggrandisement was the beginning and end of her

manuoevres ; and she overstepped the bounds of
propriety to such an extent that there was no possi-
bility of enduring her overbearing annoyance.
The EMPEROR alludes to the unanimity which pre-
vails among his people in all directions, and which
affords him such assurances of support in this trying
emergency. In this respect he possesses a great
advantage over his adversary, for considerable dis-
content pervades the people of Prussia, which
cannot in the end fail to influence the cause of

events.

CORRESPONDENCE FROYI PARIS.

(FROM DUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Sunday Evening.

The Moniteur, in its non-official part, states that
the Emperor, being desirous to develope popular
credit, and the spirit of association among the work-
ing classes, invited se reral persons having that ob-
ject at heart to found a counting-house for co-
operative associations. In reply to this generous
invitation, a society has been formed, composed of
Deputies, members of the municipal council of the
Seine, merchants, and other gentlemen. his Ma-
jesty, after making himself acquainted with their
proposed regulations, wishing to aid in the develop-
ment of this new Institution, bas subscribed a sum
of 500,000 f. (£20,000). The administrative coun-
cil is thus composed :—President, Baron Jerome
sident of the Tribunal of Council of Paris ; and
M. C. Varrin, member of the Municipal Council of
the Seine. Among the members are three Deputies,
Messrs. Petit, Terme, and the Marquis de Tou-
lougeon.
A letter from Como, dated June 12, states that the
reception of Garibaldi in that city was enthusiastic
in the extreme. Men, women, and children par-
took of the enthusiasm. Garibaldi did not lose a
moment. He inspected the volunteers, and per-
formed various duties appertaining to war. Viva
Garibaldi resounded everywhere. The crowd
wanted him to make a speech, but he only said,
"This is not the time for words, but for deeds.
We will effect deeds."

The Messager de Provence states that an English
Government messenger, charged with important
political despatches, was robbed of them at the
moment when he was about to leave Marseilles
for London. They were taken out of the train
during a momentary absence. None of his lug-
gage was touched. The only object of the thieves
seems to have been to obtain his despatches.
La Liberte of last evening says that, according to
a private despatch, the Prussians had commenced
battle with the Saxons near Leipsic.
Business was not animated at the Bourse on Satur-
day. The Rente closed at a decline of 15c. from
the opening price.

Paris has laughed very much at a little vaudeville,
" The Lady with the Beard." The real lady with
the beard has got into trouble. She haR just made
her appearance at the Correctional Police-office to
answer the complaint of M. Fourat, a barber at
Asnieres, whose grievance was not only that she had
not paid him for his professional labours, but that
she had also robbed and swindled him. " The de-
fendant was one of my customers," said the com-
plainant. " She used to come to my shop every two
or three days." "What," said the President, "does
a cook want her hair dressed so often as that?"
" Oh, dear, no," replied the barber. " She came to
be shaved. She has a beard like a man." As the
lady has the peculiarity of a beard, it may be well
to describe her general characteristics. She is
" fair, fat, and forty." A few months ago she lived
with a bouillager, but it is to be presumed that the
connection was not a happy one, for on the 21st of
February last he hanged himself, leaving a paper on
which was written, " My brothers, avenge me. This
is the cause of my death. It was the woman with
whom I lived at Asnieres. She calls herself the
widow Lecler, but the name, like herself, is false."
The complainant proceeded to detail his wrongs.
The defendant used to go over all his house. At
one time she took away a ring belonging to his wife,
and had the impudence to wear it on her finger.
By the false pretence that her master had sent her
to borrow 94f. to pay an urgent bill, he had given
her that sum on her saying that her master would
return it the next evening. The unkindest cut of
house
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forgery were put in. The President told her that
she must go to prison again for another year.
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